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The Sports Junkies break down the latest Brandon Aiyuk drama.
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00:00And this entire thing is a delusion, and they've never had a thought to sign him.
00:07Possible.
00:08I've always said, I wonder, you know, we always say that Jaden Daniels and Brandon Ayuk are tight.
00:12I'm sure they were, but I've yet to see a video with Brandon Ayuk and Jaden Daniels together.
00:18Oh, they have been in years past, in the last few years.
00:21In years past, but I'm saying in the last couple of years.
00:25They're on opposite coasts playing for different teams.
00:27I mean, I think when the hype started, I would think.
00:31Yeah, but Jaden, when minicamps end, he probably goes back to California.
00:35Oh, yeah, I've seen clips of him hanging out in California.
00:37So he could be hanging out with them.
00:38And I have seen Jaden commenting on his IG as of, like, two weeks ago.
00:43Yeah.
00:44And, in fact, Jaden commented on some of these videos?
00:47It was more benign.
00:49It wasn't a video.
00:50It was a post.
00:51Here's how I'm going to know if he's committed.
00:54If Jaden goes back to California during this break between mandatory minicamp and training
00:59camp, and he has one of those throwing sessions where guys like Terry and the other wideouts
01:04show up, if Brandon Ayuk shows up to that?
01:06Yeah, but he can't.
01:06That show up.
01:07Because he's under contract.
01:09He can't.
01:09Yeah, but a summer workout?
01:10Can't you wait?
01:11People work out with different teams?
01:13I think that would be a bad look.
01:15If it's all commanders and Ayuk, it'd be one thing if it was tight end you.
01:18It'd be a weird look, but you see guys work out across teams all the time.
01:22I'd be surprised.
01:23As long as it didn't, like, violate his contract or his standing with the Niners, like, that
01:29would show me that, okay, you're committed to being with the commanders.
01:31You could maybe argue that's tampering.
01:33Like, tight end you, you know, that on the beat.
01:35Yeah, that, I don't know.
01:35I don't know if it's against you.
01:36Yeah, I don't know how that works.
01:37Maybe you could argue that.
01:39Let's just say that it's allowable.
01:42Yeah.
01:42If you show up to that, and you show a commitment to go and catch passes from who your future
01:47quarterback
01:47is going to be outside of training camp, then I'll believe all this hype about you agitating
01:53to try to get to the commanders.
01:54See, maybe he thinks if I show people that I'm super fit and I can ball out, then the
02:00Niners won't release me.
02:02You know what I mean?
02:03I guess that's possible.
02:03Who knows what he's thinking?
02:05Is that not a plausible thought for a weirdo?
02:07Sure.
02:08They'll have to pay him.
02:10They're not going to pay him.
02:10They're going to have to pay him if they hold him on the roster.
02:13They don't want to do that.
02:13He can show up to their next minicamp, right?
02:17Their OTAs?
02:18I think so.
02:19I think the next is training camp.
02:20They're done.
02:20Yeah, training camp.
02:21Training camp.
02:22Training camp.
02:22But I think they can also...
02:23No, he's got to show up unless he gets fined $50,000 a day if he doesn't.
02:29Yeah, but I think they could also put him on some list.
02:32Yeah, they could do that, too.
02:33If there's some weird thing and they don't actually have to release him, they could really
02:36screw him if they wanted.
02:37But my larger point is, this could all just be delusional thinking by him and that they've
02:44never had any intention of signing him.
02:46Of course.
02:46And we've all just misread the whole thing.
02:49This was our Surfside Poll of the Day.
02:51Do you have Brandon Iyuk fatigue?
02:53Almost everybody does.
02:55And are out on Iyuk.
02:57There's a good percentage that are not out on Iyuk.
02:5920%.
03:00This from one of our loyal listeners, Mark Mosley Jr.
03:06I'm still all in.
03:09Jaden can help him more than you think when he's in our town, on the field and off the
03:13field.
03:14See, that is possible.
03:16But it didn't work out.
03:18It didn't work out when Tom Brady had Antonio Brown living in his house.
03:21I don't believe for one second that having Brandon Iyuk here would help Jaden off the
03:28field at all.
03:29I would think...
03:30No, he's saying that Jaden would help Iyuk.
03:31He would say Jaden would help Iyuk, yeah.
03:33But Jaden would keep him in check.
03:36Possibly.
03:36We don't know anything about that.
03:38I mean...
03:38But again, that's a distraction to Jaden Daniels.
03:41If you're a Commanders fan, you don't want your star quarterback babysitting a head
03:46case like Brandon and Iyuk for keeping him on the rails.
03:49I just love that.
03:50In my opinion.
03:50Do you think that AP and these guys, they see Jaden every day, they're at five in the
03:54morning, whatever, getting his work in.
03:57One of these times when they see him in the hall, they say, hey, come in here for a second.
04:00What's up with your boy, B.A.?
04:01What's he doing?
04:02You know?
04:03And you want to tell him to cool it?
04:04And then maybe we can...
04:05Do you think they've had that conversation?
04:06I would assume they've picked his brain about it.
04:09Okay, then I'll say this.
04:10If they've had that conversation and Iyuk still is agitating and agitating to being the same
04:15guy, that's not great for him.
04:18No.
04:19If they haven't had that conversation and Iyuk hasn't been told by Jaden...
04:23If they don't care, then they're still interested.
04:24Then I can understand why he's still doing it.
04:26Yeah.
04:27All right, let's go to Mo in Largo.
04:30Let's see what Mo thinks.
04:32Mo.
04:33Hey, Mo.
04:34What's up, buddy?
04:35Good morning, gentlemen.
04:36Thank you for taking my call.
04:37Mo just did some mounting for a neighbor of mine.
04:40That sounds weird.
04:42Mo's a married man.
04:44You can't just say mounting.
04:45You have to say mounting a TV.
04:47Yeah, he's a married man.
04:48You would never do that.
04:49Okay?
04:50I got you back, Mo.
04:53First off, I want to shout out Cakes.
04:55Cakes, I took a page out of your book yesterday.
04:58I'm working on a project at your alma mater at Towson University.
05:01I'm in one of the older buildings.
05:03Yeah, Tiger Pride.
05:03And, you know, I had to take a bathroom break and it was a little warm in there.
05:08You don't wear your shirt off?
05:10Oh, you did.
05:10Let me give it a, man, you talk about a hell of a feeling, boys.
05:14I mean, just relaxing.
05:16You know, you just, it's there in your space.
05:18You don't have to worry about anybody walking up.
05:20Boy, you just, it's a good feeling.
05:22It's real.
05:23All it is is liberate.
05:24Mo, all you did was liberate yourself.
05:26You just, you just.
05:27I'm telling you, I might have to stick with it, Dylan.
05:30I might have to.
05:30Wow.
05:31You changed your life for the band.
05:32That's weird.
05:33Yeah.
05:33That's my guy.
05:34That was my guy.
05:35Go ahead, Mo.
05:36But, uh, I'm out.
05:38I'm out.
05:39I'm, I mean, call me an old man.
05:41I don't know what else to say, gentlemen, but I just, I can't understand how a professional
05:45can conduct himself in this fashion.
05:47I just can't.
05:48And, and if this is the way he reacts when things don't go his way, what happens when
05:53things don't go his way here?
05:54And I don't need that added pressure or my starting quarterback trying to figure out
05:59his way through the league.
06:00And we have these types of distractions and what type of, what type of energy is generated
06:05when he's so close with our starting quarterback.
06:07And then the other court, I mean, other receivers feel, you know, slighted or whatever.
06:12You know, I just, I just don't, I just don't think the risk is worth the outcome to assume
06:17that he is in football shape after three years.
06:20I just, that's a long shot, gentlemen.
06:22And even to tell you, I've been on Van Jefferson since March, gentlemen, I think he's going
06:28to emerge as our legitimate number two.
06:29I've got wagers out on him.
06:31Um, yeah, that's my guy.
06:33So personally, I'm not in on are you by any means?
06:36Cause I just, I just don't like the way he's moving, you know, being an older guy, just,
06:41it just doesn't work for me, but I'm sure it does for the younger generation.
06:45It's about your production, but I want, I want you to answer me this and it's what's
06:49pure speculation.
06:51Is there a chance though, that Jaden loves him?
06:54He's his boy.
06:55Yeah.
06:55But Jaden's also told AP, Hey man, he's just a lot handful.
06:59So I love the guys, my boy.
07:00Yeah, but it's not worth it.
07:01Honestly, it's not worth it to bring him in.
07:03Right.
07:04And that's why Jaden's not telling him to cool it.
07:06That's why nobody has any, like, he's just doing his thing.
07:10Like he's still boys.
07:11He loves them.
07:12Sure.
07:12But he's a handful.
07:14It doesn't want to be like having Rom around.
07:16Right.
07:16But Rom's not my boy.
07:17Don't, yeah.
07:19We're not like that.
07:19I mean, if he's a, if, if you're copying him to Rom, you want him a million miles away
07:23from the Romanders.
07:25This is all about the ADs right now.
07:27Is that possible that Jaden is his boy, but he's, he's privately told AP, Hey, you know
07:33I love him.
07:34He's my brother for life, but I really, it'd be a hassle if he's here.
07:38Absolutely possible.
07:39And I believe the distance that has been displayed between the two of them show us this.
07:44There are guys.
07:45You haven't seen them together at all.
07:47They are commenting on each other's IG.
07:50Okay.
07:50They are.
07:51There are guys who are your boys for life, right?
07:54That you might have in a text chain.
07:56Here's an example.
07:57Somebody sent me this text.
07:58I don't want to say his name.
07:59You might be able to figure it out.
08:00It was boys with my brother in high school.
08:02And they're still boys in a way.
08:04Here's the text.
08:05He sent me.
08:07Hey JP.
08:08And this is what I'm saying is my, my brother is separated from him to an extent.
08:12They're still boys, but they're not boys like they were in high school.
08:17You can have your interpretation.
08:19He goes, Hey JP, I accidentally got a DUI in ocean city.
08:25I'm going to call your boy Thomas C.
08:27Mooney tomorrow and see how much he's going to rape me.
08:30I've called a couple other lawyers, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
08:34But my point is that you can have boys that are just different than you, right?
08:39They're your boys for a stage of life.
08:42And then you go about your business.
08:45Jaden Daniels has gone about his business and Brandon has gone about his business.
08:50Doesn't mean you're still as tight with them as you were when you were in college.
08:54The only thing I agree, and that's what I'm throwing out there.
08:56We call that growth.
08:57Right.
08:58We call that growth.
08:58That's possible, but look at the post.
09:02I was trying to interpret what it is.
09:03Does Brandon Ayuk have his own clothing line or something?
09:07There's some cleats that, believe me, I looked at it for two seconds, but it appears there's
09:12some cleats that Jaden was wearing in a workout and Brandon Ayuk comment on it.
09:19Somehow they may be, it's a weird brand.
09:21Yeah, I don't know.
09:22I don't know if it's like, and if you look, I think Brandon might be associated with the
09:26brand.
09:27All right.
09:28And Jaden was wearing them like within the last two weeks.
09:30Okay.
09:31I mean, look, they could be hanging out all the time.
09:34I don't know.
09:35I just haven't seen it.
09:36Yeah.
09:37You know, so, so I, I suspect to use Moe's correct word that there's been growth from
09:44one guy who last played with his boy in 2019.
09:50It's 2026.
09:51Yeah.
09:51It's a long time ago.
09:53He may still be his boy.
09:54When he's 80 years old, he's going to say, Brandon, Ayuk's my boy, but he may not necessarily
09:57want, you know, be dying to play with them.
10:00I do agree with that sentiment, but I still think they might be closer than you think, but
10:04you still don't want to play with them.
10:05Yeah.
10:06Like they, he might be really, really close, but also no, this would just be an added stress
10:10if he was on the team.
10:11By the way, the guy who texted me did say, please don't say my name.
10:16You can use Stinky if you want.
10:18Yeah.
10:18Because nobody knows who that is.
10:19That's fine.
10:20Right.
10:21Do I know who that is?
10:23I'll tell you during a break.
10:24Probably.
10:25For freely.
10:26You probably don't know him that well.
10:27Let's go to Dan in Fairfax.
10:29Dan, what's up, buddy?
10:30He did go to your grade in high school.
10:32Oh, did he?
10:32Yeah.
10:33At least for a while.
10:35Hey, what's up?
10:37I just, I feel like this entire bit from DQ and everything is not chemistry.
10:42It's supposed to be making music on the field and I, I'm, I'm out.
10:46Mr. B.A. seems a few strings short of a string quartet that you would need to make that music
10:50sing.
10:52Right.
10:52Do you think that the commanders are out?
10:56I, I don't, which frightens me.
10:58I, I think there's a quiet, it's a kind of like blizzards knew they're going to go with
11:04Mr. AJ and no one else did.
11:06Right.
11:06I think that they're going to pick him up as soon as they can, but I'm terrified of it.
11:11The thing is you can go with a weirdo and it's, it can work out.
11:14Like when the Eagles acquired Terrell Owens, he was, he was a weirdo dude.
11:21And then the guy, the guy played on like a broken leg in the Superbowl and had, I'd have
11:25to look it up, but didn't he have almost like a dozen catches?
11:27Yeah.
11:27He had a great game.
11:28By the way, the guy you mentioned earlier, Antonio Brown didn't just get weird.
11:32He was weird the entire time he was with Pittsburgh.
11:36Yeah.
11:37Just Mike Tomlin was able to corral him.
11:39I mean, a lot of those, a lot of those guys you're talking about, if social media was around
11:44back then, they'd be posting stupid videos too.
11:46These guys have been weird.
11:48Then you just all of a sudden get weird.
11:50So, you know, I'm telling you, if Adam Peters is in on him and we're throwing out all possibilities
11:55here, obviously could be out, could be in.
11:57If he's in on him, I would assume it's because he just knows him and he knows he's kind of
12:01a clown, but he knows he's a baller and that he's not actually a distraction in the locker
12:06room because in his experience, when he had him in San Francisco, he was fine.
12:10Maybe he thinks this is all performative by Ayuk and that he thinks it's performative.
12:15Yeah.
12:16But there's still, there's also still the possibility that if he's acting like that now, he would
12:21act like that when he's in your locker room too.
12:23Sure.
12:23But if you had a three-year history with him or whatever the history is, and you
12:27kind of know how he is, this might not be surprising him at all.
12:31True.
12:31I just think it's a risk not worth taking.
12:33It actually, the more I think about it, it's a little similar to what Terrell Owens used
12:37to do.
12:37It was pre-social media, but when Terrell Owens was going out in the front yard and doing
12:41sit-ups.
12:42It's equivalent.
12:43It's equivalent.
12:43It pretty much was the same thing.
12:45Of course.
12:45That's what I'm saying.
12:47If you were a version of saying stupid Twitter was around, he'd be doing the same thing now.
12:51You mentioned him last week.
12:53You think Dennis Robin wasn't weird?
12:55I mentioned him today.
12:56I mean, there's so many weirdos.
12:57Yeah.
12:58Full of weirdos.
12:59Radio's full of weirdos.
13:00I mean, every industry has weirdos.
13:03NFL locker rooms?
13:04Weirdos.
13:07MLB dugouts or whatever, locker rooms, clubhouses?
13:10Weirdos.
13:11They all have weirdos.
13:12I wouldn't use T.O. as a good example to bring in Brandon Ayuk.
13:17He was kicked off the team in the middle of the season.
13:21Who?
13:22Owens.
13:22He was kicked off the Eagles and suspended by them in the middle of November.
13:25So you're saying he's even worse than Ayuk?
13:27Well, JP said it can work out.
13:28Look at the Eagles and T.O.
13:29No, but it worked out for the first season.
13:31For a very limited time.
13:32A limited time to a Super Bowl.
13:34I mean, for 12 years of his career, T.O. was a stud.
13:37I'm sure he was weird the whole time.
13:39The first season.
13:40I think it was the first season.
13:41I'm fully aware.
13:42I was a T.O. fan because I was a punk kid.
13:44Yeah, he broke his leg.
13:45He was very, very good.
13:46He also caused so much turmoil, they kicked him off the team.
13:50Right.
13:50Okay, but he also caused turmoil in other years, and they put up with it.
13:55And that's why he played on 100 teams.
13:58Yes, yes, yes.
14:00But they kept signing him.
14:01They kept giving him chances.
14:02Right?
14:03Because people are desperate.
14:04The people are desperate.
14:05The Bills and the Bengals were desperate.
14:07Yeah.
14:07The commanders shouldn't be desperate.
14:09They don't need him.
14:10Well, I don't think they do.
14:11They don't need him.
14:12I don't know if they need him or not.
14:14And Brandon Ayoub is 1 100th the player T.O. is.
14:17That's why he got so many.
14:19I agree with that.
14:21But he's also a guy.
14:22He was the top three wide receiver maybe of all time.
14:24I agree.
14:24Of course.
14:26But he is a talent.
14:28He has a talent.
14:30He's an NFL talent.
14:31Brandon Ayoub was a talent three years ago.
14:33We don't know anything about him.
14:35He's a big question mark.
14:35He looks fat.
14:36He hasn't played.
14:37And he's ranting and raving on Instagram.
14:40He doesn't look fat anymore.
14:41I don't think he looks fat.
14:42He doesn't look in shape.
14:43He didn't look in shape in the pictures that we saw.
14:46He doesn't look like in football shape.
14:47I don't know.
14:48When I saw him jumping in the pool, he looked fine.
14:50I'm not saying he's in football shape.
14:51He can't be.
14:52Why are you so desperate for him?
14:53I'm not desperate for him.
14:55I'm open to all possibilities.
14:56I'm not desperate for him.
14:57I could give a flying F.
14:58I can't wait to see how it plays out.
15:00If Adam Peters doesn't sign him, that's hilarious to me.
15:03I am not desperate.
15:04It seems like the least Commanders player out there.
15:06But I do trust him.
15:08So if Peters signs him, I do trust him.
15:12Not as much as I trust Will Dawkins, but I do trust him that he knows him
15:16and that he knows what he's getting.
15:18Coming up in just about an hour, we will talk Washington Capitals
15:21with Tariq El-Bashir, the Caps insider for Monumental Sports Network.
15:25Caps making some big moves before free agency.
15:29Tariq El-Bashir will join us coming up at 845 here on The Fan.
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