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Bag alert, bag alert, bag alert, bag alert, bag alert folks.

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That's right.

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The Brandon IU X Saga is finally over.

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We can finally woo soft for a little bit.

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We can finally focus on other things, other storylines, other headlines leading into the

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start of the regular season.

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Yes.

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I know, you know, we all know here at the football Juggies podcast.

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I know my fellow junkies.

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We are all excited for football to finally come back to restore the balance back into

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our lives.

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We have already put in our two week notices with our family, our loved ones and significant

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others.

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If you have them to let them know that listen, football is back in our life.

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So you know what that means.

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Oh, you already know what that means.

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That means Sunday football, Saturday football, Monday football.

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Football, football, football, football, because why we are football junkies.

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We love football.

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We eat, sleep and talk about football.

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All right.

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Now we got to go over with this entire brand and IU X Saga because basically this entire

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episode is dedicated to who Brandon IU in the conundrum that came with it.

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Okay.

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We have to ask the questions.

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Where the Steelers to patient on this, how big of a stain is this on Omar Khan's record?

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Because I've already seen people on Twitter who are going ballistic and already saying,

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Oh, they need to get rid of Omar Khan.

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Omar Khan doesn't know what he's doing.

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He's a horrible GM and whatnot.

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This is the worst thing you could have ever done.

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Pump the brakes.

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Okay.

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Pump the brakes.

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Get your emotions out of it.

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Touch a little bit of grass, drink a little bit of water.

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You'll feel perfectly fine.

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Okay.

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And well as did brand and IU X use other teams as leverage to increase his number.

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And what does this mean for the 49ers moving forward?

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All of this and more.

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On the 31st episodes football junkies podcast, I am your host, your GM, who still currently

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not on a team right now, but I still have a few interviews lined up.

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I'm looking to tap into the college football realm.

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I don't know.

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Maybe go to the SEC.

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I heard Atlanta got some good fried chicken.

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I don't know.

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Don't, don't, don't quote me on that.

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It's going to be under the table type of transaction.

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You know what I mean?

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As well as back road diamonds, as well as your chief head of the table.

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Chief meteorologists for the bag.

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I am all of these things and more, but most importantly, I am your host, Kale.

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You already know what I'm doing.

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I say on three, one, two, three, let's lock in.

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All right, folks, let's just get into the meat and potatoes of everything.

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So Brandon, now you look has ain't a four year, $120 million deal.

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And we got to go and pick this thing apart like a surgeon.

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So get your knife, get everything else you need to.

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Let's go into surgery.

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Let's go.

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Four years, 120 million.

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He gets a $23 million signing bonus.

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He is for he, I can't even speak.

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He gets 45 million guaranteed at signing 76 million in total guarantees and his average

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salary is 30 million a year.

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Now, before we get into our opinions about everything, we do have to talk about some

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of the notes that came with this, with this whole contract conundrum, right?

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Because there's a lot of things that we didn't know about until, you know, until now.

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So according to Diana Rossini from the athletic shout out to her, the 49ers were willing to

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trade brand and IU to the Steelers if they could receive, of course, an elite receiver

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and return, of course, but we all knew that, right?

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However, the 49ers were willing to offer the third round pick that they were going to receive

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from the Steelers to the Broncos in order to get Cortland Sutton, but the Broncos declined.

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And Albert Breer, another well respected insider also piggyback and also said the exact same

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thing what I just said, which was the 49ers were going to use that third round pick from

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the Steelers to send to Denver for Cortland Sutton.

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And you know, of course, like I just said, the Broncos declined it according to Adam

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Schefter, this offer has been on the table since August 12.

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Now, with this deal, he is tied with Tyree Kale for the fifth highest annual average

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value contract.

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Now when we look at things, right?

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When we look at this contract, this contract, believe it or not, is a very easy contract

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to get out of.

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easy without any problems, as well as do any restructures or any of those different types

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of things in order to create cap room and whatever the case may be, right?

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Because when you look at it, when we really look at things, right, the next two years,

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his base salary is only going to be a million dollars, 1.1 for next year, and then 1.2 the

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year after that, right?

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And then when you look at his cap hits, right, his cap hits for this year, of course, only

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going to be 5.7, next year is going to be 11.1, the year after that is going to be 16.2.

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entire situation, in some ways, when you look at the structure of the contract, in some

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ways they backloaded it, right?

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So that basically his base salary doesn't crest into 20 million until 2027 and 2028.

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Those are the last two, those are, I think, if I'm not mistaken, like the last two years

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of his deal.

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That's when he gets a boatload of his money.

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they're still in a situation where they want to probably still be competitive, but still

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have that leverage and flexibility to be able to do restructures and all those different

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And even then, I wouldn't even be surprised once this upcoming season is over, they do

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a restructure for his deal in order to get somebody else, right?

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So either way, it's a somewhat of a 1-1 situation for both sides.

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The holdout is over, the 49ers get their, you know, one of their best receivers back,

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everybody's happy, shake hands, you know, give a hug, whatever, right?

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Now that that's talked about, I think when you talk about the stealer side of this,

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right?

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Because, and granted, I will be one of the, I'll be transparent and be honest here.

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You know, I was definitely in my feelings for like a good two days.

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I was, I was livid because of the simple fact that there were multiple people that were

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saying, you know, always get ready to happen, it's getting ready to happen, blah, blah,

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blah, it's almost there, it's almost there.

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And at first, like, you know, you can ask anybody, I didn't want Brandon on you, simply

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because you're, you're taking away resources that you would need for next year's draft

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to supplement for this person, not to mention you're going to have to pay him 30 million

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a year, not to mention you're also going to have, you don't even have a quarterback who's

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under contract for next year as well, right?

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So it just didn't make any sense, right?

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And you know, at first, you know, I was totally against it, but then sooner or later as things

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started drawing out even more, and I was like, okay, maybe there is a chance that we probably

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do get Brandon on you.

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And you know, clearly I was wrong and you know, all of us were wrong.

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And so I think it's safe to say that the Steelers were a little bit too patient.

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I think it is safe to say to criticize them for that.

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They put all of their eggs in one basket and not even realize that there was a hole in

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the basket the entire time.

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And as time progressed, that hole in the basket started to get bigger and wider and bigger

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and wider.

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And this is what happens.

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Now they're in a situation where essentially all they have on their receiving core is George

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Pickin, Scotty Miller, Calvin Austin, and Van Jefferson, not to mention they also picked

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up Ben, I forgot how to pronounce his last name.

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He was with the Rams when they won the Super Bowl.

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They traded him to the Texans.

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They just picked him up and added him to the practice squad yesterday as well as Quezhuacas.

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That's basically the receiving core.

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And you know, granted, you know, there was definitely some options that you had available

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that you could have gotten, you know, when it came down to cut down day and, you know,

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the waivers.

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of receivers, terrorist marshal in company.

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But you know, you were so set on trying to get Brandon I.U. with that, you know, in some

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ways it burned you a little bit because now you're in a situation where you're going to

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have to wait until essentially next year when free agency starts to go after receiver because

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and let me be very clear on what exactly I'm getting ready to say here to any person that

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has edits of Devonte Adams and Pittsburgh, Stevens Jersey, please stop.

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Please stop right now because what you guys do not realize is going after someone like

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like a Devonte Adams is it is is it's ludicrous.

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It really is because when you look at it right now, his base salary this year is 16.8 million,

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right?

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And he's carrying a $25.3 million cap hit.

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Next year, his base salary will the next two years, his base salary is 35.6 million.

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His cap hit is 44.1 million, right?

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Why in the world would you want to go after someone like a Devonte Adams?

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When you know you're when you know you're going to have to give up the first round pick

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and you're probably going to have to give up high drafts just to try to just to try to

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justify that trade.

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And even then, even if you was to do a restructure, it still won't help because he's still carrying

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large large cap hits and a large base salary.

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It just wouldn't help the Raider structure that dealing away to where you know, if anything

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crazy happens, if he wants to walk away from football and retire and whatnot, guess what?

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They can spread out the Devcat hit and it won't affect them as much compared to taking

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it all at one time.

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And that's just a horrible move altogether.

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Now, when we look at things, though, when you look at free agency next year for receivers,

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you have a few you have a few names.

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Stefan Diggs, T Higgins, Kenan Allen, Amar Cooper, Chris Gollman, Brandon Cooks, Dante

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Johnson, that's not going to happen.

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Deandre Hopkins, Mike Williams, Robert Wood, Darrius Slayton, KJ Osborne, DeMarcus Robinson,

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Nelson Aguilar, DJ Chark, OBJ, Mack Hollins, Tyler Boy, Zach Pascal, Marquez Veldez, Scanlan,

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Zay Jones, and Elijah Moore and more.

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if that's the route that you want to take, or you could probably try and draft one and

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you know, and just go with that, honestly, compared to trying to go after someone like

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a brand and IEU and pay him the money that he wants.

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Because originally, let's not forget things, folks.

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Originally, on the table, the 49ers had, I think it was either 26 or 20 million a year.

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Was it 26?

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It was either 26 or 28.

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One of those two numbers.

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Don't don't don't call me on it, though.

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But that was originally the first offer that was that went public.

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And of course, he said no.

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And that's when things started to go downhill and you started to see him come out public

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and basically say, you know, I want to be traded.

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And then you saw the little bit of a media run that he went on, you know, hanging out

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with Jane Daniel and then, you know, going on various podcasts like the pivot podcast

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shout out to them, Ryan Clark, Shannon Crowder and Fred Taylor and them shout out to them.

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And then you, you know, you have all the back and forth and he's there, but he's really

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not there and all the various things that happen.

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And for him to finally sign the deal that's basically been sitting on the table since

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August 12th, let you know that, you know, he probably he probably realized that like,

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listen, one or two things are going to happen.

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You don't want to sign this deal and stay with this team and possibly win a Super Bowl

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or I'm going to go to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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That was basically it.

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There was no other options because remember, he didn't want to go to Cleveland and he didn't

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want to go to New England.

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So that was just basically it.

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And so here we are, right?

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But to say that Omar Khan, you know, is just this horrible GM and he needs to be fired

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and all those different types of things.

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Let me tell you something here, folks.

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Omar Khan has done a pretty good job so far when it comes to restructuring this team because

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let's be real here.

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This team definitely needed a little bit of a, it had to go through somewhat of a soft

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rebuild.

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It did.

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He's basically rebuilt the offensive line.

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Really hasn't done anything with the quarterback position, but that's not really his fault.

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That's because other people got into their feelings, had a, had a hissy fit and in doing

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so wanted to exit stage left.

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So, I mean, this happens.

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Every single GM that we know that you see that you love and whatnot, they've all flopped

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on a move.

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Where that be drafting the wrong player, where that means not paying the right player and

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paying another player that shouldn't be paid or trading away the wrong person or, you know,

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not pulling the trigger on us on a particular trade and whatnot.

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Every GM has done it, but that doesn't make them a bad GM.

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And the only reason why I'm saying this is because both had to think things over because

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let's be real here.

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We were the, we were literally the last team that was quote unquote still in on, on trying

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to get brand new it because we're basically said Pittsburgh is out of it.

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And that's saying, you know, Pittsburgh, you know, comes back and then they're in it and

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then the Browns and the Patriots, they back out and then the Steelers are just left there.

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And you know, if you're the Steelers and you know, you already sort of knew that the 49ers

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were looking for looking for an elite receiver in return and all you were willing to give

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it was draft picks, you already knew that you already had a disadvantage.

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You already knew that because the 49ers, they've, they've made, you know, their, their demands

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clear, which was we want a receiver and return.

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And they said George Pickens and y'all said, hell no.

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So there's that there, there's nothing that you can really do about it.

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It's not, it happens.

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And so, you know, they're, they're, this is what I'll say as much as we want to be emotional

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about this move, as much as we want to be upset about this move, look at it as a blessing

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in disguise.

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That's what you just have to look at it for what it is.

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It's a blessing in disguise because now you can still dictate on how you want your story

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to go and how you want to build your roster because remember folks, Pat Fryer move still

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has to get paid.

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Cameron Hayward still has to get paid pretty soon.

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TJ Y is, is going to be looking for another deal as well.

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You still have to figure out what you're going to do with Najee Harris as well as what you're

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going to do with the quarterback position next year because let's not forget here, folks,

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what's going on over in Dallas because if, if Jerry lets that presscott, you know, hit

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free agency, that's going to be one of the biggest free agents that we've had in a really

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long time.

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And they're going to be teams, multiple teams are going to be inquiring about that press

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guy.

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And I would not be surprised if the Pittsburgh Steelers do it as well because they know that

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if they get someone like a Dak press guy, not only do you have stability, but you have

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someone who is, he's not going to make a risky move.

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He's just trying to get the job done.

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That's it.

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And you know, it's, it's a really rocky situation, you know, for, for the Steelers.

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We're not in a position to win a Super Bowl and I really don't know if we're in a position

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to possibly, you know, make a deep playoff run.

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I just don't see it the way the, the, when we compare our roster to the chiefs roster

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or the Ravens roster or, you know, any of the other AFC teams that have really good

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rosters, ours really isn't that strong yet.

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But it can, you know, it's still a process and it's still growing because let's be real

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here folks, whether we, whether we want to amend it or not, as long as we stay the course

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as long as these draft picks hit will be fine, will be fine.

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Well, what have our moment?

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What have our window and whatnot?

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As long as these draft picks hit, as long as these free agency moves hit, we will be

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fine.

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Another question that we definitely do need to ask and, you know, just, just to put this

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out there, this, this episode is going to be relatively short.

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It's not going to be long and drawn out.

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Just wanted, just wanted to end the week with my thoughts on the entire, you know, brand

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IU situation by the same time I had to give myself a little bit of time just so I can

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process it and to try to eliminate my feelings out of this.

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Because if it was me personally, I would have just created a whole episode and just go on

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an entire randler, but that, that wouldn't have solved anything.

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It wouldn't have, but here we are.

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Now I think another question that definitely needs to be asked is, did Brandon IU would

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use other teams to increase his leverage?

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And I would say yes, I would say so.

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And this is why when we look at it, like I just said a few minutes ago, the original

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offer that they had for brand IU was between 26 and 28 a year, right?

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And remember, brand IU said he wanted his contract to be modeled after a Mon Mont Saint

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Browns a steal, right?

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Which was 30 plus million a year.

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That's what he said he wanted.

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And so for the longest time, they were not trying to come, come into an agreement with

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exactly what he wanted.

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And you know, in doing so, what happened is, you know, they, it was somewhat of a standstill

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and then, you know, they, they were able to come together, have a heart to heart and,

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you know, we like conversations and all those various different, you know, twist and turns

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that came with this conundrum.

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And you know, here we are.

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And he was finally able to get what 30 plus million a year.

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So in all and all, it worked.

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It worked.

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The masterclass of brand IU worked.

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He used the leverage of other teams, whether that be, you know, positive or negative, you

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know, spams, you know, Steelers nation and basically made it seem like he wanted to be

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there, you know, anytime any person mentioned his name on social media, he will look at

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the story and, you know, like certain, certain different things and whatnot and people overreact

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and oh my God, he's gonna be a stealer.

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Blah, blah, blah, blah.

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It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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That's not what it is.

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It's just not so let's just all relax.

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That's who saw and here we are.

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So all in all, great, great decision, honestly, because you drove your number up to the number

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that, that what you wanted.

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And then once you realized that this was probably going to be the best offer that there was

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going to give you, you just took it and that's great.

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And so, you know, all in all, it was, it was a success, right?

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But I do think, I do think another question that really, that really does need to be asked

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is what does this mean for the future of the 49ers?

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Because again, they have paid all of their players top dollar money, right?

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They've, they've, they've showed out a lot of money for, for their star players.

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They've resented the market for Nick Bosa.

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They, you know, gave Debo Samuel a big deal, you know, at, at that time.

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Now they're getting ready to probably reset the market for Trent Williams.

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They reset the market for Christian McCaffrey.

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Not to mention they're going to have to pay Brock Purdy as well.

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So it's, it, at some point, you know, the, the rubber meets the road.

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And I think they realized that this year is a, is a, you know, is a really tough year.

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It is.

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This is a make it or break it year.

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This isn't a year where they can be like, Oh, okay, maybe we'll try next year.

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No, your superstars are, the, the, the cap hit for your superstars are starting to, are

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starting to really starting to, I can't speak, are really starting to take effect.

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You have multiple players on this team right now who have a 20 or 25 or even 30 plus million

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dollar cap hit on this team.

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And you know, sure they, they, they've been trying to reshuffle the deck for the last

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few years.

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And of course they, they've made it to the Super Bowl.

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I think what?

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This 2019 and then last year, if I'm not mistaken, okay, cool.

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You lost both of them.

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Some of that is due to coaching, but I'll leave that alone.

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But you know, at some point it's going to have to come to an end.

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It just is.

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I'm sorry.

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And you know, when, when we look at spot racks as, you know, market value for broad

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purdy is four years, 208 million, 52.1 million a year.

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Now, let me add some context.

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That's probably not even factoring if he wins any major awards or let alone when Super Bowl

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MVP or let alone a Super Bowl.

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If Brock Purdy wins a Super Bowl this year and does it in a dynamic fashion, you are

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talking about someone that is going to demand 60 million a year, 60 million a year and when

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and if, if and when that happens, the 49ers are going to have to do so many restructures

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going to have to move money and structure his deal in such a way to where he gets his

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money.

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They're going to have to because why he was the one that was able to do it.

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They tried with Jeremie Garoppolo failed.

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They tried it with Trey Lance, even though me personally, I feel like they didn't give

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Trey Lance an adequate chance.

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And you know, that just, that was just horrible.

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Then they got Brock Purdy.

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There was definitely a lot of upside.

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It was definitely back and forth game, but then once that second half happened, that

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Chiefs defense was just, they were locked in.

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They knew exactly what they wanted to do.

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They knew what they wanted to accomplish and they got it done and you know, they won.

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They won.

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So I say all that to say this, you know, when you have Trent Williams, who's still on a

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hold out who he's still looking to reset the market because that's basically what it is.

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And you have this, someone's going to have to go.

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And I do think one of the first people that is probably going to be traded is probably

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to be Debo.

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I do.

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And the reason why I say that is because when you look at the structure of his deal,

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it's a very easy deal to get out of.

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His base salary this year is only 20.9 million a year.

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That's it.

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That's it.

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It's only 20.9 million a year.

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His cap hit is only 28.6 million a year.

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And then next year, his base salary is only 16.6 and his cap is only 24.2.

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That is a very easy contract to restructure and do whatever.

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Even then, you could probably give him more guaranteed money or you could just give him

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another really small one to two year extension just so you could spread, you know, the dead

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cap and the large cap hits and large base salary out.

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So, you know, some those players that are on somewhat expiring deals or who are at the

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like the end part of their deals, they're the ones that are probably going to be moved

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or traded or, you know, whatever the case may be, I wouldn't be surprised if some of

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those players start to get floated around during the trade that I would not be surprised.

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And so, you know, this is somewhat of a of a last dance.

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If you would say no pun intended for the 49ers, because they have to win this year.

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They have to win all the moves that they have made up and up until this point was to do

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what?

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Win a Super Bowl.

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And so far, they have not been successful.

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And every single time they get close, something always happens.

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And great.

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We can't say that, you know, the roster is not good and they don't have any superstars.

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They do.

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You have the great one of the greatest left tackles of all time on this team.

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You have one of the greatest running backs of all time on this team.

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You have a Swiss Army knife and debo Samuel on this team.

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You have one of the best fullbacks of all time on this team.

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You have one of the best pass rushers in the league right now on this team.

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You have the Creme de la Creme and some of the most major and most important spots on

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this team.

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And at some point, you got to win one.

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You got to win one.

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You got to win one to justify all the moves that they made from moving off of Eric Armstead

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to training the forest, but there to bring in Grave Digger to, you know, paying Nick

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Bolster the money that they paid him to trading for Trent Williams and trading for Kristen

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McCaffrey and drafting Debo and drafting Brandon IEWIC and drafting George Kittle and

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this person and that person, all those different types of things.

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They have to win one.

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If they win one, it justifies it just a little bit.

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Okay.

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Because the time for, you know, going on a streak and winning two and three and four

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and all those different types of things, it's passed.

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Okay.

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If they win one, cool.

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If they don't win one, this, this looks bad on both Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch.

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It really does.

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So I'm going to end that here.

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I appreciate you guys.

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00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,480
I told you guys I was going to keep it short.

461
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:25,200
I told you guys, I told you, I've been giving you guys bangers 30 minutes, 40 minutes, 45

462
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minutes, almost close to an hour.

463
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,960
This is going to be relatively short because again, we have college football and pretty

464
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soon we got to we got to start talking about college football and whatnot.

465
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And then next thing you know, football, that's right.

466
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NFL football.

467
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Yes.

468
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NFL football is back.

469
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,240
Peace has been restored to the football junkies podcast.

470
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,880
Now let me stop rambling and let me just end this now.

471
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:51,880
I love you guys.

472
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:52,880
I appreciate you guys.

473
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,680
I keep on saying it, but you guys don't know how much you guys mean to me.

474
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:57,680
I love you guys.

475
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:58,680
I appreciate you guys.

476
00:29:58,680 --> 00:29:59,680
Have a great weekend.

477
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:08,560
Bye for now.