Controversy in DC as Brandon Aiyuk has somehow gotten a hold of some Commanders practice footage or photos, which he displayed on social media – and is making people wonder if somehow, Jayden Daniels is involved, whether inadvertently or not.
At about the same time Doc Walker and Denton Day were agreeing over on The Team 980 that no matter what, Daniels is getting played by Aiyuk, BMitch & Finlay were saying the same thing about the situation with the two Arizona State buddies.
“Brandon Aiyuk needs to get called and told to put his freaking phone down, just for a minute. You have to wonder why he posted that specific picture, and why anybody would think it’s a good idea?” JP asked.
“He’s clearly trying to get a new contract from the 49ers, and I think that history has kind of shown that if you become a pain in the ass, that's kind of an effective strategy to do it,” Landfill said. “I don't have a problem with the guy doing it, but I just kind of wish he would not involve players on our team.”
Same with JP, who had “zero problems with any of it” until now – and then a caller asked about CTE and BMitch got mad that people are blaming every stupid thing on that like a straw man.
The caller did mention how Aiyuk was highly important to the Niners when Deebo Samuel was not healthy, though, and another listener on YouTube sort of summed up the Landfill side by saying “hopefully Jayden will learn a valuable lesson from this and Aiyuk is just all contract BS, and I’m not sure I'd want him here if he's going to pull stunts like this.”
Another streamer said they love the effort and Aiyuk in DC is a match both sides want…and, yeah, that’s a fallacy we may have been bamboozled into buying into?
“To me, it's a fallacy that a lot of fans have bought into that these two are best friends and he obviously want to be in DC, so bring him here – but Brandon Aiyuk has one priority in all of this: him getting paid,” JP said. “That’s okay, that should be his priority, but I think we'd be better served understanding that and not thinking this is about him loving burgundy and gold or something.”
“He said he could end up in Pittsburgh or Washington, and you know where he wants to end up? Whichever one offers him the most money,” BMitch replied. “A lot of these fans have to understand that the color people are most loyal to is green, as in how much they get paid. It’s not about coming here; he’s friends with Jayden Daniels, but he'll quickly be friends with Russell Wilson if the Steelers give him more money, or any damn other quarterback in this league if they gave him more money.”
And that said, JP, as noted, was cool with all of this nonsense until this practice pic post.
“This one to me was much different than all the other posts because it was a violation of trust, or a shocking display of stupidity,” JP said. “Either you shouldn't have done this, or you're dumb as a brick and don't realize that this is a going too far. I think it's the kind of thing everybody moves on from, and it’s nowhere to be found now, and I think Aiyuk should use all the tools at his disposal to get paid, and that includes his TikTok and whatever else he wants to do, but I think doing this doesn't help the guy you're supposedly friends with and supposedly care about.”