It was three days after DK
Metcalf, does his contract with
Seattle, a very similar deal negotiated by the same agent,
but with a different team in the division 49ers and Debo
Samuel workout, a three-year extension
worth. Seventy one point five, five million with 58 Point, 1
million. Guaranteed, the deal isn't official yet when it is
official, I'll get the full breakdown and we'll see exactly
how it works. And do a real Apples to Apples comparison to
DK Metcalf, but Debo
got his deal, it looked like it wasn't going to happen. It felt
different after the draft Chris
and it was just a matter of letting it all play out and it did.
Yeah, it did. You know, we've had this conversation a lot,
I think this is, you know, one of the positives of Kyle Shanahan
and John Lynch. They don't panic. They didn't get their
feelings hurt, you know, didn't become personal with some of
this stuff went out, they kind of just let
you know things, calm down a little bit,
he started to reach out, got some conversations that sound
like and then slowly but surely chipped away. A Debo Samuel,
and whatever was bothering. Them and got to this. And
again, it's is this is the genius of Shanahan has ability
to communicate. I do think that for
sure. And then I think also when you add in the desperation
or the real need, we're talking about a team. That is
definitely Super Bowl caliber Young quarterback. Like we've
talked about by far the best weapon on their offense and
especially when you're talking about Shanahan
and how creative is and all the different things he does there.
And now you all, you know, the
Table tray lands that just all made too much sense that it
wouldn't get done. And I'm just, I'm happy to see it. I'm
happy for my friend. Kyle Shanahan happy for Debo Samuel.
I will say, I thought the number would be a little bit
bigger, I'm surprised by that, but nonetheless, I'm glad one
of the best teams in football. Got their best player back.
Why did you think the number would be higher? I just thought
I would because of the role he plays within the football team,
the argument, we've talked about it that, you know, he
takes a little bit more punishment than AJ Brown and
DK.
Cap know he's clearly a special player with the ball in his
hand. I mean 18 yards per catch,
but 18 yards per catch, Mike
with an offense that threw the ball in the air as short as
anybody in the game. So that means he's getting the 18
yards. He's catching it for four and getting 14 more yards.
He's catching a screen behind the line of scrimmage and
getting 20 more yards
that to me is special. He's the leading receiver on the team by
far than the second leading rusher and definitely
the biggest weapon that way.
So that's where I was a little surprised. I think not only
the role in the football team but then I thought there would be
almost a little bit of a surcharge to go. Wait I take
more hits and put my body out there more than the rest of
these
guys. You gotta pay me for that. That's where I guess
I was a little surprised Mike
that graphic. Can we put the graphic back up? The graphic
was accurate but let's remember some of these deals have some
BS baked in a bag and I chafe every time I see Tyreke lnw
dollars per year,
technically, it's accurate. But the last year of that Tract is
worth a value. That is so high. It drives up the number 230
million. That is a look at me
clause in the contract to try to get him Above the Rest.
I don't know that he's got the best deal of any of them. And
the key is this the other guys? Especially when you look at
Metcalf Samuel
and brown, they're back at the trough for years at the latest,
right?
And if their team wants to keep them, they're going to be
negotiating, a new contract and only three years and they're
all going to still be in their twenties. So they're in
a pretty Situation and
hills in a spot where he can have this window dressing to
make it look like he's the highest paid receiver in
the NFL. When his deal may not be quite as great as advertised by
the actual terms that have been cooked into it because that
last year is never actually going to be honored. There was
an interesting
thing that came up on Saturday.
Well, Kyle Shannon, met with reporters, and you've touched
on it. The role of Debo Samuel.
Kyle got a little pissy because reporters asked him whether or
not the roll. Yeah was saw that playing a role right in
the contract talks, right. And he said it has nothing to do with
that.
And he acted like
it was all generated by people who don't know what they're
talking about. The quote was, I know there's a lot of noise for
five months and tweets and a lot of people are repeating
what someone else said and repeating and repeating and
repeating.
But when a guy, all of a sudden doesn't want to be with a team
anymore.
And he doesn't say why.
Well those of us out here, who cover the Sporter left to try
to figure out why and we had Debo Samuel with us
at the Super Bowl and he explained how it came to be.
That all of a sudden, he's this dual threat where he's getting
the ball, eight, nine, ten times a game as a running back
and it wasn't like it's something he went. And said
I want to do this, I want I want more wear and tear on my body.
I'd like to shorten my career please. I'd like to be in
a bunch of car, crashes per game,
They make it harder for me to recover for next week as I get
older and older. Yes, I would very much like to play two
roles instead of one that leads to the reasonable conclusion
that either he doesn't want to do that or he wants to
be paid for it. That's right. And so Chris Chris we see is
not being paid for it. So now the question is, is he still
going to be doing it or they just going to revert to, we've
got a stable of running backs that will do
that. And we're only going to use Debo in the most extreme
cases, where we feel like we need Need and because of either
injury or he brings a level of intensity that we want to use
to our advantage. Yeah. I think that there's there's a few
things you said there. I mean one, yeah, I think first off,
you're right. I mean, it's fair to ask Kyle Shanahan that
question. I don't know why he got a little, you know,
disturbed by her to whatever, but I think it's
It's Perfectly Normal. I think there's a lot of really smart
football mines that are out there that were wondering
the same thing and wondering if that was part of the equation
here for the unhappiness.
So you know, yeah, I don't know why. Got a little bit mad at
that all together
and then I think to your point there, I don't think they
wanted to run Deebo Samuel quite as much as they want. Did
at the end of the season.
I think a little bit was forced
because of running back injuries,
and then he was having a little success and there was
a necessity so they had to do it. So I do think that that'll be
dialed back to a degree, but I still have a hard time thinking
that big games big situations that he still going to be
the main focus of the
And since some of those plays are going to be that right
there. You know, I am so that's
yeah, I'm surprised. He got paid.
I know that so he's happy.
But yes, like that like you said, like, I like I'm saying,
I thought it would be a little bit more and yeah I'll be
interested to see where this goes. You know, I look at it in
some ways and go whoa the see the 49ers. They got three year
extension
run up. Maybe they're going to beat him up, run them in
the ground. They don't want to go longer than that, maybe they're
going to. Well let's see where he's at after 2 or 3. Years
after we run the run the ball, the way he did last year,
that's crossed my mind for sure.
The other thing that crossed my mind to Mike is the structure
of the deal, the way it looks is, you know, there's a good
chance to it's a two-year 58 million dollar contract he
could be done with those first two years. Basically, you just
go
wait the third year, it doesn't make sense. We're
I'm send out the, the
champagne again that says Debo won't be a 49er on. Let's go
back to the table. I think all those things could be on
the horizon. Sorry, I said so much there. I just had to get it out
now. No. Yeah, and that's one of things we got to remember,
right? Just because a guy's got a contract for four years,
doesn't mean we
have four years of Tranquility. Yeah. Right way,
right. Cod. Oh well, I think we're gonna have seven years of
peace and quiet between calamari and the Cardinals
after everything. That happened this week. Without everything
that happened last week,
we were 34 years away from Kyler Murray saying, hey, my
contract kind of sucks in comparison to everyone else is
right now. So that's the thing to remember, we have seen
player, empowerment guys, who are finding a way out of
the teams that they don't want to be on any longer.
Four more teams adopting Mike tomlin's we want. Volunteers
not hostages mindset and is the cap goes up and up as contracts
get better and better. You have more guys with wandering eyes
and now, they feel like they have a way
to act on it that actually can be effective unlike Terrell
Owens in 2005 when he wanted. Either a new contract or out of
Philadelphia and their attitude, was
you signed a contract live with it, and we saw how it blew up
on them and ultimately Terrell Owens was ahead of his time
because more and more players of that mine. Is set now
getting what they want. So Debo Sam, I want a couple years may
decide I want out DJ
Metcalf and a couple of years. May decide
I want out calamari may decide in a couple of years. If not
sooner, I want out something to keep in mind
and
again, we'll see what the full details are. But it's typically
better for the player
to have a shorter deal because it's those back-end, your
sometimes, there's the phony baloney back-end year
that like Tyreke ill and others, it's just back-end. You
A very favorable to the team
that don't carry a high salary,
and you got to convince the team to rip it up at a time
when it's like, hey, we've paid you the bulk of the money up
front. Now, this is where we get to have a little bit
easier. We get the benefit of this bargain. We gave you
security
and yet maybe below Market but too bad. We were above Market
when it all first started. Let me say one more thing about.
Yeah. What he did as a running back because I think it's
important to remember, yep,
eight games last year. First eight weeks of the season, they
may have had their by but it was through the first eight
weeks. Weeks. He had six total carries
and then it was that Monday night game against the Rams, right?
The obj debut and everything was going to be great and if
must win for the 49ers, or the bad side effect. Yeah. Rap out.
Right. That was the game where it started, right? That's where
he got five carries in one game after having six
all year long combined. Yep. Then they had a short week
Sunday game after the Monday night, he had eight for
the rest of the regular season. It was 686.
Five seven and eight, then came the playoffs against
the Cowboys Wild Card round.
He had 10 against the Packers divisional round,
he had 10 and then against the Rams, he had seven
so they really ramped it up because it was working. There
was a quote, at one point where
Kyle Shanahan said
when I see basically the looking debose, I yeah, when
I hear him say, I want the ball, I trust it other guys, I don't
with him, I
I do that. How do you get col Shanahan
to keep that club in his bag?
Well, he knows that he can rely on it. I know that's why that's
why I don't you know, I have a hard time thinking that that'll
happen. I think we're going to be closer to the 6 and 10
carries,
you know, a game.
Mmm. Hopefully they can keep the running backs healthy but
you know, I guess what I worry about is just like what you
just explained.
Yeah it was they were three and five things were desperate. Oh
no. We got to kind of Start winning from here on out now.
And that's when they started writing Debo Samuel hard week
in and week out. So, that's, that's what I worry about for
him again this year, especially, you know, NFC West,
it's good. You're fighting for your life. All of a sudden
you're sitting there and you're going damn, where a Super Bowl
team, but
we're only four and three
and that's where you start to go. Well, let me think about
Debo again and that's that's where, you know, I'll be
interested to see, but I would think Shanahan's it. Have
a hard time you know, not putting him in there and those
situations as well. Mike. I agree with.
You there.