One of the big pre-draft stories,
where will Debo Samuel be, he was making it very clear, he
didn't want to be with the 49ers, he went public with his
trade request,
and it looked like they weren't going to be able to rebuild
the bridge, but Debo Samuel
looky here. He's at mandatory minicamp and here's how
Shanahan coach the team from yesterday talking about his
relationship with his receiver who not long ago. Did not want
to be Kyle. Shanahan's receiver anymore
fact. That D boat. You indicate About expected him to be here.
The fact that he is here
absorbing practice. Is that a sign that
the relationship is,
but it's been mended a little bit.
I think it's always been. All right. I mean,
I know we'll go through the business part of this
league and things like that. But,
I mean, I don't think the relationship was ever
too far away to not, get it back to normal, and I think
we're working on that, anytime you're away from each other for
a while,
that's always harder, but
it's good to get it back in here and
Start getting around the guys again,
rescinded, his trade request and
the two sides creating numbers are negotiations, active right
now.
I mean, they always talk. I'm not going to get into that. You
guys can have Steve-O to speak for himself on that. But
I mean,
love our relationship with Debo and
hopefully that'll help us be able to solve this
contractually before you get to the season. And some kids
actions
must over bleep.
Requesting a trade to leave the team.
We're going to Kate.
They want great.
Why do you say they weren't
for my go off of when I think of a relationship with someone
that has to do with him and me, not statements,
not Instagram, not
people repeating stuff, it has to do with
the words that come out of my mouth to a man and him back to me
and nothing else. And
that's never been a problem with me
and him.
I think back to some of the things Kyle Shannon had said
before the draft and during the draft when they do the press
conference. Basically, after every installment Thursday,
Friday, Saturday,
he expressed optimism that once the guys are back in
the building,
That's when the magic happens. That's when the communicator
that Kyle is kind of like Sean McVeigh, Chris, the opportunity
to talk directly to someone face-to-face, man-to-man and
work things out.
You know,
remember it came up during one of those press conferences.
They asked when you last spoke to debone, it said I haven't
reached him in a while. I haven't spoken to him in
a while. It's because he wasn't taking his calls. It's easy.
It's easier to just hit the the fu button on your phone,
when you don't want to talk to somebody, you don't have to
deal with them, but when you're there, Are Wendy bow, Samuel
shows up? And he's there.
That's when Kyle Shannon has the door open to do what he has
to do to mend fences and it sounds like that's what he's
doing. No doubt. That's why I think, you know, you heard me
say from the start that he's not going to give up
on this and I believe I made comments that. Yes, he's got
great confidence in his ability to communicate and relate to
the football players, you know, we talked about McVeigh
yesterday, maybe being the master
of communication.
Shanahan's not far behind. Shanahan's got a magical way
with the players. I mean, again, we're going in, you
know, a lot of years of being a head coach here. You don't hear
too many players say anything negative about Kyle, Shanahan.
And a lot of them say positive things, even when they're
getting cut and getting kicked out the
door. So yeah, I think you make the point there. You're right.
And that's where this is where they wanted it. Get them back
in the building.
You know. Hey, I'll show a few videos and teach the offense if
you plays. And while I'm doing that they're going to be Debo
Samuel highlights. And I'm going to tell Debo in front of
the team how awesome he is. And look everybody be like
That and then when I'm with Debo in a room and talking to
them and stuff, I'm going to make another connection and
he's just gonna Chip Away of this. He's too important to
the team. He's too important to Trey Lance.
He's the best player on their football team right now and for
a guy like Shanahan who is the offense of Genius, he's
the ultimate jack-of-all-trades to the offensive side of the ball.
So
I'm not surprised as gotten to this point. I'm not and I think
this is where Shanahan's pretty special you know he could tell
us all he wants oh they're talking and whatever. He's
the guy Running the show,
he's the GM and the coach,
he's going to get it to where he wants, and he's got a great
confidence. Like I said, in his ability to relate to these
guys, and I just think it's a matter of time before, you
know, we hear contract new contract for Debo Samuel.
This, they're gonna have to dig deep, they are going to be
cheap, nope, the market has changed dramatically and they
may be kicking themselves, because what they could have
gotten him for
back in mid to late January early, February
that changed with Davante Adams. Tyree kill.
AJ Brown the price has gone up especially if you're going to
use him as a running back and put him at greater risk. If
you're going to use me at two different positions, you got to
pay me a little bit more. So, whatever it was that
happened before the draft, whether it was he was offended
by their opening offer, which is entirely possible or
somebody just said something that set him off, accidentally,
maybe John Lynch said something. Maybe, maybe he's
not the master Communicator. That Kyle Shannon is, maybe
they
I too good, cop bad cop. And whatever it was something cause
Debo Samuel, right? To say, I want out. And it sounds like
they've found a way
somehow for a situation that looked like it was hopelessly
lost. They've found a way
to pull it back together. Now, as we've been saying
repeatedly, there's one way to come up with the money to pay
both
Depot, Samuel and Nick Bosa.
Shannon said, yesterday, they have yet to have contract talks
with Nick Bosa, and he doesn't seem to be
Pushing yet but hey, his brother Joey was
always attuned to and still is the business side of things and
Nick is as well I think and at some point Nick is going to
push one way to make it easier to sign either. Or both guys is
to get rid of Jimmy Garoppolo.