Deebo Samuel. What's the latest? What are the 49ers
think is going to happen. Here's lunch from yesterday.
It's in everyone's best interest. We don't get into
that. I don't think they're insurmountable. I think we can,
we can find a way to resolution and we're hopeful for that
because
we know what he's been to this organization. 36 back in 2019,
and he's been so good on and off the field. Well will depose
Samuel be on the team next year. Would it be a yes,
A probable, a questionable or a doubtful?
It's a yes for me
and that's our job. I mean, he's too good of a player.
We've got too good of a thing going and we want to keep that
going. So
yeah, that's that's where I'll leave that.
Okay, that's fine. I appreciate the optimism and I think they
really wanted to get through the draft. Kyle. Shanahan said
that himself over the weekend, once we get through this draft,
maybe things will settle down,
but but
The guys made it. Clear. He's on the record. He wants out.
How do you walk back from that? If you're Debo Samuel, when
you're doing this rather video,
they're walking through the
club with the Sunday. Bo-sama Stella 49ers, and cut
the depot, and he's kind of laughing. He says, no, it look
how do you come back from that?
I know, a gigantic pile of money would be one way to do it
Chris, but
there's just a
What's the word I'm looking for naivete? No,
I it's a combination of abstinence.
And I don't know that. I just feel like they
yeah, they don't want to believe it. Yeah, they're
clueless. Right? I feel they're in denial. That's are just in
denial about everything. They don't know how this happened.
It's kind of ignorance. I'm trying to think of a fancy word
and I'm struggling here, but the bottom line is
I feel like they don't understand.
How they got here
and they think they're going to be
able to get out of it. I don't think you can get out of it.
Unless you understand how you got into it. We've talked about
that something you said
or did or failed to say or do created this mess.
So until you can solve that and undo that you can't solve these
problems and I know they're trying to be very respectful
and not talk publicly about it. But the saint just enough to
make us wonder what the hell,
they think they're going to do
wave some magic wand and all of a sudden demos Sam.
Besides, he's staying put I
if they if they could do that oblivious, maybe the word if
they could do that. Why didn't they already do it? If it's
that easy? I know why is it already fixed? That's where I'm
confused by all of it. Right?
Well, I, you know,
they obviously haven't had much contact.
That's, that's, they haven't been able to break the ice
a little bit of like, let's start The Mending process. We heard
that from Shanahan, but was that Friday night press
conference? Where he said, I haven't talked to Adam a few
weeks.
So, There's that, you know, again,
it seems like and again not that I know these stories
but no some people connected and that, you know, you kind of
set it. I've been saying it all along that there's a little bit
of a like we're not exactly where it went wrong or what set
it off or why exactly. It's at this spot.
I do think that Lynch, like we've been talking about Lynch
and Shanahan. I have great faith in their ability to
communicate. And, of course, I think they know, they know,
That there was a good relationship but some point. So
because of that they're trying to going to try to salvage it
but I don't know. Like this is one where
like with Kyler Murray right? A month ago with all this. It's
always scrub them from all the social media, Arizona, car
the whole time. I was kind of like it. Don't figure it out.
They'll do it. And then you know, you start to, you
know, you and I we know a lot of people in the NFL, as you
start to hear, they're going to get it done. It's just a little
impasse like
I do. Or anything, any inkling that. Wow, they'll
Depot just mad for a second. They'll straighten it out. It's
just a contract. I don't get the sense here, you know, to
play on the kind of what you're talking about that. There's
like light at the end of the tunnel that this
might get fixed.
It just doesn't seem like Debo. Samuel
has given any wiggle room to think that to this point.
There's a stubbornness to the 49ers that I think informs our
position that they think it's going to be fine. It's almost
like they try to speak it into existence. Little this is what
we're going to do
and it's going to be fun. And I think Kyle is banking on Debo
showing up at some point for something and then he can sit
down with him, talk to him and they can work it all out. But
how do you get Debo at this point to back off of his trade
demand? He won't talk to you. How do you make this happen?
And
and his he sees AJ Brown
Down. Get what he wanted. Get the trade. That's only going to
make him more determined to dig in and get what he