wants out of San Francisco. We know that we don't know why,
and I think the Y has a lot to do with whether or not he
is going to be placated in any way by the 49ers. If it's
money, they can pay him. If it's his use, they can alter
it.
If he just doesn't want to live in California. They're not much
they can do short of relocating, the team to make
him happy. So we're still waiting for the why a reliable?
Why he doesn't want to be there.
But all we know is he doesn't want to be there.
And there were multiple reports over the weekend. That
the Jets, the Packers and The Lions have shown initial interest to
any time. I see those same teams from multiple reporters.
That tells me that I think the agents put it out there to try
to
stir some things. Let's get something going here.
I'm surprised there aren't more teams.
But when you look at what the 49ers would want for him,
and what he's going to want,
and he still is largely unproven. He had one great year.
He's had some injury issues.
He plays with a reckless abandon that isn't conducive to
lining up for all 17 regular season games and the playoffs.
This is a tough call. As to where this is going to go.
First question is, are the 49ers going to give him what he
wants and we expect them to because other teams are doing
that with disgruntled receivers. That doesn't mean
the 49ers are going to throw in the towel on this guy.
He's one of the most important players. Tom.
He is, but on the other hand, to if he's going to be
recalcitrant in any way, then you probably should jettison
him. Because do you want to spend 35 million dollars
a year on a receiver
who doesn't want to be there? And that's what you're going to
enter into. If you're San Francisco 49ers that you go
into the final year of Debo Samuels contract and he's made
six million dollars in his career.
If money can be the South's to the wound, that he has feel
feeling right now, then fine, but if it isn't, Going to be
and you're going to pay them
or he's going to deny every deal then move on and try and
reset in this draft. If you go for instance, and take the Jets
up on perhaps a presumed offer, which I've seen put out there
with the 10th. Pick overall, pick has evolved
hon. Good, take them
will take Jameson Williams. Attend will take Chris a lobby
at 10. We'll find a player. Go ahead Mikey.
No, it's a hand raised.
I keep coming back to this. Now. Look Davante Adams gets
traded after eight years. With the Packers. They have gotten.
Their return on the draft picked, they invested in Adams
Tyree. Kill. They want a Super Bowl. They went to another one,
the Chiefs have gotten their return and they get five picks
back and they don't have to pay him 75 million. Over three
years.
The 49ers are just getting started with Debo Samuel. It
makes no sense to me.
You scratch off a lottery ticket, it becomes Depot Samuel.
I don't want more lottery tickets because I don't know
that they're going to become Debo Samuel. That's why I think
for the 49ers it is incumbent. Remember. Last year, when Aaron
Rodgers unhappy with the Packers? They went out there.
Kissed his butt multiple times in California the Brain Trust
flew from Wisconsin to California. To try to work it
out with Aaron Rodgers.
If I'm the 49ers, I'm doing everything I can
to get Debo Samuel back into the fold.
I just
know I've said this since I'm not news broke on Wednesday.
They're at fault. How can you let
the relationship between you and what are you most important
players
go to crap? Like this?
How do you know? No happen.
I know how does that occur? What did you say or not? Say,
what did you do or fail to do to create this dysfunction?
It's on the 49ers to some, to some degree. Unless the only
reason is he wants out of California and there's nothing
else,
some or all of this is on the 49ers,
certainly and that the 49ers might be happy. That it's on
them because their perception and I don't know this to be
the case,
but if you look at,
again, I hate to be so Patriot Centric. I know we have
a worldwide audience but Going to come back to the Patriots. And
Tom, Brady. Why was Tom Brady
allowed to leave because
the Patriots felt as if they could replace Tom Brady
or they in some ways made him and could make another,
which maybe they were going to an approximation of early. Tom
Brady with Matt Jones. Same thing with Depot Samuel, heavy
genius, offensive, mind and Kyle Shanahan.
And they love Depot Samuel, but they don't live Depot Samuel,
taking 18 percent of their salary cap.
Because they feel they can create another Depo Samuel.
It's the suit. It's not the player inside it, you put them
inside that suit where he's a wide receiver and a running
back. And yeah, there's not a lot of them. But do you think
if Julian Edelman was there,
he could have done that. Yeah, maybe he was a seventh round
pick. There are players out there who can do that now and
that's why I think it's hard I believe.
For me to get my mind around 40 million dollar wide receivers
because wide was the number up, though. It's 35. Now. It's 40.
I mean, it's not even at 30 yet. Tyree kills 30 is fake.
It's phony, it's fraudulence got a five million dollar
loan payment. The last year. You've been 25 to 30 25 to 30
right now.
It's still a lot, still a lot when this girl, whatever is
coming out every year, it's a lot.
So when we get to that point
you have to way. Okay. Can this player take over a game on
a Euler basis, I think the short run and catch guys can more
adroitly than say, for instance, DeAndre Hopkins.
I think the guys who work underneath
the Debo Samuels, they're
easier to exploit than the downfield X receiver who's
working between the numbers of the sidelines all the time.
I think those guys who can work the middle of the field, who
can take handoffs who can operate like this
after the catch.
Kyrie kill after the catch.
They are the coin of the realm. I'm going forward. But in order
to be that guy
you're going to take a lot of punishment.
You're going to move around a lot. And so
for Debo Samuel, understanding that
I don't know whether this is a stick-up and he's entitled to
do. So
because making six million dollars and taking
the punishment that he will working on. The interior of a football
field is different than the ivory. Hopkins will take
different than different than you know, Amari Cooper will
take. So he's entitled.
To try and orchestrate his way. I think, in a way that maybe
an extra Seaver isn't but still,
I'm a team, I'm rebooting and saying, I can get another guy
to do that. Sorry Deebo. You're awesome. Love you, great
personality. I'm going to find another guy.
You make an important. The reminds me of something that
former 49ers in Washington GM Scott. Mcluhan told my crease
of espn.com, the idea that
a great receivers, only touching the ball, six or eight
times per game. You can't make that investment in. But
the other side of the coin. Is this your that extra Seaver.
You're attracting
two guys about you. Everywhere you go
and make a game plan to make sure that
you're the Red Dot guy that they have to account for
an every play. In your opening up, the rest of the offense. So
there is inherent value in your presence. Even if it's not in
your production,
the other side of this too and I keep coming back to
Just because the Packers gave Davante Adams. What he wanted
just because the Chiefs gave Tyree kill what he wanted.
Don't assume that the NFL has had, this fundamental shift
where teams are now willing
to just move on
from anybody who wants out. You know, Mike Tomlin says, at
least once a year, it's one of his, you know,
there's a snake in my boot. Pull string comments. We want
volunteers, not hostages. You hear that from him. We want
volunteers not hostages. Well, that means all you got to say
is I want out and I'm getting out.
Not Team is going to do that. And I think back to the Eagles
in 2005 with Terrell Owens. And I think he was ahead of his
time. There's a chapter by the way, in a new book called
playmakers that touches on the Terrell Owens experience in
Philadelphia
and how differently. We viewed, Terrell Owens. When all he was
looking for was a little extra security after having a 2004
season in which he wildly exceeded, everyone's
expectations for him to walk right into Philadelphia and do
what he did, and then played in the Super
Super Bowl with a broken leg. He just wanted his contract to
have greater protections, especially against injury
and the Eagles. Attitude was
sorry, you signed a contract deal with it. Play for us to
play for no one. So he embarks on this reign of terror to get
himself traded or cut and it marred the whole season. He
still averaged more than 100 yards per game that he played
that year. But
that's a different point altogether.
I just think that
there are still some of those folks in the NFL who think
the way the Eagles thought in 2005.
And their attitude is going to be.
I don't care if you want out.
You got two choices Debo
play for us or play for no one and we don't know what
the 49ers are going to do.
We don't they've said nothing. I don't know when they're
pre-draft press conferences are but they've said nothing will
get some insight at some point this week, the way to trade him
or they won't, but we don't know what they're going
to do, and they very well may let this week unfold with no
activity, no action. And the bottom line is, they don't say
anything.
And they just wait
for demo to show up because what's he going to do not? Get
paid, not play football, not do the thing. He loves push comes
to shove. Maybe he's going to show up.
One key difference between 2005
and 2010 and maybe even two thousand fourteen or fifteen.
And now
the Advent of social media, the rise of social media. Yes,
you're absolutely right player can keep hammering it and then
you can have
save Matt chewed on
from the Patriots. Saying, hey, why don't you come out here?
And then all of that gets exercised and the fan base has
heard from
and it's different. The, the pressure that can be exerted is
so far different now because of it.
You're absolutely right. The shirtless driveway sit-ups
where your only alternative the next question, press conference
on the front lawn from Drew. Rosenhaus. Was your only way to
get your message out. Can you imagine
what Terrell Owens would have done
with a Twitter page and Instagram page in 2005.
Can you imagine it would have been Relentless and there's
a point where the team just throws its hands in the air and
say we don't need this crap.
We don't need it.
Let's just move on from it. It's given
the players. A very
valuable one.