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Minimum $10 per order, additional term supply. Hey, Matt, how are you? I'm doing well. And after all that you just outlined, I just realized how tired I am reporting on all those things that's going on with the team. But yeah, right now it's all Brandon and Ayuk all the time because you just kind of get the sense that something is kind of reaching the boiling point here.
And that at some point, fairly soon, I would think that this situation will get resolved. So, Matt, I've been on the air now. The show just started.
We've been on the air for not even 25 minutes. And we've had conflicting rumors over the past 25 minutes from various reporters as to whether or not he is on the verge of being traded to the Steelers or whether that is just a lot of hot air. From your understanding, what is the latest with Brandon Ayuk? Is he staying? Is he getting traded? Is he going to be a stealer?
What's the deal? I think that the latest is Brandon Ayuk is very much in a position where he is trying to decide what he wants out of this. He requested a trade a week before training camp. And quite frankly, even though he requested a trade, I kind of get the sense that he never really wanted the 49ers to follow through and give him that trade that he requested. I do think that he would much prefer to remain with the 49ers but under the kind of contract that he wants them to give him. And I do think that there are other teams in the NFL, at least three other teams, to my knowledge, that are fully willing to pay him market value and meet his contract demands. The question is whether the 49ers can get the kind of compensation in return for Brandon Ayuk that makes it worth their while. And I would say one of the keys to that is that where they are with their kind of push all their chips to the center of the table attitude and a team that's built to win now, heck it's been built to win the last five years and they haven't won the Super Bowl, they can't do anything at this point to weaken their chances this year. So what they get in return is going to have to offset the loss of Brandon Ayuk.
So to answer your question, I think it's all very fluid. There are a lot of moving parts, but ultimately I think Brandon Ayuk could have been traded already if he had agreed to a deal that potentially the Cleveland Browns were willing to give him. To me that's the scenario that makes the most sense for the 49ers because kind of under the impression that if the 49ers were to deal Brandon Ayuk to the Cleveland Browns that somebody they would get back as far as the compensation would be Amari Cooper.
Which you could make an argument that those two are kind of equal, certainly different parts of their careers. Brandon Ayuk would be an ascending player. Amari Cooper, I think on the wrong side of 30, but still a guy who was very productive last year. So we'll see how this whole thing plays out, but I mean everything that I've been hearing and the people I'm talking to, they really don't get a good sense of where Brandon Ayuk's head is and what he values in seeing the situation come to a conclusion. Matt Mayoko is joining us from NBC Sports in the Bay Area. This Brandon Ayuk situation is very fluid. The man that they potentially drafted, insurance.
Ricky Piersol out of Florida had to deal with a hamstring issue. There have been reports that he hasn't looked all that great so far in training camp. What have you seen? What have you heard?
I would disagree with that. I think he's looked very good. I think he's been a pleasant surprise as far as what he's shown on the practice field, how comfortable he looks, the route running, how he's fit in. I've heard nothing but good things about him. The question is, do you want to put all that on the plate of a rookie?
I think when the 49ers drafted Piersol, he'll be able to contribute as a rookie, but it's probably looking more a year down the line that he could potentially be a starter a year from now for the 2025 season. Because at that point, 49ers always try to trade, not trade, but draft. Hold on one second here. We've got potentially some news here. Okay, all right. I thought you were going to tell me Brandon Ayuk ordered lunch.
I don't know. That would have been news. Anything he does is news, whether he's given a hug to the general manager and the head coach or not. I do think that the 49ers drafted looking out as a year. You don't draft for the year where you expect a rookie to step in and play a major role.
You have to do some long term planning and say, where will you need help in the future? And so that was the idea with Piersol. But I would say right now, he definitely looks the part. And I think the 49ers are pretty pleased with what they've seen so far. Well, Matt, one guy that we have not seen at all because he also wants a new deal is Trent Williams. He just turned 36 years old. What type of contract could he be asking for? I mean, 36? Kind of tough, right? It is very tough because you're, as a team, the contract you give players aren't for what you've done in the past.
It's for what you expect them to do in the future. And so when Trent Williams signed his contract, he was obviously the number one paid offensive lineman in the league. Now he's number six. But I think the bigger thing is he has zero guaranteed money left on that deal. Now, if you play at the level that he's played at, it doesn't really matter because your play basically guarantees that you stay on the team and you're going to get every penny you have coming. So I see it as kind of a two pronged thing where Trent Williams wants to see his average per year bumped up from where it is now and also to see some more guaranteed money. I think, you know, what the Dolphins did with Tyreek Hill could be where the 49ers would want to go. It's just basically don't you know, I don't think they added any money to Tyreek Hill's contract.
They just added guaranteed money. So they made, you know, his scheduled salaries for the future guaranteed money. So Trent Williams has been around a long time. He knows what it takes to get ready for a football season. My thought is whatever day that is, whether it's the day after the final preseason game or before the final preseason game, he's going to know how much practice time he's going to need to get ready for week one. And that's when he'll show up. And that's when the 49ers and Williams will be able to complete a redone contract in some form that gets him ready to play Monday Night Football week one against the Jets.
He's 36 years old playing NFL football. Nothing wrong at a high level. Nothing wrong with a little bit of a vacation, right?
No, absolutely not. He doesn't need training camp. He doesn't need he doesn't need to show up on July 23rd to get ready for a game in September. He he he knows how to he knows how to get himself ready to play football. And I mean, he's been a fantastic player and some would say he's been the best player on the 49ers since he's arrived. And Matt Mayoko is joining us from NBC Sports Bay Area, someone who is still trying to prove something, even though he was an MVP conversation last year.
It's Brock Burdi. He's going to be looking for a payday next season as well. What have you seen so far from him in camp and what could we possibly expect from a financial perspective for him next year? Well, he's he's just he's an impressive guy. I'll say that he doesn't overwhelm you with his size or his strength or his throwing arm or speed, but he just knows where to go with the football and when to go with the football. The timing and precision is really spot on.
It's frankly, it's a lot of stuff you can't measure. And, you know, I don't think anybody at the time when he was selected with the final overall pick in that draft, I don't think anybody was like saying, oh, my gosh, he was a he should have been in the second round. You know, nobody was saying that, but he has all these attributes that fit very well in Kyle Sheaney and system. So if he has any kind of year that approaches what he did last year when he led the league in passer rating, led the league in QBR, led the league in yards per attempt, set forty nine or franchise record for yards passing the season. If he's able to come close to those numbers once again, then, you know, he goes from being one of the absolute lowest paid players on the forty niners to one of the absolute highest paid players in the entire NFL.
So all that kind of brings you full circle. You know, we started talking about Brandon Iuke and his contract. Well, every contract that the 49ers do, they kind of have to keep an eye to the future. So they know a big payday is coming for Brock Purdy a year from now. And, you know, just based on how this market is gone, you know, 50 million per season kind of looks like the floor for that. So every move the 49ers make, they have to plan for the future.
And it might mean that they can't afford this guy or that guy when you know that you have a player who's basically, you know, playing for free, not making much at all. And next year he might get a 50 million dollar raise. Matt Mayoko is joining us based on everything you said, whether it's it's Purdy or Trent Williams, we haven't even talked about Christian McCaffrey, the new deal, an extension that he got. Is this upcoming season their best and last chance, given how they've been constructed over the past few years? Well, I would say it's their best chance because they haven't won it in 30 years and they got the pieces in place to win it. Is it their last chance?
I don't think I buy the whole window thing. I think any time you have a quarterback who's been as productive as Purdy has been, granted, it's a very short period of time, a very small window. I just think if you have solid play from your quarterback, you know, approaching MVP kind of level play out of your quarterback.
And Purdy did finish fourth in the MVP voting last year. I think you're always going to have a chance. But I would agree.
I would say that this is you know, this is a really good chance. And what the team looks like a year from now is not what the team's going to look like now. Heck, the team right now doesn't look like the team a year ago. They made a lot of changes on the defensive line.
And so, you know, some more other subtle changes. But I do think that, you know, when you when you look at the rosters of every team in the NFL, 32 teams. I mean, if the 49ers don't have the best roster, then maybe they're second or third. I mean, that's that's how good they are on paper.
And, you know, they they've not only been good on paper, they've been good on the field to just not good enough to win it all. So, yeah, I mean, I think that the window is open for them to win it this season. The question is, you know, how long will that window stay open?
And their idea is, you know, signed Brock Bertie to the long term extension, given the money that he's worth next offseason. And as long as he's doing the things that he's done, then that window will stay open longer than maybe we even might think it would with all the other changes that have to be coming down the road. Well, listen, Matt, I don't know about the next bunch of years, but I know for the next several months between now and February, unless there's a massive disaster, you're not going to get too much rest. I know you've been looking for. Yeah, I'll get a little bit more rest when when the Brandon and I situation is resolved and when the Trent Williams situation is resolved.
Most certainly. Well, Matt, I appreciate the time. Where can people follow you and all of your work with the 49ers and NBC Sports Bay Area?
Fill us in. Yeah, I have the podcast 49ers Talk Podcast. You can get it anywhere you get your podcast and you can follow me. The written word on NBC Sports Bay Area dot com.
And then on the social media, whether it's Threads or Instagram, whatever the case may be. Twitter at Mayoko is M a i o c c o n b c s. Thank you so much for the time. Let's see what happens without you. Appreciate you. Sounds good. Thanks for having me on.
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