typecast Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 2 hours ago, Forge said: Looks like the endgame. See ya, Brandon! 👋 You will be missed, Sir So nothing has changed. RICKEY IS BACK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typecast Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 1 hour ago, Forge said: This will be my favorite thing. We'll trade Aiyuk for like a second + third or second + fourth and then we are going to end up using that second for a rental receiver like Diontae Johnson In before conditional 3rd in 2026. (this is a joke.... maybe...) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
757-NINER Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 If it's for any pick other than a first, they totally ****ed this up. They had all the leverage. Instead of giving in to BA you make him sit and lose game checks. I'd bet long money BA is/was not prepared to sit out any regular season games. Disgruntled or not, he would have played. And you still had the trade deadline if you were ready to move on from the sideshow. I'm more pissed about the potential compensation rather than losing the player, if I'm being honest. I'd much rather keep BA than lose him. But this has to make sense for the organization, not the player. At the end of the day, BA wins in this scenario if the draft picks coming back is what's being reported. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typecast Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 (edited) 30 minutes ago, 757-NINER said: If it's for any pick other than a first, they totally ****ed this up. They had all the leverage. Instead of giving in to BA you make him sit and lose game checks. I'd bet long money BA is/was not prepared to sit out any regular season games. Disgruntled or not, he would have played. And you still had the trade deadline if you were ready to move on from the sideshow. I'm more pissed about the potential compensation rather than losing the player, if I'm being honest. I'd much rather keep BA than lose him. But this has to make sense for the organization, not the player. At the end of the day, BA wins in this scenario if the draft picks coming back is what's being reported. The 49ers never had all the leverage in this negotiation. Aiyuk was never going to extend on the 49ers lowball offer. No sane team is going to trade for a player that both wants a new contract but also doesn't want to play for them. The Jets-Reddick situation just reinforces why. Even though the Jets were lied to, they knew going into the trade that Reddick wasn't happy with his contract. That should have been addressed. The 49ers options were always (1) pay Aiyuk his ask, (2) trade Aiyuk to a team he'd be willing to extend with, or (3) play out the fifth year option, then let him walk in Free Agency. Every party involved, the 49ers, the Steelers, Aiyuk, have some leverage. Besides the fifth-year option being fully guaranteed salary, the CBA doesn't allow teams to deactivate players to avoid paying them salary. What kind of vindictive bs is this? Oh, and if you were willing to go down the "let him walk into Free Agency" path, you need him to play a high number of snaps this season because percentage of snaps is part of the compensatory pick ranking formula. BA was not going to sit voluntarily. He had already reported to training camp. He's not incurring any fines like Trent (or Lamb in Dallas). At the end of the day, BA wins. Good for BA. The team and owners will survive. Edited August 13 by typecast 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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XScutterX Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 1 minute ago, Forge said: 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamq Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 30 minutes ago, Forge said: Rickey and the Costco family was the colab we didn't know we needed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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StevenK Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 3 minutes ago, Forge said: Will this end all already! This team gives me so much stress lol. Forget the playoffs, offseason is where I’m starting to lose my ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 8 minutes ago, StevenK said: Will this end all already! This team gives me so much stress lol. Forget the playoffs, offseason is where I’m starting to lose my ish This is probably the most promising report we've had, I feel like 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9erFreak77 Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 7 minutes ago, StevenK said: Will this end all already! This team gives me so much stress lol. Forget the playoffs, offseason is where I’m starting to lose my ish I’m so stressed i’m never watching football again…………….. i said this same thing after the superbowl and my wife was so excited lol. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typecast Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 1 hour ago, Forge said: Our offer of 26M is now 26M and a box of twizzlers. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenK Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 13 minutes ago, 9erFreak77 said: I’m so stressed i’m never watching football again…………….. i said this same thing after the superbowl and my wife was so excited lol. Right! Sorry honey, they need me, I have to continue to get my feelings hurt lol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWood21 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 27 minutes ago, Forge said: This is probably the most promising report we've had, I feel like Feels like one last ditch effort to try and secure Aiyuk to a long-term deal before they pull the trigger on the Pittsburgh deal. Have to figure there's going to be a resolution by the end of the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 5 minutes ago, CWood21 said: Feels like one last ditch effort to try and secure Aiyuk to a long-term deal before they pull the trigger on the Pittsburgh deal. Have to figure there's going to be a resolution by the end of the week. I need it to go 6 more days I said we were two weeks away on August 5th. Resolution coming on Monday 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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