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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the Deep Drive. Today we are we're
opening up a file that's less about x's and o's
on the field and more about the well, the brutal
reality of NFL contracts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
That's right. We're looking at the really extraordinary situation going
on in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
With the forty nine Ers and their star wide receiver
Brandon Aiyuk.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And our mission here is to really get past the headlines.
We want to unpack the financial and you know, the
relational damage that's happening here because the.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Team voided a huge piece of his contract exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We're using the details from an ESPN article to figure
out why this is such a well, a massive crossroads
for both the team and the player.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And that central event, the one that really blew this
whole thing up, it happened in late July twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
The forty nine Ers officially voided about twenty seven million
dollars in guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Money right for the twenty twenty six season. So this
wasn't cash he had today, but it was money the
team was locked into paying him down the road.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And now that guarantee is gone, they've basically given themselves
an out to cut him next year without that huge
salary hit. It's a stunning reversal, it really is.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, And to understand just how big of a deal
this is, we have to start with the person who
had to stand there and answer for.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It, head coach Kyle Shanahan. He was put in a
very uncomfortable spot, and his reaction just confirms how truly
bizarre this whole situation is.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I mean, the time he spent on it alone tells
you everything. Our sources say. He was at the podium
for eleven minutes and fifty four seconds, almost twelve minutes,
twelve minutes of a single press conference, just answering questions
about Ayuk. He was absolutely on the defensive.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And he basically admitted right away he had no playbook
for this. The quote we have is pretty powerful, especially
coming from a guy with his experience.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
What did he say?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Shanahan said, and I'm quoting here, I've been coaching over
twenty years and I've never been in a situation where
a contract's been voided. It's extremely unusual to me.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Wow, So a coach who's been to Super Bowl, seen everything,
for him to say that, it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Tells you this is not normal. This involves some kind
of mechanism in the contract that rarely, if ever gets triggered, which.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Brings us to the big question why, I mean, what
could Ayuk have possibly done to have twenty seven million
dollars in guarantees just disappear.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, the official line from sources is that Ayuk was
quote not living up to the terms of his contract.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's so vague, though, what does that even mean? In
the NFL, it.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Can mean a lot of things. Usually it's about conduct
or attendance, or you know, following rehab protocols.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And Shanahan did give some hints, right he did.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
He acknowledged Ayuk missed some meetings, some team activities, but
then he immediately sort of muddied the waters.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Also, he pointed out.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That Ayuk has this significant right knee injury and that
injured players aren't always required to be at every single thing.
He even confirmed Ayuk was at the facility doing rehab
just last Friday, so.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's not like he's a total ghost. He's still around.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
He's still around. But Shannan's message was clear this was
about more than just being late for a meeting.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
He said, it takes a lot of things to get
contract voided, and then he shut it down.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yep, he said, I can't get into that right now.
And this next part is I think the key for
everyone listening was that he stressed that the circumstances were
out of a coach's hand.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Ah. Okay, that's a huge tell.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It is. It means this wasn't a football decision. It's
not like Shanahan decided I couldn't run routes anymore. This
was a legal move, a front office compliance.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Decision, based on some very specific language buried in that contract.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Exactly, things like failing to report your injury progress correctly,
or missing mandatory consultations, maybe even a weight clause, something
very technical. And that's why Shanahan the coach could only
kind of shrug.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
It's a legal trip wire, not a coaching call. That
makes so much more sense it does.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
But to really get the irony here, you have to
look at the history of this relationship.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Because this contract isn't old at all, not at all.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
This whole four year, one hundred and twenty million dollar
extension was just signed on August twenty nine, twenty for
and it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Was after what everybody called an often contentious standoff. The
negotiation itself was.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
A fight, a huge fight. And this is the detail
that for me, makes the whole thing so tragic. From
Ayuck's perspective, this is what the trades, right, the trades
during that negotiation last year, the Niners actually had deals
in place to send him to three other teams.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Three teams who were they?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
The Cleveland Browns, the New England Patriots, and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
And iu ex said no, he vetoed every single trade.
He used his leverage to stay in San Francisco. He
explicitly chose to be a forty nine er and sign
that deal.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So a player fights to stay, signs a massive contract,
and then less than a year later, the team is
pulling legal triggers to take back twenty seven million dollars
in security.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's unbelievable. And that brings us to the really technical
part of this. Yeah, the financial fallout.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, let's break it down. So by avoiding that twenty
twenty six money, the team gets more cap savings if
they cut him in the offseason.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
In theory, yes, that is the benefit for them. It
gives them more flexibility.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And there's always eight. But with NFL contracts, yeah, It's
not that simple. You can't just walk away clean. Let's
talk about the dead cap.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
We have to Even with the twenty seven million dollars gone,
if they release Ayuk outright, let's say, with no post
June one designation, they would still be hit with a
massive dead cap charge. How massive twenty nine point five
eighty five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Wait, hold on, let's pause on that. That sounds totally backward.
If they voided twenty seven million dollars, why are they
still on the hook for almost thirty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That is the core of it right there. It's the
difference between past money and future money. Explain that the
twenty seven million dollars they voided was future base salary
money that would have become guaranteed in twenty twenty six.
The twenty nine point five million dollars in dead cap, though,
that's past money. That's cash.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
They've already paid him in bonuses.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Exactly, signing bonus in twenty twenty four, an option bonus
in twenty twenty five for salary cap purposes. The team
spreads that cap hit out over the life of the contract.
It's paraded. So when you cut a player early, all
the uncounted bonus money from the future years accelerates onto
this year's cap, so that's.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Where the twenty nine and a half million comes from.
It's all that bonus money hit in the books at once.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's it, and voiding the future salary has zero effect
on that pass money they've already paid out.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That is such a critical point. It shows, even when
the player might be in breach, the team still pays
a huge price for these front loaded deals.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
A huge price. Now if he does come back and
plays out the whole deal, the money is still great,
over twenty seven million dollars in twenty twenty seven, over
twenty nine million dollars in twenty twenty eight, but that
immediate security is just gone.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And let's look at the return on them he's went
so far. It's it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Good, it's staggering. If Ayuk doesn't play another down for
the forty nine ers on this contract.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The one he vetoed three trades to sign.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
He will have been paid forty eight million dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Forty eight million dollars, and for that money, the team
got seven games.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Seven games in which he had twenty five catches, three
hundred and seventy four yards and zero touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
That is a financial disaster. I mean, you can see
why the team is willing to trigger these kinds of
painful contract clauses they've seen almost no return.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It puts his current status into perspective for sure. The
whole environment around him right now is just strange.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So what is his actual playing status.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He is on the Physically unable to Perform list the
PUP list, which means he can't practice due to a
football injury.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But he's eligible to start practicing at any time.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
He's eligible for them to open his twenty one day
practice window, yes, but the team has not medically cleared
him to return.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And this is where the communication just seems to have
totally broken down. Shanahan was pretty blunt about.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It, brutally honest. He said he's not getting much dialogue
just personally with Ayik And when.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
A reporter asked if the player and the team are
on the same page about.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
His recovery, Shanahan's answer was just I can't tell you that.
That is a shocking admission from a head coach about
his highest paid offensive player.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It really is. And you can see the shift right,
I mean earlier in the year. During training camp, everything
seemed positive.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Oh yeah, Shanahan was praising his participation in meetings. But
recently his presence has become increasingly scarce.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Reporters aren't seeing him at practice, he's not in the
locker room during media time.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
He's retreated, which suggests this whole voided guarantee situation is
affecting his you know, his desire to even be around
the team.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And someone tried to ask shanianne about that about his motivation.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
They did. They asked if he thinks Ayuk is even
motivated to play this season, and Shanahan's response was maybe
the most, uh, the most telling of all.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
What did he say?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
He was completely dismissive of the whole idea of motivation.
He just said, I don't think that really matters.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
His point was that he's just waiting for Ayuk to
be medically cleared. It separates all the drama from the
one thing that matters. Can the doctors clear him to practice.
The whole thing has become transactional.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And it sounds like his teammates are trying to stay out.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Of it very carefully. Pan Jennings and Ricky Pearsall said
they've talked to him, but both made it clear they
are not talking about the business side.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Smart move.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, Purcell just said Ayuk is a quiet guy. He's
to himself, which kind of implies that even for them,
this is a private issue they can't touch.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
So given all that, what's the path forward here? What
does the team say they want?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Well, publicly, Shanahan is still saying all the right things.
He says he's not thinking about parting ways and he'd
love for Ba to be here.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
He wants the player on the field.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
He wants the player on the field, and he's trying
to separate the past from the future. He's basically saying
that voiding incident was about past circumstances that were out
of his hands and now he just wants.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
The player back, but the player's silence is making that impossible.
It feels like the legal hurdle created a psychological one
which is now preventing the physical clearance.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That seems to be exactly what's happening.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And the final piece of this, when Shanahan was asked
directly what changed what happened between Ayuk being engaged in
camp and his absence now.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
He offered absolutely nothing. He just deferred completely. His reply
was you'd have to ask him.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
So it's all on Ayuk. Now what a mess. A
star player vetos three trades to be there, signs a
huge deal, and then this mysterious breach voids twenty seven
million dollars and now there's just silence.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And it leaves you, the listener, with a really big
question to think about. Here go, wile, given that Ayuk
fought so hard to stay with the forty nine ers,
what does this extremely unusual contract voiding imply about any
contract guarantee in sports?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But they aren't really guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It suggests that even when a player wants to be there,
even with hundreds of millions on the line, everything can
come down to some subjective interpretation of compliance that's hidden
deep in that fine print.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
A pretty compelling reminder that the contract might say one
hundred and twenty million dollars, but the terms of engagement
are everything. We'll have to see if he ever gets
cleared to get back on that field. Thanks for diving
deep with us.
Welcome back to the Deep Drive. Today we are we're
opening up a file that's less about x's and o's
on the field and more about the well, the brutal
reality of NFL contracts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
That's right. We're looking at the really extraordinary situation going
on in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
With the forty nine Ers and their star wide receiver
Brandon Aiyuk.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And our mission here is to really get past the headlines.
We want to unpack the financial and you know, the
relational damage that's happening here because the.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Team voided a huge piece of his contract exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We're using the details from an ESPN article to figure
out why this is such a well, a massive crossroads
for both the team and the player.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And that central event, the one that really blew this
whole thing up, it happened in late July twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
The forty nine Ers officially voided about twenty seven million
dollars in guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Money right for the twenty twenty six season. So this
wasn't cash he had today, but it was money the
team was locked into paying him down the road.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And now that guarantee is gone, they've basically given themselves
an out to cut him next year without that huge
salary hit. It's a stunning reversal, it really is.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, And to understand just how big of a deal
this is, we have to start with the person who
had to stand there and answer for.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It, head coach Kyle Shanahan. He was put in a
very uncomfortable spot, and his reaction just confirms how truly
bizarre this whole situation is.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I mean, the time he spent on it alone tells
you everything. Our sources say. He was at the podium
for eleven minutes and fifty four seconds, almost twelve minutes,
twelve minutes of a single press conference, just answering questions
about Ayuk. He was absolutely on the defensive.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And he basically admitted right away he had no playbook
for this. The quote we have is pretty powerful, especially
coming from a guy with his experience.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
What did he say?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Shanahan said, and I'm quoting here, I've been coaching over
twenty years and I've never been in a situation where
a contract's been voided. It's extremely unusual to me.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Wow, So a coach who's been to Super Bowl, seen everything,
for him to say that, it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Tells you this is not normal. This involves some kind
of mechanism in the contract that rarely, if ever gets triggered, which.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Brings us to the big question why, I mean, what
could Ayuk have possibly done to have twenty seven million
dollars in guarantees just disappear.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, the official line from sources is that Ayuk was
quote not living up to the terms of his contract.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's so vague, though, what does that even mean? In
the NFL, it.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Can mean a lot of things. Usually it's about conduct
or attendance, or you know, following rehab protocols.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And Shanahan did give some hints, right he did.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
He acknowledged Ayuk missed some meetings, some team activities, but
then he immediately sort of muddied the waters.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Also, he pointed out.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That Ayuk has this significant right knee injury and that
injured players aren't always required to be at every single thing.
He even confirmed Ayuk was at the facility doing rehab
just last Friday, so.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's not like he's a total ghost. He's still around.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
He's still around. But Shannan's message was clear this was
about more than just being late for a meeting.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
He said, it takes a lot of things to get
contract voided, and then he shut it down.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yep, he said, I can't get into that right now.
And this next part is I think the key for
everyone listening was that he stressed that the circumstances were
out of a coach's hand.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Ah. Okay, that's a huge tell.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It is. It means this wasn't a football decision. It's
not like Shanahan decided I couldn't run routes anymore. This
was a legal move, a front office compliance.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Decision, based on some very specific language buried in that contract.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Exactly, things like failing to report your injury progress correctly,
or missing mandatory consultations, maybe even a weight clause, something
very technical. And that's why Shanahan the coach could only
kind of shrug.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
It's a legal trip wire, not a coaching call. That
makes so much more sense it does.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
But to really get the irony here, you have to
look at the history of this relationship.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Because this contract isn't old at all, not at all.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
This whole four year, one hundred and twenty million dollar
extension was just signed on August twenty nine, twenty for
and it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Was after what everybody called an often contentious standoff. The
negotiation itself was.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
A fight, a huge fight. And this is the detail
that for me, makes the whole thing so tragic. From
Ayuck's perspective, this is what the trades, right, the trades
during that negotiation last year, the Niners actually had deals
in place to send him to three other teams.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Three teams who were they?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
The Cleveland Browns, the New England Patriots, and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
And iu ex said no, he vetoed every single trade.
He used his leverage to stay in San Francisco. He
explicitly chose to be a forty nine er and sign
that deal.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So a player fights to stay, signs a massive contract,
and then less than a year later, the team is
pulling legal triggers to take back twenty seven million dollars
in security.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's unbelievable. And that brings us to the really technical
part of this. Yeah, the financial fallout.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, let's break it down. So by avoiding that twenty
twenty six money, the team gets more cap savings if
they cut him in the offseason.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
In theory, yes, that is the benefit for them. It
gives them more flexibility.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And there's always eight. But with NFL contracts, yeah, It's
not that simple. You can't just walk away clean. Let's
talk about the dead cap.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
We have to Even with the twenty seven million dollars gone,
if they release Ayuk outright, let's say, with no post
June one designation, they would still be hit with a
massive dead cap charge. How massive twenty nine point five
eighty five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Wait, hold on, let's pause on that. That sounds totally backward.
If they voided twenty seven million dollars, why are they
still on the hook for almost thirty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That is the core of it right there. It's the
difference between past money and future money. Explain that the
twenty seven million dollars they voided was future base salary
money that would have become guaranteed in twenty twenty six.
The twenty nine point five million dollars in dead cap, though,
that's past money. That's cash.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
They've already paid him in bonuses.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Exactly, signing bonus in twenty twenty four, an option bonus
in twenty twenty five for salary cap purposes. The team
spreads that cap hit out over the life of the contract.
It's paraded. So when you cut a player early, all
the uncounted bonus money from the future years accelerates onto
this year's cap, so that's.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Where the twenty nine and a half million comes from.
It's all that bonus money hit in the books at once.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's it, and voiding the future salary has zero effect
on that pass money they've already paid out.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That is such a critical point. It shows, even when
the player might be in breach, the team still pays
a huge price for these front loaded deals.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
A huge price. Now if he does come back and
plays out the whole deal, the money is still great,
over twenty seven million dollars in twenty twenty seven, over
twenty nine million dollars in twenty twenty eight, but that
immediate security is just gone.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And let's look at the return on them he's went
so far. It's it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Good, it's staggering. If Ayuk doesn't play another down for
the forty nine ers on this contract.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
The one he vetoed three trades to sign.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
He will have been paid forty eight million dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Forty eight million dollars, and for that money, the team
got seven games.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Seven games in which he had twenty five catches, three
hundred and seventy four yards and zero touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
That is a financial disaster. I mean, you can see
why the team is willing to trigger these kinds of
painful contract clauses they've seen almost no return.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It puts his current status into perspective for sure. The
whole environment around him right now is just strange.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So what is his actual playing status.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He is on the Physically unable to Perform list the
PUP list, which means he can't practice due to a
football injury.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But he's eligible to start practicing at any time.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
He's eligible for them to open his twenty one day
practice window, yes, but the team has not medically cleared
him to return.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And this is where the communication just seems to have
totally broken down. Shanahan was pretty blunt about.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It, brutally honest. He said he's not getting much dialogue
just personally with Ayik And when.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
A reporter asked if the player and the team are
on the same page about.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
His recovery, Shanahan's answer was just I can't tell you that.
That is a shocking admission from a head coach about
his highest paid offensive player.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It really is. And you can see the shift right,
I mean earlier in the year. During training camp, everything
seemed positive.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Oh yeah, Shanahan was praising his participation in meetings. But
recently his presence has become increasingly scarce.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Reporters aren't seeing him at practice, he's not in the
locker room during media time.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
He's retreated, which suggests this whole voided guarantee situation is
affecting his you know, his desire to even be around
the team.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And someone tried to ask shanianne about that about his motivation.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
They did. They asked if he thinks Ayuk is even
motivated to play this season, and Shanahan's response was maybe
the most, uh, the most telling of all.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
What did he say?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
He was completely dismissive of the whole idea of motivation.
He just said, I don't think that really matters.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
His point was that he's just waiting for Ayuk to
be medically cleared. It separates all the drama from the
one thing that matters. Can the doctors clear him to practice.
The whole thing has become transactional.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And it sounds like his teammates are trying to stay out.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Of it very carefully. Pan Jennings and Ricky Pearsall said
they've talked to him, but both made it clear they
are not talking about the business side.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Smart move.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, Purcell just said Ayuk is a quiet guy. He's
to himself, which kind of implies that even for them,
this is a private issue they can't touch.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
So given all that, what's the path forward here? What
does the team say they want?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Well, publicly, Shanahan is still saying all the right things.
He says he's not thinking about parting ways and he'd
love for Ba to be here.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
He wants the player on the field.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
He wants the player on the field, and he's trying
to separate the past from the future. He's basically saying
that voiding incident was about past circumstances that were out
of his hands and now he just wants.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
The player back, but the player's silence is making that impossible.
It feels like the legal hurdle created a psychological one
which is now preventing the physical clearance.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That seems to be exactly what's happening.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And the final piece of this, when Shanahan was asked
directly what changed what happened between Ayuk being engaged in
camp and his absence now.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
He offered absolutely nothing. He just deferred completely. His reply
was you'd have to ask him.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
So it's all on Ayuk. Now what a mess. A
star player vetos three trades to be there, signs a
huge deal, and then this mysterious breach voids twenty seven
million dollars and now there's just silence.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And it leaves you, the listener, with a really big
question to think about. Here go, wile, given that Ayuk
fought so hard to stay with the forty nine ers,
what does this extremely unusual contract voiding imply about any
contract guarantee in sports?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But they aren't really guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It suggests that even when a player wants to be there,
even with hundreds of millions on the line, everything can
come down to some subjective interpretation of compliance that's hidden
deep in that fine print.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
A pretty compelling reminder that the contract might say one
hundred and twenty million dollars, but the terms of engagement
are everything. We'll have to see if he ever gets
cleared to get back on that field. Thanks for diving
deep with us.
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