Brandon Aiyuk is a Quitter! Pick #25, 2020 NFL Draft

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
His personal WR coach TJ is telling teams to stay away and warning them. Kind of says it all. If your own coach says that it's bad.

I think that says more about TJ Houshmazoli than it does Aiyuk.

As a personal trainer, you are going out of your way to tell teams to not sign a former client of yours? He's a personal wide reciever trainer... as a WR, Aiyuk has already proved himself in that regard.

I would be cautious taking TJ on a gig, when I can go to another talented ex-WR who doesn't go out of his way to go viral to trash an ex-client.

Originally posted by Afrikan:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

His personal WR coach TJ is telling teams to stay away and warning them. Kind of says it all. If your own coach says that it's bad.

I think that says more about TJ Houshmazoli than it does Aiyuk.

As a personal trainer, you are going out of your way to tell teams to not sign a former client of yours? He's a personal wide reciever trainer... as a WR, Aiyuk has already proved himself in that regard.

I would be cautious taking TJ on a gig, when I can go to another talented ex-WR who doesn't go out of his way to go viral to trash an ex-client.

Whoa. I didn't realize you were this far in Aiyuk's corner.

I wonder if this can be clarified for me I'm trying to take a very logical approach to this even thought AIyuk isn't. Had Aiyuk rehabbed last season and showed up he gets 30 million. Had he remained on the team 3 for seasons he ends up with 120 million. I understand sometimes you dislike a employer so much no amount of money can get you to stay but i really don't see how that's the case here. Now i seriously doubt he will ever hit 120 million for his career. He had a very good thing here and he blew it up over very dumb pointless reasons. It's his life and his choices but you only get 1 shot really to hit it big in the NFL and the Niners did that for him and this is how he repays them. I think he's a selfish and not bright person.

Originally posted by Raul98:
I wonder if this can be clarified for me I'm trying to take a very logical approach to this even thought AIyuk isn't. Had Aiyuk rehabbed last season and showed up he gets 30 million. Had he remained on the team 3 for seasons he ends up with 120 million. I understand sometimes you dislike a employer so much no amount of money can get you to stay but i really don't see how that's the case here. Now i seriously doubt he will ever hit 120 million for his career. He had a very good thing here and he blew it up over very dumb pointless reasons. It's his life and his choices but you only get 1 shot really to hit it big in the NFL and the Niners did that for him and this is how he repays them. I think he's a selfish and not bright person.

The simplest way I can put this if he didn't breach his contract he would have been guaranteed 26m dollars for this coming season. That was the only remaining guaranteed money he had left on his deal.

Rest assured he was not going to make 120 million dollars from the 49ers, especially after his injury. He would have made ~75m for 3 years through 2026, and instead he's made ~48m for 2 years through 2025.

Originally posted by SmokeyJoe:
The simplest way I can put this if he didn't breach his contract he would have been guaranteed 26m dollars for this coming season. That was the only remaining guaranteed money he had left on his deal.

Rest assured he was not going to make 120 million dollars from the 49ers, especially after his injury. He would have made ~75m for 3 years through 2026, and instead he's made ~48m for 2 years through 2025.

His best choice financially was to stay here even if less than 120 million. He is basically in a big rush to get out of here so he can go earn less. But to each there own i guess.

Originally posted by Raul98:
His best choice financially was to stay here even if less than 120 million. He is basically in a big rush to get out of here so he can go earn less. But to each there own i guess.

For 2026, it would have been his best financial outcome.

But this is the part that nobody seems to want to talk about here: that the 49ers wanted out of this deal… likely before Aiyuk did and it became mutual. Aiyuk gave them the means when they couldn't trade him (because of his injury and large contract).

This is why you see the inexplicable jump from a player who used negotiating levers, like trade demands, to ultimately sign a market deal where he wanted to play (here in SF), to a player that has nothing but terrible things to say about the organization and is willing to burn money to get out of here.

Originally posted by SmokeyJoe:
For 2026, it would have been his best financial outcome.

But this is the part that nobody seems to want to talk about here: that the 49ers wanted out of this deal… likely before Aiyuk did and it became mutual. Aiyuk gave them the means when they couldn't trade him (because of his injury and large contract).

I always liked Aiyuk but it did rub me the wrong way how he behaved the off season he wanted his deal. I know players behaving that way today is more normal but i really wish that was a big enough red flag for them to just trade him away.

Originally posted by Raul98:
I always liked Aiyuk but it did rub me the wrong way how he behaved the off season he wanted his deal. I know players behaving that way today is more normal but i really wish that was a big enough red flag for them to just trade him away.

I added to my post.

The problem here was we had internal disagreement about what to do with him, and that continued after he signed his deal. His injury made the disagreement moot as it became a terrible deal.

Had the organization been in lockstep one way or the other (either trading him or re-signing him at his market value), this situation is likely not happening. But, had we kept him, we'd still be stuck paying big money to a physically damaged player with a questionable future, for at least one more season.

Originally posted by Afrikan:
I think that says more about TJ Houshmazoli than it does Aiyuk.

As a personal trainer, you are going out of your way to tell teams to not sign a former client of yours? He's a personal wide reciever trainer... as a WR, Aiyuk has already proved himself in that regard.

I would be cautious taking TJ on a gig, when I can go to another talented ex-WR who doesn't go out of his way to go viral to trash an ex-client.

I agree that it probably doesn't help TJ get clients. I also think Aiyuk comes off looking drastically worse overall to the point that there is likely only 1 team in the NFL that would roll the dice on him at this point, and maybe not even the 1 team.

Aiyuks reaction and behavior in all this is about as bad as you will ever see.

I don't know if we'll ever see someone do something as foolish as Aiyuk has done in the manner he has done it in. I don't mind/care if he wanted off the niners. S**t happens. But he seemingly sabotaged his own career to the point where people are seriously contemplating if he'll play another snap in the NFL.

Insane handling of his issues with the team and I expect he'll look back on it years from now and wish he did it differently

Originally posted by OnTheClock:

Originally posted by Afrikan:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
His personal WR coach TJ is telling teams to stay away and warning them. Kind of says it all. If your own coach says that it's bad.

I think that says more about TJ Houshmazoli than it does Aiyuk.

As a personal trainer, you are going out of your way to tell teams to not sign a former client of yours? He's a personal wide reciever trainer... as a WR, Aiyuk has already proved himself in that regard.

I would be cautious taking TJ on a gig, when I can go to another talented ex-WR who doesn't go out of his way to go viral to trash an ex-client.

Whoa. I didn't realize you were this far in Aiyuk's corner.

take Aiyuk out of this... pretend you're not a 9er fan...

if you saw a personal trainer go out of their way online to tell NFL owners to not sign an ex-client of theirs.... I mean telling another man that he deserves to get fired if he hired your ex-client? you don't think there's something wrong with that?

Originally posted by SmokeyJoe:

Originally posted by Raul98:
I always liked Aiyuk but it did rub me the wrong way how he behaved the off season he wanted his deal. I know players behaving that way today is more normal but i really wish that was a big enough red flag for them to just trade him away.

I added to my post.

The problem here was we had internal disagreement about what to do with him, and that continued after he signed his deal. His injury made the disagreement moot as it became a terrible deal.

Had the organization been in lockstep one way or the other (either trading him or re-signing him at his market value), this situation is likely not happening. But, had we kept him, we'd still be stuck paying big money to a physically damaged player with a questionable future, for at least one more season.

Where and when did anyone in the Org say they didn't like the deal they had waiting for BA to sign all offseason and ultimately signed the same deal they played hardball with?

What proof is there that BA didn't like the deal before the injury and all this disagreement stuff you are claiming because only you are saying this

Originally posted by Afrikan:
take Aiyuk out of this... pretend you're not a 9er fan...

if you saw a personal trainer go out of their way online to tell NFL owners to not sign an ex-client of theirs.... I mean telling another man that he deserves to get fired if he hired your ex-client? you don't think there's something wrong with that?

can you take Aiyuk out of this?

cause if it wasn't Aiyuk, you would be singing a different story

I just hope Jed and the boys get back every penny this ssssshhhhtuuupiiiid guy stole. 💯💯

Originally posted by Afrikan:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
His personal WR coach TJ is telling teams to stay away and warning them. Kind of says it all. If your own coach says that it's bad.

I think that says more about TJ Houshmazoli than it does Aiyuk.

As a personal trainer, you are going out of your way to tell teams to not sign a former client of yours? He's a personal wide reciever trainer... as a WR, Aiyuk has already proved himself in that regard.

I would be cautious taking TJ on a gig, when I can go to another talented ex-WR who doesn't go out of his way to go viral to trash an ex-client.

Yes, because I'm sure other WRs plan on going the BA route. If you are a receiver planning to do that/be completely unprofessional- you probably wouldn't want TJ as a personal coach.

People are saying the niners had buyers remorse Immeduately. No they had buyers remorse when They saw him play the 1st few games of the 2024 season and realized he wasn't the same player and that he came in out of football shape and that he was just going through the motions now that he got paid. That effort he gave that got him paid was no longer there. He wasn't running route's like he did before. He wasn't blocking like he did before.