Hmm that blows. If you don’t have something the niners will accept then there’s nothing that could have been done, but it kind of feels like Khan tried to play hardball and lost.
OT: The Pittsburgher Thread: Sneaking up onto training camp
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Steelers probably thought the Niners had to trade Aiyuk but they didn’t…
I think the big difference between
And now the big difference between now and fifteen minutes ago is that Aiyuk thought the 49ers would come round or another team would dig him out, but that hasn't happened either.
I don't necessarily think this is over either. Feel like the way this has been going it's not over until it's absolutely over. But would be one hell of a twist from here, and that's a definite put up or shut up to the Steelers.
*pause* If the 49ers do work a deal with Aiyuk, I wonder how similar to the Steelers deal it will be...
The difference between the Niners and Steelers is that the Steelers not only have to pay Aiyuk but also pay the Niners…at some point, it’s not worth it…easier to pay your own players…if the reported ask for Aiyuk was Muth or Pickens, then I can understand why the Steelers passed
True dat.
Still, I think for the Niners it's maybe a bit easier if they can go "hey, you got a contract offer from a team you'd be willing to go to, you know what your market is, maybe we can find more common ground here now". If Aiyuk wanted 30m and wouldn't budge, but turned that down from the Pats and couldn't get it from the Steelers, it gets easier for them.
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Early summer Steelers were kicking the tires on Aiyuk and Sutton (and I think another guy but I can’t recall who, not Metcalf). SF probably took a hardline then, with the intent they weren’t going to move the player, they wanted him on their hopefully SB-worthy roster (that he helps make SB-worthy).
More recently the relationship seemed fractured or at least aggravating to SF, so they we by back around.
In the meantime, Steelers had executed a contingency plan, so we’re re-entering talks in a different place. So they maybe were willing to draw a hard line.
It will depend on what was in the other side of that hard line that will determine whether this unfulfilled late summer dalliance ended up all wrong for the Black & Gold.
More recently the relationship seemed fractured or at least aggravating to SF, so they we by back around.
In the meantime, Steelers had executed a contingency plan, so we’re re-entering talks in a different place. So they maybe were willing to draw a hard line.
It will depend on what was in the other side of that hard line that will determine whether this unfulfilled late summer dalliance ended up all wrong for the Black & Gold.
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This just needs to be over at this point
You mean before it’s confirmed Aiyuk is a primadonna malcontent just as he is traded to the Steelers?
hashtag joking but only mostly joking
Empoleon8771
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This just needs to be over at this point
Yeah my first response when I saw that Schultz tweet was "this sounds like PR coming straight from the 49ers".
The 49ers have been using the media to sway public perception the entire time during this saga.
Yeah, I know I said acting out was standard for players in contract disputes, but he's going real hard and I am getting a bit less interested.
Well if I were the niners I would definitely trade a locker room cancer like this for whatever I could get.
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I am imposing a mandatory Aiyuk discussion moratorium until at least the starters come out of the game.
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There will be "I told you so's" Bet on it
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Botched center-qb exchange killed that drive and getting nothing on the 2nd down HB draw but I thought Fields looked OK 
Saw Broderick get beat a couple of times
Saw Broderick get beat a couple of times
I don't hate it. Anything is better than a ceremonial play like kickoffs were the last few years
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This saga is only interesting as it involves the Steelers, but a WR trying to get paid 1 year pre-FA and picking his preferred destination is not new or interesting. It is also a way for a WR to get his name out there a bit more, exorcise his inner divas.
Paying a lot of assets for the privilege of handing 10%+ of our cap to a receiver is not my favorite thing in the world. We created this issue when we traded Johnson needlessly.
Paying a lot of assets for the privilege of handing 10%+ of our cap to a receiver is not my favorite thing in the world. We created this issue when we traded Johnson needlessly.
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And that's exactly why Russell Wilson is the starting QB and not Fields. Fields isn't a starting caliber NFL QB, and never will be.
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