Brandon Aiyuk trade request?

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

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🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jeff kicks off today's show with some quick thoughts on the news that Brandon Aiyuk requested a trade. He then dives into his previews of the Chicago Bears and Cincinnati Bengals. Jeff leads with a quick scouting report on Caleb Williams and the outlook for the Bears pass catchers. He also gives his thoughts on why D'Andre Swift is an intriguing middle round target. Jeff then dips into the Bengals with a look at Joe Burrow's fantasy profile and why to like Tee Higgins at value this year. He wraps things up with some thoughts on how Zack Moss and Chase Brown will replace Joe Mixon in the backfield.

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0:00.0	Right back where you at.
0:02.0	Hey, what's going to?
0:04.0	Hey, what's going on? It's the rant Tuesday, July 16th. I'm Jeff.
0:19.2	Got a big show for you today. We are going to cover the Chicago Bears and Cincinnati Bengals little team preview action
0:27.8	And right before we went to air there's news about Brandon Ayeuk I wanted to touch on briefly here.
0:33.6	Also got some mailbag questions to get to later in the show as well.
0:38.1	But I want to lead with this Brandon Iuk news.
0:41.2	So if you haven't seen it, it came out that he requested a trade.
0:46.7	My thoughts on this really short thoughts, it's not going to happen.
0:51.2	If it didn't happen in whatever early April, why would it happen now?
0:56.6	This is a team in a Super Bowl window. And so if you were trading them in early April,
1:00.0	you would have been trading them for draft picks, you know, obviously, ideally either a first rounder
1:06.4	or as much as you could get for him. And then you turn around and then you fill the void that you
1:10.5	created by trading Brandon Ayeukaway.
1:13.0	That didn't happen.
1:14.5	And so if they traded him away now,
1:16.5	what are you trading him for?
1:18.0	Draft picks.
1:19.2	Probably, right?
1:20.4	You're not using those until next year.
1:23.0	So why would you do that?
1:25.6	Are you gonna get a younger?
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