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It's not early anymore for the San Francisco 49ers and other NFL teams dealing

with holdouts. No Trent Williams, no Brandon Iuk, and if you think

that the Niners are going to just run smoothly without their all-pro-left tackle, think again.

All right? The statistics tell you otherwise. And I'm not saying that they can

afford not to have Ayuk, but without Trent Williams on the field, the

49ers offense and particularly Brock Purdy do not run the same and against that

judge defense on opening Monday night football that is not a real good

recipe for success. I don't know what's going on, but as I said, it's not early anymore.

The NFL season, opening night, next Thursday, Baltimore at Kansas City.

And as far as branded IUC goes,

you know, with C. D. Lamb's monster deal a day ago,

and Jamart-Chase of the Bengals,

looking for a similar deal,

you know, you gotta wonder what the heck is going on with Ayuk.

We had rumors that this was gonna get done two weeks ago

or trade was gonna happen last week week and again now we are in the final

few days of August and there does not seem to be a lot of light at the end of

the tunnel now I understand that these things normally are very fluid until the end and can

change on a dime. I get that. All right? But right now if you're a 49ers fan,

you've got to be a little bit concerned

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