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If you're watching on YouTube, get that like button, hit that subscribe button. You can find us there as part of Empire Media, AMPIRE. Always much appreciated when you tune in. Don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. I'll have a story up some point in the next couple of days about the commander's defense and kind of what they've done, how different it is. And why when I looked, I looked it for some clues into Durante Jones and how they set this up, looked at some clues what happened in Minnesota when he was a coach there with Brian Flores to kind of like, how is it, how might it look here, and why maybe they didn't go with certain positions and bolstered the front for sure. So anyways, that'll be up at some point in the next couple of days. In a minute, I'll be joined by Nikki Javala from The Athletic. So always like having Nicky on to talk about the commanders. What some questions that we have still about the roster or she has about the roster for sure. And then just various spots, but also the Brandon Ayuk situation. Would it be better for them just to go get Joanne Jennings? We talk about all that and she and Matt Barrow from The Athletic wrote something on the IUC situation that was in the athletic and Nicky and I talked like there's is there really an update there? Not really. They were just kind of laying out, well, this is the situation. And so that's what we know right now. So that's why it led to a discussion

about Iyuk, when might it happen, why this thing is going on the way it is. And then also,

hey, would you rather go out and get Joanne Jennings? But I think if they wanted to,

they would have done it by now because they know that there's, once Ayyuk is free,

that it'll be here. The question is when. And that's what Nikki and I discuss.

All that good stuff. Is it just about being petty? Or are there some business reasons that makes sense for the Niners to hold on at least for a little bit longer?

So we get into all that. And that's it. I got nothing else, folks.

Here's my conversation with Nikki Javala from The Athletic.

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