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Originally Posted by staylor26
What exactly about any of this do you think settles that?
It's really simple. The 49ers are starting to run out of wiggle room with the cap, and they have their LT and only OL worth a shit holding out on top of Aiyuk demanding to be paid or traded. Aiyuk is playing hardball here, and forcing their hand.
Your side lost that debate before it ever happened because Aiyuk has been their WR1 the last 2 years and that's why he's about to get paid like one. Deebo is a hybrid WR/RB WR2, and a really good one, but the best WRs are the ones that can run routes and separate.
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Wait - this is a real debate?
Aiyuk is CLEARLY a better WR than Deebo.
Now maybe the 49ers find Deebo to be a more critical 'weapon' give his versatility. But in a vacuum (and on most NFL rosters) I'd take Aiyuk over Deebo 100 times out of 100.
This really may be little more than a timing issue. If we sign Creed and then in 2 years can't afford Karlaftis, it isn't a demonstration that we preferred Creed to Karlaftis. It's just that we had a guy who came up for a new deal that we wanted to keep so we did. And we hoped things would work out in 2 years with the other guy...then they didn't.
This stuff is often a lot simpler than we make it.