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On Friday night, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan confirmed the team had received interest in receiver Deebo Samuel. However, Shanahan made it clear that this was not enough.
“They consider everything,” Shanahan said. “You have a responsibility to help your organization as best you can. But losing a player like Deebo is hard to see how that helps your organization. So you’re trying to examine all aspects of it and what people are willing to do, and nothing came close to what we thought was fair to us or fair to the Niners.”
Shanahan doesn’t just blow smoke. TheAthletic.com’s Matt Barrows reported Friday that the Jets have offered the 10th overall win and a fifth-place finisher for Samuel with a catch. The Jets also wanted a second-round pick from the 49ers.
That’s low. Offensively low. So low that it shouldn’t have been done. Seriously. Coach Robert Saleh, whose work with Shanahan fueled Saleh’s rise to the head coaching ranks, was certainly concerned that this offer would not be seen as a fair starting point for further talks and would anger Shanahan. While no one should lead negotiations with their bottom line, the first offer must show that the party making it means business. The Jets offer calls for a slap in the face.
The Lions also made an offer by barrow that was deemed “easy” by the 49ers.
None of this changes the fact that Deebo wants out. But if the 49ers can convince him that nobody else wants him enough to make a genuine offer, maybe he’ll reconsider his expectations.
Good luck with it. The 49ers are nothing but stubborn. Deebo also seems to be quite stubborn. He’s on record like he wants out. The 49ers, who through their actions or words, whether intentional or negligent (otherwise he wouldn’t want out), helped create the current mess, must now figure out how to defuse a bomb that has already begun to explode.