Brian Peacock of "Locked on 49ers" details the 49ers trade for Osa Odighizuwa & how the defensive line will benefit

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the UMA guest line.

It's our guy Brian Peacock of the Lockdown 49er podcast available wherever you get your

podcast.

Peacock, what's up, bro?

How you doing, man?

I'm doing fantastic.

I was a little bit worried.

I was traded away from the leader as a guest with not being able to come on with you guys

yesterday and seeing all this stuff going on with the NFL.

But I'm glad to finally be on and be chatting with you guys.

We got some moves to talk about.

Well, dude.

I mean, it's a good day to have you because we just had a trade go down about, I don't

know, what, 45 minutes ago or so, the 49ers trading the third ground pick in this year's

draft to the Dallas Cowboys to acquire OSA, a Diggy Zua from Dallas.

And by all accounts, a really good ad and probably a cheaper piece at least price point

wise under the captain, what they would have had to spend on the free agent market.

And they probably weren't going to get a player of this quality in the draft.

I mean, price pass rushers are not cheap, you know, it's, you're going to have to pay

that price to get somebody they can, they can pressure to quarterback, they can disrupt

the opposing offensive backfield.

And we've seen that with all the edge rushers so far in this free agent signing period.

So for the 49ers to be able to, you know, get a player who's signing bonus has been paid

already by the Dallas Cowboys, yeah, that's a lot cheaper move, $16 million guaranteed

this year.

And then no more guarantees of the next two years at about $20 million, you know, but

it's not nothing to give up a third round pick to, you know, but to be honest with you,

the 49ers haven't been amazing with their third round picks in recent history anyway.

So I think, you know, maybe that's part of it, but you just got to pay the price for

pass rushers and in pass rush was something the 49ers just absolutely had to add more

of this off season.

So Brian, where do you think they go as far as the rest of the defensive line?

Could they add more with a veteran pass rusher?

There's a couple of names available and Joey Bozer, D'Nico Atsuri, or you think it's

more where they're going to look into the draft and kind of get some depth there.

And, you know, whether it was a future hole for like Bryce Huff, like do you see some

of these guys returning or how do you see them reshaping the defensive line?

It's hard to know about Bryce Huff and I wonder if there might be another move there

for him or maybe they wait to see what this looks like as it does get closer to the draft.

But they do need another edge rusher, they need to add more pieces that can get after

the quarterback.

And we saw Raheem Morris last year when he was in charge of the United Falcons draft

not one, but two speed type stand-up edge rushers.

And I keep coming back to that.

And so I think that is something the 49ers are going to try to add because Michael Williams

already has a rookie, a pretty elite run defender and edge setter instantly.

And we saw with the interior guys they drafted last year, CJ West, he's a big body inside

can take on double teams.

And obviously the biggest of them all was Alfred Collins the second round pick, but not

a lot of pass rush between those three.

So that's why you get a move like Osa, DeGazooa.

And I think in this year's draft class where the 49ers are picking in that late first round

area and down to pick 58 in round two, there might be a really nice spot to draft one of

those players that Raheem Morris can use as an extra piece and bring another wave of

pass rushers coming off the edge.

So there's probably an opportunity for them to do something in free agency.

This offseason before the draft, but it might be a really nice fit as far as how the draft

shaping up with edge rushers.

A lot of maybe rotational one dimensional type speed rushers in this class that might

not go super early in the first round, it could be there for the 49ers on day one or two

of the draft.

I got a bright and peak.

I walked on 49er podcaster and just here on the human guest line out.

What was your general reaction and how have you digested it in the last couple of days

to the Mike Evans signing?

I loved Mike Evans signing and it got better once you really saw the details of what that

deal was.

And I kind of like in it too.

I don't know if you guys have ever adopted a puppy or gotten a new kitten and you bring

the family.

And then there's a litter of kittens and one of them crawls up into your lap and they

basically choose you.

Right?

And it's like, well, this one's coming home with me.

I have no other choice.

I feel like that's the way it was with Mike Evans because when you see what the contract

was, if Mike Evans tells you, I'm willing to come to your football team for $14 million

a year, seeing what all these other receivers are getting on the open market.

And he's like, by the way, I'm probably better than all these guys anyway.

You say, okay, where do I fax the paperwork, right?

You just say yes.

And so I think the fact that Mike Evans chose the 49ers chose to want to work with Kyle

Shanahan as an offensive coordinator and Brock Purti as a quarterback.

I think it was a no-brainer for the 49ers when you look at what that money is and really

a true need.

And I think the term alpha is thrown around a little bit too much these days.

But he truly is that dude, right?

He's a dog.

He's an alpha-wide receiver that the 49ers absolutely needed.

And it's not like we've seen some older players be brought in, you know, future Hall of

Famers that are past their prime like Randy Moss.

And Randy Moss, to be honest, was kind of pretty washed at that point at age 33 to 35 of

his career.

We saw that with the 49ers at the very end.

But that's because his game was built on speed and that's something that declines in a

way that you get a different player than he used to be.

But for Mike Evans, he kind of already had advanced old guy game anyway, right?

He's like that guy that you can't get off the basketball court at the Y because he

rebounds.

He sees the floor.

He's got elite body positioning and he's not going to show up to the first day at OTAs

and you're like, oh no, he's 5-11 now.

He's 6-5-2-30.

He's huge and he's just got a smoothness to his game.

He is so good at bringing down the football, whether he's wide open or not, and I don't

know where he is right now, probably on his way to Santa Clara.

He's open right now wherever he is.

So I love the move from Mike Evans.

It was something they really had to do.

And to be honest, they could probably still go into the draft and get younger and faster

there because that's one thing he doesn't bring is make the 49ers any younger and faster,

which is something they still need to do on offense.

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I love the analogy pick up to the old timer in the pickup game, because that's an old

Jim Rome thing too, or he's fundamentally sound.

The old timer in the pickup game.

It's how he stayed in the game for so many years, like you're not picking him first,

but you're taking him in the second or the third round, because you know, he's going

to take a charge in a pickup game, like that's, that's what you're getting, I think, in

an element that the Niners have not had in the downfield threat at any point under Kyle

Shanahan.

Yeah, he's going to run the court and that's what Kyle Shanahan needs.

He's not going to be amazing on those, you know, sort of runaway routes and maybe crossers

where you're looking for a big run after the catch play, but man, he's going to be awesome

on those dig routes and give, there's no receiver in the NFL that has a bigger catch radius

than Mike Evans.

He's 6'5, 231 and has this massive, he's got the longest arms on the team.

He's got longer arms than Alfred Collins than Trent Williams and all of them.

He's that big of a target and we've seen how Kyle Shanahan asked Brock Perty and his

quarterbacks to throw some pretty tight windows over the football field.

So I think that'll be huge on those big routes and some of those in-breakers as well as

him being able to just body people down the football field on the deep throws as well.

It's all going to Brian Peacock on the Uma Guest line.

So what the move with Mike Evans, you're not making that move unless you're trying to

go for it when it's through the ball, otherwise you're wasting his time towards the end of

his career.

So we hear the news with Trent and they have a deadline on March 20th, but do you think they'll

get something done there where you're not making that type of move if you're going to move

on from Trent Williams?

I think they'll get something done.

We know how the 49ers are.

They negotiate hard.

We know how Trent Williams is and he knows he hates hard and I don't think he's just trying

to be a pain in the ass for no reason.

I think they're going to try to use whatever leverage they have and I think we've seen

this dance before and I think they'll come together and figure something out.

But I do think this might be the year that the 49ers address going back to the draft

again.

This might be the year.

It's lining up to be a really good offensive tackle class in round one.

At pick 27, it might be time for the 49ers to start looking ahead and maybe they can

find that perfect prospect that could come in and maybe start at left guard, year one

and play next to and learn from Trent Williams before eventually kicking out to left tackle.

But I think it is time for the 49ers.

I know they've added a couple pieces.

I think more backup and depth roles for the guys they brought in and free agency on

the offensive line.

They have the opportunity maybe this year and it might be one of the few drafts where

you can get a clean starting caliber offensive tackle at pick 27.

Brian Peatock, locked on 49er podcaster and just on the UMA guest line.

I said it down before we got you on it because Monday I felt different.

I was kind of anxious about the Trent Williams situation.

I thought you have to figure this out.

I'm like, this is this is a bigger, a bigger hole you have to fill now than you had at

any point entering this off season.

You need Trent Williams for however long it's going to take and then I figured this out

before he gets that guarantee $10 million next, I think it's the 20th, right?

It's like nine days from now, something like that.

I think no news is good news right now or no noise is good news.

I feel like for the Niners, where are you and how do you feel about the Trent

situation?

Yeah, absolutely.

I think that the fact that they didn't get something done early in free agency starts

to swing the momentum a little bit back to the 49ers side because now there's teams

that have already spent a lot of their money.

So there might not be as many suitors for Trent Williams if he was to be released so that

might help the 49ers close the gap and might, you know, and sort of lessens the leverage

that Trent Williams might have had and he did have the leverage coming into this thing

in the off season.

And I mean, can they, he's already under contract.

Can they just say, okay, play on everyone, find the deal, right?

Just play on it and it'll be the last carot, right?

Like is that not even a possibility?

These contracts these days in the NFL, it's just like they put these stipulations and

roster bonuses in there.

You can't even, you can't even play out the contract.

It's like not even an option.

So that, that, that part of it is pretty wild to me, but I think they are going to get

something done and the closer they get to the 20th will be a, you know, deadline makes

deal situation.

I think in the end, they're both going to realize that there's nothing better for either

side than to figure this thing out and get it done.

John Jennings is still not signed and I'm surprised by that.

His name was, you know, one of the better wide receivers available in free agency and

that must mean that the market's telling him he's not getting what he anticipated.

I know that last year they had contract negotiations where he wanted to pay, be paid

around 20 to 25 million.

If the league is telling him you're worth about 15, you think the 49ers will consider bringing

him back.

That, that's a tough one because I think in a lot of ways, the Mike Evans deal makes

it so you can't bring back somebody like to want Jennings as good as Jennings was.

If, you know, if they could have figured out that number and it made sense last year,

I think we would have seen that.

But now, I think they're at the point where you have to move on, like the 49ers need

to speed.

If they had another wide receiver, this guy has to get big time yards after the catch.

And that's the thing that really has changed in Kyle Shanahan's offense because they were

the best run after catch team in the NFL.

The entire, the entire 10 year for Kyle Shanahan until about 2024.

It fell off a little bit.

But they were still a good yak team and last year they were one of the worst after the

catch.

And so that's something that's got to get better and it'll probably be something that

they have to address in the draft.

And if you did bring somebody else in free agency or via trade, it would have to be somebody

I think with more speed than what Joanne Jennings brings.

He was an awesome 49er, but I think the Mike Evans thing really closes the door on

Joanne Jennings.

And I do think that Joanne Jennings asking price might have been a little high in teams

around the league or looking at him like probably the 49ers are where it's like, well, you

know,

you had a certain amount of production and you put all these things in together and

it gives you sort of spits out of market value.

It should be about $20 million a year or whatever.

But in reality, I think he was ideally a two slash three for the 49ers or and I think

that's the way that the league might view him.

So he might not be for everybody.

And I don't know how many teams are ready to say, okay, we're going to find Joanne Jennings

and he's just going to be like one of the main options in our offense.

I just don't think he's that player.

He's probably not viewed that way, even though some of his production might say that he

should get a certain number.

I got a Brian Peacock here locked on 49er podcast.

Joanne just on the human guest line.

I just want to get you take before we let you go, dude, on the Max Crosby thing.

I mean, one of the weirdest stories in the NFL that anybody can remember, I, you know,

I thought it looked a little shady with the trade Hendrickson thing today.

I was also yesterday kind of in the mindset like it's bad form, I guess, but it's within

the rules and within the window of time that they could pull a deal back.

It just, it really screws the raiders and all that, but what would you take on how

this went down and how does it affect Eric to cost a long term, you think?

Yeah.

And on one side, I really see why people would be frustrated by this situation and really

think that they were, it was a dubious situation.

And I mean, I don't know about you guys, but I don't believe Eric to cost it all when

he says they're going to bring in trade Hendrickson to pair with Max Crosby.

I don't know.

The fact that they were right.

So I think we know what was happening there.

And the thing that you don't want is you don't want to present to be set where teams

are like, well, it's legal to do it.

So let's just agree to a trade.

And then we'll see if we can sign somebody better.

And if we like the option that we got signed, then we'll say no to the trade.

You don't want that to keep happening.

So at some point, the league might have to step in.

And you know, maybe the, I mean, these guys hold grudges and you hear from some of the

texts that GMs were sending some of the insiders like nobody likes this.

And so it might be a little bit more difficult for Eric to cost it just to maneuver around

the league and swing some deals with some other teams.

And so that might be the punishment and the only punishment there.

But you're right.

It's within the rules.

There's really nothing you can do about it at this point.

If you, whether you like it or not, Brad Pitt got the voice you hear locked on 49er

podcasts and frequent pitchers, shortstop, wherever they need them for the happy Mondays.

The seasons, seasons upon us, dude, I haven't seen the schedule, but I'm sure you're coming

up on my, on my Monday night, sometimes soon.

I'll do it.

I can't wait to see you out there on the field.

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Have a good day.

Rest your Wednesday.

We'll talk to you soon, Brad.

Thanks, Brian.

Appreciate it.

Have a good deal there.

Have a great Brian.