Trent Williams Prepared to Sit Out Season Without New Contract | GSMC Chip Shot Football Podcast

[Music] [Music] how's it going everybody welcome back to the gsmc Chip Shot football podcast brought to you by the gsmc sports network I'm your host Manny Mara die today is Tuesday August 27th another round of some pretty interesting NFL stories that I wanted to go through on today's show a lot of current situation with holdouts and also just having some discussions as well we're going to start off with Trent Williams a one of those hold out um players still holding out with less than two weeks to go in the season we're going to discuss why he's holding out and how it could all play out in the next 13 days and also another segment I have on store is Darius Slayton coming to the defense of his quarterback Daniel Jones what did he say about the negative comments around Jones and also in the meantime calling out some other quarterbacks in regards to Daniel Jones and also not receiving the same amount of criticism so those were pretty interesting we have also some more topics down the line 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York Jets in the opening Monday Night Football game on September the 9th and still obviously there's no answer yet on Brandon auk um I've just come to just be okay with that it seems like before I was very anxious to see oh is this going to be the day is this going to be be the day but now it's just like you know whatever it seems like it seems like he's going to stay or if he doesn't it it's lost a little bit of steam with me um but Trent Williams is one that I am interested in a lot with the 49ers just because it's it has almost shifted from the Dallas Cowboys in a way where you don't know what they're going to decide on if that makes sense you know they had cidd lamb and Dak Prescott you know both of those options just sitting in front of them who was going to take the first step and extending one of their players and the Cowboys already got that out of the way and now similarly with the 49ers it seems they have two of most important players now just sitting there when we're all waiting to see what's going to be the final decision and what the first step is going to be to getting at least one of those guys back participating with so little time left before the regular season but like I mentioned auk has sort of lost some steam I don't think anybody really knows what's going on but with Tren Williams it's a little bit more concete because he is holding out he's not there and he's not interacting with anybody he is going the traditional route of holding out but on top of that um he has not been there obviously all of the offseason voluntary training camp or whatever but you know recent reports according to ESPN suggest that Trent Williams is not afraid to hold out during the regular season and it seems like that could be the case with so little time left heading towards the regular season now anything can really happen in the next hour while I'm doing the show or over the next few days but today was the deadline for the final 53 man roster you know deadline the all these NFL teams had to meet the deadline today by 400 p.m. eastern time and get their rosters down but it makes it a little bit trickier right when you have one wide receiver that is sort of there but is still not practicing and also you have another offensive lineman that is just not around the team and you have to try and calculate and predict when and if he comes back are you going to need to roster another offensive lineman just in case or anything like that it makes it a lot tougher right and that on top of the fact that now Williams is not afraid to hold out into the regular season becomes a little bit of a concern a little bit like CD lamb but obviously the Cowboys don't have to worry about that now and more on these reports you know according to uh Jeremy Fowler from ESPN he said just briefly on this Trent Williams out situation he said he is not going to be available until he gets his contract adjusted he's trying to stay away from the team and is not overly stressed to have to be out there right now and it's not like his contract is W is waning down right now Trent is still signed with the 49ers through 2026 that's not really the issue here because Trent Williams received a six-year $130 million deal in uh in 21 with the with the San Francisco 49ers and he's on a pretty decent salary you know not near the top as much anymore but you know $23 million per year as a salary with this massive deal is still very well for offensive lineman in the NFL but the issue is that with the contract and the remaining years on that contract as well the 49ers could technically exit from his contract after this upcoming 2024 season because his 20 his 22 million and $32 million salaries for the 2025 and 2026 year respectively each of those salaries for each of those years are not guaranteed anymore so the last bit of guaranteed money he is going to get from this contract is this year and then after it it's just pretty much up in the air and there's no guarantee that he will be getting that money for the remain remaining two years of that deal and it's sort of like the Matthew Stafford situ situation because he still had a year or two left on his current deal but being a veteran player a quarterback especially and how much value there is there he wanted to restructure his deal obviously right get more guarantees because of all those reasons that I just mentioned and it's similar with Trent Williams now although he's not a quarterback obviously he doesn't get the headlines that a wide receiver or Christian mcaffrey gets not even George KD most of the time but a left tackle an offensive lineman you you've seen how all these offensive lineman just this year this off season have gotten paid you know Tristan wors Christian darasa pen Su they're all making close to 30 or maybe even more than that um the exact amount is escaping me but you know they're up there getting paid a pretty decent amount for offensive lineman especially at that tackle position so there's a lot of value there and I always say it you know with offensive linemen you never mention Trent Williams's name ever in a game and for good reason right that's exactly what you want to happen with offensive linemen because they're doing their job the opposing teams pass rushers not getting anywhere near the quarterback so it's going pretty easy pretty smooth and Trent Williams unless he's knocking somebody out with a killer block or something like that or getting out in space again you're not mentioning his name and I don't know the last time he's given up a sack in any of the last few years so that's a great thing a great security blanket to have with Brock pry you know all the uncertainty that came with him coming out of college knowing that you had just an anchor over there at left tackle goes without saying is definitely needed and a big reason why the 49ers offense is as special as it is because in every position it seems like they have some of the best players in the NFL and that goes the same way with Trent Williams so I don't know exactly how old he is I want to say he's around 32 years old if my memory serves me right but you know getting those guarantees towards the end the latter portion of that contract is what he's after right now and it seems like he has no problem holding out into the regular season and I fully believe him it seems like Trent Williams isn't the kind of guy that jokes around like that in terms of his money and getting the the compensation that I'm sure he definitely feels he deserves so um that's pretty much the update on Williams from Williams's part you know Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch haven't provided anybody or anybody in the media with any updates regarding Williams or even Brandon auk as well so um where we are starting to ramp it up a little bit in terms of getting back into football mode you know I feel like the deadline for the 53 man roster maybe a day or two after it once you know you get to Thursday or Friday I think you really start getting into that work week mode right if that makes sense because in just a few days just less than a week now you're going to be in full practice mode getting ready for the actual games to begin and not just any team coming into uh Levi Stadium you have the New York Jets coming in with Rogers Wilson uh Bree Hall and all the talent that they're bringing in a great defense as well um you're going to need Trent Williams out there for sure and now if you kind of have to decide between auk and Williams on who you try to make the priority I would go with Williams up until this point just because with auk it seems like he could be traded you know you guys have put your best foot forward to try and extend him but even still there are still some difficulties with that with Williams I think if you just meet his requirements he'll show up the next day and as a veteran he might not need as many days to get ready anyway when you're talking about a work week a practice week or whatnot so that to me would be the priority right now and I guess it's a good thing that Hassan reck's probably not going to play for the Jets or else this would have been a bigger problem but regardless of that the Jets defense is still very good one of the best defenses in the NFL last year so having Trent Williams out there uh I don't even know who the backup is going to be but it's a world of difference when you have the allpro multi multi-time pro bowler out there sure fighter Hall of Famer guarding your blind side of your quarterback than um than somebody else doing it so the 49ers should get that done this week is probably the most crucial time to do it before you get into a full practice week but we'll see what they do with that and how it affects Brandon auk as well so we're going to leave that topic there and we're going to head to our first break of the show but when we return we're going to touch some more on the New York Giants a lot of negativity heading towards Daniel Jones but his wide receiver Darius layan has come to his defense and not only defending him but sort of calling out other quarterbacks around the NFL and why they also don't get the same amount of heat that Daniel Jones does while producing the same sort of stats as he does if that makes sense so we're going to get into that topic plus much more later on in the show but for right now we're going to head to a quick break you're listening to the gsmc chipshot football podcast [Music]