In a video posted to his Instagram account Sunday afternoon, San Francisco 49ers receiver Brandon Aiyuk spoke for about a minute and a half, seemingly offering his first public comments about his current situation with the team.
Paired with a caption that reads "If you scared just say dat," Aiyuk spent most of the 91 seconds of the video describing an unspecified entity as "little boys" and "female dogs" who are afraid. Aiyuk never explicitly mentions the 49ers by name, but a logical interpretation of the video is that he believes the team is afraid to release him because he could land elsewhere and eventually make it regret letting him go.
Aiyuk starts the video by comparing who he is "dealing with" to kids who don't get picked for a basketball game, so they take their ball and go home. He then went on to say that someone -- presumably the Niners -- are afraid of how he could come back to haunt them if he plays football elsewhere.