I agree with our colleagues. However Sargassum is one of the difficult groups. To many names and there is not a clear phylogeny for them. You can start as Brigitte said, looking a key from your geographic region.
Same as every one, I would ID it as a Sargassum... You should look at recent works from Lydiane Mattio and colleagues on the species delineation within this genus
S. polycystum's stem is more narrow. But S. brachyphyllum's stem don't others. Dear Enciso, We are waiting detail photographs of your samples. Would you share with us?
Your first photo was much better. You should take a picture more closely from stem, leave and reproductive organs are part of the samples. Not overwiev. If you can pull these features, we can help to you more easily.
It is important to classify an alga to start to describe and focus on the taxonomic characteristics while the pictures do not reflect all taxonomic details.