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49ers 2026 Roster Countdown #91-87 · 49ers Rush Podcast with John Chapman

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[SPEAKER_00]: time for the 49ers rush podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and here's your host, John Chapman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What is going on, faithful?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is absolutely incredible to be with you guys this Sunday morning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Little earlier than normal, but I've just been too excited.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It like sometimes,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just get too antsy and I'm just like, man, I got to hit the record button.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The whole goal was to wait till after 10.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know it's the weekend, some people isolate, but I'm just like, man, I'm too pumped.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the first episode of this off-season roster countdown series.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, we're changing it up dramatically.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you've been with the 49ers rush podcast for a while, we're starting year 10.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is year 7 of our countdown series, which we've been doing this a
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[SPEAKER_00]: we would do one individual episode per player.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For all 91 players, it is an absolute mammoth of a project which it's a passion project.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't get the best views.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't like what I don't care.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just love it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the back and forth with fans and how much, you know, certain people appreciate and love that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's not for everybody, but the whole idea of this is,
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[SPEAKER_00]: as much as possible about the back end guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All 91 and we're going to cover all 91 now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're changing the way we're doing it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll see how this goes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So instead of an individual episode for all 91, we're going to kind of combine a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to do five players today 91 through 87.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to kind of shorten it just a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: the goal is for the fan experience to increase.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so whenever you see number 67 out there at left tackle and you're like, who the hell is that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know who that is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know who the story, it's Isaac Alicorn, who has an incredible story and is an amazing man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so like that's what we're trying to accomplish with this whole passion project, which
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[SPEAKER_00]: The amount of research it takes to do this, I have to be very, very upfront.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have an incredible team here at the 49ers rush podcast, shout out to Josh Bin and Zach.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You guys know Josh Fortair is faithful forever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bin and why Niners, it's Zach.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's just Zach.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's freaking he's the man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But we're putting on a lot of work behind stage so that we can get these done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we went through and we ranked individually one through 91 and the premise is this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who has the most or biggest impact for the 49ers this season?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not about long term.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not about 2027.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not about the future.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not about any of those.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We rank 1 through 91 without seeing what everybody else ranks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We average those together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then we get 1 through 91.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then we start digging into research.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, some of these players like Isaac Calacano comes in number 91.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's last on this list.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But
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[SPEAKER_00]: that doesn't make him less important.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's freaking incredible in his story is amazing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Part of the International Pathway program.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to be covering Isaac Gallercon, Larry worth the third who just got added to the 49ers roster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Zach Thomas Jr. Bergen and Andrew Farmer the second on today's show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And
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[SPEAKER_00]: As the offseason goes, we'll continue doing these and in a big reason why we're changing the process this year is crazy for a chat and this this insane one my oldest son graduates next week we've got family and town all week he's moving to Texas to start his.
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[SPEAKER_00]: firefighter EMT journey, which I'm super pumped about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's my wife and I is 20th anniversary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be taking some time off to take her on a 28th anniversary trip, which I'm pumped about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're downsizing, because now we're empty nesters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're moving as well, staying in the Bay Area.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We just got a lot of stuff going on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's probably just being fully transparent here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why it's a little bit shorter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then on top of that, like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've never done these life, these were always pre-recorded shows.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I would just upload them at a later date, but I was like, you know what, let's let's try to have a little bit more back and forth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see how it goes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it doesn't work out and we return back to the off air platform and load these up everywhere you watch and or listen, but yeah, that why not, even though it's early and I apologize because usually in the past, I would wake up and record these at like six or seven more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to do that to you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, we'll see what's up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, look at this 40-hour faithful forever 90's in the chat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's Josh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's the man He is the hardest worker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know he is incredible man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's up Kevin?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, look at this hashtag cc roster countdown means football is back soon
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're counting them down, baby.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Love all the hashtags, cc's, you guys are the best.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, sin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate you, Bobo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Love it, love it, love it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Any possible, Bobo says, any possible cat casualties around the Lee, you got your eye on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, after June 1st, there's going to be a lot more cut.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So two weeks away, because the salary cat designation for future,
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[SPEAKER_00]: cap hits you could spread it out over two years if you cut somebody after June 1st.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Niners have done this historically.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not so sure that this roster really has that they took most those guys last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and made those decisions a year ago, so I don't see that happening with the 49ers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I really, really don't the only one that I would kind of, I don't want to say hope somebody loses their job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Luke Feral, the tight end, they didn't add one tight end and George Kiddles coming off one of the major injuries post 30 years old at Kiddles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Freaking tight in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that would be the one that I think fans would be like, yeah, let's move on from this, but you didn't draft anybody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You didn't sign anybody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you didn't add anybody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's still a lot of quality tight ends out there on the market that you can pick up, but that would be the only one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bobo, appreciate the kind of words says, thank you for the hard work from the rush team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody being so kind with Subshan and glad that you guys are here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, because every year,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I we do this and I'm just like, dude, is that worth it, like the amount of time and the energy that we do this, like, and it again, it's always a struggle to decide, like, okay, what are we going to spend our time on?
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[SPEAKER_00]: One, I don't want to do what everybody else says.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What is nobody else doing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a reason why nobody else does this because it's a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and so I go back and forth like man, is that worth the time and effort and research and good Lord, just making the thumbnails like it's just a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I love the positive feedback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So for those of you like Mitchell, I'm sorry Michelle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you guys for the the kind words because that's why we do it if it's important to y'all we're going to do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's your show, always has men, always will be, and we don't want to make decisions here based on monetary value or any of that stuff that's not what we're doing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our goals are to increase the fan experience into educating.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we have been designed to do from the jump.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we want to stay aligned with those pillars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if this is important for other people, then it's important for us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... that that's just kind of the way in which we see it uh... note david jokers no longer out there he just signed so he's gone now which i've really wanted david jokers titan but that's okay uh... the torus he says if jews isn't number one of the roster count down we write
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh-oh, I'm gonna get in trouble.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not over what, but he's higher than he was.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He is higher than he was.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's always fun to once we do this and you see like who the biggest riser, who, you know, all that kind of stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we keep track because we've been doing this for so many stinkin years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We started doing the 91 man roster, then we started giving numbers to him in 2022.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I mean 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 is the fifth year of us keeping track of one through 91 and it's kind of cool seeing some of the girls because some of these players have been there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Josh also, I do, we do need to get a chart up of biggest jumps up, biggest followers, all that kind of stuff from last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, we'll get to that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So without further ado, and, bit, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: for you guys to be with us right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a big deal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So to start the 49ers 2026 roster countdown at number 91, Isaac Alicon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Such a footplayers been with the 99ers for three years now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2024 he was 86 last year, he was 91 this year, 91.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so it's like man, this guy's been with us for three years, please left tackle, why is he not budging?
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[SPEAKER_00]: this is an international pathway program player and what that means is it's an extra player.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You get the extra roster spot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So technically there's 92 players on the roster because of Isaac Calacompe, but we're not counting BA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're not talking about BA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He says, no, do with him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is guys that are going to help the team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's why he comes in number 91.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, once he gets waived, which, a little spoiler alert here, Isaac, Alecán, is not making the 53-man roster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And once he is waived, if he isn't picked up by somebody else, he gets to go on the practice squad as an extra.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't count.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't cost anybody their job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't cost anybody a roster spot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's extra.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The NFL has chosen this program, and it's huge,
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[SPEAKER_00]: especially this year with Mexico City on the schedule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It just increases awareness in areas of the world that perhaps didn't have the brightest light shown on the NFL and now you're creating ambassadors to go back to these places and it just it increases the fandom and it was crazy
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember it was Alfredo, right, the big boy who was Mexico City and whenever we were in Mexico City last time against the Cardinals and he got to walk out of the state like it was just so cool man and you get to talk to the locals and stuff and they would bring up to you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You think he's going to get a play.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not going to get a play, but it's just a sense of pride and that's what Isaac
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[SPEAKER_00]: 6, 7, 3, 20s, 27 years old and he wears jersey number 67.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You'll see him in preseason last year he had 117 snaps in the preseason games, the year before 74.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he gets playing time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: which I really, really, really like he went to the Monterey Institute of Technology and Higher Education that's where he played a college ball and he was nicknamed the Mexican Juggernaut.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you kidding me?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's like an all-time name.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Mexican Juggernaut is badass.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Born and raised in Monterey, Mexico was a member of the 2016 Mexican National Team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a part of the IPP, the International Player Pathway program, and was with the Dallas Cowboys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They put them at defensive tackle and he got snaps in the preseason didn't really work out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they wave to them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They started them at OT and they moved them to tackle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They moved on the 49ers claimed them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've kept them at left tackle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Has it been good, but he looks the part.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a big dude.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, 6, 7, 3, 20.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's ideal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but he's a practice squad guy only even after he gets cut like it doesn't count against the 16 practice squad spot technically it's 17 but undrafted he's going into a six season he's gotten zero snaps he's not been active for any games in his career again he's got about 180 snaps the last two seasons in the preseason
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[SPEAKER_00]: what he does get preseason work and he does get training camp work because Trent Williams takes off about two out of three days at this point in his age, not saying that's a negative, but that does give a lot of snaps to the back into the roster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then if another tackle gets hurt, it's like, all right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Isaac you're the extra practice guy and the 49ers love him like in the locker room and the guys talk about like When they ask about Isaac alleging everybody lights up like he is just such a good dude.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's very thankful to be there He's on a one year eight hundred and eighty five thousand dollar contract no guarantees.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's the minimal minimal minimal minimum and You look at the debt chart and this is kind of why he's number ninety one
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just a tackles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Trent Williams, Colton McKinvits, Vaderian, Low, Brandon Parker, and Riki, clues, Austin Pleasants.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Zach Thomas, who we'll talk about later today, and then Isaac Gallagher.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's the eighth tackle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's the eighth tackle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, Icy Calacan, he is the first on the 49er's rush roster countdown and such cool dude, excited to see when you see number 67 out there, just know that dude's living a dream.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is huge for a future coaching, if you want to get in that, wants to be an ambassador for the sport, college, go back to Mexico and, you know, advance football, they're like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: the opportunity that this pathway program creates is nothing but positive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is no negative to it at all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's so effort?
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's not a downside.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I absolutely love this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll look at this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Ditorious TV says I'm currently wearing my 54 rival read jersey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have that jersey as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: freaking love that jersey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope we I wonder what game they're going to wear those this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure they will.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, appreciate you Josh Best series around for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That makes me happy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I hit that like button.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I hate the schedule J dog.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really do hate the way the schedule came out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And right here he says go to see on Dallas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So let me just
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I'm super, super pumped.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Comp Party with us is going to be a good sign.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 49ers rush, road trip is going into its sixth year with over 40 events at road games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you are traveling to see the 49ers play this year, you got to come party with us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And on top of that, we give games, trivia, giveaways.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We partnered with TickPick this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All you have to do is search 49ers rush on any of the TickPick sites, apps, you name it, and on top of all of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: best dressed, giveaways, autographed jerseys, kids are always included and get in for free with a ticketed adult.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of times for select cities, we will have 49ers legends come out and you get to meet and greet them and get autographed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Vorrow Bowman, Frank Gore, Patrick Willis, Fred Warner, are all players that we have worked with in the past.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It trusts me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you want to build the 49ers community, you're traveling by yourself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We got you covered 49ers
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[SPEAKER_00]: that's what's up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, we're going to be at five cities this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, we're going to be in Australia.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to be in Mexico City.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Both of those.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have individual tell gate the day, you'd be for the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we have the rally the day before the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Both those are up for sell 40 hours rush road trip.com.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, for Mexico City and Australia, both of which well over $1,000 below with the NFL is offering for their travel
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[SPEAKER_00]: incredible the difference.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I get the NFL is the NFL, but we're not going for monetary game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going for building the community.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So just go to Forty-Iged Rush Roadtrip.com, click on any of those Mexico Australia trips, and you'll see the link for the all-inclusive package if you want to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know a lot of people are wary about traveling over sea internationally in Mexico or Australia by themselves.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're with us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: flight options fully customizable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All that is there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just we've carved out everything that you could possibly want.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you just want the events all the cart and you just want to come to the tailgator, just the rally, that's up there as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Plus we will be in Atlanta, we will be in Dallas, and we will be in Seattle as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate everybody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait to see everybody out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Kim bro, the legend, man, appreciate your generosity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A Sunday show, it's getting close to football season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, John, and the faithful, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Kimbro's the best there is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, number 90 newest addition to the 49ers roster Larry worth the third it's a freaking fire name Larry worth the third it's awesome and his story is magnificent and you're like John you're talking about the 90th player on the roster like come on man dude this is a big deal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This was a walk on in college to Jacksonville State, walked on to Jacksonville State, gets a scholarship, transfers to Arkansas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He is a safety convert that's gonna be a linebacker for the 49ers, gets invited to the rookie mini camp and wins a roster spot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, if you ever watched Rudy and got chill bumps, that's Larry worth the third.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, I'll walk on at Jacksonville State, bro.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This guy, unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I also outside of just what he's accomplished, I love this for the roster of the 49ers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, they had to cut Milo, I fler to make room for them, which we had 89 on our roster count because we had it ranked and then that transaction happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we were relatively right on that one to start.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But imagine the message it sends to the rest of the back end roster guys do your spots not safe if somebody out works you they're taking your damn job it like you don't like people walk around on pins and needles but you want to meritocracy
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hellace's job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now you got Larry worth the third.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who is a linebacker safety hybrid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We can't get away from that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You talk about Jaylee Graham.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You talk about Fred Warner.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like there are so many guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tatum Bethton kind of did a little bit of that too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do winners did that like they love the coverage guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that can bulk up and be kind of a hybrid linebacker place, 6422, you big dude, 23 years old.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, was at Jacksonville State for two years, then transferred to Arkansas for two seasons.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Florida guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was a speed guy.
20:27
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a wide receiver in high school three star recruit and walked on a Jacksonville state didn't even get, you know, a preferred whatever like he didn't get scholarship.
20:38
[SPEAKER_00]: And his quote was after his first year, they called him down and gave him a full ride scholarship at front of the team and he said, quote was the best day of my life.
20:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Stayed there for another year than transferred out.
20:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Um,
20:51
[SPEAKER_00]: and shoot.
20:51
[SPEAKER_00]: You mean to tell me we get another Arkansas linebacker?
20:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, signed me up.
20:56
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Drake Green laws all the matter, right?
20:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, let's go, let's go.
20:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, at Arkansas, he played safety and nickel-backer predominantly when untrafted.
21:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Got invited to the 49ers.
21:10
[SPEAKER_00]: rookie tri-out in landed a spot, Dane Brugler of the athletic had him one spot behind Jalen Strowman, who the 49ers did sign as a preferred, he was the last ranked safety that Dane Brugler had, and his quote, this is Dane Brugler's evaluation quote, the straight line explosion to fly down field with shows on defense, but even more so on special teams in quote, that's on the beast.
21:36
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's how this guy's going to make the roster.
21:39
[SPEAKER_00]: All of these guys, probably 60 through 91, if you don't contribute on special teams, you're not making the roster.
21:48
[SPEAKER_00]: That is how you get in.
21:50
[SPEAKER_00]: That is your ticket through the gate.
21:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Special teams.
21:54
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's a big deal.
21:58
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, man, he's got the body size for it.
22:00
[SPEAKER_00]: And again, a lot of the outside special teams roster
22:10
[SPEAKER_00]: That's pretty much at some defensive ends, but like line backers and tightens or what you want because they're bigger body, they're a more athletic and they can carry their weight well running backs, yeah, for sure, you put them out there defensive ends if they're highly athletic, you put them out there, but like line backers and tightens.
22:29
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it's all made of.
22:32
[SPEAKER_00]: You look at kickoff coverage, kickoff return, plant, all that stuff.
22:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Line backers
22:38
[SPEAKER_00]: And for air, so I have a lot of tidings, but they do have a lot of linebackers.
22:41
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it is.
22:42
[SPEAKER_00]: So if Larry worth the third makes an impact for the 49ers.
22:48
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not putting outside of him.
22:49
[SPEAKER_00]: I doubt that he makes the roster 53 man, but.
22:52
[SPEAKER_00]: come on man, it's going to be in special teams.
22:55
[SPEAKER_00]: He ran a four six.
22:57
[SPEAKER_00]: He's fast, but not not a blazer, but he's a big boy and he's got some coverage for a utility, which I think is important.
23:05
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you look at his college kind of career 38 games, 21 starts, 181 career tackles, eight tackle for lost three and a half sex, five pass breakups, no significant injuries.
23:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I do
23:21
[SPEAKER_00]: The depth chart, and it's like, oh, that linebacker room is rough.
23:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Top to bottom and usually you only keep five linebackers.
23:31
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
23:31
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's count through the depth chart.
23:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Fred Warner, Drake Greenlaw, Tatum Bethany, Jayden Dugger, Luke Gifford, Garrett Wallow, Nick Martin, Jalen Graham, Larry Worth, he's nine.
23:43
[SPEAKER_00]: You might keep, you're going to keep five this year.
23:45
[SPEAKER_00]: You might keep six just because Luke Giffords making this roster is a
23:51
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got to beat out Jalen Graham, Garrett Wallo, and then one more, so that's not even enough.
23:58
[SPEAKER_00]: And on top of that, like roster management and sneaking guys onto the team is very important.
24:05
[SPEAKER_00]: The Niners are pretty good at this strategy.
24:07
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't always work.
24:08
[SPEAKER_00]: You always lose some.
24:10
[SPEAKER_00]: But every single team not only passed on Larry worth the third in the draft.
24:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody selected them.
24:15
[SPEAKER_00]: They also passed on them as a priority free agent, undrafted free agent.
24:20
[SPEAKER_00]: So for the 49ers are like, too, nobody wants this guy.
24:24
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's trying to put out there, take, look, y'all made a mistake.
24:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Bring me on as a special teamer.
24:29
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what he's going to try to establish through joint practices, training camp, and preseason.
24:34
[SPEAKER_00]: But this isn't a player that the 49ers have to quote on quote,
24:40
[SPEAKER_00]: because everybody's passed on in the draft.
24:42
[SPEAKER_00]: And nobody even wanted them as a free agent.
24:44
[SPEAKER_00]: So he gets a three year deal, which if you're a priority free agent, or he's just a free agent edition, that's kind of the standard.
24:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Three year, $3.1 million deal.
24:55
[SPEAKER_00]: If he plays out that contract, he'd be a restricted free agent, which we've seen when like Jordan Mason, Matt Breeda, Joanne Jennings, you know, all those guys that kind of got, you know, everything after that.
25:07
[SPEAKER_00]: So that is our boy Larry worth the third and I'm excited don't know his jersey over yet.
25:15
[SPEAKER_00]: Most recent addition, but I'm excited to see Larry worth out there.
25:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I really, really him.
25:20
[SPEAKER_00]: Kevin, what's up, Eddie says, playing on being a Dallas for the rush party with the fan.
25:23
[SPEAKER_00]: We had so much fun last year, New Orleans.
25:25
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we got a twice out there last year, man, Dallas is going to be a good time.
25:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Larry worth, baby.
25:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Logan, he played safety, played nickel,
25:36
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... and four six six eight baton and today's world it's like all you don't run a four four year slow but this dude's two twenty six six four and he plays fast that that's what's cool he plays fast special team special team special teams um... yeah it been we're doing live show count down since you're going to try
25:57
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how it's going to go, but so far I think we're doing okay.
26:05
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we're doing all right.
26:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we'll see.
26:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we're doing all right.
26:09
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's get to number 89.
26:11
[SPEAKER_00]: Zack Thomas, versatile NFL lineman journeyman.
26:18
[SPEAKER_00]: One of those guys that hangs around a roster, he's played a nice 27.
26:25
[SPEAKER_00]: and he could play multiple spots, which is really, really nice, especially on the practice squad or the scout team, right?
26:34
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you don't know what scout team is, so the practice squad each team gets 16 players that you just get a stash.
26:43
[SPEAKER_00]: You can call two of them up a week, whatever else, but they're just practice squad guys.
26:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you're on the practice squad, you're going to be a scout teamer, but a lot of the back end of the roster back into the 53 man roster is a scout team as well.
26:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Zack Thomas is important for that reason.
26:58
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got NFL experience at a lot of different positions.
27:01
[SPEAKER_00]: He can play tackle.
27:02
[SPEAKER_00]: He could play guard.
27:03
[SPEAKER_00]: He's 65 305 that versatile build that generic offensive lineman with the experience.
27:11
[SPEAKER_00]: And you put them on the scout team, so let's say the 49ers are playing, you know, the chargers this week.
27:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Zach Thomas isn't going to get reps with the four airs offense.
27:22
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a scout team guy.
27:24
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be playing the left guard.
27:28
[SPEAKER_00]: for the chargers against the 49er starting defense.
27:32
[SPEAKER_00]: That's his job and he provides value there because he can play left tackle, right tackle, left guard, right guard, all those.
27:38
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you have injuries or whatever else, hey Zach, you're now right guard.
27:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey Zach, you're now right tackle.
27:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey Zach, you're now, he's got experience.
27:46
[SPEAKER_00]: He's been around DNFL.
27:48
[SPEAKER_00]: He can play lots of different spots.
27:50
[SPEAKER_00]: He wears jersey number 61.
27:52
[SPEAKER_00]: He's 27 years old.
27:53
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a California kid.
27:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Went to Carl's bad high school down in L.A.
27:58
[SPEAKER_00]: three star recruit in high school, um, then, you know, it goes to San Diego State, which the Niners just love San Diego State players.
28:07
[SPEAKER_00]: They've had so many of them.
28:09
[SPEAKER_00]: They, the Aztecs, man, it's a pipeline.
28:11
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how it works, but it works.
28:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, again, versatile, he was drafted in 2022 in the six round by the bears.
28:20
[SPEAKER_00]: Pick number 186 overall, and he's played with a lot of teams.
28:24
[SPEAKER_00]: He's played with the bears, the Rams, the Patriots, the Texans, the Colts, now the 49ers, because he checks a lot of boxes.
28:34
[SPEAKER_00]: The problem.
28:35
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not consistently good.
28:37
[SPEAKER_00]: So you get somebody with an NFL traits and pedigree and experience and intellect, just not consistently good to perform game time.
28:48
[SPEAKER_00]: He's played 196 career snaps in the NFL, so he's gotten game time experience.
28:55
[SPEAKER_00]: But no starts.
28:56
[SPEAKER_00]: And again, you know, he's 27 and been with 16's already 31 starts in college.
29:01
[SPEAKER_00]: No significant entries best ability availability and hanging on, you know, on the back end of a roster has value.
29:12
[SPEAKER_00]: It really, really does.
29:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me see here.
29:14
[SPEAKER_00]: I am curious, which I've got to add this to.
29:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, when we go, this is the problem with doing a live show.
29:21
[SPEAKER_00]: Is I'm like, oh crap, we forgot this.
29:24
[SPEAKER_00]: Which one of my favorite things to do throughout this process is oops, the internet's crashing.
29:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh-oh, hopefully you guys can still hear me.
29:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's, let's come on now.
29:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go, uh-oh.
29:39
[SPEAKER_00]: over the cat, you're killing me, you're killing me.
29:41
[SPEAKER_00]: There we go.
29:43
[SPEAKER_00]: One of my favorite things to do every single year is just to go through and see like, man, what are the career earnings of these players?
29:52
[SPEAKER_00]: And Zachary Thomas has made $2.4 million by bouncing around being a career practice squad backup tackle.
30:00
[SPEAKER_00]: That's awesome.
30:01
[SPEAKER_00]: $2.4 million for a guy that has played a hundred snaps, close to 200 snaps over, you know, his fifth five seasons.
30:09
[SPEAKER_00]: That's awesome.
30:10
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's on a one year, 1.4 million dollar contract, no guarantees, probably not going to make the roster because again, you look at the depth chart of the tackle position, which we already went through once, Trent Williams, called to me, give it's Vadarian low, Brandon Parker and Rikke Kluse, Austin Pett Pleasant, Zach Thomas, then Isaac Alicon, like he's the seventh tackle.
30:30
[SPEAKER_00]: No teams keep in seven tackles.
30:32
[SPEAKER_00]: No teams keep in five tackles.
30:34
[SPEAKER_00]: This dude's got to have to beat out pleasants who played meaningful snaps last year, rookie Enrique Cruz, who was a fifth round pick and Brandon Parker, and still might not make the roster because the nighter's mind only keep three tackles because the roster's so difficult.
30:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the 53 man roster this year is going to be difficult, but.
30:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Zach Thomas could play guard.
30:59
[SPEAKER_00]: He could play left tackle.
31:00
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to fill in for Trent whenever he gets his days off.
31:03
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to get work.
31:04
[SPEAKER_00]: and you're gonna see them out there in the preseason.
31:07
[SPEAKER_00]: So when you see number 61, it's kind of aware as well though on the offensive line because left tackle, right tackle, left guard, right guard.
31:15
[SPEAKER_00]: All four spots he can play.
31:17
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's where he is.
31:19
[SPEAKER_00]: If that's that, Thomas, he comes in.
31:21
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, number 89 for the 49ers.
31:24
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm excited about him.
31:25
[SPEAKER_00]: You need these guys.
31:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, right here Logan, cannot get enough linemen.
31:29
[SPEAKER_00]: You just can't.
31:31
[SPEAKER_00]: You cannot.
31:32
[SPEAKER_00]: What's up, monkey boy?
31:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate you, man.
31:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Right here, sometimes it monkey says, sometimes you just need to e-grade player that can play multiple positions, break glass in case of emergency.
31:42
[SPEAKER_00]: That is exactly what Zach Thomas is.
31:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, that is exactly what he brings.
31:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I do agree with that.
31:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I like that.
31:52
[SPEAKER_00]: I do like that.
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32:48
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, moving on through our roster count down.
32:50
[SPEAKER_00]: We got two more that we're going to get today.
32:53
[SPEAKER_00]: 91 Isaac Gallicon, 90 Larry worth third, 89, Zach Thomas, number 88, draft pick last year, who he was number 88 last year.
33:03
[SPEAKER_00]: He's number 88 again this year.
33:04
[SPEAKER_00]: It has not moved up or down.
33:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I would say had a terrible training camp, had a terrible offseason or sorry, preseason.
33:13
[SPEAKER_00]: Somehow still on the roster and I think that that is probably the largest like man way to go junior burgundy somehow you managed to stick around on this roster Get if you like I don't know how he did it But junior burger was picked at the seventh round last year as a special teams only player just a returner
33:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, slow as hell, yeah.
33:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Where's Jersey number 86, not a good sign.
33:38
[SPEAKER_00]: 59, 184, he's already 23 years old.
33:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Went to Montana, where Brant Boyer's son was on that team.
33:48
[SPEAKER_00]: And Brant Boyer, the special teams coach for the 49ers said, oh, he's just awesome.
33:52
[SPEAKER_00]: My son loves them.
33:53
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was a way to draft pick.
33:55
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's on the late seventh rounder, do what you will.
33:59
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like drafting special teams only players.
34:02
[SPEAKER_00]: At any point, if they can't contribute and Kyle Shannon even said he's going to contribute as a special team returner, he was just so slow.
34:11
[SPEAKER_00]: Like going from, you know, Montana, even though they have amazing program to the NFL, you just saw it.
34:19
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I remember be it out there at training camp watching them return punds and I was like, okay, he can fill the punds well.
34:24
[SPEAKER_00]: Like that's a positive.
34:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Then they start going over kick off and kick off return.
34:30
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just like, ooh.
34:31
[SPEAKER_00]: That dude looks like his feet are in concrete.
34:35
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just slow.
34:36
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't be a slow returner at five, nine.
34:38
[SPEAKER_00]: Like you got to have size, you got to have power, you got to have agility, what she does have agility.
34:42
[SPEAKER_00]: I do not see with this wide receiver room, adding to how many wide receivers did they add?
34:51
[SPEAKER_00]: This offseason, one, two, three, four, five.
34:54
[SPEAKER_00]: They added five.
34:55
[SPEAKER_00]: They only keep five.
34:57
[SPEAKER_00]: You added Evans Kirk to Sean Stripley 100% all three of those are making the roster.
35:02
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you added Wesley Grimes and Will Pauling to compete with you.
35:06
[SPEAKER_00]: This is kind of a murderous row.
35:11
[SPEAKER_00]: And so Junior Bergen,
35:13
[SPEAKER_00]: I get why I don't get why they took them, but the fact that he's hung around says there's still a little bit of faith in him.
35:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm with you Logan.
35:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Not going to lie.
35:24
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't understand the junior burden pick at all.
35:26
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just kind of a throw away.
35:28
[SPEAKER_00]: It went to Billings High School.
35:30
[SPEAKER_00]: He has eight siblings.
35:31
[SPEAKER_00]: He was quarterback at high school, which is school transition to wide receiver at Montana.
35:36
[SPEAKER_00]: And like he's well developed.
35:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Like he's tiny.
35:38
[SPEAKER_00]: He's 5, 9, 18, 4.
35:39
[SPEAKER_00]: But like you see, he's
35:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Dude Spitz time in the way room like he is stout for five nine one eighty four like he's well-defined Works out has the explosiveness just no speed just no speed And the fact that he was a return specialist in college at FCS level
36:02
[SPEAKER_00]: That's trouble.
36:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Like they just used them for screens and stuff as a wide receiver Gadget guy, but he broke the record for most pumped return to touchdowns and FCA history with eight like.
36:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Dynamic awesome.
36:18
[SPEAKER_00]: He's been terrible since he's been with the 40 hours drafted the seventh round last year 252 overall ran a four five two, which that's not slow.
36:27
[SPEAKER_00]: but you just see them out there and it's just like, come on man, go, like, you know, didn't see any real action last year for the 49ers.
36:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the preseason was terrible.
36:40
[SPEAKER_00]: He got four punt returns for 38 yards, not good.
36:44
[SPEAKER_00]: One of his returns had 28 yards, which was awesome.
36:47
[SPEAKER_00]: He muffed a punt, six returns for 128 yards.
36:50
[SPEAKER_00]: That's 21 yards per return in this style in this format.
36:54
[SPEAKER_00]: That is terrible.
36:55
[SPEAKER_00]: He had one reception on three targets and for one yard.
36:59
[SPEAKER_00]: don't bring anything to the receiver room.
37:02
[SPEAKER_00]: And one of his drops led to an interception and the pre-seed like it's hard unless he wins a job outright as a kickoff returner.
37:13
[SPEAKER_00]: And can the Niners even do that with somebody that can't help in the wide receiver room?
37:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Like are you gonna cut Jordan Walkins?
37:21
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you gonna cut Jacob Cowen?
37:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you gonna cut your two undrafted free agents?
37:31
[SPEAKER_00]: If he's again, change your cool.
37:34
[SPEAKER_00]: There has been nothing to suggest so far that Junior Bergen is going to be a game changer at this level.
37:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, at all, I'm not even sure he really helps you with the scouting.
37:44
[SPEAKER_00]: There's not a lot of guys like this in the NFL.
37:47
[SPEAKER_00]: And like guys like Jacob Cowen, who have similar size, runs a four, three.
37:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, it's two tenths of a faster, with better hands, better route running.
37:57
[SPEAKER_00]: So like you have Wesley Grimes, we'll call him, who I like, by the way, and they paid to get them
38:05
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know man.
38:07
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got a one year deal because he got cut, you know, he didn't make the 53 man roster last year.
38:13
[SPEAKER_00]: So he lost his rookie deal.
38:14
[SPEAKER_00]: He gets brought back on a one year deal.
38:16
[SPEAKER_00]: No guarantees.
38:17
[SPEAKER_00]: He had a hundred and one thousand dollar guaranteed last year.
38:21
[SPEAKER_00]: um got cut they brought him back on the practice squad now he made just being on the practice squad with his guaranteed money $335,000 last year so if you want to know like what does an NFL practice squad player make which he was on it for the entirety last year about 300 grand.
38:42
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's playing every day in full pads against Fred Warner and Nick Bosa and all those guys and just getting beat to a pulp like your practice dummy that's just what you are but you know didn't get elevated any games now he did get that one hundred and one million dollar.
38:58
[SPEAKER_00]: or sorry, $10,000 guaranteed money.
39:02
[SPEAKER_00]: So really, so you got to subtract that.
39:04
[SPEAKER_00]: So a practice, if you're just on a practice squad player for the entire year, never get called up, never play.
39:09
[SPEAKER_00]: You make about 230 grand a year.
39:11
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're on it for the entirety of the season.
39:14
[SPEAKER_00]: He got that little extra juice, what's I do like being a draft pick.
39:17
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, now you go through the depth chart.
39:19
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, geez.
39:20
[SPEAKER_00]: This is, remember the nighters keep five this year they might keep six.
39:24
[SPEAKER_00]: Mike Evans, Ricky Pearsaw, Christian Kirk, Sean Strivley, Jordan Walkets, Jacob Coward, Tobarcus Robinson, Mleek Turner, Jr. Bergen, that's eight, but you've got guys coming for you.
39:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Wesley Grimes, Will Pauling, Colton Dowell, all those guys are gonna be ahead of Jr. Bergen on the wide receiver tip chart.
39:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Jr. Bergen's just got that return ability.
39:47
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the one thing that's like, all right, how does Jr. Bergen make this roster?
39:55
[SPEAKER_00]: You got a dazzle, some put returns, and you can't Bible one.
40:00
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't Bible one.
40:01
[SPEAKER_00]: And you don't tackle him practice.
40:02
[SPEAKER_00]: You do in pre-season games.
40:04
[SPEAKER_00]: So like that's where you've got a shine.
40:06
[SPEAKER_00]: As a put returner, kick returner, you've got to.
40:08
[SPEAKER_00]: I, even if the Niners say, you know what?
40:13
[SPEAKER_00]: We want Junior Burger to be our kick-off put returner.
40:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I still don't take that he makes a roster.
40:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the Niners are fine cutting him because he couldn't have been claimed at any time last year off the practice squad.
40:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody did.
40:23
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he could be a guy that you cut, stash on your practice squad, call up for one or two games and then if he does something, then he makes the roster.
40:32
[SPEAKER_00]: But like, even if he does win that job, I still don't see Junior Burger and making the 53 man roster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cut, clear waivers, bring them back practice squad, elevate them a couple of times, I think that's about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And no, he has not played one snap in the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He did in the preseason, but it was bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, right here, Eric, he says they keep junior, a painkin' cheeseburger, I like that they, um, but like, oh, Skymore.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Skymore got paid, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I think the 49ers liked Skymore, but they went after players that were going to help in the white receiver room.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Skymore did not do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I think that that's kind of, you know, part of the issue there, um, if that makes sense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I think that they wanted to keep them, but do you're that wide receiver room.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's rough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is rough, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And somebody got to make it, but yeah, it's tight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's tight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, here we go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, let's get to our last player on today's roster count down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He comes in number 87 Andrew Farmer the second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's an edge player defensive end, six, four, two, 50.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I deal build little small, but like man, he's got the build at the Niners like he's a depth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Peace and a practice squad, practice, you know, kind of scout team stood.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what he is like Andrew Farmer the second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: gives the starting offensive tackles a really good look because you're playing against a six four two fifty dude that's 26 years old and I mean like he's played he has played in the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It hasn't seen the action a long time, but he's win the chargers, he's been with the Broncos, he's been with the 49ers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's played in the NFL's 26 years old.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Where's Jersey number 50?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which I like that, that's clean.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Went to Lane College, the Dragons, baby.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, from Florida, played multiple positions in high school, wasn't highly recruited.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it goes to Lane College, not a lot of Lane College to the NFL pipeline was undrafted, priority free agent, 2023.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and just bounce around playing, you know, preseason games, practice squads, all that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's been with three teams.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The 49ers brought him on late in the process.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he wasn't part of our roster count down series, because he wasn't with the 49ers until back in of training camp.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is our first time covering Andrew Farmer the second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, he got cut by the $40 for the initial $53.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They brought him back on the practice squad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, runs a four seven.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got good athleticism, good height, good speed, good weight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got the traits to be an NFL player.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just hasn't cracked the ceiling yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, back in 2023, he played in eight games, but hasn't seen any real action since.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But like this is a guy that has played, he's got the build that you like, been with the Chargers Broncos 49ers, like he's been around the block a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, last year for the 49ers, the preseason he counted for two tackles, never was elevated for a game, no significant injuries.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to hang around NFL rosters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You get injured, you're done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These back guys, like literally if you're in the 70s or 80s, you get injured, you're career's over.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't, like, it's so you're there because they need you to get practice reps against their starters and to give
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[SPEAKER_00]: starters, breaks, and to work special teams, you're a practice dummy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You get injured.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We can't hit you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get somebody else we can hit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not that valuable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, your top end players when they get injured, which if you're a $40 fan, happens all the damn time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can be patient and wait.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These guys, you can't be patient with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, he's got a one year one million dollar deal, no guarantees his career earnings just under a million.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got 780,000 career earnings, shout out to Josh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He updated that real time on the, Josh, you're a freaking stud.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He updated that real time on our Google sheet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's freaking, oh, beast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's number one on my list.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But listen to this depth chart at the edge position.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, you keep five or six, that's it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nick Bosa, Michele Williams, Kiyon White, Samo, Ramelohite, Kim Sample, Michele Kamara, Bradley William King, Andrew Farron, he's nine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's nine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Top five spots are locked and whatever order you want to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bosa Williams, White, Samo, Ramelohite, 100% making this roster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You might only keep those five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's so you've got cam sample Mikhail Kumar Bradley Winking Andrew Farmer's second fighting for a spot that might not even exist and like the upside is men you're fighting for a practice squad spot right now even if there is an injury the 49ers got capper and they're going to bring somebody in like
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that would be the hard conversation, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've been a coach and we would always have one-on-one meetings with our players before the season and after the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you would just be honest with them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you have to be brutally honest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do keep working.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is where you can get.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We see you doing this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, but sometimes you got to tell guys, like, are you sure you want to play football?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's different a high school.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to be a senior next year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We want you a part of our team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We want you here, but just understand, you are not going to be starting for us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, so you're going to be a senior, not getting playing time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We love you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We want you a part of our family, but I would hate for you to think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going out, like, it's just not going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're 510, 180 pounds, and you play defensive end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, buddy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you're not going to play wide receiver because you're running for eight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, this is a player that's, you know, made 780,000 and do just get beat on every day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Andrew Farmer, fun player, Elaine College, are you kidding me?
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[SPEAKER_00]: How cool is that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number 87.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So our first installment of the 49ers 2026 roster countdown is in the books.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we did okay, and again, the goal is you walk away from this, understanding Isaac Gallercon, understanding Andrew Farmer, Larry worth the third, Zachary Thomas, Jr. burying, like you know more about these guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that is what this is all about and I really hope you guys enjoyed this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Look at this, a couple of comments before we bolt out the door.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bid says, who are our options at kick point return?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I forgot that we let Skywalk.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, you're talking Jordan Walkins to Sean Strivley, maybe Jacob Cowen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You might even put Ricky Pierce all back as point returner.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know the entry scares like that's a lot, but that's Wesley Grimes, Will Pauline, Jr. Bergen, Colton Dowell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got guys, and then also the running backs, like that is a new addition to the kickoff rule changes, but yet Brian Robertson out there last year, and he did awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... now is a carando god no fumble issues runs it to the back of his players no bit like is a grandals done but calin black maybe you know jordan james maybe there's some option now their kick returns not going to be put returns probably but it's it's got to be rough it you're not getting a stud back there uh...
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want Jordan Watkins to win it personally.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If I had, I would want Jordan Watkins to my putt returner in Jacob Cowling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, like one of you guys, you're both not making the roster by the way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who wants it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's shout out to Forty-Arts come back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's like the Joker scene where he breaks a pool stick and he's like, we're looking for a aggressive expansion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like one of you guys go to make it, figure it out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it is a battle to the death, the other one's gone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I would want Jordan James and whoever wins out of Jacob Cowling or Jordan Walkins is my two kick returners.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I would want Jordan Walkins or Jacob Cowling as my partner.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I might put Ricky Pierce off back there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I might put Ricky because now you're not as dependent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because even if Pierce all got hurt, God forbid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It happens all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You'd still have Mike Evans, Christian Kirk, to Sean Stribling, to Marcus Robinson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like you see, I'm saying like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now you have a plethora, plethora, could it be, like you have that wide receiver room went through transformation like nobody's business?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, but yeah, it's still not good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Logan, Andrew Farmer seems like someone who in practice can give starting offensive linemen a run for them, but that's exactly why you got him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 6 4 2 50 is hard to find.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 26 years old, he's got experience.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's been around knows what to do, knows what not to do, like, that's a big deal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no one Garendo returning anything ever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's up, Katie?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate you, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Glad you're here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Logan, I'm with you here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Says Mark my words, Chapman McKill, tomorrow will make this Ross, you know, I was on with Larry on K and
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[SPEAKER_00]: and do we just talked about Mikhail Kumar like he just looks it he really does now it's rookie OTAs you know what I mean like or now it's OTAs but yeah I'm telling you right now Mikhail Kumar like
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you were to took Mikhail Kamar on the fifth round instead of Enrique Cruz or you know, Carver Willis or Ephesians Priceok, I would not have been upset.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I am a Mikhail Kamar fan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't fit the prototypical speed edge guy, but you got that with Romelo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: tomorrow's just an all-around defensive end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's Andrew Farmer on steroids, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so that's what it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, my man, what's up, buddy?
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[SPEAKER_00]: If no rush road trip, I'm not coming to New York, but if you party in LA, we'll consider flight over now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I would be very sad if I don't get to see you, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We are in the works to possibly set up an LA trip.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, because you play the chargers we were playing on going down there, but then they made it a third and I can schedule screwed this up, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I understand people are really upset whenever we're not making it out to certain cities and I apologize for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really wish I could.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, but you know, I got a balanced family stuff and, you know, we were a New York last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was a taxing trip at a great time and it was amazing seeing everybody, but like, that was a rough, that was a rough one for a chat and I ain't going to lie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but we are going to try to set something up for the chargers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it would probably just be a tailgate party.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That would be it because I don't want to do a Wednesday night thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's so like, I probably fly down like, anyway, y'all don't care about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But we're in the works of adding the chargers just day up because there's so many nine or fans down there and I know they need a place to go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's so,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It'd be like a four to five hour tailgate special.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We would just roll two parties into one and you take Thursday off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You just come have a good time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So five such a good time anyway.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're also in the works of possibly adding one or two home games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Off of the $40 property so they can't tell me, no.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's all I'm going to say about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Monkey boy, off season begins.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Josh, thank you, man, amazing start.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who's next?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Next five?
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[SPEAKER_00]: going to have to wait and see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a little bit of a teaser.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They call that in the business, which I am terrible at.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am terrible at that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Dale says right here, don't break Ricky on a punt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I value special teams a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying I want Ricky Pierce all back there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was returning points all last year, by the way, like it practiced, like he's in the rotation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: dominates that man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, just take that freaking job.
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