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  1. SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch got a text from star receiver Brandon Aiyuksoon after drafting Florida’s Ricky Pearsallwith the 30th pick. Aiyuk's message about his former teammate was glowing: “Fire pick. Can’t lie.” The Niners ended the first day of the NFL draft by adding a rookie receiver in Pearsall and keeping its established stars Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel despite heavy speculation that one of them could have been moved Thursday night. San Francisco is trying to get a long-term deal done with Aiyuk after giving Samuel one two years ago, raising the question of whether the 49ers would trade Aiyuk if they can't sign him or trade Samuel if they can and aren't willing to carry two high-priced receivers on the roster. Lynch and coach Kyle Shanahan wouldn't definitively rule out any potential trades of Aiyuk or Samuel but deemed it as unlikely, especially now that the first round of the draft is over. “I know that we’re continuing to have positive talks with BA," Lynch said. “We are really efforting to get something done with him. We’re excited about continuing down that path with Brandon being a part of this team and Deebo is a part of this team and a big part of this team. We feel great about that group and we feel like we’ve made it better.” Pearsall had 65 catches for 965 yards and four touchdowns last season at Florida and gives the Niners a possible option as a slot receiver. Pearsall was known for some highlight-reel catches during his time in college and now is the latest potential playmaker added to a dynamic offense that made it to the Super Bowl last season. Pearsall began his college career at Arizona State where he was teammates with Aiyuk in 2019, leading to the happy text Aiyuk sent to Lynch and a congratulatory call to Pearsall. “We have a really good relationship,” Pearsall said. “I just got off the phone with him before I got over here on this Zoom call, and he was just congratulating me and telling me over and over again, ‘You’re a first rounder, man. Soak it up.’ There's been a lot of work put in since we last ran routes together. I feel like I’m a totally different player since the last time we've seen each other.” Pearsall got on the radar of many observers thanks to his one-handed catch against Charlotte last September that quickly became an internet sensation. It was the more routine work that impressed the Niners, who stressed his ability to play inside and outside, his attention to detail on route-running, ability to block downfield and refusal to go down at first contact as big reasons why they drafted him. “There’s not one play,” said Shanahan, who compared Pearsall to a far more talented version of himself as a a little-used wide receiver at Texas more than two decades ago. “He’s going to go over the middle and do everything he can to catch that ball and not worry about anything else. When he’s on the sidelines he’s not taking the easy way out. He makes guys tackle him and is not looking for a place to fall. When he doesn’t have the ball, he plays just as hard.” This was the first time the Niners had a pick in the first round since 2021 when they drafted quarterback Trey Lance third overall. San Francisco traded their first-round picks in 2022 and 2023 to move up nine spots that year to take Lance, who started only four games for the 49ers before being traded to Dallas last August. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/49ers-florida-receiver-ricky-pearsall-035506456.html
  2. Notice how it doesn’t have any switches in the strum path? Still amazed that Leo Fender sucked so much ass at switch placement. I know that he didn’t play, but only some Mustangs moved the switch out of the strum path. R.L.’s guitar maker apparently fixed Leo’s stupidity.
  3. I couldn’t even take that twangy shit leading into the kickoff of the draft. I had to mute it. (What the fuck, Detroit?) Maybe Sark is hearing impaired and trying to further endear himself to the Austin community. And maybe CTJ has not suffered hearing damage yet.
  4. Sean Payton only coached Bridgewater & Wilson, if I recall, and neither was Payton’s first choice. Kind of a stupid take for a coach entering his 2nd season with the Broncos.
  5. Lance has something like 19 college starts, against FCS “talent” and (I think) 4 NFL starts. Here: And then you look at what Penix did against mostly Power 5 opponents. Penix has… Penix has about 2 1/2 times as many college games under his belt as Lance and about 4 times as many pass plays in college as Lance has in college and the NFL combined. Lance could ultimately be a good QB, but he needs to play some spring football every year just to get experience. The spring league is better than what he faced in college and would really help him bridge the gap. It sucks that he and his family chased that first contract, because the contracts that follow may never be above league minimum.
  6. Brilliant moves by Bills if they can get the guy they wanted, pay him 2nd round money, and load up on other picks. Could be Mitchell, could be someone else. Washington and LSU had 2 guys in the Top 10 and 3 guys in the 1st round. Alabama had 1 guy in the Top 10 and 3 guys in the 1st round. Texas was never “winning the first round” with our first pick coming in at #16.
  7. They know their market.
  8. I use a few different browsers. I did not know that this was possible on any of them. Gracias, che!
  9. *Bring on the ghosts of Locksley Collie and Guillermo “Panama” Myers!! They were listed, LISTED at 6’7” and 6’8” respectively… and could not dunk standing still. And they were our “big guys inside”. YIKES! (I hate seeing ghosts.)
  10. Napoleon

    USMNT 2024

    USA 🇺🇸!! USA 🇺🇸!! USA 🇺🇸!! USA 🇺🇸!!
  11. Actually, your understanding of College Football Fandom sucks ass if you think that the West Coast & the Mountain Time Zones have the same percentage of rabid college football fans in their population that the Eastern Time Zone has. Eastern Time Zone probably has 53% of rabid college football fans. In general, the west coast doesn’t give a fuck about college football.
  12. Show me a game last year where JJ self-sacked or looked a little off. I don’t think that JJ is going to be a great QB, but he was much steadier than Quinn and not injury prone. I don’t see any draft pattern that ha had Quinn going in the first round this year. Too many question marks ❓❓❓ I would think that he would be on the back end of the Nix/Penix grouping at best. If he played every week like he did against Alabama (both years minus the injury), then he would be a Top 4 pick. But he didn’t.
  13. Stearns 🇺🇸out (after being up a break in the 3rd to 36 year-old mother of two, Tatjana Maria🇩🇪. Kenin 🇷🇺/🇺🇸 out in straight routine sets to Schmeeedluvah🇸🇰!
  14. From the sudden silence regarding two DTs from Michigan’s national championship team entering the portal, my guess is that… 3 1/2 months was enough time for wealthy Wolverines to finish sucking each other off and come to the realization that they needed to pony up or their DL studs could be gone in late May, only to return for a “One Night Only Encore Performance” in early September. At least one of those guys was a “Texas will definitely be interested, let’s see if they enter the portal.” about 3-5 times per week from late January up until last Friday. Now nothing.
  15. Maybe I have listened to Bobby Burton & Gerry repeat it about 30 times, but the Manning family, and statistics, show that a QB with 25 or more starts is much more likely to experience success in the NFL than a QB with fewer starts than that. It is a big reason that Quinn is returning for a third year and unless Arch starts 12+ games this year, there is virtually zero chance that Arch goes pro after next year (2025), no matter how great his season is. The Mannings are focused on that 2nd, 3rd, and maybe 4th NFL contract. Leaving after one starting season is not part of any plan.
  16. The olds are out in full force today! I feel like I should soil myself or apply some salve after reading those three posts.
  17. Napoleon

    USMNT 2024

    If we don’t make it out of the group, it won’t matter. No one is getting fired. That’s why we needed to lose to Jamaica. 😣
  18. Your take is as laughable as your grammar. Ewers is the starter this year until he gets knocked out of a game and can’t play the next one. At the start of any single game this fall, Ewers is a better QB than Arch until Arch gets enough game time to show otherwise. I hope that Arch gets at least 30 pass attempts this year even if Quinn never gets knocked out of a game. I would love for him to top 50 attempts on the season In my not-so-humble opinion… If Quinn had declared for the draft, Arch would have been a better QB by the end of the season this year than Quinn actually will be. I think that Arch will be a better college QB than Quinn (and a better pro) and will get to the highest level of college QB play much faster than Quinn, but Quinn stayed in school (which he desperately needed to do) and that has pushed back Arch’s development.
  19. What a memorable day of top level tennis in Portugal 🇵🇹 as all 4 women in the semis GAVE IT THEIR ALL, but alas only 2 women could make it through to the final. … … … …
  20. Down goes the Polack 🇵🇱 to the Ruskie 🇷🇺 masquerading as a Kazak🇰🇿 .
  21. Was pulling for Kostyuk due to the whole Ukraine 🇺🇦 situation as well I because I know that I love her ass, but… Her pseudo wrestling singlet with a skirt that starts at the bottom of her ribs thing that she has going on is making it difficult to remember her rump. Kostyuk needs to fire her stylist. Gauff could have easily won today. Kostyuk could have won before the 8th match point. They both made so many… “Are you fucking kidding me? You suck!” …mistakes that it was a little laughable.
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