- 5/29/2025
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00:00i'll say this and i bet this is going to be super relatable okay this is how i feel about the ricky
00:07pierce all injury and if you're just joining us ricky pierce all's got a hammy um and yep they're
00:13going to hold him out until training camp is it a big concern well you tell us this is what
00:18kyle shanahan sounded like ricky's been awesome but ricky has a tweaked hamstring so i'll be
00:22surprised if he does anything in ots be back for a mini camp or out i know he could be but when you
00:28get by the time you get to mini camp and there's just two days left in school we probably won't
00:32just throw him out there i mean but he should be healthy by then okay so i and and mini camp that's
00:37two weeks yep that's two weeks from now so i don't know if that makes everyone feel better it's like
00:41yeah he's probably healthy by then but why like why why are we going to throw him out there for
00:45two-day practice in june um and and risk anything like why why there's no there's no reason to do
00:53it and that might be the same case with jire brown who had a procedure to his ankle which he'll be
00:58back for camp so it's not like a complete reconstruction so when you have these little
01:03tweaks these little injuries there's no point in trying to get a guy back out there you know
01:08what you have in ricky he's your first round pick you know that you're going to want him healthy in
01:12september okay all true agreed but it's an alarm i'll tell you why it's an alarm there's no worry
01:20in this moment about ricky pearson missing games this year but you want to know what this feels like to
01:25me especially when we talk about the wide receiver room like holy hell let's think about the last 12
01:31months of the wide receiver room it's the same guy who got shot last year at union square you've had
01:37the brandon iu cold out and the drama and then major injury did everything the debo went through last
01:43year shoving long snappers calling for the ball more dropping the ball in the middle of thursday
01:48night football for a touchdown and now he's been traded to the washington commanders this has all
01:54happened just in the wide receiver room then they signed someone and and i think it could end up
01:59being a really good signing but they've signed someone who's probably going to get suspended
02:03to start the year and then you get this which on its own is no big deal but it's not on its own
02:10it lays in all of that and so if you'd asked me yesterday i'd be like no no no everything's fine in
02:18the wide receiver room and then you get this one piece of news and all of a sudden you go
02:24oh crap no we can't afford that so i feel this very much feels like whenever you like wake up and go to
02:35your banking app and you're like no everything looks great like we're good honey i think we can go
02:42on vacation this summer it's all laid out we've budgeted it it's perfect and then you get home
02:49from work and your roof is leaking or your refrigerator is broken or your car breaks down
02:58in the driveway and all of the sudden you're like oh this one expense that we didn't see coming
03:06makes me feel completely different about the larger picture because we didn't budget for that
03:12right and that's how i feel about the niner especially wide receiver room and and maybe
03:18even extend it to other spots on this team it's like we can feel good about it right now but that's
03:24because we're not factoring in the injuries that are definitely going to come i don't know about the
03:28depth of this team i don't like your comp because it hits way too close to home i shouldn't have said
03:34roof i'm sorry yeah because we are or your fridge well my daughter who we pay for her to go to
03:40preschool june and july she doesn't go so we're already thinking all right june and july a little
03:45extra disposable and then oh you need a new roof so i that's opposite for me in the summertime because
03:53i don't teach and so i have a plan and they gotta go somewhere right i gotta like i'm like a squirrel
03:59man i'm sticking like little things in pockets over here and kids gotta go to camp right and he's
04:04plays seven sports good lord so i don't want to get too far off the road tonight yeah you're darn
04:10right you are because the kid loves sports and you love him so where's the wallet dad but you're
04:15right about this and i wasn't feeling great about the wide receiver room but you were starting to get
04:21me sold on the purdy to pierce all and you know the more you think about those two guys growing up
04:27together and ricky did show good signs toward the end of the year and so yeah juwan and pierce all
04:31and i won't bore everyone with 21 personnel references uh until we get to the season but
04:37that means you only use two receivers and that's about 40 of their snaps so you don't need a ton of
04:43receivers in this offense but now you don't have iuke robinson i believe will be gone for a stint
04:49and probably you know ricky pierce all's got a tweak and cowing caught four passes so are we going to do
04:55a lot of 22 personnel no see which is juwan but pierce all's fine but what today i think provides you
05:03a picture of is what happens if this same news comes not on may 29th but on august 29th
05:13what if this happens and that's kind of the view that i'm taking today which is um you know it gives
05:22you a window into how you actually feel about this team you know you could wrap your head around the
05:29draft picks and you can buy into all of it kay adams was at camp last week talking to michael
05:36williams and she thinks he's gonna be defensive d-r-o-y okay great all right we've nailed the draft
05:43everything's wonderful uh we've gotten to know all the names and christian mccaffrey is going to be
05:49back healthy more on that in a second because kyle did address that you can convince yourself of all
05:54of these things and then hey warrior fans what happens when one step goes the wrong way you lose
06:02god right strength in numbers is a former phrase for the warriors and i said it prior to the playoffs
06:09strength in numbers no longer exists here and i think the same is true for the san francisco 49ers
06:14yeah and that's my biggest concern going into this year well that would be brock purdy with a
06:19tweaked hamstring because he is their steph curry because he's their quarterback but there are more
06:23than just brock purdy there's fred warner no i get it you know what i mean there's diomed or lenore like
06:28who at what position group are you comfortable sustaining an injury right now if they had to sustain
06:35one yeah um man probably none maybe there you go maybe corner because the team is high on the
06:43the the rookie corner that's coming in okay you know yeah i mean some guy offensive line we have
06:49question marks about the starting five themselves linebacker uh who are you outside of fred so yeah
06:56safety you mentioned it jair brown's out and malik mustafa out and who fonga's gone so who's going to
07:02be playing safety maybe running back would be the area because you do have you know mccaffrey and
07:09garendo and you know you've got some decent depth there but i mean you're going to probably have
07:15some running back attrition just because that's football right for sure yeah christian mccaffrey
07:19if i set his game total this year at 17 and a half um you know or 16 and a half you're gonna take
07:27the under right you take the under i'd like to set it at about 14 and a half and maybe that line goes
07:31up based on what uh kyle shannon had said today here's what he said christian is pretty he's as ready
07:37as any player i've ever been around uh when he gets hurt you know he's got to rehab and get better
07:41right now he's healthy as can be we got to kind of protect him from himself but christian has a good
07:45idea of what he needs to do right now uh he's doing a lot less than he normally would do but
07:49uh i know he's excited on how healthy he feels and the fact that he can get out there okay first of all
07:54i like that he's as healthy as he possibly could be that's awesome peep that phrase though we need to
08:02protect him from himself yes you ever heard that before herm edwards on this show last july
08:09talking about ricky pearsall whom he coached in college he's a guy you got to be you got to be
08:16careful with he overworks he's that kind of guy and yeah he you know he had some hamstring issues
08:22when he was with us as well you know because he's one of the guys doesn't want any rest he goes 100
08:26100 miles an hour you got to protect him from from himself you know and then i told john and him
08:32that when they drafted him i said the thing you got to do with ricky now he's going to go hard he
08:36doesn't understand this is a walkthrough you know that's how he functions so he'll be fine he'll be
08:43fine that's herm talking about ricky yeah he'll be fine almost a year ago and specifically talking
08:49about his hamstrings now i don't know if we yet know if it's the same hamstring or if it's the other
08:55hamstring i don't know you have one on on each leg you do have two and i was just looking last
09:00year he was limited in otas due to a shoulder injury then you get to training camp and he tweaks
09:05the hammy then the near tragic fatal shooting and then this year you get the hammy again so
09:13i mean you put the shooting aside because that is an uncontrollable freak accident absolutely but
09:19two hammies in the shoulder somehow we have to figure out maybe a different mode for him
09:25in off-season training because this is two seasons where that's a problem well i think it's you know
09:30fans love players like this you know this is the kind of thing that like if you're a parent of a kid
09:36like this you it's a it's a humble brag when you're telling other people okay you got boy i gotta i gotta
09:43remind him to go outside and uh and and and see his friends because he's just doing his schoolwork
09:49all the time that's what we're saying here about pure salt and mcafree you've got to protect them
09:55from themselves um you know and so that's not like a bad thing but at the same time uh maybe it is a
10:04little bit maybe it is a little bit i don't know how you get these guys to hit the brakes a little bit
10:09because again if you do look at this roster right now they can't afford this you know so when we assess
10:16the 49ers this year when we get a little bit later on in the summer and whatnot i think you got to take
10:22this into account like i think they can be a really good team but they and no nfl team stays fully
10:29healthy yeah but they need some blessings this year they are going to need some luck well that's every
10:36team but like even to a larger degree i would agree with it to the extent that you take the team two
10:42years ago that went to the super bowl deeper team and your your twos who you could lean on were better
10:48than your twos were last year and right now your twos are question mark and until the super bowl they
10:54did have a lot of luck in terms of health they had a lot of luck in terms of health right and last year
10:58you had less luck in terms of health and then when you had to go to backups and i'm thinking about uh
11:05you devondre campbell uh first and last time his name will be said but you were the backup and you
11:12quit on the team so yeah you need luck and you also need depth and we don't know about the depth yet
11:17with this new team
11:18with this new team
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