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49ers Bulletin: Injuries, Drops, and German doctors
If you thought the Niners’ injury issues couldn’t get worse before the team’s astonishing loss to the Rams, think again. A decimated red and gold squad limped into SoFi Stadium, then literally and figuratively limped out. Things couldn’t be going much worse for the defending NFC champions. In a conference call with reporters on Monday…
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49ers Bulletin: Santa Clara infirmary increases capacity
The hospital wing of the 49ers facility in Santa Clara is already crowded. As of Thursday afternoon, it doesn’t look like the capacity will be thinning any time soon. The 49ers announced that two more key players are dealing with injuries as the team prepares to face the Rams in Los Angeles on Sunday. All-Pro…
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Assessing the damage: Takeaways from ugly 49ers loss
It’s amazing how much difference a day makes. 48 hours ago, the 49ers and their fans were walking the walk, rolling into Minnesota after a statement week one with all the confidence in the world. With good reason too, for the most part. Now a perennial NFC juggernaut, San Francisco and its faithful had, (and…
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49ers Bulletin: Lynch, Shanahan talk McCaffrey’s troublesome calf/achilles
Christian McCaffrey has been officially ruled out for Sunday’s game in Minnesota. After a late scratch in Monday’s season opener, his earlier out designation in week two reflects the heightened concern San Francisco has for his Achilles tendinitis. Kyle Shanahan announced McCaffrey’s official status Friday afternoon, and ominously didn’t rule out a trip to IR…
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Mason dazzles, provides security blanket as Niners roll
49ers fans woke up on Monday morning under the impression that their all world running back Christian McCaffrey would be in the backfield for the season opener against New York at Levi’s Stadium later that evening. Fast forward just over 24 hours, and the immediate future of No. 23 is far less clear. Niners fans…
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Jock Blog: Bummer summer out, Galvanized Niners in.
As for the 49ers, we turn to noted NFL fan and legendary documentarian Marty DiBergi, who once said: Enough of the off-season yakking. Whattya say. Let’s boogie. (Kids, you can look up Marty DiBergi later. Suffice to say, we hope the 49ers win total ‘goes to eleven’.) Point being, I spent the last six weeks…
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49ers Friday Bulletin: John Lynch details his Pearsall experience, moving on from contract negotiations
It’s been nearly seven months since the 49ers trudged off the field in Las Vegas, licking their latest fresh wound as the Chiefs danced with their third Lombardi. On Monday night, San Francisco’s season opener will end an off-season that was objectively the shortest of any team besides KC, but one that in many ways…
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49ers bulletin: Tim Ryan touches on Aiyuk, Williams extensions
After a summer that consistently featured no news, the last five days has been full of breaking news for the 49ers. Too much breaking news, in fact. The Brandon Aiyuk months-long stalemate came to an official end on Thursday, as he inked a four-year $120 Million contract extension. $76 Million of that is guaranteed. On…
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Papa reports Aiyuk may practice
In the exhaustive Brandon Aiyuk contract negotiation saga, any wrinkle in the stalemate has the potential to become headline news. Greg Papa kicked off his afternoon show with John Lund on Wednesday by predicting that the 49ers star wide receiver may practice this afternoon as the team prepares for its week one matchup against the…
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August angst in Santa Clara
Negative on the Niners? PHOTO: KYLE TERADA Your Jock Blog author was accused of such saltiness today by a few of our loyal listeners. How so? Perhaps because I dared muse that the absence of Brandon Aiyuk, the injuries to Ricky Pearsall, the memories of a gashed run defense from last January and the all-around…