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“I think it’s a good problem when your quarterback is one of your highest-paid guys on your team and in the league,” 49ers CEO Jed York said Tuesday when NBC Sports Bay Area asked about Purdy’s future contract at the NFL Annual Meeting. “So, there’s a lot of planning that goes into it.”
49ers’ Jed York prepared to open vault for Brock Purdy’s looming payday (paywall)
“York commiserated with Collinsworth on Monday night during a party at the NFL owners’ meetings.
“I used to dig him a little bit when he would have a negative 49ers tone,” York said. “It’s like, ‘I get it: ‘You lost to Joe Montana twice.’ (I told him) ‘I have a much better understanding of how you feel today.’ They had great teams, but they didn’t get over the hump.”
“York said observing the problems other NFL families have experienced with their succession plans inspired his family to avoid the possibility that the reading of a will would determine the future ownership of the franchise.
“We thought it was a better process to transition into it smoothly,” York said. “Being a very close family, I don’t ever anticipate any problems with my family. But it’s an easier, smoother transition to make sure that this team stays in our family.”
How one motion play swept through the NFL in 2023: ‘Everybody is copying it’ (paywall)
“At the end of the 2023 season, some version of the short out motion was in the playbooks of most, if not all, teams that frequently utilized pre-snap motion. “We call it ‘cheat’ because it’s cheating,” Shanahan said in September. “It’s cool to get ’em running sideways, and still hit it vertically.”
In football, ideas form in one building, are borrowed by another and continue to evolve based on a team’s personnel and staff. Some concepts are solved by scheme; others are “unsolvable” because of the abilities of the players who run them. With the help of technology and a generation of coaches and players driven toward innovation, that cycle happens faster than ever.
Hill’s speed brought Miami’s version of “cheat” to life. He could run any type of route out of it, including the in-breakers that capitalized on recently vacated space in the middle of the field.
Nobody else had Hill, but everybody else wanted to see if they could apply the motion, and variations of it, to players with different skill sets. Even players without elite speed could get open off the line of scrimmage when running this short out motion because it can open up space behind another offensive player — a “rub” — nearly simultaneously with the snap.”
Shanahan appreciates Staley’s immediate impact in new 49ers role
“Nick is going to call the plays,” Shanahan said. “Nick will be a huge part of the...
