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00:00Third and 18, three receivers.
00:02Russell Gage, the third receiver.
00:04There's Pearsall for the first down.
00:07What a dime from Brock Purdy on an absolute rope to Ricky Pearsall
00:12with the pocket closing around him from the outside.
00:15Just perfect timing, sets his feet.
00:18Now, back to Dillard and Wibbs on 95.7 The Game.
00:23That's on KPIX, Guy and Tim, Purdy to Pearsall.
00:30A little ring to it, don't you think?
00:31Really nice ring to it.
00:33When they go 7 yards, 14 yards, and on that one, third and 18,
00:38you got 21-21.
00:39And just kept those chains moving.
00:41Would have liked to see him get into the end zone, but maybe next time.
00:46Last year they were 14th in the red zone.
00:49The year before, number one.
00:51So there's that.
00:52I mean, they weren't terrible last year, but you've got to be better than that,
00:55especially if your kicker is not making all the kicks.
00:58Just remember, best 6-11 team of all time.
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01:45Maybe I'm making something up here.
01:48I feel like people are very, very hesitant with regard to the idea of Ricky
01:54Pearsall being the dude.
01:56And I get it.
01:58He's only played a handful of football games in the NFL, and he had a very,
02:02very bumpy start to his career.
02:04The guy got shot for crying out loud.
02:06But I don't know.
02:08What do you usually think of a round one wide receiver in year two?
02:13I'm like, dude, go time.
02:17Go time, especially when your other round one highly paid wide receiver is probably
02:24going to miss half of the season.
02:26Like, this is completely Ricky's year.
02:30So, there's some sort of just standby opinion that I keep hearing, which is that
02:36because of what last year looked like, Jawan Jennings is your number one.
02:41And someone called earlier and was like, you guys are coming down Jawan's road.
02:45Not even a little bit.
02:47I love the player.
02:49I love Jawan Jennings.
02:50Everything he stands for.
02:52I think he's fantastic.
02:54And a very key member of this offense.
02:57But he's not your one.
02:58He's not your one.
02:59He's not supposed to be.
03:01Your round one is supposed to be your one.
03:04In a normal offense, yes.
03:06And I don't want to get into positions and who's number one and who's number wherever,
03:10but I think that Kittle is still, when you need third and five, it's going to be Kittle.
03:15I'm talking wide receivers.
03:16I'm totally with you.
03:17I'm talking wide receivers.
03:17So, for me, this conversation, when it comes to the Shanahan offense, is a little bit misplaced
03:24just because you're one.
03:27For example, I'm looking at his draft class and Malik Nabors for the Giants, he's their one.
03:32He had 109 catches.
03:34And that's what they did in their offense.
03:36And their offense wasn't very good.
03:37Their team wasn't very good.
03:38And you go all the way through the draft and all those guys who were taken ahead of him,
03:43they are the one on that team because the team doesn't have a lot of other options.
03:48And so, is it Pearsall?
03:49Is it Jennings?
03:51My answer is yes.
03:52And I think about two years ago, the target distribution among McCaffrey, Deboe, Iuke,
03:59and Kittle, and it was damn near dead even.
04:02And I do think that when it comes to the Shanahan offense, that's what he wants.
04:06So, is Ricky Pearsall going to lead the receiving core in catches and yards?
04:11You already said 1,000 yards.
04:12And, you know, I think you're probably going to be right.
04:15If he's healthy, that is 60 yards a game.
04:19He can get 60 yards a game.
04:20He's going to get a lot of chances.
04:22But I also believe that Shanahan's going to want to have a lot of Jennings,
04:26a lot of Iuke when he's healthy, a ton of Kittle, McCaffrey out of the backfield,
04:30and all the rest of it.
04:31No, no doubt about that.
04:32It'll get spread out.
04:33I'm not saying that he's going for 1,500 yards.
04:36But I love that you brought up Nabors.
04:38You want me to read?
04:39Like, again, just go through this exercise so that you can get a feel for who we're talking about here.
04:47Okay?
04:48These are the wide receivers last year that went ahead of Ricky in the draft.
04:52Okay?
04:52Just wide receivers.
04:54The first one off of the board was the fourth pick in the draft, Marvin Harrison Jr.
05:00Then you mentioned Nabors.
05:01He was the sixth pick.
05:03Roma Dunze in Chicago went ninth.
05:05And then there was a run away from the wide receiver position until the 23rd pick, Brian Thomas Jr.,
05:13who is an absolute stud in Jacksonville.
05:17After that, you get Xavier Worthy in Kansas City and Ricky.
05:22That's his first-round class.
05:25Yes, there was another first-rounder with the last pick in the first by Carolina,
05:29and that was Xavier Leggett.
05:31And he had an interesting rookie year.
05:34He did some nice things.
05:35These are the guys we're talking about here.
05:38This is not just some dude.
05:41And I don't care that some draft Nick was like,
05:44all right, yeah, he probably should have been a second rounder,
05:46probably maybe about 10 picks later.
05:48He's probably what, like, shut up.
05:50Whatever.
05:51This is a very uber-talented wide receiver
05:56who also appears to have chemistry with his quarterback
06:00and seems to be a nice fit in the offense.
06:04We know the story.
06:05He got shot.
06:06There's been a couple of hamstring things in the offseason.
06:09But once he played football last year, he played and stayed.
06:12And once he got back off the pup list in this camp, he has played and stayed.
06:17So fingers crossed.
06:19But I don't know.
06:21Like, I feel like this guy was picked to be this guy,
06:24not to be Jawan Jennings' other guy when he's not open.
06:28Right, and that's why Brandon Ayuk was picked when he was a rookie.
06:31And he has, I think, the second highest rookie receiving yardage total in franchise history.
06:37Jerry Rice, don't know if you've heard of him.
06:39Heard of him.
06:39No rookie for the Niners has ever had a 1,000-yard receiving season.
06:43Even Jerry was just short of 1,000.
06:46But you took Brandon for that same reason.
06:49You took him so he could come in and be a real weapon, a real threat in that rookie year.
06:53And he was.
06:54And I think Ricky would have had a much bigger year
06:57if it wasn't for the fact that he got shot
07:00and he had to fight his way back from that.
07:03And still 31 catches and three touchdowns.
07:06And most of that came in, like, four games at the tail end of the year
07:10where he had, you know, the last three or four games.
07:12He was great.
07:12So I do think that people are, the one concern is him staying healthy
07:17because two camps in a row he's had those little nagging injuries.
07:21I think that's where the majority of the doubt lies.
07:24Yeah, and I mean, I guess that's fair.
07:26But then again, I'd like to find the name of the 49er player
07:31that when you encompass an entire season and two camps around it,
07:34who didn't get hurt?
07:36Who didn't?
07:38I mean, like, I don't know, man.
07:40For me, it's always, I want to see a guy consistently play
07:45a week-in and week-out stretch in the NFL
07:48and show that you can make your way through that.
07:50And he did that.
07:51I understand that he wasn't being very relied upon.
07:54He wasn't at a full complement of snaps.
07:57So maybe that helped.
07:58But once Ricky got going in the NFL season last year
08:01after coming back from being shot,
08:03which still, I still can't say that without you going, good Lord.
08:08Right?
08:08But he played.
08:09He played.
08:09He stayed.
08:10He did not.
08:11Like the rigors of the hits that you take through those games,
08:14his body was able to handle it.
08:16So I find that to be a very, very good sign.
08:19Absolutely.
08:20And you look around the other parts of that draft,
08:24including just after him, Ladd McConkie.
08:26Yep.
08:2782 catches and seven touchdowns.
08:30Keon Coleman was the first pick of the second round,
08:32and he's expected to be Buffalo's one this year.
08:34He only had 29 catches last year in 13 games
08:38because they had other options, other weapons.
08:41But you had a lot of guys who, as you were mentioning,
08:44you get drafted, you're the one, you have a big year.
08:47The only caveat to me is a lot of those teams are the bad teams.
08:52You mentioned Xavier Leggett, and Carolina's not very good.
08:55And Malik Nabors and the Giants, they're not very good.
08:59So a lot of the rookies that did go out there and pop
09:02and have big years as receivers, Brian Thomas, Jacksonville,
09:06they weren't very good.
09:08So Ricky's going to suffer a little bit from,
09:11I think the Niners are going to be better than those teams,
09:13and the Niners have other weapons,
09:16and then they also won't throw it as much as other teams.
09:18Yeah, they run the ball more.
09:20Although worthy, Xavier Worthy, again,
09:23and maybe this mimics it a little bit,
09:26he goes to a really, really good team,
09:28and he did not sparkle with numbers,
09:30and I think this is kind of what you're getting at.
09:32They have a tight end that they throw to a lot.
09:35They have some other receivers.
09:36They do this, that, the other.
09:38Xavier feels a little bit more like a,
09:40I don't want to call him a gadget player,
09:42but he's a certain type of receiver.
09:44But they welcomed him right in,
09:47and they used him to their advantage very quickly,
09:49and he popped and showed,
09:52and I'm more bringing up those names
09:55so that everybody listening to us,
09:58at least in my opinion,
10:00you can get a sense of the talent level
10:03that we're talking about.
10:05That's the other thing about Ricky.
10:06You look at him, and you're just like,
10:09he doesn't look like Malik Neighbors.
10:11He's not that kind of a physical presence.
10:14So maybe you look at him,
10:15and you're just like,
10:16oh yeah, you know,
10:17a nice slot receiver there,
10:18make a play here or there.
10:20Those are the names that Ricky was drafted with.
10:24And I think that they are all,
10:26from a raw talent perspective,
10:28you're talking about a wonderful group
10:30that came out of the first 40 picks
10:34of the draft last year.
10:35Yeah, and I do think that's part of the hesitation,
10:37is he doesn't have the Xavier-worthy speed,
10:40and he doesn't have Brian Thomas' 6'2", 215 frame.
10:45Ricky is, he's not big,
10:47he's not the fastest,
10:49he's just really precise at his route running,
10:52and he's a professional grade receiver,
10:54but when you look at Xavier-worthy,
10:57it's like, oh my goodness, he's so fast,
10:59and Ricky Pearsall's just solid.
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