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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the forty ninage You've Got Mail Podcasts

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Speaker 1: presented by Manscape. I am glad to be joined by

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Speaker 1: I like to call her one of my very good friends.

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Speaker 1: I actually talked about her on a podcast earlier this week,

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Speaker 1: talking about my history with the forty niners and one

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Speaker 1: of the first faces for myself to need and really

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Speaker 1: grow close to, uh covering this team. Jennifer lee Chan

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Speaker 1: from NBC Sports Bay Area. Jennifer, how are you doing

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Speaker 1: in this like weird time that we're in waiting to

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Speaker 1: hear some news but not quite yet. How is this

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Speaker 1: time of year going for you? It really is kind

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Speaker 1: of like a time of limbo, Like this season hasn't

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Speaker 1: really ended, but it ended a long time ago, but

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Speaker 1: yet the new season hasn't started yet, so we're all

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Speaker 1: just kind of hanging out waiting for it all to

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Speaker 1: get rolling. We're waiting, but we're coming up close, which

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Speaker 1: is the perfect time and why I believe you are

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Speaker 1: one of the perfect people what I have on this

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Speaker 1: specific podcast, because we're entering into the time of free

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Speaker 1: agency and you and I were talking, I feel like

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Speaker 1: you are very burst in this year's free agency. For

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Speaker 1: a number of reasons, Karen, explain what you're working on.

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Speaker 1: I just finished writing about twenty five free agents that

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Speaker 1: would fit with the Huns, ranging from steals to splurges.

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Speaker 1: Out of eight hundred guys, my task was to pick

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Speaker 1: twenty five. It was quite an ordeal. Okay, So this

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Speaker 1: is perfect because I'm gonna need a little bit of

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Speaker 1: your knowledge and your wisdom on some of these free

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Speaker 1: agents that could be potential fits with the forty niners

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Speaker 1: and how they might fit with what this team is

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Speaker 1: trying to do moving forward and some of those changes

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Speaker 1: that are coming up. But before we get into that,

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Speaker 1: it's so crazy. We're only in the month of March. Um.

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Speaker 1: Usually you and I were in the combine. We're at

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Speaker 1: the combine back in February. We're probably just now getting

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Speaker 1: back now starting to prep for free agency. Instead, there

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Speaker 1: wasn't one this year, which was extremely unfortunate. But now

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Speaker 1: as we're sitting back and we're kind of watching things unfold,

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Speaker 1: you see certain signings happening, You're seeing certain trades happen.

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Speaker 1: How would you describe this NFL offseason so far? I

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Speaker 1: guess it's kind of similar to what last season was,

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Speaker 1: other than the fact that you know, we did get

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Speaker 1: But it'll be interesting with you know, PRO Days being virtual,

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Speaker 1: We've got a list to follow each day as another school,

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Speaker 1: so it's a lot to manage. It's you know, I've

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Speaker 1: got to write everything down. I've got a whole list

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Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to be listening to. It's it's much

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Speaker 1: more challenging for the teams is that all those medicals

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Speaker 1: that get done in the combine. I think that's kind

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Speaker 1: all that information now from different PRO days different I mean, no,

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Speaker 1: interesting for teams to try and get all that information

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Speaker 1: in the draft. Yeah, just one of of the many

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Speaker 1: changes that teams are having to deal with this year

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Speaker 1: when it comes to scouting talent, and now for the combine,

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Speaker 1: not exactly what we're typically used to, but uh, it's

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Speaker 1: Just to simply put it, it's gonna look a little

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Speaker 1: what's literally, I believe just next week in free agency,

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Speaker 1: it's likely that this roster is gonna look drastically different

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Speaker 1: than they did last year. This offseason, the forty Niners

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Speaker 1: had a whopping thirty eight players with expiring contracts. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and so far they've been able to retain eleven players,

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Speaker 1: do you feel are absolutely essential to return to the

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Speaker 1: so much for Kyle jana Han's offense, and he is

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Speaker 1: as you put, you know, getting Trent back on this roster,

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Speaker 1: forty Niners third round pick a Kello Witherspoon h heading

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Speaker 1: towards free agency. What's your thoughts on a Kello and

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Speaker 1: I would say it's a hyph percentage chance that Jimmy

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Speaker 1: You're You're absolutely right. And another thing that comes to

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Speaker 1: here for multiple years. Now, just how quickly do you

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Speaker 1: these guys have a lot of respect for Jimmy. You

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Speaker 1: hear them, uh in every interview they do. Kyle you

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Speaker 1: Check is steadily defending Jimmy Garoppolo, whether he's going into

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Speaker 1: giving to this team? You know that your your franchise quarterback.

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Speaker 1: move on from Jimmy, and a lot of those variables.

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Speaker 1: I do think play a part. Culture is a big

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think, you know, the one

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Speaker 1: quarterback that I thought they might have a chance at

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Speaker 1: getting was Matt Stafford because he wouldn't be as high,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have as high of a price tag as all

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Speaker 1: the rest of the quarterbacks that are out there that

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Speaker 1: are starting caliber. But obviously that didn't happen. He went

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Speaker 1: there would just be too cost prohibitive. And like you said,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think the locker room believes in Jimmy.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, it does send a message to

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Speaker 1: the team that you know, we're going to stand by

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Speaker 1: players to believe in their franchise and believe in their

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Speaker 1: front office in that way, and standing behind Jimmy Garoppolo

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Speaker 1: one last question for you, Jennifer, and I'm gonna let

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Speaker 1: you go. You brought up Matt Stafford, so I have

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Speaker 1: to ask, what is the biggest threat to the forty

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Speaker 1: minors that has happened so far this offseason? Is it

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Speaker 1: ones and they're pretty evenly matched on different sides of

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Speaker 1: Watt and UH Nick Bosey being healthy will definitely help

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Speaker 1: with UH facing Matt Stafford, getting to him kind of,

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Speaker 1: the roster and be healthy to kind of combat those

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Speaker 1: UH opponents. But and both of those the NFC West,

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Speaker 1: you know, always looks just like the toughest division in

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Speaker 1: the league, and both those players are going to make

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Speaker 1: it even more so. I said every year, I believe

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Speaker 1: the NFC West is one of the toughest divisions in

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Speaker 1: the league. I thought I said that last year when

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Speaker 1: you saw DeAndre Hopkins coming to the Cardinals, and each

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Speaker 1: team I feel like steadily trying to top the other

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Speaker 1: team making certain acquisitions and trades. But it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: an exciting offseason, especially for the forty Niners what they

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Speaker 1: decided to do with. There are a large amount of

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Speaker 1: free agent sets the open market on March seventeen, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully we get some news soon. Reporting from uh Jennifer

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Speaker 1: lee Chan from NBC Sports Bay Area hopefully given us

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Speaker 1: some updates on what's coming down the pipeline when she

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Speaker 1: hears it. But Jennifer, appreciate having you here on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: answering some of these fan questions, given us a little

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Speaker 1: preview our free agent wi was on what's to come

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Speaker 1: up in the next couple of weeks. But it was

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Speaker 1: an absolute pleasure and thanks for joining us. Absolutely always

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Speaker 1: a pleasure talking to Kiana. Thanks for having me on