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CMC should be the new Bettis.

Not smaller. Bigger. Bettis got the leftovers in Pittsburgh. McCaffrey should get the leverage. The goal line, third down, and every gotta-have-it snap, while Kaelon Black takes the early-down abuse.

The new Take: https://t.co/esKHzHPxrp
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The film guys saw Kaelon Black's patience coming before the box score did.
Shout-out to @SulligentHUB and Jonny Del's Football Academy for the preseason film work, and to the Thursday film breakdowns with @StatsOnFire on the @GSN49ers network. Both get their due in the new Take: https://t.co/esKHzHOZBR
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Count the touches, not the carries.
Through nine seasons each:
Bettis: 2,856 touches, 56 TDs
McCaffrey: 2,284 touches, 98 TDs
Less of the load. Nearly double the scoring. That is the workload case for the new Bettis, in the new Take: https://t.co/2lL8tckGIJ
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@betty_egg Novels or 90s Movies?

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@Michael_Fabiano @BrianThomas_11 I’m sure the did a couple weeks ago.

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The early window is not the problem. The 49ers are 13-3 in it since 2019 and 6-1 with Purdy. Lose tomorrow and 25 years becomes 29 in a hurry, because the rotation will not bring them back to Atlanta for a long time.
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The 49ers have won in Atlanta once in 25 years, and it was not a regular-season game. January 2013, NFC Championship, down 17-0, the biggest comeback in a conference title game, sealed by Bowman at the 10 with 73 seconds left. Tomorrow they try to do it the ordinary way.

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@betty_egg I think it’s Hateful 8 by a country mile. But Tarantino makes it tough because all of his films are really good if not great.

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@sportslarryk Did you find out about the backstory on BJT?

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@dieter The other thing, that was a false positive COVID test game where Trent et al were forced to sit last minute.

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@dieter So, desperate fantasy teams, fire him up!

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@NFLFrascella The call feels discretionary in the NFL too.

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@grantcohn He’s turning into the new Jerome Bettis.

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@JasonAponte2103 It’s just odd and odd things are easier to write about.

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The SFGate sequence, in his words. Oct 15 at 5 PM. 'No one contacted me.' The next afternoon, Oct 16, he updated it. 'They contacted me. I have no comment.' Cohn is the primary source for his own communications. Lombardi's comment, then and now, is silence.
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One man treats silence as a weapon. The other treats chaos as a business model. Lombardi has fought a national analyst twice in two weeks. He never said Grant Cohn's name once. Cohn narrates everything, including his own press coverage.
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@FoN9ne I wish and we can hope! I feel like news on this front will come out after the Falcons game.

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The full Week 7 injury bill, one graphic. 110 player-games lost to 74. $16.8M of cap gone to $9.2M. And 15.8 percent of every game's payroll lost to injury, against 8.7.
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