49ers owner Jed York, who was in Australia but did not attend his team’ regular-season opener, also will miss Sunday’s home opener in San Francisco vs. the Dolphins, per sources. York is said to be staying away from the team so as not to create a distraction while the NFL is expected to make a decision on any potential discipline for him “soon”, per a source.
🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for.
That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations.
So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."
#49ers TE Jake Tonges was fined $9,266 for an attempted “a leg-whip block” on Rams DE Myles Garrett, per @MaioccoNBCS
This was the play Jake Tonges sustained his season-ending knee injury on
That Rick Gosselin, the most conscientious and well-researched member of the @ProFootballHOF selection committee I saw in my 32 years as a voter, has been removed from the voting group gives me doubts about the future of the Hall. It’s outrageous.
Here's an example of what I have talked about on my channel and with @StatsOnFire on the @GSN49ers You see the same play, from 3 different presentations. 2 from shotgun, 1 under center. 2 with a single back in the backfield, one without. 1 is an under-center 7-step drop, the others are shotgun drops. 3 different formations, 2 different drops, different personnel - same play. This is the essence of what makes Shanahan's offense so hard to know what's coming.
Want a perfect example of how passing numbers are different from what they used to be?
Kirk Cousins now has more career touchdown passes than John Elway.
It's ridiculous that @MaioccoNBCS (and others) lost their hall of fame vote. Matt has covered the 49ers for decades and has great historical perspective that a voter on the game's highest honor should absolutely have.
I just want to take the moment to send a prayer to my good friend and legend Greg Papa. Love you man let’s fight this thing! I’m always in your corner!
Some info for context:
▪️PFF no longer controls the grades they're selling. Teamworks owns/controls those. PFF just licenses them to keep selling them to you.
▪️Neither of these guys has graded a game or really fully understands the PFF grading system. Most of the people who do don't work there anymore. They don't have anyone left who can explain the grades publicly. "Triple negative" ?
▪️The biggest problem with the grades remains, imo, the translation to the 0-100 scale. It warps the raw grade to try to manipulate it onto a closed scale because some people believed that accessibility was more important than accuracy. Guess who pushed that.
▪️As a former PFF grader, I also disagree with the raw grade in this case, especially on the 2 biggest plays (The negated INT and the Kmet TD.) 'Fix' those 2 grades and you get a lot closer to consensus opinion.