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My twitter is mainly about #running - #trail, #ultras, #crosscountry, #49ers, #NFL, #health, #PhysEd (teacher).

[Coach Yac 🗣 @Coach_Yac]

Richard Sherman does a great breakdown of the 49ers and Brandon Aiyuk situation:

• The issues for BA started during the Super Bowl loss against the Chiefs in 2023

• The resentment BA had from the SB loss, trade rumors & whatever else was bothering him at the time should have been flushed before signing the extension or he should have agreed to be traded during that time

• Once the agreement was signed BA needed to buy back in

• Sherman believes once BA is reinstated, the 49ers will likely release him at that point

• Sherman doesn’t believe the 49ers did anything horribly wrong. Says the 49ers did not disrespect BA

• Sherman disagrees with LeSean McCoy’s comments about players need to fight ownerships like BA did. “They paid him $30M to catch the football. If you get paid for the services, you have to provide the services. You don’t just get to get paid and say 'na I’m not gonna play wide receiver'.”

• “You don’t get to get paid and say I’m not gonna rehab with the team, which is fine, you can choose to not rehab with the team, many players have done it, but if you do that, you have to show up 4 days earlier than everyone else (it’s protocol) because the team that invested $30M a year in you wants to evaluate you and see how your rehab is going. They want to do MRI’s, they want to do testing and they want to do it at a time when there’s not 90 other players there. So they can focus on you.”

It’s a long clip, but I strongly recommend listening to it

🎥: @RSherman_25

[Coach Yac 🗣 @Coach_Yac]

Mac Jones speaks on hearing trade rumors:

“I love John. I love Kyle. The York family. It’s the best organization I feel that I played for in terms of just top to bottom greatness so far and I don’t like leaving good people. I hope they enjoy having me and I’m excited for this year to be honest.

The trade deadline is not until a little bit through the season. I try not to keep up with it and really want to just keep getting better. I played decent last year and I think I can play a lot better, which is what I’m striving to do this summer and see if I can improve on my technique and see if that helps elevate me to get a big deal in the future. I always say be where your feet are and my feet are in San Francisco and I like it a lot.”

🎥: @RichEisenShow

[Ian Rapoport @RapSheet]

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[Coach Yac 🗣 @Coach_Yac]

Jarvis Landry is concerned about Brandon Aiyuk:

“Man, somebody needs to get that phone from him… Where I see him at today, based on where I saw him 2 years ago, it’s not the same Brandon that I know. It’s not the same player, not the same man that I respected for how he played the game. How he showed up for his teammates. Some people say any publicity is good publicity, but I feel like as an organization, if I’m even considering bringing a guy like Brandon Aiyuk in, and I see the type of posts that he’s been posting, I don’t really know if he really even wants to play football like that. I don’t really know if I want to bring someone like that into my organization. You’re a veteran in the league at this point. You’re a leader when you walk into a locker room.

I don’t know who’s around him, if guys are around him that watch our show, that watch us talk dearly about football, about life, about faith, even the mental side of things, I think they should hear this and call this man. Teammates, former teammates, call this guy and Brandon, if you’re watching this show, please DM me, bro.”

🎥: @4thAndSouthPod

[Adam Ryan 🤝 @AdamRy_n]

Aldon Smith passed away this weekend. Most people are talking about his incredible ability, potential, and performance as a football player.

Even though that is all true. He was so much more than that. He was a great friend and his kindness changed my life forever.

I met Aldon our freshman year at Mizzou. He was redshirted and relatively unknown as an athlete. His giveaway was the biggest hands you'll ever see and his ability to dunk at 250lbs, but his size in many ways didn't match his personality. He was relatively quiet and in most scenarios would try to shrink into the room vs stand out in it.

Over the course of the next year, we became close. We were very different people, from different places, but we both connected on the feeling of being a bit lost in the beginnings of adulthood. That year, I never really thought about him as a football player. He was just this gentle giant who loved to play video games and talk about life.

His sophmore year he broke the single season sack record at Mizzou, became an All American, and his life changed forever.

He became a celebrity on campus. He became a household name in Missouri. He became a top NFL draft prospect.

I remember how crazy his life became, and how quickly. ESPN doing interviews. Fancy cars being "loaned" to him. And people everywhere inserting themselves into his life.

Despite the craziness, my friend was always a text away.

My junior of college, I decided to take my first stab at entrepreneurship. I wanted to launch a chapter of Camp Kesem.

Kesem is a summer camp for children whose parents have been affected by cancer. The camp would be totally free and be a chance for a kid to experience the magic of being a kid again. As a son of a breast cancer survivor the idea of being able to create this camp in Missouri meant the world to me.

The Livestrong Foundation was hosting a nation wide contest to win $10,000 as seed capital to get started. To win, you had to have the most votes.

I tried really freaking hard to win that competition. I was going up against some really influential people at huge schools. As a somewhat awkward kid in Columbia, MO I had no chance.

So I asked my friend Aldon for a favor. I asked him if he would help me out and promote the link to vote.

He did more than just posting about Kesem on Facebook, skyrocketing us into the top place in the country. He kept supporting me the next 3 years while I was working on building Kesem.

He showed up to have fun with the kids. He helped me fundraise. He helped me get Kesem to become an official organization sponsored by the NFLPA so he could publicly endorse us as as a player.

Since then Torry Holt, Larry Fitzegerald, and many others have supported Kesem. But Aldon was the first.

Kesem led me to move to Austin to work for the Livestrong Foundation. Kesem is how I met my wife. Kesem gave me the confidence to start Workweek and continue the path of building something from scratch.

But in reality, Aldon enabled all those things.

Throughout the years we had many amazing memories together. Having my wife and I vacation to his house in San Jose. Going to New Orleans for the Super Bowl and seeing his entire family make the trip. Meeting his son and watching him be a dad. The hilarious night we met Derek Jeter. Having the most intellectual conversations about life while playing Call of Duty.

I also saw him struggle. There's no doubt he was a complicated person. Truthfully, I don't know if he ever really figured out who he wanted to be. I know just because your'e 6'4, 250lbs, and get 5.5 sacks in a single NFL game doesn't necessarily mean you want to be a football player. No matter the reasons, he made many bad decisions in his life. Some of those mistakes made it hard for me to stay as close as we'd once been.

One day, not too long ago, I just decided to text him. It had been years since we really chatted. I just wanted to say thank you for all that he had done for me and that I was sorry I wasn't there for him more through his struggles. We FaceTimed after that, and it was like the old days all over again.

Aldon was more than the headlines, the mistakes. He was a generous, gentle soul, a kid at heart, someone who was endlessly curious about life... all in the body of a world class NFL player, bearing the weight of professional pressure and personal circumstances that most of us can't even imagine.

People are complex. People who make bad decisions can also do great things. A person can be hated by almost everyone and, yet, there are people in that person's life who still love them deeply.

I learned many of these lesson due to Aldon, and I'll carry them with me forever.

Rest in peace, Aldon. You won't be forgotten.

[Coach Yac 🗣 @Coach_Yac]

Aldon Smith’s friend, Amir, talks about Aldon’s final hours:

“Amir Shirazi walked out of his Los Gatos house Saturday morning and found his massive friend Aldon Smith, slumped over in the front passenger seat of his white Chevy pickup. He thought Smith was asleep, his mouth open, his 6-foot-4 frame slightly twitching. Shirazi said he quickly knew something was wrong. He thought it was possibly a seizure, and then maybe a massive heart attack. Shortly before noon, Shirazi told the Chronicle in an exclusive interview, he called 911 and summoned former 49ers running back Anthony Dixon to the scene to assist him in CPR. Less than an hour later, Smith would be declared dead at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose. His cause and manner of death are pending, according to Santa Clara County’s chief medical examiner. He was 36 years old.

On Saturday, Shirazi picked up Smith and the pair delivered 10 Little Caesars pizzas to Scott Wagers, the co-founder of CHAM Deliverance Ministry, a local charity that feeds the homeless. Wagers, who had never met Smith, had no idea the former NFL star would be there and was excited. Smith wore a throwback New York Knicks jersey (Willis Reed’s No. 19), blue shorts and a pair of Air Jordan shoes, posing for a few photos for Wagers. But Wagers sensed something may have been off that morning, he told the Chronicle. “He got out of the car and he looked maybe kind of tired,” Wagers said, “but he’s a giant man. I’m like, 'Hey man, are you good? Are you good?' and I said, 'Can I take some pictures?' So we took some pictures, we got the pizzas with my team, and we went and took all the pizza out there.”

The pair left and Shirazi drove them to a grocery store, his gas station Moe’s Stop in San Jose and then his house in Los Gatos.
“We were joking about life and talking about stuff right before,” Shirazi said of the drive.
At the house, Shirazi ran inside to turn on some lights and returned to his pickup to find Smith slumped over. “He was perfectly fine an hour before,” Shirazi said. “I came out and he was basically dead in my front seat,” he said. “I’m just in shock.”

Paramedics took Smith to Good Samaritan Hospital where he was declared dead at 12:46 p.m., according to Michelle Jorden, the county’s chief medical examiner. “The Office of the Medical Examiner is confirming the death of 36-year-old Aldon Jacarus Ramon Smith, who died today June 13, 2026,” Jorden wrote in a statement. “The Medical Examiner is investigating his death, and no further information is available at this time. The cause and manner of death are pending.”

via: @_noahfurtado | @mgafni

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[San Francisco 49ers @49ers]

The 49ers mourn the passing of former LB Aldon Smith.

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[Kappner @Kapspace]

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[Coach Yac 🗣 @Coach_Yac]

Brandon Aiyuk’s message on IG

“You want to know why they really mad though? They mad because they stupid. They dumb. They mad they paid me $50 million in 8 months and then voided my guarantees for 2027. I’m about to be on a new team in 2027. They mad at themselves for real. Stupid ass mad at themselves.”

[Kappner @Kapspace]

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[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

Your doctor says your bloodwork is "normal" but that word has probably cost more years of healthy life than any disease.

Normal doesn't mean optimal.

Here are 8 blood markers that predict your future better than your waistline (most doctors don't track #2):

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.

Almost nobody understood what he said.

Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.”

Not tech startups.

The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.

The businesses that actually run the physical economy.

They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.

Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.”

Software is dead.

The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.

AI ends the contract.

The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.

But customized by whom.

The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.

Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?”

That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.

Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.

Let them fight.

Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.

Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.

It collects where the brain meets the business.

Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.

Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.

Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.

Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.

That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.

You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.

The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.

33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.

Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.

[OurSF49ers @OurSf49ers]

Ian Williams kept it 💯

[Kappner @Kapspace]

@Coach_Yac Different

[Kappner @Kapspace]

Goodness. It’ll be interesting to see how this all works out

[Coach Yac 🗣 @Coach_Yac]

Brandon Aiyuk breaks his silence on IG

More clown behavior from BA

[Ian Rapoport @RapSheet]

The #Rams and star edge Myles Garrett did not agree on a new deal. Instead, they did rework his contract that pays him $204M over 5 years – essentially what he was making. The average per year and term remain the same as his deal was in Cleveland.

The alteration allowed the Rams to onboard Myles and his record setting deal, moving the vesting date of his guarantees back a few months.

[Kappner @Kapspace]

@tim_roozendaal Not efficient, turnover needs work, need to work on general strength-upper body, hips, core. Things I know what to do and probably that I’m aware of 😜

[Kappner @Kapspace]

🤔 I probably need to get looked at to figure out how to help my running

[Tim Roozendaal @tim_roozendaal]

Stacy came to me with a few running pains.

Mainly tendinitis in her toes and left knee pain.

But the more we talked, the clearer it got: the pain wasn't really the problem.

Her training was.

🧵 Here's what we found:

[Kappner @Kapspace]

Seems like a good dude

[Coach Yac 🗣 @Coach_Yac]

Mac Jones on not being traded, as well as the pay increase he was recently given:

“Obviously, you want to have a chance to start, but I also love it here, and I’m not really in the business of leaving good people, so I’m not mad about it at all. I think it’s a great organization, and did a lot of fun stuff last year, but it’s a new year. I feel like this is the first year I have had the same offensive playbook, being in the NFL. So, that’s kind of nice. If you go to a new team, you’ve got to learn a new playbook again and kind of do everything over, so it is good…

I love the Yorks and everybody. It was good to have that gesture [$300,000 pay increase] sent my way. And for me, I want to build on it and have another good year. It’s never been really about the money for me, to be honest. I’m just glad that I’m having fun again. That’s priceless to me.”

[49ers & NFL News 24/7 @49ersSportsTalk]

BREAKING: #49ers HC Kyle Shanahan has canceled next week's mandatory minicamp, as a reward for 100-percent attendance in OTA’s.

[Jordan Schultz @Schultz_Report]

I texted Aaron Donald about coming out of retirement and playing for the Rams, alongside Myles Garrett:

“I’m for sure flirting with the idea. Helluva an opportunity with the Super Bowl in SoFi this year. If I can find the fire, it’s a possibility.”