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I happen to believe it’s a sound strategy by Kyle Shahahan. I can only speak from personal experience but I have studied so many players over the past 15 years, I know what I like and I don’t like so I don’t need a huge sample size to see if I like a player or not. Tape study for me is the study of consistency and execution. How often does the player consistently execute and how does he handle a variety of situations over multiple games/years. My process is like this for someone who also doesn’t have time to sit in a cave and watch all-22 all day. I call watching a handful of plays a “traits pull”, basically getting a quick, high-level snapshot of the player. Then if I like the clips I see I watch the highlights to get a full first impression. If I like the highlights enough I dive into the all-22 to truly learn the prospect. Secondly, I’m sure the “highlights” he is getting are much more in-depth and organized than the people perceiving him watching youtube highlights. For reference of breaking down 1 all-22 game film for me, it could take me 1-2 hours because I watch 1 play multiple times frame by frame. Doing that for all 200+ propects he has to watch just does not make sense so I do believe it’s a good process and one I would actually copy if I was ever in that position

I'm watching the film “Sandlot” with our kids and just realized that the film’s version of America with baseball, public pools, county fair, block parties, etc is almost extinct.

this is like a socialist telling everyone "yes, mr. ford, a nazi, is correct actually. need to democratize access to cars! autos for the people. this is about equity!" and then taking a time machine 100 yrs into the future and looking at what cars did: create a society dependent on fossil fuels, imprisoned people in suburban hells that destroyed communities and communal politics and made people dependent on television and malls and mindless consumerism for feeling alive. i'm sure these type of socialists existed back then...

I’m pretty good with geography but I’ll be honest - I know absolutely nothing about Northern California. Had no idea Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento and Napa were all within 1.5 hours of San Francisco. Neat!

Great quote from 49ers director of scouting and football ops Josh Williams on how SF's front office self-evaluates: “We assess it based on our board and our standards. We don’t really care as much about what the mocks say. Because the mocks don’t necessarily talk about the 4th-, 5th-, 6th-round players — the George Kittles, the Dre Greenlaws, those type of players that we valued in the building."