{"id":77756,"date":"2025-05-25T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T11:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/77756\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T11:43:12","slug":"49ers-news-one-last-long-weekend-before-otas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/77756\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers News: One last long weekend before OTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

How the 49ers fell for loud, proud and fierce rookie cornerback Upton Stout (paywall)<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHe viewed Stout as peerless when it came to a category the 49ers term \u201cGame WIT.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s essentially evaluating game demeanor, aggressiveness, mentality and strain,\u201d Ahmad said. \u201cWarren gave Upton the highest \u2018Game WIT\u2019 grade he\u2019s ever given a prospect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stout was also in a class of his own when it came to his reaction after he was drafted, with general manager John Lynch terming it the most memorable post-pick phone call of his nine-season tenure. During an 89-second conversation that also included head coach Kyle Shanahan and owner Jed York, Stout said \u201cLet\u2019s do it\u201d nine times, called York \u201cCoach\u201d in his excitement and assured Shanahan that the 49ers had just drafted a \u201cdawg.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stout\u2019s energy was infectious. Near the end, Lynch had the draft room yell \u201cLet\u2019s do it!\u201d on a count of three.\u201d<\/p>\n

49ers QB Purdy shares key area of improvement entering 2025 NFL season<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cJust going back and watching last year\u2019s film, it\u2019s like, \u2018How can I just get back to being on top of my assignment and show really good fundamentals on film?\u2019 I think last year there were times where I was going through my reads and plays and stuff where I could have just been quicker,\u201d Purdy told Mark Willard and Dan Dibley. \u201cGetting my eyes across the field and progressing quickly, trusting the pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI went back and watched my rookie tape, and on my rookie tape, I got thrown in and all I knew was what the coaches told me and I was a machine that way. There was some good stuff last year too, but I feel like I can get back to those kind of fundamentals. I\u2019m on myself pretty hard. Coach Mick Lombardi, Klay Kubiak, they\u2019re on me right now out in the field pushing me.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I\u2019m excited about that and I just got to go out and apply it every day in training camp and obviously in the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two former Seahawks stars challenged each other. They show how relationships really grow (paywall) <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe power of building a relationship with somebody. You talk about leading and guiding people, but Bobby is good at connecting with people. I don\u2019t think there was a person in the locker room that he didn\u2019t vibe with. Spending time with people, hanging out, shooting the s\u2014. He was good at that.<\/p>\n

And something that I want to get better at: being honest. I like to sugarcoat a lot. I like to take people\u2019s feelings into account. But Bobby was like: \u201cHey, shoot it to me straight.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s crazy because (49ers assistant head coach) Gus Bradley came to my office today, and I said I want to get better at that. What I try to do is protect people\u2019s feelings, but you realize the ultimate goal is for people to get better. So if you lie to them and bulls\u2014 them, that\u2019s just as damaging. I think Bobby was good at telling the truth and having emotional intelligence with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How the 49ers fell for loud, proud and fierce rookie cornerback Upton Stout (paywall) \u201cHe viewed Stout as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,6421,3663,1131,7,29,1319,3782,28,88,6,1136,3731,8405,1161,252,1137,2624,2623,1550],"class_list":{"0":"post-77756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-before","10":"tag-category-daily-links","11":"tag-ers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-front-page","14":"tag-last","15":"tag-long","16":"tag-nation","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-niners","20":"tag-one","21":"tag-otas","22":"tag-san-francisco","23":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","24":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","25":"tag-sanfrancisco","26":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","27":"tag-weekend"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114568298900780799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}