Welcome to this week's edition of the Better Rivals podcast.

My name is Oscar Oparicio, and this week, the 49ers head to their home away from home as they go on the road to face the Arizona Cardinals.

Trey Lanes may be getting his first start as Jimmy Garoppolo did not practice today, Thursday,

and joining me this week to detail the proper way to extract peak performance from his calves.

It's David Newman.

I would start by not getting them stepped on.

That would probably be like the first point. Caves are a problem. I mean, you've got George Kittle, calf strain, K1 Williams, calf strain.

You've got Jimmy Garoppel, calf step on strain, contusion thing. Midgeig. Maybe, you know, all I know is that a know is that a lot of guys go in the weight room and they don't work on

their calves and they just look like potatoes on toothpicks.

And maybe the Niners need to add a bit more of this calf regimen in to what they're working

on is all I'm saying.

Because this is, you know, three is a trend.

Jots at the the strength staff here

unexpected shots um saying that uh we're only doing half a leg day basically leg day is not full leg day

it's it's the upper leg day I mean look man it's weird and it's weird. And I get it. Sometimes freak shit just happens.

Like, you know, my IT band just decides that it doesn't want to function correctly anymore.

And can't run.

Can't run.

Got to take a few days off, you know?

Like, it's done.

But just join us for our next project.

Dad's figuring it out.

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