Good morning. Welcome to 49ers in 5, your daily update on everything happening with the team that you need to know.

I'm Rob Stats Guerrera. Today's Friday, May 26, 2023. Here's what's happening with your San Francisco 49ers.

There's something strange about the Trey Lance and Jeff Christensen relationship.

Let's start at the beginning.

At the end of January, Matt Barrow specifically asked Trey Lance if he would work on his throwing motion this offseason.

Lance said no, and that he felt like, quote,

he was in a really good spot with his mechanics. So fast forward to this offseason where

Trey has been working with Jeff Christensen and Patrick Mahomes and made, quote, substantial

jumps, according to Matt Barrow's article in The Athletic in retooling his throwing motion.

So what changed?

And how did it happen?

Now that in and of itself isn't necessarily earth-shattering.

Lance could have changed his mind or whatever.

But then Matt Barrels was a guest on Larry Kruger's YouTube show and said that Christensen

wouldn't disclose whether the team asked him to work with Lance or whether

Trey approached him on his own. Why would Christensen decline to answer that question? No one looks bad

either way, so why not just answer, right? If Lance approached him, okay, fine, Tray looks good for

working hard. If the team approached Christensen,

they look good for finding a quarterback coach that hopefully worked and helped Trey out. And by the way,

Trey looks good for going along with it. So that's really weird that he would just decline to

answer because who are you protecting in that instance? And then there's this. When Lance was asked this week about arm fatigue, which just seems to have come up again and

again and again, here's what he said.

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