Hey there, I'm Stephen Dubner, and this is a Freakinomics Radio Extra, our full,

lightly edited interviews with four members of the San Francisco 49ers' offense.

Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, offensive lineman Joe Staley and Mike McClinchy,

and fullback Kyle Yuschik. We interviewed them for our episode number 350,

which tells the story of the 49ers' attempt to reverse their fortunes after a few dreadful

years. It's part of our special series called The Hidden Side of Sports. This is one of several

interviews with 49ers' executives, players, and other football personnel that you can hear in

their entirety exclusively, right here on Stitcher Premium. This interview, likely others,

took place in May during the team's first couple days of preseason practice, or what are called

OTAs, organized team activities. We'll start with Jimmy Garoppolo, the quarterback who joined the

team midseason last year, as they were on their way to losing their first nine games, and who took

over and helped the Niners win their last five games. And was duly rewarded with a five-year,

137.5 million dollar contract. Hope you enjoy.

Hey, Stephen Doverner, nice to meet you. Yeah, congrats on everything.

Yeah, you're welcome. It's exciting going on. Yeah, our day's going great. Yeah, really fun.

How's yours? Uh, busy. Yeah, it's good. First practice. Was OTA significantly different from

everything else you've been doing here? It was just exciting to get back out there, really.

Yeah. And being a quarterback, running and lifting, it's important, but the practice is,

you know, it's awesome getting out there with the guys and everything. I bet.

Yeah, what would you spend your off-season doing mostly? Conditioning, etc.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, just your normal working out. Were you here?

I was here initially. Went to Chicago for a little bit.

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