What is good, everybody?

Welcome to another Gold Standard podcast.

I'm Rob Stats Guerrera alongside Michelle Madhue.

We are part of the pro football insiders.

What's up, Michelle?

Hey, hey, it's a beautiful Friday. Have have my mimosa. Sun is out. Life is good. There you go. I was thinking of you because my family and I always go out to brunch for Easter. We do Easter brunch. We go to basically the same spot every year and they have free mimosas. So every time we go to this thing, I usually text you a picture from the brunch with the mamosa. Yeah, when's Easter? I don't know. Okay. But why were you thinking of me? Because we booked, we had to buy the tickets. Okay, okay. That makes a lot more sense. You need context, you know? You had to add that part. I apologize. I was like, did I miss Easter? I'm so confused. We got a lot to talk about on today's show. You had a great idea yesterday that you texted me about three young players that have to step up for the 49ers. We'll each have our list. We have not talked about this ahead of time. So we may have

some repeats, which I think is fine. Plus, we'll talk about the bracket for this year and I have a

special announcement on the show as well. Let's dive right into it, Michelle, three young players

that have to step up. This was your idea. So you have the honors. Who did you go with number one? And I think we're

going to have the exact same person. Is it Ricky Pearsall? It's Ricky Pearson. You got to go with

him because I like the additions they made this year. I like them adding Mike Evans. But again,

he's what? He's going to be 33 years old. If he's not already, I can't remember.

And he's coming off a couple seasons where he's dealt with injuries, right?

So it cannot depend on him being the dominant Mike Evans he has been throughout most of his career.

And I like the Christian Kirk signing.

I think adding a veteran in, a veteran slot, like obviously you would love Jacob Cowing or one of

the young guys to beat out Christian Kirk.

But I like the depth there.

And I think Christian Kirk still is a solid player.

He never was above average where he should have been paid what he was paid from Jacksonville,

a handful of years ago.

But I like what they done, but Ricky

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