A team that always, they always compete, even with the injuries last year.

I think they went 13 and 4.

I mean, I feel like they were one piece away, and I think that I'm that piece.

And I look forward to coming here and improving that.

Mike Evans in his introductory session with reporters, now that he is officially a member of the San Francisco 49ers.

He's another player who has changed and grown dramatically in his level of comfort in talking to the media.

I remember interviewing him the day he was drafted.

And I remember some of his

interviews early in his career. He did a thing on the Jim Rome show at one point. And I remember

Rome kind of put him on blast afterward. And I criticized Rome and coincidentally, I've never heard

from Jim Rome again. But it's on the interviewer to draw something out of the subject.

And if they're giving you very short answers, you got to be ready with another question.

You got to try.

It's on you.

Or maybe you should have known.

It's not like it was a secret.

Mike Evans is really quiet.

But he was very, very quiet, painfully quiet early in his career.

And he's blossomed into a guy who was great in the community for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,

a guy that they really wanted to keep, although salary cap and numbers game,

I wonder how badly they really wanted to keep him.

And the one big unknown.

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