What is good, everybody.

Welcome to Stats and Cone here on the Gold Standard Podcast Network.

I'm Rob Stats-Garer.

He is Grant.

Grant looking suave today with a jacket on the program.

I'm trying to take it up a notch in 2024. I'm 36 years old. It's time to start acting like it,

dressing like it. But I'm wearing sweatpants. See, you didn't maintain the illusion. I want people to be,

I want to be, I'm a journalist. I have to be completely transparent here.

Well, that's interesting that you mentioned that because journalists and journalism is going to be a big topic on today's show. A member of the 49ers beat has written something that has honestly kind of changed the way I'm looking at this offseason. Maybe I'm making way too much out of it. And if I am, you can tell me

and we can have that discussion. But given who this person is and what they're saying,

I was kind of taken aback, honestly, by what he put out there. So we'll get into all of that. I just

want to remind everybody, please rate review and follow the gold standard podcast network,

like and subscribe to both YouTube channels, the Gold Standard

YouTube channel and Grant Cohn's YouTube channel as well. All right, let's get right into it,

Grant. Mike Silver has a column in the San Francisco Chronicle right now. And given who Mike is and

his ties to the team, I take what he says pretty seriously.

So let me throw it up on the screen for people that are watching. It's on our, I paraphrased it on our

website, gold standard niners.com. Mike Silver's article, which you should definitely go read in the

Chronicle. Not now. This is our time.

He writes, quote, in theory, head coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch can reckon with

their overtime defeat in Super Bowl 58, make some hard choices designed to keep the team competitive

for years to come, and force feed recent draft picks into the lineup to see if they've got what it takes.

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