Flames are seen through the windows and coming out under the eaves of this house fire. This was a training fire event with the fire set and controlled by a fire department on a house that was donated for the purpose of being used to train local volunteer fire fighters.
Perhaps Pline, who played three years of college basketball at Ferris State before switching to football in 2023 upon transferring to Furman, had the most to gain from the event’s crash course.
“There’s an abundance of information,” Pline said. “I’ve heard a lot of things in the meetings today I’ve been hearing for the first time, so I’m just taking as much in as I can, writing notes, just processing it as much as I can without overloading and throwing stuff away and forgetting stuff. I want to bring stuff from the classroom to the field.”
“I couldn’t lift,” Kittle explained. “I couldn’t do any upper body because of my shoulder and my rib, and I couldn’t do lower [body] because of my core surgery. … I didn’t lift from the Super Bowl until like almost mid-March.”
“The wide receiver market has exploded here recently. It’s gone up dramatically,” Schefter continued. “The offers and deals have been higher, I believe, than what the 49ers have offered Brandon Aiyuk. So Brandon Aiyuk is taking what the 49ers have offered, and he’s saying, ‘The fact that they don’t want to pay me like Justin Jefferson, they don’t want me here.’ No, that’s not true. They do want him there, but they want him there at a certain number that they believe is fair.”
“I think there are two things to give you some optimism that he could still be there [in San Francisco],” Breer said. “Number one is that they did get Christian McCaffrey [contract] done aggressively. And I think they had to do McCaffrey before they did Aiyuk because if you pay Aiyuk $29, $30 $31 million a year now the price of McCaffrey goes up, so you had to take care of him first.”
