SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 07: San Francisco 49ers quarterback Trey Lance (5) throws during training camp at the practice facility at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
It is not necessary to reproduce the video of Allen Iverson. Yes, we are talking about practice.
Joint practice, in fact.
The 49ers are in Minnesota this week for two joint practices with the Vikings. A few hours after the hometown of Trey Lance in Marshall, the Marshal of the 49ers will have the largest scale of his life in football.
Theniners coach Kyle Shanahan did not hide his disdain for pre-season matches. This disgust manifests itself in its vanilla tactics and limited lists.
But Shanahan likes joint practices.
If I had it in their own way, the Niners would not play pre-season matches. They would only do joint practices with other teams.
likes joint practices because it is competitive but much more controlled than a game, even an exhibition.
He likes them because you cannot hit the quartbacks, but you can use the entire game book.
He loves them because when he deepens this game book, trying something that I could want to use in a game in the future, only another team has it in the film, not throughout the league.
These are the practices in which Lance will show how ready it is for the season. The second year field marshal is the title, which is not questioned, but will he be invited to be administered throughout the season where Shanahan will feel enough to leave Rip in Chicago in week 1?
End of, the 49ers will probably go well. Even with your lesions in the training camp, it is a quality team that seems more than worthy of a place of playoffs in January.
But if Lance can show in these two joint practices which are closer to its roof than its floor, it could change the internal expectations of the Niners and send external expectations to Hyperdrive.
In February, Lance was 66 to 1 to win the MVP 2022 by MGM Sportsbook.
At the end of last month, Lance had 40 to 1. And after its launch of 73 yards to the touch during the pre-seasion victory of the Niners over the packers, these probabilities had been shortened at 30 to 1. p>
It is still long term, but belief allows the market and the media. ESPN columnist Bill Barnwell told Marshal de Fairs Campo as a possible "supernova" capable of doing what Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson did in 2018 and 2019, respectively, win the MVP during their first seasons at the helm .
.Meanwhile, at the camp, Marshal Niners Campo actually alternated good and bad days. One day, he is a future MVP and a winner of the Super Bowl. The next day, you look at the side field, you wonder if Jimmy Groppolo, number 4 in the depth table of the Marshal of nine fields, could leave the steps.
In all of what I have seen, more than 90% of its 11 launches against 11 in the field of training, Lance was better than bad. Yes, the Niners are justified at the beginning of this season, because it should improve with more playing time, because it has only made 389 outings in games that have since started the university.
But these snapshots in the field of training were against the defense of the Niners, and the defense of the Niners, when it is healthy, seems good, top 5.
The defense of the Vikings is competent, but no one expects it to be a unit of the best 10 this year. They are likely to be in the middle of the road, good enough to be good enough.
What happens when Shanahan removes the training wheels and eliminates the new offensive according to the option to read firearms that showed indications in the camp?
(Shanahan will not have to worry about the former assistant, the chief coach of Viagra, Kevin O'Connell, stealing the pieces: there is no way to direct them with cousins Kirk at the helm).
What's going on when Lance faces a defense that is not as talented, does not know what to say and is not ready for the reading option?
This is an incredible opportunity for Lance. It's formative.
Two practices, not exploited but totally written, will say a lot about what we need to know about enigmatic and new seafood.
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