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Everyone is getting pretty excited for Sunday's playoff clash between the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys. Players on both teams are too young to know what this rivalry once meant to fans. However, they know that one team's season will end this weekend.
Many are saying that no team—not even the NFC East champions—wants to face the 49ers right now. They could be among the playoffs' most dangerous teams.
"They're very confident," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said on Tuesday. "They've won some big games. They've won it against some good teams. They play in a tough division over there. … They'll be a real, real mess to deal with out here Sunday."
Star linebacker Fred Warner knows none of that matters regarding Sunday's game. The 49ers will have to have their best outing of the season. He knows if San Francisco was the higher-seeded team, people might be saying the same things about the Cowboys.
"I do have a lot of confidence in our team, but you could say the same thing about—let's say the roles were reversed, and the Cowboys were at the sixth seed, and we were at the three seed," Warner told Rich Eisen on The Rich Eisen Show. "Who's the last team you want to play? The sixth seed. You don't want to play the Cowboys. They're talented at every single position on their entire team. Literal stars at each position group."
Jones had added that the 49ers are battle-tested heading into Sunday's game against his Cowboys. On Sunday, Warner's squad found itself in a must-win situation just to make the playoffs. It took a comeback from 17 points down and overtime to knock off the NFC West champion Los Angeles Rams and clinch a playoff berth.
The 49ers know to expect another tough game at AT&T Stadium on Sunday.
"It's going to be a battle," Warner continued. "It's going to be the biggest one of the year, obviously, which that's what the playoffs are. And it's going to be two dogs going at it, and I think it's going to be a four-quarter football game, back and forth. And we're going to have to play our best game if we want a chance to win."
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"Huge surprise," Warner said of learning that Armstead was being released. "Ever since I've been here, we called him the blueprint for how to be a Niner. That was the longest-tenured Niner that's been here and a guy that's done it right through and through."
Warner has been in the NFL long enough to understand how the league works. Over the years, he's watched several
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Mock draft season has drawn to a close, with NFL Media analysts Charles Davis (here) and Daniel Jeremiah (here) submitting their final projections yesterday. Several other media members have since unveiled their last mock drafts, presenting the San Francisco 49ers with various potential scenarios.
Predicting the 49ers' actions in the first round is challenging due to the 30 selections preceding theirs. Their draft strategy hinges on events leading up to their turn on the clock.
As the 2024 NFL Draft kicks off tonight, here's a rundown of what the 49ers are projected to do at No. 31 overall in some of
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Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area was the first to report that the 49ers were discussing a potential reunion with Taylor. The receiver was part of head coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch's first draft class in 2017 and spent his first four NFL seasons with the team.
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Corley is expected to be a Day 2 pick. San Francisco owns two selections on Day 2—the No. 63 overall pick in the second round and the No. 94 overall pick in the third round. Currently, the receiver is visiting with the Seattle Seahawks.
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