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SANTA CLARA – These weren’t Jed York’s 15 account of blame. Instead, the 49ers CEO acclimated that breadth of time Thursday for an ad-lib media affair to advance a unity-driven, optimistic calendar for his team, players and the NFL.
York, 36, batten foolishly about several topics, alone attached his acknowledgment aback it came to ex-quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s unemployment cachet and bunco affirmation adjoin the NFL.
“Obviously there’s the accusation activity on so it’s adamantine for me to get into capacity or absolutely allotment my opinion,” York said. “But I don’t accept there’s abject to that affirmation that he’s actuality blackballed.”
York’s interview, conducted as the 49ers accomplished on a adjacent field, was unofficially advised to altercate the contempo owners’ affair in New York as able-bodied as the 49ers’ accessible bold Sunday anniversary aggregation figure Dwight Clark.
He wants the alliance to accomplice bigger with players appetite for amusing change. He wants players able of appliance their built-in rights. And he wants the still-winless 49ers to abide what he sees as advance against a championship-caliber team.
Here are the highlights:
— On no close action on canticle protests: “The owners were actual bright in our affair with aloof players and owners that this is not a trade. This is not, ‘We’re activity to do this for you, and quid pro quo, you angle up.’ That was not there. And from a player’s standpoint, I don’t anticipate they appetite to accord up their First Amendment rights for any bulk of money or abutment from a amusing standpoint.”
York accepted “might appearance (protests) actual abnormally from others,” afterwards 49ers players launched the movement aftermost season, starting with Kaepernick. York accustomed that protests are “a contributor” to lower television ratings, but that ratings are bottomward beyond all platforms in this digital-driven, alteration environment.
— On his political stance: York, an Ohio native, credits active in California the accomplished 15 or so years to aperture his apperception through dialogue. “I’m not the best left-wing being in the world. I apprehend bodies are aggravating to array of acrylic me as that. That’s not my accomplishments politically and how I grew up. But a lot of these are commonsense issues. Aback you absolutely sit bottomward and allocution to bodies and apperceive area they’re advancing from, it’s adamantine not to be affectionate and empathetic.”
— On Cowboys buyer Jerry Jones’ blackmail to bank protesters: “We all had a altercation together. Bodies aggregate altered angle and acutely bodies accept altered political angle and political opinions. Acutely it was a advantageous conversation.” (The Cowboys appointment Levi’ Stadium on Sunday.)
— On Dwight Clark, Sunday’s bedfellow of honor: “It’s activity to be appropriate accepting a day that absolutely ceremoniousness him, that we can bless the abundant being he is, absolutely the 49ers fable and figure that he is, and acquiesce him to be with his teammates and absolutely adore the celebrity and accolades he deserves from this fan base.”
— On ambrosial to 49ers fans’ admission re-sales: “I’d adulation for our admirers to be the ones affairs those as against to the opposing team. I’d aloof animate it. Don’t do it for me. Do it for Dwight. Dwight deserves to see a lot of red and gold on Sunday. I anticipate he’ll see that. He’ll see a lot of affection from the 49ers Faithful.”
EXTRA POINTS
— Arresting coordinator Robert Saleh dedicated Arik Armstead’s courage and durability, acquainted the arresting accouterment played 1 1/2 abode with a burst larboard duke that ultimately will crave season-ending anaplasty because of the fracture’s placement. “I will never catechism that man’s toughness,” Saleh said.
— Fullback Kyle Juszczyk’s disability to convenance because of a week-to-week aback affair prompted the 49ers to re-sign bound end Logan Paulsen, two canicule afterwards his release.
— Cornerback Leon Hall got appear nine canicule afterwards his arrival. He was abeyant aftermost game.
— Linebackers Reuben Foster (ankle), Ray-Ray Armstrong (shoulder), Brock Coyle (shoulder) and Dekoda Watson (groin) were limited. Outside linebacker Aaron Lynch (calf) did not practice.
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