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Darnold needs to play good in the playoffs if he wants to cash in this off-season

 

I doubt thats a worry of his. He needs to be better in LA and I think he will be. Maybe teams on the look will look at the whole picture, just not what happened in Detroit. The entire League knows the Lions are for real.

 

I really want him to calm the hell down so game slows down for him and O-line get your sh#t together

 

It's cool just upset how it turned out it was a game i belive they could and should have won

 

49ers' Ricky Pearsall wants to meet teen who shot him: 'I have to be able to forgive him'

Pearsall was shot by a 17-year-old just before his rookie season was set to begin

San Francisco 49ers rookie wide receiver Rick Pearsall hopes to make a positive impact on the teenager who shot him in August. Pearsall was shot by a 17-year-old in an attempted robbery at Union Square, and the 49ers wideout wants to make sure the young man is able to get his life back on the right path.

On locker cleanout day for the 49ers, Pearsall was asked about potentially meeting the person who nearly killed him shortly before he was set to make his NFL debut. Pearsall said he would like to speak with the teen and try to make a difference in his life.

"At some point, I do want to talk to the kid," Pearsall said, per KNBR, a Bay Area radio station. "If I can create an impact on him in any way, I think that will be really big. I'd be definitely open to doing that for sure."

Pearsall doesn't seem to harbor any ill will toward his shooter, saying he doesn't know what led the 17-year-old to commit such a violent crime. Pearsall added he can't judge a person based on a single action.

"Sometimes, you just don't got answers for that," Pearsall said. "I don't know where he came from, what environment he grew up in. ... I don't know how he grew up, so I can't judge him as a man based off that one action. As violent a crime as it was, God forbid him doing that to someone else. I don't ever want that to happen."

In addition to helping the young man, Pearsall also wants to be able to forgive his shooter directly.

"For me, it's just being able to forgive him," Pearsall said. "I have to be able to forgive him to have that weight off my chest, you know what I mean?"

The gunshot wound forced Pearsall to delay his NFL debut by about six weeks, but it didn't deter the first-round pick from getting back on the field. Pearsall played his first NFL game on Oct. 20, and he finished the season with 31 catches for 400 yards and three touchdowns.

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NFL monitoring Los Angeles-area wildfires ahead of Vikings-Rams playoff game

A spokesperson from the Rams says any decision about the game will come from the NFL.

With devastating wildfires raging in the Los Angeles area, the National Football League is monitoring the situation in advance of Monday night's playoff game between the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. CT at SoFi Stadium.

NFL chief spokesman Brian McCarthy says the league "continues to closely monitor developments in the area and will remain in contact with both clubs and the NFLPA."

SoFi Stadium is located in southwest Los Angeles, about 10 miles from the Palisades Fire that has devastated parts of Santa Monica. Another fire, known as the Eaton Fire, is about 17 miles to the northeast of the stadium wreaking havoc in the Pasadena area.

A spokesperson from the Rams told Vikings On SI that "any news about changes to the game would come from the NFL."

The Los Angeles County Fire Department announced at 10:55 a.m. CT Wednesday that both the Palisades and Eaton fires are 0% contained as firefighters battle relentless winds that are gusting to tropical storm and hurricane levels, helping the fires spread rapidly amid extremely dry conditions.

According to Minnesota-based Bring Me The News meteorologist Sven Sundgaard, "conditions improve in terms of wind, temps & humidity by end of week to allow for containment of fires likely."

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