The signing was completed quickly, and the whole process was uneventful and lackluster.

The next morning, after Lu Ke arrived at the training base, he began the long process of physical examination. This is not a medical examination for the rookie training camp, and the team must conduct a comprehensive physical examination in order to confirm the status of the players. More than a dozen items were carried out for injury testing and motor skill testing.

It took more than four and a half hours before it came to an end.

After lunch, under the leadership of the staff, Lu Ke visited the entire training base, including the gym, indoor training ground and locker room, etc., and had a preliminary understanding of the team. One of the most important, and the most interesting—or boring—parts of it is the Honor Room introduction:

The accompanying staff explained in detail the long history and glorious past of the San Francisco 49ers, and the purpose could not be more obvious: to hope that the players can feel a sense of belonging and honor to the team.

As with other ball games, player transfers are common in rugby. However, the quarterback position is a bit more special, and those who are excellent quarterbacks, or solid and reliable quarterbacks, may not change teams for the rest of their careers, and the other three quarterbacks of the current elite four quarterbacks have only played for one team except for Drew Bliss.

No matter what the future holds, at least for the next two years, Lu Ke will be a member of the San Francisco 49ers.

In fact, the San Francisco 49ers, located in California's Northern Bay Area, are arguably one of the most successful, brilliant, and greatest teams in league history.

In the NFL, there are two leagues, the American Football League (AFC) and the National Football League (NFC); Each league is made up of four divisions, east, west, north and south, and each division has four teams. San Francisco is part of the National League West Division, and the other three teams in the same division are the Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks and St. Louis Rams.

In this year's Forbes list of the most valuable sports clubs, the Dallas Cowboys are the champions, followed by the New York Yankees, followed by Real Madrid, Manchester United and FC Barcelona. San Francisco's 49 people are ninth on the list.

By the way, among the top 10, there is no place for a basketball club.

As of 2011, the Pittsburgh Steelers have won six Super Bowls on the league's all-time honor list, and are still the most successful team in the league. After that, the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys both won five Super Bowls and tied for second place, followed by the Green Bay Packers with four Super Bowls.

For any player to join the San Francisco 49ers, that's a great honor!

However, this is all "ancestors have been rich", the last time the San Francisco 49ers won the Super Bowl, it was a distant 1994.

After the turn of the millennium, the team did not enter the playoffs for eight consecutive years, and what is even more shameful is that in these eight years, only the year before last, eight wins and eight losses, the number of wins and losses was just equal, and the remaining seven years were more losses and fewer wins, falling into the darkest and longest period of disorder in the history of the team.

This great team, with its historic Steve-Young, Joe-Montana, and Jerry-Rice, is a notable name even in the Hall of Fame, and even the best alternate of all time; Now, the fans are always calling for a savior to appear, once again leading the 49ers out of the darkness and embracing the light again.

Once upon a time, people had high hopes for Alex Smith, but alas, they were disappointed; This year, people dare not expect from Colin Kaepernick, but they can't help but look to the future, so can he carry the 49ers out of the abyss?

For undrafted rookies, especially the undrafted quarterbacks, joining the San Francisco 49ers is truly a dream come true, one of the most desirable teams in the league and one of the greatest teams in the league. At the same time, the team is in the doldrums, looking for opportunities to rebuild its glory, and the rookie quarterback can be trusted more.

What's more, San Francisco is home to Lu Ke's homeland. Is there anything else that could make it all perfect? Perhaps, the team's starting position is a little too greedy, but this is Lu Ke's next goal.

According to the convention, all of Lu Ke's work is over today, and the next thing is the process of waiting for the medical examination report, before the official signing, the team cannot show the tactical manual to Lu Ke, and the team cannot open internal training to Lu Ke, after all, from a legal point of view, Lu Ke is still not a member of the team. In the leisure time of the afternoon, Lu Ke can go around for a ride and enjoy a rare vacation.

However, pre-season is looming and the team has no more time to adjust.

After the visit, Lu Ke devoted himself to training again - not in the formal training ground of the main players, but still in the open training ground next to it.

Quarterback coach Kip Kleist appeared on the training ground for the first time, accompanied by physical trainers, nutritionists and other relevant staff, they began to conduct special basic tests, observe Lu Ke's various technical movements, various physical indicators, in the next few days, they will develop a corresponding special training plan to help Lu Ke be reborn.

Rough sound, it seems very professional; But in fact, the content of the basic training is still the same, and there are not many changes. The excitement and strangeness at the beginning soon gradually entered the familiar track, and time seemed to travel to yesterday, no signing, no selection, no change, he was still an undrafted rookie who was trying hard.

The freshness and novelty in anticipation finally came to an end in ordinary training.

On the morning of the third day, Lu Ke came to the team building again, Jonas appeared again, accompanied by him, the two sides officially introduced the key items of the contract, and after being confirmed by Lu Ke one by one, he signed his name in black and white on top of the contract, and then, the signing was completed.

Kip then appeared at the door of the office and knocked on the door, "It's all over?" After receiving an affirmative answer, he looked at Lu Ke, "Lu Ke, come, follow me to the tactical conference room next door." There was no room for Lu Ke to breathe, and he hurriedly beckoned and shouted, "Quick, we don't have much time to waste." ”

Lu Ke picked up his contract, and didn't even have time to stuff it into his backpack, so he followed in a hurry.

As the two men walked briskly down the hallway, Kip said in a low voice, "It stands to reason that we should introduce ourselves first and then go to the locker room to meet the rest of our teammates." But now we're falling behind, we're falling behind, we're running out of time. ”

As soon as the signing was completed, the ink had not yet dried, and Lu Ke had already entered the professional player mode. For rookies such as Logan and Marcus, it has taken them three months to adapt to the mentality of professional players, the training rhythm of professional teams, and the daily mode of professional leagues, but Lu Ke has not, not a minute.

Enter the tactical boardroom, which is the space to cast magic and show off magic before every match.

At the left-hand end, a large projector screen hangs from the white wall, allowing the players to watch the game video together; At the end of the right-hand side, against the wall, stands a white panel, scribbled with black carbon pen, all in tactical terms and tactical exploded diagrams; In the center, there are a large number of chairs in rows.

"Here." Kip's voice made Lu Ke come back to his senses, and he stopped looking for a while, and then he saw a thick stack of documents on the table on Kip's right hand, piled up tall and tall, and it seemed to be higher than two palms, which was spectacular, "This is a tactical manual." ”

Legendary tactics manual. In college, there were really not many tactics, not even a thousand; In the professional league, according to legend, there are as many as 20,000 tactics, and teams will arrange and combine them according to the style of the coach and the configuration of the players, and the quarterback needs to memorize and use at least thousands of tactics.

Today, Lu Ke finally saw the tactical manual of a professional team.

Lu Ke thought he was mentally prepared, but when he really saw it, he couldn't help but open his mouth slightly, "...... It is indeed thicker than the Oxford Dictionary. After being stunned, the first sentence that came to my mind was actually Marcus's ridicule, and the nervous mood was broken like this, and a smile climbed into the corners of his mouth.

Kip didn't know why, just nodded, "Next, you need to read the entire tactical manual, understand, use, and preferably have your own ideas and opinions......" Speaking of this, Kip paused, Colin Kaepernick has been browsing the tactical manual for nearly three months, and still has no ideas and opinions of his own, which is really too difficult, so Kip changed his words and said, "If you have any questions, feel free to ask, discuss with teammates, and discuss with coaches, this is welcome." ”

Kip put his right hand on the playbook and patted it gently, "It's not going to be easy, but with less than five weeks left until the start of the regular season, we need to speed up." You...... Try your best, if you can't keep up, the whole team will help. A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, "Look at me, Vonderrick has a perfect score on the test, and the last thing I need is my worry." ”

Lu Ke laughed and teased, "The pressure is huge." I knew that I had deliberately made a mistake in the first place. The confident and confident look became more and more humorous, and even Kip laughed aloud.

Flipping through the playbook, the first few pages are the training plan for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and the detailed daily schedule is even specific to the schedule every 10 minutes and 15 minutes; Then there's the formal tactics, with a tactical exploded diagram at the top, from how the players line up to how they move, and annotations at the bottom.

The annotations for each tactic are very detailed, with at least a dozen or twenty explanation options, and they are explained one by one, which is extremely clear.

The difference between the professional quarterback and the rest of the world is beginning to show.