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49ers punter Andy Lee insisted Tuesday that he would not treat the Dallas Cowboys’ video scoreboard like a 2,100-inch bull’s-eye. Really. Honestly. “Don’t lie. You want to break it,” kicker Joe Nedney yelled, eavesdropping on Lee’s testimony.

The 49ers’ top three coaches have alternated speaking to the media during training camp this summer. Tuesday was a Jimmy Raye day.Not to take anything from coach Mike Singletary, a great speaker in his own right, or Greg Manusky, the colorful defensive coordinator who looks as if he could be assembling choppers on the Discovery Channel,

When the 49ers and Raiders cooked up the idea of a shared training camp, the goal was to raise the intensity level of practice

He could have commandeered the first seat on the bus but Mike Singletary preferred to walk the 2 miles from the Raiders’ practice field in Napa to the 49ers’ team hotel.

Never in his five years with the 49ers has Gore looked more fired-up for a drill than he was Tuesday morning attacking the Raiders’ linebackers in blitz pickup. His enthusiasm was that of a zealot throwing himself into a frenzy of physicality.So committed to executing the drill to perfection was Gore that running backs coach Tom Rathman had to pull him out of his last rotation

Quarterback JaMarcus Russell wasted little time trying out his newest target. He lofted a deep pass for Heyward-Bey down the left sideline on Oakland’s third play. Cowboys safety Ken Hamlin broke up the pass, and Heyward-Bey was unable to snare the loose ball before it hit the ground.

That isn’t the way we want to start team-wise, I don’t think,” coach Wade Phillips said. “The individuals that we think are going to do well … did some good things. Some of those guys are where we want them to be. Others aren’t. Our second group and our young guys, they made a lot of mistakes

Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell rolled his sleeves up and flashed a little arm Thursday. He went long, he dumped short, he rifled everywhere in between