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Perhaps the most significant thing said by a 49er on this, arrival day, was Justin Smith's assertion ...

... that his left arm has gotten stronger with time. That, and the fact that he knows he doesn't have much longer to worry about it. "I know how many games I have left -- four quarters," he said. Smith has said he will have surgery after the Super Bowl to repair his partially torn triceps.