Strength of the 49ers Lies With the Offense, Not Defense
Analyzing how the San Francisco 49ers have transformed from a defensive team to an offensive team.
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00:00 Are the Niners the best team in the NFL?
00:02 Yeah, I mean right now, yes,
00:04 we'll see how it plays out again.
00:05 They played teams have a combined
00:07 winning percentage of 40%.
00:09 There are six and nine rounds or two
00:11 and two cards or one and three Steelers
00:13 two and two Giants or one and two.
00:14 As of right now,
00:15 we'll see what happens with them tonight.
00:17 So then they haven't played really good teams.
00:19 If we're being real,
00:20 I don't know if any of those teams are
00:21 going to actually make the playoffs,
00:23 so we'll find out this Sunday.
00:25 But so far,
00:26 based on the body of work
00:27 that we've had available,
00:29 I think they look better than the Eagles.
00:30 These are the only two teams that are
00:32 four and oh and undefeated right now.
00:33 And from what I saw from the Eagles
00:35 versus what I've seen from the Niners,
00:36 the Niners just look more solid
00:38 and well rounded throughout.
00:40 Yeah, absolutely.
00:43 I think it's clear that diners are the
00:44 best team in the NFL right now.
00:47 Like no team had as.
00:50 Clean of the first four games as the Niners,
00:54 so they get that,
00:55 but it's a long season and it's how you
00:57 finish is not how you start.
01:00 So I think it's still fair to wonder.
01:02 I mean, step back.
01:03 It's been a month.
01:04 They haven't faced a team
01:05 that's going to the playoffs yet,
01:06 unless I'm wrong about.
01:10 Pittsburgh.
01:11 Not a rant like that.
01:13 They haven't faced
01:13 him as one of the playoffs yet.
01:14 They've taken care of business,
01:15 but we're going to learn something next week.
01:18 They're facing a playoff team
01:19 this upcoming week.
01:20 They're going to face playoff teams.
01:22 They're going to face teams
01:23 that actually can make them sweat
01:25 and we'll see how they respond.
01:27 Like Brock Purdy was great yesterday
01:29 and he was not really under pressure.
01:31 Like.
01:32 The Cardinals have no pass rush
01:34 and when he has no pressure
01:37 and he has the five best weapons
01:38 in the league on the field,
01:40 he's also really good too.
01:41 And he has Kyle Shanahan helping him out
01:42 like it all works.
01:44 But when he's under pressure
01:44 like he might be this upcoming week,
01:47 let's see what it looks like.
01:48 I mean, we we have concerns
01:49 about the offensive line
01:50 and we've seen Brock Purdy under pressure
01:53 like.
01:54 He got hurt once so.
01:57 Yeah, best team in the NFL right now for sure.
02:00 And it looks like a better team on paper,
02:01 at least in the one that went to the Super Bowl,
02:03 because I'll take your various word
02:04 over Richard Sherman.
02:06 I mean, Javon Hargrave and.
02:08 DeForest Buck is a bit of a wash
02:10 like Brock Purdy, such a huge upgrade.
02:12 Brock Purdy such a huge upgrade
02:14 over Jimmy Garoppolo
02:15 and then Christian McCaffrey
02:16 is the best player in the freaking team.
02:17 They didn't have him
02:18 and then I wasn't on that team
02:19 like this team looks better than that team.
02:22 There's a this trio.
02:23 I mean, the whole team is stacked,
02:25 but the trio of Kyle Brock
02:27 CMC is the difference, right?
02:29 This offense now.
02:30 Now you now you're worried is the offense.
02:33 The strength of the 49ers,
02:34 which we haven't said is
02:35 I was been here and I think it is
02:37 that this team.
02:38 I mean that defense made
02:39 Dobbs look too good yesterday
02:41 to say that that's the strength.
02:42 Right and yeah,
02:44 and all the dogs is a surprise.
02:45 I'll be honest, dogs
02:46 did surprise me how well he's playing.
02:47 He still hasn't turned the ball
02:48 over this season like Brock,
02:50 which is unbelievable.
02:52 But here's the thing.
02:53 Grant the Niners.
02:55 They're not only just four no,
02:56 but if they beat this Cowboys team,
02:59 they're going to set the record
03:00 for the most wins in regular season
03:02 wins in a row by 49ers team ever.
03:05 With 15 if they beat the Cowboys,
03:08 it's going to be the biggest winning streak
03:09 the 49ers have ever went on.
03:11 And so although I do want to look at OK,
03:14 they haven't played
03:14 that many good teams this year,
03:16 so let's hold out
03:16 until they play the Cowboys.
03:18 I mean, this goes back
03:19 all the way through last year.
03:20 That combination of Brock Kyle
03:23 and CMC is I mean,
03:25 can we talk about how great CMC is?
03:27 Like that guy is?
03:29 Yeah, yeah.
03:30 Someone never seen before, man.
03:31 Like he's phenomenal.
03:33 I just don't want this team
03:35 to be the team that.
03:36 Gets crowned in September or October
03:40 and everyone says look at him
03:41 and they proven it.
03:41 They're the best team in the league.
03:43 Yeah, if as long as they stay healthy,
03:45 they're going to win the Super Bowl
03:46 and then some happens in the playoffs
03:47 where they don't win the Super Bowl
03:48 and people say.
03:49 Luke, they were the best team this year.
03:51 Like man, no,
03:53 you gotta actually prove it
03:55 and doing it for four games
03:56 isn't long enough.
03:57 So far so good.
03:59 It looks like a team that.
04:00 May never have a better chance
04:03 to win the Super Bowl than right now.
04:04 If they don't win it this year,
04:06 are they going to be better next year?
04:08 Like Hargrave will be a year older.
04:10 McCaffrey be a year older.
04:11 Kittle seems like he's on the downslide.
04:13 This is a great year
04:15 to win the Super Bowl.
04:15 The NFC is as bad as it's ever been.
04:17 The chiefs seem kind of.
04:20 I mean, you worry about the chiefs
04:22 'cause they have Patrick Mahomes,
04:23 but like they seem kind of vulnerable.
04:25 They seem beatable.
04:26 Yeah, beatable.
04:27 I mean, the bills have been beaten
04:28 like this is a great year for the Niners.
04:29 Do it now.
04:30 Yeah, absolutely.
04:32 It's going to make it worse.
04:33 Honestly, this team is so good to me.
04:35 Through and through,
04:37 like throughout the entire roster,
04:39 offense is better than the defense.
04:40 Finally, the defense is still great.
04:42 Special teams is good.
04:43 Kyle is improving as a coach, I think.
04:46 That it's going to be
04:47 even more disappointing
04:48 if they don't go all the way this year.
04:50 So that's the expectation.
04:51 Even though I'm telling you
04:52 that the best team in the NFL right now
04:54 and I could see them
04:55 winning the Super Bowl if they don't,
04:56 it's going to be a bigger disaster.
04:58 It's going to be huge.
04:59 It's going to be heartbreaking
05:01 for 49ers fans, probably not for Grant,
05:02 but for myself and other Niner fans
05:05 like this feels like this is the year
05:07 you have to do it.
05:08 And so they got to do it.
05:09 Regardless, we say best team
05:11 in the NFL week four.
05:12 I mean, it's great and all, but you're right.
05:14 It matters what they do
05:15 in the playoffs and in the postseason
05:18 more than anything else.
05:19 So TBD on that.
05:21 Yeah, but so far they've been so good
05:23 at like not getting too into themselves
05:25 and like the Cowboys lost to the Cardinals.
05:28 Yeah, yeah.
05:30 I mean, I don't know
05:31 if they were feeling themselves.
05:32 They took the week off,
05:33 but it just seemed like
05:34 such an unprofessional thing to do
05:36 because they're better than the Cardinals
05:37 and they just won 38 to three
05:39 when they're locked in.
05:40 They're a really, really good team, Dallas.
05:41 They're going to be playing
05:42 like that this week against the Niners,
05:45 but they did lose to the Cardinals.
05:46 I mean, the thing
05:48 they were missing three
05:49 offensive line starters.
05:50 Against the Cardinals, that's one thing.
05:51 The other thing, too, is there
05:53 that they're not good at stopping the run,
05:55 which is going to be a problem
05:56 when they play the 49ers.
05:58 The Cardinals ran all over them,
06:00 like 220 combined yards
06:01 or something like that.
06:02 So they better figure it out
06:04 before they play the Niners.
06:05 So I don't know.
06:06 I mean, the Cowboys are a really good team,
06:08 but, you know, it's
06:10 it's a game of matchups.
06:11 And I think they struggled
06:12 against the Cardinals team.
06:13 A Conor man, John Connors, great to me.
06:16 I would love to have him on the 49ers.
06:17 I know you got into a fight
06:18 with Huff the other day,
06:19 but stopping the run
06:21 is the weakness for the Cowboys.
06:22 And I expect the 49ers
06:24 to attack it this weekend.
06:25 You just revealed your jetness.
06:29 You said John Connor,
06:32 you said John Connor.
06:34 Yeah. Terminator.
06:36 Yeah. From Terminator.
06:37 Yeah, absolutely.
06:37 Yeah. My bad.
06:38 We're calling James
06:39 Connor, John Connor.
06:40 The Terminator.
06:42 Yeah, that's a good nickname for him.
06:45 It is. Yeah.
06:46 The Terminator.
06:46 Yeah. All right.
06:47 So best team in the NFL.
06:48 Yeah. For now.
06:49 Let's see if they keep it up.
06:50 I mean, they have won
06:52 how many games in a row
06:53 in the regular season?
06:53 13, 14, 14.
06:55 It'll be 15 this weekend
06:56 if they win that,
06:57 which is the franchise record.
06:58 It's pretty good.
07:00 Pretty good.
07:01 Office of Jed York says
07:02 Sunday is a must win for the tiebreaker.
07:03 Expect the Niners to win that game.
07:07 Marcel Wilkerson says,
07:08 who is our toughest opponent this year?
07:10 Eagles.
07:11 And that is the thing about the.
07:15 Oh, let me see.
07:16 December, I want to say
07:18 it's like December.
07:19 Yeah, it's like that.
07:19 It's like that.
07:20 It's early December.
07:21 Yeah. And it's such
07:22 an interesting opponent because.
07:24 I was saying earlier,
07:26 like you got like
07:27 you got to get pressure on Brock
07:28 to beat him and someone
07:29 in the comment section was like,
07:30 what about the Giants?
07:32 They brought all that
07:32 pressure with blitzing.
07:33 Yeah, but Brock's good.
07:34 He can beat the Blitz like.
07:35 Philly doesn't have to blitz
07:38 to get pressure.
07:39 Yeah, they can get it with four,
07:41 four guys.
07:42 And that's tough on any quarterback.
07:45 So any quarterback.
07:46 We still got seven
07:47 that are in coverage.
07:48 Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
07:50 There's a difference between that
07:51 and just blitzing coverage zero.
07:53 He knows how to beat that.
07:54 He's great.
07:55 So does Kyle and the Niners have.
07:56 A million ways to get the ball
07:58 out of Brock Purdy's hands
07:59 quickly to a playmaker
08:00 who can destroy you.
08:02 Sudden chaos is finally caught
08:03 alive work nights.
08:04 Great content.
08:05 Thanks for being here.
08:07 Thank you.
08:08 Brian Berkwist says
08:10 Dallas maybe playoff,
08:11 but they got beat by A.Z.
08:13 I'm saying that run saying
08:17 that run defense though.
08:19 Domain threat says Brock
08:20 superpowers processing
08:21 and decisiveness.
08:22 All caps with the football.
08:23 I would agree, yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:26 Decisiveness matters.
08:27 It's all up here,
08:28 and that's why it's so hard
08:29 to analyze quarterbacks
08:30 coming out of draft
08:31 'cause you can't really.
08:32 You can't really tell
08:34 until they play NFL games.
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