Did Starting 5-0 Hurt the 49ers?
Analyzing whether starting 5-0 hurt the San Francisco 49ers this season.
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00:00 I feel like starting 5-0 and extending Kyle and John Lynch really swept a lot of shoes on the rug.
00:06 And now I'm just not sure how I feel because they are a strong team. They've got a lot of good
00:11 things going for them. But at the same time, there's a lot of issues that I think
00:15 haven't been addressed and haven't been really thought through by the numbers.
00:20 And specifically with Steve Wilkes in the second period, I mean, you brought in Steve Wilkes
00:25 because he was a secondary expert, right? Supposedly that was his strong suit and it's the
00:29 weakest part of our team. And I think that, yeah, supposedly, yeah. And when I looked at his stats
00:35 in the past, like he's never really been a strong defensive coach. His defense has never finished
00:39 in the top 10 or the top 15. So I'm not really sure what Kyle was thinking there, but yeah,
00:46 I just wanted to give you a thought on the secondary. He's like, man, he's been a coach,
00:49 he's been an interim head coach. I know I need this leadership. I think Kyle understood that.
00:53 Like I know I need a head coach leading from the backseat because that's what Sala did. That's
00:58 what D'Amico did. I can't give, like the defense is the number one part of our team. It's all about
01:04 effort and passion. That's not me. I'm the guy calling offensive plays. I think he thought
01:08 Wilkes could be that guy. And I think he just really didn't know Wilkes. Really.
01:13 - Yeah, I think he just didn't expect Wilkes to be sitting up in the boot.
01:15 - Yeah, man. I don't know what he thought, but he misjudged that one. And now it's too late.
01:20 - Yeah, because you remember in training camp, like, yeah, sorry, go ahead.
01:23 - No, go ahead. Go ahead.
01:24 - I remember you said in training camp that Wilkes was like hands-on with the players,
01:28 like he was jumping on the field and coaching guys up. I feel like maybe that was a good sign,
01:32 but where's that during the season, right? Like he's just-
01:34 - It's different though. It's more like, it's more like Ambry, okay, you messed up. Let's do
01:38 the coaching points. Sala and D'Amico are the kind of guys who would get fired up after good plays.
01:44 Like they're more like positive reinforcement. And I think Kyle and Steve Wilkes are more negative
01:48 reinforcement. All right, let's talk about, you did eight things well, you did three things wrong.
01:52 We need to focus on these three things. You don't do them again. Whereas Sala and D'Amico are the
01:55 kind of guys like, man, you did three things wrong, but you did eight things right. You're
01:59 getting better. And I think that kind of coaching- - Yeah, the team feels slow. Like the team doesn't
02:03 feel energized anymore. You know, like it used to have that pop, like there'd be five guys swarming,
02:08 swarming tackles and stuff. Yeah. My last question to you is who do you have more confidence in at
02:14 the end of the game, Kyle Shanahan or Brock Purdy? Because to me, Brock Purdy is still
02:19 relatively unknown. And to my books, he's one for three. He got us the Browns game. Like he really
02:25 did that. So to me at the end of games, he's one for three or one of three and Kyle Shanahan is
02:30 already seven. So who are you trusting more at the end of the game, Brock Purdy or Kyle Shanahan?
02:34 I'm still leaning towards Brock. - I remember at the beginning of that,
02:38 you got to remember at the beginning of that drive in Cleveland, first pass was a dropped
02:42 interception. So to me, I look at Brock. Yeah, I look at Brock as an extension of Kyle right now.
02:47 I think Brock's super prepared and everything that Kyle makes him practice, he's good at. But
02:50 I think this whole team is so arrogant that they don't have to practice hurry up offense. They
02:55 don't have to practice two minute drill because they don't really, they're not really trailing
02:59 enough in the fourth quarter to even waste their time on that. Like get out of here. It's hard to
03:03 knock. Maybe Brock's a choker. I don't know. He turned the ball over a lot in college. He lost a
03:08 lot of games. - That's the thing, right? Maybe Brock's a choker, but we know that Kyle is a choker.
03:11 - But we know Kyle's a choker. And right now I look at it as an extension of Kyle. So I'm with
03:15 it. I think it's Kyle. - Yeah, let's share. - Great call, man.