49ers Injury Report Proves how Critical Clinching the No. 1 Seed is
Injuries are starting to pile up for the 49ers, which only acts as a reminder as to how critical it is to hold onto and clinch the No. 1 seed.
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00:00 So here's where the Niner stand.
00:01 They're the number one seed right now.
00:02 If they went out, they get home field advantage in the playoffs.
00:05 In addition to a bi-week.
00:06 Well, let's talk about that home field advantage.
00:08 What does that actually mean in practice for this team?
00:11 You know, um, when I used to cover the Warriors, their defensive
00:16 coordinator was Ron Adams.
00:18 I didn't even know if he's still with the team.
00:20 Cause I don't follow the Warriors and he's such an interesting, thoughtful man.
00:24 And I once asked him about, you know, home court advantage.
00:29 What did you mean?
00:29 What does it do for you?
00:31 And he was so pragmatic.
00:32 He said, you know what, Lowell, you get to sleep in your own bed.
00:35 I thought, right.
00:37 That, that makes a lot of sense.
00:39 Yeah.
00:40 As opposed to being on the road in a hotel.
00:42 I don't know about you guys, but a lot of times I don't sleep well in a hotel.
00:47 There's a little red light that, that flashes on and off.
00:50 There are people at three in the morning in the hallway who were noisy.
00:54 Um, I'm not used to the mattress and Iggy and I talked about this.
00:59 You need a pee in the middle of the night.
01:00 You walk into the wall because you forget what you think you're in the other.
01:04 You were in new Orleans, but now you're in Cincinnati and you don't know.
01:07 There's all of that.
01:09 Plus you, you very often, especially for California team have long
01:15 prank plane rides there and back.
01:17 That's a lot.
01:19 You can go into different time zones.
01:22 It can be three hours different.
01:24 That's hard on your body.
01:26 And it can be cold.
01:27 If you go to green Bay, boy, that's tough going to green Bay and, and, and you're a
01:34 California team and you playing in, in that frigid weather.
01:37 So what I want to say home and also you're not playing with a hostile crowd, but I
01:45 would say the crowd may not be the most of it.
01:47 It may be these other things.
01:49 Iggy.
01:49 Well, it's the other things and it's universal for all sports, but in football,
01:56 the crowd is a big factor on the road because if it's a legit crowd, then the
02:02 offense has to use a silent count.
02:03 Yep.
02:04 Right.
02:05 Like that, like the crowd, I think affects play calling in football way more than any
02:10 other sport, because now they, all of a sudden they can't do the, you know, the
02:14 real cadence, you can't draw people off sides.
02:16 You got to do the tap and that little thing, which is easy to time.
02:20 And that makes the other pass rush even more.
02:22 Uh, effective.
02:25 This is one of the advantages that Seattle's had throughout the years.
02:29 Although I think it's very overstated.
02:30 Their advantage was Russell Wilson.
02:31 Can we say that now?
02:32 The advantage in Seattle was Russell Wilson.
02:34 Anyway, home field advantage.
02:37 The noise is good.
02:38 It's good.
02:39 But like if your team sucks and no one cares about you, like if the rent, the
02:43 Rams don't have home field advantage.
02:44 So the night is where to, where to have to go to the Rams.
02:46 It would be a home game for the nineties, but there are certain places where this
02:50 is a factor like Philly, that's a fact that a fact that is it a factor in Santa
02:55 Clara.
02:55 Yeah.
02:55 Maybe the playoff game.
03:01 Although my experience is that the Niners have their most passionate home crowds in
03:07 Mexico and LA and then Santa Clara.
03:12 Sorry.
03:13 Sorry.
03:13 Pretty interesting.
03:14 A yeah.
03:16 Different crowd of Santa Clara.
03:17 Mary, more of the, I'm going to say wine and cheese, but like Silicon Valley, like
03:23 we're here, it's fun.
03:26 Also, they don't want to sit in the sun.
03:28 Right on the sun side.
03:31 Yeah, that's true.
03:32 They don't want that.
03:33 Malik Payton says, Hatton Hatton shirt game this week.
03:37 Hold on.
03:37 I get, they could clinch.
03:40 They could be clinching.
03:41 Mark marking marks is with four games left.
03:43 Could the Niners have their first three thousand yard receivers, BA Kittle and
03:50 Debo all three could get there.
03:53 That's what they're working on.
03:54 Accolades crow says Dallas and the Niners played in 81, the regular season, 1445
04:00 Niners, hold on.
04:03 Let me see.
04:05 I got the 1981 team right here.
04:07 Dallas.
04:09 Yeah.
04:10 The Niners won that one 45 to 14.
04:12 Then they came back and played in the playoffs and it was a one point game.
04:17 So dad, that's what they historical historical context here.
04:20 You hear that?
04:20 You hear that?
04:21 I hear it.
04:21 I hear it.
04:22 I hear it.
04:22 I hear it.
04:23 You hear it.
04:23 I'm chasing reminding us.
04:25 I'm a guest.
04:26 CRA says, what is the opinion of senior cone about your chicken?
04:30 Katcha Tori Iggy.
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04:33 It was great.
04:34 It was wonderful.
04:35 I loved it.
04:36 And it was how, uh, my, my wife made it was a little spicy.
04:41 We're spicy.
04:42 East.
04:43 Dad says, I love the voice change.
04:45 Awesome.
04:45 Dad and son.
04:46 Thank you.
04:47 You should, we do this all the time.
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