How Ready Are 49ers to Advance Past Lions?

Previewing Detroit Lions NFC Championship contest against San Francisco 49ers with writer Grant Cohn.

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00:00 Grant I'm curious you look at this 49er team. They've dealt with heartbreak the last couple years

00:05 You you had a team that was ready to compete for it all arguably some of the best teams that have been

00:13 Assembled but just have come up short this year from your observations

00:17 How ready are this group the 49ers to take the next step to get to the Super Bowl?

00:22 It feels like they've been ready for four years

00:25 they've been in for the past five NFC Championship games and they've really kept the same core of guys together and

00:32 That's rare in football. And now you've got one of the older teams in the NFL

00:39 Not the oldest team

00:40 But they're one of the older teams and a lot of their key players are either 30 or approaching 30 Eric Armstead Javon Hargrave

00:46 How you shake George Cato on and on so it feels like this is the year

00:51 If it's not this year if you can't beat the Lions nothing against the Lions

00:56 But if you can't beat the Lions as a seven-point favorite at home something's wrong

01:00 You can't just keep running this back with the same group year after year and tell fans

01:07 Well, there was an injury or we had some bad luck or you knew is this and that but we have the team like no

01:12 You don't you have not shown that you have a championship formula. You're a excellent team

01:17 So that's what's at stake with the 49ers in there. I don't think the Lions have much pressure

01:21 It feels like the Lions are playing with house money

01:23 This is their bursting on the stage are gonna be back next year in the year after that

01:26 But if the Niners can't get it done this year, no one's getting fired

01:31 But all of a sudden you look at Kyle way differently

01:34 You look at Brock pretty way differently like who are you guys really?

01:38 Because I think locally people would look at this loss as a disaster

01:42 They haven't lost yet