Why the 49ers Will Get Revenge Upon the Chiefs
Analyzing why the San Francisco 49ers will beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII.
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00:00 You cover this team all year and there's like 8 to 10 people who show up.
00:03 I mean, it's the Niners, but people aren't that interested.
00:06 You mean 8 to 10 media members?
00:08 Exactly, sorry. Media members. The same guys. Everyone knows the usual suspects.
00:13 Super Bowl happens and it's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of media people.
00:17 Guys who don't even... and women who don't really cover sports all the time.
00:21 Right.
00:22 And it's interesting to see who... people who aren't intimately...
00:28 don't have intimate knowledge of the team, who they gravitate to.
00:31 Right.
00:32 So it's fun to look at who has the biggest crowds.
00:36 Who do you think has the biggest crowds?
00:38 Who do you think national media gravitates to on this team?
00:41 Well, it would have to be Purdy.
00:43 I mean, he's a great story and he's the starting quarterback.
00:46 So I would assume he gets...
00:48 He's Harry Potter.
00:50 He's Harry Potter.
00:51 Except for the glasses. He doesn't wear the glasses.
00:53 He could get some glasses and a scarf, but he could be King Arthur instead or King David.
00:56 Whichever one you want, he's that.
00:58 He's Harry Potter.
00:59 He needs a scarf.
01:00 Yeah.
01:01 And here's what I want to say.
01:02 I watched today, because you did some video of him.
01:06 I thought he really did a good job.
01:09 He's so serious and earnest.
01:11 No, I don't mean earnest.
01:14 He's such a good guy.
01:17 He's like the guy when you go to Safeway, he's doing the bagging.
01:20 You know, he's over there bagging.
01:22 You'd say, "Are you having a nice day?"
01:24 He's so sincere and earnest.
01:27 Also, someone asked him about his faith.
01:30 I generally don't like people to talk about their faith, but he didn't bring it up.
01:35 And then he explained his relationship to Jesus Christ.
01:39 And he said it's the most important relationship...
01:43 More important than his relationship to football.
01:45 I thought he did a beautiful job.
01:47 And then he got off it.
01:49 And I admired how he handled himself.
01:51 So yeah, Purdy.
01:53 Now, I'll say another one.
01:56 Kittle, but he wasn't there today.
01:58 For whatever reason.
02:00 But tomorrow, Iggy, he's going to be mobbed.
02:02 So what I would suggest, because I've done a lot of these.
02:05 Go early and stand right up where he's going to be.
02:08 So you're right in the front row, because you have questions for him.
02:11 And they're going to ask him...
02:13 What's going to happen is, a lot of people who don't know him...
02:16 Are going to ask him to act the Kittle persona.
02:20 You know, all of that.
02:22 You have serious questions for him.
02:24 So you're going to want to get them in.
02:26 And clearly, I'm going to tell you who I think the third one they go to.
02:30 Is Yushek. Am I right?
02:33 Yes, today he got a lot of people.
02:35 Because I think a lot of the headliners weren't out there.
02:40 Trent Williams, Deebo, IU, Chris McCaffrey.
02:42 Those guys were not talking today.
02:43 The most famous guy who talked today was Purdy.
02:46 And then, Dre Greenlaw.
02:48 So yeah, Yushek had a big crowd today.
02:51 But yesterday, it wasn't Yushek.
02:53 McCaffrey had a huge crowd.
02:56 Which is interesting, because if you know the team...
02:59 And you know McCaffrey...
03:01 Good guy, bad quote.
03:03 Yeah, yeah.
03:05 Good guy, bad quote.
03:08 He's not rude, he's just very Buster Posey-ish.
03:11 Like, "Hey, let me give you cliche one, two, seven, and ten."
03:15 "No, I'm going to go with cliche four, five, and six."
03:18 Like, that's McCaffrey.
03:20 And I want to tell everybody out there how journalists think.
03:24 You go to a Super Bowl, and there are people out there...
03:27 Who don't cover either of the teams.
03:29 So they'll come to you, because they know you're with the Niners.
03:32 And they'll say, "Not who's a good player."
03:35 "Who's a good quote."
03:36 Or, "Who's a good talker."
03:38 Because you're there to write articles or to do videos.
03:42 So you don't want to get someone who's monosyllabic.
03:45 You want to get someone who talks.
03:47 Who clearly everybody says, "Yushek, kiddo."
03:51 Right?
03:52 Or, "Trent Williams."
03:54 Yep.
03:55 What's interesting is that someone who had a relatively small crowd.
03:59 Which to me, shows that these national people don't know the team that well.
04:04 Bosa.
04:05 Really?
04:06 I don't know if they were intimidated by him.
04:08 Or they thought he was a man of few words.
04:10 But there just weren't that many people talking to Bosa.
04:12 And I was thinking, "That mistake."
04:14 Yeah, because he has the most to say.
04:18 And he's the most revealing.
04:20 He says the most in the fewest words.
04:22 And he'll tell you the game plan.
04:24 Oh, yeah.
04:25 Yeah.
04:26 He will tell you the game plan with no hesitation.
04:28 You see, that's interesting.
04:30 What those out-of-town people should have done.
04:34 But no one does journalism anymore, Iggy.
04:37 They should have called someone on the Niners beat and said,
04:40 "Give me a top five quote, guys."
04:42 Yeah.
04:43 Easy.
04:44 It's a five-minute phone call.
04:45 I'll say, you want to avoid Fred Warner.
04:48 God love him.
04:49 You want to avoid Christian McCaffrey.
04:50 God love him.
04:51 You're getting just coach speak from them.
04:52 Clichés, one through 11.
04:54 You want to get Nick Bosa.
04:56 You want to get George Kittle.
04:57 You want to get Purdy.
05:00 Uschek is good, although--
05:03 He doesn't--
05:05 He's good.
05:06 Okay, he's good.
05:07 He's good.
05:08 He's good to talk to.
05:09 Aaron Banks, excellent.
05:10 Jake Brendel.
05:12 Oh, God.
05:13 Aaron Banks, both of them.
05:15 You know, one, again, if I were covering the team and in this situation with all these people around,
05:22 I wouldn't go to Ayuk.
05:24 I think he's a little shy, and I think he might be monosyllabic in this setting.
05:31 Yeah, I think he sort of masks his shyness with a little bit of monosyllabic standoffishness,
05:36 which I just interpret as shyness,
05:38 and I think it'll probably wash away when he gets a little older.
05:42 You can see it happening with Debo.
05:43 Debo was a little standoffish when he was young, but now he's like 28,
05:47 and he's much more comfortable, and he has all this charm.
05:51 He's a very charming man.
05:53 You know, I've never met any of them, but he is charming, Debo, and he has a lovely smile.
06:00 Yeah, he has a great smile.
06:02 He actually-- Debo, if you're watching, forgive me,
06:06 but he seems like he's a very sweet man.
06:09 I don't know about a very sweet man, but there's a sweetness there that I don't think Brandon Ayuk has.
06:14 Brandon Ayuk is salty.
06:17 He is salty, which is cool.
06:19 I mean, he's a tough player, and he plays harder than freaking Debo anyway,
06:22 but he's got his own agenda-- not agenda.
06:26 He's got his own chip on his shoulder, and he's a very salty dude.
06:29 Yeah.
06:30 Yeah.
06:31 Yep.
06:32 So, yeah, I would avoid Brandon.
06:34 Debo was good yesterday.
06:37 There was a big crowd around Kyle.
06:38 Kyle's pretty famous, so he's another one.
06:43 You know, it's interesting.
06:44 Could we talk about Kyle's fame?
06:46 I'm going to talk.
06:47 I'm not going to try to induce you to talk.
06:49 Sure.
06:50 Kyle deserves to be famous because he's in the Super Bowl, has been to other Super Bowls,
06:56 has been to the NFC Championship game, and is Mike's son.
07:00 He deserves to be famous, and he's a hell of a good coach,
07:04 but he has more fame than honors achieved.
07:09 Agreed.
07:10 He's flopped in Super Bowls, and he's never won one.
07:16 So everybody-- a lot of people, not everybody-- say he's the best offensive mind in the league.
07:24 Well, I think right now Andy Reid is, but he can dethrone him on Sunday.
07:30 He can dethrone Andy Reid.
07:32 Yeah.
07:33 Part of Kyle Shanahan legend, the myth about Shanahan is like he does it in spite of the quarterback.
07:40 Now, that's outdated, but for 15 years, people that would say he's the best would say,
07:45 "Yeah, well, Andy Reid has Patrick Mahomes.
07:47 Kyle has done this with Jimmy Garoppolo and yada, yada, yada.
07:51 He's never had that franchise quarterback."
07:52 Well, that's partially his fault, and now it's not even true anymore because he has Brock Purdy.
07:59 So, yeah, I think it's time for his fame to recede a little bit and let Brock be the face of the team.
08:06 That's what you want, the quarterback to take over.
08:09 If the coach is the coach's face of the team, that's a problem.
08:13 Okay.
08:14 I'd have to think about that.
08:15 Bill Walsh certainly was the face of that team, although he contested that with Montana,
08:20 and I think maybe there was some tension between them because of that.
08:26 Yeah.
08:27 Okay.
08:28 Before we move on, who else had a sizable crowd?
08:31 Travarius Ward is great.
08:35 No one went to him.
08:36 He had a whole booth.
08:37 He was wide open the whole time.
08:38 People go on to Fred Warner.
08:40 Mistake.
08:41 I'm sorry.
08:42 Fred's great, but he talks like he's the coach on the team.
08:43 I don't like players like that.
08:45 We could talk to the coach.
08:46 We already know the coach isn't going to tell us what we want to know.
08:49 What do you think?
08:50 That's why Nick Bosa is great.
08:51 Yeah.
08:52 He has a whole different message than the coach.
08:54 Just like, thank you.
08:55 We don't want everyone to be on the same message.
08:57 That's not fair.
08:58 That's not fun.
08:59 No.
09:00 Bosa, there's a certain anti-establishment in Bosa.
09:06 Don't you think?
09:07 He's a defensive lineman.
09:08 Yeah.
09:09 He's a defensive lineman.
09:10 Those guys are lone wolves.
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