Analyzing three reasons the San Francisco 49ers will not return to the Super Bowl next season.
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00:00 Let's get negative. Give me three reasons the Niners will not make it back to the Super Bowl.
00:04 Uh, health. They were very lucky this year with health and I'm not going to predict future
00:14 injuries, but I will say that they are coming into a season with Drake Greenlaw already set
00:20 to miss some time and Telenova Funga coming off of a major injury. So already they're not as
00:26 healthy as what they were most of this last year. And they have a lot of players that are on the
00:32 other side of 30 that, you know, they're going to miss some games throughout the season. That's
00:35 just what they do. So I think health is a big part. I think they were very fortunate this year.
00:41 So that's reason number one, they wouldn't. We talked about NFC teams, quarterbacks. Yeah,
00:46 maybe the quarterback play is on par or worse than what the 49ers have, but the 49ers really
00:54 had their hands full more than they should have against a young Green Bay Packer team
00:58 and the Detroit Lions team that quite frankly, I thought was a year away.
01:02 And Detroit Lions have about 48 million in cap space. And that's if the projected cap is 242
01:08 and a half million, if it goes up to 250, now they're up in the $56 million range.
01:14 So they're going to be better. Presumably the Packers are very young. They'll be better.
01:19 Presumably your own division is going to be better. You've actually got a competent head
01:24 coach in Seattle and you have the Rams with Superbowl pedigree and they've got 40 million
01:29 right now in cap space. And then I would say the last reason would be schedule is going to be
01:36 tougher, man. They got, they got to play Buffalo next year. They got to play Kansas city.
01:40 You know, while, while the other teams in their division, aren't playing number one seeds
01:46 across these other divisions, the 49ers are. And if the 49ers don't get the number one seed,
01:51 we talked about how important it was this year. I think it's going to be just as,
01:55 if not more important next year, they get the number one seed.
01:57 I think that would derail things. So those would be my three reasons.
02:00 Yeah. Another one, it seems like maybe Kyle Shanahan, his offense is starting to get
02:07 figured out a little bit. I mean, wasn't very good against the Packers. It was good in the
02:13 second half against the lions. And then it wasn't very good against the chiefs.
02:16 It was awful against the Ravens. It seems like the Ravens and the chiefs both kind of figured
02:22 out that they could dictate some things to the Niners with their simulated pressures and their
02:27 different blitzes. A lot of teams were struggling to blitz the Niners offense, but those two teams
02:32 had no problem. And it was interesting. Like the Ravens did it with zone coverage. The chiefs did
02:37 it with man coverage, but all of a sudden it seems like now that the league has had who year and a
02:42 half to look at this team with Purdy and McCaffrey there, you have very good defensive coordinators
02:49 coming up with very good game plans. And now it's on Kyle to change. I'm not saying he can't, but
02:54 it's on him balls in his court right now because his offense stunk in the Super Bowl, man. And he
03:01 didn't really talk about it. And it was held in check for long periods in both the other games
03:08 leading up to the Super Bowl as well. The first half that didn't do anything in either of those
03:12 games really came on when it needed to, which was great to see. But yeah, man, there, there was too
03:17 many long stretches where they just couldn't put points up. And for a team that has what a lot of
03:23 people believe is an elite quarterback with five other all pro caliber players and a genius at head
03:30 coach, I would expect more. So yeah. And that's again, where I think his rep proceeds him like,
03:38 yeah, a lot in his own, but his dad won Super Bowls and this genius thing. If he had any other
03:43 name, if his name was Kyle Jones or whatever you want to call him with all this talent, people would
03:50 be quick to point out, you know, what about this coach? How could you possibly score 22 with all
03:55 these players? Are you holding it back? If your name was, I don't know, Matt Nagy or something
04:00 like that, but Kyle Sanahan, it's like, oh, all this talent. You're great. 22 points. I can't
04:06 figure out why I get, this is one of those things. Nah, it, the Niners issues in the Super Bowl to
04:12 me were much more schematic than execution. Now George shouldn't have been talking to George
04:18 Carloftis and Christian McCaffrey shouldn't have fumbled, but they couldn't pick up a freaking
04:22 blitz. It seems like the chiefs always had one more than they could block hard to blame the players.
04:28 Yeah. I mean, schematically, they did some really strange things with the offensive line.
04:35 You're seeing a lot of people come out and they're like, why are the, why is your center
04:38 pulling on a pass play? What is going on? How can you not run? One of the weakest run defenses in
04:43 the league. What's going on? Yeah. I just, I don't know. And then when, when they go to man
04:50 DBO, anyways, I don't want to rehash the Super Bowl because I feel like we've done it a thousand
04:54 ways, but clearly, yes, he, he has to get out of his own way. He does. And there's certain things
04:59 that he needs to improve on and it's tough because it's crazy. Coach and I little teaser coach and I
05:05 on Monday, we're going to do show and we're going to talk about Kyle Shanahan from the perspective
05:12 of the teams that he's left in the past and what some of the things were said about him.
05:17 And then they're not glowing remarks that these other organizations had and these other beat
05:23 writers had about him. So, and a lot of the things that they're saying are things that we talk about
05:28 now and have talked about since he's been here as being problems. And it's like, Oh, he's young.
05:32 He'll learn, but he's been that way since the very beginning. So I don't know that he will learn,
05:38 learn, grow. I don't know. We'll see. He doesn't seem to do a whole lot of growing,
05:44 but he has to change something. There has to be a new element that defense that defenses have to
05:52 account for change something up. It doesn't seem to be where you added all this talent to your
05:57 offense and still came in with 22 points in the super bowl. What was that? One more, two more than
06:04 last time, two more, two more. And that's not even brought over home. You got to look inward.
06:12 If you have McCaffrey, if you add McCaffrey, Iuke and Brock to this team, and you only get two more
06:17 points plus overtime. Like if there wasn't overtime, you would have scored fewer. You got
06:22 to look inward. Kyle, what has gotten stale about your system? The whole league's running it. You
06:28 got to stay one step ahead. And the next step isn't just going empty backfield all the time. I promise.
06:33 Well, and, and, you know, I love Joe Staley, but he's not as good as Trent Williams.
06:39 So they upgraded there as well at the left tackle position.
06:42 And they still could only put up 19. Why they're not getting back to the super bowl
06:47 because they're getting old. Trent is in a lot of ways, their super bowl window. If he
06:51 misses half the season, they're in a lot of trouble. Yeah. Oh, he misses a couple of games
06:57 every year, but if it extends to more than that, they're in a lot of trouble. Yeah, I agree.
07:02 That's the one reason I would trade. I could get behind trading Brandon. I had to trade someone.
07:10 He's got the most trade value already over-invested at skill position.
07:18 You trade them for a top 15 pick maybe and get an offensive tackle. It seems like something
07:23 chiefs might do like, yeah, Brandon, I is great, but the chiefs traded Tyree kill.
07:27 Like it's a wide receiver. I'm just saying, but then they have to get that off. It's alignment.
07:34 Right. Like if, if, if they were able to trade Brandon, I, you for the equivalent of
07:40 Tristan worse, I wouldn't be against that, but I don't know. I would love that. I would love that.
07:46 But yeah, I don't know that I haven't looked at any of these players. I don't know. Common hasn't
07:51 even started yet, but that's the only way I think you can justify it. Or that's one way you could
07:55 justify it. Yeah. If you trade Brandon, I, you can, you draft another receiver. That's the most
08:00 disappointing thing ever. Don't do that. Don't do that. You can draft one. If you were to take
08:07 an offensive tackle, let's say you got pick 17 and you were to take one of the higher end offensive
08:12 tackles. And then with your number 31 overall, then you took a receiver like Troy Franklin or
08:17 something like that. Okay. I can get behind that. Replace them with that way, but don't replace
08:21 them directly with the pick that you get, get an offensive lineman. Or what you could do is trade.
08:26 I, you for the 17th pick, take the other first round pick trade up to get like the best offensive
08:33 tackle in the freaking draft and have someone who can replace Trent Williams. If Trent Williams
08:38 misses a lot of time or, or gets old and a draft, a wide receiver around two or something. I don't
08:43 know. Just, these are thoughts that go through my head. I'm not saying trade Brandon. I, you,
08:48 because I'm not sure. I don't know what, what pick you'd really get, but you got to improve
08:51 the offensive line somehow. It's much more important than wide receiver. It is. Yeah,
08:57 it most certainly is. It would be a shame though, to lose Brandon and I, you, and when you could
09:01 have done some of the same things with Debo a couple of years ago. And I think anybody who
09:06 we had these conversations then, and people really didn't want to hear it. It's interesting.
09:10 I feel like people are oddly more receptive to moving on from Brandon. I uke than they were Debo.
09:16 And maybe that's because you've watched Debo for a couple of years. And you're like, well,
09:19 that didn't really pan out. Don't want that to happen again, but I think we should have been
09:23 more receptive to moving Debo than Brandon. I, you personally, that was such an obvious bad
09:29 call in retrospect. Hold on. You're telling me that he's not a wide receiver. He's a wide back
09:34 and you're going to Pam like a wide receiver. I don't think that's a good idea, but the thing
09:38 with I, because he's a real wide receiver and you could see him being good into his thirties.
09:42 I think he's worth the money. But so was Tyree kill Tyree kill. Like the dolphins, you could say
09:51 were right to trade for Tyree kill, but the chiefs are the ones that have won the last two super
09:57 polls. So they're not, it worked out. I don't know. Maybe the Niners should look at that
10:04 pressure. They gave up and think, you know what? We really need to improve our office a lot. Maybe
10:08 we would cause cause if we don't, then the office of law is going to be one of the three reasons
10:12 we'll make it back to the super bowl. And if we're only going to throw Brandon, I uke six
10:16 freaking passes in the super bowl anyway. Am I over here advocating a trade for Brandon?
10:21 Yeah. I think you kind of all just talking to myself and do it slowly.
10:25 You love, you're going to miss him in the locker room. If he's not here, you know,
10:28 that I like him a lot. I just like, what would the chiefs do is I think a fair question to ask
10:33 in the NFL. It's copycat league. They're the gold standard. What would the chiefs do? I'll tell you
10:38 what they would do. They would trade Brandon. I, you they're ruthless. They didn't, they didn't
10:43 extend your various word. Hey, thank you so much. Your hell of a player. Goodbye. We'll replace you
10:48 in the draft. And they did try. We killed great player. We're going to draft where she rice in
10:53 round two and that'll be good enough. And it was, I think the chiefs would have kept Buckner and
11:00 traded Debo as well. No doubt. Yeah. They would not have gotten rid of Buckner. He's not quite
11:08 Chris Jones, but he's not far off. They wouldn't have gotten rid of Buckner. No, I don't think so
11:13 either. I think it's too late for what, what would the chiefs do? We should make, that should be one
11:19 of my weekly shows. What would the chiefs do? And we just tried to guess it's all the things that we
11:23 think the chiefs would do.