Analyzing whether the San Francisco 49ers' offensive line is getting better or worse.
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00:00 Offensive lineman exit interviews are the is the 49ers offensive line getting better or worse worse
00:05 Trent
00:10 About to make 31 million dollars next year brother
00:12 And about to be 37 I believe coming up
00:17 Showing your age in certain instances
00:21 but I feel like the biggest thing for you is
00:26 You know, you just got to close out your season your career the right way
00:30 You did not have a good game in the playoffs. You did not have good games in the playoffs Trent struggled against
00:36 Green Bay Detroit and Kansas City
00:42 For me there are certain things about
00:46 Trent where I think is gonna help him with his
00:50 longevity, right and
00:53 We got to make sure that our diet is correct
00:56 going into the season another thing that
01:00 I'd like to highlight is just the insult the mace the miss assignments the mental errors. I
01:05 Know that the hold was on Trent, but truthfully I believe that hold was on Brock
01:12 Brock broke the pocket when there was literally nobody there the pocket was for him
01:17 he broke the pocket and Trent got hit with that holding but the offsides penalties the
01:22 Getting shivered by safeties and corners on outside zone
01:27 the the crashing down on power and missing blocks
01:31 Winding up on linebackers and hopping into them. Um right now. I feel like Trent is
01:39 Trent Trent's on a certain level of play that I feel like a lot. There's only a certain a
01:46 Certain amount of players in the NFL who can do this
01:51 He's kind of a transitional player. He got drafted
01:54 He got drafted 10 years ago 11 years ago and in that time
02:00 football was vastly different so there's a lot of base principles and
02:06 Physical things that Trent used to have to do on a regular basis in the NFL that just quite simply don't exist anymore
02:13 In today's league and because of it it's prolonged his career, you know, think of it as LeBron
02:20 Drop in 27 and 7 and everybody's still thinking he's in his prime. But anybody with eyes
02:25 Can see that LeBron is playing against a much different NBA
02:30 Than what he used to have to come up against in his prime and that's what it's like watching Trent in my opinion
02:37 It's like watching a time machine where you're watching an older style player play in a softer genre of football or the sport
02:45 So with that I feel like I would talk to Trent almost like I would talk to LeBron in a sense of like take care
02:52 of your body
02:53 Understand that injuries are gonna be your biggest foe, you know, you know how to play around this game
02:59 it's not as tough as what you what you're used to and
03:01 Just put the final touches on your career. That's I am that's where I really where I am with Trent
03:06 I can't genuinely tell him what you sucked at this. You need to get better at that. He's 37
03:11 You know what? I mean? It's like that's how I feel
03:14 Now Aaron Banks on the other hand
03:17 We've got to start taking care of our body. We kind of slipped when we first got here
03:22 We had really hard time just getting you on the field because you didn't have your body yet. You took a whole season
03:28 Took a whole season to get your man body. You got stronger. You came back and you gave us a solid campaign
03:33 All right. This is your second campaign in a row and you fell off. All right, and you fell off because of injuries
03:41 Not only did you fall off because of injuries it but also
03:44 There was a lot of process and errors where you just were confused at times
03:48 There were a lot of plays during the season where you were going in the wrong direction
03:52 There were a lot of plays where I could see that you were tapping players
03:56 Asking for directions on the plays. This is all over film. All right
04:01 We just got to get you into the playbook a little bit more Aaron. You got to get you a little bit more
04:06 Focused on what's going on during the games
04:10 Also, this isn't your fault, but take care of your body. You had a bicep. You had a toe you had a knee
04:16 and I
04:18 Commend you for playing throughout the entire season. You had a great year as far as
04:22 Showing and testing the fortitude and getting through the year. I was at the commanders game. Aaron Banks was barely playing, right?
04:29 He could not push off on that toe, but he was still playing on P 80 and his special teams
04:33 I gave him a feather in his cap for that. He could have sat out
04:36 so I
04:39 Will say that it's time for you to get stronger
04:42 You become a good offensive lineman in today's league, but in order for you to be elite
04:47 It's time for you to take your strength to another level
04:49 Jake Brendel
04:52 Smart conscientious
04:55 Season really?
04:57 I really like you know how you set the protections this year. You did a fairly good job at understanding things
05:05 You necessarily weren't given the best game plans all the time
05:09 When going on happy that Super Bowl with the protections are not to just jump into the negative
05:13 I don't know Jake. I'm just fault. Sorry. Sorry. I don't know if it's Jake. No, no
05:16 Yeah, you weren't given the best preparation at all, right?
05:20 right, um during games that showed itself during tougher teams like
05:25 Baltimore like a Green Bay like
05:30 Kansas City and
05:33 You showed a lot of you showed a lot of fight
05:35 however
05:37 We don't know that's I want to stay away from that because we don't know where the break and failure is for that, right?
05:43 I don't know if Jake is the one messing up the call or Jake is the one not calling that
05:48 the audibles that should be put in or the checks or
05:52 if the entire plan is fubar from the begin with from from the get-go right where
05:58 Coach where coach Forrester and Kyle have put together a run game plan. That's not even good off the bus
06:05 You know, so you never know exactly
06:08 Where like where the smoking gun is?
06:11 however, um
06:14 You know, there's
06:18 It's there's there's not a lot of there's not a lot of upside as far as like where Jake can go
06:24 I'm not you know, he could get stronger, but his body type is his body type
06:28 Um, I feel like he did an amazing job with angles this year
06:32 I think he needs to clean them up a little bit more if he wants to become a lead at it
06:37 One thing that I will say about Jake is that Jake's?
06:41 Backside protection his scoop blocking was very good this year
06:50 Showed a lot of good angles a lot of presence and team works good foot good foot. Um foot foot work hands
06:58 hand placement
07:00 But his frontside combo blocking was really bad
07:04 where he was actually leading off the combo where he was the pin and
07:09 The post was coming off of him
07:12 He needs to get stronger in those areas. He really does
07:15 I mean if you're gonna lead blocks off for combo blocks
07:18 Especially when you need to get up top and go to the second level
07:21 You got to get faster hands
07:25 I don't know if you got to start boxing over the offseason or what but
07:28 Something needs to get happy with your hand out coordination has to get a little bit better and you're a sinner
07:32 So that needs to work
07:34 John Feliciano and spins out
07:37 Spencer Burford, thank you
07:42 Look man
07:45 Another solid year in the books the year before the year before last you weren't even starting on a consistent basis
07:52 This year you have been starting and also
07:54 What a lot of it wasn't necessarily just because of your physical traits that you needed to get better Spencer
08:00 But it was your mental acuity on actually knowing what was going on on the field
08:04 There were some issues during that that showed themselves last year on a consistent basis
08:11 You share those were gone. You actually knew exactly what was going on out there. I
08:15 Never knew I never had an issue where I felt like you were lost in
08:21 Translation or what needed to be done at the time?
08:24 And another thing that I'll say about you Spencer is that you actually progressed as the year went on
08:29 Your pad level got a lot better
08:32 I started seeing you get a lot more savvy with your hands using independent hands on longer longer
08:39 Defenders coming to you. That was something that you started showing later into the season that I was very happy with
08:45 You've gotten stronger a lot more confidence in the season. I'm getting out and running out front now the best thing that you do
08:51 Spencer is when we get you out in the out in the open field. You're an amazing athlete
08:57 You can run for days
08:59 My only thing about you Spence is that you just you get elongated when you're trying to get to the second level, bro
09:05 Mmm, all right
09:06 What you need to do is you need to keep power angles to the second level and be able to use your strength and speaking
09:12 I can find it. Yeah, like when they pull on that he doesn't really deliver a blow when he's the guy you want to pull
09:17 Cuz he moves so well
09:19 Exactly, right. He's got you got beautiful feet, bro
09:21 Yeah
09:22 But one thing that we were gonna have to work on spins is you got to get stronger particularly in your torso
09:28 You've got to be able to take on bull rushes
09:31 There's that's something that's in your game that people see that if they can just take one arm
09:37 One arm is longer than two in the league. You know that if they take one arm and just in
09:41 Post you bruh. They feel like they can get you off off guard
09:45 The biggest thing with you if you take your game and get stronger. I feel like there's a lot of
09:52 deficiencies or vulnerabilities in your game
09:56 Because you're compensating for the lack of strength where you're kind of
10:02 Shirking the responsibility of the full technique that you need to use because you understand that a I might get blown off the ball
10:09 I get might get blown off my track or I don't know who's on the other side of this pool or
10:13 I'm gonna fill you out and I'm a lock my elbows out and I'm gonna try to get a hold on you so I can
10:19 Manage you because I know that I don't have the strength inside the technique. You got beautiful technique, man
10:24 You just got to get stronger. Um, that's kind of like your biggest thing if Spencer came back with
10:30 five to ten pounds of muscle eight pounds of muscle and
10:34 Kept his weight down, but got stronger
10:37 Spencer Burford would be one of the best guards in the league hands down. He's athletic. He's got feet
10:44 He's got a tackle background. So he knows what it's like to play in space. He's got good hands. He's conscientious
10:50 I feel like this year was a beautiful year and also
10:54 want to put a feather in your cap for how you responded to the last play of the season where everybody was barreling down on you and
11:01 you didn't make excuses you stood tall and you understood what you needed to do coming from that moment and
11:07 You know, I applaud you man. So
11:11 More of that moving into the guy. We're about an hour into the show
11:15 We still haven't the second half of the team to do and we got to talk about Colton McKibbin
11:19 So let's pick up the pace a little bit, but we can't forget about you Colton Coleman Kivitz
11:24 beautiful year
11:26 This was the question mark of the offensive line going in and you made it through
11:29 It wasn't pretty but you faced some of the best pass butchers in the league and we know in the NFL today
11:36 Left tackle. There's no distinction on left tackle the right tackle anymore. They're both just as important
11:42 I like to say that I need you to get a little bit stronger yourself
11:46 Your feet are good
11:49 your conscientious as well your nasty attitude, please keep that and
11:53 Beautiful year beautiful year of starting the entire season making it to the Super Bowl
11:59 but at times
12:01 You're becoming a liability with your feet really need to work on your feet get faster
12:07 As far as your pass pro is concerned as far as the run game is concerned
12:11 You had the best feet in the game, you know how to get out
12:13 But that's what we need to see more of you
12:15 You
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