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00:00Christian McCaffrey is out this weekend,
00:03and my experience, this is how I'll say it,
00:06because I know you just said he's going on IR,
00:08and Christian's not going on IR yet,
00:11but my experience is, when you hear a coach
00:14and a general manager both start using those letters
00:19publicly into microphones, it is very unlikely
00:24that it then doesn't happen.
00:26So the fact that both Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch
00:30indicated today that IR is a consideration,
00:36a consideration, tells me, signals to me,
00:41that it is of the highest of likelihoods
00:44that prior to the game on Sunday,
00:46Christian McCaffrey would go on injured reserve,
00:50and injured reserve does not mean what it used to mean,
00:52it now means a minimum of four games,
00:55which would potentially only have Christian returning
00:59for a week six Thursday night tilt in Seattle.
01:03That would be, if they do it,
01:06the first time that we would potentially
01:08see Christian McCaffrey this year.
01:09And I'm all for it, and I'm all for it
01:11because I think that when you go through one week
01:14of is he gonna play or is he not gonna play,
01:17and we all headed into Monday night thinking,
01:18yeah, all signs point toward him being ready to go,
01:22and then boop, he's inactive last minute,
01:24it was a shock, and Jordan Mason did what he did
01:26and he won the game.
01:27Then you get into this week and it becomes,
01:29all right, he's practicing, he's limited,
01:32but he's practicing, it looks like maybe week one
01:34was a little bit of a blip, and that he's gonna be better,
01:37and that he likely will be up and he'll be ready to go,
01:40and then you get to Friday,
01:42and you don't even wait till Saturday.
01:43So this tells me he's not getting on the plane.
01:46So he's gonna continue to stay here and do treatment here.
01:50If he was at all questionable,
01:52they would have flown him there,
01:53and he would have gone through Friday and Saturday,
01:55or the Saturday walkthrough,
01:56and you would have seen on Sunday morning,
01:58and you would have made the call.
01:59The fact that they're making the call now
02:01tells me that there was a setback,
02:04or it's worse than they thought,
02:05and because of that, week one, week two, both misses.
02:09It makes sense to me to just say, you know what?
02:12We're gonna take four weeks
02:13and really try to get you better.
02:14Short time ago, the caution had addressed the media.
02:17Here is how the back and forth conversation went
02:20over there at the Niners facility
02:22with regard to Christian McCaffrey.
02:24Game injuries, Huff will be doubtful,
02:27Dean Winters is questionable, and McCaffrey's out.
02:30Does Christian need any kind of procedure
02:32or anything of that nature?
02:33No procedure.
02:34He's in early in the week, IR's still not an issue?
02:38That's something we're considering now.
02:39Yeah, yesterday was his worst day.
02:42It's on and off, but with yesterday having the most pain,
02:45something we're gonna be discussing here the next 24 hours.
02:47Yesterday was his worst day, and I will say something,
02:51and this is a complete layperson comment.
02:54All I have is two eyes, sometimes a brain,
02:58but I watched some practice footage yesterday
03:02of Christian running.
03:04Didn't look right to me.
03:06Didn't look, I can't, I'm not in the guy's body.
03:08I didn't talk to him, none of that.
03:10So maybe he was only going at 75% on purpose or whatever,
03:15but I'm not surprised to hear Koshanahan say
03:18that the pain was at its highest yesterday
03:21because I saw some practice footage
03:22and it didn't look right.
03:23And that was the second consecutive day
03:25that he had come back, and so that makes sense
03:27where you have your first day back on Wednesday,
03:30and you go through practice, and you're limited,
03:32and then Thursday you try to give it a full go,
03:34and you're not quite 100%, and you still have the pain
03:37that Kyle's talking about in that leg and in that Achilles,
03:40and so you get out of yesterday, and you wake up today,
03:43and the pain's no better, and you realize that,
03:46man, I've gotten worse since Monday when I didn't play.
03:49I'm now in a worse spot than I was on Monday,
03:51so the trainers, the doctors, and Kyle, and Christian,
03:55you all talk about it, and it's, you know,
03:57you're not gonna play this weekend,
03:58and now we have to take a hard look at,
03:59not only you, for four weeks, what that might do
04:02to get you better, but also our roster,
04:04because you can't continue to go forward with 45 guys,
04:08or 46 at the last minute, you know, switch out.
04:11And another running back.
04:11Exactly.
04:12You're gonna get another running back.
04:14I don't know who's on the practice squad
04:16or whatever, you're gonna get another running back.
04:19So let us kind of tighten the screws here on the fly
04:22since this news just came down
04:25while we were in the midst of the crossover.
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04:29Devs, I'm gonna throw a question to you.
04:31Let's throw it to our listeners as well.
04:33And again, here's the premise.
04:36The only thing we know is that Christian McCaffrey's
04:39gonna miss the first two games of the season.
04:42I can tell you what we also think,
04:44which is that Christian McCaffrey's gonna miss
04:46at least the first five games of the season.
04:48That's what Devs and I both think.
04:50We don't know.
04:51The consideration is underway to IR.
04:54My experience tells me when coaches
04:56start saying that publicly, that's probably gonna happen
05:00because that tells you that right now,
05:02based on what the Niners are seeing
05:04and what the team doctors are saying,
05:06they don't feel very good about next week
05:08or the week after that either.
05:10So now, the consideration is underway for IR,
05:13which would eliminate the first five weeks of the season
05:16and obviously, it could be more.
05:20So here's my question that I would love
05:22to hear an answer to from everybody.
05:25888-957-9570.
05:27You can go to our YouTube and Twitch feeds
05:29and watch the show.
05:30You can look at the concern right on our faces
05:32and in our eyes and interact there.
05:34We'd love to chat with everybody on those platforms
05:38during the breaks and sometimes even during the shows
05:40and all of that stuff.
05:4249ers still the Super Bowl favorite in the NFC?
05:46Yes.
05:47Yes, they are.
05:48Yes, they are.
05:49And this is something that I definitely wanna deliver
05:51to the audience today, my opinion on it
05:53because everybody we talk to,
05:55whether it's T. Shea, Houshmand Zada, or other experts
05:58and you and me and many other people around the team,
06:01Greg Cosell, the roster is, as you like to say,
06:05restaurant quality.
06:06It's Dante DiVincenzo.
06:08It's Michelin star, this roster.
06:10I miss that name.
06:11I do too.
06:12But this roster is that, restaurant quality.
06:15Your quarterback is top whatever in the league.
06:18All you know is that this guy goes out and wins
06:20and you've got a head coach with a laminated play sheet
06:23that is the best in football or maybe top two
06:25with Andy Reid and his play calling.
06:27So one running back should not derail you
06:30from your overall picture of who you are.
06:33You have a very good defense.
06:34The coordinator looks to be somebody who's in tune
06:37with what the defense wants to do.
06:39You had a runner who went for a buck 40 last week
06:42in a lopsided home win.
06:44I don't change my expectations at all.
06:47Not one iota.
06:49Can I follow up with another question?
06:51Not one bit.
06:53And again, 888-957-9570 right now.
06:57We'll take your calls right now.
06:58Are the Niners still the Super Bowl favorite?
07:01McCaffrey's out at least two weeks.
07:03We think it's likely he's out at least five.
07:06Who knows, maybe more.
07:07I don't even know if he's gonna play football this year.
07:09There's no way to know at this point
07:10because there are people bringing up right now
07:12in front of our faces, Xfinity mobile text line,
07:15like how about the red flag?
07:16I see you 925, thanks for the text.
07:19Like how about the red flag of the fact
07:20that apparently he started experiencing this
07:23before last year even ended
07:25and you had a whole off season?
07:27You skipped OTAs to get a new contract,
07:29a whole off season and we're still here?
07:33So what tells you this will be better in October
07:36or November or December?
07:38Because it wasn't in March and April
07:41and May and June and July and August.
07:45So I have no clue where this is going.
07:50If I had asked you this two weeks ago
07:54or even six days ago.
07:56Right, pre-Monday.
07:57Prior to Monday, if I had said to you,
08:00Christian's gonna miss at least five games.
08:04Niners still Superbowl favorites?
08:06Do you want me to tell you the truth?
08:08Yes.
08:08Or would you mind if I just, I don't know, lie to you?
08:11I think I deserve the truth.
08:14Well, then I'd say, are you high?
08:18How high are you?
08:19So high, Cody Bellinger on a Dave Fleming call.
08:22I mean.
08:23It's been like 25 years, but anyway, go ahead.
08:25How high are you?
08:27Yeah, it's been a while.
08:28Dib smokes kush.
08:29That's my other favorite from film.
08:30I'm like, pre-Monday, prior to what we saw from JP Mason,
08:34I would say it's a little foolish to think
08:35that you're still Superbowl favorites.
08:37But then we saw.
08:38You didn't think they could win without Brandon Aiyuk
08:41for crying out loud.
08:42Yeah, and McCaffrey's more important than Aiyuk.
08:44So, but having seen what I've seen,
08:46after one week and a small sample
08:48that I'm gonna hold onto,
08:49like my daughter holds her teddy bear,
08:51koala bear, shout out koala.
08:53I think that they still can be.
08:55And I'm thinking about Jeff Wilson Jr.,
08:58Matt Breida, and all the various who?
09:01Running backs that they've had.
09:04I would think that Kyle Shanahan,
09:05if he gets news that McCaffrey's out for the year,
09:07which thank God he hasn't gotten that news.
09:09But if that gets to be where we go,
09:11I think he looks at this as the ultimate challenge.
09:14With that laminated play sheet and the run game,
09:17they can survive it.
09:18415 says, Dib's lusional.
09:21I like it.
09:22Dib's lusional.
09:23That's a four.
09:24Not without C-Mac, not favorites.
09:27Like, I do think that your answer last weekend
09:31would have been no.
09:33Pre-Monday.
09:34Monday at 2.30 if you would have asked me.
09:35And I'm gonna be honest with you.
09:37The answer would have been no.
09:38Now the liar in me wants to say, of course.
09:42Of course I still would have thought that.
09:43But that would be lying.
09:44Take your comment and think about
09:47what we're all about to do.
09:48You know what happens at six o'clock?
09:50Grandy plays, ladies and gentlemen.
09:52I can't wait.
09:53The weekend.
09:54We're gonna go into the weekend.
09:55What the hell are we gonna think on Monday?
09:57Because one football game, one football game, one game.
10:03Probably changed 75% of our opinions.
10:08One football game.
10:10Now we've decided, now there's a bulletproof.
10:14We spent all August, what if there's no Trent?
10:18Mason on pace for 2,000 yards.
10:21And now everything's fine.