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00:00and stuff like that. Randy Moss is a guy that you can emulate, Bonte, when it comes to balancing
00:05that lifestyle.
00:06The Randy Ratio.
00:07Yeah, the Randy Ratio.
00:08Bonte's asking for the Brandon IU Gratio.
00:10Hey, we're gonna need the Brandon IU Gratio, but look, we gotta understand something here.
00:14Why receivers don't control whether or not they catch the ball, or whether a pass is
00:19thrown to them. They control whether they catch a ball. They drop it or catch it, right?
00:23Yeah, yeah.
00:24But they don't control whether or not the quarterback throws the football to them. They
00:28don't control whether or not they even get a look. They don't control any of that stuff.
00:32So Randy Moss broke it down very well at the beginning of the receiver doc, and here it
00:39is.
00:40It's always funny when people say a receiver has one job, catch the ball, when catching
00:44the ball is mostly out of our hands. The play call, the protection, the quarterback looking
00:50our way. So many things we have no control over, have to go right, just for the chance
00:56to do our job. No matter how much you train, study, and practice, when the ball is snapped,
01:03you can leave the defender in the dust, run the perfect route, and have absolutely nothing
01:09to show for it. Catch the ball, congrats, you're now a moving target. Drop the ball,
01:15sorry, you'll never hear the end of it. They call us divas, despite our decoy routes. They
01:22call us distractions, despite all the damn blocking we do. But no one seems to recognize
01:28the one thing we actually are, always open.
01:34Always open. So that was the opening monologue in the receiver doc, where he told Peyton
01:37Manning, move aside here. And Randy Moss set the tone there, as you got Justin Jefferson,
01:42George Kittle, Devo Samuel. Who's the other two receivers? Oh, Devontae Adams, and Amarase
01:48Brown.
01:49So Brandon Ike's probably thinking, throw me the ball and I'll make some things happen.
01:56You can't be serious here, right? Like the guy caught a pass for a 20-yard gain and then
02:01immediately was like, yep, take me out of the game.
02:03See, that's what Randy Moss is talking about right there. He catches a pass of 20 yards
02:07and you're still knocking the guy.
02:08We're chasing multiple touchdowns, and we're down bodies, and you finally make a play,
02:14and yes, stay on the field. No, I don't think that's too much to ask.
02:16He ran five straight routes. I saw D.J. Moore. I saw D.J. Moore in Houston on a final drive
02:27running deep route. It was underthrown or whatever the case may be, and it became a
02:31third down, and D.J. Moore walked off the field. He needed a blow. Guys need blows.
02:37So this is what happened. Shotgun sack. This is the first possession of that. Shotgun sack.
02:44Second play. Iyuk Dine, he asks to be called out of the game, and Kittle gets announced.
02:49I have this in my notes. Kittle's announced he's on a cart with an IV. Second play of
02:53the drive after they sat on the field on the sideline for quite some time, because remember,
03:00Purdy threw an interception.
03:01Maybe he needed to fix his socks. Maybe he needed to fix his helmet.
03:03I'm just saying.
03:04I mean, you can't be—
03:05Look, his body language hasn't been great. I'm not here to crush him.
03:07Fix his socks.
03:08We expect more. He's going to get better as time goes on.
03:11Let's ask Iyuk. Hey, Iyuk, why'd you leave the game after a 20-yard catch? I see receivers
03:18all the time. It's a third down to some of these guys come out the game.
03:21Well, they're going to ask a lot from him moving forward. He's going to have to get
03:25up to speed. With no Deebo Samuel, with no CMC, I believe they're going to need to want
03:30him to produce more, and so we haven't really had those games where he's had 10, 11, 12
03:36catches in a game. I think we're absolutely going to need that from him, and there's a
03:41grace period of coming back, and some have a little more leniency than others, but when
03:46you lose a game, all these things come up for criticism—the play of the left tackle,
03:51the play calling of the head coach, the wide receivers across the board, the quarterback
03:56play. All these things are going to get critiqued, but I think if they want to win games moving
03:59forward, especially against a Rams team that's as depleted, if not depleted, as you are,
04:04then you're going to need more Brandon Iyuk, more George Kittle. They're going to need
04:08more Jordan Mason.
04:09Well, the opening monologue from Randy Moss is basically telling everybody, look, man,
04:13you guys don't appreciate fully what a wide receiver does. All you do is look at a box
04:17score and look at targets and catches and yards and say, well, it's not good enough
04:20here. And basically, we don't know if they're open, we don't know if they're the primary
04:25receiver, we don't know if they're the secondary receiver, we don't know if Brock is even seeing
04:28it. So the quarterback controls most of this, right? That's why this is our Brock. Brock,
04:34he's got to play better and read it better, and he's got to take these checkdowns, which
04:37will loosen up the defense a little bit more. Minnesota was dropping everybody thinking,
04:41okay, I dare you to throw it to Jordan Mason. I dare you to throw it to Jordan Mason while
04:46they were blitzing five and six guys at a time. Checkdowns got to be there. You got
04:50to hit those. So, but when it comes to Brandon Iyuk, in these next few weeks without Devo
04:55Samuel, it is imperative to get Brandon Iyuk going, and it's imperative for Brandon Iyuk
04:59to take advantage of the situation and ball the hell out. He could quiet all the noise
05:04from all the offseason with some big time performances over the next few weeks against
05:09the Rams, the Patriots, and the Arizona Cardinals, who will be coming to Levi's in three weeks.
05:13Well, and he needs another guy on the opposite side to make enough plays to honor the defense
05:18because, you know, he could get double and triple team, to your point, because that,
05:21like, think about it from the Rams perspective. What are you thinking? You're thinking, well,
05:24we can't let Iyuk beat us. So we're going to try to bracket him and triple him, and
05:29we're going to take away Brandon Iyuk as best we possibly can. And so now it's incumbent
05:33on Kittle to step up, Juwan Jennings to step up, Cowens to balance things out a little
05:38for this offense. So I'm with you, like, he's going to have to make plays, they're going
05:42to have to go his way, but also you're going to need some contributions from a Chris Conley.
05:47I keep asking for Cowens, maybe it's asking too much from the rookie. I feel like Pearsall,
05:52you know, it's going to take time. We're not there yet. Jennings makes plays, you know,
05:57but they're going to need him to do more. It's one thing to be the number three. It's
06:00another thing when you're asked to be the number two. And so I think all these other
06:03guys are going to have to step up as well. The best 49er offense is when it's balanced.
06:07Yeah, no, they're not balanced right now. But Herbette, where's the coach? Former coach
06:11of the Jets, Kansas City Chiefs, Arizona State, Coach Brandon Iyuk. He told us a few weeks
06:15ago, he told us what time it was when it was going to be, when Brandon Iyuk signed that
06:20new deal with the Sarasota 49ers. Here's coach on how long it's going to take for Iyuk to
06:25get ready to roll.
06:27Two weeks is probably, you know, good for him. I mean, because as much as he's been
06:31working out on his own, he hasn't been practicing with the team. And that's a whole entirely
06:34different, you know, transition. And I know that with dealing with players that have sat
06:39out, you got to bring them along slow and he plays wide receiver. So Brandon, you know,
06:44he'll be all excited about playing. You got to slow him down a little bit. Say, look,
06:49we got to get you ready to play. We don't want you to pull a hamstring. That's the worst
06:52thing that could happen to him. Having him back in the offense, obviously helps tremendously.
06:58I think they're going to have to bring him along slow because he's missed a lot of days
07:01in practice. You know, he'll be ready to play, but you got to monitor his reps because of
07:06the fact that he's not in football shape. And that's just what it is.
07:10So Herm told us a few weeks ago, it would take him about two weeks to get ready to roll.
07:15This week was week number two against Minnesota Vikings. So we should have foresaw, foreseen
07:23the struggles of Brandon. But I don't even know if he's struggling. I don't know what
07:27he's struggling at. I can't wait to talk to Baldy to see how Brandon looks, but I did
07:32watch that first play the game over and he got jammed at the line of scrimmage and I
07:36didn't see him fighting it off as much as well as I thought he could.
07:39So I feel like this has more to do with protection and the scheme they're going up against than
07:44it does any individual wide receiver or quarterback. Like right now, I'm looking at the protection
07:49from the Niners, right? And the pressure versus just the Vikings. And this is via PFF Colt
07:55McKibbetts, six pressures, Trent Williams, four pressures in a sack, Dominic Poonie,
08:00three, Aaron Banks, two, Jake Brendel, two. And Banks also gave up a sack, like not good,
08:06you know? And then you look at the average time for Brock Purdy when he is sacked is
08:11almost six full seconds. So that tells me he's moving around back there. He's holding
08:16onto the ball and on the back end, it feels like they're clustering things up and they're
08:23dropping a lot of people. So there's a combination of things happening here. You know, one of
08:27the things that I think Brock and Kyle do such a great job of is process quickly, get
08:32rid of the ball quickly. And I think they need to get back to that. And it feels like
08:36the Brian Flores, his game plan was let's drop guys back and let's, let's disguise pre-snap
08:40and then post-snap, we're going to turn it into something entirely different. And it
08:44really befuddled them.
08:46That last drive, 23-14, you mentioned and how you left that for the second play.
08:50It was, no.
08:51No, it was earlier in the game, right?
08:52Yeah, it was earlier in the game. This was third quarter, shotgun, 635 to go. They finally
09:00got him a second target. It was a shotgun sack that Pat Jones came blitzing it on the
09:04side and they couldn't even hit his back foot. The second play was second and 17, he threw
09:08an absolute dime to Brandon Aiyuk. It was a really beautiful play.
09:1322 yards right there. And then Debo the next play, minus one yard.
09:16And then they call the timeout.
09:17Yup. So look, man, he played, I watched him, I watched the final drive over. He was playing
09:24in that. He didn't get any targets really on that final drive. They were going over
09:27the middle of the field and I don't know, man, the rapport obviously is not quite there
09:32yet with Brock Purdy and Brandon Aiyuk to start the season. They're about to wrap that
09:35up. This is a big week for those two right there. Let's go to a.