49ers Defense is NOT Playoff Caliber!
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00:00It was the Mason fumble with about six minutes left in that game, 6-12, the 10-yard line,
00:08and gave the ball back to the Cardinals, and the Cardinals marched up the field and hit
00:14a game-winning field goal to win that game, 24-23, 8-8-8, 9-5-7, 9-5-7-0, in 10 minutes
00:21I'm going to play you the Kyle Shanahan press conference from today.
00:26He's already spoken to the media about an hour ago.
00:29So I'm going to play that for you in about 10 minutes.
00:33And the Niners, Goo, just two and three, and they just, they look like an incomplete football
00:41team.
00:42What's more concerning?
00:43Oh, go ahead.
00:44Well, I just think that there's nothing they can hang their hat on right now.
00:47The defense isn't good enough, the offense hasn't been good enough, the special teams
00:52haven't been good enough.
00:53What about the coaching?
00:54The coaching hasn't been good enough.
00:58That's what's concerning me.
00:59Yeah, I mean, maybe this, maybe they're not as good as we thought they were.
01:04Well, Stani, they were up 13.
01:06They were up 14 on the Rams.
01:09So at those different junctions in both games, everything that we think about this football
01:15team, we're correct.
01:18But why does it veer off?
01:19Why does it go awry?
01:21Why does, you know, what happened to IUK in the second half?
01:25I don't know if that's a Kyle problem, is that a Purdy problem?
01:28Is that a IUK problem?
01:29That I don't know.
01:31But as far as defensively, you talk about that fumble for Mason, and I know it's a team
01:36game.
01:37Okay, defense, you know, bail us out.
01:40The first play after the fumble, Connor gets the ball for nine yards.
01:44Stani, it's one of those, I'm your big brother, I'm running right at you, I'm gonna get nine.
01:50He looked like Earl Campbell in the second half.
01:53So I don't have those answers as to why in the first half, the Niners can build these
01:57leads.
01:58And then all of a sudden, you know, nothing, nothing's happening.
02:02I don't know why everything is looks like a fade in the end zone in the red zone.
02:07It seems like they're running the same route, regardless of who the receiver is.
02:11And the biggest glaring thing for me today is if I was in front of Kyle, how the hell
02:18do you and I'm saying it not mean it come for me, I don't care.
02:21Do you give the modern day Marshawn Lynch 14 carries in a game where it's 100 degrees
02:28out?
02:29We're watching guys?
02:30No.
02:31Oh, do you give they didn't do that with Connor?
02:33He wore the Niners down the fruits of your labor.
02:37Why does he only have 14 carries averaging 6.4 a pop?
02:43If this is high school, if it's college, I told you, I don't have the answers.
02:48But those are the questions that are at the top of my list.
02:5114 carries.
02:53You're doing the Cardinals defense a favor.
02:57And whatever reason you've fallen in love with being pass happy, Stiney, you still got
03:02a red zone issue, 9 to 20, 29 to 22 for 30th in the NFL.
03:09And I'm sitting here, me, Daryl Johnson, calling Kyle a genius.
03:14So is this just all about no McCaffrey or lack of creativity because Kittle can catch
03:20look at the catch a couple of weeks ago in the end zone of last week against the Pats.
03:25Don't tell me it's him.
03:26You got beast mode.
03:28You got Jennings deep.
03:29What's happened to Debo?
03:31I mean, Stiney, the end around is outdated.
03:35Shout out Apple.
03:37There needs to be an update.
03:38Joe Mason gets a run for nine yards.
03:42Hey, you know what?
03:43I got a great idea.
03:44Give it to him again.
03:46No, we'll just get to give it to Debo.
03:49End around nothing like he's getting too cute.
03:52But I can and I will question why Mason left that game yesterday and 100 degree heat with
03:5914 totes.
04:00I would.
04:01Stiney, help me.
04:02I'm not going to be able to give you an answer, but you're not mad at the question.
04:08I mean, Kyle might say he can't last 20 carries in that heat, and in fact, that's why he fumbled
04:16late in that game because he was worn down.
04:18I don't know.
04:19Listen, I don't have the answers.
04:22Six yards of pop.
04:23Stiney, I'm going to find out if he can last.
04:26Let's go to Philmo.
04:27Philmo, Mike.
04:28Start us off, Philmo.
04:29How you doing, Mike?
04:30I'm not doing particularly well.
04:40We're soft.
04:41Niners.
04:42The Niners are kind of soft right now, and I don't know what's going on, but I keep relying
04:50on the fact that they're really not in panic mode, but they need to step their game up.
04:58I don't know what's wrong with the defense.
05:01Under Kyle Shanahan, we usually have a way more stouter defense.
05:08They're not making any plays when it needs to be made.
05:14You got to make plays when it needs, like when we need to be making plays, not when
05:19you feel me like, you're right, something's wrong with the team, something is off, but
05:27I'm going to stay faithful.
05:30I know Guru, you're kind of happy because you're a Dallas Cowboy fan, but you're a true
05:34professional.
05:35I give you that.
05:36You're a hella professional, bro.
05:37I appreciate you.
05:38And you'll be right.
05:39Bro, you'll be riding with the Niners, bro.
05:42You see it too, and you just give your honest opinion.
05:45So I just really appreciate that, but there's something off.
05:50They need the door.
05:51I don't know if they need a boombox speaker to come out for home games.
05:55I don't know what's going on, but we've got to get together, and the defense right now
06:01is very, very soft.
06:02Mike, it's not a playoff defense right now.
06:05I know it's five games, but do you have a problem with me saying that, because that's
06:08how I feel right now.
06:10It's not.
06:11Okay.
06:12It's not a playoff defense.
06:14It's a preseason defense.
06:16They're sweet.
06:17They're in a malaise.
06:20Thanks Mike.
06:21Appreciate the call.
06:23Let's see, defense has given up this year, 19, 23, 27, 13, and 24.
06:33Offense.
06:34And a lot of that is skewed too, Stani.
06:37Minnesota was going up, I mean, Warner made the play on Aaron Jones, but that was about
06:42to be a 30 or 40 point burger, and they held him 27.
06:45But again, you're not fighting me, I just, the defense is what it is.
06:51And at the end of the day, Stani, until Greenlaw comes back, if he does come back, I really
06:55believe that that's a big deal.
06:58What's up with Hufanga?
06:59Now all of a sudden, Stani, you know he's getting caught peeking, but even when he's
07:04healthy, he's not, like he didn't, what's going on there?
07:08We were ready to call him Ronnie Lott when he was out.
07:11Who was?
07:12Stani.
07:13He's not Ronnie Lott.
07:14Okay.
07:15Stop.
07:16No, I get that.
07:17But don't, Stani, he started off great.
07:19And when he got hurt, it was going to be, it was a big, you know what I'm saying?
07:23Just chalking up the injuries.
07:24You got injuries.
07:25Well, I'm talking about the plays where he's caught peeking, that, you know, you're actually
07:30playing.
07:32He gambles a lot.
07:33Yeah.
07:34No, right.
07:35I got you.
07:36So do I.
07:37Mad Dog in San Mateo.
07:38What's up, Mad Dog?
07:39How you doing, man?
07:40Hey, Stani.
07:41Hey, Gu.
07:42How's it going?
07:43Hey.
07:44Hey.
07:46So this is my, this is what I saw.
07:47You know, I mean, like the Cardinals are like the Jefferson High School of the NFL.
07:52I mean, they may not be winning much, but they are physical.
07:55They will punch you in the mouth.
07:56And they, they have always had physical games with the Niners and the Niners got punched
08:02and John Connor, he ran like a man and they couldn't tackle him.
08:08And so the defense right there, and they needed a safety to be able to come in with the hammer.
08:13And then, of course, there's three turnovers.
08:15So, you know, they, I don't know, they're not hitting.
08:20It seems like they're getting out ahead.
08:21They got out ahead in Minnesota.
08:23They got out ahead yesterday.
08:26It seemed like they couldn't stop that run going up the middle.
08:29Well, they did.
08:30It was the tale of two halves.
08:32They did in the first half.
08:33So my question, my quick question to you is what's happening in the second half that is
08:38not mirroring the first half.
08:40They gave up 10 points, Connor averaged 1.6 yards a pop, and Murray had the run.
08:45He's great.
08:46But the Niner defense looked like the Niner defense.
08:49What's happening at halftime?
08:50That's the question I have.
08:54And Bosa said, yeah.
08:57So I couldn't say except for, you know, is that that fire that Greenlaw used to bring.
09:02And I did see that thing on the sideline, you know.
09:05But they need somebody who's got some fire, more fire.
09:11Thanks man.
09:12Yeah.
09:13Appreciate the call.
09:14And do you have a problem?
09:15I read it to you and Evan Bosa at the podium game because I know he's not afraid to criticize
09:18defensive coordinators.
09:20And he was a big reason why Wilkes was ran out of here.
09:23But Stiney, he said they didn't make an adjustment to the second half adjustment from a run standpoint
09:28from the Cardinals.
09:29So like, what do you do?
09:31Is he calling out the coordinator?
09:32I don't know.
09:33But wow.
09:34I think in all of our losses, the preparation we've had has been great, but teams are playing
09:40us different and doing things differently.
09:42And we need to adjust a little better, just showing different looks and kind of than what
09:47we were looking at on tape.
09:48So just got to adjust and get them down.
09:53That's thrown.
09:54No, I'm asking because they got to make adjustments.
09:57Well, you got 60 minutes to do it.