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00:00I turned on 9-5-7 game this morning, and I'm hearing from people who are saying that they're
00:07not really convinced on the 49ers being all that much of a threat this year.
00:13It actually started with Spadoni.
00:14Spadoni this morning is like, I don't even know if they're good.
00:20And I oddly was not in sort of like, as you just described, the text chain mood.
00:26I was like, okay, I'm open to hearing this.
00:29Tell me why the 49ers are potentially not good or not a contender.
00:35And invariably, this is the line that comes up, and this is the one I would love to explore
00:41with you.
00:42Okay.
00:43Because we hear it in every sport, every year, quote, they haven't beaten anybody.
00:51Yeah.
00:52All right.
00:53Let's talk about that.
00:55They haven't beaten anybody.
00:58And the team has more wins than losses, but quote, hasn't beaten anybody.
01:04We did this with the Warriors all last year, right?
01:06Yeah.
01:0746 and 36.
01:08Well, it turned out it was true with them.
01:10It did.
01:11Yeah.
01:12So, and I would say the Dallas Cowboys last year, very good record, division winner.
01:17All right.
01:18But you haven't beaten anybody.
01:19And look what happened in the playoffs.
01:20They got their butts handed to them.
01:23But is that always a valid thing to say?
01:28Are you not a good team until you, quote, beat somebody?
01:34And somebody, by the way, is a subjective thing anyway.
01:37Like, I don't know, going into last week, it sounded to me like you thought the Tampa
01:42Bay Bucs were somebody.
01:43Yeah.
01:44Yeah.
01:45Bad spot for Tampa.
01:46Right.
01:47But now they lost.
01:48They lost two games in a row to the Chiefs and the Niners, both of them narrowly.
01:53And now they're four and six, and now they're, quote, nobody again.
01:56They were somebody a week and a half ago.
01:59They're tied for first place.
02:00Sure.
02:01They had a 500 record.
02:02Now they're nobody again.
02:04So that's what I mean by it's a subjective thing.
02:07Is this a fair thing to hang on teams that win more games than they lose if they don't
02:11have sexy, fancy wins?
02:14I don't think so.
02:15Okay.
02:16But ultimately, when you get to the end of the year, if you're a playoff team and you
02:20are a team that is not a hosting team because you didn't beat the teams you should have,
02:26then maybe it is a thing.
02:27And if you go up and you look at the Niners remainder of their schedule, and I just did
02:31the math mark on the teams that they have beaten, there are combined 17 and 31.
02:37The Jets, the Patriots, the Seahawks, the Cowboys and the Bucs, 17 and 31.
02:42That's not good.
02:43You lost to the Vikings, winning record.
02:45You lost to the Rams, not a winning record, but I mean, that's a game you should have
02:50won.
02:51You lost to the Cardinals, winning record.
02:53You lost to the Chiefs, undefeated.
02:55So you've played of your four losses, three are winning teams.
03:00And the other one is a game that you shouldn't have lost.
03:03And so I look at the rest of the schedule, Seahawks, not a winning record.
03:06Packers, Bills, yes, Bears, not currently.
03:10And I think that they're heading in the wrong direction.
03:12And then, you know, Dolphins are a team that maybe can recover, but you know, right now
03:18they're three and six and they have, I don't know if they'll have a winning record then
03:21they probably won't.
03:22So banged up, nothing going for them really on defense for the most part.
03:26And then the Lions and the Cardinals again.
03:27So if you look at the remainder of the schedule, you've got a legitimate four games against
03:31good teams.
03:32So all of this, like, oh, you haven't played anybody.
03:36I don't think it applies to the NFL because every NFL team, every NFL game is a one-off
03:41and you can face a good team or a bad team.
03:44Like last night's a good example.
03:46Washington is really good, but they haven't beaten anyone.
03:50And I know you ran down a list of teams that haven't beaten anyone either.
03:54I got a list.
03:55The Niners are not the only ones.
03:58First of all, happy Friday.
03:59Yeah.
04:00Oh, let's do this.
04:01Yeah, boy.
04:02Yeah, on the screen right there.
04:03And it's a big Friday.
04:04And coming up at some point during the show, I get back to 500 with my Niner Seahawk lock.
04:10First of all, that will not happen during the show because the game is still 48 hours
04:13away.
04:15The pick.
04:16No, the lock will come.
04:17The lock will come.
04:18And the pick is already in.
04:19And I'm coming off a nice gut check win last night.
04:21It was.
04:22My Eagles.
04:23I was feeling good at halftime.
04:24Yeah.
04:25I was feeling good at halftime.
04:26And then.
04:27Did you get that hate rate at halftime?
04:28First of all, look, you got me.
04:29You got me last night.
04:30There's no two ways about it.
04:31You got him.
04:32I'm not going to wiggle my way out of that one.
04:34This isn't about the spread.
04:36Can we do 30 seconds on last night?
04:38Do 30.
04:39What the hell?
04:40What?
04:41Did y'all watch last night?
04:44You talking about Dan Quinn?
04:45What?
04:46Not Dan Quinn.
04:47Cliff Kingsbury.
04:48Offensive coordinator.
04:49What?
04:50God's green earth.
04:51What?
04:52What are you doing?
04:54I've never had the bigger, and it's an NFL season, so you get a lot of these, but I've
04:59never yelled, what are you doing at the TV more than you do this night?
05:04And that's your phrase.
05:05That's your go-to.
05:06What on earth?
05:07First of all, we can all, and this is Dan Quinn because he's the head coach.
05:10But when you get, there's seven minutes left to go in the game and you're at the 25 yard
05:15line.
05:16You're down two.
05:17You're down by two.
05:18And it's fourth and two.
05:19Like, I don't know about y'all, I'm kicking the damn field goal.
05:23Take the lead with seven minutes to go.
05:25They go for it.
05:26They barely even get the snap off.
05:28It's not close.
05:29Fine.
05:30Eagles take over on downs.
05:32And then now Barkley does his thing.
05:35The Eagles are up two scores.
05:36So this is sort of, I guess, kind of a nothing burger.
05:39But the commanders are moving down the field, down 16 points with like three minutes to
05:45go.
05:46They've got the two minute warning and two timeouts.
05:48If you actually showed some urgency, there's a scenario where you score a touchdown, get
05:54a two point conversion.
05:56And if you do that before the two minute warning, you don't even need to onside kick.
06:00You kick the ball off.
06:02You got a two minute warning and two timeouts.
06:05But they're just bee-bopping.
06:07You guys get mad at Kyle Shanahan's clock management.
06:09Kyle Shanahan.
06:10Y'all should have watched this.
06:12They're bee-bopping.
06:13They're huddle.
06:14Jaden Daniels is at the line.
06:17He's calling out Omaha, Omaha.
06:20Like we're talking to each other.
06:22And then they run the ball twice in a row.
06:28I'm like, what?
06:30What?
06:31The guy who comes on this station a lot literally tweeted, if I were a commander fan, I would
06:37be so pissed right now.
06:40It was literally like, you'd have been mad if your youth football coach was calling plays
06:46like this.
06:47Anyway, now I got that off my chest, as you were.
06:51So I can tell you where this conversation is going.
06:54This conversation is going to this place.
06:58As we sit here today, do you buy the 49ers as contenders or not?
07:02Absolutely.
07:03OK.
07:04888-957-9570.
07:05Have they earned the label or not?
07:09It's week 11.
07:11We should know by now.
07:12They've got a winning record.
07:15I don't know if anybody's feeling great about it.
07:17Not in first place.
07:18Not in a playoff position right now.
07:20A couple of boneheaded losses.
07:23And as we just detailed, no fancy sexy wins.
07:27However, let me add this to the party.
07:30You mentioned I've got a list.
07:31Here are four other teams that I would argue most people would say right now, they're good.
07:38Right?
07:39You think the Buffalo Bills are good?
07:43Is Buffalo good?
07:44They're 8-2.
07:45They're 8-2.
07:46Want to know the eight teams that they've beaten?
07:48I'm looking at it right here.
07:49All right.
07:50The list is the Arizona Cardinals, the Miami Dolphins, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the New
07:53York Jets, the Tennessee Titans, the Seattle Seahawks, the Miami Dolphins again, and the
07:58Indianapolis Colts.
08:00I count one team with a winning record.
08:02They haven't beaten anyone.
08:05Now they had two chances.
08:07They beat the Cardinals.
08:08Right.
08:09But they beat the Cardinals back on week one by six points, and at that point, the Cardinals
08:13were on their way to their 2-4 start and all that.
08:16If you want to give them that, go ahead and give them that.
08:18It's the only win they have against a team with a winning record.
08:20There you go.
08:21Last time, they didn't have a winning record because they were 0-0.
08:23The big measuring stick for Buffalo was week four.
08:27They went to Baltimore.
08:28Let's see what you got.
08:29They lost by 25 points.
08:31Week five, you went to Houston.
08:32You lost by three.
08:33You lost again.
08:34Buffalo, you haven't beaten anybody.
08:36Yep.
08:37OK.
08:38What about the Green Bay Packers?
08:39Good team?
08:40Oh, yeah.
08:41Really good team.
08:42Everybody likes the Green Bay Packers.
08:43This is going to be a hard game for the Niners.
08:45They're an underdog as we sit here today.
08:47Last week in Green Bay, here's your list of Packer wins.
08:51Colts.
08:52Titans.
08:53Rams.
08:54Cardinals.
08:55Texans.
08:56Jaguars.
08:57That's two wins.
08:58Two good wins.
08:59Uh, ish.
09:00I mean...
09:01Well, I mean, if you want to talk about against winning teams, the Cardinals are winning the
09:04West.
09:05Yes, they are.
09:06And the Texans have a winning record.
09:07So those count.
09:08Sure.
09:09They count.
09:10They're the two divisions that people point to that are the worst two divisions in football.
09:13To your point, though, those are not overwhelmingly great wins.
09:16Houston looks to be a team reverting to the mean.
09:19And Arizona, yeah, they're leading the division, but everyone thinks the Niners will win that
09:23division.
09:24You mentioned Washington.
09:25Seven wins.
09:26I'd argue none of them impressive.
09:27Needed a Hail Mary to beat the Bears at home.
09:29True.
09:30Chargers are six and three.
09:31Go look at their six wins.
09:32They haven't beaten anybody.
09:33They haven't beaten anybody.