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00:00What is your frustration with the San Francisco 49ers?
00:05Because for me, that's the word I keep hearing.
00:08Even when they're winning,
00:09like even when he hit Jennings on that little play action
00:12fake in the end zone, they take the lead.
00:14Like I think they're gonna win.
00:16Everything is always exhausting
00:17and everything is frustrating.
00:19It's a very frustrating team to watch.
00:21Right, and it would be less frustrating
00:23if they were seven and three,
00:25and if they'd won the earlier two games
00:27that they should have won,
00:28and then last night or yesterday,
00:30they just kicked that one away,
00:31you'd be a little less frustrated.
00:33You still would be looking at it and saying,
00:35boy, there are some red flags.
00:37Something doesn't seem right.
00:38And I was listing it off in our show thread earlier,
00:41because for me, you can look at almost every level
00:44and every position and see fault.
00:45The offensive line is a problem.
00:48And Trent, I think, was the only one of the five
00:50to not have a penalty.
00:51You know, Dominic Pooney didn't have a penalty either,
00:53but there was back-to-back plays
00:55where McGlinchey false started,
00:57and McGlinchey gave up a sack,
00:59and Brendel.
01:00You mean McKivitt, sorry.
01:00McKivitt, sorry, well, I mean,
01:02it's kind of the same guy, unfortunately.
01:04Well, I don't know, Denver's playing pretty well,
01:06but anyway, go ahead.
01:07But you look at the pass rush,
01:09and you know, Nick Sorensen,
01:12Mr. I'm-gonna-rush-four,
01:13if I hear the play-by-play announcer Joe Davis
01:17say one more time, Niners bring four,
01:19but they bring four every time and they don't get home.
01:22But you're not mad.
01:23Actually, but they do.
01:24When Nick was out there, like, their defense was fine.
01:28Right, but they don't do anything different.
01:30They just, they rush four.
01:31And then Nick goes out of the game,
01:33and they rush four.
01:34And, you know, Fred Warner,
01:36kind of having a little bit of a quiet stretch
01:38to his season,
01:39he's not making the same amount of impactful plays
01:42as he was earlier in the year.
01:44I gotta think offensive coordinators
01:47are just singling him out and going,
01:49let's just go, let's go away.
01:51Wherever Fred's going, hey, quarterback,
01:52wherever Fred is, just go the other way.
01:54But in like, you know, run fits and whatnot,
01:56I thought the secondary yesterday was,
01:58they were fine, but they play seven yards off.
02:02It's a pitch and catch all day long.
02:05They don't ever, defensively,
02:06they don't ever take a chance.
02:08They don't ever try to make a play.
02:10It's, we're gonna rush four.
02:12We're gonna play a little soft on the coverage.
02:14And I could run through the play-by-play
02:15and show you, you know, Jackson Smith and Jigba.
02:19Seven, eight, great player.
02:21He's especially good when you don't have to like,
02:24really work to get open.
02:25And Yadim is not, by the way.
02:27Like, even when, because I, we've been frustrated.
02:30He doesn't get on the field much.
02:31And when he does, something bad usually happens.
02:33And I know he got the pick yesterday.
02:35And it was one of those picks where it's like,
02:37what the hell are you doing back there?
02:39Who was my guy who won Super Bowl MVP?
02:42Was his name Larry Smith or something?
02:44For the Steelers.
02:45Larry Brown.
02:46Larry Brown, thank you.
02:46Larry Brown had two interceptions in the Super Bowl.
02:50And the then Oakland Raiders made him
02:52a very highly paid defensive back
02:55in the following offseason because,
02:57ooh, he was fancy and he was a Super Bowl MVP.
02:59You know what he was?
03:00Out of position.
03:02Like, if a quarterback air mails everybody
03:05and you intercept it, that's not a great play.
03:07You just happen to be Johnny on the spot.
03:10And, you know, go to the last,
03:13one of those last drives where Gino Smith
03:15looped it right over his head to DK Metcalf,
03:18taking chances that he shouldn't take.
03:20He just, look, they're secondary.
03:22I get it.
03:23Charverius Ward is going through hell.
03:25So they're a man down and two men down.
03:28Green left for a short time yesterday.
03:31I understand it, but their depth has been challenged
03:34and has not answered the call all year long.
03:38That is one of many things that we can point to here.
03:42But it's just killing everybody
03:44because you look at this and in addition
03:47to not getting the results you want,
03:50I think every fan is sort of challenged to figure out why.
03:54I can tell you, like the people I watch the games with,
03:57they just ask me all day long, wait a minute.
04:00This is the same people.
04:02I know you're down a man here, you're down a man there.
04:05It's the same coach, it's the same system,
04:07same quarterback, same running back now.
04:10You got the same tight end, the same receivers,
04:12the same pass rusher, the same linebacker.
04:15What the hell happened?
04:17Why does it look so different?
04:21How can you go from number one in separation
04:23to number 29 overnight?
04:26How does that happen?
04:27Two things, one, adjustments,
04:29and the other one is it's not the same team.
04:32And if you talk about how many games they played this year
04:34with Debo, Iyuk, McCaffrey, and Kittle, the answer is zero.
04:38And so you're asking Ricky Pearsall, a rookie,
04:42who is making strides.
04:43What was his fourth game, I think, yesterday?
04:45Two targets and no catches.
04:48Debo Samuel, he does not look to me
04:51to be as spry, physical, and quick as he used to be,
04:55and yet you watch him on these jet sweeps,
04:58and they see it coming.
04:59Kyle's playbook is predictable,
05:02and the players that he's looking to
05:04to execute these plays, they're not getting it done.
05:06Christian McCaffrey, it was 4.2 yards per carry,
05:10but McCaffrey has not looked himself,
05:13and so I don't think it's that.
05:15I don't think it's that Debo's suddenly old and slow.
05:18I don't think Christian is still hurt.
05:19There isn't any space.
05:21This is an adjustment that Kyle Shanahan needs to make.
05:25I'm not a play caller, so I don't know,
05:29but I know that he's made adjustments before.
05:32You don't sit in the league for 25 years
05:34doing something that works
05:35and never have to make adjustments.
05:38That's not football, that's not life.
05:40You gotta keep staying ahead of the curve,
05:41but I really kinda, I finally reached a point,
05:46and Mike Holmgren came on this show eight weeks ago,
05:50and he's like, it's just injuries.
05:52Today, I stand up to disagree.
05:55It's not.
05:56It's not, because five years ago,
05:58they went to the Super Bowl,
05:59and none of these guys were on the team.
06:00And none of those guys, for the most part,
06:03were as good as these guys.
06:04Right, so this system has always worked,
06:07and you could sub people in and out.
06:10Matt Breida, Raheem Mostert, Jeff Wilson,
06:13whatever the hell you want in the backfield.
06:15Jordan Mason, hello.
06:17And there's a guy who, by the way,
06:18does look like himself, and yet he gets two carries.
06:21Well, I mean, we don't know if he looks like himself,
06:23or did he just have two nice carries?
06:24But I'm not.
06:25Well, he had two nice carries,
06:26and then he didn't get a chance to touch the ball again.
06:28I'm with you that it would be nice to, yes,
06:31rotate people in more and more,
06:33but the larger point remains, where did the space go?
06:38That, to me, is the whole key
06:40to everything we're looking at.
06:42You can pick an individual and get mad.
06:44Oh, Brock's now not worth money,
06:46and Debo is old, and the offensive linemen stink,
06:50and keep going, you're doing great.
06:52Whatever, whatever, and George Kittle's not there.
06:54We can do this all day long.
06:56George Kittle and Debo Samuel
06:58were not in a game against the Rams,
07:00where Brock Purdy and Juwan Jennings
07:02flew up and down the field without any problem at all,
07:05and Ronnie Bell and a drop and all those things.
07:08Juwan doesn't seem to be the problem right now.
07:10He's not the problem, that's my point.
07:12It's not the personnel.
07:15Yes, mistakes get made,
07:16but I don't think roster construction
07:19is suddenly a problem,
07:20or injuries are the only thing to blame,
07:23because they've dealt with that all the time
07:25through the last six years,
07:27and they almost always win,
07:28unless the quarterback gets knocked out.
07:30They almost always win.
07:32Now, now no.
07:33Now, suddenly, we don't win.
07:35Suddenly, guys are slow.
07:38This has to be much more schematic to me
07:41than it is about personnel or legs suddenly being gone.
07:45Well, and look at the scheme yesterday,
07:47and you know I love to talk about personnel groupings,
07:50and they love to do a lot of 21,
07:51two running backs and one tight end.
07:53Well, that one tight end is Eric Saubert,
07:56who is not necessarily a big pass-catching threat,
07:59and a lot of times when they went to that yesterday,
08:01they would have Juszczyk up there
08:03as the de facto second tight end,
08:05and he got some targets as well,
08:06but beyond that, I thought that everything that they did
08:09was pretty predictable,
08:11where you'd have McCaffrey as the lone back,
08:13and a lot of times, he was just getting the handoff,
08:15and if you watch the offensive line,
08:17they were not creating that second line of scrimmage,
08:20so they're blocking at the point of attack,
08:22and when you run the ball,
08:23you want to be able to get to the linebackers
08:25with your O-line, and they just weren't yesterday,
08:28which is why McCaffrey didn't have any explosive runs.
08:31He was fighting for three and fighting for four,
08:34and then the offensive line penalties,
08:36and I can look at almost every single drive
08:38and highlight a false start here.
08:42There was a hold.
08:43One of them was Jawan Jennings on the Jet Suite,
08:46third and one.
08:47I think the only one that wasn't an offensive line.
08:49Exactly, you've got Banks and Brendel,
08:51and you've got McKivitts.
08:53McKivitts, and McGlinchey had a couple too,
08:55I'm gonna throw him in there for old time's sake,
08:57but the penalties and just the lack of discipline,
09:00and Brock did miss on a couple of critical throws.
09:04Well, the decision on the interception was terrible,
09:07but I also, you know, you look at it,
09:08it's like, well, there's no space.
09:10I mean, half the balls that Jawan caught,
09:12you're like, well, that wasn't a very good decision,
09:13but he jammed it in there somehow.
09:15They're just, people aren't open,
09:18and I refuse to believe that that's
09:19because the 49ers suddenly aren't fast.
09:22Like, remember Baldy earlier this year?
09:24They look slow.
09:25I don't think they are slow.
09:27If you lined them up and ran a race
09:28with the 49ers, you'd lose.
09:30I think they're-
09:31Well, I would, for sure.
09:32Yeah, no, but you get what I'm saying.
09:33I do.
09:34I still think they're, like,
09:35when Debo hits open field in Seattle,
09:37and Brock throws it over everyone's head, what happens?
09:40He didn't get caught from behind.
09:41They can run.
09:43They're just something in the structure of this whole thing.
09:47The rest of the league has figured out the counterpoint,
09:51and now it's time for a new counterpoint,
09:53and we haven't seen it yet.
09:55No.
09:56At least not consistently.
09:56Well, and yesterday was a big disappointment on that front,
09:58and I look forward to Grandy's grades today.
10:01I actually glanced at him on Instagram or Twitter.
10:03The station sent him out, and I looked,
10:05and he was pretty harsh in some areas,
10:08and I thought that he was spot on in those,
10:10and I look at that game from a play-calling standpoint,
10:13and I'm kind of of the mind of Greg Cosell.
10:16You don't really know what the play-call is
10:18or what's going on in their mind,
10:19but I look at an offense mark that, like you're saying,
10:23you're not blocking very well.
10:24You're not getting separation.
10:26You're not getting explosive plays,
10:28and it looks very, very ordinary to me.
10:30The word I used on the thread earlier was bland.
10:34Bland, and not George Blanda,
10:36the great Raider quarterback and kicker.
10:38Just bland.
10:39I'm almost tempted to use the other B word.
10:44Why you gotta say it like short?
10:46It's really, really offensive, too.
10:48You better be careful.
10:49Bland!
10:50No, not that B word.
10:51Oh, well, I mean, what are we doing here?
10:54Boring.
10:55Oh, that's six letters.
10:56Not as boring as Jake.
10:57I thought we were going to the five-letter variety.
10:59No, I'm doing it.
11:00Not as boring as Jake Paul and Mike Tyson,
11:04but yeah, dude, where's the juice, man?
11:06I was happy that my Netflix crashed.
11:09I mean, did that thing freeze, or are they both frozen?
11:13No, well, I saw all of them.
11:15Both.
11:17Both.
11:17I was so happy that you watched it.
11:18I'm so mad that I watched it.
11:20I don't usually get very mad at my lovely Christy,
11:25but this one is on her,
11:27and it's on the Warriors for being up by too many.
11:29Good point.
11:30Especially if you're only going to win by five.
11:32Just keep it at five,
11:33and that way I can be like,
11:34we're not changing to the stupid, concocted,
11:38whatever, the Clambake over on Netflix.
11:40I was proud of my tweet about other Tyson-Paul fights
11:44that I would rather see.
11:47Chris Paul versus Tyson-Beckford.
11:50Cecily Tyson against Ru Paul.
11:52I had a little list.
11:53People jumped in.
11:54I'd be up for all of those.
11:57All right.