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00:00Oh, he's picked off! It's McKinney again!
00:03Xavier McKinney blocks! Down the sideline he goes!
00:07Finally knocked out of bounds inside the 25!
00:12I am ready to go.
00:13Now, back to Stiney and Guru on 95-7 The Game.
00:18No you're not, Deebo.
00:19Alright, that was Brandon Allen's interception.
00:23They were down 17-7.
00:25Defense actually did a nice job in the third quarter against the Packers.
00:29But the 49ers offense couldn't take advantage of it.
00:33What's Kyle Shanahan thinking after this one?
00:37They had 12 personnel, 2 Titans in the huddle.
00:39Which means we had base defense out.
00:40They sent another receiver on the field to sub.
00:43Which, when they sub, they're supposed to allow us to sub.
00:45So as soon as they did that, we started to change our personnel.
00:47And then they rushed up to the line and snapped it.
00:49It was a strategic play by them.
00:51But one that I don't feel should have been allowed.
00:52They didn't give us time to sub on that.
00:54And that's why I was upset on that.
00:56And then the next one, because they got away with the first one,
00:58they tried to do it again the next play.
01:00And that's when I went out there arguing again.
01:01This time they did allow us to sub.
01:03I was out there screaming the whole time.
01:05So I'm not exactly aware of what happened with our 12 guys.
01:07But obviously we had 12 guys out there.
01:09They gave us time to sub and we didn't get one off.
01:11So the second one was on us.
01:13Alright, that's what happens to teams that are finding ways to lose.
01:19Things go against them.
01:21You know what the 49ers point differential this year is?
01:23Through 11 games?
01:24Give it to them.
01:25Zero.
01:26Zero.
01:27They've scored 260 points and they've given up 260 points.
01:31And they're 5 and 6 with a Sunday night game in Orchard.
01:38Man.
01:39I'll tell you what, though.
01:40You didn't ask, but my guy Cole Dixon from Texas just, I mean,
01:45everybody's talking about what they're not seeing from McCaffrey.
01:48I'm not sitting here telling you, Stiney, he looks the same to me.
01:52But there's no room for him to run at all.
01:55The tosses.
01:56Up the middle.
01:57There's just traffic everywhere.
01:59But the amount of vitriol that I feel he's getting because I feel like he's not the same.
02:05I'm not seeing it that way.
02:07And yet I'm the dude lobbying for getting more Jordan Mason.
02:11Getting more Jordan Mason doesn't mean McCaffrey's not doing something.
02:15It's just like Mason's proven use both.
02:19And I'm going to blow your wig off with this one.
02:22Option A moving forward for the rest of the season for me would be George Kittle.
02:27He had 6 targets, Stiney.
02:29It would be 12 targets.
02:30I would use him like the Patriots use Gronk.
02:32You can mumble.
02:33I'm just telling you how I see it.
02:35He is your best player right now.
02:38Give him more.
02:42How I see it.
02:44Sure.
02:45Give him more.
02:46And I'm not saying you're wrong.
02:48But I'm also.
02:49I do.
02:50I always think it's interesting when.
02:52You know.
02:53You want to call Christian McCaffrey the best back in football?
02:57Well you can't not play him then.
03:01I just don't.
03:02I just don't see it.
03:03But you understand people aren't saying take him off the field.
03:06There's a way they both can be on the field.
03:08Well it doesn't look like there is.
03:10Well to Kyle.
03:11But I bet if he has.
03:12Well then.
03:13Then do it against Kyle.
03:15Then do something about it.
03:16I am.
03:18I have the power to do it.
03:19No.
03:20And I'm not the only one.
03:21No.
03:22But you can blame Kyle.
03:24He's had a bad year.
03:25Players have had a worse year as far as I'm concerned.
03:28I'm not disputing that.
03:29They just have.
03:30And I don't know why.
03:31Again.
03:32What sometimes is frustrating to me.
03:35Is that we all saw how the season started.
03:38And at that time.
03:40We all said.
03:41We all said.
03:42I don't like the way this is starting off.
03:44I don't like the optics with Ayuk.
03:46I hate the optics with Trent Williams.
03:48I don't like that Christian McCaffrey got broken off money.
03:52And he misses the first eight games of the year.
03:56And we knew that may set a tone.
03:58And it absolutely did.
04:00So when we look back.
04:02We can be upset.
04:04But why are we surprised?
04:06Why are we surprised?
04:08We didn't like what was going on before they played one game.
04:13And we knew it.
04:16We all knew it.
04:17We knew it.
04:18I bet you knew it more than me.
04:19We knew it.
04:20The old adage in sports is you don't speak on the next man trying to get more money.
04:24So we saw with Debo.
04:26Maybe you don't speak on it.
04:27But you live with it.
04:28You have to live with those feelings.
04:29But I'm going to still perform.
04:31Or try to perform at my best.
04:32Donnie.
04:33I'm not going to.
04:34What's going on with Debo?
04:35I'm going to tell you.
04:37You can ask me a question.
04:38Give me a second.
04:39So this is why I'm at the doorstep of Kyle.
04:41And on his neck.
04:43The Super Bowl.
04:44The Niners offense was a no-show.
04:45The playoffs.
04:46The Niners offense was a no-show.
04:48Now.
04:49I was blaming the players.
04:51But now I'm starting to feel like that was a Shanahan problem then.
04:55And we kind of just buried our head in the sand.
04:57You say what to that?
04:58They're 8-9.
04:59Since they lost to Baltimore.
05:01That's a full season.
05:03They're 8-9 since they lost to Baltimore.
05:05But now we're questioning Debo.
05:07We're questioning McCaffrey.
05:09The dude's not out there in a cast.
05:11Like he's running.
05:14There's nowhere to run.
05:15So my question.
05:16And I know you don't have the answer.
05:17But Mason's going to be the difference then?
05:19Like that's the thing.
05:20He led the league in Russian and was a bull in a china shop.
05:24Alright.
05:25I wasn't saying he's perfect.
05:26How does that just go away?
05:28How does that dissipate?
05:29How do you just say okay.
05:31I'm going to act like that didn't mean anything.
05:33How can you not add that to the menu?
05:35You're helping Green Bay out.
05:38And other teams by not using him.
05:40Thunder and lightning.
05:42Lightning and thunder.
05:44That's not the way they play.
05:45He can't coach it that way.
05:47Do you want somebody who can?
05:49I don't know yet.
05:50But the answer right now is no.
05:52But if you're not going to look yourself in the mirror, Stein,
05:55then you're not going to change.
05:58Maybe he can't change.
06:00He doesn't know how to devise plays like that.
06:02They scored seven points in two halves in two home playoff games
06:05against downtrodden teams.
06:07The teams they were supposed to beat.
06:09And there were no show in the Super Bowl.
06:12Why did we think that they were going to turn it around?
06:14This year?
06:16Seriously.
06:18If Steve Young is saying this team has been completely different since the
06:21Christmas game against Baltimore,
06:23then why did we think they were going to come out guns blazing
06:26and be 8-3?
06:28Wow, man.
06:30I don't know how to answer this way.
06:32Well, I do.
06:34I do.
06:36They've gotten older.
06:38The mental fatigue of having gotten there and not winning it
06:40Now they're not playing as hard as they used to play.
06:42They think they're playing hard.
06:44But they're not really playing hard.
06:46All their veteran players have slipped.
06:48With the exception of maybe Kittle.
06:50And now you're 5-6.
06:52Wow.
06:54Real quick.
06:56How do you coach mental fatigue?
06:58Do you swap them out?
07:00Or do you just say this was the gap year?
07:02It comes with it.
07:04I'm just asking.
07:06To me, a gap year would be you bring back the same team.
07:09And this would be the vintage.
07:11To me, vintage.
07:13That would not.
07:15That would be insanity.
07:17Bringing back this team.
07:19Thinking they're
07:21well, we're actually an 8-3 team.
07:23Well, both your D-line, both your lines need help.
07:25I know you've got Hargrave coming back.
07:27Well, you're not going to win that.
07:29If we all acknowledge right now their offensive line and defensive line
07:31is subpar, substandard
07:33and in the bottom of the league,
07:35then maybe they're not underachieving.
07:37Do you believe that's why McCaffrey hasn't mirrored old McCaffrey?
07:39I think it's a combination of a lot of things.
07:41People act like he's out there like Isaiah Thomas in the finals
07:43against the Lakers limping.
07:45I just, there's nowhere for him to run.
07:47Well, to me,
07:49if there's nowhere for McCaffrey to run,
07:51there's not going to be anywhere for Mason to run.
07:53But when you see it's Donnie
07:55and they pitch it to him and he takes off,
07:57there's a different element to it.
07:59They're two different style backs.
08:01You know,
08:03it's that kind of, to me, it's like
08:06if McCaffrey's your Steph Curry,
08:08you have to keep playing him
08:10and hope that he breaks one.
08:12Or comes around.
08:14You know, Steph Curry has a lot of games
08:16where he doesn't play well for three quarters
08:18and then he wins the game for him.
08:20And they think McCaffrey's a game breaker
08:22so they're going to keep him there.
08:24He's got to be close. He can't be down 17-nothing.
08:26Let's go to Robin. Robin's in San Francisco.
08:28What's going on, Robin? How you doing?
08:30I'm doing okay.
08:32Hey, tell me about the question.
08:34Backup quarterback. Who's the third
08:36backup out there?
08:38Dobbs.
08:40Okay.
08:42Now, here's what I want to say.
08:44I'll give more of my way.
08:46I totally agree with you, Stein.
08:48You know, I'm only calling because
08:50I'm so sick of the
08:52whining, the pointing the fingers.
08:54Even when they win,
08:5690% still whine,
08:58whine, whine, whine.
09:00It is nerve-wracking.
09:02The quarterback yesterday, regardless,
09:04wasn't the sole
09:06reason we lost that game.
09:08And the other quarterback everybody's
09:10crying for, damn, so what's going to
09:12help us win the game?
09:14I'm not pointing no fingers at Shanahan,
09:16but as a head coach,
09:18his job is to manage.
09:20And the team doesn't seem to be managing well
09:22because of the lack of
09:24discipline that they're showing.
09:26Even the vets. You guys go too far.
09:28You take it as he's lost the team.
09:30I do believe it's mental
09:32stress, and I don't care what anybody
09:34says. Injuries do make
09:36a difference, regardless to who else
09:38is injured in the league. I'm going to
09:40leave you with this, what Isaiah Thomas said.
09:42He said, when a player,
09:44a star player, which the
09:46Niners have many, go down,
09:48you say to yourself, yes,
09:50as long as it's not a life-threatening
09:52injury, you know why?
09:54Because it lessens their chances
09:56of winning, and it gives the
09:58other team more chances to win.
10:00And that is the bottom line. I
10:02hate that cliche that
10:04well, everybody else is hurt.
10:06Well, some are diminished.
10:08Some are just torn apart.
10:10And that's been the Niners
10:12from day one.
10:14Robin, before you go,
10:16the Robin I know, just real quick
10:18here, because we keep it real, 10-2.
10:20I'm shocked you haven't brought
10:22this up. The Robin I know
10:24would call out a player
10:26that had the audacity to put his
10:28hands and embarrass his teammate
10:30and then go out there and play like
10:32garbage and not talk to the media.
10:34Where does that rank on the Robin
10:36scale?
10:38That was a love tap.
10:40And so you're going to blame
10:42one game.
10:44So there's enough
10:46fingers to be pointed at everybody.
10:48You understand? The team lacks
10:50discipline. And I'll tell
10:52you the real truth about why they
10:54lost the Super Bowl.
10:56That offensive line
10:58in particular, that right side.
11:00Where are you going to run if there's
11:02no offense?
11:04Well, we lost Robin.
11:06She was defending deep over.
11:08You're a captain. You can't dip out, man.
11:10That's what players do nowadays.
11:12That's what this young generation
11:14does.
11:16Fred Warner doesn't do it.
11:18Fred Warner's a grown-up.
11:20Brock Purdy?
11:22Brock Purdy's a grown-up.
11:248-8-8, 9-5-7,
11:269-5-7-0
11:28is the number. Anybody got any solutions
11:30out there?
11:32I mean, we can
11:34vent all day.
11:36You and I, and Evan, nobody knows
11:38who's playing this Sunday against Buffalo, right?
11:40Okay.
11:42It starts there.
11:44But you've got to coach, and you've got to play
11:46better.
11:48They're not as good as Buffalo.
11:50They're
11:52mentally fatigued.
11:54Buffalo's surging. It's going to be a really
11:56hard game on Sunday.
11:58You're not better
12:00than anybody like you were in the past.
12:02When do you
12:04notice that?
12:06Accept that.
12:08Because it's not disappointing if that weren't
12:10the case. You are better. You've been better.
12:12Right, but that was last year.