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00:00You want to hear what Fred Warner has to say about the Niners not playing with a sense of urgency? Yeah, yeah
00:07Huh?
00:09Sounds to me well, we'll play it. Okay. I think you might have teased me now
00:13I think you might have taken offense to the to the concept possibly. I don't I don't think it's like George you're wrong
00:18I just think that again
00:21people say things and then we try to interpret what's going on and I think that the
00:27interpretation
00:28In some way may have offended Fred Warner. You tell me take a listen
00:32This is Fred Warner on all of the talk about the Niners not being desperate until last Sunday against the Bears
00:38I know there's been talk about desperation around the building ever since that game this past Sunday
00:44I haven't really talked about it much because I felt like that was already like the feeling the last few weeks
00:50It just hadn't really come together like you wanted it to I think it just really showed through and through all three phases
00:55When you do execute and you you had you win in a big way like you did like we did on Sunday then all of a
01:00Sudden that's gonna be what everybody's talking about. But I don't want it to get lost. They're like
01:05We we didn't go out there in Green Bay. We didn't go out there in Buffalo saying now. Let's just hope that we win like
01:10Trust me. I felt desperate as hell going into both those games
01:13It just didn't work out and then you know
01:15You keep working hard keep chopping wood carrying water and then all of a sudden you get into a game and things, you know
01:20Finally look the way they're supposed to look in it. It didn't happen just cuz last week
01:23We just like all of a sudden decided we want to it was this was weeks in the making. Okay
01:28All right. What do you make of that?
01:30Well, I mean it's it's one thing for him to say it and I believe it
01:34But then you watch the way they played against Buffalo and Green Bay and it didn't look like
01:38They had the same level of urgency that they did on Sunday
01:41So and I thought when George Kittle said what he said
01:45I did feel like a little bit of that was directed at the defense even though he was quick to say
01:50I'm not pointing fingers and I'm not naming names what I've seen from the defense is less of
01:56urgency and less of a of a forceful defense and then you watch the game on Sunday and just put on the tape of
02:03The opening Bears drive for the first couple of drives. Those dudes are flying all over the place trying to hurt people
02:11Well, I think there's an underrated thing that happened on Sunday and it's the return of Talanoa Hufanga
02:17I think that there are things that happen because the safety is exactly that he's he's the free safety
02:24He is back there. He is the last line of defense
02:27He can see things and by the way, that's secondary around him very young. He's still very young
02:33Yeah
02:34but like incredibly young with the likes of Mustafa and Renato green out there and I think that they needed a little bit of
02:40Direction that Jair Brown quite frankly is either too young or ineffective
02:47In doing and so it just looked to me like assignments were being handled better
02:52That's what it looked like to me. And so from Fred's standpoint, here's what I think about that
02:57It's really hard for us as people when someone says like I bet we all do this
03:03You tell me dibs if this is how you kind of react to this
03:07boss comes into a room any workplace boss comes into a room and
03:13says hey
03:15We need to do a better job of blank. What's the first thing that goes through your head? Well, I'm doing blank exactly
03:22It must be Willard. You wouldn't do in black
03:25You ain't doing black ain't doing black. That's how we think. Yep. So Fred like any other human being is like
03:33George
03:34Are you talking about me and and I tried to say this on on Monday? This was my reaction to George
03:41I I don't know if I'm right
03:43But I feel like what George was talking about was not this tangible thing that you can hold in your hand
03:49It's not like oh
03:51There's a sense of urgency and number 54 didn't have it and number 77 54 does have it's just right
03:58It's this thing. It's this thing. It's did you feel it or you don't feel it? You've been in relationships before
04:05Yeah, some weeks feeling it. Yeah some weeks ain't feeling it
04:10No, and and and that's not directed at one person
04:14It's the whole collective for whatever reason and it can be really hard to sort of put a finger on it
04:22So that's what I don't like me as a 49er fan
04:26I I would prefer that the conversation from George doesn't go there
04:32I mean you even asked me yesterday. Who do you think he's talking about? I don't think he's talking about anybody
04:38I think he's talking about the room the collective the room did not feel urgent
04:44Yeah, for whatever reason well
04:45And you can look across the board at things that didn't happen on Sunday and look at the offensive line
04:51They didn't commit a lot of penalties. I don't know if they committed any penalties false starts. I know Dominic Pooney
04:57He had the one false start I believe but
05:00the offensive line
05:02They played a clean game and the skill guys didn't drop the football and the running backs ran with force and the one thing
05:08Mark that stood out to me more than anything else was that the defense played downhill the defense even on the play where
05:16Swift absolutely
05:18Pulverized Malik Mustafa. You remember the hit where Mustafa comes in and
05:24He tries to just put a hit on Swift, but Swift had the the lower ground
05:29He had the leverage and it pow he popped it right into Mustafa
05:33He had come in and tried to put a lick on the defense was playing a lot more forcefully well for me
05:39This is like Thursday night and and and my apologies if it sounds like we say this every week
05:47But Thursday night for me. It's a must win mark
05:50It's the witching hour the witching hour
05:52It is where losses become wins and wins become losses if you're not if you don't speak red zone my bad
06:00But those of you who speak red zone know what I'm talking about
06:04It's for multiple reasons. It's not just a it's a division opponent you get back to 500 all that that's all true
06:11and I think that like any
06:13Realistic shot at this thing is dead if the Niners don't win Thursday night and and and if they do win Thursday night
06:20It becomes very realistic that the Niners can still get
06:24Involved in all of this, you know, like even if it's a wild card, don't forget. You don't have to catch Seattle
06:30Maybe you just catch Washington. They're eight and five also like there's a way in
06:37For for the 49ers you have to win Thursday, but it's not just that from Nick Sorensen not trying to blitz
06:45From the young secondary getting torched all of these things you are now being challenged by a
06:53Super Bowl champion
06:54veteran quarterback and
06:56His full complement of very talented receivers with a running back behind him who quite frankly scares the hell out of me
07:03And he should because he gashed you last time you played him
07:07You need to stop that group if you can I will believe that you're real
07:13If you can't this was all
07:15This was all fluff in the wind. It's over. It's over. It's not even just that it's like you weren't like all my points are
07:22Wrong. Oh, you're actually good. Your record just doesn't show it. No. No, you have to be able to do this
07:29And and so this idea of oh, they're back. That's what the defense needed to look like do it to the Rams
07:36I know they're just seven and six, but the Rams this is a real offense now
07:42That's really gonna challenge the depth of your secondary
07:46And if you can do it, I will believe that you are still a playoff level team
07:51Yeah, and even if you if you win, it's not as simple as you know
07:55The division or Washington the wild card because there's other teams out there such as Atlanta team
08:01That's fading
08:02But if they win they'd also be seven and seven so there are other teams that could rise up and make it more difficult
08:08I don't think that nine and eight gets it done as a wild card
08:11I think the wild card is gonna need to be ten and seven probably so
08:16Nine and eight your only route might be the division and at that point you'd need a lot of help
08:20So it feels like ten and seven is gonna be the record that you're gonna need to even have a chance at the wild card
08:27Let alone win the division. I mean, I guess put it this way and this is getting way ahead of ourselves
08:31And so it's stupid I get it
08:33But this is just the way that my heart will feel if you can slow this offense down
08:38Then I will believe that you have a shot on a Monday night at home against Detroit. Yeah
08:42Well, I mean any given Sunday any given Monday the NFL Detroit is just scraping wins out right now
08:49They're amazing, but they're they're challenged
08:52Right, like they're they're not unbeatable. They're challenged, but no
08:56Nobody's a great one out with 34 points on the board, right?
09:00And then they squeaked went out over the Bears with 23 points on the board while the Bears just watched the game go away for
09:06Yeah, that was on Thanksgiving right now there's previous game before this one
09:10Yeah, I'm just like we've learned our lesson. The teams don't look the same every week
09:15No, of course someone asked me how the hell are you gonna slow the Rams down after what they did on Sunday?
09:20Well, they're not gonna look like that
09:22Well, they might look better. Maybe you know, right and maybe the Niners will look like crap
09:27Yeah, like I don't know how many times we need to learn this lesson that these teams what you saw them do last week
09:33Does not mean they'll do it this week. It's all matchup, right?
09:35If they if they were gonna do that betting would be easy the old show
09:39NFL matchup was called NFL matchup for a reason because it's all about the matchup and think about what we saw on Sunday with
09:46the Niners defensive line and
09:48You turgros matos with three sacks
09:50He had four and a half sacks as his career high previous and he had three in a game and the d-line had seven
09:57As a unit without Nick Bosa, so if you want to look at that, then you say, okay
10:02This the group is ready. They're ready to roll. They're gonna make life miserable for Matthew Stafford
10:07Well, it's about matchups and the Bears offensive line is not as good as the Rams offensive line
10:12So can the Niners d-line take what they did against Chicago and build on that even without Nick Bosa?
10:19Can they make things uncomfortable for Matthew staff or does Nick play?
10:22We don't know that he's not gonna play
10:24You know, I know John Lynch said publicly today like correndo didn't practice today, but he said
10:30Publicly correndo's got a shot. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, he got a shot to play
10:35He and and and and that he the player is really trying to convince the Niners
10:40That that he can go in this one and why wouldn't he I mean, this is his big chance. Yeah, I get it
10:45I get it that Isaac is probably absolutely
10:47Desperate to get on the field