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00:00Bruce and San Jose has this reaction to the most intimidating radio guests in America Greg Cosell. Hi Bruce. What's going on, man?
00:09Yeah, hey Willard and dibs, I'm gonna have to call shenanigans on both of you during that interview during that interview
00:18Cosell asked the question
00:21How many screens was that did they throw to George Kittle was that too and without a heartbeat both you were like, yeah
00:29Yeah
00:30Can we check Dibley's notes?
00:31Can we check it if Greg would have happened to say three or four?
00:34I had a feeling you would have given the same response. No, it was
00:45He's been under the weather exactly and you guys were I don't want to say brown nosing, but Oh Bruce
00:52We do I don't you tend to agree. No, but no because he was right Bruce
00:58I like I don't ever do notes. We do this stuff from memory and my memory said the same thing. That's all I'm saying, Bruce
01:06Okay. All right. I believe you guys I believe you anyway, um, I think you know the coaching staff overall
01:13It's having a down year and of course injuries, but every team has injuries
01:17I don't know. I don't think Sorenson mid-year firing will do anything, but I don't know. I think he's my main and
01:25Special teams, I don't know that's more on the personnel
01:27I think than the coach, but I think Sorenson maybe maybe the guy that goes first. Well, wait
01:34Thanks. Thank you for calling Bruce. Appreciate it. Here's what I mean by Sorenson and make a break tomorrow
01:38I don't think that there's going to be any mid-year firing
01:40I don't think that that makes any sense either
01:42You don't want to bring somebody in and try to start this whole thing over
01:45Although if they lose tomorrow night, I would argue that they are completely caught. It's mostly over
01:51Yeah, they're completely cooked if they lose tomorrow night
01:54but here's what I mean on the whole Nick Sorenson thing because he's already failed to kind of like
02:01Gather the troops rally the troops get the fan base excited in the same way that
02:08Defensive coordinators over the last six or seven years under Kyle Shanahan already have
02:13Steve Wilkes didn't Steve Wilkes didn't but I tell you what he had a lot more
02:17Positive discussion around him than even Nick Sorenson has I know that there was the Minnesota thing and he got called out
02:24But Steve Wilkes has a really nice and long resume in the NFL number one
02:29He's been a coordinator and Nick Sorenson's never been a coordinator and Nick Sorenson was arguably
02:34Choice number four right many people have said from Kyle Shanahan and the Niners had a better defense last year, right?
02:40They had better players Dre Greenlaw was healthy
02:42So I don't necessarily know about the whole direct comparisons
02:46But I do think that Nick Sorenson right now one of the things and I don't know if there's anything you could do about this
02:53One of the things that's holding him back right now
02:56Like Grandy, can you pull some Nick Sorenson like put and just any one of your favorite Nick quotes?
03:03put that next to the energy of Robert Sala and D'Amico Ryan's and
03:09It puts you to sleep
03:11Now does that make him a bad defensive coordinator? No doesn't matter to me at all
03:15It may not matter to you, but that's not even what I'm getting at like
03:20sometimes there is a little popularity contest to do with this with the way a fan base feels about a certain player or coach and
03:28Nick does not appear to be somebody who is inspiring anybody to do anything
03:34Well, cuz fans don't really know what's going on and fans don't know aren't playing
03:38Well, either do the players aren't playing the majority of the players aren't playing you lost Javon Hargrave
03:45And you can say he's a bust of a signing. Yeah, they obviously felt differently
03:48They paid him a lot of money to come in and do a job and he's been hurt
03:52Fred Warner's been playing hurt Nick Bosa's missed three straight games. You don't have Dre Greenlaw Mooney Ward missed a bunch of games
04:00So if you want to talk about Nick Sorenson
04:02I think that it's fair to look at all of the people that he hasn't had on his defense
04:07So if you want to judge him, you can judge him and I'm looking at the numbers right now
04:12They've given up the third fewest yards in football yet
04:15They've given up the 21st most points in football
04:19So and we know that they've been bad at the end of games
04:22they've been bad in the red zone really bad and they've been bad at the end of games and
04:26For me, you can be critical of Nick Sorenson and I have been and he's not D'Amico and he's not Robert Sala
04:32And he's probably not as accomplished as Steve Wilkes
04:35We know that but he's been dealt a pretty bad hand
04:37As far as what he's had to put out there on defense as a first-time coordinator
04:42I'm not gonna disagree with you
04:44But I don't hear a lot of people give that same grace for an offensive play caller who has been without Christian McCaffrey
04:50one game without his quarterback multiple games without George Kittle multiple games without Debo Samuel and now multiple games without his Hall of Fame left
04:58Tackle so well, they still hum offensively. It has not been the problem
05:03I wouldn't I wouldn't say they've hummed
05:05They've not hum like they turned an undrafted Jordan Mason into the second best
05:09Rusher through the first seven games and then he can't get a yard in the red zone
05:13My point is is both sides are still solid but not good enough and not as good as they've been in the past and yes
05:19Injuries are a piece of that puzzle
05:22But he's also played a lot of games with Fred Warner and Nick Bosa and ready ish Fred ish
05:28Well, I mean it was five six games into the year before anything even happened to Fred
05:32So and he was playing at DPO y levels all alums. I'm not saying they're terrible
05:37I'm just saying it has not looked up to par and and and that's not all on Nick
05:43But it is some on Nick and the reason tomorrow to me becomes
05:48Somewhat make or break and we still don't even know if Nick Bosa is gonna play but tomorrow is his opportunity
05:55To really I think look good because it's one thing to have and gross motto Scott player of the week
06:03It's one thing to do all this and two yards at halftime all the things the defense did
06:09You heard Greg Cosell's first reaction. He goes. Yeah. Well, Chicago's not a very good off right, right?
06:15Well, this is this is
06:17You have not been able to get stops in the red zone and at the end of games when they've been
06:24Absolutely imperative except for maybe against Tampa
06:27I can't think of a lot of times when you made huge stops when you needed to Renardo Green's interception in Seattle
06:34But it's been too much
06:37Where you've had a lack of success in those situations. And so now now you get two things
06:43Actually, I'd call three things you get a home standalone game
06:48You get the whole backs against the wall thing
06:51Which is what they said was so key last week and you get dude really good offensive players
06:57I mean Matt Stafford Pukanuku a Cooper Cup and Kyron Williams. This is a problem and
07:03To me if you want to show who you are as a defensive coordinator
07:09And just a defense. Let's put the players in this too. I
07:13Really think that you have to have a performance to hang your hat on
07:18They're running out of time to have one it has to be tomorrow night
07:22Well, they can win 40 to 39 and I don't think that that necessarily becomes an indictment on Nick Sorenson
07:28I think they can lose 9 to 7 and then we're not gonna think on Nick great performance
07:34I didn't say that to win. I said this is a defense down to a results situation
07:39I just mean whether or not this guy's gonna be back next year
07:42He'll be back unless Kyle Shanahan can find somebody better
07:44And if you want to go and replace them, that would be five defensive coordinators in your ninth year already
07:50You're on four coordinators in eight years and all the people I've talked to around the NFL this year
07:55coaches in front office people
07:57Continuity is a big thing
07:58Sure
07:58and we saw it with Alex Smith when he was the quarterback and you had a different offensive coordinator every year and I know that
08:05that's more dramatic and OC and a quarterback relationship is a lot more important than a
08:10Defensive coordinator and a defense one player
08:13but when you have a defense that has a new coordinator
08:16even if the scheme is the same as
08:18Stink was saying yesterday
08:20Every coach is gonna come in and emphasize different things and coach different things in different ways
08:24And so it's maybe not starting at square one, but it's not continuing what you've already done with momentum
08:31So be careful what you wish for when it comes to coaching change. Let me say it a different way
08:37When you're playing the Rams and I think that this has historically been true with 49ers in this era when you're playing the Rams
08:45There is literally one main key. You have to get to Matt. You have to get to him
08:52He's not terribly mobile
08:54But as Kosel just said when he's given time
08:57He might still today in his mid 30s be the most elite thrower of the football in the NFL
09:03He's certainly on a short list. You have to get to Matt and what have they struggled with this year?
09:10Especially when Bosa is hobbled
09:12They have stayed so vanilla and they have not been able to get to the quarterback if Matt Stafford has time tomorrow night
09:19They're getting carved. I can promise it to you
09:22There's no way that they're stopping
09:25Nakua and cup and at well over the top and Kyra Williams out of the backfield and all those things if Matt's got time
09:33They're going to get torched. So he has got to find a way especially and I'm optimistic. It sounds like
09:41The way I think that I'm hearing it is quote Nick has a chance
09:45Nick has a chance. Well, he's listed as questionable now
09:48So that I'm in the better news than what we saw from the staff and from Trent Williams
09:52But this may well be one of those classic
09:55GTD's like it may be a game time decision where they got to go through workouts before the game and then really check in and
10:02See, my guess is I'm with you
10:04Like I think it's more than likely that he will at least give it a go
10:08Oh, yeah, and see how it holds up because come on like we're talking about. This is it man
10:12This is it Kenny Loggins. You got to go win this football game or else you're done
10:15And so it doesn't matter if he's healthy in 10 days. Well, honestly if you lose to the Rams
10:21It's not it's not about Nick Bosa to make sure that he's really really right for the game against what Miami?
10:28I think that is
10:30You're gonna save him up for that. Well, it might not matter at that point
10:33So it won't he's at all possible to be able to give it a go you put him out there
10:38and it's interesting because the first time he played him you sack Stafford three times and he only threw for
10:44221 yards and a lot of that was on one big play
10:48Yep, and so that was a game where you did get to him. You did make it uncomfortable
10:52I know he didn't have Nakua or Cooper cup and he had a bunch of nobodies quite frankly
10:57But you were able to get to him and you made things uncomfortable
11:00He only completed 16 passes and you still lost the game
11:03So you could have that same kind of performance and you can still go out there and lose the game. Of course you can
11:09Yeah, like the Niners have turned it into an art form so far this year. Yeah, but
11:14That for me is gonna be the deal, especially if he's got Nick like tomorrow
11:20This has got to be schemed up. There have got to be wins
11:24You you got to make adjustments if what you're trying is not working
11:28Those guys have got to get to Matt Stafford tomorrow night for me
11:33It is the entire game because what Matt has also done particularly against the 49ers is he's shown
11:39That if you do get in his face if you do get up in his face up the middle
11:43You're gonna turn the ball over now
11:45Is it like like the Niners have been very good against the Rams?
11:48Especially in these primetime games think of the history under Kyle Shanahan big games against the Rams in primetime
11:54It's going well, and it's often because of a pick six or Warner who fungus somebody makes a big play
12:00I just I really hope that Nick
12:03Doesn't sit back in this game if what they try first because they're not a big blitz team
12:08And so I'm sure they will try to fewest blitzes in football
12:11I'll try to do this pretty basic and if it's working wonderful, but if it's not they've got to make an adjustment
12:18Give an example go back to
12:20Last year, I think the 49ers was this the Sean McVegas game where they kicked a field goal in the last play
12:27And so they cover the spread right so but the Niners still won 30 to 23 if memory serves, correct
12:33Yep
12:33And this is a game where the Niners got a pick because the ball a perfectly thrown ball
12:38bounced off of Kyron Williams hands and it turned into a pick but the Rams were ahead at halftime and
12:44The Rams were moving the ball and I remember how I was feeling watching this football game
12:49I'm like they are not getting any
12:51pressure
12:53Steve Wilkes dialed up Fred Warner in the second half on a blitz and
12:58He got a sack that essentially sealed the victory
13:03And so that's all I'm saying if this front four is not getting home
13:07I don't know man be ready be ready with some adjustments because that is the whole deal tomorrow night
13:13They have got to touch Matt Stafford or else they're gonna lose. Well, they did in the first game
13:18They touched him three times and they contain Matt Stafford in the passing attack and they still lost and I look at what the Niners have
13:24Done for the majority of this year and they haven't dialed it up
13:28And even when they do blitz they blitz a linebacker and they rush five
13:32I can't remember too many plays where they rushed six and or seven, which is a classic cover zero. They just don't do that
13:39It's not what Nick Sorensen does and it worked in Chicago
13:43But this is not Chicago and you got seven sacks against the Bears and the Rams
13:48It's tough because the way Stafford plays quarterback
13:51He's almost blitz proof because he gets the ball out so quickly
13:55So if you are gonna blitz you almost have to bring six or seven and really take a chance that you're gonna give up
14:01A big play, but that's not what Nick Sorensen does