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00:00When you look at what just happened with the 49ers, coaching or players?
00:08Well, it's both, of course.
00:11Well, of course, but you don't know.
00:13Nobody's asking for 100 percent, zero percent.
00:15Okay.
00:16Which is the bigger issue, coaches or players?
00:20Is this personnel or is this coaching?
00:23How would you answer that?
00:25I would say it's more coaching than it is players.
00:27Interesting.
00:28I would look at the big phrase that I love to use,
00:31and I learned it from Low Neal when we did 3 1⁄2 years at Jolo and Dibbs.
00:35He talked a lot about attention to detail.
00:37As a 16-year NFL vet, it's something that he talked about with winning teams
00:42that they have it and losing teams that don't have it.
00:45And I look at a 49er team that this year did not show a lot of attention to detail.
00:50You had a ton of parking tickets, which are the dead ball penalties,
00:55false starts, delay a game, illegal procedure, illegal formation,
01:0012 men on the field, all the rest of the nonsensical penalties
01:03that are self-inflicted.
01:05Now, if you go out there and you hold fine, that's a moving violation,
01:09a P.I., offensive P.I., personal foul, whatever.
01:13Although the Jawan Jennings one yesterday was a bit of a joke
01:16where back-to-back entanglements and he gets thrown out a couple of catches
01:21away from 1,000 yards.
01:23That was an official error.
01:25I didn't understand anything that's going on with Jawan the last two games.
01:29He got fined for getting thrown into the stands against Detroit.
01:32He got fined.
01:34I understand that there was some aggression there.
01:36It was a two-way deal.
01:38They got locked up.
01:39I get it.
01:40I don't love the fine either.
01:42I thought it was over, and then someone else came in
01:44and hucked him into the stands.
01:45And then yesterday, it kind of was a reputation thing
01:48because he now has that reputation.
01:50But to your greater point, I see a team that really lacked attention
01:54to detail in many ways, and I think that part of it was the offseason
01:58where the front office and the management structure didn't pay attention
02:03to the right things, and then you had players go out there
02:06and not be ready for the start of the year.
02:08And you had games, late-game scenarios, fourth quarters,
02:12where you were unable to close.
02:14And yeah, a lot of it's on the players, but if you want me to slice the pie,
02:18I'm giving a bigger piece of the pie to the coaches than I am to players.
02:21And I'll give it to the players, or at least the personnel, with this caveat.
02:27Some of the personnel issues are the fault of the people above them.
02:31It's the fault of, like, I get where you're coming from.
02:34You know, that's a tough thing to sort of assess.
02:37Somebody commits a penalty on the field.
02:41Who's that on?
02:42Is it on the coach or is it on the player?
02:45Well, it's probably on the player.
02:47Now, if the same group commits nine penalties in a game,
02:52is that on the coach or is it on the players?
02:54Well, more people will start to say, well, that seems institutional.
02:58So now that's on the coach's plate.
03:02Or, for instance, Devondre Campbell.
03:05You'll look at him and you'll go, well, he wasn't very good for most of this year,
03:10and then he ended the year with an absolutely just unforgivable maneuver.
03:15Whose fault is that?
03:16Well, you'll go, that's Devondre.
03:17Well, who signed him?
03:19Who brought him in?
03:21And I actually don't even know.
03:22Is that more John?
03:23Is that more Kyle?
03:24Is it more Prague?
03:25You know, whatever.
03:26There's a whole group of people doing this.
03:28So I get what you're saying when it comes to it's both.
03:32There's overlap everywhere.
03:34And then I'll admit my own weakness, which is this.
03:37I have teenagers in the house,
03:39and so I really understand the whole idea of coaching someone
03:43who then does not go do what you told them to do.
03:46And that's a me thing,
03:49but maybe that's a little bit why when I look at the Niners
03:52and I see that look on Kyle's face on the sideline constantly,
03:58and I also know he's had so much success coaching this team,
04:02sometimes I'm like, you could get mad at him for drafting Jake Moody,
04:07or you could go, well, no, Jake.
04:12Kick the ball in between.
04:14So when you said earlier that there's a schematic problem,
04:20my mind goes to, well, and you were talking defensively.
04:24Yeah.
04:25Defensively, this same scheme has been very,
04:30very consistent for the 49ers for a long time.
04:34And now suddenly it doesn't work.
04:36It doesn't work with the likes of Devondre Campbell.
04:39It doesn't work with the likes of Javon Hargrave.
04:41It doesn't work with the likes of Jair Brown.
04:44It doesn't work now that Charverius Ward was understandably
04:49a much lesser version of himself.
04:51So I don't think Nick Sorensen had a great year,
04:54but if I'm going to look at what was actually ailing the 49ers this year,
04:59to me it was much more of a personnel issue
05:03than a schematic or motivational type of a thing.
05:08Coach's jobs are to put the players in their best position to succeed.
05:13But the final straw is they've got to go do it.
05:16Yes.
05:17They've got to go make the plays.
05:18But if they're not making the plays,
05:20then it's your job to coach them up to try to help them to make the plays.
05:24And Jake Moody's an interesting one because it was clear
05:27that he lost his confidence.
05:29He missed three kicks in a game,
05:31and he had one of the captains of the team come over
05:34and try to get a piece of him,
05:36and it took the long snapper Tabor Pepper to get in between the kicker
05:40and the team captain in order to defuse the situation,
05:44which didn't actually get defused.
05:46And then the head coach comes out and says,
05:48well, the long snapper, he was the one who was out of pocket.
05:52And since that incident, tell me how the kicker's done.
05:55Well, the kicker's only gotten worse.
05:57So has the kicker lost his confidence?
06:00Absolutely.
06:01Did the head coach do enough to restore that confidence?
06:04Well, I don't think so.
06:06And I'm not blaming all his misses on Kyle and that incident,
06:09but it's clear that Jake Moody, from that point on,
06:13has been a lot lesser of a kicker.
06:15I don't want to interrupt, but that's a fascinating statement.
06:18How does the coach restore the kicker's confidence?
06:24Well, by not going out and immediately defending Debo Samuel after the incident.
06:29That would be one way.
06:30He said Tabor overreacted.
06:32Exactly.
06:33So?
06:34That's not even directed at Jake.
06:36But the whole thing was about Jake.
06:38I don't think Debo was coming over to get a piece of Tabor.
06:41We have no idea if Jake was even offended by, hey, dude, you need to lock in.
06:47All I know is since the hey, dude, you need to lock in moment, he's been worse.
06:51That is a fact.
06:52Well, that day he was better.
06:54He made his only kick.
06:55He made a kick.
06:56The only one he made all day.
06:57How was he, not this past game, but the game before when he cost him seven points?
07:01He's been awful all year.
07:03And why?
07:04I don't know.
07:05It's certainly not Kyle Shanahan's fault.
07:07I'm not saying it's his fault.
07:08I don't know if it's a high ankle sprain or if it's just like any of our golf games
07:12where when you lose it, you don't know how the hell to find it back.
07:16That's a very kicker thing.
07:17It's a very mental job.
07:19But if you're a pro golfer, you're going to do what you can.
07:21Hopefully your swing coach is going to help you get it back.
07:25Right, but I'm not going to blame the swing coach if you don't.
07:28Well, I'm not blaming Kyle Shanahan.
07:30What I'm saying is when you look at it from a coaching standpoint, you have a player who
07:35has not gotten better.
07:36He's gotten worse.
07:37And I don't know if the special teams coach or the head coach have done the necessary
07:42things to get him better.
07:44And we talk about the scheme, the defensive scheme.
07:46It worked last year because you had defensive tackles who could actually tackle defensively.
07:52Right, right.
07:54So therefore, especially when you get to a point where it's second string, third string,
07:59like it's a personnel issue and you can backtrack if you want to the depth of the roster and
08:06then put it on the roster building.
08:08Yes, that I agree with.
08:10But within the game, I'm not going to blame the coach if the players are holding or false
08:17starting or whatever the hell they're all doing, not able to shed themselves from a
08:22block or whatever.
08:23And so same thing with Jake.
08:25Like, here's what I mean.
08:26If I was going to blame the coaching staff for something Jake Moody related, here's what
08:31I would say.
08:32If you're going to tell me that his high ankle sprain is affecting him, then you should not
08:37have activated him.
08:39How about that?
08:40That's what I would say.
08:42I can't imagine the high ankle sprain is affecting him.
08:45It's on his kicking leg.
08:46If it's on his plant leg, it's a different story.
08:49I've never had one.
08:50I don't know what that feels like.
08:51I've never tried to kick a football with a high ankle sprain.
08:53Right.
08:54I've never tried to kick a football 60 yards like these guys can.
08:56When you look at his distance, his distance has not been the issue.
09:00Correct.
09:01It's been his accuracy.
09:02And I look at a kicker who has lost his confidence completely.
09:06And whether or not that's on him, ultimately, he's the one who has to kick the ball.
09:10He's the one who has to feel okay and not have his dobber down.
09:14I get that.
09:15Defensively, you've got a team that cannot pressure the quarterback.
09:18And so you continue to just rush for and you don't pressure the quarterback.
09:23That, for me, is on the scheme.
09:25I'm with you on that.
09:26To me, that's not on the scheme.
09:27It's just a lack of adjustments.
09:29I don't know.
09:30You know what I mean?
09:31It's the scheme because it's what they did last year.
09:33When something's not working, try something different.
09:35That's my point.
09:36Yeah.
09:37I'm with you on that.
09:38I'm with you on that.
09:39But I also know it's fascinating to me when you listen to the defensive players talk,
09:44there was a discomfort with whatever Steve Wilkes was throwing at them last year.
09:49I don't know why, but they seemed to say that.
09:53This year, not so much.
09:55This year, you're hearing guys go, well, Nick Sorensen, I mean, that's on us.
10:01You know what I mean?
10:02We're the ones who didn't perform.
10:03You hear a completely different tone.
10:05Why?
10:06I don't know.
10:07Yeah.
10:08I don't know.
10:09But that's worth something to me if that's what the players think.
10:11It's worth a little.
10:13They're not going to ever throw the guy under the bus.
10:15They did last year.
10:16Well, Kyle did, and Nick Bosa did.
10:17So did some of the players.
10:19By the time they did that, I think it was kind of a fait accompli.
10:24Once Kyle did that, all bets were off, and you kind of knew where that was going.
10:29But whether or not they stand behind him or not, the bottom line to me is this defense took a giant step
10:35or two steps backward, and you just watch the game, Mark, and you see the same thing.
10:41You're going to rush for.
10:42Nick is lining up in that wide nine spot, and he either gets contained by one or chipped by another,
10:49and usually Nick gets darn close.
10:51Nick's close to the QB, and he gets his sacks, and he actually was really good against Detroit.
10:57That was probably his best game of the year.
10:58It was.
10:59He hit a couple of sacks and a couple of other tackles for us.
11:01That's a sack-a-roonie, baby.
11:02A couple sack-a-roonies, but other than that, this defensive front was a gigantic yawn.
11:07Totally.
11:08And, you know, the Devondre Campbell debacle, that was a Kyle signing.
11:12Kyle actually had coached him, I think, in Atlanta.
11:15Kyle had worked with him previously, and he's the one who thought that he wasn't going to be a straight-up quitter.
11:20That is a total miss.
11:21Total miss.
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11:46Hey, Vince, in the city.
11:47You're on with Willard and Dibbs.
11:49Hey, what's going on?
11:51Hey, what's up, fellas?
11:52I'm a big fan.
11:53First-time caller.
11:54I appreciate the banter between you guys.
11:57I think it's two ways, man.
11:59I think offensively, it's definitely personnel.
12:02Defensive side is the scheme and the coaching.
12:04And as much as it really hurts me to say this, all season we looked really washed.
12:08I mean, we're just slow and not explosive.
12:11And it wasn't any more evident than when we played like the Lions.
12:15I mean, they got some playmakers on their team who are explosive.
12:18And we don't have any of that.
12:20I mean, who from the Niners can you say popped off the screen?
12:23I mean, it's really tough.
12:24So, appreciate the call.
12:26Yeah, thanks, Vince.
12:27Appreciate it.
12:28It's interesting.
12:29It depends on, again, which side of the ball you're talking about.
12:31When I watched that game against the Lions and we were there, I mean, Kittle obviously popped.
12:37Piersall popped.
12:38I mean, a lot of things were going on.
12:40They barely ran the ball.
12:42And so, you know, that was kind of interesting.
12:46But I thought the offense, especially in the first half, my God, they looked incredible.
12:50They looked dynamic.
12:51And then the Lions would get the ball and it would just go whoop right down the field.
12:55And yeah, Jameer Gibbs, are you kidding me?
12:57What did he have last night?
12:58Four trips into the end zone?
13:00He's incredible.
13:01Amon Ra is incredible.
13:03Their whole offense has exactly what I'm asking for the Niners to get back, which is a swagger.
13:09They are on the same page.
13:11They are moving in the same direction.
13:13They understand what other people are supposed to be doing.
13:17They are playing complementary football.
13:20So, I think there's plenty of people that popped off of the screen, if you will, or on the field, on the offensive side of the ball, but not on defense.
13:28Go back to when Kyle Shanahan first started with the Niners.
13:31And this never, ever, ever will be lost on me because I thought it was fascinating, especially when you brought up how many turnovers they've had since the bye.
13:39How many?
13:40Two.
13:41Okay.
13:42They've taken the ball away twice in nine games.
13:44What did the year before Nick Bosa was drafted, I bet you'll remember this, how many interceptions did the 49ers have all year long?
13:53I think it was two.
13:54The answer is two.
13:55It's two, yeah.
13:56And then the exact same secondary the following year went to the damn Super Bowl.
14:04Did they get faster?
14:06All of a sudden, they went from a 4-6-40 to a 4-4-40?
14:09No.
14:11They had a devastating pass rush in front of them because they had a line now anchored by then-rookie Nick Bosa that was absolutely devastating to quarterbacks,
14:21causing them to make poor decisions, causing them to rush, leads to bad throws, leads to interceptions.
14:28Boom.
14:29You've got yourself a really good defense.
14:31That's all it takes.
14:33So when I see this defensive line, which is Nick Bosa and a bunch of whatever on it, two things pop to mind.
14:42What you've said, which is, Nick Sorensen, why don't you try to stunt a little bit more?
14:46Why don't you try something else, a blitz?
14:48Which he won't do.
14:50They're not comfortable doing.
14:52And secondarily, I go, your personnel is just not good enough.
14:56I can't tell you how many times you watch the other team's offensive line and it's just four dudes going, whoop.
15:02And my God, the quarterback is just standing back there all day long.
15:08When you rush four against five blockers, unless you have more than one guy demanding a double team, and you have one guy demanding a double team, okay.
15:16So they'll either slide the guard over or they chip you at the tight end.
15:20So Bosa's usually taken care of.
15:22And now you've got three or four linemen to cover the other three guys who you called whoever or whatever, and you're not wrong.
15:29And so now you've got a nice, perfectly formed pocket.
15:32And yesterday, one of the only plays that was disruptive, your blitz Fred Warner.
15:37And Fred Warner, whoop, he did a little loop around in between the guard and the tackle, and he came in untouched, and he got a hit on Kyler Murray.
15:45And that was a little bit eye-opening.
15:47And they don't ever rush six.
15:49And the last time that they rushed seven, which is a zero blitz, the coordinator lost his job.
15:55So that wasn't the time to do it.
15:57Timing is everything.
15:58It is.
15:59But the point being, this scheme is wide nine.
16:03Here comes Bosa from way on the outside.
16:06He doesn't get home because the pocket doesn't collapse from the inside out.
16:10And so the quarterback's able to step up and gash.
16:13So when you look at what happened with the Niners, does your mind go more to coaching or does it go to personnel?
16:18Tom in Alamo.
16:19Hey, Tom, thanks for calling.
16:20What's up?
16:23So my thought was usually when you have a team that plays pretty well for three quarters in most games of the season,
16:31and then they just start to get slower and more lethargic and unable to stop running backs from taking 40-yard TD runs,
16:40you wonder about their conditioning and how they practice.
16:44I don't know because the practices are not open to the public.
16:47So only the players and the coaches know how they practice and whether they're practicing hard enough or long enough.
16:53But it does raise a question in my mind when you look at how they just sag in the fourth quarter.
16:59And it's been a recurring theme.
17:01Even the games that they won against the Cowboys, they had a big lead.
17:06And then the fourth quarter rolled around and they just fell apart.
17:09They managed to win the game.
17:11But it was just another fourth quarter where they just looked slower than their opponent.
17:16And you just have to wonder, how do they practice?
17:19Tom, thanks.
17:22Dead last in fourth quarter points allowed.
17:24I'm not going to act like you and I go to a ton of practices because obviously they happen during our show for the most part.
17:31But we are able to go to a few of them.
17:35And so I'm not going to speak like an expert on that.
17:38But, again, that's one of those points that to me feels like something that only comes up when something has suddenly gone wrong.
17:47I don't think the Niners are practicing any differently than they used to practice before.
17:52I don't know if this is an issue of other teams being in better shape than them.
17:57I do think that they've encountered some situations where they have not had enough people.
18:02They have not had enough healthy bodies.
18:04That's why the Devondre Campbell thing was so damn offensive.
18:07It's one thing to quit on your team.
18:09It's a completely different thing when you're being asked to go on the field because the people at your position out there have broken bones in their legs.
18:17Well, yeah.
18:18Dee Winters was knocked out of the game.
18:20And you had Flanagan Fowles already hurt.
18:22And so he had to actually go out there and play hurt.
18:24And Warner's out there all year with a broken bone in his foot.
18:28And Mola was already shut down at that point.
18:30Exactly.
18:31Exactly.
18:32I mean, hell, I don't know how many people took note of this.
18:34Did you know that Tyreek Hill essentially did the exact same thing yesterday?
18:37He just said, I'm not playing.
18:39I'm not going in.
18:40He went in, caught two balls.
18:42Then, second quarter, McDaniels sent Tyreek in, and they get word in his head, said, no.
18:49Then he goes to the locker room after the game and goes, I think I'm out of here.
18:53And people are like, what?
18:56See, and it's not as offensive when it's a player that's on your fantasy team, or he's making 30 mil,
19:02or you know damn well that other teams will be interested.
19:05Right.
19:06He's going to get a job.
19:07It's offensive because Devandre wasn't very good to begin with.
19:10And then he quit on the team.
19:11Exactly.
19:12Exactly.
19:13And it's offensive here because linebackers are something that we hold dear.
19:16And Dre Greenlaw is a guy who was playing in that game, and he did everything he could to play.
19:22And then he got shut down because his knee was acting up and his calf,
19:25and yet Campbell couldn't even go out there.
19:27I don't know if it's fitness, but the numbers do indicate this team was pathetic in the fourth quarter.
19:34Dead last in fourth quarter points allowed.
19:3628th in fourth quarter points scored.
19:40Damn.
19:41That's crazy.
19:42They scored five points a quarter in the fourth.
19:43They gave up nearly 10 a quarter in the fourth.
19:47So whether it was fitness or whatever you can point to, I don't know.
19:52We're not in, like you say, we don't go to practice.
19:54We don't see them running gassers or how they go through it.
19:57But the bottom line is in the fourth quarter, they were the worst team in football in terms of plus minus.
20:03Not a good quarter to be the worst team in football.
20:04No, not good.
20:05It's good.
20:06Bobby Implezanton.
20:07Hi, Bobby.
20:08Thank you for calling.
20:09Matt, how are you?
20:10Thanks for having me on the show.
20:11What's up?
20:12Yeah, it's an honor to be on the Texas football with you guys.
20:16You know, I think you guys definitely felt the same pulse that I did.
20:20But, you know, from training camp till now, I mean, it was quite the change.
20:24I mean, a lot of positivity.
20:26I mean, Super Bowl bound.
20:27It's just crazy when you think about how things have changed.
20:31The tables have turned.
20:32The point of that is that I wonder if you felt the same thing from training camp up until when things started to go wrong with the injuries.
20:37Well, I would say this, Bobby.
20:39It was probably there.
20:41I ignored it.
20:43I ignored it because I wanted to think that they were going to be above that.
20:48In other words, remember August where everyone was like, ooh, the vibes.
20:53The vibes, the vibes, the vibes.
20:55Yep.
20:56Well, that word has become one that we've used way too much in Bay Area sports in the end of 2024.
21:02The Niner vibes were off, but the Warrior vibes were great.
21:05Well, what does that add up to?
21:07At the end of the day, maybe nothing.
21:10The Warrior wonderful vibes have not led to a great record.
21:13The 49ers had terrible vibes.
21:16Is that why?
21:17I wanted to believe that everything that was going on in the offseason was going to work itself out.
21:24It never did.
21:26And for me, and we'll play this again coming up next, for me, what Brock Purdy said at his locker room today with regard to if there's a contract extension to be offered, I'd like this to be done very, very quickly.
21:39I think that's personal, but I also think that's a message about the last two offseasons.
21:44And his point is, I'm a leader of this team, and having everybody scream and yell about contracts all summer is not good for our team, so I'd like to not do that.
21:52Right.
21:53The vibe is not good when you've got the news being around Brandon Aiyuk day in and day out, and then CMC pops up, and then Trent pops up, and all these little things.
22:02And you finally get to camp, and Aiyuk is out there wearing the wrong shorts, and Kyle's got to go over there and have a conversation with him about his shorts.
22:10Thank you for bringing that up.
22:11And then he drops Trow, and he puts on the right shorts, and so we do a whole show about the man's shorts, and we're 11 days away from the opener, and we're talking about shorts, Mark.
22:21Dude, when you're 6'11", you forget about some of the things that have happened.
22:26Like, I remember Aiyuk, I remember Christian, I remember Trent, I remember Ricky, but I've forgotten about shorts, and I'm sure there were others.
22:38And that's kind of the point, is it's just like, what the hell was going on this year?
22:46Yeah.
22:47It just was one thing after another.
22:52Some not avoidable, a lot was.
22:55Yep, no doubt.
22:57Some tragic, and some absolutely hysterically stupid.
23:01Like, a guy wearing the wrong colored shorts.
23:03Shorts.
23:04Shorts.
23:05Yeah.
23:06Football season gets political, because someone wears a hat.
23:10I kind of like my hat.
23:12What are we doing?
23:13Fits me good.
23:14What are we doing?