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00:00But I want to get this off my chest because this freaked me out today.
00:04No joke. And I know that for some of us,
00:08social media and news on social media,
00:13it's sort of like sends us to a certain place where we're like, oh,
00:16that's just Twitter or Instagram or whatever.
00:20But increasingly, I think we're learning that what we do see
00:24as far as messaging on social media is real.
00:27And this is different than say, Brandon,
00:30Iuke who last year had him and his girl and his brother
00:35all kind of all over Instagram. Remember right, exact same time of the year.
00:39It was February cause the season lasted longer,
00:41but meaning just a few days after cleaning out lockers,
00:45Iuke and his people were already on social media talking about how,
00:49well my last game at Levi's stadium, guess I'm out. Now,
00:53remember he ended up being in, got hurt, but he stayed.
00:58I'm hopeful that the same thing is happening here. This is different,
01:03but the suggestion is clear by Fred Warner's wife,
01:08Sydney, that Dre Greenlaw is leaving.
01:12And I think if the 49ers led him out of the room, it is an all caps,
01:17massive mistake.
01:19There is video on her page that is showing a party of women mostly made up of
01:26seemingly the indication is that there are a lot of 49 or wives and
01:30girlfriends at this party. And she writes POV,
01:34which stands for point of view.
01:36And she shows Dre Greenlaw's girl coming in and writes,
01:40your team didn't make the playoffs and the NFL free agency is taking your best
01:46friend to another team. And we are all severely unwell.
01:51I don't know any other way to read this to the point.
01:54Steini was just making about Steph Curry and the warriors,
01:58whatever page of the book we are on, they are eight chapters ahead.
02:03So the idea before free agency even starts the Dre Greenlaw and the 49ers and
02:08his representatives have not already had discussions is ludicrous.
02:12They know where each other stand and the indication from Fred Warner's wife is
02:17that Dre's gone. And I'm telling you right now, I don't like,
02:21I can't be an expert on health and what's going on there,
02:25but I think Dre Greenlaw, whatever's going on with him,
02:28I have full belief that that human being is going to recover and still have a
02:33great NFL career in front of him. And if it's not in a Niner jersey,
02:37it's a massive mistake.
02:38Well, we don't know that. I mean,
02:39we don't know if it's a massive mistake. We don't know anything.
02:41Right. And I wonder what that whole process would be like because I'm looking at
02:46the second picture from the post, which is a giant five,
02:50seven balloon gold balloons,
02:52which they could give that to me for my next birthday coming up in seven months.
02:56It's going to be my Greenlaw birthday.
02:58What up Dan Bunz?
02:59That's right. We quite literally have been blessed with the best neighbors the
03:03past two years. Our last block party,
03:05teary face and red heart and all the rest of it.
03:08So I wonder if they had already decided to not bring back Dre Greenlaw,
03:13why not let him play to at least showcase himself to other teams?
03:16And if he wasn't healthy enough to play,
03:18well then maybe you're not going to miss out on what you think you're going to
03:21miss out on. A guy who missed all year,
03:23came back for two quarters and got hurt again.
03:26I don't necessarily think that if the Niners are going to play,
03:29they're going to be able to do it.
03:32I don't necessarily think that if the Niners look at that and they decide that
03:37he's not worth even a small minimum kind of a salary,
03:41then maybe they're not going to miss out that much.
03:44Can we do a quick aside?
03:45Do it.
03:46I just made the Dan Bunz comment and director of sports Lucas Alexander
03:49looked at me with the biggest gas face of all time.
03:52Like what the hell are you doing?
03:54Because the comment went way over his head.
03:58Don't worry, I schooled him.
03:59Flew way over his head.
04:01What was the comment?
04:02Why don't you read a book, man?
04:04What was the comment?
04:05Linebacker from the Joe Montana era.
04:07Thank you. 57.
04:08The number was 57.
04:10Yeah, same number as Ray Greenlaw.
04:12And your age soon.
04:14And I think that the next level of what the comment would be...
04:18Was the goal line stand that both of them had.
04:21The third down play, Dan Bunz,
04:23and I actually have a lithograph that was given to me.
04:27My only piece of Niner memorabilia
04:29is a lithograph of the Dan Bunz tackle
04:32on third and goal
04:34from that Super Bowl.
04:36Number 57.
04:37Points to you, Grandy.
04:38You get points.
04:39And then Dre Greenlaw, of course.
04:41Everyone talked about it when it happened.
04:43When he was in Seattle and they clinched the division in the one seed.
04:46When he made the tackle of whoever that was.
04:48Seattle's tight end on the one yard line.
04:51Russell Wilson era.
04:53I think he thought because your first name is Dan,
04:56I was nicknaming you Dan Bunz or something like that.
04:58Exactly what I was thinking.
05:00I'm talking about his rear end that's 57 years old.
05:02Which is still elite at 57, by the way.
05:04There's been no droopage.
05:05Debatable, but we've been working together for three and a half years
05:08and I've never referred to your butt
05:10and I'm not going to start now.
05:12Do your homework.
05:13Dan Bunz used to play for the Niners anyway.
05:15Where do you see his butt?
05:17Back to the issue at hand.
05:19Your opinion...
05:21I wonder if Dre Greenlaw...
05:24If they decide that Dre Greenlaw is no longer a part of their plans
05:26then I'm kind of with you.
05:28Emotionally it's a big loss
05:30because he's definitely an emotional leader of this team.
05:32If they don't think that he's able to still be Dre Greenlaw
05:36then I hope that he's able to go out there
05:38to another team and prove them wrong
05:40if in fact he leaves
05:42and the bigger issue for me is
05:44you've got a big hole at linebacker
05:46and you can say Dee Winters and that's nice
05:48and he's probably a piece for the future
05:50but you look at a defense that was bad this year
05:54and the defensive coordinator may or may not be back
05:56this year
05:58it's a defense that needs really good players
06:00and Greenlaw has been a really good player.
06:02I mean they'll address it
06:04I don't think this is going to be like
06:06oh we didn't know
06:08they'll address it
06:10and I understand it could go one way or the other
06:12that's just my feeling
06:14part of it is also we get attached to the drafted players
06:16especially the ones that get drafted late
06:18and become stars
06:20like a George Kittle
06:22what I saw from him
06:24even in this short little flash
06:26in a game that was built for defense
06:28to me was more than just football
06:30it was the way emotionally
06:32this human being has an effect
06:34on the other players around him
06:36I could not be a bigger Dre Greenlaw fan
06:38people forget
06:40where this person was
06:42and who he was
06:44he is someone who has had
06:46in many ways an awful background
06:48and upbringing
06:51I remember the story when Dre was drafted
06:53he was the guy that saved the girl
06:55from the party
06:57from the guy that was trying to
06:59do the date rape thing
07:01and he saved her
07:03and that girl's dad came out
07:05and spoke publicly about Dre
07:07like this is a dude
07:09as Kyle Shanahan would say
07:11everything that you want in a 49er
07:13that's who Dre Greenlaw is
07:15and I don't know
07:17what the financial ask is
07:20we have not even started to get there
07:22but I'm like
07:24wow what an unbelievable
07:26gut punch
07:28if the Niners are so out
07:30on Dre Greenlaw
07:32that two days after the season ends
07:34they've already decided
07:36he's already decided he's moving on
07:38Fred Warner's wife is throwing parties
07:40for the family
07:42and then posting it on social
07:44which is another side to this story
07:46that I don't really understand
07:49and it's their channels
07:51they do whatever you want
07:53I would imagine this didn't surprise Fred
07:55I don't know man
07:57I think that the Niners
07:59are making a huge mistake
08:01if this guy's not on the team going forward
08:03I can't really make that call
08:05based on what he did this year
08:07I don't think that it's a huge mistake
08:09the emotional part of it yeah
08:11it's big but if Dre Greenlaw
08:13is no longer able to be the player
08:15that they need him to be
08:18and this is one for me that time will tell
08:20and you have him go out there
08:22and he gets signed by another team
08:24and he becomes a game wrecker again
08:26then yeah it could be a big mistake
08:28but this makes me think more about
08:30the whole idea of Super Bowl or bust
08:32where you try to go to a Super Bowl
08:34and you don't
08:36and then you have hard choices to make
08:38and Javon Hargrave is going to be a guy
08:40who probably isn't back
08:42and Dre Greenlaw
08:44and we can run through all 31 free agents
08:46and Devadre Campbell
08:48he won't be back
08:50and all the other free agents that are on the list
08:52the majority of them won't be back
08:54so next year whatever you do
08:56it's going to be with a team
08:58that is markedly different than this year