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00:00Back to Stiney and Guru on 95.7 The Game.
00:06Alrighty.
00:09So,
00:12I got a question for you.
00:14I'm here, baby.
00:16So, one of the things you tend to harp on
00:22and focus on are 49er fans
00:26and how snakebit they're feeling, right?
00:30No doubt.
00:30How crushed they must be.
00:32How they're pining and yearning
00:35for that Super Bowl title.
00:37Yeah, right.
00:38And Stiney, we talked about the whole year.
00:40So, the fan, they want a Super Bowl.
00:42They want a Super Bowl
00:44and just how devastated they were when they lost.
00:50So, you acknowledge that the fans are just in pain here.
00:53Right.
00:55But you don't allow for the fact that the players could be in pain from that loss.
00:59And that could be on their minds.
01:01And the disappointment of last year could have lingered for some of the players.
01:05And before they got over their Super Bowl loss, they were at it again.
01:10And they realized how daunting the task was
01:12and it kind of demoralized them a little bit.
01:15Then they thought, you know what?
01:16We knew we were going to have this feeling.
01:20We know how long the road is.
01:22Let's just get by this first month.
01:23Let's get some wins.
01:24Tuck some wins.
01:25We'll get rolling.
01:26But they don't get rolling
01:28because they're not quite operating at their peak.
01:31Because they're still focused a little bit.
01:33Feeling sorry for themselves on last year's crushing loss.
01:37And it just took them a while to get that engine started.
01:40Like turning it over in the winter when the snow's coming.
01:43Uh-oh.
01:44But see, this doesn't sound like the Stiney I know.
01:46No, I believe that absolutely the way people feel affects their performance.
01:51Absolutely.
01:52And I agree with that.
01:53I believe that the San Francisco 49ers, to some degree,
01:58were so devastated by the way they lost that Super Bowl
02:01that they weren't quite ready when the season started at OTAs.
02:07That's what I truly believe.
02:09But is that why Jordan Mason fumbled
02:11when they were going up to two scores against the-
02:13Maybe.
02:14Maybe.
02:14Okay.
02:15How about that?
02:15I'm just going to say maybe.
02:16Is that why Moody missed kicks left and right?
02:19Maybe.
02:19I'm asking the question because when you say it-
02:22Don't ask me the way you said it.
02:23I agree with that.
02:24I'm not blaming the whole year on it.
02:26Because injuries to me is the number one component to why this team didn't reach as far.
02:30Do you think the Warriors are as together now as they were the first 15 games of the year?
02:36No.
02:36I think they've got some stuff going on.
02:38Yeah.
02:39Right.
02:39And maybe they had it going on when they were 12-3.
02:42Well, I don't think so.
02:43Because they were talking about how they were together
02:45and how the vibe was so good.
02:47And I just think that, emotionally,
02:50the 49ers were not operating from an advantageous spot this year.
02:54I don't want to say they were feeling sorry for themselves.
02:57But,
02:58I think,
02:59if you're asking me, Stiney, what happened?
03:01Right.
03:02How they went from Super Bowl to 6-11.
03:04One of the things that I believe happened
03:08was a Super Bowl hangover.
03:10Any way you want to describe it.
03:12It was the disappointment from not winning it last year.
03:15And I thought it leaked into this year.
03:17And I think that the players
03:18were so disappointed.
03:20And then the realization came to them that they had six more months,
03:24once the season started this year,
03:26for them to even get back to the Super Bowl.
03:28And
03:30it hurt them over the course of the year.
03:32Because they maybe spent too much time looking back
03:36as opposed to looking in the now and looking ahead.
03:38Yeah.
03:39See, and I'm not frustrated.
03:41But,
03:42I guess...
03:42These guys aren't machines.
03:44They aren't machines.
03:46And they're not babies.
03:47And they get paid handsomely to play ball, Stiney.
03:49So, they lost the Super Bowl in 2019.
03:52They came back in 2020.
03:54They got hurt.
03:55So,
03:56that was, you know,
03:57it wasn't a good year.
03:58Well, then maybe they got hurt because they didn't have
04:00as much of an offseason as other teams.
04:02Well,
04:03I just think injuries were a big part of it, too.
04:05And we saw injuries happen to the Golden State Warriors
04:08when they went deep into the playoffs,
04:10year after year after year.
04:11And then the 2019 Finals, the next thing you know,
04:14Klay and Durant got hurt.
04:17Are they going to benefit from the rest and the fact that
04:19they don't got to go through this,
04:20this gauntlet of a playoff?
04:22Well, listen.
04:22Of course, Stiney.
04:23I'm not,
04:24like, I'm not saying it's the sole reason.
04:26This is Kyle Shanahan.
04:28He's the head coach.
04:29It's important to have our whole team back for OTAs.
04:31And that's,
04:32that's actually,
04:33you know, last year,
04:34it was like eight weeks after our last game that our guys
04:36needed to be back for voluntary work and stuff,
04:39which I think is real important.
04:40And the year before that,
04:41it was,
04:42it was like nine or ten weeks.
04:43So,
04:44these last two,
04:45and then when we all got back,
04:46it was like,
04:47you could tell we all were back,
04:49but,
04:49you know,
04:49we wish we had a little bit more time.
04:51When I look at a calendar now,
04:52I realize we have 14 weeks until we need to get back.
04:55Like,
04:56I expect everyone to be ready to go and,
04:59you know,
04:59excited to really get this going and play some football.
05:01And that starts with Brock.
05:03So there it is.
05:05He basically said when they,
05:06you know,
05:06when they got back after the short,
05:08short offseason,
05:10he said we were all back,
05:11but we all wish we would have had more time.
05:14So,
05:15I think it's obvious that,
05:17they didn't,
05:19they basically during training camp,
05:21I don't think they got better during training camp.
05:23I think it was just about maintaining almost.
05:25Right,
05:26but I'm focused on,
05:28Stani,
05:28this defense had went 55 straight games without giving up a hundred-yard rusher.
05:33They've given up a hundred-yard rusher five of the last seven games.
05:37They need to block on both sides of the ball.
05:40So I don't know if six more weeks,
05:43if you're telling me they didn't block or they were atrocious,
05:46protecting Purdy and on the D-line not getting after the quarterback.
05:50If that was all because they had to show up to work sooner than they would have
05:54liked.
05:55All because,
05:56all right,
05:56but so that's what I'm saying.
05:57How do you,
05:58how do you fix this?
05:59And you fix this because I think they got a porous run D.
06:03And if you're going to say night-night to,
06:06to my guy Greenlaw,
06:07then you got a hit on replacing him.
06:09I'm not telling anybody that will call this station and even you,
06:13I hear you.
06:14That's part of it.
06:15But to me,
06:16Stony,
06:16I'm hanging my hat on.
06:18They really were a victim of the injury bug and some porous play and what you're
06:24alluding to here.
06:24The injury bug may have hit because of the wear and tear of the previous two seasons
06:30of playing into February,
06:32maybe.
06:33Or into late January.
06:35I'm not saying you're wrong.
06:36You know,
06:37the,
06:37the,
06:38I actually get it and I think we saw the Warriors
06:43kind of have that.
06:45Of course,
06:45they got titles out of their run.
06:47The 49ers didn't get any titles out of their run.
06:49But,
06:50you know,
06:50to me,
06:50it,
06:51it's kind of the same principle.
06:54And I want to bring up the 18 finals when they lost in Game 7,
06:58but it's not fair because they got Kevin Durant to come back and that was the best
07:02cologne you can get.
07:03Oh,
07:03yeah.
07:0415.
07:04Yeah.
07:05Yeah.
07:05Yeah.
07:05Yeah.
07:0516.
07:06Let's go to Mike in Santa Clara wants to jump in here.
07:09Hey,
07:09Mike,
07:09how you doing?
07:13What's up,
07:13guys?
07:14What's up,
07:14guys?
07:15How you doing?
07:18Good.
07:18Good.
07:19Goo.
07:19I actually agree with you,
07:21you know,
07:22you know,
07:22big injury bug,
07:23of course,
07:24you know,
07:25after a certain point,
07:26I actually knew that the season was going to be just kind of a train wreck at a
07:32certain point just because of the injury bug,
07:35but it wasn't just the injury bug either.
07:38It was also the fact that I think and this is one of my if you want to say
07:42silver lining,
07:43like you said in the last segment sighting or silver.
07:47Yeah,
07:47the silver lining.
07:48I think Kyle Shanahan has realized he needs to change up the playbook or modify
07:53the playbook.
07:54He's kind of living in like old-school factor with you know,
07:58yeah,
07:59he might be a little arrogant about his play calling and his expertise if you
08:04want to say,
08:05but you know,
08:06the league is changing in sports in general the league or associations just
08:12change as it is and they always adapt to what's going on around them.
08:17So the I feel like that,
08:18you know,
08:19out of anything to silver lining is and this is just my hope is that Kyle
08:23Shanahan has realized he needs to expand the playbook make some more,
08:29you know more if you want to say adaptive or just creative plays.
08:34I mean the really if you think about it,
08:36they didn't really shoot for the outside,
08:38especially when I uke went out.
08:40They didn't shoot for the outside a whole lot.
08:42It was just a bunch of dump off or it was also just going down the middle with
08:46Kittle,
08:46you know,
08:47things like that Debo obviously,
08:50you know,
08:51he called he called out the fact that he wanted more play or he wanted more
08:55targets his way and well,
08:57we know how that went down especially with that one grab that he should have
09:00had and well,
09:01he just kind of bit himself in his own ass at that point,
09:05but you know in general,
09:06I think that I'm optimistic and I'm excited to see what happens during the
09:10offseason.
09:10I think obviously the biggest thing is we need to find a new coordinator.
09:14If we could possibly get solid back as our DC,
09:18you know,
09:19they could potentially be a long shot.
09:21But if we can get him back as a DC,
09:23I feel a lot more comfortable but focus on that front line and defensive line
09:28as it is just to make sure that party or whoever is going to be the quarterback.
09:32It's going to be party.
09:33I already know that right,
09:34but you know,
09:35just get the get get those moves done and I feel very optimistic and I'm
09:40actually like anxiously awaiting to see what the Niners offseason is going to
09:44look like.
09:45Appreciate it.
09:45Mike.
09:46Thank you very much.
09:47Yeah starting.
09:48I was going to ask Mike because but he fixed it at the end.
09:51He didn't fix it wasn't broke.
09:52But he says his hope is that Kyle's going to make some changes or try to you
09:57know,
09:58do something different offensively.
09:59So that's his hope and I was going to ask him.
10:02Well,
10:03what have you seen or heard to make you think that's already taking place and
10:06he didn't say that he said it's his hope.
10:09Well,
10:09I mean,
10:10they asked Kyle Shanahan about Kubiak calling the plays the last week of the
10:15season and he said that,
10:18you know,
10:18that was just something he gave a shot at and it wasn't as though he was going
10:21to call plays for the for the next season or for next season.
10:25But the one thing that leads me to believe it's possible is that Shanahan
10:32was talking about how he and Kubiak
10:35form the form the the playbook together leading up to a game and the game plan
10:42and for all we know maybe he'll yield more that to Kubiak next year in regard
10:47to calling the plays.
10:48Yeah,
10:48and they also changed this title from for whatever.
10:51So for whatever that means,
10:52he's now officially the offensive coordinator and Mike McDaniel had that
10:56too starting but didn't call plays.
10:58So maybe that maybe the maybe Kyle will yield some of those play calling duties
11:04or just a little bit of that responsibility.
11:06I will see but I the more I think about it,
11:12the more I think about last year.
11:16So,
11:16so last year two months after that crushing loss,
11:19they got to get back to work and when they get back to work,
11:23they still think they're the best team in football.
11:25They still think that they,
11:27they,
11:27you know,
11:28the crafters ready to go.
11:29They lost the game that they should have won and now this year,
11:34they have more time off and they can't possibly go into training camp thinking
11:41that they're owed anything or feeling sorry for themselves or they've got to be
11:49ready to play out the whole season and like they're going to be maybe not an
11:57afterthought,
11:57but they're not going to go into next year as the overwhelming favorites that
12:02they were this year.
12:03And so that'll take a little bit of the pressure off them.
12:06And so I just I the more I think about the time off and kind of the way Kyle
12:11was talking about it.
12:12I do think that they're going to benefit from I mean,
12:16I think what I'm hearing is they almost of course,
12:19they wanted to make the playoffs,
12:20but because they didn't make the playoffs,
12:22they're going to utilize this time that they've never had in the previous two
12:26years to utilize to hopefully make them better for next year.
12:30Yeah,
12:31I hear you and I'm going to just tell you in slave is too too too strong a
12:35word.
12:35I won't even use that.
12:37But the bottom line to me,
12:38Stani is the reports on Christian McCaffrey.
12:41Is he going to be ready to go week one with this rest in this offseason?
12:46And if he is and I know there was some scuttlebutt about I believe Christian
12:49told a reporter if there were a playoff game next week,
12:52maybe he would be ready.
12:54I take that as a good sign.
12:55We'll never know but the bottom line is if going into next year,
12:59you're kind of a slave to is Christian going to be back to himself like
13:05Stani.
13:05Do you get mad at anybody saying maybe we could just be seeing the end of a
13:09run in regard to not just health Kyle system and being ahead of the game and
13:15the Niners being bad for since 2019.
13:19I do wonder and they may have to reinvent themselves some draft and free
13:22agency.
13:23But if you talk about where they're at,
13:26I do worry about is this run over?
13:28Has the league caught up to you?
13:30So some of that is a natural part of this too.
13:33That's bigger than just rest.
13:35Well, I mean because they've been bad for a good meaning bad for a while.
13:40Well to me, it's about coming into camp with a better mindset and it's really
13:49about coming into camp and and knowing deep down inside you're starting over
13:56and it won't feel as daunting as it has in the as it had this past year.
14:02I just the more I hear these guys talk about that loss and then getting back
14:07in here and if you want to call it an excuse you can call it an excuse but it
14:11is kind of reality and I do not think pro athletes are robots and I think
14:16next year next year we will get a far better feel of whether what ailed the
14:23team this year was injuries or they aren't good enough.
14:28They just simply aren't good enough because I think it was a combination of
14:32the injuries and coming off that brutal Super Bowl loss that just kind of got
14:38the team, you know, not quite as bound together and you know, the thing is
14:44it's like I kind of feel that same way and I'm not I don't want to switch the
14:48conversation to the Warriors, but I kind of feel like the Warriors right now are
14:53just searching and waiting and and not really convinced that they can get this
15:00done.
15:00And I think the 49ers kind of had that feeling as the season wore on for them
15:05this past year.
15:05Yeah, and I'll tell you what I didn't tell you in real time because I am
15:10excited Saturday.
15:11I know I mentioned the college playoffs and we got the NFL playoffs this
15:14weekend, but I look at the Detroit Lions just in real time with all the injuries
15:19they sustained that they still got the ship going in the right direction and
15:23I and we're not doing Detroit radio, but the bottom line and why I bring that up
15:27is I have more of an appreciation for what they're doing because as much as I
15:32and I've said it to you just a couple seconds ago, all injuries derailed the
15:36Niners.
15:37Well, there's another team in Detroit and I know they don't have the past
15:40five-year run that the Niners do they were able to sustain what they had going
15:46and and and now they're playing for the big and ultimate prize.
15:49So I get it.
15:51I just think there's some other issues in regard to personnel.
15:56Stony that that that are it's like a dark cloud over this Niner team that I
16:01feel like are more serious than the rest element and and guys like Debo being
16:07able to come to OTAs knowing, you know, what we got to sleep in.
16:11We're ready to attack this season.
16:13I kind of wish that was more.
16:15So what I believe the real antagonist to the next season as opposed to your
16:22defensive coordinator the linebacker, whoever that's going to be next to to
16:27Fred Warner.
16:28What what L Bosa?
16:30What does he need help or does he need rest?
16:32Will that benefit him this old line?
16:35Are they going to get better this offseason?
16:37So all those things are going to be answered, but I just I'm more worried
16:41for that than the rest factor being, you know, what we got the extra three
16:46hours of sleep.
16:47Let's go.
16:48I mean to me to me, if you told me, you know, Steini the Lions and the 49ers
16:55essentially had the same injuries, but the Lions made the playoffs and the
16:59Niners didn't yeah, I'd say no kidding because the Lions are hungrier like
17:05the Lions are hungrier and they're there.
17:09They have their first time and they have they have players that that especially
17:13this year like they got the taste of it like the 49ers did the year they lost
17:19to the Eagles in the NFC championship.
17:21So the 49ers lose to the Eagles.
17:24They think they're better than the Eagles, but they lost Brock Purdy.
17:26Then they come back last year gangbusters.
17:29I think that's what that's why the Lions were able to overcome it this year
17:32like they came into camp highly motivated off the NFC championship loss and
17:38the 49ers kind of came in after a Super Bowl loss just a little down and a
17:42little a little maybe overwhelmed by all the work.
17:47They were going to have to do again to get back there now since you brought
17:52that up.
17:52That's where I was going.
17:55When they lost to Philly and they felt like they really didn't have a chance
17:58because they lost a quarterback early on.
18:01I felt like they use and that was fuel.
18:04They used it as fuel to get back to the Super Bowl after the NFC championship
18:08game.
18:09I'm just asking you Stani.
18:10Why do you think that's different than the Super Bowl loss?
18:14Because that's two years in a row by one year.
18:16I got two years.
18:17They went deep and then this last year, you know, losing overtime.
18:22Let's go to Lori.
18:23Lori's in Phoenix girl.
18:25Hey Lori, how you doing?
18:27Hey guys.
18:28So I just kind of wanted to bring up because I haven't really heard this
18:30much, but you know, this coaching staff has been really plucked over the last
18:35four seasons.
18:36I mean, due to promotions, obviously you fired Wilkes.
18:40Now you're changing coaching staff again, but because you've played so far
18:44into the playoffs every year, you kind of got what's left as far as you didn't
18:49get a pick from the premium of the pot of the guys that were available.
18:53I think one of the silver linings this year is that because Kyle was worried
18:58about coaching a Super Bowl or worried about getting into a, you know, a
19:02championship game, a lot of that focus that was kind of put on the back burner.
19:06So I do think as a coaching staff having an opportunity to really get the guys
19:11they want in there and be able to game plan around that.
19:15I think them having some additional time is just as beneficial as it is for the
19:19players to get that rest in there.
19:21So I just kind of wanted to bring that point up because I do think that
19:24I mean, certainly Lori, I was telling Evan this, they'll probably have access
19:30to more candidates than they've had in the past, I would think.
19:35Point.
19:36They, you know, they, they kind of, they ended up promoting Sorensen because
19:39the people that they wanted, they didn't get it.
19:41They didn't get them.
19:42And I think they really wanted to hire from within because they've
19:44had success with that.
19:45I don't think it was just a, oh, let's just give him the job.
19:47I mean, Sorensen was a well-liked coach.
19:49The players loved him.
19:50They're still talking about him.
19:52They just got to figure out where he's going to work.
19:54It didn't work as defensive coordinator.
19:55So maybe he's going to be better at another position, but I do think
19:58getting the guy you want for defensive coordinator.
20:01They were very comfortable when they had solid.
20:02They were very comfortable when they had to make a ride.
20:05I don't think they've had a guy in there that they've been fully comfortable
20:08with.
20:08So I do think that the promotion to play Kubiak offensive coordinator, that
20:14might be a good thing.
20:14Maybe, maybe that just shows that Kyle is more confident like he was with
20:18Mike McDonnell.
20:20Now he's ready.
20:21So I think some of the shuffling around, I mean, again, a reset, the
20:24coaching, the whole coaching staff might be beneficial for these guys
20:28moving forward.
20:29Good stuff, Lori.
20:29Appreciate it.
20:30Absolutely.
20:32Absolutely.
20:32I mean, that's the thing.
20:34They always had a way, I guess, to fill their positions when guys left.
20:40Maybe, maybe they'll benefit from that.
20:42Well, I haven't more, more candidates to interview.
20:47888-957-9570 is the number if you're a 49er fan.
20:53Are there any silver linings to this year?
20:56That's what I went home yesterday and started to think about.
20:59And I think, I think one of the things that's going to happen this offseason
21:04that's going to help the 49ers is kind of, I'll feel, I feel like whether
21:08they, they, they like it or not.
21:11Um, the, the distance between them and the Superbowl, the time distance
21:18will be extremely beneficial.
21:21But more than that, it's like when they come into camp next year, I'm
21:25not saying they won't have Superbowl aspirations, but it won't be, well,
21:31this is their last chance.
21:33It won't.
21:33And, and I also think, but how do we know that?
21:36Because what if this run is over?
21:38Point is, is that they weren't, they've been favored.
21:41They were favored in every single game.
21:43Like, do you think there'll be the favorites to go to the Superbowl
21:45and the NFC next year?
21:46I don't, I don't either.
21:47Okay.
21:48But they've earned that and you know, it's not how they want it.
21:50That's my, that's my point is like they, you come into camp next year
21:56and talk about Superbowl two years ago.
21:58All you want don't matter.
22:00The reality is you were six and 11.
22:02All right.
22:03And you got to replay.
22:03So the slate is now clean.
22:06The slate is clean.
22:07We get it.
22:07You played in the Superbowl two years ago.
22:09That's great.
22:10But that doesn't mean anything.
22:13As we head into next year.
22:14So I think it's going to be an opportunity for every player and every
22:18coach to kind of reset and, and, and reestablish what this franchise
22:24is, if it is that at all.
22:27And yeah, this is going to be the year where I think it's going to become
22:30obvious whether this thing continues or this thing's not going to be able
22:33to continue like it does, like it has.
22:36If they have another year where they don't make the playoffs, you know,
22:38then we can start saying what's going on here, but they come back next
22:43year with the easiest schedule in the league and then right now I get
22:47to, and then, you know, they make the playoffs and now they're back.
22:51They're back.
22:53They're back, but you got to make the playoffs first.
22:56I remember at the beginning of the year.
22:57I said 49er fans, would you take 10 and seven and win the division
23:01right now?
23:01And most people said no.
23:03No.
23:04Some said yes, but a lot of people said no, but they were playing to
23:07their, they were living in their, their, their reality.
23:10Study the standard that the team had created.