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00:00You want to do three things?
00:01Let's do three things.
00:02Let's do some three things.
00:03Grandy, I'm rooting against you tonight, but not until the show's over.
00:07So how about a little musical accompaniment, if you please.
00:11You want to go first or you want me to go first?
00:13Go ahead and go first.
00:14Be the tone setter.
00:14All right, here it is.
00:16My first thing, and I'm sorry to say it, but this is how I feel,
00:21kind of like Kyle Shanahan in this moment.
00:23I don't miss Dre Greenlaw anymore.
00:26I really wanted the 49ers to keep him.
00:28I was feeling some kind of way about the Niners letting him go.
00:33And I'm not saying it's definitive that they were right and I was wrong
00:38or any of those things.
00:39It's been one football game.
00:41But, my friends, D. Winters is a ball-er.
00:47That man is really got it dialed.
00:51He knows exactly how to play the position.
00:53He knows the energy that the position requires.
00:56And, oh, by the way, he's younger.
00:58He's younger and healthier.
01:00Not that Dre is old, but did you see what Dre did for the Broncos yesterday?
01:04Did you see that?
01:06He didn't play.
01:08He's hurt again.
01:09Oh, boy.
01:09So, I get it.
01:12I love Dre Greenlaw.
01:13I'll always love Dre Greenlaw.
01:14It's super unfortunate what has happened in his career since the moment that the Super Bowl took place a year and a half ago.
01:22But we are where we are and the 49ers have their Dre Greenlaw replacement.
01:26Yes, and he is the shining star in a draft that is mostly forgettable.
01:312023.
01:32Jair Brown, Jake Moody, Cameron Latu, Daryl Luter, Robert Beal.
01:37These are people who might still be football players somewhere.
01:41Unfortunately, your kicker is still around.
01:43But six-round D winners.
01:44Yeah.
01:45He absolutely popped off the screen.
01:47I was loving watching him play.
01:49And it kind of leads to what my first one will be.
01:53Fire away.
01:53It was my second one, but it's going to be my first one because it plays off of what you're saying.
01:57Robert Sala has this defense playing downhill.
02:00And it reminds me of the defense that he used to coordinate where guys are just absolutely flying to the ball.
02:09And yesterday, you can count on one hand or maybe even less than that, missed tackles.
02:15They were fitting in against the run.
02:18And Seattle's got a couple of good running backs, and they were dedicated to running the ball.
02:22But the Niners were able to contain that run.
02:26And a lot of it was D winners, as you were saying, but Kalia Davis with a couple up front.
02:31Sam O, Sam Okawano.
02:33He was really good.
02:33With a forced fumble.
02:34If you like PFF, Sam O, your highest-rated defender yesterday.
02:39Love it.
02:39And part of that is because of that forced fumble.
02:41But the defense is part bend but don't break, but also part downhill violence.
02:47And that, to me, was a Robert Sala fingerprint yesterday.
02:51Okay.
02:51You want to go first for round two?
02:52No, you go ahead, Mark.
02:54You're doing great.
02:54All right.
02:55You're doing a heck of a job over there.
02:56Thanks, Dibs.
02:57Yeah, you got it.
02:59The offensive line was troubling.
03:02I thought the offensive line was troubling.
03:03I don't think that we're in a spot where we need to panic necessarily as of yet.
03:09But, again, to borrow the stat that I was trumpeting last hour, Brock Purdy faced a 58% pressure rate, 57.9 to be exact exact.
03:20And that is the highest of his career.
03:22And that is not a sustainable way to win football games.
03:26It changes a little bit my view of the way Purdy played, in fact, because he did not take a lot of sacks.
03:34Did he take any sacks?
03:35One.
03:35He took one sack on a 58% pressure rate.
03:38That's fantastic.
03:39His feel for movement within the pocket was really good.
03:42His receivers were not always available.
03:46And so I get why he might force a thing or two, even though they might have been bad decisions.
03:52So, anyway, back to the bigger point, Trent Williams was not at the level that you would want him to be.
04:01I know Pune was down on the ground at one point.
04:03McKibbitt's got the extension from an individual basis.
04:07I still think they've got some good players there.
04:09But as a collective group, they got outplayed in passing situations yesterday.
04:14I would love to see that get better this weekend.
04:17Yeah, it leads me right into my second one, which is the offensive line was better than you think.
04:22And by you think, I mean the collective group think.
04:26Grandy, I think.
04:27I was listening to Overtime yesterday.
04:29And if you want to look at the offensive line and how they did running the ball, they were pretty darn good running the football.
04:36Now, a lot of those run plays were set up against 8, 9, and even 10-man boxes, which doesn't matter how good your O-line is.
04:44You're going to lose that play.
04:46They gave up some pressures, absolutely.
04:48But in the key moments, this offense was able to convert third downs.
04:52They converted half of their third downs in the game.
04:55The offensive line had some rough moments, not a ton of penalties.
04:59I know Trent had a hold and McKibbitt's had a false start.
05:02But I found on a second watching of the game that the offensive line was actually better than I had initially thought.
05:08It's a fair kind of angle to take on this whole thing.
05:11In watching the game, it wasn't that I thought they were awful, but Brock was running for his life a whole lot.
05:20And they were not able to complete balls to wide receivers very often, which is usually the tell for a good offense to a great one.
05:27Like, there are actually a handful of quarterbacks in this league.
05:31They can complete the ball on checkdowns.
05:33They can complete the ball to the tight end, who's like standing right over there seven yards away.
05:38Can you get your wide receivers involved?
05:40That's what the great ones can do.
05:42And Brock had a hard time with that yesterday.
05:45Part of that is the receiver core being so banged up.
05:48Part of that is also the pressure rate was too great, and therefore there just wasn't always a lot of time to go for those downfield strikes.
05:57They had a few.
05:58And, you know, the double move to Ricky Pearsall was obviously well blocked to allow Brock to have that much time to pump fake and then fire to Pearsall.
06:06And, you know, the Ton just won for the touchdown, the game winner.
06:10That was a full-on scramble play.
06:11So things had broken down.
06:13I think Trent got beat on the left side of that play as well.
06:16But I just look at 38 minutes of time of possession, and the majority of their run plays garnered positive yards.
06:24And third and long, they were able to protect on those and convert.
06:27So a little bit inconsistent, but I found, watching it again, that the O-line was better than many people are giving them credit for.
06:33I mean, they definitely ran the ball better than their counterparts did.
06:36Kenneth Walker was totally and completely bottled up in this football game.
06:40Okay, round three for me, three things right here on Willard and Dibs, 95-7 the game.
06:47And this one is, I hate saying it.
06:51I really do.
06:53You don't hate it, otherwise you wouldn't do it.
06:55No, but I feel it.
06:57But I do hate it.
06:58But I feel it.
06:59Just say it.
06:59Jawan Jennings made a bad bet.
07:01He made a bad bet.
07:04And I say that not knowing what the numbers were that the 49ers put in front of them.
07:11But if they did offer a multi-year extension, I'm sure it was at a number that a 975-yard receiver would scoff at.
07:23He would be like, what are you talking about?
07:25You got receivers out here.
07:27You make 1,000 yards, come on, man.
07:30We're making $26 million a year, ain't you heard?
07:33But the bottom line is, is, Jawan, that was very circumstantial last year.
07:39It was not going to repeat itself.
07:42You're opening yourself up to injury.
07:45And when the only added money that you get is incentive money, what happens when you miss a bunch of games?
07:52Which I think is about to happen.
07:54Listen, it's super easy on the back end of this to look back and say you made a bad bet.
08:01However, I didn't love it to begin with.
08:05I didn't realize when he took the incentive package that a multi-year deal had been put on the table.
08:11I would love to know what that number was.
08:13Yep.
08:14But I'll tell you this, Jawan.
08:15If it was higher than $15 million a year, you made the wrong choice.
08:21You were not going to put those numbers up for the 49ers again, and now you're really not going to put those numbers up for the 49ers again.
08:30And when you hit free agency at the end of the year, you're not in a great spot to go out there, if you miss a bunch of games, to go out there and get more than what you could have gotten.
08:38So, yeah, that's a tough one to say, but you've always talked about the guaranteed money and just get your money while you can.
08:47And whatever the number was, I don't know how much the guarantee would have been, but I would bet that he was in line to get more money than what he got in this one-year deal.
08:56My third thing, and 888-957-9570 if you disagree, but I thought yesterday was a Shanahan master class.
09:04At the end of the first half, he might have gotten a little conservative.
09:08Grandy was making this point on overtime, trying to go down and settle for the field goal, knowing you'd get the ball back.
09:14Well, the field goal missed, and so that kind of blew up in his face a little bit.
09:18But in the second half, especially after he lost Kittle in the second quarter, the way he used his personnel groups, he used a lot of use check, and he put him out there on the line as an extra tight end.
09:30He went to a lot of two tight end sets.
09:32He did what he had to do with the personnel he had, and ultimately, yeah, you gave McCaffrey the ball a lot more than what fans would want, but he gave CMC the ball left and right.
09:43He threw it to him to the left, to the right.
09:45I thought the way Shanahan called the game, considering who he had remaining on his team, I thought it was a genius game for him to call and to get the win in that fashion.
09:57Well, I'll give him this.
09:58It was a really tough game to call.
10:00I don't know if everything, you know, it kind of hits me, and, you know, sorry to go back to Downer Dillon, who called in a short time ago, but when people are like, why don't you dial up Pearsall more?
10:12That's not how, you don't dial people up.
10:15Every play has multiple options.
10:17You have no idea when a play is executed or not.
10:21Who was option one, two, three, four, or if Brock Purdy just takes off and then starts to try to make something out of nothing.
10:28So, it's not a video game.
10:31Kyle does not have a little controller in his hand.
10:34So, remove that.
10:36And what I would say is, you end up in a football game on the road.
10:40You end up in a grinder against a really good defense.
10:43You end up with George Kittle going out.
10:45You would then end up with Jawan Jennings going out.
10:48You were already very shorthanded at that position.
10:53And you at least have some sort of nervousness, I would guess, in the back of your mind about Christian McCaffrey.
11:00And I just think you end up with an offense that's going out there, and it does not have the options that it would normally have.
11:07It does not have as many sort of, you know, pieces of silverware in the drawer as what you're used to.
11:14And you're right.
11:16They found a way to make it work anyway.
11:18So, deserves a lot of credit for that.
11:20Yeah.
11:20And they did dial up Pearsall, quote-unquote, and that was the intended target on his second interception.
11:27So, it's not like Pearsall was just completely neglected.
11:31He had four catches.
11:32He had seven targets.
11:33And one of the ones he didn't catch was an interception.
11:36So, I just look at the way Shanahan went about it.
11:40And so much in the second half especially was two tight ends and two running backs, which means just one receiver.
11:47And a lot of that was Pearsall, and a lot of that was just to run the ball.
11:52You brought in Farrell and Tonjes.
11:53You had Juszczyk and usually CMC, sometimes Robinson.
11:57And you just set about to run the ball.
11:59And that second drive they had was about 13 plays, total domination, and then the field goal gets blocked.
12:08So, if you're Shanahan, you're thinking, this is what we do.
12:11Like, they went from their own 25 all the way down to the 18.
12:15Fourth and two, they converted a fourth down, which, by the way, they converted two fourth downs on the game.
12:20Shanahan did.
12:21You know, Captain Conservative.
12:23But I just thought that he was very much in his bag with a bag that was not Gucci.
12:30That thing was more like a plastic bag from the grocery store.
12:34He didn't have a – he was down a couple of big-time weapons.
12:37All right.
12:37Three things.
12:38And we'll go to the phones, back to the phones here in just a sec.
12:41888-957-9570.
12:43But as we had told you, Kyle Shanahan's conference call was at 3.30.
12:47So, that started seven minutes ago, and Grandy apparently has a George Kittle update.
12:52What do we got there, Mark?
12:53Yeah, Shanahan is speaking right now.
12:55He has said that George Kittle's hamstring injury will likely cost him, quote, a few weeks.
13:02That is the early indication.
13:03A few weeks.
13:04A few weeks.
13:05Is the word from Kyle Shanahan.
13:07Also, Brock Purdy has a left shoulder and toe injury that make him uncertain for Sunday's game in New Orleans.
13:15Whoa.
13:15Kyle Shanahan also said that.
13:17So, the team will see how the practice week goes with Brock Purdy.
13:20Left shoulder and toe that make him uncertain for Sunday.
13:25Huh.
13:26Brock Purdy.
13:27Brock.
13:28Brock Purdy.
13:29Brock Purdy.
13:30Left shoulder and a toe.
13:31Okay.
13:32And then Jawan Jennings, they're still evaluating the shoulder.
13:35He said, quote, the MRI was good, but waiting on the CTs.
13:38Okay, that's awesome.
13:40I don't know.
13:41Okay, MRI, CT.
13:43Dr. Dibbs, what are we looking for?
13:45MRI would indicate something that is torn, such as a labrum.
13:48Okay.
13:49I tore my labrum in my left shoulder.
13:50And when you look at the MRI, the labrum holds your shoulder basically together.
13:55That's what I was worried about on this one.
13:57Right.
13:57And when that thing is torn, your shoulder will dislocate at the very, like, the very presence of raising your arm.
14:03And I think the CT scan is more about, you know, the bones and maybe nerves as well to see if there's something else that's in there that's causing him that level of discomfort.
14:13Okay.
14:13All right.
14:14Yeah, he was not able to lift his arm up at all during the fourth quarter and then after the game yesterday.
14:22So, I was absolutely fearing the worst with Jawan.
14:24Jawan, that's kind of interesting that they're kicking the can down the road a little bit here because I, you know, you know the way I look at these and I don't know.
14:34So, maybe I'm wrong on this, but we've talked to enough doctors and team doctors that I'm always of the belief, like, y'all know what's going on a lot quicker than you let on.
14:46Like, it's incredible to learn how much those doctors know right there in that blue tent.
14:54Like, right there in that blue tent.
14:57You know what I mean?
14:58Like, I've talked to doctors who are like, you want to diagnose a torn ACL?
15:02It takes three seconds.
15:04Hup, yep, yep, yep, it's gone.
15:06That's an easy one.
15:07I'd like to, but then they go, oh, they grab your thigh, they grab your shin, and they go, whoop, whoop, it's gone.
15:12We've got to wait for tomorrow, we've got an MRI, we've got to, it's like, no, they know.
15:15They know.
15:16So, I don't know what they know right now about Juwan, but I guess that's a good start.
15:20Great start.
15:21That's a good start, but they also signed Kendrick Bourne already also.
15:25Yes.
15:25Which would suggest they're a little concerned about it, or they hated what they saw from some of the other fill-ins.
15:31I don't know.
15:32That's all possible, and when you're looking at this, and you use the expression a lot about, like, survivor, wide receiver, survivor, it's basically what this is.
15:41And Marquez Valdez-Scantling, so new, no targets.
15:45And Russell Gage from the practice squad, no targets.
15:48Sky Moore, please don't throw him the ball, no targets.
15:51So, yeah, as you look forward, you're going to need to have a little bit more from a wide receiver standpoint,
15:57because you can't just run two tight ends and or two running backs all game, every game.
16:03You can't give McCaffrey 31 touches a week.
16:06We're going to play Kyle Shanahan's comments a little bit later, once everybody can gather it together.
16:11But further updates.
16:13So, you heard Grandy say, George Kittle, probably going to cost him a few weeks.
16:18Juwan Jennings still evaluating.
16:20MRI was good.
16:21They're going for CT.
16:23Purdy dealing with a left shoulder and toe.
16:25We'll see how the week progresses.
16:28The toe is more serious than the shoulder.
16:31Okay?
16:32No reports of anything on Trent Williams.
16:35So, he is good to go.
16:37Here's the biggie.
16:38Y'all ready for this?
16:39Yeah.
16:40On the kicking situation.
16:42Quote, we're looking into all of that now.
16:47And did mention the word tryouts.
16:50He did mention it.
16:51Yeah.
16:51So, once again, I'll go back to the crossover.
16:54He did not give Jake the vote of confidence that I feel the internet feels he did.
17:00Well, he gave him a vote of confidence on that day.
17:03Right.
17:03You know.
17:04Well, that's how he took it.
17:05He played a semantics game and nobody knew that's what he was doing.
17:08Is there any doubt he's your kicker now?
17:09No.
17:10No, I was just out there.
17:11He's our kicker.
17:12Right.
17:14Ask me again tomorrow.
17:15And they did.
17:16And they got a different answer, didn't they?
17:17And the answer today was maybe there's going to be tryouts.
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