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00:00When I saw not just what happened with Robert Sala, but the immediate reaction from 49er fans. I got interested

00:07Not at the idea that Robert Sala will suddenly be the defensive coordinator and 48 hours in Seattle. That's not happening

00:13I don't think he's gonna be the defensive coordinator at any point for the 49ers this year

00:17Um, in fact, I think he has already publicly stated

00:20He is going to go on vacation with his family

00:22Take a breath and he will see you at the next hiring round not in the aisles

00:27But he will see you at the next hiring round for coaches

00:31Which will be after this year and oh, by the way, and we'll play it for you in a little bit

00:34Kyle Shanahan literally about a half hour ago gave a full vote of confidence in Nick Sorensen saying

00:42Absolutely, nothing negative whatsoever when people were asked about his performance

00:47what's interesting to me about the 49er fan reaction of

00:52Immediately going. Ooh

00:54Let's get Sala back

00:56Is not that he's gonna come

00:58It's it's because of what he represents

01:02Robert Sala

01:04represents one thing beyond a

01:07successful defense

01:08Which I would argue most people most 49er fans didn't even really deeply know about

01:15Robert Sala until Nick Bosa showed up

01:18People started picking off passes. He started running the stairs every day and everybody

01:24It became a thing and next thing, you know, he's a head coach in New York

01:28But Robert Sala represents something to 49er fans and that is fire

01:35He represents fire. He's up and down the sideline. He's in people's faces. He's showing energy

01:41He's doing what we want a defensive coordinator to do

01:44Which is hop around and freak out and go crazy and throw things and slap guys on the helmet and headbutt somebody

01:51With a bare forehead, that's what we love

01:54I don't know that that actually means you're a great defensive coordinator

01:57But it doesn't hurt on TV and he does that and the reason I think so many 49er fans

02:04Immediately wanted him back is that he represents something that appears to have been lost with the 49ers right now

02:12Maybe they just aren't very good time will tell but for now

02:16I look at the 49ers and I think many share this opinion and they look like they're not going all out

02:24They look like they're coasting. They look like they're arrogant

02:28They look like they think they can dial up a win whenever they want

02:30They sound when they lose to the Rams and Cardinals like they're like, I can't believe we lost to the Rams and the Cardinals

02:36We don't do that around here these kinds of statements

02:40You feel like Niners you're playing like the facial expressions of Brandon Crawford and Brandon belt

02:47You look like you're just like and what'd you say about that fumble? What was Trent Williams doing when Jordan Mason fumble?

02:54He's chillin chillin. I don't think people are in the mood for chillin, right?

02:59You're two and three and you lost the Super Bowl last year and the Chiefs are five and oh, so why are you?

03:06Feeling tired slow and complacent. Yeah tired slow and complacent. That's whether it's fair or not

03:13That's why we want Robert Sala back

03:15Well, and you want Robert Sala back because you remember what it was like when he was here that you know

03:20Three years ago or four years ago

03:222020 when you were fifth in the league in yards per play and you were much better in points allowed

03:29And so now you're in a spot where your team is 20th in yards per play

03:33And I know it's still early

03:35It's only five games in and so we can still small sample it if you want

03:39But you are in 20th place in yards per play allowed. Your defense is not good

03:45It looks slow now. You don't have who Fonga you don't have green law

03:49Armstead is gone and you don't have a lot of real game wreckers on defense and teams don't come in here

03:56And they fear you anymore and you don't have the same level of hitting that you used to have and so

04:03Defensively, you're not seeing a real a real

04:07imposing or

04:09Vaunted or dangerous or threatening defense?

04:12You don't get a lot of takeaways Nick Bosa with a great pick on his own, but your secondary is

04:18Mediocre your pass rush is almost non-existent and your poor linebacker

04:22The one guy who you know is out there trying to do everything on a bum leg

04:27Coaching or personnel, it's both. It's both

04:32Gets a bigger piece of the personnel. I agree personnel. I agree with you, but you look at coaching and when you have

04:38Robert Sala who's suddenly free everyone thinks about like you're talking about

04:43Well, if we we just had Robert Sala we get back to that all gas

04:47No break scheme and you can get back to a defense that's out there

04:51Rocking people and wrecking games and I don't know if it's that easy

04:55No, it's not you have a totally different personnel group that you have now

04:59You've got a lot of younger guys in the back end

05:01You've got one linebacker that you really want to rely on maybe one and a half with D winters

05:07But Devon Drake Campbell, nobody wants him on the field. Yeah Adam has struggled

05:12Mooney Ward is not playing at a Pro Bowl level

05:16Diamond Olin or has been amazing. Both has been great and

05:20Who else like Jordan Elliott, he's been solid

05:23Yeah, special teams with a block field goal and whatnot and Floyd's been good at times

05:28But you have not had a real concerted 11-man defensive effort

05:32So the thought would be if we just had Robert Sala or if we get D'Amico back

05:37But D'Amico is not free

05:38But Robert is and you know you bring Sala back and you put Sorenson back to wherever he was and everything could be better

05:45That to me is more emotional than it is X's and O's I agree with you

05:49Yeah, like then that's what's interesting to me

05:51So Niner fans is that how you feel have the 49ers lost their edge lost their passion lost their motion lost their fire

05:58All of that it at eight nine five seven nine five seventy the reaction to Robert Sala's availability to me

06:06Isn't about hey, he can come fix our X's and O's. It was more about hey, he could come in here and

06:14Freakin fire somebody up so that you guys could at least look like you're out there giving it your all

06:21There was a long call to Steini and Gu I forget the listeners name

06:25He went into a whole thing and he was cool about it. He's like look. I don't know. I'm just watching on TV, but to me

06:32They look out of shape, and I was like wow I mean can you imagine now?

06:36What a thing to say to a group of NFL football players you're out of shape

06:41But I know there are people who probably agree you lose leads late

06:46You know the the heat got to you, right?

06:50I don't know if any of that's true

06:51And I don't think that the 49ers are out of shape because in his call

06:55He's like they never close you don't close games, and I'm thinking to myself well except for the 70% of the games that they win

07:02So obviously there have been games over the last five years that the 49ers close

07:08Because they've won the good majority of their games however. I'm not gonna argue that it's a it's not an issue

07:14But I just don't think it's that I don't think it's that they're out of shape

07:18I think that some form of whether it's complacency

07:23Losing your edge in the back of your mind thinking that you've got it even when you don't

07:28You know I think in the back of their mind if you ask him

07:31Do you think you have what it takes to win the division? There's not a one of them

07:34Of course we do we're gonna snap our fingers and turn it on

07:37It's like when Shaq used to always in the shot Kobe era. We're all flip the switch. Don't worry

07:45We'll flip the switch the Niners have become the NFL flip the switch team, which let me tell you is super annoying

07:53Fans don't want to hear you'll start trying when it matters because fans think it matters every single weekend it does

08:01But that's what this represents to me, that's not about the wide nine

08:06It's about a complete lack of fire

08:09Well just close the game is all I mean right

08:12That's where and you had that game yesterday or Sunday that you could have closed it if Jordan Mason doesn't fumble

08:18And that's one that you could have closed or fourth and five on a throw

08:22That's up for grabs, and you could have knocked it down from Yadam, and you didn't and so you didn't close

08:27It's more than just one player

08:29It's a team effort, and you can tell me you're going to flip the switch all you want

08:33But what we've seen from this team is if you're not a home team in the playoffs you usually don't go to the Super Bowl

08:39Yeah

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