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00:00Got to be delicate with those calves.
00:02Now, back to Stiney and Guru on 95.7 The Game.
00:07All right, it's crossover time.
00:08Let's welcome in Mark Willard and the fan.
00:11Dan Dibley.
00:11Hey, guys.
00:12How are you?
00:13Guess who's back?
00:14Back again.
00:15Willard's back.
00:16Let's go.
00:16Tell him a friend.
00:17Well, this one was just a little 24-hour soiree.
00:20Yeah, longest three hours of my career.
00:23I asked him where his ring was at.
00:24Yeah, he's already questioning me.
00:26Dude, is that thing off already?
00:27Did you take your ring off already?
00:29Already?
00:29No, I got the ring off.
00:30All right.
00:31I've barely seen her since the honeymoon, but no, we have split up yet.
00:35There it is.
00:35We're good.
00:36We're good.
00:36Keep it happy.
00:37Keep it separated.
00:39It is funny.
00:39I'll share with people, like, what the hell, right?
00:42Like, we're all in our 50s.
00:43Who gives a rip anymore?
00:45Christy and I don't live together, and we're not going to for the time being.
00:50I didn't know that.
00:51There's too many kids.
00:53How many bedrooms do you think people can afford?
00:56A lot.
00:56But it's not even that.
00:57It's not even about affordability.
00:58It's about, like, four kids.
01:01Two of them just finished high school.
01:02This is awesome.
01:03Two more are still in high school.
01:05One of them hadn't even started high school yet.
01:07They need their own dynamics.
01:08So you don't sleep with your wife?
01:10No.
01:10I mean, I do, but not them.
01:13Not at night.
01:14Cue up the Mike Brown sound.
01:15Not at the blue tune.
01:16You know?
01:17So, but, like, they've all got their bedrooms and their dynamics.
01:21I got it, really.
01:21And there's, like, teenage girls, and there's a lot going on.
01:25So, for now, we only live, like, five minutes apart.
01:29It's no big deal.
01:30But it's a little abnormal for a married couple.
01:34But the funny thing is, is when you tell other married people that this is what you're doing,
01:42there's always the first response, which is like, well, that's odd.
01:48And then they lean in.
01:49Oh, yeah.
01:50Like, it's how study you're looking.
01:53Tell me about it.
01:54Yeah.
01:54So, wait a minute.
01:56You mean you have your own room?
01:58You have your own shower?
02:01You can just, if you're feeling some kind of way, just go to your own space and date your spouse.
02:09Oh, man.
02:09And it's hilarious to look.
02:11Look, there's some positives.
02:12There's some negatives.
02:13There's whatever.
02:14Like anything in life.
02:15It's hilarious, though.
02:17To watch people's eyebrows go up, how interested they are at this idea.
02:21That's too funny.
02:22Well, especially folks who've been married for a long time.
02:24For a minute, yes.
02:25Or folks who might be married with a toddler.
02:28So, and I, you know, you talk a lot about, like, separate domiciles.
02:32And I think, what if I lived five minutes away?
02:35And it's, you know, all the minutia that I have to fight through with an almost three-year-old.
02:41It's like, yeah.
02:42It's a lot.
02:43Let me hop in the car.
02:44I'll be right there.
02:45Or not.
02:46And I can relate.
02:48When I just live with my dad two days a week to keep from the commute, I do get those, like,
02:54that's weird.
02:55Right?
02:56But there's a reason behind the line.
02:58You know what I mean?
02:58You get, I mean, look, we're still newlyweds and all of that, too.
03:01But it's kind of fun sometimes to miss your person.
03:05Stardy, I didn't know that about Wheel.
03:06A couple questions, obviously.
03:09Oh, yeah.
03:09I'm an open book.
03:11I'm an open book.
03:11What do you need?
03:12No, honestly, my number one question is, are children on the horizon?
03:19Is that possible?
03:21Or is that too personal a question to even ask?
03:23It is not too personal of a question.
03:25It is a physical and emotional impossibility.
03:29Okay.
03:30All right?
03:30So there will not be any more children.
03:32And we can let that there.
03:33Yeah.
03:34Yeah.
03:34The one thing I will say, though, is this information about you guys living apart,
03:39by the way, I want to make sure that's understood.
03:41I, I'm, I got you.
03:43Not her.
03:44Sure.
03:44Like, I'm, yeah.
03:46Nope.
03:46Yeah.
03:47You get reversed it.
03:48You're like the Giants offense with runners in scoring position.
03:51It's not happening.
03:53We had that taken care of.
03:56We got frozen peas and we had that taken care of.
03:58Go ahead.
03:59I will say this, though.
04:00Had, had we known that you would get married and then be living apart from your wife,
04:08we would have set the over-under at a much higher number.
04:13That is great.
04:13I mean, it would have been up around 11, 11 and a half.
04:16Years, no doubt.
04:17Yeah.
04:17But what is it, by the way?
04:19No one's ever had the courage to tell me.
04:22We had it at four years if you were living together.
04:24Yeah.
04:24Yeah.
04:25Four.
04:26But you're not.
04:26So now it's up to 11.
04:28Yeah.
04:29Oh, that's going to be.
04:29I mean, living apart, it becomes an elongation sensation.
04:34But the heart grows fonder, Dibs.
04:36It does.
04:36For someone else.
04:38Doesn't that automatically make it the right thing, then?
04:41Like, just that, if you're going to up the over-under because we're not living together,
04:47couldn't I argue that everybody should do it?
04:49You could argue that, but.
04:51Yes.
04:51Okay.
04:51It should.
04:52Your situation is incredibly unique, and I admire the approach because young Jude is
04:57going to be a 7th grader.
05:00Wow.
05:00He's only a 6th grader.
05:01Only starting middle school.
05:02Oh, wow.
05:02And you've got a junior, and she's got a junior.
05:05No, hers is a sophomore.
05:07Mine's going to be a junior.
05:09So to blend that thing.
05:10And two are 18 and just finish.
05:12Right.
05:12And unless you've got a one, two, three, five-bedroom house that you can just roll
05:17up into, and even at that.
05:18But even if we did, we wouldn't.
05:20Like, we're not going to do it.
05:21You don't just grab.
05:22I hear you.
05:23It's almost like, it's a little bit of like Rafi Devers in San Francisco.
05:28You don't just grab someone and drop, like, you don't drop 16-year-old girls together
05:34and be like, all right, sisters, share a bathroom.
05:38Holy hell, you're asking for, right?
05:40That's not fair to them.
05:41And I'm not saying they don't get along, because they do.
05:43But that's not, that's not, don't do that to people.
05:46It's a little like what the Niners did with Jimmy Garoppolo, where they brought him back
05:49and they put him on the kiddie field, and it's like, all right, Jimmy, we got Jimmy,
05:53we got Trey, we got this kid Brock we're not sure about.
05:56Is that Jimmy or Juwan Jimmy?
05:57Because that's what that sounds like.
05:59I mean, is that a holdout?
06:00Or talk to, we played the Richard Sherman sound, but talk to me.
06:04He's not, he can't give me a definitive answer.
06:06Oh, as to whether or not the injury's fake?
06:08Yeah, like, it's probably.
06:10I want some clarity, Daz and Willard.
06:12It's probably not a fake injury.
06:14You give a new contract, we'll see you tomorrow.
06:16Well, no, I don't think it's that, but doesn't it feel like maybe it's like.
06:20For Kyle to say, go ask him.
06:22Right.
06:22I'm like, oh.
06:23Let's just err excessively on the side of caution, maybe.
06:27All right.
06:27Anyway, four, huh?
06:31Yeah.
06:31I mean.
06:32I just made that.
06:33I know.
06:34That's going to be easy.
06:35That's going to be easy.
06:36It should be.
06:37Because you were married before you were married.
06:39Yeah.
06:39Well, there's that.
06:40Yeah.
06:40There's that.
06:41But also, I'll tell you what we've joked about, and this is what my book will be about
06:44when I'm 77 years old, is it's almost a cheat code.
06:49Like, I'm not saying break down the American family, but what a couple has to go through
06:55when they get married in their 20s, and then you're not even a fully formed person yet,
07:00and then you've got to do the life, the work, the kids, you have kids, and then the pressures
07:06that that puts on a couple.
07:09Well, man.
07:09All of that, that experience is very hard to come out of it and not resent one another.
07:16Right?
07:16And you're right under one another's nose constantly.
07:19Well, now it's a cheat code.
07:21It's like we both went and did that.
07:24We've got our kids, and now we just get to be like 50 and enjoy each other.
07:31Man.
07:31And nobody worries about who's doing what.
07:35Nongevity in that.
07:36Nobody's keeping track.
07:37Well, I took care of the kids yesterday, so you.
07:41Nobody's doing that.
07:42I'm a little concerned as to why you keep looking at me.
07:45Nothing.
07:45We are one of the three people in here.
07:48I'm looking at Goob, but, you know, I mean, he's a good looking man.
07:52Empty nester, newlywed with a toddler.
07:55So, yeah, look away, because what you're describing is.
07:57It's real, and it's not a, like, that's not a slight on anyone.
08:01The divorce rate for first-time marriages is over 50% in the United States.
08:04Right, right.
08:05Like, it's really hard.
08:06Talk to me.
08:07He's over.
08:07He's telling the truth.
08:08Come on.
08:09We've been hearing that for 40 years.
08:11I don't, like, has anybody ever updated those numbers?
08:15Yes, they're now 82%.
08:17As of 2024, but that's hot.
08:20I'll update the numbers.
08:20I'll update the numbers just in this room.
08:24Divorce, divorce, divorce.
08:26That's, wow.
08:26Three out of four.
08:27I mean, I don't know you that well, but I think, yeah, exactly.
08:32Kiss, kiss, call you later.
08:33But in this room, it's 75%.
08:36Wow, man.
08:37First marriages.
08:38So, and it all broke apart in different ways, but the reality is, till death do us part, maybe not.
08:46Maybe not.
08:47Because the numbers tell us that's not the fact, to Willard's point.
08:50It's not, and it used to be.
08:51Because I couldn't imagine being married in my 20s.
08:53Here's what I'm getting at, though.
08:55How many, like, that's just a flat number.
08:57Who split up and who didn't.
08:59All right, now let's talk about those who didn't split up.
09:01How many of them are happy?
09:03How we doing?
09:04Speak on it.
09:05So, what's the percentage of a marriage that starts in your 20s and you're just happy?
09:12I think that era was our parents.
09:14That era's over.
09:16They stuck through it.
09:17Well, me, and, but, like, and that's kind of what I'm getting.
09:20Like, is there an argument for maybe too many people sticking out, you know what I mean?
09:27And, like, hang in there.
09:29And then they all, right.
09:30And then they've got osteoporosis and hatred.
09:35Resentment.
09:36Right.
09:37So, I don't know.
09:38I'm no, good Lord, don't ask me.
09:41Hell, if I'm an expert.
09:42I did not know that about your living arrangement.
09:46I'm going to drive home having, I mean, Stiney and Dill's like, okay, I didn't know that.
09:50So, yeah, you've never been to my house.
09:52You've been to hers.
09:53Yeah.
09:53Wow, yeah.
09:54You've been to hers.
09:56And hers is not his, as we know.
09:58Martha Stewart.
09:59I have a key.
10:01And I'm allowed to not knock.
10:04But I don't live there.
10:06I got you.
10:06Yeah.
10:07Yeah.
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10:20Stiney asked me about the Giants and how I feel about them.
10:23If I just could just expedite the season, I feel better about them going into this offseason
10:29because they got some yeses.
10:31They got some boppers, allegedly.
10:33I feel good about what they can do to add.
10:35But my biggest, and while I'm bringing this up, he doesn't know, my biggest plus, and
10:40it dawned on me last night for the Giants player, is Casey Schmidt.
10:45Like, he's, I thought this dude, I thought he was done.
10:48I'm being real.
10:49I thought he, the dude's got power.
10:51He's got, I don't know if he's your future second, but I'm like, I'm digging watching
10:55Casey play ball.
10:57And at the dish, when he looked lost to the point to where I thought he was, his days were
11:02numbered.
11:03Third, that's my one positive.
11:05If you guys ask me if they didn't play another inning this season, you say what to that?
11:09Casey Schmidt?
11:10I mean, he's not the first person I would point to, but he has developed.
11:15He has improved.
11:16And if he's going to be your second baseman instead of your third baseman, you feel better
11:20about that, don't you?
11:20And I don't think he's doing anything to make you think he can't handle it.
11:23No, you want more offense out of your third baseman.
11:26But if he's your second baseman, yeah, like, but I'd also say this, y'all inspired us today
11:32with a conversation that you guys had.
11:36You started listing out extensions.
11:39Yes.
11:39And quote, they didn't work.
11:42Oh, yeah.
11:42No, it was a nightmare.
11:43It was a nightmare.
11:44For those who have not been listening for the entire day.
11:48The examples were from Trent Williams to Christian McCaffrey to Brandon Ayoub to Matt Chapman
11:55to Draymond Green to Willie Adamas.
12:00And we could add in more, too, if you wanted to throw in trades, Jimmy Butler, Rafi Devers.
12:05One thing I wanted to say to you, Stiney, is can you fully judge?
12:12You're not wrong that they, quote, didn't work.
12:15I can't fully judge.
12:16But, yeah, like, can you judge an extension and say it didn't work if it's not over based
12:24on the first year or, in fact, the first half year?
12:27And I acknowledge that.
12:28I mean, there's, like, sometimes an extension is 90% awful and you'd still do it again, Barry
12:34Zito.
12:34And he said he acknowledged it.
12:36I totally acknowledge that.
12:38You say that, but you rendered a decision as if they didn't work out.
12:43You said that, you know, hey, Gu, I know it's not over.
12:46You can understand this.
12:46But you had that energy as if it was a negative.
12:49As of right now, they haven't panned out.
12:52How do you judge that, by the way?
12:54Just because I think that those three guys got, the 49ers guys, got contracts with the
13:00understanding that they were still in a Super Bowl window.
13:03Okay.
13:03And they went 6-11.
13:04And they got this season.
13:07I mean, there's a confluence of factors.
13:09Like, there's all kinds of factors.
13:11No doubt.
13:11And can you whittle it down to individuals?
13:13And I don't know if football, it's not a bad extension if someone gets hurt.
13:17Like, everybody gets hurt.
13:19No, it's not a bad extension.
13:20You know what I mean?
13:20But, like, you can't reward that, though, either.
13:24You can't reward it.
13:25But I don't know that you can just, with ink, be, like, so bad because it got hurt.
13:31You know what I mean?
13:31Like, did you offer up, like, which ones would you not do again?
13:38Well, Tremont Green.
13:39Okay.
13:39For me.
13:40I wouldn't.
13:41Well, now it's easy, but Iyuk.
13:43But, like, when we got to acknowledge, like, when Iyuk was going through all this, there
13:48became a split opinion.
13:51There were some people, like, he's not worth it.
13:53Let's move on.
13:54And even the 49ers were thinking that way or the other.
13:57So, they had two choices in front of them.
14:01Who's the other one?
14:02Trent Williams.
14:03You know, he did what he did.
14:04And he got banged up at the second half of the year.
14:08And, like, I can make a distinction.
14:11It didn't work last year.
14:12Maybe it will this year.
14:13They could all bounce back.
14:15Right.
14:15And I do think that, for me anyway, I look at personal situations with Trent Williams in
14:21particular where he had off-field tragedy combined with on-field injury.
14:25And so, his race is not yet run.
14:28His contract is not, you know, going to expire this year.
14:31So, I always pause when it comes to judging extensions.
14:35And, you know, Rafi Devers right now, early on, early returns, and they didn't extend him,
14:40but they traded for him.
14:41So, it kind of counts.
14:42But early returns are, no, not great.
14:45And Willie Adamas, better than it was a month and a half ago or two months ago.
14:49So, I'm always of the mind where you wait, you pause, and then you see.
14:54But, some people look at the Brock Purdy extension already, which, by the way, won't kick in until
14:59next year.
15:00And they're already saying that that was a bad deal.
15:03Yeah.
15:04I'm not one of them.
15:05I just don't do that.
15:07Well, I mean, and that's fine.
15:09You don't have to do that.
15:11Maybe it's because I'm a little bit more mature and a little bit more veteran in the business
15:14than some.
15:14But, I'm willing to sit back and just wait a little bit.
15:17Okay.
15:18And I'm just, we have to wait with the Giants, guys.
15:22Well, do you also, do you judge it by individual numbers or by team success?
15:27Well, these kind of go hand in hand.
15:29Willie Adamas is getting damn close.
15:31Come on, man.
15:32Like, I know, like, there was that argument y'all had two weeks ago where you were doing,
15:37but it's the whole season.
15:38It was like, well, what about the last month?
15:41He's moving real damn close to the numbers that are like, okay.
15:44And he's going to surpass them if he keeps it up.
15:46I mean, he's getting close to his career numbers.
15:48Like, normal Willie Adamas type year.
15:51He's closing in on 20 homers.
15:53He's closing in on 750 OPS.
15:55But if I know Stiney, he's going to use the team success to knock that down.
15:58I'm not going to knock anything down.
16:00On an individual basis, he's figured it out.
16:05Okay, right.
16:05And that's where I have to say that's great.
16:07He has figured it out.
16:09And I'm not blaming him for being one under.
16:12But the problem is when everybody's gotten it going,
16:15like, they're a 500 team right now.
16:18That's all.
16:20And as it relates to, like, I'm just saying right now,
16:24year one, let's just say they finish 500, the Giants.
16:27Okay, well, Posey, Chapman, Devers, Adamas.
16:31All right, you know what?
16:32It didn't work this year.
16:34Now, they all have a ton more years left.
16:37Can they come back and have bounce-back years?
16:40Of course they can.
16:42But it does give me a little pause thinking about the future.
16:47But I'm keeping that off to the side.
16:51Next year's next year.
16:52Just this year, they didn't get the –
16:54everybody's surprised that they didn't get better when they got Devers.
16:59Oh, yeah.
17:00That's the big mystery.
17:01No, I mean, Adamas' numbers are almost –
17:03like, they have an inverse effect on the team.
17:08They were good when he sucked.
17:10And then he's been great, and they can't win a game.
17:14I agree.
17:14Weird.
17:16I agree.
17:17I mean, for me, baseball almost belies that narrative
17:21about player performance versus winning
17:24because you can be Adamas and be great over the past seven or eight weeks
17:28and the team struggles, and so you can look at Adamas and say,
17:32well, I mean, it doesn't matter.
17:34Well, what would you be like if he wasn't hitting this well?
17:38So baseball is such an individual sport in many ways that, for me,
17:42it's hard to, like, look at an individual who does well
17:44and then tie that to the team.
17:46The thing that I'm fascinated by is your notion, Stiney,
17:50that the 49ers aren't in a championship window.
17:54And forget window for a minute because –
17:57and we talked about this yesterday with Evan –
17:59your window is only as long as your starting quarterback,
18:02and I can rattle off the Mahomes numbers
18:05over his first seven years as a starter,
18:08their window is wide open because he is the best quarterback in football.
18:12I just wonder why you don't think that the Niners this year
18:15can be a Super Bowl contending team.
18:19Well, they could be.
18:20I just don't view them as that now.
18:22And the biggest reason is of one headline I saw in The Athletic
18:27that they may have six to eight first-time starters on defense.
18:32Like, that to me means –
18:35Growing pains.
18:37Yes, growing pains.
18:38And then I look at the wide receiver situation,
18:40at least early in the year.
18:42It's not good.
18:43Like, I just – I think they've got a lot of question marks.
18:47And, like, the reason this year is important to me is because
18:52if you're going to have six to eight –
18:54like, this is what I look at it.
18:56If you're going to have first-time starters on defense,
18:58six of them, let's say,
19:00well, the first thing you've got to figure out is whether
19:01they can play or not.
19:03Like, are they good enough so that you like them
19:06and they're going to be better next year and the year after?
19:09Like, what if they're not?
19:12Like, then this isn't even a start of a rebuild.
19:15Yeah, but I think back to 1981
19:17when they started four rookies in the secondary,
19:20and it was Hicks and Williamson and a guy named –
19:24I think it was Ronnie?
19:24Ronnie Lott.
19:25I think it was Ronnie Lott.
19:26And that team went out and went, I think, 13-3,
19:30and they won the Super Bowl.
19:31So it's allowed to happen.
19:33No, sure it is.
19:34And I don't know about six to eight starters, like rookie starters.
19:37No, not rookies.
19:38First-year guys.
19:39First-year starters.
19:40First-year starters.
19:40So like a second year.
19:41Like a second year.
19:42Like a second year.
19:43Okay.
19:44But D. Winters, you know, D. Winters is a player.
19:47I mean, yeah, this is a big – it's a big step for him.
19:52But, you know, like, I mean, Nick Bosa,
19:55I know he was the number two or three pick in the draft or whatever,
19:58but like when he walked onto the scene, first-year starter,
20:02he's a rookie, it changed the entire defense.
20:05True.
20:05Like, I mean, this – again, okay, we can look at the whole defense,
20:09and there's tons of questions.
20:11At the same time, we know that this regime loves to do what?
20:14They love to move from the defensive line out.
20:17I mean, if Mikel Williams and C.J. West are what they clearly think they could be,
20:24you could end up with – you could end up with an epic defensive line,
20:28and you could stuff the run,
20:30and that can make things easier on your defensive backfield and all of that.
20:34Because a team in your division, the Rams,
20:35have one of the best defensive lines when they had nothing a couple years ago.
20:39Right.
20:39I mean, I don't – like –
20:40I don't know.
20:41Yeah, I don't know about their depth.
20:43Well, that's –
20:44It feels like there's going to be a back-breaking injury or two, you would think.
20:49Do you feel that way?
20:50Well, I just don't – like, who's –
20:52I feel like they already had that with IU, like, you hope –
20:54No, but it's like, look at their defensive backfield and go,
20:57all right, what happens if one of these dudes gets hurt?
21:00Now what are we doing?
21:02And, like, I mean, they're not going to all play 17 games.
21:05This is not how it works.
21:07So I get it.
21:07It's just, like, they might be better than people think.
21:12I'm just – like, when I look at them, I see a team that some things have to come through for them.
21:18Some things have to happen.
21:19And when I look at teams like the Niners sometimes is it feels like there's too many things that have to go right.
21:25And, you know, like, the one thing that we have – I mean, you have to assume that if they're a good team,
21:32let's say they make the playoffs, well, that probably means McCaffrey, Williams, and IU at least were good.
21:40At least when IU came back, he was a factor.
21:43Okay.
21:43So that's the first good thing that happened.
21:46All right, now we've got some young players on the defense.
21:49How are they going to perform?
21:50Can they be above average?
21:51If they can, then we're going to be better than we thought.
21:54What's going on with the wide receiver situation?
21:56How's that all going to shake out?
21:58I just think they're going in – and maybe, like, I thought they were going to be a lot better last year.
22:02They were 6-11.
22:03So we thought they were going to be good.
22:04They weren't very good.
22:05This year, maybe I don't think they're going to be great, but they'll be better than I think.
22:08But their best player missed eight games.
22:10Nobody saw that out the gate.
22:13Like, that hurts.
22:14I'm just – so – I'm so fascinated by Super Bowl window.
22:18Well, I'll be honest.
22:19Let's talk about that for a second.
22:20Like, I think – it depends on the way you look at it.
22:24Like, if you think – if you make the playoffs, you're a contender because anything can happen, sure.
22:29Then I'm in that boat.
22:31Like, I think they can make the playoffs, but do I think they're going to be able to run the table?
22:37I don't know.
22:38I think Super Bowl window just is a question of whether or not you like your quarterback.
22:43Hmm.
22:44I think that's mostly it.
22:45But how could it be with the Niners and what they built when you had Jimmy – and I defend Jimmy.
22:50Right.
22:51But the heart and soul of your team was your defense.
22:53Sure.
22:54And that's – so when I think of the Niners' defense and what they were since 19, and even last year, real quick here,
22:59I had the Niners in the Super Bowl because they were ferocious.
23:02They were predators.
23:03And now with so many question marks and my guy Greenlaw that's not there, I saw teams run the ball and the physicality took a couple steps back.
23:14So is it all just about the quarterback or is it about the way this team was built?
23:19It's the defense.
23:21I don't think it's all just about the quarterback, but when we talk about the idea of Super Bowl window.
23:26Because that team, if you remember, they went to the Super Bowl.
23:30Nobody thought at the beginning of the year they could.
23:32Nobody even thought –
23:33Nobody thought they'd win more games than they would lose.
23:35So they weren't in a Super Bowl window, but they went.
23:38Is this the hardball year?
23:39The first hardball year.
23:40No, this is the first Kyle's trip.
23:41The first Kyle's trip.
23:43I mean, nobody – everybody thought 6-10, 7-9.
23:47That's what everyone was predicting for the Niners that year.
23:50So you don't, in theory, have to be in a Super Bowl window in order to go.
23:56Super Bowl window is more about our perceptions.
23:58Do you know what I mean?
23:59And the quarterback's young.
24:01Let me ask you this.
24:01Is Cincinnati in a Super Bowl window?
24:03I would say they got Super Bowl offense, but no.
24:07Well, you know what?
24:08You are when you got a lethal offense like that, but they have no defense.
24:12Right.
24:12So I would tell you I don't got them – they're not going.
24:14I bet they – I bet their fans are like, we've got to do this while we go.
24:19They're all in on thinking the offense is going to get us there, but you need defense.
24:23You do, especially in that conference.
24:25And since they expanded, Stiney, to seven teams in the playoffs, we've had five years.
24:29Because only one of the five Super Bowl champions have been the one seed.
24:35You've got a two, a three, a four, and a five.
24:39So, you know, if you do, just get in.
24:41And it was Tampa with Tommy, Tommy Brady.
24:44They were the five seed in 2020.
24:46They won it.
24:47And interesting, four of the runners-up were one seeds.
24:52So the one seeds have comprised five of the ten Super Bowl teams since they expanded to seven teams.
24:58But you don't have to be a one seed.
25:01You can be an outside-looking-in team in the playoffs and go on a run.
25:05Before I get out of here, let me just throw it to you three.
25:07Was last year's 6-11 record for the 49ers due to injuries or poor play or a combination of both?
25:15I just want – like, how would you look at how they compelled that record?
25:18I can pile on five more reasons.
25:20Yeah, and it has to be a combination.
25:22It has to be a combination of both.
25:24You can't – like, you can't make the case that they, quote, quote, played well.
25:28No, I'm not.
25:29Do you know what I mean?
25:29No, I know.
25:30McCaffrey wasn't there.
25:30I'm just asking you guys.
25:32Because it sounds like you guys are like, they got some action.
25:34And they might.
25:35They might.
25:36Or they might not.
25:37I'd be very surprised if they were bad.
25:41I mean, again, I know people – this is now getting overplayed.
25:45But there's no way that that schedule is going to crater them.
25:49Unless everybody's hurt.
25:52Like, that schedule cannot –
25:53I hear you.
25:54They can't lose 12 of those.
25:56Yeah.
25:56That's not possible.
25:58Those teams had a winning percentage last year of 400, Steining.
26:01The teams they're going to face this year.
26:04Well, they may be different teams this year.
26:07They could be.
26:08They could be.
26:10All right, gents.
26:11Yeah.
26:11What are you going to go do?
26:13Guru's going to get his hair cut.
26:14I got to go.
26:15Yeah.
26:16Yeah.
26:16No froist today.
26:17I got to deal with a dog.
26:19You have to deal with a dog or the dog?
26:21Rosie.
26:22Just any dog?
26:23The dog.
26:24Okay.
26:24Yeah.
26:24She's a wild card.
26:26She's absolutely – she's the Camila Doval of dogs.
26:27Which is more than he can say about the San Francisco Giants.
26:32More than a wild card?
26:33Carson Wisenhunt is joining us today.
26:35Oh, nice.
26:36Okay.
26:36Yeah.
26:37Solid.
26:37Carson Wisenhunt.
26:38Carson Wisenhunt.
26:40That's right.
26:40That's right.
26:40One and one.
26:41The Wiz.
26:43Not the Miz.
26:44No.
26:45Unfortunately.
26:46The Wiz.
26:46All right.
26:48Bye.
26:48John Sally.
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