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00:00Every single thing that's about to be said on this show for the next four hours and has been said for the last eight hours on the previous two blocks, everything is completely outdone by the fact that the 49ers are 1-0 with a road division victory.
00:19That is massive. A massive way to start the season. The Purdy to Tonjes touchdown will go down, I believe, as one of the 10 most important plays of the regular season when this thing is said and done.
00:32Bunch of most important plays in that game, and you can talk about the Pearsall double move big catch that set up the Tonjes, and you can also talk about Nick Bosa walking the right tackle back into Sam Donald's lap.
00:47It was like when you take your kid, who's probably too old to sit on Santa's lap, but you take him there anyway, and he took him there against his will, and Santa was Sam Donald.
00:58Sam-ta. And he put that tackle on his lap, the ball came out, Nick forced it, Nick got it, and then Nick said, goodbye, Seattle.
01:06So yes, you have said the words multiple times already, road, division, win. There's no better way to start the year than going on the road and winning and beating a divisional opponent.
01:19So we can all talk about Moody, Purdy bad throws, injury woes, offensive line that's shaky, McKivitt's contract that maybe he doesn't deserve, whatever you want to get into.
01:30For me, the giant umbrella over everything is what you said, you're 1-0.
01:35So we can nitpick, and there are things to criticize, absolutely.
01:39For me, one of my big takeaways is they won on the road with their C game.
01:45They weren't really great other than the defense.
01:48Across the board, that was not a great performance by the Niners, and yet you won the game.
01:53Yeah, I mean, it was kind of like there were really cool things tucked into not cool things.
01:58And then, right, so it just all gets mixed up into a bag, and we can get to all of it.
02:04Special teams, very concerning.
02:06UConn even picked apart the offensive line into two different groups.
02:10When they run the ball, they were pretty good.
02:13When they passed the ball, they weren't really good.
02:15And they passed the ball 35 times.
02:18That's a lot of not good.
02:21And then, you know, knee bone connected to the thigh bone.
02:24Like, this is how football works, and we don't often give grace to this.
02:29We just go, well, what did you think of Brock Purdy in this game?
02:33Well, what did you think of Brock Purdy in this game?
02:35When you start to factor in some of the layers, such as he was under the most pressure in a game in his entire career.
02:44How does that sort of make you feel about all of this?
02:47Like, we can take it wherever you want to go.
02:49I know a lot of people will just, like, head to work today with defense good, offense bad.
02:55But I think it, like, there's just, there's way more nuance to it than that.
03:01And when you factor in a bunch of new young players on the road in the division,
03:07you lose key offensive performers, George Kittle, Jawan Jennings.
03:12And you also are losing with less than five minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
03:19The bugaboo.
03:20You're losing, and Brock has the ball.
03:23Didn't you tell me that, like, only twice in his career or something like that,
03:27he's had that drive and it's gone well?
03:29Partially it's because we leave out the fact that he's done it in the playoffs.
03:32We leave out the fact that Jake Moody missed a damn kick in Cleveland two years ago
03:37when Brock took him on a game-winning drive, what I consider a game-winning drive.
03:40But whatever, bottom line is, the longer I sit with this game,
03:48I'm not going to tell you Brock was great.
03:50He wasn't.
03:50He made some poor decisions.
03:52But the longer I stick with this game, the better it gets.
03:58The better it gets.
03:59It should.
04:00The longer I stick with it.
04:00Yeah, I don't even have to really sit with it that long.
04:03And the stat that you're referencing is entering the fourth quarter when they were behind,
04:07he's only come from behind one time.
04:09And in this game, they were tied at the end of the quarter, so this one wouldn't count for that.
04:13But it's a fourth-quarter comeback.
04:15And they got the ball back with 324 to go.
04:18Yeah, to me, it's even harder if you're trailing with three minutes to go as opposed to when you're trailing with 15 minutes to go.
04:23And I would agree, and especially when you look at Juwan, who got knocked out early in the fourth quarter,
04:29and Kittle was already gone.
04:30So now you're dealing with an offense that has a multitude of guys who are either brand new or never play.
04:36Like Jake Tonjes, if you look at his snap count over his history, there aren't a lot of snaps.
04:42And Farrell is brand new.
04:44MVS, brand new.
04:45Sky Moore didn't get a lot of snaps on offense.
04:47He's brand new.
04:48Russell Gage is brand new.
04:50And you saw, Mark, when you're watching the game, they'd break the huddle,
04:54and at least one guy would run over to Brock and say something like,
04:57Where do I go?
04:57Am I over?
04:58Right.
04:58Am I here?
04:59Do I do ghost motion?
05:01Do I do jet sweep?
05:02What do I do?
05:02And Brock is, you know, doing all these things and pointing everyone everywhere,
05:05and you wound up winning the game on a throw to Jake Tonjes.
05:09Who had that on their bingo card on Friday?
05:12By the way, a jailbreak throw to Jake Tonjes.
05:15Like, not a planned throw to Jake Tonjes.
05:18Jake might have been option, I don't know, six on that play.
05:22I have no idea.
05:23But I will admit that.
05:25In the moment, my mind as a fan was not thinking,
05:31Score a touchdown here or you lose.
05:33I think they were, though.
05:35I think that's the way Brock approached it.
05:37And you can have a disagreement with that if you want.
05:40But I think that's the way he was thinking.
05:44You know, he said after the game something that sort of insinuated
05:47like, I'm not doing three point.
05:50We're not doing three.
05:52We're not doing three.
05:53I need seven.
05:54And it was third down.
05:56I wonder like hell what Kyle would have done if they had thrown that thing incomplete.
06:02It would have been fourth and two from the three.
06:06Fourth and two from the three or fourth and two from the four.
06:09Somewhere in there is what it would have been.
06:11Knowing that Moody has had the problems that he had.
06:15Sure, it would have only been a, I don't know, like a 22-yarder.
06:19Old school PAT.
06:20He already missed a 27-yarder.
06:22Yep.
06:22So what would you have done?
06:25I don't know.
06:26But I think Brock was approaching that play as if I've got to get a touchdown.
06:31And he ran the play as long as he could until there was only one thing left to do,
06:36which is like, dude, try to make a play on this.
06:39And it worked out.
06:40And so I don't think it was a great throw.
06:43And I do think he kind of, quote, got away with one.
06:46Yeah.
06:46But from a conceptual standpoint, there's some things I understand about it now
06:51that in the moment I didn't.
06:52Let's put it that way.
06:53I get that.
06:54And, you know, what I experienced in the moment was, oh, my God, they won this game.
06:59They didn't lose because last year those were games that they lost.
07:03They had chances.
07:05They didn't capitalize on their opportunity.
07:07The other team went down the field and scored, and you lose.
07:11And that's just the way that went last year.
07:12And so when you do it in that fashion, and, you know, the pass to Pearsall that goes for 45 on the double move,
07:19it's like, whoa, they might actually tie the game.
07:22Jake Moody, get Jake loose, and then you get a couple more plays.
07:25Tie the game.
07:26It turns out to be, you know, it's two Tonjes, a CMC run, a CMC catch, and then Tonjes for the win?
07:34Okay, Niners, go ahead.
07:37Go ahead, Kyle.
07:38And I look at, you know, the game, and I watched it again today.
07:42Once he lost Kittle, it was kind of a master class of what he was doing with who he had left.
07:47Well, I mean, that's, like, I know that that makes some people, self-included, a little uncomfortable,
07:53because that does fall back to this whole narrative that we had all of last year,
07:58which is like we're trying to assess Brock Purdy, but then it whittles down to, yeah, but he didn't have, and then fill in the blank.
08:06He didn't have Christian McCaffrey.
08:08And now it's he didn't have George Kittle.
08:10What I love about the fact that he went out and found George Kittle's replacement for a game-winning touchdown,
08:17what I love about that is, look, this is the NFL, and you've got to be able to win without your dudes.
08:24You have to.
08:26You have to.
08:27Now, last year he often didn't.
08:29I didn't put it too much on him, because his defense was a joke.
08:33Right.
08:33But now it's not.
08:36Now you've got a defense, and that means Brock is going to have to be able to win sometimes without all of his dudes.
08:47And he did.
08:48And he did.
08:49And I think they would have won even more comfortably had it not been for missed field goal, blocked field goal, bad throw, whatever.
08:57I mean, I thought that what Shanahan was doing play-calling-wise was phenomenal for the defense,
09:03because the defense only faced eight snaps in the third quarter.
09:07So you go into the locker room, 12-minute break, get hydrated, use the bathroom, whatever.
09:12The defense only had to play eight snaps in the third quarter, so by the time you got to that fourth quarter,
09:18you were fresh enough to still make the impact when you needed to.
09:21We have a development that I'd like to pass along to you.
09:23Matt Barrows is reporting that the San Francisco 49ers did not try out any kickers today.
09:33Okay.
09:34Yeah, no surprise.
09:35Not today.
09:36Right.
09:37Not today.
09:38Not today.
09:39I mean, maybe tomorrow.
09:40Maybe next week.
09:42Possibly.
09:43Maybe tomorrow.
09:44Maybe.
09:44Kyle talks in an hour.
09:46Kyle talks for a conference call.
09:48So this is not something we'll carry live, but there's a conference call,
09:51and I would expect the top three names that will be discussed will be Jake Moody,
09:56Jawan Jennings, and George Kittle.
09:58And we'll get some sort of information on all three at that time.
10:04Yep.
10:04No doubt.
10:04And just judging it by what you saw, like Kittle all of a sudden, it's funny because we were
10:10watching it live on TV, and I looked to the sidelines, and he had a hat on, and I was
10:15thinking, oh, maybe he's just out this series.
10:17Maybe it's an on-again, off-again thing where he's just going to sit out this series,
10:21and then next series comes, and it's like, no Kittle, and I'm looking at my fantasy team,
10:26and I have George Kittle, and it's like, oh, boy.
10:28He was off to an amazing start.
10:29Really good start.
10:30He looked great.
10:31Then the report comes out.
10:32It's like, oh, God.
10:33And then they show the clip, and the way he immediately kind of like came up lame, quote,
10:38unquote.
10:39I would put this at one week for sure, maybe two.
10:42Maybe two.
10:43Yeah.
10:43Probably not much longer.
10:44That's the hope.
10:44The Juwan one is, I think, the one that, you know.
10:47I think it's going to be a long time.
10:47When Pam Oliver actually said on the broadcast, he can't lift his arm.
10:51Right.
10:51He can't lift his arm at all.
10:53Inconsiderable pain still after the game.
10:55Right.
10:55Yeah.
10:56Touched my heart a little bit.
10:57My little guy, 11-year-old Jude, goes, what's wrong with Kittle?
11:01I said, everybody's just taking a break, buddy.
11:03He goes, but, Dad, why isn't he wearing his helmet?
11:08And then three minutes later, they're like, yeah, he gone.
11:11Yeah.
11:12Young man, good observation.
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