00:00Nick Bosa, Donnie, goes down for the end of the season, a torn ACL.
00:04Nick Bosa was my pick to win Defensive Player of the Year
00:07coming into the season, and I thought he was off to a good start.
00:11Well, he falls the victim to this Niners curse.
00:17I mean, injuries, this is a real thing, okay?
00:21You can have injury-prone players, but as a team, usually,
00:25if you have an injury season from hell,
00:27it's going to usually bounce back your way.
00:30Well, maybe try again next year, San Francisco.
00:34I mean, this team is 3-0.
00:37We're almost, like, bypassing the fact that they've been a backup quarterback
00:40for each of these two games in Mac Jones.
00:43George Kittle is supposed to be their most reliable player
00:46because we don't know what CMC is going to be on a week-to-week basis.
00:49George Kittle's not been playing since week number one.
00:52Juwan Jennings was out for this most recent football game.
00:56Brandon Auk is obviously still not back.
01:00It was almost Donnie in a way that was like, yeah, but we can rely on the defense.
01:05To lose Nick Bosa is devastating here.
01:08When you start 3-0, you've got an excellent chance to make the playoffs,
01:11but big-picture Niners without Bosa, it's a much difficult set, a much harder set.
01:16Not a threat.
01:17Not a threat.
01:18Not a threat at all.
01:19And they are 3-0.
01:20And you can give Shanahan a lot of credit for that because winning with backup quarterbacks
01:23and basically backup wide receivers, it doesn't matter how you get the job done in the NFL
01:27and you win.
01:27But we're talking about big-game situations, Kevin, right?
01:30Let's focus on late December, January, and maybe in the February.
01:33When you're in that third and two where the other team leads that first down, you know
01:37who's wrecking that pocket guaranteed?
01:39It's Bosa.
01:40He's not there anymore.
01:41So somebody else has to step up.
01:43Bryce Huff's going to step up.
01:44Looks like he did for the Philadelphia Eagles last year.
01:45That's not the case.
01:46You can't lose superstar talent, Kevin, because those guys in the biggest situations always
01:52rise to the occasion.
01:53And also, my favorite, you know, theme here, once you get injuries, Kevin, they just don't
01:58stop.
01:59Oh, they got their four injuries for the year, got them out of the way in September.
02:02Not the case.
02:03You're going to have attrition all year long.
02:05And when you start the season banged up, Kevin, it's very hard when your team gets healthier.
02:09Hey, you guys are coming back here.
02:10We think Brandon Ike's knee is going to be fantastic on a week-to-week basis at this point.
02:14You think Christian McCaffrey couldn't even, like, get out of bed over the summer with
02:17calf injuries, that he's getting all this usage rate, that he's going to be wonderful
02:21by the time we hit Thanksgiving.
02:233-0, good for them.
02:24They're not going to be any player in the NFC when it comes down to who's going to be
02:28in the NFC championship game.
02:30They're going to be too much attrition in that lineup, Kevin.
02:32I believe that.
02:33It's possible, Donnie.
02:34They were my pick, actually, to make it out of the NFC.
02:37Could Mikel Williams come on?
02:39They still have Fred Warner.
02:40But, you know, John Lynch, who's been given a lot of praise over the years and has deserved
02:44a lot of praise, he may have to get creative, right?
02:47You know, this could end up being one of the more important deadlines when we get there
02:50within the NFL.
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