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00:00Like, Dibs, I know where you stand, I know where I stand,
00:02but, like, let's put it out there to everybody listening.
00:06888-957-9570, if you would like to talk out the idea of whether or not
00:12you have a problem with the way the 49ers have approached
00:15playing their players this year.
00:18And obviously, namely, we're talking about the quarterback.
00:22I have a hard time with this.
00:24I have a hard time blaming doctors and coaches and executives
00:30and players themselves for playing when they,
00:35even if they mostly feel healthy, for two reasons.
00:40Number one, I'm a fan of, I don't care what you do in life,
00:44will you fight, please?
00:46Fight.
00:47Fight through it.
00:49Good Lord, how soft is everybody?
00:53Protect him for later.
00:54What are we doing?
00:56This is a football team.
00:58Protect him for later.
00:59And that's my other issue with it.
01:01That doesn't exist.
01:02That doesn't exist.
01:03You can't protect football players.
01:05How many NFL players this year have gotten hurt in practice?
01:09I'm sure a bunch, yeah.
01:10A bunch.
01:10So this idea of, oh, this will wait for later.
01:13Like, he could get hurt in practice.
01:15They're football players.
01:16There is no protecting them.
01:19So I just, I really do.
01:21I have an issue with this idea that the 49ers did something wrong
01:26by playing their player, even if he wasn't 100%.
01:30Last Sunday.
01:32I just, I have a hard time with outsiders, fans, you, me,
01:37everyone else who gets a microphone or calls in to 888-957-9570.
01:42You can have an opinion.
01:43You're entitled to it.
01:44But at the end of it, for me, you have no idea.
01:47None of us has seen the toe.
01:49None of us is really a doctor.
01:52And even Dr. Nirav Pandya, who we love, who is a doctor, I doubt that he's seen the toe.
01:58So he can only project and speculate on the severity and what it might mean.
02:03And that's where the 2-5 comes in.
02:05Because even the Niners doctors, if Ian Rappaport of NFL Network talked to people with the Niners,
02:10and they said, yeah, 2-5, 2-5 is a four-week span.
02:14So even at that, they're also guessing.
02:17So the people who have seen the toe, they don't know.
02:20The man who has the toe, he doesn't know.
02:23So he sits two, and he feels good enough to go out there and practice, and that goes well.
02:27And then he feels good enough to go out there and play, and that doesn't go well.
02:31And so now we sit here and we do a Wednesday afternoon quarterback, not Monday morning,
02:36but Wednesday afternoon quarterback, and now he's not playing tomorrow.
02:39And so now we all beat the drum on what a mistake and how reckless and how it's a bad look and the rest of it.
02:45None of us know.
02:46None of us know what the toe was like and how bad it really was.
02:50The people who were there and the player, they thought, you know what?
02:53I can give it a go.
02:54It's football.
02:55It's dangerous.
02:57And I'm going to go out there and see what happens.
02:59And he played, and he didn't play great.
03:01Was it because of the toe?
03:02Again, we can guess.
03:04We can look at the film and go, ooh, he's not pushing off.
03:06And I saw the ball not being ripped, and I haven't seen it rip all year.
03:11And so, yeah, we can all speculate what it is.
03:14Bottom line, they thought he was good to go, and he was.
03:18He played.
03:19He didn't come out of the game.
03:20He got hurt, and now he sits.
03:22Yep.
03:23Like, I'm all in on that idea.
03:26Like, dude, try to play.
03:27Like, how funny is this?
03:30You know, $265 million, and you don't want him to fight to play?
03:35Boy, you better fight to play.
03:38What an odd idea, in my opinion, that we should just be saving people for later when it comes
03:44to the urgency of the NFL.
03:46You get 17 of these a year.
03:48And if you can play, you play, especially when you're an important player.
03:52Now, if you think you're actually hampering the team, that's a different one.
03:58And I don't think that the 49ers thought that.
04:00I don't think Brock thought that.
04:01I will say this to your other point about, like, was the toe part of why he played poorly
04:08out there?
04:10Again, you're right.
04:11We're guessing.
04:12We don't know.
04:13I found it interesting that many of you, I know, follow him.
04:18He's kind of become the guy as far as in-game injuries and being able to kind of assess what's
04:26going on because he used to be the Chargers team doctor.
04:29I found this interesting.
04:31Dr. David Chow was actually on a halftime video chat, halftime of the Niner game.
04:38And he's like, by video, I'm telling you right now, like, Brock is struggling with his toe
04:44based on the way the ball is coming out of his hand.
04:46That toe is bothering him.
04:49That is from a former team doctor.
04:52You want to believe it?
04:53You want to throw it out in the trash?
04:55Doesn't matter.
04:56I found that interesting.
04:58And so if you're seeing the ball sail a little bit, his assessment was that that's what happens
05:05when someone is struggling through their plant foot as a quarterback.
05:09So maybe it did have something to do with it.
05:11But never forget that Mac Jones couldn't walk.
05:15Mac Jones was not healthy and therefore unable to play.
05:20So, look, it's a bummer.
05:22Brock Purdy's going to miss his third game in five weeks to start a really important season.
05:27At the same time, the Niners are 3-1.
05:29They got a little bit of wiggle room.
05:31Tomorrow night is not going to be definitive as far as their season goes.
05:37So, yeah, it sucks.
05:39But good on you, as far as I'm concerned, Brock and Niners, for pushing, trying to play.
05:45That's what you do in life when things are hurting.
05:48You go for it.
05:49Well, maybe he didn't even push.
05:51Maybe he was feeling pretty good.
05:53And, again, we don't really know.
05:55And that's where a lot of times I think it's important to defer to the experts.
05:59And you can blame strength and conditioning for the rash of injuries if you want.
06:03But, again, we don't really know if that's the case.
06:07And turf toe and torn ACL and, you know, Jawan Jennings with a possibly broken rib, whatever happened to him in the goal line, that's not strength and conditioning.
06:16That's football players getting footballed.
06:19And you get hurt sometimes when you play football.
06:21So Brock went out there and gave it a go and he got hurt.
06:24We don't know if he'll be ready for Tampa.
06:25For me, the bigger issue going into tomorrow is no Jawan Jennings and no Ricky Pearsall.
06:31Mack Jones is undefeated this year as a starter.
06:33Mack Jones has looked not as good as Brock, but he's looked good enough to win games.
06:38And yet you're going to have more Valdez, Scantling, Kendrick Bourne, and not a lot else, a lot of tonjus.
06:46And, again, what I said in the crossover about McCaffrey, that's coming.
06:51McCaffrey's going to get a ton of action in this football game.
06:54You'd think.
06:55I don't know if it automatically, just because certain weapons are out, it means that now we're going to, like, so heavily lean on Christian that his touches are going to go through the roof.
07:04Maybe.
07:05Maybe they will.
07:06But, look, the other side of that is you're going to have to involve people that you're not used to involving.
07:12So, yeah, Brian Robinson is going to have to get some looks out there and a bunch of receivers who don't normally get looks.
07:20Like, I mean, it's brutal.
07:23It's brutal.
07:24Kendrick Bourne is an incredibly key player tomorrow night.
07:27And as of last week, he couldn't catch a football.
07:30And then the other guys, you know, Marquez, Valdez, Scantling, et cetera.
07:35Yeah, they, like, they have no chemistry yet.
07:38They don't, they're learning the offense on the fly.
07:41The one thing about Kendrick that's good, I guess, is he's been in Kyle's system before and he's played with Mack before.
07:46And when he played with Mack in New Orleans, he played pretty well.
07:50And then it was last week that he started dropping everything that got thrown to him.
07:54So, is he capable?
07:55He's an NFL receiver.
07:57He can go out there and do some things.
07:58But tomorrow feels like a ridiculously difficult assignment.
08:03Yeah, and I would say that the pick is in, but it can't be in because that number keeps climbing up, up, up and away.
08:09And, you know, going into, like, the look-ahead line, I was thinking, oh, Rams, I think they were three and a half, three, three and a half.
08:17That's like, okay.
08:18And I told you two months ago that I thought that this was going to be a tough spot.
08:22And actually, the line before the season even started was one and a half.
08:26If the Niners were dog and they were a dog at Tampa, the only two games they were underdog,
08:31and that thing's gone from a point and a half back in August to now it's at seven and a half.
08:36And that thing may continue to climb up and up and up.
08:39And so, I mean, I'd love to say the pick is in, but if it ends up at eight or nine, it becomes a tougher thing to look at.
08:45This is going to be a super, like, happy-go-lucky way to look at it.
08:50But I think it's all you can do as a 49er fan right now.
08:54So, the season is not going to end tomorrow night.
08:58And the worst-case scenario when we go to bed tomorrow night is that the Niners are three and two
09:04and a game out of first place in the division, and they've got a week and a half
09:09to see if they can get more key people back.
09:11And, in fact, even George Kittle could play.
09:15Like, George Kittle, Ricky Pearsall, Jawan Jennings, and Brock Purdy all might, might play.
09:20Because Kittle's four weeks ends after tomorrow.
09:22Yeah, so, like, Tampa, week and a half, you're three and two, and maybe the reinforcements are coming.
09:30And, again, this is worst-case scenario.
09:32In other words, this injury situation has kind of turned tomorrow night into house money.
09:38If you come out of there with a win tomorrow night, you're like, holy smokes.
09:41Totally.
09:42How the hell did we pull that off?
09:44Yeah.
09:44And the worst-case scenario is not a preventative scenario.
09:49So, here we are.
09:51As long as you don't lose anybody else, and, you know, that's possible.
09:55It's football.
09:56But, you know, the other part of it, too, is some people who haven't gotten a lot of action,
10:00they're going to get some action.
10:02And maybe it's Russell Gage who gets elevated from the practice squad,
10:04or we don't know who else is going to be out there.
10:07But I think it is kind of a free look at what you have.
10:11You've got a ton of backups out there.
10:12Yeah, it's a ridiculous scenario.
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