49ers' Big Win Boosts Playoff Odds & Mac Jones Shines

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00:00Let me bring up that Thursday night game, actually.

00:03You tell me if I'm overreacting.

00:05I think it's maybe the biggest win we've seen all season.

00:08The Niners, Joe, with that win,

00:10the only teams with better odds to make the playoffs,

00:14entering today, Buffalo and Philly, the two 4-0 teams.

00:17They've now beaten every single team in the division.

00:20They've beaten the Rams and the Seahawks on the road.

00:23They're 4-1.

00:24They only have two remaining games

00:26against teams above 500 that are not in their division.

00:30There's a lot of football that still has to be played.

00:33I think San Francisco has set themselves up now where,

00:37look, I don't know where all the chips will fall

00:38within a very good NFC West,

00:40but I can't see it where all the Niners don't play playoff football.

00:42No, I mean, again, I took a wait-and-see approach.

00:47I liked Arizona to win the division.

00:48I thought maybe potentially San Fran would fall off a cliff

00:51with all the unknowns, and all they do is win.

00:55And that was a quality win on the road

00:57against a divisional opponent that beat their ass two times last year, right?

01:02And had the better quarterback advantage heading into that matchup.

01:05And Mac Jones outplayed Matt Stafford.

01:07And that offensive line protected him, and those backups made place.

01:11And Kendrick Bourne seems to have this great relationship with Mac Jones.

01:15And again, Christian McCaffrey's not putting up huge numbers in the rushing attack, right?

01:20They're not running the football consistently.

01:22It's been the aerial attack, and their only loss came to Jacksonville.

01:27I mean, Jacksonville's a very good football team right now.

01:31I buy in that they're going to be, at worst, potentially a 10-7, 11-6 team,

01:37and they're going to be on the door, obviously, wild card,

01:40potentially NFC West champ, we'll see.

01:42But I'll say this, is Mac Jones' performance last week,

01:49is this another stepping stone from what we saw at Darnold and Baker Mayfield?

01:55You know, when you're able to go into a Kyle Shanahan offense

01:59and rip that team apart and just consistently find ways

02:05to abuse a very good secondary, I don't know.

02:09Does he have a new lease on life next year?

02:11With a team like Cleveland or somebody else?

02:13Yeah, I think Mac is basically now guaranteed, like,

02:17he'll be employed for a decade.

02:19Like, back up court, like, at minimum.

02:21But could he be that starter?

02:22Where, like, Sam Darnold is in Seattle and Baker is with Tampa.

02:26Listen, I don't think this is unfair.

02:29He didn't play that bad last year for Jacksonville.

02:31No, he didn't.

02:32Brian Thomas probably would be a missus.

02:33Right.

02:34If you're the Niners, this is a part of why people said,

02:41don't pay Brock Purdy.

02:42Right.

02:43System.

02:44Because, and it's not, look, do I think Purdy is better than Mac Jones?

02:48Yes.

02:49But price adjusted, you're getting smoked.

02:53Right.

02:53The amount of money that they could have poured into the potential

02:56offensive line or the secondary Joe, where, and saved on quarterback,

03:02you usually don't say that.

03:04Right?

03:04But let's remember, at least the rumors we've heard,

03:08Kyle Shanahan always wanted Mac Jones.

03:10Right?

03:10Didn't we hear that?

03:11In the draft that year, they wanted Mac Jones,

03:13and they zagged on themselves and went Trey Lance,

03:16and obviously we know how that all worked out.

03:18Like, I'll say this.

03:22If Brock Purdy wasn't paid yet,

03:25I think we'd have a real quarterback controversy on our hands.

03:28Yeah.

03:28Absolutely.

03:29And, again, I think Mac Jones looks phenomenal right now.

03:31But they have to stick with Purdy if he's healthy, right?

03:33They have to.

03:34I mean, 45 million, 49 million, would they give him?

03:3849, right?

03:39Let me see.

03:39Because I think we're going to get into the Seahawks-Bucks next

03:41because it's, you know, NFC West.

03:42That's a really big game in the NFC.

03:45If you're the Rams, you're, all of a sudden,

03:48you're having a step-up late-game problem here for L.A.

03:51Yeah, but I think they've plateaued, too.

03:54I mean, I think their pinnacle came last year,

03:57and people say, oh, Jared Verse and Fisk

04:02and all these playmakers on the defensive side of the ball,

04:05Kyron Williams.

04:06I mean, Stafford, at times,

04:10zeroes in on one guy for the whole game,

04:13and the play calling hasn't been all that great.

04:16They've pulled games out in the fourth quarter.

04:18They did it last week against Indianapolis.

04:20If A.D. Mitchell doesn't drop that ball,

04:22is it a different story?

04:23We don't know.

04:24Well, and that would have changed.

04:26What's so interesting is this is happening

04:28while Stafford is playing great football.

04:31Puka is playing great football.

04:32They're just, you know, on the margins right now,

04:35not playing as clean, I think,

04:37as you would expect that Rams group to play.

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