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00:00We're talking about the injury situation, the quarterback situation.
00:04Joe Burrow's practice window has been opened.
00:07And who knows, maybe he beats Brock Purdy to the field.
00:12Brandon Ayuk's practice window is not opening.
00:16Ricky, whatever his last name is, they're hopeful that he's going to play this week.
00:22And Brock is just dot, dot, dot, up the staircase.
00:25Like, yep, we're going to keep on progressing and see what happens.
00:28That's kind of the word.
00:30But listen to this back and forth yesterday after the game on Purdy's health.
00:35And the questions are being asked by our buddy Tim Kawakami of the SF Standard.
00:39Was Brock to be in the backup today?
00:42He could have gone, definitely.
00:44I just decided to hold him, not put him in that situation.
00:47I just feel that he's probably never going to be 100% again this season.
00:51Is there, at some point, do you just have to play him knowing that he's not going to be 100%?
00:55Yes, it depends on how close to 100% he gets.
00:58It's our dilemma or what we're trying not to do is put him out in the situation we did versus Jacksonville five weeks ago or six, whatever it was.
01:06So I do believe he's closer and further along than what he was at that time.
01:10So hopefully he'll have a chance this week.
01:12I mean, here's the other thing that I want to throw into the conversation that we love having.
01:15I was actually thinking the same thing.
01:17Well, but you don't know what I'm going to say.
01:19I know what you're going to say.
01:20What am I going to say?
01:20You're going to say, well, if you're trying not to throw him into that same situation that you did against Jacksonville, why did you do that?
01:27Because he clearly wasn't like 100%.
01:30And so Kyle's saying, we're not going to put him in the same situation we did against Jacksonville.
01:35But why did you do that against Jacksonville?
01:38Well, I mean, okay.
01:39Is that what you were going to say?
01:40Well, kind of.
01:41A form of it.
01:42What I was going to say is, well, I accept.
01:46All right, Randy.
01:46I accept.
01:48I know, like, boy, we're sitting here talking about taking accountability, right?
01:54Did the Niners not just admit they made a mistake week four?
01:58To me, you have to accept that.
02:01Well, he didn't say that, but.
02:03No, yeah, he did.
02:04We don't want to do that again.
02:06I made a mistake and stuff.
02:08Okay, does he have to use that word?
02:10You're welcome.
02:10They clearly feel that didn't work out.
02:14That was a mistake.
02:15You have to accept that, or else you're just being a jerk.
02:19I believe.
02:21That's all.
02:22They messed up.
02:23They messed up.
02:24They've said it.
02:25Now, to your point, why?
02:28Why would they have done that?
02:29Don't forget.
02:30Yes, they were 3-0, but what was the game they had just played?
02:34They had just beat Arizona 16-15.
02:37It was not well played offensively.
02:40They completely got away with one because Marvin Harrison is a wacko.
02:45And so, I think that they're thinking, yeah, let's get our quarterback back.
02:52Mack beat the Saints.
02:53That's fun.
02:55And then we beat Arizona somehow.
02:57We didn't deserve it, but we did.
02:59Up and stout.
03:00Yeah, let's get our quarterback back.
03:03And let's push this a little bit.
03:05Let's roll the dice.
03:06And they came up snake eyes.
03:09And now they're saying, that was a whoopsie-daisy.
03:12We don't want to do that again.
03:14I accept that.
03:16Like, yeah, you messed up.
03:18You messed up.
03:19But what do we want when people mess up?
03:22To be like, yeah, we shouldn't do that again.
03:24That was wrong.
03:26Yeah, but that's all that was.
03:27What do you mean?
03:28That was not a full, like, mea culpa.
03:30Well, but what do you want, an apology?
03:32Like, I don't want or need that.
03:34It's not the first time he's said it.
03:35They have said repeatedly the last few weeks, we don't want to do what we did against Jacksonville.
03:41We put him in a bad spot.
03:43Right.
03:44So, like, are you going to ever play him again?
03:47Like, are you going to wait until next year?
03:48I think they've asked him that.
03:49No.
03:50He has said, like he just said last week, and he said it with a tone of like, yeah, I'm pretty confident he's playing this year.
03:57That was his tone.
03:58Right.
03:58Yeah.
03:59I mean, is he going to play this week?
04:00Or, like, where are we when he plays?
04:03Possibly.
04:03Where are we when he plays relative to where he was when he played against Jacksonville?
04:08Well, he is.
04:08That's the question.
04:09They've said repeatedly that he's, I mean, he's already better than he was then, but they're very hesitant.
04:14To make the same mistake.
04:16I don't know.
04:17Can we not appreciate that?
04:19Like.
04:19I mean, yeah, sure.
04:21We can appreciate it.
04:22It's fine.
04:23I mean.
04:23I mean, it's understandable.
04:24I don't know.
04:25It's understandable.
04:25I don't have a deep appreciation for it because, like, you played against Jacksonville because you thought that he was ready.
04:32He practiced Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
04:34You played him and he got hurt.
04:36And since then, he's not played.
04:38And he's not practiced Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
04:40So, if this week he goes Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and he practices with the ones, and he goes out and he plays and he gets hurt again, then it's the same thing.
04:49He has done Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, but just limited.
04:52Right.
04:52Two weeks in a row.
04:53He's practiced every day.
04:54But not taking the snaps with the ones.
04:56Yeah.
04:56All the snaps.
04:57And that's what he wants.
04:58All right.
04:58888-957-9570.
05:00Let's go to Barry in Burlingame.
05:01Hi, Barry.
05:02Thank you for waiting.
05:02What's up?
05:03You bet.
05:05You bet.
05:05I have a theory about the pronunciation of Pursel.
05:10Pursel.
05:10Yes, please.
05:11They have a player whose last name, if you look at it phonetically, you would think it's Feral, but actually it's pronounced Furl.
05:23So, I think he's just come up with these geographic, you know.
05:30Furl and Pursel?
05:31I think he's just, yeah, yeah, there you go.
05:34Sounds like something you'd say in Florida.
05:37Okay.
05:38Yeah.
05:39I like it.
05:39Yeah.
05:40Yeah.
05:41Yeah, whatever.
05:42All right.
05:42Here's my beef.
05:43My beef is, and it's a little related to what you've been talking about regarding the aggressive timeline that they pursued with Brock,
05:52but it really, but it has to do with other players.
05:57Why halfway through the season, why halfway through a season in which they do not have a bye for another month,
06:10are they holding what I hear, I don't go to practices, you guys, some of you are there, at least for the beginning.
06:16Yeah, you're there.
06:17Why are they having what are described as full-on, which I assume means some contact, practices that are getting guys injured?
06:31I mean, they lost, was it Collins this week to a hip?
06:35I think Matos went down during a practice most recently.
06:42I just find that insane.
06:45Well, I mean, Barry, that is the, there's no team that's not doing that.
06:50I don't know if that helps.
06:51Like, your larger point can be a fair one, but nobody, like, nobody doesn't practice at any point during the year.
06:59You know what I mean?
07:00I'm not suggesting that they not practice.
07:04I'm suggesting that given the context, given how many people they have been losing serially week by week by week by week,
07:14I'm just wondering if not modulating or dialing back their normal regimen might not have been warranted.
07:25And then I wonder what that says, that, you know, they pushed their $53 million quarterback into practice, this is kind of Grandy's point, just over two weeks after the original injury.
07:40I mean, it was 16 days or so.
07:41And, you know, like, I go to Dr. ChatGBT, and my interpretation of the mildest form of this injury is that maybe three weeks, but if it's a moderate form, it's four to six.
07:57So, anyway, to me, those two things are not unrelated.
08:01And I wonder if any of you think maybe they ought to be rethinking the way they handle stuff mid-season.
08:10I get your point.
08:11Beginning of the year, yeah, you've got to practice.
08:13I totally get that.
08:14But this has been, like, an apocalyptic year.
08:18And I don't sense that they've really made any adjustments in the way they do things.
08:22Yeah, interesting, Barry.
08:23Thanks very much.
08:24Like, to me, culture has a whole lot to do with this.
08:29And I'm no expert, but I would bet that someone in NFL circles would say, if you start dialing it back, if you practiced at half speed or practiced less or did things that were not padded or whatever, you're actually, in their opinion, opening yourself up to even worse injury.
08:49Like a lot.
08:50It's almost like building a callus, right?
08:52Like, in the NFL, you've got to get out there and play and hit people and kind of keep that sort of activity level up or else you're not going to be ready for football games.
09:05I've never played a football game in my life, but that's kind of what I'm told.
09:09I've never, ever heard of a team, even beset by injuries, like taking their foot off the gas for a practice week late in the season.
09:20And we actually don't know what they do and whether or not they are actually dialing it back or dialing it up in the regular season.
09:26Because by the time it gets to, like, the practice portion of the practice, all the reporters are out.
09:33They don't get to see it.
09:34So we don't actually get to know totally what they're doing and whether or not that these people are getting hurt with, like, major contact or light contact or anything.
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10:01Yeah, I just think there's also, when I say it's about culture, like, in the NFL, they are so used to people going down that it's just, that's how they do it.
10:13Someone gets hurt, it's almost like sort of the way I envision being in battle or whatever if you're a member of the armed forces.
10:22Like, if someone goes down, you kind of worry about it later.
10:26You've got to keep going.
10:27That's just the mentality of it.
10:29You can disagree with it, but that's kind of, because there's always injuries.
10:35And I think we know about the practice injuries for the Niners because that's the team we follow.
10:40Let me promise you, there are injuries in every team's practices every week.
10:46Every week you're saying, oh, he popped up on the injury report on a Thursday or on a Friday or whatever.
10:51Like, it happens every single week for almost every team.
10:55And we're more in tune with this one and this team because they lead football, and that's a narrative, and it's a fact, but it's also something that we all keep an eye on because they have so many players who are injured all the time, so many lost games due to injury, that we have our antenna up for that all the time.
11:12Dre is in Lamour.
11:13Hi, Dre.
11:14Thanks for the call.
11:14What's up?
11:15Hey, you guys, I think the last caller had a good point.
11:20You know, from what I understand, Purdy has been practicing.
11:23If he's got this toe thing going on that Patrick Willis had to retire from, he shouldn't even be throwing the ball as far as I'm concerned.
11:33Now, this is going to be my third game out of state.
11:36I recently moved to Arizona, so I'm going to be at the Niner college game.
11:41Nice, nice.
11:42I've been to Minnesota before.
11:44I've been to Pittsburgh.
11:46I've been to Candlestick many, many times.
11:48Santa Clara, I've burned my butt off over there plenty of times.
11:51But I don't want to see Purdy on that field.
11:54You know, I think the Niner still have a chance to make the playoffs.
11:58They're going to win 10 games.
11:59And what I've been trying to tell these Ram fans, Raider fans, is that, okay, you guys go without staff for most of the year.
12:08You guys go without your two best wide receivers.
12:10Niner's, even the Green Bay fans, love, take love away, take Micah Parsons away, take Kraft away for six games.
12:19They're best middle linebacker.
12:21What is their win to?
12:22I mean, it's crazy.
12:23And I can say one more thing.
12:26The Niners are the best traveling team there is.
12:28I asked you guys about a year ago, and I kept telling you, Jody Mack seems to think that they're nothing.
12:33You see how they took over New York?
12:35I mean, you guys told me to go to Vivid.
12:38I don't remember a word you said to go, but they have to be the top three traveling fan base in the NFL.
12:45Am I wrong?
12:46Or am I right?
12:47The thing you're referencing, Vivid, Vivid Seats, they handed out an award last year.
12:54They actually tracked this all year.
12:56It was crazy.
12:57And they awarded one fan base, fan base of the year, based on how they travel.
13:05And the 49er fan base won that award.
13:08That's a fact.
13:09So, yeah, whatever, Jody Mack.
13:11I mean, Jody Mack, I know Jody.
13:12Jody's been around for a thousand years, and he's a Philly guy.
13:16And so you're not going to penetrate that wall.
13:1949ers are, you know, wine and cheese in San Francisco and soft, whatever.
13:23He's coming at you from a point that happened 40 years ago.
13:27It's just not that anymore.
13:28Does that make the Niner fan base the quote-unquote best fan base?
13:32Whatever.
13:33That's a weird kind of an opinion thing.
13:35I don't even know how to quantify that.
13:37But are they the best traveling fan base?
13:39Yeah.
13:40I mean, the data would say yes.
13:41Yep.
13:41Yeah.
13:42I mean, check any game, including the next game in Arizona, where it's going to be a lot of red.
13:47And it'll be more red for the Niners than red for the Cardinals.
13:51Hard to tell in this one, but yeah.
13:53It's going to be a ton of red, but all you need to know is when Kyle Juszczyk gets a catch,
13:57just listen.
13:58And ooh.
14:00When you hear the Jews chants, that to me is always the best way to gauge, like, how many fans are actually there.
14:07It's tough, though.
14:08If they hand him the ball on fourth and one, and he goes for negative one, there might actually be some boos.
14:15But it's not Kyle that they're—well, it is Kyle they're booing.
14:18It's the other Kyle.
14:19It's the other Kyle.
14:20The other Kyle.
14:20Yeah.
14:21The other Kyle.
14:22So, anyway, 888-957-9570 is the number.
14:27Boy, this whole thing's tough.
14:30Like, it's just tough.
14:33You know, he even just said it here.
14:36Like, that's turf toe, man.
14:38That ended Patrick Willis' career.
14:41They're not the same thing.
14:44One is in Patrick's foot, and the other one's in Brock's foot.
14:49Right.
14:50And I can't compare them.
14:52I know you all want to.
14:53There are, like, at least three grades of turf toe.
14:57So, you can't just be like, turf toe, Joe Burrow did this, Patrick Willis did this, so Brock Purdy should do that.
15:05You, like, come on.
15:06And we've all pushed it before.
15:07And we've all pushed it before.
15:09I did this once.
15:10I worked a job where my weekends were Monday and Tuesday.
15:16So, I worked Wednesday through the weekend.
15:20This is probably, I don't know, I was in my mid-20s.
15:24Mid-20s.
15:25And I got a hernia.
15:27Ooh.
15:27Yeah.
15:27And I needed surgery.
15:28Which one?
15:29What do you mean, which one?
15:31Umbilical, inguinal.
15:33Yeah, that one.
15:34Yeah, that's the one that's...
15:34I've always pronounced it inguinal, but...
15:37You could be right.
15:37Yeah.
15:38You could be right.
15:38Or I might be wrong.
15:39It might be personal.
15:40That's the one that is south of the border.
15:42Yeah.
15:42It comes south of the border with me.
15:44What's going on here?
15:45I had a hernia, Grandy.
15:45We're talking about medicine, Grandy.
15:47Yeah, Dibs gets...
15:49For the love of God.
15:50No, he gets very activated and excited when we talk about this.
15:53Yes, Dibs, I've had surgery, too.
15:55The hernia is not like a broken femur.
16:00Like, you have a bone, the femur.
16:02A hernia can be a number of different things that herniate.
16:06That's correct.
16:08Good God, Grady.
16:09Grow up.
16:10Thanks for educating me, Dibs.
16:11I'm trying.
16:12I don't...
16:12You and Fitz.
16:13What is going on?
16:14Well, no, I think he's more referencing the fact that all of a sudden we're talking about
16:18my inguinal.
16:19Yeah.
16:19Yeah.
16:20That's exactly it.
16:21That's the one that is south of the border.
16:23I want to talk about Brock's toe.
16:24Come on.
16:25Yeah, no, but...
16:26We're getting there.
16:26I have a point.
16:27Anyway, so I did the surgery on a Friday because I'm like, I'm going to be Tough Master
16:33and I'm going to do the surgery on a Friday and then I'm going to be back at work on Wednesday.
16:39Now, the doctor told me, take at least a full week off.
16:45Okay.
16:46But I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, doc.
16:48I'm not a doctor.
16:49Yeah.
16:50I'm like...
16:51This guy actually was a doctor.
16:52I'm like, that's for soft people.
16:54But I nodded my head and I'm like, whatever.
16:56You know, a week, we're going to do like four days off.
16:59Fine.
17:00Then I'm going to work.
17:01And then I showed up.
17:02It was an evening job.
17:04I think four o'clock I had to report.
17:06I showed up at four o'clock and I worked an eight-hour shift and dibs.
17:10By the time I dragged my body to the car, I used to get off of work at about 10 at night,
17:16maybe midnight, depending on when I started, dragged myself to the car, opened the car
17:21door, sat down in the seat and cried.
17:25Wow.
17:26For about 10 minutes.
17:28I was in that kind of pain.
17:32So then I had to tell my boss, I need the next day or two off.
17:37And he said...
17:38He got pissed.
17:39Oh.
17:40He got pissed because...
17:41Because he told you up front.
17:42No, he's...
17:43Yeah.
17:44When I...
17:44I said, well, the doctor said I should take a full week.
17:46He goes, then you should have told me that from the beginning and we would have given you
17:53that.
17:53Under promise, over deliver.
17:54No doubt.
17:55And so I over promised and I under delivered.
17:59But that's what we do as humans.
18:02We take it as a personal affront and we push.
18:05Why are you shaking your head at me, Grandy?
18:07Because the Niners would not let Brock Purdy make that decision.
18:12He absolutely has a voice in the room.
18:14They don't know what he's feeling.
18:16They just signed him to however many million dollars.
18:19They're not going to be so flippant with that.
18:21Grandy.
18:22Check this out.
18:23Let's do a mock conversation.
18:25Okay?
18:26Brock Purdy has what was called a variant of turf toe.
18:30Right?
18:31Yep.
18:31A variant of turf toe.
18:33He takes two weeks off.
18:34The Niners win both games.
18:36They're 3-0.
18:37And he comes to the team and the medical staff and they're like, how are you doing?
18:42Like, I can still feel it, but I feel pretty good.
18:45I can go.
18:46Are you sure?
18:47I can go.
18:48Well, can you practice?
18:49Yes.
18:49I'm going to practice.
18:50All right.
18:51You're practicing full on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
18:54Are you good?
18:55How does this feel?
18:57How does it feel when I do that?
18:58How does it feel when I do that?
19:00Yep.
19:00Doc, it feels good.
19:02How the hell are they supposed to know?
19:05How is that doctor supposed to be like, nope, he's out?
19:09Why?
19:10Because the internet and WebMD told me that he's supposed to still be out.
19:15You said that he could still feel it.
19:17It's what you said.
19:18You're pretending to be Brock there.
19:19And you say, yeah, it feels good, but I can still feel it.
19:21You can still feel it now.
19:22I say, all right, Brock, we're 3-0.
19:25We have a quality backup quarterback.
19:28We just won our second division game in the first three weeks.
19:31Brock, no, you're not playing yet.
19:33And he's out for the year.
19:34Well, he's probably going to be out for the year anyway.
19:36No, he's not.
19:37I bet you right now.
19:39He's missed two months.
19:40You want to put some money on it that he plays this year?
19:42He's probably going to play.
19:43Okay.
19:44Yes, you're right.
19:44Okay.
19:45Like, again, if we're going to play in the NFL, I can still feel it.
19:50Nobody's playing football anymore.
19:53Nobody's playing.
19:54You know it's different with the quarterback.
19:55You also know, though, that that player has a voice in the room.
20:00Like, you've got to tell people what you're feeling.
20:03And if you go out there and practice and make the throws,
20:07remember, Mac Jones' legacy here in this town was not what it was at that point.
20:1316-15 over the Cardinals.
20:15Some people wanted to show up Monday and be like, he's cooking.
20:19Okay.
20:19He's cooking.
20:20He's getting sacked in the end zone.
20:2216-15.
20:24Like, yeah, they wanted to get their guy back.
20:26Is that so crazy?
20:29Is that crazy?
20:31No.
20:32I know it's no fun when you don't have somebody to take it out on.
20:37It's crazy.
20:38Anyway.
20:38Anyway.
20:38Cheers.
20:38Cheers.
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