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00:00How did seeing the fully stacked offense feel to you?
00:04It gave me, offensively, for the first time in a long time,
00:10I got almost kind of 20, 23 vibes from the offense.
00:15And yes, I know a lot was handed to them.
00:17Penalties constantly by the Cardinals, good field position, special teams play,
00:21Sky Moore, an early lead 13 seconds into the game.
00:25I get all that.
00:25But I thought the offense gave the vibes of what we saw repeatedly two seasons ago
00:31when it felt like a birthright to get to 30 points.
00:35And so I'm very, very excited about that,
00:38but also mindful that the defense is still hampered and lost more again yesterday
00:43with Tatum Bethune going down, high ankle sprain, he's going to miss multiple weeks.
00:47Plus, special teams gets worse.
00:50Eddie Pinero is going to miss time.
00:52He's week to week with a pulled hamstring.
00:54So the Niners have really got to be mindful of the games they're supposed to win.
01:01That's kind of my take for the rest of the year.
01:04You have to be very, very good at taking care of the games you're supposed to win.
01:11When you're going against a mediocre quarterback, you have to make him look mediocre.
01:16And you have to score 30-plus and win that game.
01:19So that means Carolina, that means Cleveland, that means Tennessee for sure.
01:25And then, if you are, if you win all those and you're 10-4,
01:30then we'll see what we get with those last three.
01:33Chicago, Indy, and Seattle.
01:35Colts, Bears, Seattle in that order.
01:36Yep.
01:36Right?
01:37Okay.
01:38So we'll see what we get then.
01:40If you can even get one of those, you're an 11-win team you're going to be in,
01:43in one shape or form.
01:44But here's where the Bears go the rest of the way.
01:47They get the Steelers in Chicago this week.
01:49Probably no Aaron Rodgers.
01:51So that's another break for them.
01:53They could be 8-3.
01:54But then, then it's at Eagles.
01:57At Packers.
01:59Yes, then they're home to Cleveland.
02:00Then they're home to Packers.
02:02Then they're here.
02:04Then they're home to Lions.
02:05So they've got one game against the Browns left to the Bears.
02:09And outside of that, it's Packers, Eagles, Lions, Niners for five games.
02:15So I still think the Bears could end up getting knocked down and knocked out of this thing.
02:21But that did not help yesterday.
02:23That was a bad development for the Niners, what happened at the end of that game in Minnesota.
02:27It was mildly annoying.
02:29It wasn't necessarily bad.
02:30Because if you're better than Chicago, you play them, you beat them.
02:34That's just the way that goes.
02:35And the definition of a good team, a good team beats the teams it's supposed to beat.
02:40And when Chicago comes here during Christmas week, you're going to be favored.
02:45And you should beat Chicago.
02:47It doesn't mean you're going to.
02:48And you're going to be favored against Cleveland on the road.
02:51I don't know if you're going to win that just because you're favored.
02:53But yesterday, to me, cemented the whole idea, the idiom of the definition of a good team.
03:00A good team beats the teams it's supposed to beat.
03:03And when you face that Arizona team with a backup quarterback, say what you want about whether or not he's better than Kyler Murray.
03:09He might be.
03:10But they have no running back.
03:12Their top two running backs are out.
03:14Their top two receivers are out.
03:16That's a game you're supposed to win.
03:18And you're supposed to go out there and hammer them.
03:20And you did.
03:20And so that, for me, was the biggest takeaway.
03:23Brock Purdy, he was good.
03:25Yeah, he was good.
03:26He didn't have to be spectacular.
03:28He was good.
03:29And McCaffrey was good.
03:30And the defense was good enough.
03:32The defense didn't have to be any better than they were.
03:35The entire operation was obviously good enough.
03:39They were much better than Arizona.
03:41And those are the games that you go out and you win.
03:43Yeah, I kind of share the way you're talking about the way Brock performed.
03:50But at the same time, I don't know.
03:52I feel like it's maybe a – and I don't want to speak for you.
03:55I think it's a bigger deal than the way you're putting it.
03:58Let's not forget where we all were three days ago.
04:01Where who all was?
04:03The whole entire conversation around this fan base.
04:05The fans, though, right?
04:05Yeah.
04:06Okay.
04:06I know.
04:07Leah, this isn't about just the way you or I see it.
04:10No, for me, it's two different things.
04:12It's about how we all see it and it's about how they see it.
04:15But it's also – look, the bottom line for me, this is a very, very big deal that he came back and looked like this.
04:23Was it a perfect performance?
04:24That's not even the point.
04:26Sure, he threw a couple balls that could have gone the other way.
04:29I also thought he was very efficient.
04:31And, yes, things did kind of at times fall in his lap, such as the opening kickoff, hand the ball off, poof, you're already up 7-0.
04:39But then the next drive, which was decent field position, but in your own territory, bang.
04:45He cut it loose.
04:47He made an adjustment pre-snap.
04:49Yeah.
04:49Opened things up for Kittle.
04:51That was his best play.
04:51And delivered an absolutely gorgeous ball.
04:54And, by the way, it's one that he said really settled him in.
04:57I mean, it felt good just to get into a rhythm for sure and, you know, hit the guys and have some big gains.
05:02And then to hit that one, it was like, yeah, like, we're playing.
05:06You know, we're in an NFL game.
05:07You know, put a good throw on to George and he completes it.
05:10Like, it just felt good for, you know, my confidence and everything.
05:12But, you know, outside of that, man, it's football.
05:14I've been here before and I was just trying to settle back into, you know, who I am and how I play quarterback.
05:19And here's what George said about that play.
05:21I think I've only said this about two quarterbacks.
05:23Like, Brock's presence in the huddle is just so elite.
05:26He just, like, he plays the game with this joy that's so infectious.
05:29And it's just so much fun to play football with him.
05:32I mean, especially, like, what, five plays into the game, he hits me 30 yards down the field on a perfect pass.
05:37Like, he was definitely feeling it.
05:39I think he's got the confidence.
05:40He's got his swagger.
05:41I mean, more people were celebrating with Brock after his touchdown passed it with me.
05:44I was a little jealous.
05:45But, yeah, he was definitely, he was feeling it today.
05:47I will say the one pass to Christian on third down was, like, that was like he clicked too many Madden buttons on his controller and just said, screw it.
05:54And what a play by Christian.
05:56By the way, I've heard this right now, like, eight times.
05:58And I don't know.
05:59I hope there's a hole in my memory.
06:00What play is he talking about to Christian?
06:02He's talking about the play at the end of the game, third and 15 from the 39.
06:08They're already up 35-16.
06:09Yeah.
06:10And it's third and 15.
06:11And if they don't convert it, fine.
06:13Like, whatever.
06:14Right.
06:14But he kind of scrambled around.
06:16He threw it super high.
06:17And McCaffrey goes way up in the air.
06:19And he pulled it down.
06:20Oh, right.
06:21And I thought they marked him short.
06:22Right at the sticks, yeah.
06:23Right now.
06:24Okay.
06:24That play.
06:25Yes, I remember that play.
06:25Because I have a scribble, scribble on my notes because I had already written down fourth and one.
06:29He did look a yard short.
06:31He looked a half yard short.
06:32Well, and I think the refs looked at it.
06:33And then they looked at each other and said, what are we doing?
06:37By the way, I've seen it.
06:38Like, let's give him a first down and let's all go home.
06:40No, but I've seen a lot of that this year, honestly.
06:42And I get that the yellow line thing on our TV is not official.
06:46But put it this way.
06:48Here's how I'll say it.
06:49I don't know if he was short or not.
06:51What's interesting, though, is I've seen on a number of occasions around the league this year
06:56when something looks like it's, ooh, right on the, that's in the maybe area.
07:01They don't come out and measure anymore.
07:03No, it's all automatic, right?
07:06It's all digital.
07:07And so I'm trying to, I'd love to learn more about how that works.
07:11Because you do, as a fan, I get that whatever they're doing is way more high-tech than what we're doing.
07:17But as a fan, you're looking down in the field and what the refs are doing, and you're like, how?
07:23How do you, like, you're just sticking your foot out.
07:25Exactly.
07:26And now you know because somebody's got a computer or something upstairs.
07:31That that's a first down, and that's supposed to make us feel like it's more legitimate than it used to.
07:38And I'm like, it doesn't feel that way.
07:41It might be, but it doesn't feel that way.
07:43That part of it is much more legitimate, where wherever the sticks are set, that's now like a laser,
07:50as I borrow from Austin Powers.
07:51So that actually is a laser metric that you can absolutely, within an inch, determine if it's a first down or not.
07:59But the other part of it, which I think is hilarious, is you've got two guys my age or your age,
08:05and they run in with their right foot, and they decide that this is where he was down.
08:09So you have the inexact science of two guys running in and making a decision,
08:15or the other part of it is the laser measurement.
08:18The laser measurement is absolutely accurate, but it depends on your right foot and my right foot.
08:23And on this play, I thought also, granted, that he was maybe a half yard or even more short.
08:29And even the graphic, they put up fourth and one, and the next thing you know, nope, we're going to scooch it up.
08:34First down, run the clock, let's go home.
08:37Yeah, totally.
08:38And it got weird last night.
08:40I don't know how many of you all watch Sunday Night Football.
08:42It got weird because, like, tush pushes were actually not being effective last night.
08:47There was also a false start on one of them, which wasn't actually kind of a false start
08:53because somebody's just whapping the ground, which is not simulating a snap.
08:57And so...
08:58Well, he made contact with the defender, but the defender was in the neutral zone.
09:01Right.
09:02So it should have been a flag on the defense for lining up in the neutral zone,
09:05but the offensive player reached out and was slapping his hand.
09:08Right, right.
09:09To, like, call attention to it.
09:10The whole thing.
09:11Really weird.
09:12Really weird.
09:12And then people still walked away mad at the refs because the game effectively ended.
09:18Not that the Lions were going to come back and win the game,
09:21but the game ended on a hellacious pass interference call on Rocky Yassine.
09:26Yep.
09:27Actually going against A.J. Brown.
09:29And I didn't see any penalty on the play.
09:31If there was one, though, it was on A.J.
09:32Correct.
09:32Like, because he shoved him, he gave him a good shove in the chest to break toward the sideline.
09:37So people still ended up on social media screaming about, like, even legit people.
09:42Like, Albert Breer's like, we've got to reconstruct officiating in the NFL.
09:47Sure.
09:48Absolutely.
09:49Here's another idea.
09:50Don't go 0 for 5 on 4th down.
09:52Well, sure.
09:52So there's no defending Dan Campbell yesterday.
09:55I know.
09:55I'm totally with you, and we all want to reimagine officiating.
09:59And if you want to talk about the big three sports, I think that NFL officiating is as close to the right way to do it as possible.
10:08They actually meet.
10:09They meet.
10:10They work together.
10:11They have replay assist.
10:14And they have a challenge system.
10:15And so I think if you want to add in, like, being able to challenge penalties and whatnot, then we get into a slippery slope.
10:23I thought yesterday in the Arizona Niner game was a perfect example of it where Renardo Green gets called for unsportsmanlike conduct, which it was.
10:32But honestly, that was two ways.
10:34Like, McBride had his hand inside Green's face mask.
10:37But it's always the reactor.
10:38It should have been offsetting.
10:39But you know it's always the reactor.
10:41So at the reactor, whatever, the very next play, he does the little sniffy-sniff thing, and now we're going to throw the flag.
10:49That was a makeup call if there ever was one.
10:51Maybe, maybe.
10:51I mean, that wasn't much of a taunt, and I didn't even know that the finger sniff was a penalty.
10:56I don't know if I've ever seen it.
10:57I know what it is, Mark.
10:59It's vulgar.
10:59Fine.
11:00It's vulgar.
11:01There are many more things that are more vulgar, and there are things that you don't realize that are vulgar that are actually vulgar.
11:07Oh, for sure.
11:08And what I also would say is I've seen a lot of other NFL players do the exact same celebration and not get called.
11:15But I love that that ref's like, I know what you're doing.
11:17You can't do that.
11:18That was pretty funny.
11:18But I think that it got called on the heels of the green.
11:22I mean, it was literally the next play.
11:24I do believe in makeup calls.
11:26Yeah.
11:26Not meaning that they should happen, but I know refs will always be like, nope, everything on its surface, nothing has anything to do with the play before.
11:33Sure it does.
11:34Sure it does.
11:35You're a human being.
11:36You're a human being.
11:37And, like, Renardo Green, there's no defending what Renardo Green did.
11:42But Trey McBride tried to snap his head off prior to Renardo Green going crazy.
11:48And football's an emotional game.
11:50And, again, like, Kyle Shanahan was living with Renardo, and he should be.
11:54At the same time, super easy for us on our couch.
11:58You know, like Jalen Ramsey.
12:00He got kicked out of the game.
12:02Hey, Jalen, chill out.
12:03But easy for us to say, someone just spit in his face.
12:07Well, on his chest.
12:09But he tried to spit his face.
12:10The fact that he missed a little bit is not an excuse.
12:15Or not a reason.
12:16Like, it's an emotional.
12:17As an accomplished spitter, you've got to be better, Jamar Chase, at that level.
12:22It's bad aim.
12:23It's just, it's sad is what it is.
12:25It's two things.
12:26That's why it's twofold.
12:27First of all, you're trying to spit in someone's face.
12:29That's gross and awful.
12:31And then, secondly, you missed.
12:32That's even stupider.
12:34No doubt.
12:35Yeah.
12:35Anyway.
12:36So, look.
12:37Back to what I was saying, though.
12:39I don't think that we can undersell this.
12:43Because the conversation for six weeks was all about, should the Niners ride the hot hand?
12:54Should they, can they go back?
12:56What happens if he doesn't look good?
12:58What about the, and I, like, there's more there.
13:03We got more licks on the Tootsie Pop thing that we got to do here.
13:07Because for six weeks, we've had an anxiety-filled discussion about this.
13:12And he came out, and whether you want to affix, and Grandy's grades coming up later, do you want to A plus him, A, A minus, B plus, whatever you want to say, I think we need to have that conversation.
13:29A healthy portion of the fan base, I was told last week, didn't even want him out there.
13:34And he looked, I thought, really good.
13:38He calmed everything down.
13:40I think he reminded people of the quarterback that he is.
13:45And it excited me for what this offense could do going forward, because let's be real, they're going to have to be really good.
13:52They're going to have to be like that.
13:54They're going to have to be really good.
13:56They're going to have to be like that, and probably even a little bit better.
13:59Because we can look at 41 points and say, oh boy, 41, how are you going to be better than that?
14:04Well, you had a one-yard field, and you had three points at the end of the first half that were basically gifted to you because of a personal foul on Calais Campbell.
14:14You had to settle for a 62-yard field goal.
14:17Calais Campbell mugged the long snapper, so you got a free 15, and you got three points because of it.
14:23And then you had the Diomedar-Lenor interception that set you up in the red zone.
14:27So you had special teams basically gifted 17 points of your 41.
14:33Now, I know you had to score from the 19 fine, but the Sky Moore return to the one, that's a special teams touchdown.
14:41McCaffrey gets the credit.
14:42And before the half, you missed the field goal, but you got 15 yards until you got three points.
14:47So as much as you got 41 points, I get it as a team, but offensively, you really only probably had 24 of those.
14:559-2-5, just stop.
14:56Matt could have done just as good.
14:59You guys do whatever you can to prop up Purdy by degrading another quarterback.
15:04You guys.
15:05I didn't even say Mack Jones' name that segment.
15:08No, and he probably could have done that, but that's not the point.
15:12Brock played, and Brock was, and I look forward to your grade.
15:16I haven't seen the Grandy's grades.
15:18I know what I gave him.
15:19And yeah, could they have won that game with Mack Jones as the quarterback?
15:24They could have won the game.
15:25Do I think he could have looked like that?
15:27No, I don't.
15:28Yes, I think he could have.
15:29He's a different player.
15:30They play a completely different game.
15:33Brock holds the ball more because he's looking for a bigger play.
15:35I think he's looking for a bigger play.
15:36I think he's looking for a bigger play.
15:37I think he's looking for a bigger play.
15:38I think he's looking for a bigger play.
15:39I think he's looking for a bigger play.
15:40I think he's looking for a bigger play.
15:41I think he's looking for a bigger play.
15:42I think he's looking for a bigger play.
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