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00:00Maybe this is where I'm coming from today with, I'm excited that they're healthy, at least on offense.
00:08I'm excited that Brock is back.
00:10I think that this is one hell of a coaching job by, yes, not just Kyle, the whole staff this year.
00:17I am excited that this season is still intact.
00:23Because so many of the characteristics of getting to Thanksgiving and being one of the teams,
00:31look at these two jokes that are going to play tonight.
00:33Look at this.
00:35Look at this.
00:36They got nothing.
00:38Nothing.
00:40Okay?
00:41I'm looking at the Vegas Stadium right now.
00:44It's a third full.
00:45It's early.
00:46Geno Smith is running onto the field with his arm in the air.
00:49Mark Davis got a haircut.
00:50He sure did.
00:51He always does.
00:53I mean, he's running on the field with his arm in the air.
00:56And nobody's even watching.
00:59Because you're playing for nothing.
01:03And I, like, when I sit down to watch the Niners right now, there is a gratitude that this season is still intact.
01:12Now, here's the other side of the coin.
01:15And I wonder about our fan base.
01:18Are you just kind of, eh?
01:23Because it doesn't feel like it's a Super Bowl year, even if they're not going to do anything anyway.
01:28They're not right.
01:28And I don't even think that that's unfair.
01:31I don't think they're going to the Super Bowl.
01:34But that's not how I fan.
01:38Me either.
01:39And you all get to fan.
01:40That's the beauty of fandom.
01:42You get to do this however you want.
01:43Is it, like, did yesterday excite you?
01:47Their playoff odds are north of 80%.
01:51And with all of the adversity they've faced, I think that's awesome.
01:55But I also know a lot of people are like, eh, where's this going?
02:01Right.
02:01If I asked you right now, and I love to do this because you give honest answers and you're allowed to change your opinion as new information comes in.
02:09But if I set the over-under on Niner playoff wins at .5.
02:14Under.
02:15Exactly.
02:16Exactly.
02:16So.
02:16But I'm okay.
02:17No, but it speaks to what you're talking about.
02:20And this is what a lot of fans are thinking.
02:23They're thinking, this is great.
02:25You beat Arizona.
02:26You're supposed to.
02:27You're not going to go anywhere anyway.
02:28But here's the other thing.
02:30I would bet under.
02:31Guess what?
02:32But I could be wrong.
02:35Of course.
02:36And you were wrong on the Warriors until you switched with new information.
02:40And then they barely went over four and a half wins in the playoffs.
02:43Put that thing down, flip it and reverse it.
02:45No doubt.
02:46And I just think about the NFC and you think about the teams that they potentially could play.
02:52And those are teams that, for the most part, are better than the 49ers.
02:56It doesn't mean that I'm not hoping that they go to the playoffs and beat these teams.
03:00I will watch every snap of every game three times.
03:03But I kind of understand that the mentality of some fans, which is nice win over Arizona.
03:09You're probably going to beat Carolina, too.
03:11You're going to beat Cleveland.
03:13You're going to beat Tennessee.
03:14You'll probably lose the Indy and the Rams.
03:16You'll beat the Bears.
03:17You'll have 12 wins.
03:20And then somebody's going to roll you in the playoffs.
03:22See you at the draft.
03:23I just don't fan like that.
03:25Yeah, neither do I.
03:27Like, that sounds.
03:28Okay, what if you did all that with a different voice?
03:32What voice would you want me to do?
03:33I mean...
03:33You want me to do my Howard Dean?
03:35No.
03:36I'm going to Tennessee.
03:37I'm going to beat Cleveland.
03:39You can do that, too.
03:40Okay.
03:40But what if you did it with a voice that was more like...
03:43No.
03:44That one's always fine.
03:45Okay.
03:46Are the Niners going to win the Super Bowl, Cheryl?
03:48No.
03:49Probably not.
03:50But no, what if...
03:51Oh, yikes.
03:52Well, just hang on, Cheryl.
03:53No, Howard.
03:54Well, Cheryl won't even go.
03:55Her son's out.
03:56But what if the voice was different?
04:00What if it was, hey, like, we could get to...
04:04We beat Arizona.
04:05Woo-hoo!
04:05No, but we could get to January.
04:08Ah!
04:09And we could have a shot.
04:11We could take a swing at the Eagles or the Packers or the Lions or the Bucs.
04:17Or the Rams.
04:18We could take a swing at the...
04:18Or the Seahawks, yeah.
04:19Dude, give me the Rams.
04:21The Rams?
04:22Whose house?
04:23Watch this, dog!
04:25Dude, yesterday was...
04:26Oh, my God.
04:27Dude, sign me up.
04:27Yesterday was crazy.
04:29Sign me up for that.
04:31It was crazy.
04:32We're going to get...
04:33You're going to tell me we might get to take over SFO and LAX and SoFi and sit here and
04:42be like, Bosa is gone and Warner is gone and Michael Williams is gone and Kittle missed
04:50half the year and Purdy missed half the year and Ricky Pearsall missed almost half the year
04:55and we're here and we've got a swing at this.
04:59That sounds so fun to me.
05:03Of course.
05:04I mean, that's what it's all about.
05:05Yes, yes.
05:08My heart aches for fans who are disinterested if you simply believe in your heart that your
05:15team is not good enough to win it all and that means you're out on the season.
05:19My heart aches for you.
05:21You're going to miss 88 to 98% of sports life.
05:26If you're the person who goes to get a book and they look at the back cover and they read
05:32the summary and then you look at the last three pages of the book and you read those
05:35three pages and say, eh, I'm not even going to read the book.
05:38I just read the ending.
05:40It doesn't sound that good.
05:41It didn't end the way I wanted it to end.
05:42So I'm not even going to read the book.
05:44So that's not the way I work as a fan and I just enjoy every game and the process and
05:51Sunday and you just laying that out and I'm thinking about wild card weekend when you've
05:56got six games in the opening weekend, including a Monday night now.
06:01They'll never put the Niners on Monday night.
06:02No, but the point is you've got, I think, two Saturday, three Sunday, and then you've
06:07got the Monday and just to have your team be a part of that and, you know, Niners would
06:13be on the road against dot, dot, dot, unless they win the division, of course, but still
06:16could, but just the idea of being in the tournament, that is the excitement of it.
06:22Like last year in the Warriors, even though, yeah, you beat Houston.
06:26That was awesome.
06:27And would you have beaten Minnesota?
06:29Maybe if everyone was healthy, I still think that it was going to be uphill against OKC,
06:34whatever, but every series, every game, every postseason something is a story and it's
06:41part of a potential dream.
06:43And that to me is the exciting stuff.
06:46And I'm thinking about that epic game against New Orleans, uh, in the playoffs where, uh,
06:51Alex Smith, yeah, where they put, uh, they put, uh, Pierre Thomas to sleep home, Dante
06:56Wittner at the goal line.
06:57And, you know, even the, the low points, the Kyle Williams muff punts, like these are memories
07:03and you remember where you were.
07:04And these are like, to me, that's the good stuff of sports.
07:06Jeff Garcia, the comeback against, was that Tampa?
07:09Remember the Giants, one of them, one of them they beat and then the other one they
07:13lost the very next week.
07:14Are you thinking about the catch three with Owens, Owens, Owens?
07:18No, 39, 38.
07:19Owens, Owens, Owens with Steve Young.
07:21Jeff Garcia's comeback.
07:22They were down by a thousand points and they came back and won a playoff game 39 to 38.
07:27Giants, Bucs, one of them.
07:28I can't remember.
07:28There's the Giants.
07:29Giants.
07:29And then they lost to the Bucs the next week.
07:31They didn't, they didn't win the Super Bowl.
07:33Right.
07:34But I remember that game.
07:35Memories, yeah.
07:36Plus, so two things.
07:39One, there's the, we don't know what's going to happen.
07:42Maybe they get there and they do play well.
07:45But what if they don't?
07:47Couldn't I also X's and O's you on this and say with all of those young players that the
07:5249ers are now featuring, don't you think it's a value to them to experience this, to
07:59make the playoffs and get that vibe and feel what that feels like for future years?
08:06I think there's so much value in that.
08:08Never go full.
08:09Jeff on YouTube just said, you have said daily this is not a Super Bowl team.
08:13Right.
08:14I don't believe that it is.
08:16You just took the under on a half a playoff.
08:19Right.
08:19But that doesn't matter.
08:20Hard to make the Super Bowl if you win fewer than 0.5 playoff games.
08:24That's correct, but A, that is one person's opinion, and B, that's one subject that doesn't
08:31unfold until February.
08:33That doesn't change Sunday in November at all.
08:38Dude, I was on the edge of my seat yesterday.
08:41Not for long.
08:42No, then I was able to sit back and relax.
08:45Yeah, that was Ottoman City right there.
08:46But it was a necessity.
08:48The Niners are 4-1 in the division.
08:54Tiebreaker scenarios are on deck.
08:57The Rams and Seahawks have harder games ahead.
09:01Like, hell, the Seahawks have to come here.
09:04Let's see what happens.
09:06So I wonder, is that kind of one of the things that's happening here?
09:108-8, 9-5-7, 9-5-70.
09:12Is this season that is unlikely and frustrating, but now sort of closet successful, is this
09:22doing it for you?
09:23Is this fun?
09:24Is this exciting?
09:26Or do the Niners have to look like a Super Bowl contender in the middle of the season for
09:33you to get fully engaged?
09:35I am fully, fully engaged.
09:38Especially now.
09:40Like, now, now you're 7-4, now you've got games you should win, and now you're healthy
09:46on one side of the ball?
09:49Like, I don't know, man.
09:51Like, I'm in.
09:53I'm in.
09:53Let's go.
09:54I don't know how you're not in.
09:56Even if you look ahead and you and I just did the exercise of, okay, over under a half
10:02a playoff win, you took the under.
10:03I would also take the under if I was a betting man, because if they make the playoffs, they're
10:08likely to be a wild card team, they're likely to play on the road, and they're likely to
10:14be an underdog of more than a field goal, perhaps even five or six points, depending on
10:19the matchup.
10:20It doesn't mean, because of that, that I don't want that.
10:23I absolutely want that.
10:25Get me a road playoff game as an underdog against, pick your team, and I'm in.
10:31Listen, I'm here for it.
10:32Just give me a playoff game.
10:33That's right.
10:33Get into the playoffs.
10:35Whatever city it is.
10:36That's all you can ask for.
10:37Yeah.
10:37Let's do this.
10:38And even though if you look at the history of the Super Bowl, no No. 7 seed has ever made
10:45the Super Bowl.
10:46Now, there's only been five years of seven playoff teams, but even if you go back, the
10:50last sixth seed was Green Bay in 2010.
10:54Right.
10:54They were the sixth seed.
10:55They won the Super Bowl.
10:56So just because you're a six or seven seed doesn't mean you can't go on a little bit
11:01of a run and win the whole thing.
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