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00:00and we're here for greg cosell nfl films hello greg what's going on you know i was just watching
00:05steph curry there while i was waiting for you guys yeah you know i kind of noticed he's a pretty
00:10good shooter have you noticed that yeah good little player greg i i i felt that too it there
00:16there are moments where i have also felt that greg yes yeah well you know great minds think
00:21alike so you know that makes sense i didn't know you only broke down nfl film apparently you are
00:26also elite at the nba game as well look at that well i mean i wouldn't say i'm a lead at it but
00:32i did play basketball in high school and college so of course that was back you know before they
00:36had indoor plumbing so you know it was a long time ago beach baskets yeah you want to try a uh
00:41warrior segment with us sometime greg well you know i don't see a lot of the warriors because i'm on the
00:47east coast and it's these late games you know so like for instance tonight when i do go home which
00:52won't be for a little while but i'll put the sixers on you know i watch the nba oh the warriors
00:57are on the east coast tonight greg they're in miami now you won't actually see warriors you've heard of
01:03but but you can watch yeah well i'll probably watch the sixers you know all right well the the
01:09warriors are playing the sixers actually in two weeks uh they're in philadelphia i think on december
01:144th if my mind is correct uh this is gonna be the week that's gonna be a thursday greg it's gonna
01:21be a thursday oh well maybe you guys can get me in the building you know i mean you guys are
01:25important i'm just a guy um we know people yep we know people all right well we'll have to discuss
01:31what we'll discuss what nfl game are you getting us into greg i don't go to any nfl games you know
01:38yeah i don't do that i'm not asking for you to go i'm asking for us to go greg
01:43anyway let's let's talk about some games that have already happened okay um like i would love
01:53to hear your response to something that we've gotten from a lot of fans which was sure niners
01:59won by a lot of points and and and things were moving but also because the cardinal well maybe it
02:05wasn't because the cardinals were down by so much but jacoby preset put up these just gaudy passing
02:11numbers in the game so is that a sign that the defense was not playing well was that kind of game
02:19script what would you say to that fan greg well i would the first thing i would say is how many
02:25times did he throw the ball i mean if you throw the ball that many times you're going to put up
02:29numbers i i guess my response to that would be if you're going to throw the ball close to 60 times
02:35did they expect him to complete 10 balls and go 10 for 60 for 100 yards what do you expect when a guy
02:42throws the ball 60 times he's going to complete balls um they didn't really complete many big plays
02:48at all the 49ers were in total control of the game pretty much from the beginning once they jumped ahead
02:5414 nothing um so we know what their quote-unquote weaknesses are on the defensive side they do not
03:01have a great four-man d-line pass rush uh that's not going to change tomorrow but i just looking at
03:08preset's numbers i wouldn't view that as that's something that's wrong that's different than we
03:14knew before that game and looking at the film did you see an even more lean toward the bend but don't
03:20break from robert sala knowing that they were up 14 or 13 nothing early yeah and that didn't surprise me
03:27in the least i mean you know don't forget that you know they they got a head big and uh you know
03:33you know relatively big and there was never a sense that they were not in control so yes that would that
03:39that that's an odd game that's not a great game to in my view you know having done this for a long
03:44time and seeing a lot of football and watching tape that's not a game to really make a true evaluation
03:49of their defense we know what the strengths are we know what the concerns are um but that's not a game
03:55to really say oh my god there's a problem here we know what they are we've discussed that like i said
04:00they're not going to be any different uh today than they were last week they're still concerns
04:05greg we're probably burying the lead would love to hear what your impressions were of brock purdy and i
04:10i mean it specifically this way in theory the eight quarters that we had seen him this year before now
04:16um in six of them were told he was kind of compromised with the toe and so some balls sailed and things
04:23like that i wonder how you thought he looked last week as compared to what we had seen earlier in
04:29the year oh did purdy play this week i didn't notice yeah he did oh yeah yeah you know i thought
04:36yeah yeah i thought right from the start he he played uh pretty well i mean the second possession
04:44was to me a great example when he hit jennings for 25 yards um that was a great concept but you know
04:50one of the things about the niners pass game and i think about this with all quarterbacks
04:54you know and you guys obviously watch the niners but you watch a lot of football you're not just
04:59watching the niners i'm sure and i think about this when i talk to people who always want to talk
05:03quarterbacks is when you see a really well-designed scheme and the receiver by nfl standards is open
05:10like jennings was on that 25 yard play on the second possession you immediately think oh that's great
05:15quarterbacking or do you think hey that's a really good scheme and you know it becomes pitch and catch
05:21you know and i think about that a lot because obviously it's a combination you know that play
05:27was became pitch and catch because the scheme i'll tell you the play to me that really stood out as a
05:33great example of to me what purdy is is the 30 yard touchdown that ended the second possession
05:38because he checked that he saw the coverage and he changed the formation and the play call
05:45and he knew that he had linebacker davis gaither on kittle and uh you know that to me was just a
05:51great example of understanding what he saw changing the play and then he got the matchup that he knew he
05:57would get and it was a touchdown um but i thought purdy played well now the thing about purdy and this is a
06:03little different than mac jones so sometimes it's a positive and every once every once in a while
06:08it's a negative but he has a very aggressive mindset as a thrower more so than mac jones so he
06:14will turn it loose which at times can result in some forced throws you see that once in a while
06:20but at other times it results in outstanding window throws versus zone coverage which is an absolute
06:25strength of his game yeah a couple of dangerous ones later in that half but i want to ask you about
06:30the third touchdown the pass to christian mccaffrey and the design that you saw where
06:34looked like jennings didn't exactly run a pick but he kind of cleared out the left side of the
06:40defense and mccaffrey was able to leak out for an easy pitch and catch oh yeah the nine yard touchdown
06:45our first and goal that was another well-designed concept that was versus man coverage kittle ran
06:51right at the linebacker simon he collisioned him um you know some might say that was offensive pass
06:56interference but you know what it wasn't called so it wasn't um and he collisioned him and that
07:00prevented simon from expanding outside to match mccaffrey who was his coverage responsibility
07:05so that was another you know well-schemed well-designed concept that presented a nice clean
07:12red zone throw um you know there's a number of ways to score in the red zone i happen to listen
07:16to ben johnson i don't listen to a lot of press conferences because i'm watching tape i just happened
07:21to catch this one ben johnson the head coach of the bears and somebody asked him about 50 50 balls
07:26because he has two big receivers you know on the outside and he said i'm not a believer in 50 50
07:31balls i'd rather scheme plays than just throw a ball up for grabs and hope my guy catches it and i
07:37think kyle shanahan is probably has the same school of thought there and you know that's just a great
07:42example of scheming up a play we've seen that a number of times this year um i forget which game it
07:48was when mccaffrey caught a one or two yard touchdown where there was motion um it might have
07:53been mac jones playing that i can't remember but i think kyle is more of the the belief that you
07:57scheme it up and try to create a clean throw for your quarterback rather than just throwing it up
08:03to a 50 50 ball greg it seems the last couple of weeks especially maybe longer the 49ers are starting
08:10to get some continuity and production out of their offensive line that was not there before what what
08:16are you seeing that's different there yeah yeah well this was a game clearly where you know
08:21mccaffrey had a little more space clearly robinson had some space um and if you can get mccaffrey to
08:27the second level you say what you want about mccaffrey i'm sure many of your listeners think
08:31he's not the same guy as he was three or four years ago and i know that he only had this week he
08:36had a 20 yard run which is his longest run of the season but he he is a hard runner he gets hard earned
08:43yards um and we'll see as the season progresses um if if there continues to be first level space where he
08:50can get to the second level if indeed he can break one but he he runs hard there's no difference in
08:57that in terms of mccaffrey um he gets tough yards um and we'll see but i think he's running well um
09:04you know it's funny i speak to my guys in the matchup room here who you know we all watch tape
09:08um and and i said do you see any difference in mccaffrey and they say no he looks like mccaffrey
09:14i mean obviously in the past game he's really really good so he's a totally complete back i
09:19mean he's on his way to getting you know another 1 000 yard rushing 1 000 yard receiving season which
09:25would make him the only guy to do that in history for a running back so um you know but i agree i
09:30think the the o-line is gradually starting to look a little better yeah and he would be uh only the
09:36fourth ever to go thousand thousand like you said the second or the first guy to ever do it twice
09:41and i wonder as we turn the page on our week and on the niner week you look at carolina they don't
09:46look to be yeah in my opinion a great rush defense is this another game where the niners and shanahan
09:52can really establish a ground game you well i think they try to do that every week yeah sure and
09:58obviously if it works early on you know if they feel that they're sustaining offense with the run
10:04game they're going to stay with it and they're going to work off of it um so yeah they'll definitely
10:09try to do that this is a defense that um is you know they've got some you know derrick brown's a
10:15good football player he's although i don't think he played this week i i watched that tape and i
10:19can't remember seeing yeah maybe he did i can't remember but um uh but you know the crazy thing
10:25about carolina is they're coming off a game where bryce young had the best game of his career hands down
10:30and that's not an the way he played this week was great but that's not normally the way he plays
10:35but again you're facing a 49er defense that doesn't necessarily get a lot of pressure on
10:39the quarterback but but the the old line for the panthers is not very good and i would love to see
10:45the niners this week be able to generate some pressure with a four-man pass rush greg cosell nfl
10:50films i'd love to hear you expand on bryce young what what what are we looking at this year and and
10:56overall with uh because he does i mean he seems better than than he used to be i would love your
11:01breakdown yeah i mean it's funny because the team he just played atlanta is nothing like the 49ers
11:10defense atlanta is a team that is high percentage pressure and high percentage man coverage and
11:17young had a really good game obviously he handled that well um he had a strong game versus those two
11:23things empty formations are a major part of the panthers pass game um he's had the most empty
11:30dropbacks of any quarterback in the nfl up to this point in the season so you know they feel that
11:36he'll get it out quick uh you know when you're an empty obviously if you if you want to if you truly
11:42want to pressure a quarterback when they're an empty you can do that because there's only five
11:46there's only five pass protectors so you can pressure if you choose to um but young young is an
11:54interesting guy because he doesn't really have a big arm he's clearly short so everything really
12:00has to be defined and he has to get the ball out because he's not a guy that can sit in the pocket
12:06and to the term we use for guys like that he can't really sit on his back foot and drive the football
12:12he's not that guy so the ball has to come out he's very dependent on the scheme and and throws being
12:20presented within the context and structure of the pass game so in an ideal world there's there's
12:25multiple ways to deal with that you can obviously try to take away route concepts and make him have
12:30to wait or you can go after him because he's not really a playmaker he can make throws on the move
12:35but he's not really a playmaker and for the niners being one of the least blitz happy teams in football
12:41i had him at at third to last how do you look at the tape and see the 49ers trying to adjust for
12:47carolina going empty do they still just rush for and and sit in their cover with seven sort of
12:53approach that's a great question i mean you know robert sal up to this point has decided and again
12:59um you know so much too of blitzing has to do with who your players are not everybody's a great blitzer
13:06okay and keep that in mind you know it's we just assume okay let's blitz and let's rush the quarterback
13:11you know not every linebacker is a great blitzer not every safety is a great blitzer
13:16um so and and we know that bethune and he's not necessarily a blitzer but he'll be out this
13:22week with a high ankle strain by the way i thought sprain i thought robinson played pretty good in
13:26place of him but um uh but he'll be out and i think he's played really well in place of fred warner
13:31so i i wouldn't expect that that robert sal is going to be super aggressive with pressure i think he's
13:37going to look to rush for like i said against an o-line that's just very uneven when it comes to pass pro
13:43and um and then just play you know coverage on the back end and see how that goes you know like i said
13:49last week was more of an aberration game for bryce young in his career you know he's not going to
13:54throw for 448 yards this week um so we'll see what happens but uh i i wouldn't expect a major change
14:00from coach sal on this game greg cosell nfl films while we're talking about a defensive coordinator
14:05approach um this was always a characteristic that people used to talk about with bill belichick that he
14:11was very good at taking the other team's best thing away what is carolina's best thing
14:18ideally the run game uh it wasn't last week but ideally the run game rico dadle is a hard runner
14:27gets tough yards uh they want to be able to do that but the one thing they do have and this will be
14:33interesting against the corners of the niners is their three top receivers are incredibly big yep you got
14:39tedaro mcmillan who i really really liked i loved him coming out of college he's 6'4 you've got uh
14:46xavier leggett who's maybe only 6'1 6'1 and a half but he's built really well you got jalen coker who's
14:52in the 6'2 6'3 range so their three top wideouts are big and the 49ers corners are not so again you
15:01know we'll see how the the panthers decide to go about attacking that but mcmillan is a really
15:07interesting player to me um he's smooth he's fluid he's a little faster than you think you
15:13know you wouldn't call him purely explosive you know he's not justin jefferson but he's really kind
15:18of a smooth easy mover and you look at the niners and they they got ricky pierce all back he had just
15:24the one target and the one catch i know he's kind of still playing his way back into it is is it still
15:30the case with the niner offense of you know a lot of 21 personnel with youth check in there and relying
15:35on george kittle yeah well i don't know if they rely on anyone in the past game and i think we've
15:41talked about this i don't think they look and say you know what ricky pierce only had one target last
15:47week this week we got to get him 10 i don't think kyle shanahan thinks like that my guess is he'll have
15:51more than one this week but i don't think they're going to come out and just start feeding ricky
15:56pierce all the ball because that's not really the way they play offense um now the panthers on defense
16:02uh jc horn's a really good player he's their boundary corner okay michael jackson who's got
16:07good size is their field corner so horn doesn't match up they play boundary and field that's the
16:13way they play um so you know we'll see how it maps out um you know their pass rushes they play a lot
16:21of young players i mean they've got the rookie scoward and who plays a ton of snaps as one edge
16:25rusher they've got gj wanham who's been in the league four or five years you know they don't
16:30really have a true big time edge rusher uh right now well you know we'll see if scoward becomes that
16:35guy but right now he's not that guy uh greg malik mustafa got an interception we've talked a lot about
16:42the safety position i i wonder yeah yeah what what you see in terms of how it's evolving and and if
16:48are those guys getting better each week yeah well they clearly now believe that brown and mustafa
16:54are their two best although they played a ton of what i call big nickel last week where they
16:58played three safeties and pinnick played a probably close to 30 snaps if i'm not mistaken
17:04so they played a lot of big nickel um you know and and who knows they could do more of that this
17:10game because of the wide receivers being big um but yeah i think that look mustafa is a good player
17:16coming out of wake forest i liked him a lot i thought last year was his rookie year right
17:21was last year his rookie year for uh yes that's correct yes yes yes yes yeah and he played really
17:27well until he got hurt now he's back this year you know he missed some time but he's back um clearly
17:32they now believe brown and mustafa and they use them kind of interchangeably they both can play on
17:36the back end they both can play down in the box or overhang um so you know they feel that that gives
17:42them their best uh their two best safeties pinnick is much more of a box type safety so when they do go
17:48big nickel he he tends to play more like a linebacker um but yeah brown and and and don't
17:54forget i think they were both second round picks or certainly third round picks tops so you're dealing
17:59with guys that they felt good about when they drafted them and you know sometimes the way it
18:04works in this league you know is you got to play your draft choices sooner or later and see if they
18:07could play because if you draft them within the first three rounds you believe they're going to be
18:12nfl starters so you've got to play them at some point okay greg here comes the big moment
18:17oh boy this is big yeah i know you you've you've said you're not going to ask me who's going to win
18:21this week are you of course not greg you've said for a long time you don't like doing this but the
18:25bottom line is is you did it last week and now you're one to know and so now we're hot now we're
18:30addicted and i nailed it huh yep you know you've never lost a game in your life here it is the big
18:36pick with greg cosell niners and panthers lay it out here for us greg oh boy well i think you know
18:43based on the way i thought the niners played last week on offense i think you know ideally there's
18:47a sense of rhythm that is starting with their offense and i don't think the the defense for
18:53the panthers is is good enough to stop that if the niners are playing you know the way they're
18:58capable of playing um obviously it's a monday night national tv game um you know i would look
19:04at the niners as the better team here i would expect them to win let's put it that way i would
19:08expect the niners to win this game okay and and the number is 1-800-CO-SELL for a free pick right
19:15is that is that what you want people to call uh that would not be something we would want to discuss
19:19you know because i work for the nfl and gambling is an illegal activity and i've never by the way i've
19:25never i've never bet on a sporting event in my life so i don't even i don't even know what half
19:29the things mean when they talk about betting yeah so i don't know neither do i other than last week
19:34when you said you like the niners and then i liquidated all assets and so thank you greg yeah
19:38and and so that will you be sending me a big check then uh yeah uh go ahead and uh look in the mail
19:45yeah yeah the checks in the mail small check yeah small check right right you work on commission now
19:51so it's a yeah and it'll be a third party check so good luck depositing that right right right right
19:58right all right greg thank you as always and we uh we look forward to uh to next week
20:03all right hey hopefully we got some big games coming up they're still right there in the division
20:08race so let's see what happens oh hey real quick is this like uh i i'm we were talking earlier about
20:14the chiefs colts game and i'm mindful of what the colts did when they went to pittsburgh and they kind
20:20of got their doors blown off there and and you know that the simple thought is oh gosh that's when
20:27they go outdoors in november it just gets harder for them do you do you kind of see that as like
20:33are we going to see a lesser version of the colts maybe this weekend i mean it's so hard to know
20:38everybody's just waiting for the chiefs to be great because now they're five and five although the run
20:43game certainly travels and they've got a great run game with jonathan taylor so you know that's one
20:48of those games guys and i'm just being honest i could give you five reasons and five variables on
20:53either side you know it's that's that's a hard game to figure yeah i'm totally honest with you
20:58yeah no doubt all right yeah you're probably gonna have to call his message phone in order to get that
21:02one so he gave you one free one you get the one free pick i mean one more all right greg thank you so
21:08much sir all right guys really appreciate it as always thanks absolutely greg cosell
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