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00:00Hey, Lucas, will you pop on for a second?
00:02I want to read your text from earlier
00:05when we were talking about Niners' playoff expectations.
00:10Quote, I may be delusional because I know how bad this defense is, RN.
00:16That means right now?
00:17Right now, yeah.
00:18It's not like a prescription thing.
00:19Shorthand, yeah.
00:19Anyway.
00:21Registered nurse.
00:22Right.
00:22But I'll still be disappointed by anything less than winning it all.
00:31It's wide open.
00:33Go do it.
00:35Love it.
00:36Yeah.
00:37A little Nike commercial action there at the end.
00:40All right.
00:41I mean, explain yourself.
00:43As a fan, I can just put myself in week 17, week 18.
00:49Let's just say you're – I don't even know where they're going to end up,
00:52what seed, who they're playing, if they're playing at home, on the road.
00:55Doesn't matter.
00:57If they lose, I'm going to be disappointed.
00:59Could be the first round.
01:00Could be the NFC Championship game.
01:02Could be the Super Bowl.
01:03No matter what, especially if they win that first round, win the second round,
01:08my expectations are going to increase as it goes,
01:12and I'm going to think that it's going to become more realistic in my head
01:16that they have a real chance to do something.
01:18You only – I mean, it takes forever to get through an NFL season.
01:22You have this many wins already.
01:24Your schedule was what it was.
01:26You did what you were supposed to do to this point.
01:29Even if they go up against the Rams and they lose in the first round,
01:32whatever, I'm going to be disappointed.
01:35I've seen them beat – every team that they could possibly face in the NFC
01:39on this side of the bracket, I have zero confidence in.
01:42I've already seen them beat who I believe are the two best teams in the NFC,
01:46the Rams and the Seahawks.
01:47I've already seen them beat these two teams.
01:49I have no confidence in the Eagles, no confidence in the Packers.
01:52I think the Lions are just as fake as those last two teams I mentioned.
01:57I believe in Kyle Shanahan.
01:59I know what Brock Purdy is.
02:00And you mentioned it in the text.
02:03This defense is bad.
02:05They're two best players.
02:06They're two most important players.
02:07Haven't played in a long time.
02:08And honestly, I think they've been lucky to stay above water on that side of the
02:12ball to this point.
02:14I know the facts.
02:17But as a fan, I'm going to be disappointed if they lose.
02:19Well, sure.
02:19And I mean the fan side of it, that I get.
02:22But see, and I mean to me, this is now how we end up back at the conversation we've
02:30been having for a while, which tells me, like Dibs, when I listen to that, so Lucas, you
02:35have the fever.
02:37You have the fever.
02:39I don't know if everybody's got the fever yet.
02:41And I'm still, I'm still like drawn to that feeling of walking out of the Carolina game.
02:48And it does feel like it was forever ago, but it wasn't.
02:52It was two weeks and two days ago.
02:54And the 49ers hosted Carolina.
02:57And we walked to our cars after a W and three Brock Purdy interceptions.
03:03And people were kind of just like, I mean, all right, we won.
03:12That's my description of what it was like being at that game.
03:15Yeah.
03:16What was it?
03:1620 to 7 or something like that?
03:1820 to 9?
03:1820 to 9.
03:1920 to 9.
03:20Three picks.
03:22Carolina had zero snaps in the red zone.
03:25And you basically, your defense was dominant against an offense that was, you know, not great.
03:32And, you know, if Brock Purdy would have been just ordinary, you win that game by 25 or 30 points.
03:39But he wasn't, and you didn't.
03:40So, I mean, you all know what it's like to go to a stadium when it's playoff fever.
03:47You know.
03:48You know.
03:49The whole crowd walks to their car and it's kind of like, oh.
03:53Like, it's just this consistent kind of screaming through the hallways.
04:01People are high-fiving.
04:02Some of them are just wasted out of their minds.
04:05That's what it's like.
04:08That wasn't happening.
04:09There was none of that.
04:11Absolutely none of that after the Carolina game.
04:13It was just like, wow.
04:14A lot of traffic.
04:16And the Niners are better than okay.
04:18Like, that was the vibe.
04:20Yeah, Grandy, what did you want to say?
04:22Well, I'm in the same boat as Lucas.
04:24And I think part of the reason for me is this isn't just the Shanahan era.
04:29But in my lifetime, Niner teams that I can remember.
04:32Like, I was too young for the end of the Steve Young and even the Jeff Garcia days when they made the playoffs with those quarterbacks.
04:37In my lifetime, where I can remember Niners teams making the playoffs, and this includes all of the Shanahan playoff runs, they go at least to the NFC Championship game every single time.
04:47Yeah, true.
04:47I haven't really experienced a Niner first-round playoff loss that I can remember.
04:52And the issue for me was getting to the playoffs.
04:55But once you get to the playoffs, it's like, all right, this is every game is a coin flip.
04:59You never know what could happen.
05:00And I have confidence in Shanahan in a single-game kind of scenario to give his team the best shot, even if they're maybe at a talent deficit.
05:07I get that.
05:07When's the last time the Niners lost in the first round?
05:10Not under Shanahan.
05:11No, definitely not under Shanahan.
05:13And not under Harbaugh either, right?
05:16Yeah, I don't think so.
05:17No, they went to the NFC Championship game every year under Harbaugh.
05:20Every year they made the playoffs.
05:21Every year that they made the playoffs.
05:23When's the last time the Niners lost in the first round?
05:27I literally cannot remember.
05:292001.
05:31Jeez.
05:31Yep.
05:32How many playoff appearances is that, though?
05:34Since then?
05:35I mean, there's all the Garoppolos.
05:39There's the Kaepernick.
05:40Like, seven or eight?
05:42There's the Purdy's.
05:43Eight is the answer, yeah.
05:45Eight.
05:45Wow.
05:47Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
05:48Garrison Hurst, Comeback Player of the Year.
05:500-1.
05:51They lost to the Packers 25-15 in that game.
05:55Like, that game has been stricken from the record.
05:58I can't even, like, I can't even place it.
06:01I can't even place it.
06:03It was at Lambeau Field, as you like to say.
06:07The closing tundra of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
06:12Yep.
06:12Yeah.
06:13Okay.
06:14So, that's fair.
06:16Like, that's our historical brain kind of comes in and takes over.
06:20Some are all in Madden on the call.
06:22Oh, my God.
06:23I mean, far be it from me to ask any 49er fan to get to the playoffs and be like,
06:27all right, now let's be rational.
06:28Like, that's not what we do.
06:30There's no point in that.
06:31Make terrible food.
06:32Freak out.
06:33Wear a cape.
06:33I don't care.
06:34Like, yeah.
06:35I get that there's two kinds of disappointment, I guess, is what I'm saying.
06:39There's the disappointment that's just baked into this.
06:43We're here to root for our team, and we lost.
06:45Like, Stiney's going to be disappointed when Tulane loses, even though Tulane's going to lose.
06:52They just are.
06:53They're going to get rocked.
06:54They're going to get absolutely slobber-knockered.
06:58Yep.
06:58And he's going to be disappointed.
06:59This guy is such a D.
07:00Hey, man, that's fine.
07:01Not the first time I've said that.
07:02But, like, yeah, that's what I believe is going to happen, and there will be that disappointment.
07:08But that's different than the other disappointment.
07:11I don't think that there's expectation.
07:14Nobody from Tulane or James Madison is heading to these games with expectation.
07:19There's hope.
07:20Yeah.
07:21And when hope doesn't come through, you're disappointed.
07:24When expectation doesn't come through, then you're, like, kind of mad.
07:27You're pissed.
07:28Yeah.
07:28And I think about the Warriors last year.
07:30When you lose Steph Curry after game one and you're up 1-0, your expectations really slid down into Hopeville.
07:37And when they lost, I mean, you wanted them to at least not lose in five.
07:41But when they did lose in five, you could at least say, all right, I get it.
07:46Like, you weren't as devastated as you were when you lost to the Lakers a couple years prior when Lonnie Walker IV came in and put it on you.
07:55Like, that to me was more painful than losing to the T-Wolves without Steph, to your point.
08:00I agree with that.
08:01Yeah.
08:01So there's two kinds of, like, I guess that would be the best way for me to define it.
08:05I still think the Niner fan base is in a state of hope.
08:09I don't think you're yet in a state of expectation.
08:13And maybe Lucas and Granny, maybe you two are the, you're over here in outlierville.
08:18Expectation to make the playoffs, for sure.
08:20Yeah, absolutely.
08:20But for me, it's expectations to now win a game.
08:23Because I don't think you're going to be the seventh seed.
08:26And even if you are the seventh seed, like, none of these teams you're going to face are that scary.
08:31Not that scary.
08:31No.
08:32They're all broken.
08:33They're flawed.
08:34I'd like to avoid Lambeau Field.
08:36I just would.
08:38That's not me even saying the Packers are awesome.
08:40Brock loves cold games, apparently.
08:43He likes it frigid.
08:44Boy, the recent returns would suggest you're right.
08:51Yeah, and as we get closer to it, we can talk about, like, matchups and which one is good and which one is bad.
08:57I want to avoid Philadelphia.
08:59Because I think that that matchup.
09:00Oh, I don't.
09:01They suck.
09:02That's a bad matchup for the Niners.
09:03Why?
09:04Because of what they can do.
09:06And their receivers, I don't think that you have the corners who can guard them.
09:11And you can't pressure Jalen Hurts.
09:13You can't guard their tight end?
09:15Yeah, their offensive line is broken.
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