The 49ers are proving you don't need expensive WRs!

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00:00Let's look at these football teams and talk to me about the wide receiver position.

00:05Okay.

00:06And contracts.

00:09And because the 49ers, they paid Debo for a while.

00:15He's gone.

00:16They paid Brandon.

00:17He's now being investigated by the police.

00:19I don't know if you saw that.

00:20No.

00:20Yeah, police are now investigating that video.

00:23Because he was speeding?

00:24Correct.

00:24And on his phone while driving.

00:26Well, no, I think the phone was like on a...

00:29Gotcha.

00:30Yeah, it was on one of the little thingamabobs there on the dash.

00:33So, anyway, yeah.

00:34So, Brandon's getting $30 million a year so that he can make YouTube videos.

00:39And Ricky is not getting paid yet, but he's a first-rounder and he's hurt.

00:43So, last night, the receiving core for the 49ers was Juwan Jennings, seventh-rounder.

00:50Demarcus Robinson, I don't remember his draft stock, but journeyman.

00:54Sky Moore, I think, might have been a second-rounder, but cast-off.

00:58And Kendrick Bourne, scrap heap pickup from the New England Patriots.

01:03That's your receiving core.

01:05Five touchdown passes, 48 points, and the punter was pointless.

01:11So, what are we really doing here?

01:15What are we doing?

01:17Like, how did we get here?

01:19$30 million, $40 million receiver.

01:23How are the Vikings and Bengals doing this year?

01:26Not great.

01:26How are the Lions doing this year?

01:29I mean, they're doing all right.

01:31They're 8-7.

01:33Yeah.

01:34Amin Ra's had another good year, though.

01:35He's very good, but they're 8-7.

01:39So, and I know that, like, the Eagles have paid two receivers.

01:42They're going to win their division.

01:44The Bears have paid DJ Moore and have put big draft stock into Roma Dunze and Luther Burden.

01:52So, they've got receivers.

01:53Green Bay is the one you always point at.

01:56They turn and burn.

01:57They never pay a receiver.

01:58They're always in their second or third year.

02:00Every receiver on their roster.

02:03Dobbs and Reed and Christian Watson.

02:05And now Matthew Golden.

02:07And they're not in yet, but they look like they're going to be a playoff team.

02:12You know, the Bucs, Godwin, Mike Evans, 7-8.

02:17But here's the Panthers.

02:19They're not paying anybody.

02:20They used a big draft pick on a guy this year.

02:24Denver Broncos?

02:26Eh.

02:26Cortland Sutton?

02:27Right.

02:28Kind of.

02:29Chargers?

02:30Who?

02:31Paul McConkie's on the rookie deal still.

02:33Keenan Allen, I think he got a shorter-term deal, right?

02:35Yeah, that's a one-year end-of-the-career thing.

02:39Jaguars used big draft capital on BTJ.

02:42They just signed Jacoby Myers to an extension.

02:46You know, the Steelers decided to take on the DK contract.

02:50The Rams have done it with Devontae and Puka.

02:52And Puka.

02:53Well, they haven't paid Puka yet, but boy, I can't wait to see what that contract turns

02:57out to be.

02:58Now, he's a guy that I don't think you'd regret paying $40 million to.

03:01No, you're going to have to.

03:02You're not going to lose him.

03:04You're going to have to pay him the going rate.

03:06And that guy is, I mean, he's a freak.

03:08He's a monster out there.

03:09The Bills never pay a receiver.

03:11Like, they got rid of Stephon Diggs.

03:14Most people don't even know who their receivers are.

03:17The New England Patriots now have Diggs, but he's not making that much anymore.

03:22So, I just, I don't know, man.

03:25You look up and down the league, the Bengals being the obvious kind of example.

03:30And I just, it's not that you don't want these guys, and it's not that you shouldn't

03:35pay them because you need to keep them sometimes.

03:39But boy, I sure wouldn't make it my focus.

03:41And if I'm the 49ers, the lesson I've learned the last year and a half, stop letting them

03:46dictate this.

03:48That would be the line that I would draw.

03:52Yes, I want them on my team.

03:55Yes, in the right case, you just brought one up.

03:57If Puka's on your team, would I do the deal?

03:59I would do the deal.

04:01But if you want to start dictating this, if you want to start getting on TikTok and freaking

04:07out and making a big deal about it and showing up to practice in the wrong pants, and if

04:12you want to start dictating this, demanding trades, see you later.

04:17You are not a necessity.

04:21There just aren't.

04:22It just depends on how you go about running your offense.

04:25And I think here, especially, they're not as much of a necessity as they are in other

04:30places.

04:31Isn't Philly the same thing?

04:33Yeah, I think Philly's in a, they're in a little bit of a tough spot.

04:36Every time A.J. Brown has a good game, they lose.

04:39It's because I don't think that their quarterback is an elite thrower of the ball, and so you

04:43have these two elite receivers, and you don't really pass it.

04:47Last year, you ran it 200 more times than you passed it, and you won the Super Bowl.

04:51And this year, for whatever reason, Saquon Barkley's not running it as effectively, and

04:55your offense is not as good.

04:57And I think about Miami, where you're paying Waddle, and you're paying Tyreek Hill, and now

05:03Hill's on the shelf, and Waddle is Waddle.

05:05But, yeah, you pay these big-time contracts, and it's going to hamstring you in other areas.

05:11I love that.

05:11I love that example.

05:13Miami is Exhibit A.

05:15Cincinnati is Exhibit A+.

05:17Yep.

05:18The Dallas Cowboys, we'll see what they do now with George Pickens.

05:21They've painted themselves into a corner.

05:24CD gets 35.

05:25George comes in, made the Pro Bowl today.

05:28And they spent all year talking about, well, we need to keep him.

05:31Yeah.

05:32Go ahead.

05:33Well, think about Seattle with D.K. Metcalf.

05:35They were happy to have him leave.

05:38And, you know, Jackson Smith and Jigba, he's not getting the huge money yet, but you would

05:41probably...

05:42He's the other puka.

05:43You're doing that.

05:43Yes.

05:44Yeah.

05:44Yeah, you're doing that.

05:45But when you do do that, it puts you in a certain spot.

05:49And I'm trying to remember who said it to us last week, but it was, don't worry about

05:53paying the player.

05:54It's about paying the person.

05:56That's what you really have to examine.

05:58And in other words, it's not that Brandon Iyuk is not an elite football player.

06:02I think he still can be.

06:04But clearly, the way he has comported himself in some ways, it's not a great fit as a person.

06:12He told the 49ers exactly who he was, and they bit anyway.

06:18I mean, he told them all summer long, and they bit anyway.

06:22They say they don't want me.

06:23And so I just like that, that to me, and I love this one.

06:28I love this one.

06:30Boxer and Gerson work injury attorneys text line, 650.

06:33Thank you for bringing this up.

06:34This probably should have been something I said earlier today, but it's a lot better coming

06:39from you.

06:40650 just texted in.

06:42Remember when Purdy was only good because he was surrounded by all of those great players,

06:49so that's why he was good.

06:52Had last night taste.

06:54Sure, McCaffrey's on the team.

06:56His receiving core is Jawan Jennings, Kendrick Bourne, Demarcus Robinson, and Sky Moore.

07:04Five touchdowns.

07:09President of Brockistan eating good tonight.

07:11Yeah, you sure are.

07:13Eating good.

07:13Probably eating at Shanahan's house again.

07:16Making pesto pasta for him.

07:18I would like to see, and we probably wouldn't see it, and I don't really even want to see

07:23it, but Brock without Kyle.

07:25Like, yeah, Brock without Ayuk and Debo.

07:28Sure.

07:28That's a good point.

07:29That to me is, really, that's what this all comes down to.

07:33And we talk about Philly, and I just don't think that Jalen Hurts is a great thrower.

07:37Tua and Miami, same thing.

07:39He's not a great thrower.

07:40Burrow and Cincinnati, he's phenomenal.

07:43And they've got all kinds of weapons, but they don't defend.

07:45So, even when you go out and you put up 35, Bengals lose a lot of those games.

07:50Right.

07:50The quarterback's out in the public questioning seemingly his own existence in football.

07:55Yeah.

07:55He's so frustrated.

07:57So, yeah.

07:58I just, that's all.

08:00I thought of that last night when you have that kind of performance.

08:03I know it's circumstantial.

08:05Offensive line was great.

08:06You made the point earlier.

08:08Right.

08:08The Colts' DBs are both out.

08:10It turned into pitch and catch.

08:11For a good quarterback, which Brock is, that felt at times like easy pickings.

08:17And so it was.

08:19So, no.

08:20That does not mean that, like, now Brock's the greatest quarterback ever and you never need

08:25a good receiver again on your team.

08:27But I don't, I just don't think football is dependent on these big, gaudy numbers from

08:34wide receivers.

08:35I think fantasy football is.

08:37I think we love it.

08:38I think they're fancy.

08:40They're good-looking dudes.

08:41They're marketable.

08:42And so we talk about them a lot and therefore teams want them.

08:46And that makes sense.

08:48But I don't think that Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson type numbers, I just don't think that

08:55that translates to division championships.

08:57Just depends on the complete makeup of your team.

09:00Complimentary football.

09:01I'll say it until I'm blue in the face.

09:03And that's where this Niner team has been so good this year.

09:06They run it to protect their defense.

09:08Their defense tries to keep you out of the end zone or at least makes you earn it.

09:12And you've got unbelievable threats all over the field.

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