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00:00One thing we as a group were talking about earlier today, and I guess it stems from what we perceive to be renewed 49er fan confidence, which I think is just a recency bias thing.
00:14It's fine. I'm not saying Niner fans shouldn't be or can't be confident, but it's the opposite of what I said last week.
00:22I'm like, everyone thinks you're going to just be awful against Philly because you were awful the week before against Seattle.
00:27Now everyone thinks you're going to be amazing because you were really good against Philly.
00:31Could it be somewhere in between the same different? I don't know.
00:35I think the Niners will look a lot better than they did two weeks ago.
00:39But stemming from that, the question is kind of thrown out.
00:44What do the 49ers need to do for this game to look different than the one two weeks ago?
00:52What do they need to do? What advantage do they have so that they can win this football game?
00:59So first off, y'all can answer that. What do the Niners need to do for this to look different?
01:04888-957-9570. Any 49er football call all day, you're getting on the air.
01:10So fire in. Let's have some fun with it.
01:13But in that conversation, you said something that caught my attention because my head goes to Kyle Shanahan and Brock Purdy.
01:19I think any time Kyle Shanahan's coaching, the Niners essentially have a little bit of a coach advantage.
01:25Maybe not against Andy Reid, but Sean McVay, Kyle Shanahan.
01:30Those are the guys, in my opinion.
01:32And I think Brock Purdy has done so many different things already in the playoffs that Sam Donald does not.
01:37That's kind of an edge.
01:39But outside of that, I don't see a lot of X's and O's edges in this game.
01:44In that conversation, you said something that grabbed my attention.
01:47Ricky Pearsall plays or the Niners lose?
01:53Yeah, and I can easily explain that.
01:54Speak on it.
01:55And you go back to Week 18, which was a weird game for a number of reasons.
01:59Particularly, Christian McCaffrey had three carries for eight yards in the first half.
02:04Not the first drive, the first half.
02:05So you couldn't run the ball.
02:07And if you look at Seattle and the way they run their defense, they play nickel defense in their base defense.
02:13And the way they do it is with three safeties.
02:16And their safeties are like linebackers.
02:17So they have a lot of guys up close to the line of scrimmage.
02:21And when they have two safeties deep, they cheat up when they know you're going to run it.
02:25They rush to the football.
02:27They tackle you.
02:28And that's what happened last time you played.
02:29Now, if you have Ricky Pearsall, and he's able to get down the field and run routes, and he's your best route runner.
02:35He's your best downfield threat.
02:37Juwan's not as fast.
02:39Juwan doesn't run the same level of route.
02:40Same thing with Demarcus Robinson.
02:42Kendrick Bourne.
02:43And I won't go further down the list because I think you know what I'm saying as far as the import of what Ricky brings.
02:49The one thing you have to do against Seattle is you have to make them respect you.
02:54And in the last game, Seattle didn't have to respect you because you went three and out.
02:58You went three and out.
02:59You couldn't get anything started.
03:00And then when you tried to get the passing game going, you didn't have that real threat to get down the field.
03:07And that's what Ricky Pearsall brings.
03:08If Ricky plays and he's able to go out there with Juwan Jennings in your base offensive package, which is two running backs, one tight end, Tongis, or Tongis, as some would say.
03:19Your two wide receivers, including Ricky Pearsall, all of a sudden now, those safeties cannot cheat, cheat, cheat up toward the line of scrimmage and stuff the run so easily.
03:28So for me, without Ricky Pearsall, your down the field passing offense is very much muted and Seattle has a huge advantage.
03:37Yeah, I get where you're coming from.
03:40I get the sort of X's and O's comment that you're making.
03:43I just think it's overstated.
03:46And I sort of take that as a little bit of a swipe.
03:50I know you don't mean it this way, but to me, it's a little bit of a swipe at Kyle Shanahan and Brock Purdy.
03:57Ricky Pearsall is their best man-beating wide receiver.
04:02He's probably their fastest wide receiver.
04:05He had a 4-4-1-40 at the Combine.
04:08Demarcus Robinson had a 4-5-9.
04:10Kendrick Bourne had a 4-6-8.
04:12I don't even want to look up Juwan Jennings.
04:14He's probably running with the offensive lineman as far as 40 times.
04:19But as Jerry Rice taught us, a 40 time does not necessarily mean everything when it comes to getting open as a wide receiver.
04:30But secondarily, I guess what I would say is, to me, this is so much more about the offensive line.
04:37This is so much more about providing time for plays to develop.
04:43I very much come from that kind of Tom Brady school, which is, if you've got a really good offense and you provide time for your excellent quarterback,
04:53whoever my receivers are, there's a way to operate.
04:57Is the Pearsall way better?
05:00I'll agree with you.
05:01But the idea, the concept that without Pearsall, the Niner offense just flat out can't function the way it needs to against this Seattle defense, I disagree.
05:10Yeah, it's not that they can't function.
05:12It just makes it a lot, a lot harder.
05:15And you saw it in week 18 where you didn't have Pearsall.
05:18You had Kittle and you had McCaffrey.
05:20And they absolutely swarmed both because if you look at all the passes and I watched a little bit of the game again today and now I'm looking at the numbers.
05:28Brock Purdy's average air yards per attempt was less than five, which means it was a lot of this, you know, screen to Kittle minus six swing pass to McCaffrey.
05:36He gets two or three.
05:37You didn't have an ability to get much going because everything was a short pass and they rally up and they're a fast defense.
05:44And when they have that many players close to the line of scrimmage and they tackle as well as they do, that can't work over and over and over.
05:52And that's where, think about Philly, where second play of the game, whoop, you were able to get Demarcus Robinson down the seam for a huge play.
05:59Right, but how'd you do that?
06:00You had time.
06:00You had a little bit of time.
06:01I don't see the short passing game that you're referencing.
06:06I don't see that as a function of you didn't have somebody who could beat man and get downfield.
06:12I saw that as a function of, holy crap, get ball out of hand now, here they come.
06:16And here they come again.
06:17Well, but no, now Trent Williams and dude play better.
06:21Right.
06:22Well, no, yeah.
06:23No, of course.
06:23Play better or you're like, I can, here's my number one take of the day.
06:27Play better.
06:28If you don't play better, you're going to get your ass kicked.
06:30Sure.
06:31And that's all four games this weekend.
06:33And they, I don't think that they played necessarily that badly.
06:36Seattle just played much, much better than you.
06:38I mean, they got, as Greg Cosell told us, they got physically manhandled.
06:42They were outplayed in that game.
06:44And he also said that it doesn't often happen two times in a row when you play in that rapid succession.
06:50So, and you get Trent, you lose George, but you get Trent.
06:52And as we said yesterday, if you had to pick one to lose, unfortunately you would pick, lose George.
06:58You know, this is kind of like the Mary Shag Joe game.
07:01You'd have to, you'd rather lose George than Trent.
07:03I mean, you hate even saying it, but you're right.
07:05I mean, like you're right, but to me, it's almost like a peel and onion.
07:10What's at the center of the onion to me, at least on the bulb or the ball, like the ball, the ball, the middle of the onion, the core of the earth on offensive football is your quarterback and his line period.
07:24I know Christian McCaffrey is the MVP of the team.
07:27I know that George Kittle has such an effect on pass and run, blah, blah, blah.
07:32But like the quarterback and time, to me, that's what I wish for.
07:38That's all that I wish for.
07:40And I'll take Kyle Shanahan and Brock Purdy as a pairing pretty much right next to just about anyone in the NFL if you provide that time.
07:52That's it. And that's the job of the offensive line.
07:55Are they going to do it on every down this time?
07:58Hell no. Seattle's really good.
08:00But they need to do it better than they did two weeks ago or dibs.
08:06Tomorrow is the end of the season, period, as far as I'm concerned.
08:10Ricky or not?
08:11Well, if you have Ricky, it gives you more of an idea and more of an ability to, if you have time, get down the field and complete a longer pass because they know you're going to want to use McCaffrey a ton and you know you want to use McCaffrey a ton.
08:25So, yeah, hopefully he gets 25 or 30 touches.
08:28That means you have longer drives.
08:29And in the last game, you couldn't possess the ball long enough to get him or the offense in a rhythm.
08:35And you had Austin Pleasance at left tackle.
08:37He did an OK job, but he's not.
08:39Trent Williams, we can fairly say that.
08:41And now you have your O-line.
08:43You have all five of your starters.
08:45So, all right, Shani, let's go and see how you can scheme it up.
08:48And if Pearsall plays, you might see a couple of plays where it's max protect, where you have two tight ends and they both stay in.
08:55So, now you have seven blockers, you have your quarterback, and you only have three guys in the pattern hoping that maybe Pearsall can double move somebody and make a big play.
09:04I see.
09:04And to me, one of the things that popped to my head in watching the Niners beat the Eagles, and you and I have both in many different ways thought this throughout the last couple of years, the NFL is not about wide receivers.
09:18And when you make it about wide receivers, you lose.
09:21That's the way I see it.
09:22I think they're great.
09:23I think they're important.
09:24I want good ones, all of those things.
09:27But when A.J. Brown makes it about himself, you lose.
09:31When the Bengals decide that their entire salary cap goes into T. Higgins and Jamar Chase, you lose.
09:38But when the Patriots are like, yeah, we'll have him as wide receiver, and we'll take a couple of you guys over there.
09:44And then they win five rings.
09:47That's just the way I see it.
09:48So, I love Ricky.
09:50You know I love Ricky, and I want Ricky out there.
09:52But the Niners can win without him.
09:55They can win maybe even better with him.
09:57But to me, this is about Brock and his big five in front of him.
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