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00:00What are you asking exactly? I'm so confused by your question.
00:22What's the question? Can you just answer your own question?
00:25Now, back to Will and Dibby.
00:27On 95.7 The Game.
00:30Well, the question is.
00:31What the hell was that?
00:33Why are you trying to get cute on fourth and one?
00:36Right.
00:37So, and for me.
00:39I'm so confused by your question.
00:40Well, it's not a question.
00:42It's sort of rhetorical.
00:43But anyway, here's the deal.
00:45You don't want to have to get cute on fourth and one.
00:49And I'm actually not going to like rip Kyle for that.
00:54But boy, it's a wake up call.
00:56Because here's the point.
00:57If you have to get cute on fourth and one, to me, it's an admission that you know that the easy stuff isn't there.
01:04And he said it.
01:05He was asked.
01:06On third and one, I thought for sure Brock Purdy would sneak it.
01:09They asked him after the game.
01:10He said the sneak wasn't there.
01:12Right.
01:13And I'm like.
01:14The sneak wasn't there.
01:15What does that mean?
01:16The sneak wasn't there.
01:17What do you say?
01:17That means they had all the gaps covered.
01:19And when they have the gaps covered.
01:21And it comes time to.
01:22We push.
01:23They push.
01:24Their push is better than our push.
01:26That's what that means.
01:27Here's Kyle Shanahan on no QB sneak.
01:30Third and one.
01:31Fourth and one.
01:32Yeah.
01:32If the sneak was there, we would have done it.
01:34You know.
01:34They take away the sneak.
01:36So we sneak it when it's there.
01:37And they played all the sneak.
01:39They took up all the gaps on the inside on the plays.
01:41And we like the pass.
01:44And then on the fourth down, we thought we could get to the edge.
01:47Because they're all inside playing the gaps to take away the sneak.
01:50So we thought we could leave one on the edge to option.
01:52And we missed that.
01:53And there was two on the edge, which made it a problem to option them.
01:56Yeah.
01:56So.
01:57He said the word sneak five times in that.
01:59And I love it.
02:00You know.
02:00The sneak was not there.
02:01We'd love to sneak.
02:02But if the sneak's not there, then we can't sneak.
02:05Real quick.
02:06The warrior development.
02:07I don't want everybody to be like.
02:08What the hell is.
02:09So Draymond Green is out tonight.
02:10Okay.
02:11Draymond Green was listed as questionable with an ankle sprain.
02:13And Draymond is out tonight.
02:15We already knew that Melton was out tonight.
02:17Guy Santos is out tonight.
02:19Jonathan Kaminga is out tonight.
02:20That part's just a prediction.
02:22Okay.
02:22But anyway.
02:23Draymond Green will not play for the Warriors tonight.
02:27Warriors against Andrew Wiggins in the heat.
02:30This evening.
02:31Right here on 95-7 the game.
02:33Now the other part that I.
02:34The list of numbers.
02:36And I'm going to read them again.
02:37Because this is key to the point that we're talking about right now.
02:42The list of numbers that I read.
02:445.0.
02:454.8.
02:464.5.
02:484.6.
02:494.7.
02:505.4.
02:52And then 3.9.
02:54Those are yards per carry for Christian McCaffrey.
02:58Through his career.
03:00Year by year.
03:01Ah.
03:02By season.
03:02Okay.
03:03Except for I removed any major injury year.
03:06Okay.
03:07Because it was like small sample.
03:08He played three games or whatever.
03:09Like last year.
03:10I also removed his rookie year.
03:14Which was A.
03:15His rookie year.
03:16And B.
03:16Like he had less than half as many carries as he normally does.
03:20But the years where he's up in that neighborhood of 2.
03:24To 250.
03:26To 300 carries.
03:27Those are his yard per carry averages.
03:30And I think that is very significant because of what we're talking about right here.
03:37If on third and one and fourth and one and they take away the sneak.
03:42And you literally cannot get a yard.
03:45And you got to get cute to get a yard.
03:48And start playing the option with a fullback.
03:51If you've got to do that.
03:53Then you're outmanned.
03:55And what I see as this moment for 49er football is that as of about 2 to 3 years ago.
04:03Kyle Shanahan takes the 49ers to the Super Bowl.
04:06They were largely viewed as the best team in football.
04:09They lost in overtime in the Super Bowl.
04:11But that doesn't matter for teams that are in the division.
04:14In the division, those teams are looking at, you know what?
04:18That's the guy we need to beat.
04:20We need to beat Kyle Shanahan.
04:22And in the wake of that Super Bowl loss against the Chiefs, what did the Seahawks do?
04:27They went and got, hey, who was that dude that picked off Brock Purdy four times on Christmas?
04:33Who's their coach?
04:34Oh, it's Mike McDonald.
04:35Let's get him.
04:37We're going to bring him in here because we need to crack the Kyle Shanahan code.
04:43They did it.
04:45So now the shoe's on the other foot.
04:47And that's what this offseason is.
04:49Is now Kyle Shanahan needs to crack the code of this Seattle Seahawks defense.
04:56And doing it with 450 touches for Christian McCaffrey is no longer an option.
05:01I want you to listen to not only what he says, but how he says it after the game.
05:06Christian McCaffrey.
05:07This was one of the hardest years of my life and everything that happened to me last year and kind of had to overcome a lot of odds.
05:15And from the time January 1st happened, I was rehabbing and working my butt off every single day.
05:21You know, my wife went through it.
05:24You know, there was not a lot of time off.
05:27And so, you know, again, I think it's obviously we're not proud of the way it ended.
05:31But when I look back at all the people that helped me out and the people that were with me every step of the way and believed in me when a lot of people did.
05:38And I appreciate that and really grateful for my family, my friends and everybody in that locker room.
05:43And but again, it's just hard to process everything right now.
05:45Right now it just sucks to lose.
05:47But, you know, go hang out with those guys and on the plane and process it how we will.
05:53Sounds like he's on the verge of tears.
05:54Yeah, dude's a freaking warrior.
05:56He left it all out there.
05:57And if you want to count targets into his overall workload, he was almost at 500 for the regular season.
06:04He was up about 480.
06:05I think I saw fourth, fourth highest number all time.
06:08And if you want to look at what those players do the next year, please don't because it's not great.
06:13And you saw it from Saquon Barkley last year, a huge workload.
06:17And the next year was a little bit of a step back.
06:19And it's natural, especially when you have a player who's over 30.
06:22The regression is coming.
06:23The regression is here.
06:25And if you look at the year that they had running the ball, they were 24th this year in total rush yards in the regular season.
06:33And Shanahan traditionally is there's a third, a couple of sevenths.
06:37There's a second when they went to the Super Bowl.
06:39They couldn't run it this year.
06:40And yet you kept trying and you kept trying with McCaffrey because Brian Robinson Jr. didn't get to play very much.
06:48And, you know, Jordan James finally got to carry the ball.
06:51So you put all your eggs in the McCaffrey basket.
06:54You won 12 games and a playoff game.
06:56So, yeah, it worked, quote unquote.
06:58But now what?
07:00Now what?
07:01So every year I think you go into an offseason and there's always a list.
07:06There's always a list of things.
07:07But I tend to try to circle one as like that's the thing.
07:12So last year when the Niners went 6-11, a lot of people had all their whatever takes, their Debo Samuel stuff and Jake Moody and Brock Purdy without the Avengers and all of those takes.
07:25There was one thing that I locked in on as why the 49ers were so bad.
07:30And it was another one of those metrics that you just read where instead of being in the top 10 or even the top 15, the Niners were sitting more down toward like 25th or 30th.
07:40And it was their run defense.
07:42Yep.
07:43Flat out their run defense.
07:45The Niners knew it.
07:46What'd they do with their first three draft picks?
07:48They're like, we'll take an interior defensive lineman followed by an interior defensive lineman followed by an interior defensive lineman.
07:54That's what we're doing.
07:55Because our run defense sucked.
07:58Sucked out loud.
08:01The one thing I am circling for this offseason is now the run game on the offensive side of the football.
08:09This is Kyle flipping Shanahan we're talking about.
08:13And you can't run the ball.
08:16You can't get third and one followed by you can't get fourth and one.
08:21Yeah.
08:21Your last name's Shanahan.
08:23And you had to run some tricky option pitch from the fullback to the halfback on the short side.
08:28You can't tell me that's what he wants to do.
08:30He's sitting there looking at a defensive line that he knows is better than his interior offensive line.
08:37So that's a multi-pronged fix.
08:39It's not the running back's fault.
08:41But your running back, while great, is getting older.
08:45He is not as bursty and as effective as he used to be.
08:48But your interior offensive line is ineffective against a division foe.
08:55They built themselves to stop your run game.
08:59And they did it.
09:01But they have achieved it.
09:03And it's a problem.
09:04And now you need to go back to the drawing board and figure that out.
09:08So for me, the circle is around the interior offensive line and finding Christian McCaffrey a mate.
09:15I know Olivia Coupo, but he needs another mate.
09:20He needs a backfield mate to do this with him, a la what the Lions do, Jameer Gibbs, David Montgomery.
09:27There needs to be fresher legs, multiple styles, somebody else who can also catch the ball out of the backfield just like him.
09:35That is what puts this offense, because it largely was on track this year, but not against the Seahawks.
09:41No, and not on the ground.
09:43You're right about that part of it.
09:44And, you know, when the Niners run it more than they pass it, they tend to be a very good offense.
09:49And I'm less concerned about who runs alongside McCaffrey.
09:52I'm more concerned with who can actually create the holes and block, because you go back just a couple of years, 2022, when they were seventh in the league in total rushing.
10:02You had CMC go for 746, Wilson for 468, Mitchell 279, Jordan Mason, the rookie 258.
10:10You had actual people, you had a stable of backs.
10:14And this year you had McCaffrey, 80% of the carries, and then you had Brian Robinson get some.
10:20And beyond that, nobody else carried the ball.
10:22So even if you go to the early years of CMC as a 49er, you always had at least one or two other guys.
10:29And then you had Debo.
10:30And even last year you had Garendo go for 420 yards.
10:34And then this year, zero.
10:36Mason last year went for 789.
10:38And then he's gone.
10:39So for me, it's less about finding a guy to carry the ball.
10:43It's more about finding the people up front who can create the holes.
10:46I don't disagree with you, but I am very, very taken by what you just pointed out.
10:53450 touches.
10:54He not coming back bursty next year.
10:57Right.
10:58Listen to the man.
10:59He sounds absolutely emotionally, physically, spiritually exhausted.
11:06And I know that the next game is still eight months away.
11:10But that's not the point.
11:11The data is clear.
11:13You don't have a year like this and then come back and be amazing, especially on the other side of 30 at the running back position.
11:21And we're talking about the Shanahan offense.
11:24They have got to run the ball at a more effective clip next year than they did this year.
11:31And yes, there are multiple things they need to do to make that happen.
11:35But that's my circle.
11:36That's my circle this year as to what needs to really, really be better next year.
11:41Well, and also you need to be able to get more of a downfield passing offense.
11:46And I mean, Ricky Pearsall, sure, he'll come back in his third year.
11:50And I don't know if that's going to be his final year or I don't know what's going to happen with Ricky Pearsall.
11:55But he's got to be a guy who can play 17 games, a guy who can get up there and get 80 or 90 catches and be the dude.
12:02Because Juwan Jennings is a free agent and I think they should bring him back.
12:06But I don't know what the price will be.
12:08And beyond that, you've got Demarcus Robinson.
12:11He'll be back fine.
12:12And other than that, you've got young, unproven wide receivers.
12:16You need a lot of help in that area.
12:18And also, George Kittle, if he's able to come back in October, fine.
12:24Maybe it's November.
12:25We don't know when he's coming back.
12:26So you need to find another George Kittle.
12:29You need to find another tight end who can go out there and be somewhat of a threat.
12:33So you start to look at your team and you need more things than you have draft picks for.
12:38So how do you look back on the season and where do you put your circle as far as what needs to be better for the 49ers next year?
12:47We're taking calls all afternoon.
12:49888-957-9570 is the number.
12:52Let's go to Dino in the city.
12:54Hi, Dino.
12:54Thanks for calling.
12:55Hey, guys.
12:58Thanks for taking my call.
12:59Excuse the background noise.
13:01Just delivering for Amazon here.
13:04But thanks for making my day fun after that brutal loss.
13:08Let's start with what's the circle.
13:11I think everyone said it, so I'll echo it.
13:14You have those same positions.
13:15O-line for sure.
13:16D-line for sure.
13:19Lockdown corner if possible or a free safety.
13:22Love that, Dibs.
13:22I think really the ingredients are we need to get younger, faster, tougher, and more dynamic at those positions.
13:33I think that's what we were missing this season.
13:35Obviously, no D-bo, no IU can, gosh, man, all the injuries, right?
13:40So I think that's really, those are the dogs we need to look for in the draft, hopefully, and in pre-agency if we can free the money.
13:48And then, you know, how do I look at this season?
13:50I think just overall, man, we overachieved for sure, given the injuries.
13:57But, you know, that being said, I was so proud of the season, and it felt like a magical ride.
14:04And so when I do think about it, a little bittersweet, maybe prisoner of the moment, this might go up there as one of the more painful non-Super Bowl losses, Super Bowl playoff losses we've had.
14:15Like, and I'm a little old, but, you know, I'm thinking 49-3, the Giants in the 80s.
14:20I'm thinking got walloped by the Bears one season, losing in Seattle, I don't know, five, ten years ago, whenever that last Seattle loss was.
14:31So I'm going to look at this season as just kind of the season of what could have been, you know, man, what could have been if we didn't have these injuries to our anchors?
14:39What could have been if McCaffrey catches that pass in the last game of the season, we get home field?
14:46What could have been if they don't run it back on the opening damn drive of the playoff game?
14:51And what could have been if, you know, maybe the refs don't gift Seattle another fourth-and-one defense attempt by taking away that play on that botched call?
15:02Yeah, I know the trick play looked stupid that we ended up running.
15:06But, again, just kind of what could have been when I get nostalgic, you know, 10, 20 years from now.
15:10But overall, you know, happy with how the season went and, you know, looking forward to hopefully circling up, finding these, you know, gritty, tough, younger, faster players next season.
15:19So thanks, guys.
15:20Okay, Dino, make sure you take a really good picture of that package that you're about to leave at the door.
15:24Yeah, thanks so much.
15:25Appreciate that.
15:26You know, a lot of interesting stuff in there.
15:29I always find, as far as non-Super Bowl losses, I find the near misses to be way harder to take than 41-6.
15:39Agreed.
15:40Like Kyle Williams, for example.
15:42Kyle Williams, Richard Sherman tipping the ball away.
15:44Or, hell, Joukowsky Tartt in L.A.
15:47Those are the ones that stick in my craw.
15:49Right, right.
15:50I mean, on Saturday night, put aside the opening kickoff that they returned for a touchdown,
15:55you got absolutely motorboated in every face.
15:59They were better than you on offense and on defense,
16:02and you really had very little opportunity to come out and still win that game.
16:07And I think about, you know, the second drive where you're down 17-3,
16:11if you're able to somehow keep that going and get a touchdown, that's fine.
16:15Okay, you get field goal, you're down 17-6, but then it was the next drive,
16:18and he was mentioning the third and one.
16:20I didn't think that it was a bogus call, the defensive holding.
16:24I mean, it was holding.
16:25It didn't have to be called.
16:26No, I think he's talking about the timeout that they gave Seattle that ticks Kyle off so much.
16:31And that, I mean, again, that's a tough one because, to me, watching the replay,
16:35he clearly asked for it before the snap,
16:38and then the side judge has to go in and, you know, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet,
16:41and blow it dead.
16:42It's just, there's no easy way for that to get communicated.
16:45As a fan, I have no idea what to think about that.
16:48I just saw Kyle really mad.
16:50Yep.
16:50So, as a fan, you're like, well, that's my coach here.
16:53I'm ticked off.
16:54Like, I can't see who's doing what on the sideline or whatever.
16:58I don't know what happened.
16:59I just know that Kyle was very red-faced, and that was about as animated as you're ever going to see Kyle Shanahan.
17:05Well, except when he's talking to Renardo Green.
17:07That's what I mean, the whole day.
17:08Renardo Green, the refs, like, Kyle, that was, you know, some saliva.
17:12Well, and the expression that he gave after the opening kickoff gets returned for a touchdown,
17:16his expression was almost like, wow.
17:19You got to be bleeping me.
17:21Right.
17:21I mean, you can't get mad in that moment because stuff happens and stuff,
17:25but, you know, you go down 7-0 after 11 seconds, he's thinking, well, that's not what we wanted.
17:30And we keep going on the phones.
17:31One other really quick point I want to make, I keep hearing people say the Niners need to get younger,
17:36and I just, I get it.
17:38I understand where you're coming from because you're focused on a few players,
17:42especially those who got hurt.
17:44You're focused on George Kittle.
17:46You're focused on Trent Williams.
17:47Maybe you're thinking about Christian McCaffrey.
17:51Outside of that, do you have any idea how freaking young the 49ers were on defense this year?
17:56They were probably the youngest defense in football.
17:59They were babies.
18:01Babies once Nick and Fred leave the field.
18:04So, no, I don't want them to get younger.
18:06I like them to get better.
18:08That's it.
18:09I'd like them to get better.
18:10Get better.
18:11Draft better.
18:12And, I mean, I don't want to do the Seattle comp all day, but it's fresh on my mind.
18:16And you go back to 2022, which is when the Niners did not have a first-round pick
18:20because of the Trey Lance debacle.
18:23And Seattle takes Charles Cross, No. 9.
18:26That's their tackle.
18:27Boy Mafe, Kenneth Walker III, that's your first three picks.
18:30They're all still there.
18:31They all contribute.
18:32The next year, it's Devin Witherspoon, who is No. 5 overall, lockdown corner.
18:38Jackson Smith and Jigba, their other first-round pick.
18:41You got Charbonnet in the second round.
18:43And then Byron Murphy last year, first-round pick.
18:47Christian Haynes, A.J. Barner.
18:49Seattle's draft has been awesome.
18:51They've found guys, and they've hit on guys Gray Zabel last year.
18:55And Eamon Worry, who stepped in, and he was a very impactful player this year.
18:59He was a second-rounder, so it's not so much that the Niners have to get younger.
19:03They have to get better players in the draft.
19:06And there's no doubt they, like, the table has been flipped on them.
19:09Again, like, tucked into the start of all of this is a compliment to Kyle Shanahan.
19:14Seattle built this entire team to beat him, and they freaking did it.
19:20Great job, Seattle.
19:22Okay, Kyle, your move.
19:24Your move.
19:25This is the puzzle now.
19:26This is your division, mate, and you just laid it all out.
19:29They're young, and they're ready.
19:32And unless they have major injuries, they're going to be a problem.
19:35You got to go figure out the Rubik's Cube.
19:38And this is what happens in the NFL.
19:40Right.
19:40And good coaches are sustainable in figuring these puzzles out.
19:45That's the puzzle this offseason.
19:46And Seattle has a clear-cut identity, which is, you know, defensive-minded head coach.
19:50So we're going to draft a lot of great defensive players.
19:53You brought in Sam Darnold.
19:54You have two good running backs, although one now has a torn ACL,
19:57and he will not play in this weekend's conference championship game.
20:00But you've got a great receiver.
20:02You have a good tight end.
20:03And also, you have a fullback, which is what Kyle loves.
20:07Lucky, lucky.
20:07Yeah.
20:08You got Oots as your fullback.
20:10And so now, Juszczyk is getting older, and Kittle is hurt, and he's getting older.
20:15And so, you know, it's not going to be a one-year fix to go out there and, you know,
20:19find 15 guys who are going to fit 15 holes you have.
20:22But you've got to start.
20:24A in San Mateo.
20:26What's up, A?
20:26What you doing?
20:28Hey, man.
20:29Thanks for taking my call, guys.
20:30You know, I agree.
20:32The defense is young.
20:34The one thing I realized that they did not do well was get off block.
20:39There was not enough hand fighting.
20:40And it just gave everybody time, or it gave Darnold time to find open receivers.
20:46Second thing, I think, is we need an O-line that can hold up against a pass rush like Seattle
20:53or even the Cardinals.
20:55You know, the Cardinals, despite their horrible record, when they come to play us, man,
20:59they come for keeps.
21:00So I think you're right.
21:02It's a chess game, and it's our move.
21:04And I think we need to coach up our D-line guy to get off blocks.
21:09We need a nastier O-line and a true number one receiver because Pierce Hall can't stay
21:16on the field.
21:18And it's like one game he's in for three plays, and then he's out for two games.
21:21And then he comes back.
21:22It's just like we need somebody who can be out there for 17 games.
21:25I like, yeah.
21:26Other than that, that was.
21:28No, go ahead.
21:28Sorry.
21:29Finish up.
21:30Yeah, sorry about that.
21:30I just felt that was, you know, that was a punch in the face at least 10 times.
21:37Like, shots were fired, and we need to reply in kind.
21:41Because if we don't, we're going to be in a bad situation for a couple years with the
21:45picks that Seattle got.
21:47And they're all really good.
21:49No question.
21:50Hey, thanks so much.
21:51Like, yeah, you know, when people talk about the lack of depth, and I'm sitting there going,
21:55well, a bunch of people got hurt.
21:56You still won 13 football games.
21:57But the one area where I do see it, let's talk about that defensive line.
22:01You can't have that kind of a trickle-down effect when one person who now has torn an ACL
22:06three times in his life, when he goes out, you're like, that's it.
22:10We can't rush the passer ever again.
22:12And that's what happened.
22:14Like, Bryce Huff is a good complementary player if Nick Bosa's in there.
22:17But the second Nick Bosa goes out, Bryce Huff is not capable of being that guy.
22:21And so, like, that's where, to me, the depth really, really bit them.
22:27It was like one guy goes down, and now this entire position group is totally ineffective.
22:34And that position group affects the other position group on defense.
22:38And so the whole thing is just ineffective.
22:41That can't be.
22:43So there's going to have to be different options on how to rush the passer with or without Nick Bosa.
22:49And you've got to find some real boy dogs in the interior as well.
22:52And you watch that game on Saturday.
22:54And Byron Murphy, first-round pick a couple years ago.
22:57And Leonard Williams, these guys are in there wrecking the game from the inside out.
23:01So you've got the edge guys coming in hard.
23:03And you've got the interior defensive linemen also controlling it as well.
23:06Right now, the Niners don't have either group.
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