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00:00And so, so kind to be on with us.
00:02Steve Young joins Willard and Dibbs.
00:05How are you, bud?
00:06Marcus, how are you, buddy?
00:07I'm grateful.
00:08I'm sorry to put you off, man.
00:10It was muddy.
00:11It was all insanity.
00:12But here we are.
00:12You're right.
00:13We got it in.
00:14We're good.
00:15No, man.
00:16Always.
00:17Anytime, whenever we're here.
00:20And how's this all hitting you?
00:21Like, normally, Super Bowl and San Francisco in the same sentence means that the Niners
00:26are about to play.
00:27But, you know, not this time.
00:29So, how's this whole week just been hitting you?
00:32I go back to January 4th when we had the Seahawks in town for the home field advantage game.
00:39And knowing that it's, like, we've been there.
00:42And we know what those games are like.
00:44They're playoff games at the end of the season that decide everything.
00:47And I just, it was a revelation in the wrong way, right?
00:51It was a revelation of the Seahawks and who they had become.
00:55And in today's game, you throw teams together in free agency.
00:58You go to summer camp.
00:59You have a couple of weeks.
01:00And then you start playing.
01:01And then it kind of unfolds for you.
01:04Who you are kind of comes out of Halloween and then Thanksgiving.
01:07And then by Christmas, you're like.
01:09And then sometimes it just takes the whole season to go to make a statement.
01:12Like, this is actually who we are.
01:14And I think that game was the difference for me on why I'm not thinking about the 49ers.
01:20I'm, like, forlorn about it.
01:22Because what I witnessed that day was a team in Seattle that had developed into something
01:29that was going to be trouble for everybody else.
01:32And that's not just the 49ers, but everybody this year.
01:34So I guess that's how I felt about it.
01:37So I'm not, oh, one play here, one play there.
01:40It could have been us.
01:41It could have been us.
01:42It's like, nah, we had it.
01:44It was amazing what happened.
01:46But I'm not belaboring it.
01:48Because I think the Seahawks are all of that right now.
01:50And I just got to give it to them.
01:52Yeah, you have to.
01:53I mean, based on the way that game went, opening kickoff for the touchdown.
01:57And then from there, it was just a complete blowout.
01:59So not forlorn.
02:00I'm with you, Steve.
02:01But when you look at the state of where the Niners are, how much better do they have to
02:06get between now and September to be able to hang with Seattle?
02:10Yeah, you feel it, right?
02:12Healthy, number one.
02:14And we got to get faster.
02:17That was one thing that was pretty clear to me.
02:18It's just a pure speed.
02:21And, you know, great defense, which we've seen us play in 19 and 23 and other years.
02:27They had that kind of, it was a smothering kind of feel.
02:30It's like everybody was fast.
02:32Everyone was fast.
02:32It was like, everything was limited.
02:34The space was limited.
02:35There was very little to do.
02:37Four guys were bringing heat alone.
02:39That's when you're really great in the NFL is when you got four guys who can bring it
02:43and you can do all kinds of cool stuff behind it and just kind of smother the thing.
02:46And they were playing really compatible defensive football.
02:49So in that way, we've got to get faster and we've got to get younger and we've got to get,
02:54you know, better.
02:56I mean, we just got to get better.
02:57But I think, but again, we won't know.
03:01It's like the season gets thrown together.
03:03We'll get some guys.
03:03We'll get some draft picks.
03:05Our draft picks from this year will get a little healthier and, you know, they'll improve.
03:08And like by the end of next year, there's no reason why we can't be where these guys are.
03:15Like we just got to, it's got to just develop.
03:17And it's not magic, but it's also getting the right people and staying healthy and getting young people to start.
03:24I said last in the summertime, you got to be wearing someone else's jersey by the end of the year that you don't even know about.
03:29And so who are we wearing for the 49ers that we didn't wear in the summer that we're wearing today?
03:34Someone might have bought a Matt Jones jersey possibly.
03:38You know, someone might have an upton stout jersey.
03:40I mean, that's possible, you know, like, but, but not enough, not enough of those guys showed up this year.
03:47And so we need five guys next year, whether it's guys this year that develop even more or guys we get in the draft or someone that we're wearing their jersey at the end of the season next year that we weren't wearing them in the summertime.
04:00That's the, that's how you transition in the NFL is you get those kinds of plays.
04:04That's what's happened with Seattle.
04:05That's how it's been done.
04:06Steve Young with us here on Withered and Dibs, 95.7 The Game.
04:11So, Steve, when I listen to you say all that and the fact that this could be really good as soon as next year, like, I wonder how you answer it when people say, hey, is the Niners window, is their Super Bowl window closing?
04:25Like, how do you feel about that?
04:30We're not loaded.
04:31Look, 23, we were loaded, as loaded as you can be.
04:35And that's just, it happens every once in a while.
04:38It happens once in a generation.
04:40And for a lot of teams, it never happened.
04:41It's never happened in five generations.
04:43So it's rare, right, in that way.
04:45And 23 was that season.
04:47So that's just a fact.
04:48The window's wide open.
04:49Go jump through it.
04:50And unfortunately, it didn't happen.
04:52So the window's kind of, you know, kind of slides back and forth.
04:57And I think every season in today's NFL, with the coaching we have, the leadership we have, the owner we have, you know, we've got building blocks.
05:06We're going to be in the mix.
05:07So how I feel about the window is it's half open, we'll call it.
05:11Like, and it can slide one way or another based on what we've got to find young people, young players on the rookie contracts that are top 10 in the league, you know, above average in the league, and find 10, 15 of them.
05:25Then all of a sudden, we've transitioned from 23 when we were completely loaded, and we've reloaded.
05:31That's what Seattle has done.
05:32That's what the Rams have done.
05:34And that's what we've got to do.
05:35And so it's not done yet.
05:37So we'll just leave the Super Bowl window half open because we've got building blocks.
05:43We've got fundamentals.
05:44And we just need help.
05:47And we need it through the draft.
05:48That's how you do with rookie contracts.
05:49That's how, you know, you get 10 guys that you love that you're going to have to pay someday, but you got them for five years at, you know, minimal salary.
05:58That's it.
06:00That's what we have to do.
06:01How much is Brock Purdy the stick that holds the window open?
06:05You remember those old windows, Steve, that wouldn't stay up by themselves, so you had to cram half a broomstick in there?
06:10I know what you're talking about.
06:11It's Brock Purdy.
06:12That's why you want to take the air conditioner.
06:13That's right.
06:14You had to take the air conditioner out for service, and you had to put something in it to hold it.
06:19Yeah, I'm with you on that.
06:20So is Brock Purdy that half a broomstick to hold this window open?
06:24There's a lot.
06:24It's multiple facets.
06:26I was with Trent Williams yesterday.
06:28That's a big stick.
06:30I mean, it's amazing to me that we need to say this.
06:33It's amazing in the last six, seven years of the 49-hour history that we had two Hall of Fame players become available and choose to come to San Francisco.
06:43Like, Christian McCaffrey and Trent Williams, two Hall, I mean, first ballot Hall of Fame players, just say, hey, who's out there?
06:54I'm going to go to San Francisco.
06:56Like, 31 other teams.
06:58They could choose.
06:59They chose us.
07:00We chose them.
07:01So we have pillars of Hall of Fame players that are, you know, and as they age, it gets harder, but we still have that rootedness in us.
07:12And so if you go to Brock, Brock, they're all part of, you know, making it so that it's halfway open, right?
07:18And as we age, it gets harder.
07:21As we don't get younger players on rookie contracts, it gets harder.
07:27So we don't get the speed that we need.
07:29A receiver, we've got to get faster in a lot of places.
07:32So, look, again, like, you can take it.
07:36It's like a glass half full, half empty.
07:37I just said it was half open.
07:39Take whatever way you want to.
07:41I'm always half full, right?
07:42I always believe with Kyle and with what we've got and who we are, we can do it.
07:50And, you know, but I guess we'll let the draft come in.
07:55We won't know in the draft.
07:56We'll have a bunch of guys.
07:57But then in the summertime by Halloween, are they developed?
08:01Are we talking about names that are new and they're crushing it?
08:04That's what's happening in Seattle.
08:06You think about what they've transitioned.
08:07Who's that defense?
08:08Who's on it?
08:09Do you even know a lot of the names?
08:11And it's like, hey, that's a good job.
08:14And Jackson Smith and Jigler, dude, is going to be a Hall of Fame player if he gets the right, you know,
08:19if he stays with a great team that can throw in the ball, that dude is killer.
08:24That's a, you know, that's when you draft Jerry, I'm not saying it's Jerry Rice,
08:28but it's like, dude, it's when you draft Justin Jefferson or you draft, like, that,
08:33you want to know how you go for Super Bowls?
08:36You get guys like that.
08:38Steve Young with us here on Withered and Tibbs 95.7 The Game.
08:41All right, are you having a hard time getting out of bed every day
08:45because of practicing next to that substation all those years?
08:49I don't know, not that I know of, but, you know, I don't, I don't,
08:54you have to just say to yourself, is it possible?
09:00Like, because it's been there since we joined now.
09:02I suppose, I hear that the substation's gotten more and more powerful
09:07and more and more EMFs thrown off and all the rest of it,
09:10but I don't know, it makes you just kind of want to get to the bottom of it.
09:13I don't know.
09:14Man, geez, something's got to explain it.
09:16It's crazy.
09:18So, I mean, like, what should the Niners do?
09:21Because I think you kind of speak for many, not so much in, hey, I believe this,
09:27but it's more like, hey, what we're talking about is so important,
09:31don't you kind of need to at least check every box and really get to the bottom of it?
09:37So, one of the ideas, I just, you know, look, 10 o'clock at night, I'm like, what would you do?
09:46I don't understand the physics of it, but it feels like, you know, I can put a box,
09:51I can put my phone in a box and I can kill all EMFs in this box, whether it's lead,
09:56I don't know, is it lead?
09:57I don't know what it is, but it's like, like, is there a 15-foot wall that could go up
10:02and just block it?
10:04Like, is that, I'm too stupid to know how EMFs work, but, like, if it's 50 feet high,
10:10could you block it so that it doesn't come across?
10:13Like, I don't know, it seems like it's reasonable to think about it.
10:16And then you don't have to, if you could just end it,
10:18then you don't have to wonder about what to do about it.
10:20Just cut it off.
10:21I don't know, just a crazy idea from the cheap seats.
10:24I have no idea.
10:26Sounds good to me.
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10:39Yeah, just a couple hours left until we creep up toward the games.
10:43And, Steve, I mean, a couple days, it'll be the Super Bowl here.
10:46I wonder what you think about New England versus Seattle when they actually tee it up
10:51and all the talk is done.
10:52Who do you think has the upper hand in this one?
10:56You know, I've tipped my hand here.
11:00New England, you know, they had a last-place schedule.
11:05Won 14 games on a last-place schedule.
11:07Nothing to sneeze at.
11:08It was amazing.
11:09Like, I'm not going to take it any away from it.
11:11But the tests that you have playing in the NFC West
11:14and then developing what they've done in Seattle
11:17and what they looked like at the end of the season,
11:19to me, Denver is the other defense that looks like this.
11:22They went and played and, look, I know it snowed,
11:24but it was 10 points that they scored.
11:26I just don't know.
11:27Unless, look, I can see a way for the Patriots to win.
11:32If Sam, the ball starts to fall on the ground,
11:35a couple picks and quick scores and special teams and, you know,
11:40because to me, you've got to score, you know, Super Bowl like this,
11:42you've got to score 28.
11:44And, like, against the Seattle Seahawks,
11:46who's going to score 28 right now with the way they're playing?
11:49And the Rams could because I think they're that guy.
11:54But I just don't know that I'm ready to say that the Patriots are there.
11:59And if they are good, then let's play.
12:02But I'm just not sure.
12:04And so, to me, odds are right now that I'm leaning towards what my eyeballs saw
12:08with the Seahawks this last couple months.
12:12Steve Young joining us live in the Odyssey Sports Zone,
12:14a radio role presented by Tide.
12:15If it's got to be clean, it's got to be Tide.
12:17Hey, how's this whole Rise of the Niners thing going for you?
12:21I went to the red carpet and saw the first episode,
12:25and I thought it was great, but I have not seen the rest of it.
12:28Oh, really?
12:28So I was like, you know, I sat forward,
12:33and, you know, everyone wants to look for lots of drama.
12:37And a lot of times it's not nearly as dramatic as it seems,
12:39but I haven't – so everyone I'm hearing from, it's great, it's great,
12:43but I haven't seen it.
12:44Interesting.
12:45Yeah, I'm looking forward – I'm sort of waiting for the Super Bowl to happen
12:48before I fully dive in.
12:51But, yeah, that drama.
12:53Like, Steve, you know what I think a lot of 49er fans still feel is like that –
12:59and you've chronicled it so well, all of the Joe and Steve stuff.
13:04But people, I think, when they hear Joe talk,
13:06they still sort of feel like he still feels it today.
13:12And so I was just kind of curious about, like,
13:15to what level the history of all of this is just accepted now
13:20as part of everybody's story.
13:23Or if there is still, you know, something there.
13:27Look, at this point, it's a – the NFL's a tough place.
13:33It's a brutal place.
13:35They always say the NFL stands for not for long.
13:37Like, it's just a – and so you can't – you almost can't control it.
13:45It's like it's that intense, tough of a spot.
13:48And so we all kind of just found ourselves in the spot that we're in,
13:52and we just – like, you've got to claw out your survival, right?
13:57And as I've told everyone, we both clawed it out as best we possibly could
14:02under very weird circumstances.
14:06So, like, what else?
14:08I don't know what else – I mean, there's no drama in interpersonal drama.
14:12There's no – we never – I've told you this a thousand times.
14:15There's not enough fights.
14:16We didn't scream at each other.
14:17But it was always awkward, and I've said that a thousand times, because it was.
14:22It was hard.
14:23And it was like, oh, I wish – you know, you can both – I wish he wasn't here.
14:28Like –
14:30Uh-oh.
14:33There we lose.
14:34Oh, there we go.
14:35And Bill Walsh is the one that said it towards the end of his life.
14:39You know, I got the best out of both of you, and I've said this many times.
14:42We both wanted to punch him when he said it.
14:43But the 49ers in that way probably did, so they got the best of both of us.
14:50And that's all – any other drama that comes out of it is just whatever.
14:55I don't even know what to say about it.
14:57Whatever.
14:58Yeah, I mean, it's a revisionist history in many ways.
15:00And I think about modern football now where Sam Darnall was a Niner for a year,
15:05and then he went elsewhere.
15:06If it would have happened now, Steve, you wouldn't have been on the bench for four
15:10or five years.
15:11They would have, you know, dealt you for a second and a fourth or something.
15:14Well, for sure.
15:15Not a question.
15:17And at the time, it was, like, so obvious there were very few places that
15:21quarterbacks could truly thrive that you wanted to stay and play in places
15:26that – where you knew you could thrive.
15:28And so in that way, you know – and then you just didn't – you weren't as mobile.
15:32I couldn't just demand – I mean, like, it just weren't as mobile.
15:35And so we spent six years together.
15:38I played two.
15:38We played four.
15:39And, well, what other drama do you want?
15:44That's it.
15:44That's it.
15:45We did everything we could.
15:46Yeah.
15:47Yeah.
15:47It's kind of just like Brock and Mack now, huh?
15:52I don't know.
15:52It's not – it's a different era.
15:55It's a different era, a different time.
15:57Yeah, I'm kidding, Steve.
15:58But what should the Niners do with Mack?
16:02Shop him?
16:02Keep him?
16:03What do you think?
16:04I come from a place where if you don't have toxic people in the quarterback room
16:09and there's some creative tension, the creative tension actually benefits the team.
16:14And it brings out the best of both people.
16:16If you take that as a theory, the working theory that we had, that if I were –
16:21I would say, no, you don't let – I mean, if you – unless you can get something
16:25that you know is going to really help this football team,
16:28having those two guys in the quarterback room looking at each other every day,
16:31pushing each other every day.
16:33I mean, Brock came back from injury and it looked to me like he looked like he wanted
16:37to get on a heater pretty quick, you know, because he – to me, like, it's all human nature.
16:43Mack's out there playing well and starting people to whisper.
16:46So it's like you've got to – it's like it's back and forth.
16:48You've got to – and so it's the nature of the NFL quarterback landscape.
16:54And so to me, you've got two guys that support each other, that get along,
16:58and are really good and, like, why not?
17:02Why would you be afraid of the creative tension?
17:05It's not going to be toxic.
17:07I don't worry about toxic tension with these two guys.
17:09It's not going to be that way.
17:10So the creative tension, yeah, I'm up for that.
17:15All right, Steve.
17:16We've got to do our fun questions on the way out the door.
17:19We'll pick a Snooper Bowl.
17:21We've got our Snooper Bowl here with just kind of fun questions.
17:23We'll pick one for you since you're not on site.
17:26And it is, what is your go-to karaoke song?
17:30Steve Young, have you ever karaoke?
17:33Yeah, my wife.
17:35It's the one from Greece.
17:38Oh, the one that I want?
17:40Yeah, the one I want.
17:41She and I, whenever we've got to go, we've got to – the one that I want.
17:44We're from Greece, and that's our spot.
17:46That's our one.
17:47That's a lot of fast words, Steve.
17:49Steve, you keep up with that thing?
17:52With what?
17:53No, I don't know what you're talking about, man.
17:55It just works for karaoke.
17:57I'm good.
17:58Okay.
17:58That's a good duet, too, you know.
18:00High tempo.
18:00She plays Olivia.
18:01He plays the Travolta.
18:02If you can do it.
18:03We can do it.
18:04You act it all out.
18:05You ham it up, and then no one cares how you sound.
18:09And then it's time for our final question, brought to you by Ghostwood Kitchen in Redwood City.
18:14What is your must-have food item for the big game, Steve?
18:16And this is an important question here.
18:18You know, honestly, anything I think is really big time, if it's really high end, they have
18:25those huge shrimps.
18:27You know what I mean?
18:27The big ones?
18:29You know what I mean?
18:29Yes, yes, I do.
18:30Not some shrimp cell, but the big ones.
18:33Jump up.
18:33That's when I know that I'm at the Four Seasons or something.
18:36I'm like, I'm good.
18:38So I always look for that.
18:40If they don't have that, then it's not big time.
18:42It's not big, huge, giant shrimps.
18:45Like a two-bite shrimp.
18:47You can't even, like, pop the whole thing in.
18:48Yes, otherwise it's not big time.
18:51It's not happening.
18:52Well, if we know anything about Steve Young, it's that you're big time.
18:56Yeah, you know me.
18:58All right.
18:59Okay.
18:59Hey, go down, bro.
19:00You know me.
19:01I'm always looking for someone.
19:03Yeah, big timer.
19:05I was thinking about Lon Simmons today trying to get you all week because he gets away,
19:09and he gets away again, and we finally got you on Friday.
19:14Yeah, that's right.
19:14That's what we did.
19:15I came through.
19:16I came through just in time.
19:18Steve, I was at that game, the thing against the Vikings.
19:23As a kid, I was at that game.
19:25It's like my favorite 49er just fan at the game memory of all time.
19:30Love it.
19:30And I think I remember being embarrassed after the game.
19:37I remember people were talking about, like, I mean, I'm embarrassed.
19:40Because Bill was always saying, look, you can't just run around like a madman.
19:43Like, you've got to become a sophisticated passer, man.
19:45We love the running, but you can't just, like, you know, you can't just be all over the place.
19:50And so here I am, like, all over the place.
19:53And I know Bill said after that run, he's like, yeah, you know, we'd really love you to kind of, like, stay in there.
19:59And, like, you know, and I'm like, Bill, I'm desperate.
20:02Like, leave it alone.
20:03But I remember the embarrassment over the years has turned to more pride, you know,
20:07as people started to appreciate what I thought was kind of embarrassing at the time to something that was actually pretty good.
20:13I mean, your legs gave out at the end.
20:15But, you know, you got there, Steve.
20:18I collapsed.
20:18I legitimately collapsed.
20:20I legitimately collapsed.
20:21So good.
20:22Hey, man, thank you so much.
20:24We love having you on.
20:25Appreciate it.
20:26You guys are the best.
20:27See ya.
20:28See ya.
20:28There he is, the great Steve Young.
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