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00:00The kind of conversations we have on this show.
00:03Ah, there's so much fun.
00:04It is the morning rose.
00:06Sam Lubman in for Joe Spadoni.
00:07Got Joe Shasky here.
00:08We also have Bonte Hill, who's in studio every Tuesday,
00:11presented by ceremony Ford, your Bay Area Ford dealer.
00:15888-957-9570 is the number to call.
00:18Are you trusting the 49ers draft consensus right now?
00:22Why or why not?
00:24I brought this up earlier today, Bonte,
00:26and I think you keep asking the question,
00:28like why is everyone losing their minds over the draft?
00:30And I think it's a couple of things, right?
00:34Forget consensus and board and the actual players that they picked.
00:38Just for a second.
00:39No, no, no, I mean that.
00:40Like, just take it.
00:42Why are Niner fans losing their minds is, I think, the bigger question.
00:46And I went crazy on it this morning because I think, to me,
00:49we've been in this vortex, right?
00:51And what I call it is like the loser vortex where you've won so much,
00:55but yet you haven't won the ultimate prize, that it's a mind blank.
00:59I don't want to swear.
01:00I don't want to swear on radio.
01:01But, like, it's been messy with us.
01:03We've been the bridesmaid over and over and over.
01:06I can't think of any team in any sport that's been this successful
01:11over 15 or so years and not win a title.
01:16Meaning seven NFC Championship games, three Super Bowls,
01:21without winning it once.
01:22And I feel like it's a more difficult, you know, mess up in the mind
01:28than just being awful.
01:29When you're awful, when your team's awful, there's like, yeah,
01:33I'm a Warrior fan.
01:33You guys suck.
01:35Yeah, I know we suck.
01:36You know, you kind of accept it.
01:38No, that's not true.
01:40That's not true.
01:41No, not right now.
01:41I'm talking about back when.
01:42No, because when Chip Kelly was coaching his team and they stunk,
01:46the takes were wild.
01:47Jed York sell the team.
01:49This team can't make a pick.
01:51They're nothing without Eddie D.
01:52They miss Harbaugh.
01:54I mean, it was relentless.
01:55They also moved the team at that time, too, though.
01:57So there was a lot of.
01:58But there's a lot.
01:59The owner anger was a variety of things.
02:01Because the Warriors won 37 games this year.
02:03And look about, think about that dialogue.
02:04No, no, no, but they've won championships.
02:05Which even makes it worse.
02:07No, I just think people are caught in the moment.
02:09And I just look at the Niners situation.
02:11I think, had they won one title over these last couple years,
02:15I just think people would be a little more relaxed.
02:17When Chip Kelly was coaching that team and I started covering the Niners,
02:20there was nobody going to those games.
02:21There was $20 tickets.
02:22And I remember the radio was just like, Jed York was getting crushed.
02:27Parag Varadze was getting crushed.
02:29The Niners were getting crushed.
02:30People were losing their freaking minds.
02:33Losing their minds.
02:35And then Shanahan gets the job.
02:36And this is the limit it says.
02:38They hadn't been to the playoffs in a long time.
02:39Second year, Jimmy gets hurt.
02:42They freaking lose all these games and don't make the playoffs.
02:45And going into 2019, the rhetoric around the 49ers was,
02:49we better win.
02:50We better win and go to the playoffs and this and that.
02:52So I don't agree with that.
02:53When they sucked this tent, people stopped going to the games.
02:57They started crushing everybody.
02:58But now when they're good, that's just the society we're in now.
03:01It's just where we're at right now.
03:03Because fans now have a louder voice.
03:05They have a louder voice.
03:06And you don't think these players and these coaches are reading what is being said about them
03:10or listening to what is being said about them?
03:12It's never been like this before.
03:14So I'm okay with fans having a loud voice.
03:17There's some fans who don't know what the hell they're talking about and think they know everything.
03:21That's where we draw the line.
03:22It's like, wait a minute.
03:23You can't have it both ways.
03:24You can't be mad.
03:25Like, for example, I'm in the chat right now.
03:27People will say, Ponte, would you trade Ricky Pearsall for a third round pick?
03:31Well, my rhetoric is, my reply is this.
03:34If you don't believe they can draft, why don't you try to trade a player who's healthy and productive
03:39and go get a draft pick for a team that can't draft?
03:42Make it make sense.
03:43Make it make sense.
03:44Well, I guess you're hoping at some point they're going to be actually hit on some of these draft picks.
03:48But I think you also hit on something there like trade the guy you took 28th overall just a couple
03:53years ago
03:54a couple years later because he hasn't been as good as you hoped for less value.
04:00Like, I think that that is in part why people are, you know, going nuts on the draft.
04:04Well, you say that they haven't hit on anything.
04:07I didn't say that.
04:08No, not too.
04:08You keep saying that, love, and that they haven't hit on anything in the last three years.
04:12Dominic Poonie's a starting right guard, right?
04:14Well, I acknowledge that Poonie is part of the good ones that they have hit on.
04:17I hope one day that he can be a pro-bowl level player.
04:20In the last three years, though, I mean, your best draft pick has been a right guard.
04:23I don't believe that your best pick over a three-year stretch can be a right guard.
04:27We talk about offensive line all the time.
04:28What are you talking about?
04:29Yeah, you could take a right guard and be good.
04:31Yeah, I know, but, like, that can't be your only great pick, though.
04:34It's not your only good pick.
04:36Renato Green took a step back, but he's the starting corner in this league.
04:40He took a step back.
04:41That's a question mark.
04:42I'm not going to ask a question mark.
04:43I'm talking about, like, actual impact players.
04:45They're like, Dominic Poonie's the only unquestioned impact player getting out of the last three of the draft.
04:49He's a solid piece.
04:50Renato Green, I'm not ready to close the door on him, but I'm also, yeah, like, I'm with you.
04:54I think it's a big year for him.
04:55Right, Malik Mustafa.
04:56Malik Mustafa, huge year.
04:57Big question mark.
04:58Huge year for him.
04:59But he's, Tatum Bethune helped you win some football games last year as a seventh round.
05:04I like Bethune better than Dee Winters.
05:05As a seventh round pick.
05:06Heck, so move it off of Dee Winters, who I thought played well.
05:09But Tatum Bethune is a seventh round pick who wore the Green Dot helmet last year.
05:13All right, now you move to 2025.
05:16Well, hold on.
05:16Is Tatum Bethune, to stop on Tatum Bethune really quick, is he a guy that if everybody's healthy,
05:19is he on the field every play?
05:20Probably not.
05:21No.
05:21But that's okay.
05:22But he's a depth piece.
05:23If you're a seventh round pick, it's a pretty good pick.
05:25Fair enough.
05:25Okay, yeah, you want to get a depth piece there.
05:27But, like, again, I'm looking for impact players you can get out on the field for every single snap.
05:32He's shown more now than what Jennings did his first year or second year.
05:35Like, Jennings took some time, and Jennings was a very important 49er.
05:39If you get impact players in the second, third, fourth, fifth round, those are home run picks.
05:43That doesn't happen.
05:44Well, I expect for a second, third, I expect plug and play.
05:47Plug and play.
05:48And that's what you got here.
05:49All right, last year, Mike Hill Williams, the verdict's out on him.
05:52The verdict's out on him.
05:54Against the run, the dude was nails.
05:57The dude was stonewalling dudes.
05:58But I don't draft a guy I like overall for that, but I hear what you're saying.
06:01That's their philosophy, right?
06:03I know.
06:04And this is where I disagree with that philosophy.
06:06Alfred Collins, it's worked for them, though.
06:08They've won a lot of football games.
06:09Alfred Collins, we can disagree on him, but he's a rotational player.
06:13Plays at the goal line, stuffing the run, had one of the biggest plays of the year for this team.
06:17Nick Martin, a lot of people are high on Nick Martin.
06:19We've never seen him play his name.
06:20A lot of people want to see him play.
06:22I don't know what to think.
06:23Upton Stout, third-round pick.
06:24We just keep going down the list.
06:26Upton Stout.
06:27And now you got Hobbs.
06:28Now you got Hobbs.
06:29Now you got competition at the nickel, right?
06:32And Hobbs may be sliding to safety.
06:34Who the hell knows what they do with Hobbs?
06:36Watkins, question mark.
06:38Jordan James, question mark.
06:39Marquis Siegel.
06:41I like Siegel early on.
06:42Actually, of all the three safeties, I like him better than Jair Brown and Malik Musaf.
06:48If you're asking me.
06:49Fifth-round pick.
06:50Fifth-round pick.
06:51Connor Colby.
06:52Battling for left guard.
06:53We'll see with Connor Colby.
06:54I was high on him last year, but he looked a little overwhelmed at times last year.
06:57At times.
06:58He looks small.
06:58There's time for these drafts to grow and get better.
07:01But I'm saying, like, right now, when I look at, again, compared to your competition,
07:04the NFC West, when I see, you know, the Seahawks hitting Kobe Bryant in the fourth round,
07:08when they're finding Zach Charbonnet in the second round, like, they get Nick Emanwuri
07:12in the second round.
07:13When you got Kyron Williams coming out.
07:15They had a great draft.
07:15They had a great draft.
07:16They had a great draft.
07:17But how many times, go look at the Arizona Cardinals drafts now.
07:19Well, but that's not the litmus test.
07:21You know what I'm saying?
07:21But that, teams have that, Atlanta Falcons, I was looking at this yesterday, like, who's
07:26on the roster now?
07:27And who have they drafted over the last four years?
07:29You guys would be shocked at the turnover in today's NFL.
07:32With the salary cap, with guys on four-year contracts, guys getting cut off the 53-man,
07:38injuries, there's a lot of roster turnover.
07:40It flips left and right.
07:41Now you got coaching changes.
07:42You got GM changes.
07:43You got guys who want their guys in their system.
07:46Guys may not fit their system.
07:47The 49ers, we could disagree with their draft formula.
07:50It has been underwhelming.
07:51I'm not saying that it's been a home run.
07:53Like, I still don't know about this draft.
07:55I have no idea.
07:56But I think over the last two days on this show, and whether I was doing with Granny
08:00or with Loveman, my personal stance has been, they've won a lot of games.
08:04No one's running them out of time.
08:05We're saying, we just need you to draft a little better.
08:07Maybe we do get over the hump.
08:08And I'll say that I'll add on to this.
08:09I think that's fair.
08:10But I don't, see, I don't look at the draft to say in these NFC Championship games.
08:14I look at, damn, Joukowsky Tart dropped the pick.
08:18Jimmy Ward gets called for our sportswear.
08:20Like, Jimmy Garoppolo can't bring it home in the biggest moments in that NFC Championship game.
08:25He can't make a throw to George Kittle in the third play of the offensive game.
08:28That's Jimmy Garoppolo.
08:30We did a lot of shows after that game.
08:34Not once have we brought up, oh, man, the draft really cost us that game.
08:37No, we were thinking quarterback did.
08:39Well, no, I also think during that time from 2017 to 2021, the Niners were absolutely killing it in the
08:44draft.
08:44They were finding all sorts of impact players.
08:4623, 24.
08:46It's just, yeah, the amount of.
08:48The trade-off trade.
08:49Yeah, it was a bad trade.
08:49You lost a lot of picks.
08:50You didn't have it.
08:51It was a bad trade.
08:51It was a horrible trade.
08:52That set them back in the draft a little bit.
08:54And those drafts, here's the other part.
08:56Those drafts look worse because you traded for McCaffrey and you gave up a bunch of middle-round ammunition that
09:01you could have used.
09:02How about this guy?
09:03I'm doing that deal all day, every day for McCaffrey.
09:04We keep talking about reaches.
09:05I remember in real time with Brendan Ayuk.
09:07And that was a draft with CeeDee Lamb, who I love CeeDee Lamb.
09:11We argued about whether or not he was a number one receiver.
09:13I think we know where we stand on that one now.
09:17Henry Ruggs, Jerry Judy.
09:18I got the whole class, so the class is here.
09:20Brendan Ayuk was like, really?
09:23Out of all our receivers who took Brendan Ayuk?
09:25And I know what's happening with Brendan Ayuk now.
09:27It's a disaster.
09:28But damn, Brendan Ayuk was a damn good player.
09:30He was.
09:31Turned out to be a really good player.
09:32But how do you, I mean, like, Jalen Rager's the only guy in this list who has less yards than
09:37Brendan Ayuk has a career right now.
09:39Because I'm looking at it.
09:39Well, Pittman Jr., more yards.
09:41Higgins, more yards.
09:41Well, that's because Ayuk hasn't played.
09:43Jeffers is unreal.
09:44CeeDee, Judy.
09:45I mean.
09:45That's now because he hasn't played in the last two years, basically.
09:48At one point, remember I was doing this.
09:50I know.
09:50At one point, he was doing well.
09:51He was putting up bigger numbers as CeeDee Lamb in a run-first offense.
09:54Yeah, but I never thought he was better than CeeDee.
09:55Yeah, no doubt.
09:56But he was putting up numbers on par with CeeDee Lamb.
09:59I thought he was even.
10:00Now he's been hurt.
10:00So now it's easy to see, okay, yeah, these players are being more productive.
10:04This guy hasn't played in a year and a half.
10:06No, and I.
10:06And he may never play again.
10:08No, and I think.
10:09I consider Ayuk, that was a good pick, all things this year.
10:12I know it's not good right now, but he had some great moments with this team.
10:15He helped this team get to a Super Bowl.
10:16But, Bonte, I hear your point, but at the same time, it's like these drafts,
10:22they're not producing, I think, the kind of results I think you're expecting
10:25these drafts produce.
10:26And by that, I mean, here's an example.
10:28We know they have a need at edge rusher.
10:31We know that they're struggling to get sacks right now.
10:33Now, in the last four drafts, you know, the Rams picks have netted them 90 sacks
10:38in the last four drafts.
10:39The Seahawks have netted 50 sacks in the last four drafts.
10:43Do you know how many sacks the Niners drafts have netted in the last four years?
10:46It has a big up.
10:4714 and a half.
10:47Yeah, they missed on Drake Jackson.
10:49He went out.
10:50He has six sacks, three of them in one game.
10:52But Nick Bosa hasn't been healthy.
10:53They also made a lot of trades for Chase Young and Randy Gregory.
10:56They've tried to go to free agency slash trade route with that other run.
10:59Leonard Floyd, exactly.
11:01They tried to go that route with their edge picks.
11:03Never really gone in depth with the draft here with the edge until last year
11:07with Mike Hill Williams when they were like, look, we've got to stop the run.
11:10We have to stop the run with Mike Hill Williams.
11:12He gets hurt.
11:13So now you get Romello Hite, who's supposed to be this edge,
11:16coming off the edge, who's 25 years old, who's got speed.
11:19We shall see about that.
11:21But Demarcus Lawrence is huge for Seattle, who is a free agent pickup.
11:24So, look, they have not drafted well.
11:27They've still been on par with those teams.
11:28The only thing the Niners haven't done is won that damn Super Bowl.
11:32That's the only thing they've done.
11:33And when you look at those Super Bowls, your premium players didn't play well.
11:38Right?
11:39They still got you there, though.
11:40Your premium players did not play you.
11:41They didn't play well.
11:42Yeah, and I think, again, they did draft very well at the start,
11:44and that is why they got to two Super Bowls.
11:46And I asked Joe this question earlier in the show, like,
11:48what do you think is going to be better, the next four years of Niners football
11:51or the prior four years of Niners football?
11:53When did a draft become everything for team building?
11:56I'm not saying it's everything, but it's a big part of it.
11:57It seems like it.
11:57If we were to break down for the Niners, right, just the Niners,
12:02if you were ranking free agency, trades, and existing roster,
12:08right now, the last couple years, it might be one of their weaknesses.
12:12Drafts?
12:12Yeah.
12:13Yeah, no doubt.
12:14There's been no doubt about that.
12:15Yeah, yeah.
12:16So that's why it's such a big deal.
12:18But they're also leaning on guys they did draft.
12:24But they've been leaning on for a very long time, though.
12:26They're still highly productive.
12:27No, absolutely.
12:28No, they're absolutely, but that's not true.
12:29Is George Kittle not one of the best tight ends when healthy?
12:31Is that going to last forever, though?
12:33Brock Purdy's your quarterback, right?
12:34That was a draft pick.
12:34Brock has been amazing.
12:36That's been a draft pick.
12:37Well, I think we had said today.
12:38Fosa?
12:38No, we had said today that, like, as long as Brock Purdy's upright,
12:41they're probably going to get great production from whoever's wide receiver
12:44and whoever's out there because when he plays, they're good.
12:47It's that simple.
12:47They've held on to guys they've picked,
12:49and they've made true moves to shore up some of the holes.
12:52For every draft pick they missed on, they tried to cover it up,
12:55whether it's a trade for Christian McCaffrey, right?
12:57They can't hit on a running back to save their life.
12:59I get it.
12:59Elijah Mitchell was productive for a season.
13:02They've actually had more success with the undrafted guy when it comes to running back.
13:05Yeah, Raheem, Jeff Wilson, Jr., Breida, Angelica Mason.
13:07Exactly.
13:08So I do like this guy, Kalon Black.
13:10You know, people stand there, reach for him.
13:12No, he was good in college.
13:13Yeah, he runs hard.
13:14But the problem I have with Kalon Black is he doesn't do what a lot of
13:17Shanahan running backs need to do to be successful.
13:19He doesn't catch passes.
13:20You got Christian McCaffrey for that.
13:22You got McCaffrey for that.
13:24That's why he's there.
13:27No running back was catching passes before McCaffrey, right?
13:30Elijah Mitchell was on the team.
13:31Jeff Wilson, Jr. here and there.
13:33They wanted McKinnon to do it.
13:33Right, and McKinnon never stayed healthy.
13:35I think that was a big gap in Jordan Mason's game.
13:37It's why I think the Niners struggled in the red zone a couple years ago
13:39when Mason was the primary running back
13:41because they didn't have that guy who they could dump it down to in the red zone
13:43that McCaffrey's been so effective at.
13:45I'm not saying that these guys have to be McCaffrey,
13:48but I do think a successful running back in the Kyle Shanahan offense
13:51has to be able to get his hands on the ball catching it every now and then.
13:54You got to be able to run the ball between the tackles,
13:56and you got to run tough.
13:57That's what you got to do in Shanahan's offense.
13:59You got to be able to run the ball between the tackles
14:01and take care of the football.
14:02The passing game aspect is an added bonus to this offense
14:05when it comes to Shanahan.
14:07All right, that's just my opinion.
14:08Okay, that's fair, again, when you are a run-first team.
14:10But again, if you're a run-first team.
14:11Why are you looking at it?
14:11No, if you're going to be a run-first team, right,
14:14you need to invest in your offensive line,
14:16whether they've had solid production or not.
14:18The last two years have told you you just haven't run the ball as well
14:21as you've done in years prior.
14:23And so when I look at the last three games of the year,
14:25and I was going through this with Lubman earlier,
14:288 for 23, that was the closeout game week 18 against Seattle.
14:33The win in Philly, 15 for 48.
14:36These are McCaffrey's numbers, and then 11 for 35 in the playoff game.
14:40I don't know.
14:41Is Christian a part of this?
14:43Yeah.
14:43Like, I don't know how much juice is he seeing the field.
14:47I didn't think they had a lot of room to run.
14:49And so to me, upgrading the offensive line and beefing it up
14:52was a huge priority.
14:53When you didn't do it during free agency,
14:55I wanted to see them prioritize it in the draft.
14:58That's why when they waited until the fourth or fifth pick
15:01to make that offensive line selection,
15:04it's like I wanted it to be a higher selection.
15:06Now, that being said,
15:07if this guy gives you Dominic Poonie productivity,
15:10I'll walk it all back.
15:11There you go.
15:11Well, you know what?
15:12Janice Ducker was on the board in Iowa.
15:14I wanted him really, really bad.
15:15They didn't get him.
15:17They believe in Colton McKivitts a lot more than I believe in Colton McKivitts.
15:20I thought McKivitts played well last year, though.
15:22McKivitts did have a good year.
15:23He was solid.
15:23And look, he's one of the few draft picks from a couple years back
15:27that has signed a second contract.
15:28They love Brindle.
15:30And look, that's just not big.
15:32Their philosophy is they're not big on guards.
15:34They've let guards walk out the door.
15:35Every year.
15:36Banks.
15:37Spencer Burford.
15:38Lincoln Tomlinson.
15:39Jaylon Moore, who was a swing guard, swing tackle.
15:41They let him walk out the door.
15:42He didn't even start in Kansas City, for crying out loud.
15:44So they just have a different philosophy than us.
15:47And they believe that Chris Forster, their offensive line coach,
15:49can coach guys up who were drafted in the fourth round, fifth round.
15:53For their system.
15:56Because it is productive, but the last two years it hasn't been as productive.
16:01And part of that is Kittle's been hurt.
16:02Yes.
16:03Yes.
16:04Part of that is McCaffrey's been hurt.
16:05And he doesn't have the same speed.
16:07He doesn't have the same speed.
16:07He's still a good player.
16:08He doesn't have the same speed.
16:10I agree.
16:10Brock Purdy has a play quarterback,
16:12so you're going to defend the 49ers a lot differently.
16:14Yeah, that's true.
16:14You know, you didn't have Deebo's in that out of the lineup.
16:16Brandon Aiyu got hurt.
16:18So two years ago, it was just a wash.
16:21Nothing was going right for them.
16:22Well, it was, yeah, Super Bowl hangover season two.
16:24Last year, up until Kittle got healthy,
16:26you saw them against Atlanta and was like,
16:28wow, they can't run the football.
16:29And they got better.
16:30And then Shrink got hurt.
16:31And then, you know, and obviously,
16:32that was a big deal.
16:33But obviously, you play Seattle twice,
16:34and you play Philadelphia.
16:35They're going to stuff the run.
16:36Those are three of the better run defenses.
16:38So, you know, you got to run the ball better against those teams.
16:41But I think overall, they did a nice job on the ground.
16:43No, I agree with it.
16:44But at the same time, and again, you point out, you know,
16:45a lot of the playmakers they've drafted early on
16:48who have kind of gotten them to this point.
16:49Like, Fred Warner is still playing at an all-pro level.
16:52George Kittle is still playing at an all-pro level.
16:54Chris McCaffrey is still playing at an all-pro level.
16:56But, like, that time is running out.
16:58The clock is ticking on that.
16:59Like, again, Warner's probably got a few years left.
17:01I don't know what Kittle's future looks like.
17:02I don't know what McCaffrey's future looks like.
17:04But, Shask, you bring up what McCaffrey did
17:06in those last three games.
17:07And I saw a running back that just looked like
17:09he had had 400 carries during the year
17:11that was starting to wear him down.
17:12You need to start getting some help in behind these guys
17:15and keep this gravy train running.
17:16That's how good teams stay good.
17:18Also saw it's an offensive line that couldn't open up holes
17:21against Seattle and Philadelphia.
17:22Also saw that Christian McCaffrey had no room to run.
17:25So, did he lack juice?
17:27Or just did he have room to operate?
17:29I thought Purdy was running for his life.
17:31Yeah, they got snuffed out.
17:32I think at some point it's going to be a little bit of both.
17:34Is he losing juice or is he just kind of running for his life
17:36because he has no production?
17:37That's where I think when you see all these misses
17:39at running back here in the draft,
17:41because, again, McCaffrey's covered up a lot of deficiencies
17:44in the running back drafting over the last couple of years.
17:46Again, over the last four drafts,
17:49the guys that they've drafted have netted them 15 rushing touchdowns.
17:5111 of those have been from Brock Purdy.
17:53Like, they're not finding help behind Christian McCaffrey.
17:56It won't be a bit safe for the last two years.
17:58Well, when you have Christian McCaffrey,
17:59you don't need those other guys.
18:00And that's been a...
18:01No, no, no, no, no, no.
18:02I disagree with that now.
18:03Hold on, because I remember that Chicago game
18:06when they had Trey Lance starting.
18:07And what did I do when I came in here?
18:08I said, they need a running back bad.
18:10They cannot draft running backs.
18:12Jordan James cannot get on the field last year.
18:14I keep hearing about...
18:15Niner Nick keeps talking about Isaac Rendo.
18:17I'm like, dude, get over Isaac Rendo.
18:18He has the four touchdowns that he's talking about.
18:20Yeah, I know.
18:20He has a big run against Seattle.
18:22But you have Christian McCaffrey.
18:23When Christian McCaffrey's right,
18:25we want him on the football field.
18:27Yeah, but is there coming a time
18:29where they do need to work in other guys?
18:32Yeah, there is a time now.
18:33That's where we're at.
18:34That's why Kalon Black could be that guy.
18:35I believe...
18:36I kind of like Kalon Black.
18:37I know where they fit them.
18:38Well, he was productive in the end.
18:39Look...
18:39But he was also in a tandem.
18:41You know, he was in a tandem,
18:42but he could be in a tandem here.
18:43Sure.
18:44And that's fine.
18:45If you lessen Christian McCaffrey's load,
18:47that's great.
18:48Rushing load, that is.
18:50Hashtag pause.
18:51Hashtag pause.
18:52You look crazy here.
18:53I would have liked that a couple years ago
18:54is what I'm saying.
18:54Let me ask you this.
18:56Can you name Saquon Barkley's backup?
18:59Can you name...
19:00I know deep down...
19:01You know what I'm saying?
19:02You get where I'm going?
19:04Like, nobody cares about Saquon Barkley's backup
19:06because Saquon Barkley's on the football field.
19:09What are the top running back out there?
19:10Saquon's a lot younger than CMC.
19:12He's a lot younger.
19:12Like a guy like Jameer Gibbs
19:13and his...
19:14Who's number two?
19:15Well, David Montgomery.
19:16They moved off of him.
19:16He just moved off of Montgomery.
19:18And look, when David Montgomery's on the field,
19:20everybody's thinking,
19:21well, you kind of need Gibbs on the football field.
19:24He's a lot more explosive.
19:25Every carry Montgomery takes,
19:26I'm like, it's a win for the defense.
19:27Exactly.
19:28You don't think other teams are thinking about that
19:30with McCaffrey in the past?
19:32So, that's why I don't get bogged down
19:34into who was backing up McCaffrey
19:35because McCaffrey was doing everything for you
19:37in the past game and in the running game.
19:39Now, obviously, he's a lot older.
19:40You don't want him carrying the ball 400 times this year.
19:43That's obvious.
19:43And I think they tried to address that with Jalon Black.
19:46And it also tells you that,
19:47hey, Jordan James and Isaac Rindo,
19:48you're on the clock.
19:49And that's the one thing.
19:51This regime,
19:52I don't think they get enough credit for it
19:53because, again,
19:54I'm with you guys on the draft.
19:56The overall drafting process,
19:57I want to make myself clear,
19:58it has not been pretty.
19:59But, boy,
20:00do they cover up those holes right away.
20:02Do they not try to attain,
20:03atone for those mistakes?
20:05Damn, we don't know about Jordan James
20:06and Isaac Rindo bringing Kalon Black.
20:08We don't know about Ricky Pearsall.
20:09Let's go get Deshaun Stribbling
20:11and see if he can learn
20:11under Mike Evans or Christian Kirk.
20:13I think they deserve a little credit for that
20:15for trying to patch up those mistakes.
20:16Well, if you really want to be,
20:18I'll be that guy on that one for this one.
20:20You could make the argument
20:20that if they just got those picks right the first time,
20:22they wouldn't need to go back and waste picks
20:24to try and fix those earlier picks early on.
20:26Instead, you know,
20:27instead of drafting a receiver
20:28to replace your last receiver,
20:29you can get offensive line help.
20:31So, you're not going to bat 1,000.
20:33That I acknowledge.
20:34I agree, yes.
20:34So, you want them to hit on every single pick.
20:36Well, no, you want them to hit more than a half.
20:3835% of your picks,
20:39you're doing really well.
20:40I mean, like,
20:42I don't even have any advance numbers.
20:43That's just my guess.
20:44Yeah, they say 40%.
20:45If you're 40%, it's lucky.
20:47If you hit on 40%,
20:49it's lucky that you do it
20:50and move forward.
20:51Like, when I'm thinking about
20:53last year's loss to Seattle
20:56in the playoffs,
20:59six days later after beating Philadelphia,
21:02they had a mass unit out there.
21:04It wasn't because of the draft.
21:06It's because those dudes can't stay healthy.
21:09You got a 53-minute round.
21:10How many teams do you think
21:11are three deep at each position?
21:13You're not going to have a ton of depth
21:14when you have a salary cap league.
21:16Garrett Wallo was the hero in the Philly game.
21:18That's what I'm talking about.
21:19Crazy.
21:19You're hurt.
21:20You got banged up.
21:22What killed the year before?
21:23It wasn't draft picks.
21:24You got hurt.
21:26McCaffrey got hurt.
21:27Purdy got hurt.
21:28Kittle got hurt.
21:29Brendan Ayou got hurt.
21:30The list goes on and on and on.
21:31When you saw the Rams
21:33take the quarterback,
21:34what was your immediate thought?
21:36Shocker.
21:37Right?
21:37Shocker.
21:38But what did you think
21:39as an opponent of the NFC?
21:40Oh, I was happy.
21:41Right?
21:41I was happy.
21:42So, like,
21:42they kind of wasted a pick.
21:43I see exactly.
21:45Right?
21:45You think teams are thinking about that
21:46with dribbling?
21:47No, no, no, no.
21:48That's not what they're saying
21:49with dribbling.
21:49I just think
21:50the way that sometimes
21:51the Niners operate
21:53is they prioritize
21:56certain positions
21:56to the point
21:57where they're stockpiling it
21:58and other teams are like,
21:59good, we like that you don't
22:01stockpile your left guard,
22:02for example.
22:02How about this, though?
22:04So, we all came out
22:05of the Seattle game.
22:06Not only were they banked up,
22:07but we said,
22:07damn, they need more speed.
22:08Well, they did need
22:09more playmakers.
22:09They need more playmakers.
22:10Yeah, they need to get younger.
22:11They need an explosion.
22:11They need to get younger.
22:12Man, what is dribbling
22:14from what we know?
22:15Well, no.
22:16So far.
22:16I think you're on
22:17the dribbling pick.
22:18I'm overall.
22:18No, no, no, no, no, no.
22:20I'm open-minded to him.
22:21Yeah, I'm open-minded.
22:21This whole draft,
22:22I don't know who's what.
22:23I like Kalon Black.
22:24I don't know about dribbling.
22:26Malachi Lemmon
22:26could easily bust.
22:28Who knows?
22:28Dude, dribbling,
22:29I was like, what?
22:31I didn't see him
22:32on none of these mocks.
22:33But then you start
22:34to gather information.
22:34You start to hear
22:35from the experts
22:36who do do this for a living
22:37and break down a film 24-7.
22:39It's like,
22:39oh, we love dribbling.
22:40Like when Cosell says,
22:41I like dribbling more
22:42than Makai Lemmon,
22:43I sit back and say,
22:44oh, wait a minute.
22:45Huh?
22:46What am I missing on this?
22:48But Seattle,
22:49they need a more explosion.
22:50Yes.
22:51They need more speed.
22:52And what does dribbling bring you?
22:53Both.
22:54And, oh, wait.
22:55He's a great one.
22:55Now, I don't like the fact
22:56that you take a receiver
22:57and the first thing you say
22:58is he's a great run blocker.
22:59I need my receivers
23:00to catch passes.
23:00That's a bonus.
23:01But you do need receivers
23:02to run block in this offense.
23:03They want to replace
23:04Ayuk and Jennings
23:05in that department.
23:06Honestly, they do miss that.
23:08That is a real element.
23:09I will not laugh at that.
23:11We don't talk about
23:11Ayuk's run blocking enough.
23:12Let's go to the phones
23:13really quick.
23:13Got a couple calls on the line.
23:15And the other part
23:15of Ayuk, real quick,
23:16he's one of the few guys
23:17that can beat man coverage
23:18where a guy presses up on him
23:20and still run past him.
23:21Like that,
23:22Jennings was very good
23:23at beating one-on-one coverage
23:24in terms of like
23:25he could catch contested balls,
23:26but he's not running past anyone.
23:28So you're not bracketing him.
23:29Yeah.
23:30Sticky man coverage.
23:30Wayne and Sonoma.
23:32What do you feel about the draft
23:33here, Wayne and Sonoma?
23:36Okay, man.
23:37I got to tell you,
23:37there's a lot of people
23:38talking about how
23:39they're disappointed
23:40and they just don't know
23:41how to voice it.
23:42So here it is.
23:43Did the Niners
23:45maximize the value
23:47of their draft slots?
23:48Sure, they got the guy
23:50they wanted.
23:50And he's talented.
23:51He's a great player.
23:52I love him.
23:52I think he might even
23:53be the next Debo.
23:55But, you know,
23:56everybody keeps saying
23:57Kittle, Purdy, Warner.
23:59Okay, Kittle,
24:00Kittle was slotted
24:01fourth, fifth round.
24:03Where did they pick him?
24:04Fifth round.
24:05That way they didn't reach for him.
24:07They didn't.
24:07So if they want to use
24:08the second round pick on him,
24:10would that be
24:11the maximum value
24:12to be extracted
24:13from pick two?
24:14No.
24:15They could have used it
24:15as a trade
24:16or something else
24:17and then still got Kittle.
24:19Right?
24:20So that's what it is.
24:21It's called
24:21opportunity cost.
24:23Whenever you make
24:24a decision,
24:25you have to look at it
24:26and say,
24:27what is this going
24:28to cost us
24:29if we make this decision
24:30over another decision?
24:32So thank you very much
24:33for taking my call.
24:35I appreciate it.
24:35Dibley,
24:36I've been listening to you
24:37since the station
24:38that shall not be named.
24:40And go Niners!
24:41All right,
24:42Dan Dibley's on
24:42from two to six.
24:44It's funny,
24:44I wish you would have
24:45stayed on
24:46because Peter Schrager,
24:47I just pulled this up
24:48two hours ago,
24:48did not see this until now.
24:50Peter Schrager,
24:51I think we all respect him,
24:52right?
24:52Yeah.
24:53We respect him?
24:53He gets a lot of information
24:54from the Niners.
24:55He works hard.
24:55Peter Schrager,
24:56one big talking point
24:58from this draft
24:58is the teams
24:59that took their guys
24:59and trusted their
25:00boards versus consensus.
25:03Bears, Rams, Jags,
25:04and most notably
25:05the 49ers
25:06had the largest deltas
25:07between their picks
25:08where the consistence
25:09big boards listed.
25:10And they had their boards.
25:12All those teams
25:13made the playoffs last year.
25:14The Bears took guys,
25:16gambled on them.
25:16Like, at some point
25:17you just gotta go
25:18get your guys, right?
25:19If your job's on the line
25:20and you're saying,
25:21well, there's Mel Kuyper's board
25:23and Tom McShane.
25:25Yeah, I don't give a damn.
25:26I know John Lynch
25:27doesn't give a damn about it.
25:28And that's why I thought
25:29the back and forth
25:30between Grant was funny.
25:32Grant asked a fair question.
25:34I thought John Lynch
25:34gave a fair answer.
25:35He's like, look,
25:36I respect Kyle later on
25:38was a good answer too.
25:39I thought Kyle was the better one, yeah.
25:39But John basically was like
25:41shutting that down.
25:41Basically like, look,
25:42I appreciate your thoughts on this.
25:45They have their consensus.
25:46But ours in the big board,
25:47this is what we do.
25:49That conversation
25:49you're talking about
25:50was right here.
25:50John, your draft board
25:51seems to deviate
25:53quite a bit
25:54from the consensus.
25:55Why are you confident
25:56with that
25:57given your track record
25:58drafting the last few years?
25:59It seems like it leads
26:00to you making reaches.
26:02Well, I appreciate
26:03that you think that
26:05depends whose consensus.
26:06We got consensus
26:07in this building.
26:08That's the consensus
26:10I care about.
26:11One thing I do,
26:12I think I want to add also
26:13is the way the 49ers' picks
26:14I think were distributed
26:15in this draft.
26:16They had a couple early on
26:17and then they had three
26:17basically in a row
26:18at the end of the fourth round,
26:19the compensatory section
26:20of that fourth round.
26:21When you don't have late picks
26:23like you usually do,
26:25I do think that does
26:26kind of put you
26:26into a situation
26:27where you got to
26:28reach up and take guys
26:29like, you know,
26:31like Carver Willis
26:32who was an undrafted
26:33free agent
26:33seventh round projection
26:34in like the late fourth
26:36or early fifth round
26:37or something like that
26:37because if you don't have
26:38a pick in a round
26:40when a guy is expected to go,
26:41you basically have no choice
26:43but to reach
26:43if that is a guy
26:44that you want to get.
26:45I do think that there's...
26:46If these guys are good,
26:47they'll get praised.
26:48If they're not good
26:50and they don't play,
26:51people will be outraged.
26:52It's very simple.
26:53It just feels like
26:54we've already,
26:55as a fan base,
26:56determined what these guys
26:57are going to be.
26:58We already determined
26:59basically this class
27:00is going to be bad.
27:01I think it's more
27:02the last couple of years
27:03people who have been frustrated
27:04because of the Garenda
27:06who you referenced earlier
27:07and Jordan James
27:08and Jordan Watkins
27:09and these middle round guys
27:11don't see the field
27:12and then random undrafted
27:14or signed guys
27:15in the middle of the week
27:16step up and play better than them.
27:17Look, Kendrick Bourne
27:18is more along...
27:19Like, no one wants to hear it.
27:20Kendrick Bourne was ready
27:21to compete
27:21and help them win games
27:23faster than Jordan Watkins was
27:25and people were like,
27:26well, that shouldn't be the case.
27:27Well, it is for this team.
27:28No doubt.
27:29And look...
27:30Right?
27:30It is.
27:31It is, but when we say
27:32third and fourth
27:33or fifth round reaches,
27:34those picks are gambles.
27:36Those mid-round picks
27:37are gambles.
27:38Like, Diomolo Lenore
27:39was ranked 319th
27:41on ESPN's big board.
27:43The Niners took him
27:45172nd.
27:46Turned out to be good.
27:47It gave him a massive deal.
27:48Talanoa Hufanga
27:49had a 212 ranking
27:51going into the draft.
27:52Well, the Niners took him
27:53180th overall.
27:55Duke became an all-pro
27:56and got a contract
27:56with the Denver Broncos.
27:58Right?
27:58Brock Purdy,
27:59we know about him.
28:00Mr. Irrelevant.
28:02Ranked 362nd.
28:02Taken last in the draft.
28:04But that's worked out
28:04for the Niners.
28:05Right?
28:05Dominic Poonie was
28:06104 on the big board.
28:08No, we love those.
28:09We're talking about...
28:10No, he's just talking
28:11about gambles.
28:12Right.
28:13Kinlaw's a terrible pick.
28:14Terrible pick.
28:16Terrible.
28:16And it blew up in their face.
28:17And they're still trying
28:18to replace the Forrest Booker.
28:19They took a wide receiver
28:20after Kinlaw.
28:21They could have had
28:22Justin Jefferson.
28:23Could have had
28:23Justin Jefferson.
28:24Could have had
28:24C.C. Lamb.
28:25Could have had all those guys.
28:26I know.
28:26Trust me.
28:26So, like, that's...
28:27I don't think people are out...
28:29Like, middle and day three
28:30reaches, no problem with them.
28:32Heck, that's when
28:33you should be, like,
28:34crazy reaching.
28:35So, that's why
28:35when you say Carver Willis,
28:36that's when they're reaching.
28:37They're saying,
28:37oh, this guy played tackle.
28:38Yeah.
28:39But he could play the interior.
28:40I'm okay with that.
28:41I love that pick, actually.
28:42Dude, he's at the senior bowl.
28:43Yeah, I love that pick.
28:43He could possibly be a center.
28:44Yeah.
28:44I think the guy could play.
28:46I think the guy may be a factor.
28:47I think it's the early round stuff.
28:49Yeah, the early round stuff
28:50gets on our nerves.
28:50Mike Kell is a great example.
28:52Like, again,
28:52I don't think Mike Kell
28:53is being written off.
28:54He shouldn't be written off.
28:55He hurt himself,
28:56and that sucks.
28:57Right.
28:58Is he ever going to live up
28:59to the 11th overall pick?
29:00Look, that's going to be tough.
29:01Look, I...
29:02You know, it's going to be tough.
29:03Let's see.
29:03That pick, I want to...
29:04I'm not writing him off.
29:05I wanted Tyler Warren.
29:06You did?
29:07I wanted Tyler Warren
29:08as a playmaker.
29:09You know what I'm saying?
29:10Instead of Mike Kell.
29:11But I could see their vision.
29:13They're saying,
29:13man, teams are running the ball on us.
29:14We got banged up.
29:16We need to set the edge.
29:17And then when you look
29:17at that playoff loss
29:18in Seattle,
29:18I don't know it was bad.
29:20But Kenneth Walker
29:21got around on the edge
29:22over and over
29:23and over and over again.
29:25I'm like,
29:25that's Mike Kell.
29:26He's got to stay
29:27on the football field.
29:28And so, yeah,
29:28some of these picks
29:29do need to pan out.
29:30But I think the overall picture is
29:33Lynch and Shanahan and company,
29:34they're probably looking back saying,
29:35yeah, we've underwhelmed
29:37in the draft.
29:37Yeah.
29:38But we're also 72 and 45
29:39since the beginning of 2019.
29:42We're knocking on the doorstep
29:43of the Super Bowl.
29:44Trust me,
29:45this fan base is...
29:46I want to ring to.
29:47I wasn't even going
29:48through Pruity yet
29:49when they won the Super Bowl
29:50in 94 and 95.
29:52So, I mean,
29:54they don't...
29:55What's crazy
29:57is that they don't get
29:58the benefit of the doubt.
30:00That, to me,
30:00has been wild.
30:01Just in the draft.
30:03I don't know.
30:04I think in everything else
30:05they do...
30:05I think it's more...
30:06Really?
30:06People call it for John Lynch's...
30:07Well, that's...
30:08I mean, that's too much.
30:10But we all know
30:11this is Shanahan's baby, right?
30:12Well, that's what I was
30:13telling Loveman.
30:13I was like,
30:14if you want Lynch out,
30:15then you kind of want
30:15Shanahan out
30:16because they're connected
30:17at the end to me.
30:17And I'm trying to figure
30:18a way to separate them.
30:19But no, I think you're right.
30:20There's a reality there
30:21that they are...
30:22I want John Schneider
30:23running the team
30:24and Kyle coaching in.
30:25I hear that.
30:25But that's not...
30:26Like, Kyle wants to be able
30:27to shop for the groceries
30:28and cook it.
30:29I think the first year
30:29since the Niners
30:30also, they've been...
30:30They've just been good enough
30:32in the draft,
30:33like, just good enough
30:33to say that they are decent,
30:35but they've been
30:36falling short enough
30:37to where you can't say
30:38that they're great at the track.
30:40They're just...
30:41Again, it's the one gap
30:42that they have
30:43is the draft.
30:43But unfortunately,
30:44that's a tough gap to have
30:46in terms of trying to get
30:47over that last hump
30:47and win the Super Bowl.
30:48This is what we do know.
30:50If they're a player away,
30:51they will make a trade
30:52mid-season.
30:53Sure.
30:53They're a player away
30:54in free agency.
30:55Like, I think this offseason
30:57was pretty damn good
30:58for the 49ers.
30:59Personally, Mike Evans...
31:01How would you grade him?
31:02What would you be
31:02your letter grade?
31:02Yeah, I said B, B, B-.
31:04I would like C-plus, B-minus.
31:07I'd give them a B for now.
31:08B-minus maybe
31:09because they didn't address
31:10the safety position.
31:11They're a lot higher
31:11on safeties than I am.
31:13Again, I wanted a young man
31:14from T-little.
31:14I wanted Stooks from Arizona.
31:15He goes to the Raiders
31:16a few picks later
31:17after Stribling.
31:18Thinaman?
31:19You think they were
31:19going to go for him?
31:20Yeah, I didn't like Thinaman.
31:21No, I was just wondering.
31:23That's why they traded down?
31:24I think they were looking
31:24at the Lawrence kid
31:25from UCF.
31:27Oh, but Dallas took 23rd.
31:28Or the young man
31:29from Georgia Tech.
31:30Who's the guard
31:30from Georgia Tech?
31:32Rutledge.
31:32Rutledge.
31:33Rutledge.
31:34I think they were going
31:34for him or the young man
31:35from Central Florida.
31:37My hot take at safety,
31:38I think Efficien's
31:39Priceock,
31:40the corner out of Washington,
31:41I can see them trying
31:42to move him to safety
31:42and giving him a shot there.
31:44He's pretty big.
31:44He's pretty big, yeah.
31:45I think he looks like a guy
31:46who could play that position.
31:47That's just my hot take
31:47on the rip there.
31:48He looked good.
31:49I like saying his name a lot too.
31:51Yeah, look,
31:51I give him a B
31:52because Mike Evans,
31:53one thing we're not talking about
31:54is what Mike Evans
31:55will do for Stribling.
31:56What did Mike Evans
31:57do for Ibuka?
31:58He's got to open him up.
31:59What did he do for McMillan?
32:01That's Ohio State wide receiver.
32:02He's just sick.
32:02But McMillan,
32:03you don't think they benefited
32:04from having Mike Evans
32:05in that room?
32:05Godwin did.
32:06Exactly.
32:07Godwin got a huge deal.
32:09And that would be huge
32:09for this team.
32:10He's a good player.
32:11Until he hurt his stuff.
32:11Jalen McMillan from Washington
32:12who had a big...
32:13I like McMillan.
32:14Exactly.
32:15All right,
32:15let's get to final thoughts.
32:31All right,
32:32I'll start off here.
32:34I don't think this was
32:35talked about yesterday,
32:36but the other big story
32:37from the weekend,
32:38Clay Thompson.
32:39What are you doing, man?
32:41I'm going to leave this alone.
32:43Cheating on Megan Thee Stallion.
32:44Oh, I'm disappointed.
32:46Very disappointed.
32:47True Love died this weekend, guys.
32:49Yeah.
32:49Now I wonder if it's even real.
32:52Oh, that was heartbreaking to see.
32:53Static grown folks' business,
32:53is what I say.
32:54Static grown folks' business.
32:56Oh, that's all I'll say about it.
32:56We don't know what's going on.
32:58Disappointing end, too.
32:59I was hoping...
33:00They were my favorite
33:01power couple in sports.
33:03You know I don't get
33:04why people get caught up
33:05in any celebrity relationships.
33:07Like, I could care less.
33:08We love the smut.
33:09That's why.
33:09You do?
33:10Not really,
33:11but this was a particular one.
33:13Because he wants to date
33:14Meg Thee Stallion.
33:15Well, just that, too.
33:15I mean, who wouldn't?
33:16But, like...
33:17No, I enjoyed seeing them together.
33:18I thought they were
33:19a fun couple to follow,
33:20and, you know,
33:21it's a bummer
33:21that it ended the way
33:22that most of these things end.
33:25I'm just...
33:25I don't even know what to say.
33:27I silenced Joe Shasky.
33:29I didn't know that was possible.
33:32Joe, what's your final thought?
33:35Man, my final thought.
33:36I need a nap.
33:37I'm exhausted from yesterday.
33:39I need a nap.
33:40That's my final thought, Bonte.
33:42I'm hungry,
33:42and I need a nap.
33:43I'll dig in deep for that one.
33:44Yeah, my final thoughts
33:46since we were talking draft.
33:47That's sunburned.
33:47I can't wait until training camp.
33:50I cannot wait.
33:51I saw one dude.
33:52Are you taking a month off again?
33:52I saw a clip.
33:53I am taking a month off, actually.
33:55Every year you do this.
33:55You go to training camp,
33:56then you go, like, a week later,
33:57you go, I'm never coming back
33:58for training camp.
33:58I'm just going to show up week one.
34:00No, no, no, no.
34:01No, no, no.
34:01I was off the morning show last year
34:03for the first time in a long time,
34:04and I was able to go
34:05to all those practices,
34:05and I was going to all those practices,
34:07and it's a lot of fun
34:08because you see things that, you know,
34:10you can just assess for yourself
34:11and form your own opinion about things.
34:13Your own opinion.
34:14Yeah, like Garendo,
34:15I was like, yo,
34:16he ain't having a good camp.
34:17And people were doing,
34:18oh, you should see the film.
34:19He ain't having a good camp.
34:22Hey, from Green,
34:22your buddy Greg Cullen
34:23has somebody on a clip
34:24that popped up on my timeline,
34:26and this guy said that,
34:27I think he said struggling
34:28was the biggest reach
34:30or the biggest something
34:31in the 21st century,
34:32and I was just thinking, like,
34:33damn, I watched T-
34:34Darius Hayward Bay?
34:35I mean, I watched Darius Hayward Bay.
34:36How about Ross in Cincinnati
34:38because he ran a 42540.
34:39Oh, yeah, from John Ross.
34:41Was he Washington or Oregon?
34:43Washington.
34:43Yeah, Jeremy Ross.
34:44How about Tavon Austin?
34:46Tavon Austin.
34:46West Virginia?
34:47Yeah, I mean,
34:48Solomon Thomas on line one.
34:49Hello.
34:51The Solomon Thomas one.
34:52Is this somewhat hyperbolic
34:54about this NFL draft?
34:56We got to, like,
34:57let's just wait
34:58until they put on the pads one time.
34:59What was the name of the bowl
35:00with him and Trubisky?
35:01Oh, the Sun Bowl.
35:02El Paso Sun Bowl.
35:03El Paso, Texas.
35:04I'll never forget,
35:04they took Solomon Thomas,
35:05and you're like,
35:06you and me are arguing about it.
35:08I hated the pick.
35:09He was the 11th best player
35:10in the Sun Bowl.
35:11And McCaffrey didn't even suit up.
35:13I wanted Deshaun Watson
35:14and people said,
35:14well, you don't want to take
35:15a quarterback and start his clock.
35:16I'm like,
35:17you always start to franchise
35:18with a quarterback.
35:19Yeah, I agree with that.
35:20It's a serious overthought process.
35:21And actively,
35:22thinking about that,
35:24we overthink the draft process.
35:26You know,
35:26one thing.
35:26Way too much.
35:27One thing I was thinking about
35:28watching all these Texas Tech
35:30defensive players
35:31go off the board.
35:32Could you imagine
35:32if Mike Leach had NIL?
35:34Oh, my God.
35:35He would have won
35:35how many natties?
35:36No, I'm serious.
35:37Oh, my God.
35:38He would have wrecked shop.
35:39Because the Texas Tech defense,
35:40it felt like 15 guys.
35:42I know it wasn't that many,
35:43but it felt like 15.
35:44There was a lot of them.
35:45I'm just convinced
35:47that Niner fans overall,
35:48now there's a lot of people
35:49who do like the draft
35:50that I've been talking to
35:50that's not on Twitter.
35:52I'm just convinced, though,
35:53that a lot of people
35:54are just going to come out of this
35:55saying, yeah, they blew it.
35:56They stunk.
35:57I'm not saying that about this group yet.
35:58But if he scores a touchdown
35:58week one, we'll be thrilled.
35:59Oh, my gosh.
36:01Oh, I can't wait for it.
36:02I'm rooting for him.
36:03And you know what?
36:04Quick.
36:04These players,
36:05I hope these players
36:05watched that press conference.
36:07I hope these players
36:08looked at it and said,
36:09damn, I was a reach.
36:11Really?
36:11They really aren't believing in us.
36:12Yeah.
36:13Using his fuel.
36:13McNabb never let that go.
36:15No, he didn't.
36:15And he had a borderline
36:16Hall of Fame career.
36:18Niner's still in a good position
36:19overall right now.
36:20Just hope the draft
36:20can get him a little bit better.
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