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Willard and Dibs react to what Claire Kittle, wife of 49ers tight end George Kittle, posted on her Instagram story earlier this week about George and quarterback Brock Purdy. But was this a shot at Jimmy Garoppolo?
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00:00You know who else is having a bad week talk to me Jimmy Garoppolo. Come on. You want to talk
00:06about catching strays
00:08Jimmy Garoppolo now. This is interesting. I thought did you see it cut by the
00:14He's still a Rams. I don't even know. I don't think so. I'll Google your thing. No, no, no. We
00:20got it. Grandy
00:21Is he on a roster?
00:23Jimmy Garoppolo. I don't think so. No, no Jimmy Garoppolo is
00:28Wow. Yeah, he's 34 Jimmy Garoppolo. No, he is out of the league for now. I mean
00:37He's also out of Brock Purdy's league. Just ask Claire Kittle who Claire Kittle. Who does she play for? This
00:45is George
00:46That's a damn nine. Um, so it's funny because
00:52Teammates always pick up for teammates and for years when we were going through the Garoppolo wars
00:58I remember George Kittle was one of the people's like Jimmy's great. We love Jimmy. They took he went to
01:03a Super Bowl
01:05obviously as the 49ers
01:07quarterback
01:08um, but Claire Claire posted a graphic of a George Kittle stat
01:15Let me start with the stat. Okay, you curtain here. That's a stack. Oh, so Claire posts
01:24This stat the most efficient quarterback tight end connection in NFL history
01:32According to PFF tracking data is Brock Purdy
01:36to George Kittle. It ranks number one all-time
01:41Quarterback to tight end duos with a 0.750
01:46EPA per play minimum 75 target. Come on. What does that mean? I got
01:53No idea, but it ranks number one. So obviously it's good
01:58Across all pass catchers. They rank fourth overall in efficiency. So that brings in wide receivers as well
02:05They are the number four duo all-time in terms of
02:08Efficiency and they have sustained that efficiency
02:12It says at a much higher volume than the wide receiver duos ahead of them
02:17So you could if you factor in volume argue
02:21It's one of the most efficient duos
02:24Quarterback to pass catcher ever
02:25In the EPA era. Yes, which is expected points added which is a fairly new metric
02:33I would imagine. I don't know when the EPA started from well before Brock for sure
02:37But from 22 to 25
02:40There were 269 targets from purdy to kittle
02:43It has led to 3035 receiving yards
02:4726 touchdowns and a passer rating of
02:53139. Oh, wow, man, that's his passer rating when throwing to george kittle. It's amazing. Okay. Yeah
02:59So Claire kittle grabs that
03:02Stat and she posts it
03:05But she added some stuff
03:07She added some commentary. Wow. Okay. So above the she knows ball. She does she writes
03:15Just imagine
03:17If he had a consistent quarterback week to week for the first five years of his career
03:23L. O. L. Wow, man
03:28I mean cj beathard catching strays nick mullins
03:32Trey lance taking on some water there as well
03:36She then writes thankful to have brock at the helm
03:40This duo has a lot of records together
03:44Let's keep it rolling
03:46A lot of records like those aren't actually records, but I guess we can you know
03:51We probably have some I mean, they've I'm sure if you like I don't know there
03:56I'm sure there are some records, right?
03:58I mean, you can draw a line on any parameter and say oh, that's a record
04:03That's a stat as we like to joke around with you can but that I mean
04:06I won't try to cast any shade on the fact that brock purdy
04:10He has been great and when he's has george kittle. They've also both been great
04:15That's incontrovertible whether or not it's an actual record or not or you know
04:21Whether or not that doesn't compare to the garoppolo number, which I don't think she posted the garoppolo numbers
04:27Did she she did not or the the beather
04:29I don't know what those I don't know what they are. They're obviously lower
04:34They're obviously lower. I mean they might be these are well. No the whole point is this is the number
04:41one
04:41Passer to tight end and potentially passer to almost anyone duo in terms of efficiency
04:49All time in in the epa era sure, but okay jimmy is also in the epa era
04:55Right, but I wonder what those numbers are. Are they like a tenth of a point lower?
05:00I mean do you want me to ask ai? I really don't okay. I just I want to know like
05:05but I will
05:06Like the point of the tweet or the instagram or whatever it was whatever social media the threads or
05:13The blue sky or whatever she chose to use
05:18Like what was jimmy garoppolo's number because jimmy also got him quote unquote to the super bowl
05:24Um, while public granular epa breakdowns targeting only kittle
05:31During garoppolo's tenure aren't packaged as a single record-breaking stat. Ah, there you go
05:39Overall, he graded well in efficiency metrics under
05:43Kyle shanahan
05:45Ranking high in third down efficiency clutch epa per drop back right during peak years like 2019 and 2021
05:54But hampered at times by instability sure and lack of a consistent deep ball
05:58So in other words, she has no idea what she's talking about
06:02She didn't do the granular epa data. Of course. She does this is an opinion
06:08I mean unless you and I have no idea what we're talking about we share opinions every day
06:13right her opinion is
06:15Just imagine how much better this would be if he had a consistent quarterback week to week for the first
06:22five years of his
06:23According to pff tracking data. Yeah, but I wonder that's the brock purdy part
06:28Right, and I wonder what the pff tracking data would indicate in the
06:33Garoppolo and here I am caping up for jimmy g
06:36She's allowed to be thankful for brock. She's allowed to do whatever she wants
06:41Honestly, if you're gonna be somebody who wants to
06:45Rat-a-tat tat and have jimmy g catch a stray
06:48Let's have some context like is jimmy g's
06:52Quarterback rating like a 94 with george kennel is this is woefully below or is it just a shade lower?
06:59This is why it's hard sometimes on these kinds of subjects to have a conversation with a math brain like
07:06you
07:07I guess why I want comparative data are you right, but are you are you not
07:12Are you not agreeing with her and by the way?
07:16That's not only pointed at jimmy jimmy was hurt some
07:19There were also as you pointed out there were years with bethard and mullins
07:25Right, and then we had we had some trey lance in there before jimmy ended up coming back in
07:32And left. I mean i'm not breaking any news
07:35Nor is she that the 49ers offense is better with brock purdy than it is with jimmy garoppolo
07:41No, casey schmidt sherlock. Thank you. Like that's all she's saying what she's saying is my
07:46Would be even better if brock had been here the whole time
07:51Right as opposed to having jimmy garoppolo who took your hubby to the super bowl. I think so did brocky
07:59Right, I do think that it's a little bit. Uh, it's mean-spirited
08:03He caught astray and honestly
08:05Do you really think he's mean-spirited?
08:07I think that it's unnecessary
08:08And if you had comparative data that showed like whoa brock is way better than what jimmy was then oh,
08:15yeah
08:15Then I would understand the context this context. What do you think? I think brock is better than jimmy?
08:21Okay, so do you think he's way better than jimmy?
08:24I think that he is in a better situation than jimmy
08:27I think that we know when jimmy garoppolo is here. I don't think that jimmy in the early jimmy
08:33He didn't have a lot of christian mccaffrey
08:35He did towards the end of jimmy. That's fair point
08:38He had moster and breeda and jeff wilson jr. Yeah, although the metrics of his run game
08:44Um, actually, I mean when compared to last year, I mean they were a dominant run team
08:49Name the running back whatever you want
08:51He went to an nfc title game and threw the ball eight times
08:54Right, and you know listen, I was a supporter of jimmy. I'd like you can't take away
09:00What he did here you can't take it away
09:03um, but
09:04I think it's pretty hard to compare what the offense
09:09A looked like be what they had the ability to even try
09:14I think it's hard to compare that to this
09:17That's just my opinion. I think brock has elevated that
09:21Significantly when I think that this is greater than what that was when you know
09:27Jimmy's going to the super bowl with emmanuel sanders who was just fresh on the scene and you had
09:32Debo as a rookie or second year, and so you had younger players and you can look at george kittle
09:38now
09:39He's probably better when healthy than he was then as a more experienced player. That's interesting
09:45I mean, yeah, he's more experienced
09:47Um, but he's also got a lot more rings on the trunk
09:51um, and now obviously, uh, you know
09:53We all focus on the achilles. That was not the only major injury that he had last year. He had
09:58two
09:58They had two. I mean he tore he tore his hamstring, right?
10:02So a significant one as it turned out
10:04How did he miss six games seven games something like that? Yeah, and it happened on a uh non-contact
10:10situation
10:11So, you know, you can look at the efficiency
10:14With brock purdy and that's all fine and good and I don't even think that george kittle
10:19He might have only played one game with mac jones if that or maybe I think I don't
10:24Oh, that's a good question game
10:26That's a good question because he went out in the very first game right rock and george both got hurt
10:30But we didn't learn of the brock one until
10:33After the game was over george left the game by the time he came back
10:38Um
10:39Was brock back my sense? I think you're right one or two might have been one game. Yeah with mac.
10:44I'd have to look this uh
10:45This up last year to remember exactly. Uh, when anyway, it feels a little bit to me like a cherry
10:51pick and it's great
10:52So basically brock is the best quarterback. They've had since george george kittle was there
10:57Okay, great score one for you claire kittle. I mean, this is wife
11:02Right, but what did you expect her to go like like she's she's out here
11:07Caping up for her husband like the unnecessary part is imagine if he had a consistent qb blah blah blah
11:13That's unnecessary
11:15It was unwarranted
11:17And for me, it's a yellow card for mean-spiritedness interesting
11:22Unnecessary I bet if she were sitting right here. She would say the reason I wrote week to week
11:28Is kind of to display the fact that jimmy wasn't always available
11:33I mean the niners I don't believe them
11:35But the niners used jimmy's injuries as the reason why they moved on from him
11:39If you remember kyle shanahan said publicly like we're moving on
11:44And and and we making this trade to go get a new starting quarterback because
11:49We've had a hard time keeping jimmy on the field right?
11:52I think he wanted to upgrade the abilities as well
11:55At first he didn't went and got trey lance. He actually got someone who's worse
12:00But at the same time
12:02That's a fair way like I thought trey was going to be better than jimmy
12:06Otherwise, you don't draft of course of course that's what everybody thought at the time
12:10And then you love brock purdy so much that you didn't want to let him be an undrafted
12:14And so you used the last pick in the entire draft to take him
12:17And they say they had like a third or a fourth round grade on him
12:20Right, and so he's sitting there and so you draft him making sure that you're able to get him
12:24I just feel like this like her whole
12:28Writing over the top of the thing was a shot at jimmy garoppolo and you know what let's talk about
12:33the
12:35Consistency of your husband. What if your husband was consistently out there?
12:38I did not think I did not think this conversation would go this way
12:43I just I thought it was kind of playful. I bet like okay. I see where you're coming from
12:48But I guarantee you she did not sit down with her phone and go
12:53You know what i'm about to do with this that let's take a shot at jimmy garoppolo
12:57I guarantee you that that's not what she thought was going to happen
13:01I get where you're coming from that it feels that way
13:05But imagine and she uses the phrase just imagine week to week week to week
13:12That's her way of saying he had to have a year with cj bethard and nick mullins and then it
13:18was trey lance
13:19That's her way of saying that it was inconsistent. I think
13:24Right, I mean have we ever seen anything mean spirited from the kittles before like they don't strike me
13:30I don't know them, but don't strike me as people who are like
13:33Let's go to social media and start. Let's start taking some names out there today
13:37I mean if george kittle played in all 16
13:42In those first five years and yeah claire fire away, but i'm seeing an eight game year in 2020
13:48Imagine claire if your husband would have played
13:52Week to week uh unfair because that's not the first five years of his career one two three four five
13:59You're looking the wrong way you go from the bottom up. He missed a game zero
14:04He missed two he missed eight and then he missed two. Okay, so imagine if your husband played
14:10Week to week. Wow imagine what the diners would have been
14:13I just you're snarky. I had one injury one time
14:19Like why would it like anyway?
14:21I mean, I just it's a woman caping up for her guy
14:24Right leave it alone. Okay, I mean, okay. I just think it look this is not
14:29Uh, is it minka grimes or mika grimes?
14:33Oh, stop it. Don't do that. I just said it's not that. Okay, why would you even bring that up?
14:37And this is not uh kelly stafford
14:40Listen, my husband had to go on a silent count. That was crazy. Listen, I don't I think to be
14:46honest with you
14:47Like because I didn't even know that this would go to like an honest place. I didn't know you would
14:51be rubbed
14:52I didn't even know I would either but we're doing it live for sure
14:56And that's fine. I think if you really dive into 49er football in the social media space
15:04a
15:05fact of the matter is
15:0849er wives are a story
15:10They're a big deal. They have
15:13Crap tons of followers. Sure. They have content that they're generating themselves. This is claire. This is use check
15:21This is my christians olivia
15:23Exactly
15:24Be like sydney sydney warner for sure. Have they ever weighed in on their husband?
15:30Imagine absolutely
15:31Imagine if fred had a consistent linebacker
15:35Imagine if fred had a defensive coordinator who was there year in and year out how good he would be
15:40They have weighed in. They've never weighed in constantly. They were begging the team to not lose drae greenlaw
15:45They were worried about who was going to be the linebacker next to fred when they lost use check
15:50They cried and that's fine. That's not weighing in on no
15:54Consistency of a quarterback and that was like what three days and then he came back if that yeah
15:59Yeah, sure. Yeah, two three days
16:01That's not like weighing in on imagine if they threw the ball to kyle use check more
16:05How much they how much better they would be they don't weigh in like that
16:09It rubs me the wrong way does it really it rubs me the wrong way like when aisha curry had
16:16anything to say
16:17Does does that rub you the wrong way has she ever said like, you know if she called the league
16:23rigged?
16:24Are you kidding?
16:25That's calling the league rigged and she was wrong and
16:28I mean that was mostly out of line
16:31That's not that's not calling her own teammate
16:33So basically to me
16:35Claire kittle is calling out
16:37George kittle's former teammate
16:39Aisha never said you know what if clay thompson if clay thompson would pass the ball
16:43If he wouldn't shoot so damn much steph would average 38. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that
16:48It doesn't feel like a little bit of a kick at jimmy's shins
16:51But I don't think she's pointing directly at jimmy as much as she is
16:55The situation where george early in his career often was dealing with
17:01Different quarterbacks in a little bit of a rotation
17:05There was a lot of jimmy, but there was a lot of non-jimmy too
17:09I mean it's because they had a roster that stunk well, right
17:13That's a point his rookie year was kyle's rookie year
17:17So when they drafted george kittle and he joined a team that was 2 and 14 the year before so
17:23Are you expecting to walk in and in the first five years of your career?
17:28Have a
17:30Bonafide surefire great quarterback. No, I don't you got drafted to a team that was doing 14
17:34I don't I don't I don't know that there's any expectation her
17:36Her way is just saying like i'm thankful for brock and
17:40Mike wouldn't it be great if if you had that all the time, but you didn't sure
17:44I don't know like wouldn't it be great if I was 6 6 with a 44 inch vertical yes
17:49That would be great mark. It would be I think you're great. Just like you are
17:53You came to the summit dressed like a priest and I think it's wonderful not a priest. It's a rugby
17:58shirt
17:58I know, but if you cover your chest, then you look like a priest right if I which is why
18:03i'm not gonna argue with you
18:04If I don't want I don't want the lightning to strike you
18:07Have you ever been to church him and it is lightning weather by the way
18:12You keep it up you might catch a stray
18:14If you've been to church, you know that the white collar goes all the way around the original call
18:19And I have not been to church, so i'm good here right you're a jew you're jewish
18:25No, no, i'm somebody is it's a fact
18:29Red pumpkin my mom's baby. That is true
18:32Okay, great. I have not i'm not funny table nine. I'm no longer a fat red pumpkin, okay?
18:38I mean a little bit kind of I mean
18:40Although a little bit do I have another live read coming up for jumpstart md?
18:45I'm trying to slim down
18:47You're good shout out to his appetite. I recommend it. You're doing just fine. All right
18:52Hey, I think the niners are probably on the damn ground. Have we gotten that confirmation yet?
18:56Grandy, we are as official they have landed in the niners are on the ground. Yeah, they made it
19:02And I saw I actually saw a tweet from claire kittle if we had a consistent pilot. They would have
19:08landed 12 minutes earlier
19:10Yeah, Randy, you can bust me all you want that is some quality material
19:16If we had a decent pilot, we would have been here 19 minutes ago
19:22You could get mad at a peanut butter and jelly sandwich