00:00How big of a year is this for Kyle Shanahan?
00:04Oh, it's a must win, Mark.
00:06What are we doing?
00:07Well, no, like, how is it?
00:09I get it.
00:10Do you?
00:11Because.
00:11I do, because I ran down the list before of coaches who have been with the same team for
00:1610 or more years, and how'd that work out for you?
00:20Andy Reid is one of the most prominent ones in 14 years in Philly, and eventually he had
00:25to go, and he had to go and go to Kansas City and win three Super Bowls.
00:29So, is it that big for Kyle Shanahan?
00:32I don't quite see it that way.
00:33I'm with you.
00:34I think my answer would be maybe not as big as a lot of people seem to think, but there's
00:40buzzy stuff going on out there, and I thought we could have an interesting conversation with
00:45the audience on how you see that.
00:48It's year 10.
00:49It is year 10.
00:50So, how big of a year is this for Kyle Shanahan?
00:53In the wake of people talking about wobbly ownership, Jason LaConfora comes on with the
01:01Joes this morning and kind of starts the idea of, hey, stop worrying about if the Niners
01:07are going to move on from Kyle, and what if Kyle moves on from the Niners?
01:11Now, Jason has been out in the streets for the better part of three, four, five days already
01:16going, hey, I'm hearing that there's a lot of crap going on behind the scenes.
01:21There's a lot going on.
01:24Mind you, Jason, for the better part of all of the month of August, he only seems to talk
01:30to people who think that everything, the wheels are coming off from the inside out with the
01:36Niners.
01:37I mean, these players, they're getting old, it's one last ride, he probably has a point
01:44in there somewhere he's talking to somebody, I'm not saying Jason's not tapped in, I am
01:49going to say, though, that Jason, who's been on this show many times, seems to be an angry
01:55dude.
01:56He's like, that just seems to be what kind of floats his boat, which is fine.
02:01Jason's been an NFL reporter for a really long time.
02:04Now, he's a professional, I hate the Baltimore Orioles on social media guy.
02:09I don't know why he got, like, he, you want to talk about somebody who will pants you in
02:15the town square.
02:16Go read his commentary.
02:18Oh, I love his commentary.
02:19I mean, that's...
02:20He's a Baltimore guy.
02:21Right.
02:22And so he's had it up to here with the Orioles.
02:24Right, but Jason is there for the, it's fallen all apart at the top conversation.
02:30Niners are not the only team in his crosshairs.
02:32So, okay.
02:34But then there was this.
02:36What do you think of this?
02:37Kay Adams, who I really like.
02:38I think she's a wonderful interviewer, up in Adams FanDuel.
02:42Check this out.
02:44What she said tomorrow night, or Friday morning, however you want to say it, means for Kyle Shanahan.
02:52This Rams-Niners week one regular season game is the most important regular season game in
02:58Kyle Shanahan's era as the head coach in San Francisco.
03:01I really mean that.
03:02I know you're going to say it's week one.
03:03I know you're going to say the jet lag.
03:06It's so weird.
03:07It's just week one.
03:07I'm just...
03:08You have to remind everybody right now who the F you are, faithful.
03:12And then you can get all these other fans in this gorgeous city and around the world
03:15watching on board.
03:16International stage, 100,000 plus in the crowd, everyone watching around the world.
03:21The day after the Seahawks launched their defense of their title and going up against
03:26the Rams, who are so hyped, deservedly so, and are the class of the NFL.
03:31I don't know how many more chances you're going to have to win with this core of great
03:34players.
03:34So, you better do it.
03:36Remind everybody who you are.
03:37And the division be damned.
03:39The substation be damned.
03:40You have to find a way week one on the road.
03:43And I think they can.
03:44Okay.
03:45To me, I know a lot of people will just immediately dismiss the commentary.
03:51To me, there's a lot of fascinating stuff in there.
03:54But the idea, like, you go first.
03:58This is the biggest regular season game in the Kyle Shanahan 49ers era.
04:03No, it's not.
04:04And it probably isn't even in the top 20.
04:08And I'm not going to go through every single game and every single year that he's been there.
04:12But it's week one.
04:13And as I underscored in the crossover, the Patriots lost to the Raiders last year in week one.
04:19And then they fell to one and two when they couldn't get over on Pittsburgh.
04:23And so, yeah, they went on to win, I think, 11 or 12 of their last 13.
04:28And it turned out they were awesome.
04:30And they got breaks.
04:31And they went to the Super Bowl.
04:32So, week one is never, ever going to be that ultra important.
04:37Now, in this case, you're facing McVay.
04:40And you're taking on the Rams in Australia.
04:43And division games are always worth double, they say.
04:46That's the old cliche.
04:47So, yeah, it's a big game.
04:48It's a big game.
04:49Because it's the Rams.
04:50But it's not even close to the biggest game in his tenure.
04:53Well, I mean, look.
04:54I can immediately off just the top of my mind, without even thinking about this, I can come
04:59up with three that stand out to me that dwarf tomorrow night.
05:03That Eagles game three years ago where Debo Samuel went crazy.
05:07And the Niners essentially took the hearts out of the Eagles' chest and left them at the
05:1350-yard line.
05:14Remember the Eagles?
05:15I think it had one loss coming in.
05:17You called it, too.
05:18And I'm like, this is it.
05:19Like, this is a paper tiger.
05:22The Niners are going to go in there.
05:23They're going to win the game.
05:24They won by a ton.
05:2542-19.
05:26And the Eagles only won one more game the rest of the way and got knocked out of the
05:29playoffs in the very first round.
05:31So, there was that one.
05:32But let's not forget, how about the very end of the regular season twice?
05:36What about Dre Greenlaw's tackle at the one that gained the Niners the one seed en route
05:42to the Super Bowl?
05:42What about a couple years later, Jimmy Garoppolo gets the ball, two-minute drill, Niners trail
05:49at SoFi against the Rams and must go score or they miss the playoffs.
05:55And they did.
05:57They went and they scored and they won and they went to the playoffs and went all the
06:01way to the NFC title game only to have Jaquastitard drop an interception and they lost in the
06:05NFC title game.
06:06Jawan Jennings with the touchdown with 26 seconds left from Jimmy Garoppolo.
06:11You're talking about this game tomorrow night is bigger than those?
06:13No.
06:14Come on, man.
06:15I mean, I don't see it that way.
06:17And I love the hyperbole and I love the fact that she's putting it out there with this much
06:21pressure.
06:22And the one part about her comment that you played is, you know, show the league who you
06:27are.
06:27And I get that because, you know, it's Shanahan against McVay.
06:30It's the boy genius.
06:31I can see the other boy genius.
06:33And so you obviously want to prove that you are as good as these teams.
06:37Can I point out something that you just said, though, that she didn't.
06:41You said it right.
06:43You said, let's show the world who we are.
06:47She kept saying, remind the world who you are.
06:51OK, OK, I got that wrong.
06:52No, that's fine.
06:53I find what you said to be the right one.
06:56That's an important distinction to me because of the point I just made on the crossover.
07:01I do not believe that the start of NFL seasons are a carryover from the year before.
07:06We're not reminding anybody of anything like this is a new team.
07:11This is a completely what are we reminding you of here?
07:16How about if I remind you of this?
07:17When we last saw you, a bunch of people who play tomorrow night weren't playing.
07:21Some of them weren't on the team.
07:22Osa, Stribling, we can keep going.
07:25And a lot of them who are on the team, I left out Mike Evans.
07:30A lot of them who are on the team, Nick Bosa, Fred Warner, George Kittle,
07:34weren't playing the last time we saw the Niners.
07:36So this is not about reminding.
07:38This, to me, is about establishing who you are.
07:42And I mean that for the Rams and Seahawks as well.
07:45I am very mindful of these two teams who most say are the best two teams in the league.
07:51Like, this is week one.
07:53Again, they need to establish something too.
07:56That's going to be my line all night.
07:58Kenneth Walker doesn't play tonight and A.J. Brown does.
08:01These are different football teams.
08:04Completely different.
08:05Whole new season.
08:07Target on back type situations now.
08:10And so they've got to go reestablish and go on their own healthy, connected journey to see if they can
08:18reposition themselves to go after it again.
08:21Well, in Seattle trying to defend the championship and the Rams are trying to defend their unbelievably short odds as
08:28favorites to win the NFL.
08:30So you're right about targets on the back.
08:32And for the Niners, it's not a free swing at it because it's a divisional game and you want to
08:37go out there and win.
08:38And, you know, you devoted yourself to be there a week early to get fully ready for this ball game.
08:42But if worse comes to worst and, you know, put injuries aside, but you went all the way down there
08:47and you lose to the Rams.
08:49Well, you're 0-1 and 0-1 teams have been able to make it to the Super Bowl.
08:53I don't know that any team that we see play this week will be the team that they are now
08:59when we get to December.
09:02None of them.
09:03No, it's impossible.
09:04None of them.
09:04Right.
