00:00Organizations begin to separate themselves.
00:03Ball is loose in the end zone!
00:06Do the Niners have it? They do!
00:08It's a touchdown!
00:10Grayson Halton! Holy cow!
00:13Now, back to
00:15Dillard and Wibbs
00:16on 95.7 The Game.
00:20Um, Burkhardt, Fox.
00:24Holy cow's right.
00:26Halton, Fox.
00:28Touchdown!
00:29Brady, Burkhardt, Halton
00:32on Fox.
00:34Force, recover,
00:36score, and
00:38I don't know, if you think about the greatest
00:40moments in your athletic life
00:42to be a pro football player
00:43to force it, to find it,
00:46to grab it, to score it.
00:48Like, I don't know if there's anything
00:50that could possibly be better
00:52than that as a defensive player.
00:54Oh, dude. That's the
00:56fat boy four right there that
00:58you just came up with.
00:59And I was thinking about that.
01:00That does it.
01:01TJ Watt, earlier this year,
01:02he kind of broke through
01:03and he jumped up and he caught it
01:05and grabbed it.
01:06He's like, end zone?
01:07Me? Me and you, end zone?
01:09I'm on my way.
01:10Touchdown.
01:10But to be one of these
01:11really big, like,
01:12all you do your whole life
01:13as a football player
01:14is the ball is snapped,
01:16you're getting mauled
01:17by at least one guy,
01:19maybe two,
01:19and, you know,
01:21if you're able to break through
01:22and maybe get a TFL,
01:24tackle for loss,
01:25great,
01:25but he's able to go in,
01:27you know,
01:27and jar it
01:28and get it
01:29and score it.
01:29Like, wow!
01:30Who's my left tackle
01:32for the Atlanta Falcons
01:34that got the tackle-eligible call
01:36in the end zone yesterday?
01:37Jake Matthews.
01:38Jake Matthews.
01:39And they threw it to him
01:40and he jumped.
01:41He didn't need to jump.
01:43He jumped too early
01:44and the big boy
01:45put his hands on it.
01:47Whoop!
01:48And it went right through him.
01:49I was sitting there
01:50live on the air
01:51with former left tackle
01:52Ephraim Salam
01:53and it hurt his heart so bad.
01:56He's like,
01:56do you understand?
01:58We wait our whole lives.
02:01He goes,
02:02we do this in practice
02:03all the time.
02:03He goes,
02:04do you know how many touchdowns
02:05I caught in practice?
02:07I must have caught
02:08an infinite number
02:09of touchdowns in practice.
02:10They never threw it
02:12to me in the game.
02:12He had no targets?
02:13None.
02:14And he goes,
02:15my man had his moment
02:16on Sunday night football.
02:19Whoop!
02:19Bo went right through his hands.
02:20Right through.
02:21Not gonna try that again.
02:22Not with you.
02:23Not with you.
02:25Not with you.
02:26Woo!
02:27Grayson Halton,
02:28though, dude.
02:29I was thinking about that
02:30because
02:31Mike Ditka,
02:32rest in peace.
02:33Like,
02:33the reason why we know
02:34William the Refrigerator Perry
02:36is because
02:37he got to be
02:38that dude
02:39on offense.
02:40Much like,
02:40you know,
02:42Ephraim never did
02:43and,
02:43you know,
02:43the Falcons tackle yesterday
02:45had his chance
02:45but the fridge
02:46became the fridge
02:47because he got the rock.
02:49The fridge,
02:49they would just
02:49put him in the backfield
02:50and hand it off
02:51and don't get Guru started
02:52because I know
02:53he's still pissed
02:53to this day
02:54that they're not
02:54giving Walter Payton
02:56touchdowns in the Super Bowl.
02:57But,
02:58anyway,
02:598 at 8,
02:599-5-7,
03:009-5-70,
03:01I can't tell you,
03:02you know,
03:02this job,
03:03the fact that
03:04the two of us
03:05get to do this
03:05after a game like that
03:07and just sit here
03:07all afternoon
03:08and talk to Niner fans
03:10after that experience,
03:12that is just
03:14an unbelievable gift.
03:16So,
03:16let's do it.
03:17Let's just keep
03:18hearing from you.
03:198 at 8,
03:199-5-7,
03:209-5-70,
03:22Prince in Oakland.
03:23Hi, Prince.
03:24Thanks for the call.
03:26Hey,
03:27thanks for having me,
03:27man.
03:28First off,
03:28bang,
03:29bang,
03:29Niner game.
03:30We need that.
03:31I mean,
03:32we needed that
03:33for our confidence.
03:35First off,
03:36why I'm calling
03:37this about Kyle Shanahan.
03:38First off,
03:39it felt like
03:39he got a monkey
03:40off of his back.
03:41I don't know
03:41if it was the third quarter
03:42or the fourth quarter
03:44where they kept
03:44the camera on him.
03:45It felt like
03:46in real time
03:47they kept the camera
03:48on him for like
03:4810 minutes.
03:49That's what it felt like,
03:50but you see how much
03:51this game meant to him.
03:53I'm a real Niner fan.
03:55I'm not a Niner fan
03:55that remembers every game,
03:56but I don't recall
03:58Shanahan coming back
03:59from a game
04:00where the momentum
04:01did like this.
04:02It was a five-point game.
04:04It felt like
04:04we were down 15.
04:05I don't,
04:06he was arguing
04:07with the ref.
04:08Yep.
04:08Literally,
04:09while we were on offense,
04:10I said,
04:10Kyle,
04:11are you going to call
04:11the play?
04:12Are you going to call
04:13the play,
04:13Kyle?
04:14Like,
04:14look,
04:14for him,
04:15and I think
04:15that was the drive
04:16where he had
04:17Mike Evans
04:18all down the field,
04:20and I think
04:21he got angry.
04:22He said,
04:22forget all that.
04:23I forget all the strategy.
04:24I'm throwing it up
04:25to Mike.
04:26And I just,
04:26honestly,
04:27and I'm going to skip this
04:28because I'm a real Niner fan.
04:30I think we're going to win
04:31the Super Bowl
04:31just because of this.
04:32Just because Kyle,
04:33it's all about Kyle
04:34just last season
04:35when we got blew out.
04:36It's the offense
04:37that looked crazy.
04:38The defense
04:38don't always look bad.
04:40We look,
04:40I mean,
04:41we're not the best
04:41since 2019,
04:42but we don't look bad.
04:44It's about this offense
04:45needing to come through
04:47and get that gorilla
04:48off of his back
04:49and which is that
04:50Mike McDonald off,
04:51I mean,
04:52defense.
04:52Thank you guys.
04:53Hey Prince,
04:54thank you.
04:55You're bringing up something
04:56that I think
04:57is a wonderful observation
04:58and this is where
05:00it gets nuanced
05:01because I know
05:02that a lot of us
05:04are thinking,
05:04okay,
05:05the trip to Seattle,
05:06it's got to look different
05:07and it did.
05:08So they exercised the demon
05:09and all of those things,
05:11but it goes deeper than that.
05:12Did you notice
05:14the meaning
05:15behind the way
05:17that the 49ers
05:19won that game?
05:20So the 49ers
05:22that you've all known
05:23in the Kyle Shanahan era,
05:26how does it go
05:27when you're in a hostile environment
05:30against another
05:31really,
05:32really good opponent
05:33and you,
05:34you have the lead,
05:35you have that
05:37eight to 10 point lead
05:38and then it goes away
05:40and now
05:42you're trailing
05:43by a score
05:44in the fourth quarter.
05:46Oh,
05:46in the fourth quarter.
05:47Deep in your own territory
05:48in a game
05:49where neither team
05:51has gone
05:52on a lengthy
05:53touchdown drive
05:54the entire day,
05:56all of the touchdowns
05:57were coming off
05:58of turnovers.
05:59All of them.
06:00Go look it up.
06:01Nobody scored a touchdown
06:02when it wasn't off
06:03of a turnover.
06:03Couple field goals,
06:04but no touchdowns
06:06unless it was off
06:07of a turnover.
06:08All of them.
06:09And you get the ball
06:10at your own
06:1126 yard line
06:13and you're down
06:14by five
06:15and it's the fourth quarter.
06:17I know it might've been
06:18the third when it started,
06:19but it quickly became
06:20the fourth quarter
06:22and your coach
06:24and your quarterback
06:26with multiple penalties
06:28on the drive
06:29to continue
06:30to knock them backwards,
06:32marched down the field
06:34for 74 yards,
06:36got a touchdown,
06:38added the two point conversion
06:39and flipped the game.
06:42is that not
06:43everything
06:44that they have
06:46dealt with
06:46in terms of criticism
06:48about what they
06:49could not do?
06:51That drive,
06:52I would argue,
06:54is damn near
06:56one of the most important
06:58regular season drives
06:59that have happened
07:01in the Kyle Shanahan era.
07:02It's certainly not
07:03more important
07:03than Jimmy's drive
07:04to make the playoffs
07:05against the Rams
07:07six years ago.
07:08I get that.
07:09I'm not going to call it
07:10the most.
07:11But that is right up there
07:13with the most significant
07:15regular season drives
07:17of the last decade
07:19of 49er football.
07:20And it's because of,
07:21for me anyway,
07:22what preceded it,
07:23which is,
07:24you know,
07:24the Niners get the ball
07:25and they're up by five.
07:27Seattle gets a field goal.
07:28It's one,
07:30two,
07:30three plays
07:31and a bad pick
07:32for your guy,
07:33Brock,
07:34throws a bad pick
07:35and then they score
07:35in three plays.
07:36They have the lead.
07:37You get it back
07:38and it's a bad return.
07:39It's a good catch
07:40by Kittle
07:41and then Debo
07:42and the hammy
07:42and the fumble.
07:43And so in an eight play span,
07:45you turn it over twice
07:46and they had scored
07:47a touchdown in there as well.
07:48And then it's the defense
07:50that stands up.
07:51The defense.
07:52It's first and 10
07:53at the Niners 36
07:54and already they're
07:56in field goal range.
07:57Great.
07:57But you want to obviously
07:59keep them out of the end zone,
08:00which they did.
08:01It was three two yard gains
08:03and then they kick it
08:04and you're only down five.
08:05And what happened after that
08:06is exactly what you were describing.
08:08And I love the fact
08:09that the caller pointed out
08:10how mad Kyle was
08:11because that game
08:12was slipping away from them
08:14and you come out
08:15and cowing as the return.
08:17He gets hurt.
08:18The first play
08:19is offensive pass interference,
08:21which it was.
08:22Kyle is so mad at that
08:23and they didn't reset
08:25the clock properly
08:26or even Dean Blandino
08:28on the broadcast said
08:28it didn't seem like
08:30that that was the right amount of time.
08:31So they have to call timeout.
08:33And so now he's mother jumping the refs
08:34and it's first and 20
08:36and he had to burn the timeout
08:37and you're thinking,
08:38OK, this it was a good game
08:40for three quarters.
08:41It's not going well.
08:41It's going to slip away.
08:42And then it's, you know,
08:4415 yards for Evans
08:45on a great throw
08:46and then CMC for four.
08:48And they actually went
08:48to the tush push,
08:49which I don't know
08:50if I've seen the Niners
08:52do that more than a few times ever,
08:54but they went straight up
08:56tush push to get it.
08:57And then they kept matriculating it.
08:59The bad intentional grounding.
09:01And even at that,
09:02they shook that off
09:03and still got the touchdown.
09:05That drive.
09:06That's the drive
09:06that I'm thinking about
09:07another drive.
09:08And you're right.
09:08Like the Jimmy G drive
09:09to make the playoffs.
09:11You'd be hard pressed
09:12to find another drive
09:13like that
09:14where you face
09:15that adversity
09:15in whatever.
09:17It's week five.
09:17I get it.
09:18It's not the Super Bowl,
09:19but that game had a lot
09:20of emotional
09:21and psychological import
09:23that a normal week five game
09:24wouldn't.
09:25I hope everybody
09:26is really receiving
09:29everything that you just said.
09:31That was,
09:3249er fans,
09:34the drive
09:35you've been waiting for.
09:36It's the drive
09:37you've been telling them
09:38they can't do.
09:40It's the drive
09:40you've been wanting
09:41Kyle Shanahan
09:42to make.
09:43It's the drive
09:44that you've been wanting
09:46Brock Purdy to show you.
09:48And it all happened
09:49in Seattle
09:50in the place
09:51where you've been waiting
09:52for it to happen.
09:53And it all happened.
09:54And it wasn't
09:55in the last second
09:56because there were
09:57two more drives
09:57that still needed to happen.
09:59And so maybe that's why
10:00it won't get the attention.
10:01But understand,
10:03that's the drive
10:04this fan base
10:05has been waiting for.
10:06And it happened
10:07at the perfect time
10:08against the perfect team.
10:10Yeah.
10:11Incredible.
