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Willard and Dibs debate if the 49ers should try to trade for either Jonathan Taylor or Garrett Wilson. What would that look like?
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00:00I want to understand um and I it's not that I don't understand um 49er fans want good players
00:08on the team and and you also want insulation from injury which doesn't exist I know you want it I
00:16would love it too it doesn't exist you can't pile up 10 wide receivers in the room who are all
00:21worthy of game day action and tell five of them to sit there and wait for the other ones to
00:26get
00:27hurt I wish you could do that I don't think that's good business I don't think the 49ers will do
00:31that
00:31but um even if we put aside Jonathan Taylor because a lot of people are asking who's saying
00:37Jonathan Taylor well uh actually plenty of callers this morning on our station um plenty of people
00:43Joe Shasky said yeah two firsts I get it done I just I don't understand it's not that anybody's
00:52not all in on this year I just don't understand um why you would go shopping at the absolute top
01:01of
01:01the market to in my opinion create more problems than you fix you can address wide receiver without
01:09giving up first round draft picks bringing in people who are making 30 million dollars for
01:14multiple years into 2029 at a position that you have addressed with a lot of capital recently
01:21with a quarterback who is about to have a contract that absolutely balloons and then the entire flow
01:28don't forget this offense that that everyone needs to fix it's number one it's the number one offense in
01:34the NFL that you're all trying to fix even with the injuries and Mike Evans has missed one game he
01:41missed
01:41one game the chemistry the the training camp all of the work that all of these guys have done
01:48to get on the same page know the offense and run like a damn motor you want to disrupt that
01:55and
01:56play Madden and go get Garrett Wilson and Jonathan Taylor um look if I'm wrong I'll stand here and say
02:04it I don't think the Niners are going to do that I don't think the Jets are going to do
02:08that I don't
02:09want them to do that I think it's very poor asset management as I said on Instagram earlier today
02:14this is not Madden this is real life and that would be a bad move yeah San Francisco 49ers I
02:20agree with
02:20you if it's going to cost you a day one pick and even a day two pick so I'm looking
02:25further down
02:26the board and I do think that Mooney Ward becomes an interesting name somebody who could come in and
02:31help you with the corner position because as I look at this team and it's a little bit of recency
02:36bias when you had two pressures against Atlanta but we've all said you need interior defensive line
02:41help you've gotten that you need another edge rusher if you can again you don't have to go top
02:46of the market Keon White was a day three pick and a swap and he's turned out to be more
02:52than serviceable
02:52he's a good rotational piece so I look at defensive end get somebody who can rush the passer and I
02:59look
02:59at cornerback get somebody who could come in Upton Stout was out and that shined a bright light on just
03:05how important he is because Jack Jones not to you know go after a guy who got released today but
03:10he was clearly a gigantic step down and you can't have that no doubt no doubt so listen the one
03:16thing I I find this whole thing super calming and and comforting I the 49ers are going to be
03:23aggressive they already have been they've used a fourth round pick they got to Forrest Buckner
03:26uh we saw that coming they did it uh there's still almost two weeks to go uh if you read
03:33the tea leaves
03:33that are all out there I would suggest the 49ers are not done I like I I very very much
03:41firmly believe
03:41they are not done and they're aware of their needs probably even better than we are um but that's
03:47just that's something that I wanted to throw out there like I I I understand that there are injury
03:54questions or even if you want to let's talk Dajon Stribbling for a minute for example let's talk about
04:00him for a second I think Kyle came out and said uh December it's looking like December so it's week
04:05what is it week seven slash eight right now and I think that for a while now it's been tracking
04:10toward
04:1112 13 agreed yeah I think that's where that's going but the other three receivers are very likely
04:15to be back this week or next week I should say their next game against the Las Vegas Raiders um
04:22but I
04:23keep hearing people go you know this Stribbling kid hasn't done anything and I go you know what I don't
04:28I
04:28don't like that statement um because as a rookie um earning a starting job and a lot of snaps week
04:38one in another country is really hard to do in a Kyle Shanahan system to earn that guy's trust at
04:45that
04:45position that early plus all of the things that we saw in preseason games in camp the buzz from
04:52teammates from the NFL media etc etc I believe the 49ers have a really good player there now what does
05:01that mean for this year maybe not a ton although I do think he's going to play football for the
05:0849ers
05:08for the final month of the regular season and and into the playoffs and and all of that and I
05:14I want that
05:15guy playing that is somebody that I do not want to now just suddenly you use the first pick of
05:22the
05:22second round on him and now because the Niners won six of seven games some of you seemingly want to
05:27give
05:27up on his spot in this organization for the next five years for Garrett Wilson because you're so like
05:37now's the only thing that matters yes I'm all in but now is never the only thing that matters that's
05:44not how you run a biz right and who's to say that Garrett Wilson now will be better than what
05:50you
05:50already have and you know Debo comes back and you know what he is can he be durable enough to
05:55play the
05:55whole season I don't know but Garrett Wilson is somebody who's going to come in and need to be that
06:00wide receiver one and that job is taken you always say that like that job has been taken and right
06:05now
06:05the job that's not taken is wide receivers four five and six and right now you've got Watkins and
06:12cooks and cowing in those spots and Watkins you get to stay cowing I think they're waiting for one
06:17person who can catch a punt away so maybe he goes back to the inactive list and you know Brandon
06:22cooks is going to be the first guy out once somebody gets healthy just because it's a numbers game and
06:28the rest of it but when you get Robinson back and Debo back and Evans back and Kirk we'll see
06:34if he
06:34actually you know ever materializes into the player that he once was but your room's already
06:39getting full you don't need to bring in a 30 million dollar guy who's here long term I'm so
06:43with you and I I just we've watched this in sports we've watched this so many times when we when
06:50when
06:50teams play Madden and and and we just for some reason every time it doesn't work we forget and we
06:57it's like yeah Garrett Wilson and Jonathan Taylor Super Bowl I I mean maybe do you know how many
07:04running backs and this is a fact you used to work with one I know he was a fullback but
07:09running backs
07:10aren't the same if you only give them eight carries a game they're not the same but a big part
07:16of what
07:16Jonathan Taylor does is wear down a defense good point that 21st carry is when he pow he pops and
07:24he goes
07:25for 45 yards and scores well you're not doing that if you're just like we're so terrified of injury
07:30let's get three players let's get three stars at every position so that we're ready well what are
07:36you telling Jonathan Taylor when he's getting seven carries a game because Christian McCaffrey's here too
07:41and he's healthy what are you telling Christian McCaffrey what are you telling Kalon Black who you like
07:46who's good I just fumbled so so did Christian so did George I mean they all fumbled jeez like
07:54they have the best offense in football can we ride yeah let's ride like yes so like let's augment
08:02you know Jennings is a perfect answer but I just don't know if the Vikings are gonna have they're
08:07not gonna help the Niners they're undefeated but like he's actually starting to contribute in
08:12Minnesota a little bit he's starting to use him a little bit more and when you're 6-0 you're not
08:16thinking about trading a guy to help a brother out we're gonna help out our possible NFC championship
08:22game opponent that isn't gonna happen and you always say this cross-conference okay we can shop
08:28at the top of the market if we want but to me it doesn't make sense in terms of draft
08:33capital and
08:34future financial assets that you would have to spend Brian Thomas to me is is if you want someone
08:40that's got a little shine on him that's the answer and I don't know what he'll cost I actually
08:47don't know if the Jags want to get rid of him but he's still on a rookie deal it doesn't
08:52have a lot of
08:53time left so there's flexibility there and yes he could be tucked into the future here get a look
09:00then you can see if you want to resign him later as Pearsall might be coming up Stribbling will have
09:07more time to figure that out and uh and Mike Evans may be getting close to retirement at that point
09:12so that one to me like I can wrap my head around that I have no idea what the cost
09:17would be and I
09:18have no idea what the Niners evaluation would be that's the other thing that we forget in this
09:22receivers are not just all wide receivers like does he fit does he fit what they do does he fit
09:28what
09:28they need does he block why did he fall out of favor in Jacksonville fair first round draft pick
09:34and all they've done since then is acquire more wide receivers especially with an offensive minded
09:39head coach now a new regime and the Jacksonville offense has been better and you know they're using
09:44Parker Washington and they're not really throwing it to beat TJ very often they didn't even play him
09:50in the second half of their most recent game they just had him and he's sitting on uh next year
09:55is his
09:55final year then there's a club option and the cap hits about four and a half million so you know
10:00what
10:00okay so eight at eight nine five seven nine five seventy I think both of us are abundantly aware
10:05there's a lot of Niner fans that don't agree with what we're saying someone just texted hey how about
10:11one of you play devil's advocate hey how about you do you got a phone triple eight nine five seven
10:16ninety five seventy like I we're not gonna be inauthentic exactly this is what I think this is
10:22what dibs thinks and I like I got one of my closest friends on the on the whatsapp thread last
10:28night
10:28Garrett Wilson I'm like no dog and here's why and we went back and forth there's a conversation
10:34there Garrett Wilson's a really good player I like Garrett Wilson he does not in my opinion
10:39make sense for the 49ers right now does another wide receiver maybe maybe sure but like that's all
10:46I just don't see this Madden game that so many people seem to want to play as we approach the
10:54deadline I like the Niners to play Niners not Madden and I like them to play Niners the way
10:59that Shanahan does he's your head coach and they love to do a lot of two running back and one
11:03tight
11:04end and even some two running back two tight end they don't do a lot of three wide receivers so
11:09you're gonna have this room full of guys all of them are wide receivers all of them presumably want
11:14the ball thrown to them and by and large it's still gonna be Mike Evans in a third down spot
11:19a lot
11:19McCaffrey a lot of Kittle so if you bring somebody in they're gonna have to be able to sublimate their
11:25ego and not expect 10 targets a game