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Willard and Dibs react to the 49ers' 38-17 win over the Raiders to improve to 7-1. They won by 21 points, but how well did they play and where do they need help ahead of tomorrow's trade deadline?
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00:00the 49ers won by double digits and they are they are seven and one and they have an opportunity
00:07to be running this conference especially if Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills win tonight
00:12which means you need to make a pick yeah the pick is in and I just I wonder about the
00:17whole idea
00:17about the defense yesterday like was the defense good and you asked this about the Warriors last
00:22week are the Warriors good yeah do it again like was the defense good yesterday and for me it comes
00:28down to what you actually look at in terms of what is good and what's not good did the Raiders
00:33have a
00:33chance to move the ball a bunch and score a few times yeah but the Niner defense they got five
00:40turnovers in the second half so that for me that's beyond good so for me I thought the defense was
00:46very good so I get where you're coming from I also get the idea that like Kirk Cousins was too
00:52clean
00:53and that's the way the 49ers run their defense they run it from the defensive line back and they
01:00were rotating safeties throughout the game because Marquis Siegel was back therefore you know I don't
01:07know if anybody was able to really get into a flow the linebackers were awesome they are Fred Warner
01:12Dre Greenlaw and Jaden Duggar and they were awesome and the rest of the defense I thought was
01:17slightly underwhelming they were saved by turnovers that's great they get credit for that
01:24all I think this is a result of the bar that's what I would say the bar for this football
01:33team
01:33has been set very very high and I think that as Niner fans we're just gonna have to accept that
01:40this
01:40year and the Niners will have to accept that and I think that they do and so what does that
01:45mean
01:46that means that you could win a game by 21 and have people come in the next day and feel
01:52critical
01:52and uncomfortable I'm not saying that's right but that's just that's where it is people look at this
01:59group and the way they're going about their business and the names they have in certain spots
02:03and they want this to look perfect and it's not always going to look perfect so you're not wrong
02:11I don't I don't disagree with you like what are we doing here 38 17 and we're like yeah like
02:17that's
02:18stupid five takeaways right like five takeaways and a half but I think you also understand what I'm saying
02:24which is just this year we're gonna have to accept the fact that kind of like Grandy's grades like
02:33every single position group is gonna have to get an A or an A minus for people to come in
02:39the next day
02:40and feel great so you're gonna get 38 17 but you're gonna be like but zero sacks and you let
02:46that kick
02:46return run around one time right and that's a whole different thing okay special teams is a whole
02:51different category and I didn't see his grades yet it's probably an F oh because that's what he does but
03:02the lefty kicking punter didn't even get a chance to get out there he had a ticket to the game
03:07Jacob
03:07cowing actually didn't fumble he didn't even get a chance to touch it on on a punt return so whatever
03:13about special teams I thought defensively when you are able to generate turnovers and yes you're about
03:19to have them score a touchdown and you punch it out of the goal line and that's not great the
03:25fact that
03:25they had a what 30 something 24 yard catch and run and they're gonna score but you punch it out
03:31and on the sideline Brock Bowers was a menace in that game and you punched it out again so those
03:38are
03:38things when I look at it defensively did you have any sacks no did you really disrupt a lot of
03:43things
03:43about their offense no but the Raiders didn't run it Washington or Gentile or anybody else look
03:49Brock Bowers is just a phenomenal phenomenal football player baby Kittle
03:55dude um he's gonna be a hall of famer I know he's very young he just needs to stay healthy
04:00but that
04:00dude is a special special football player and so sometimes you got to acknowledge that like he he's
04:06a tough cover but here's why I will back the 49er defense yes I'd love to see an addition yes
04:13I'd love
04:14to see Nick Bosa more at the height of his powers yes I'd love to see the defense be a
04:18little bit more
04:20intimidating than it is but I will back the defense because they have an identity and they stick to it
04:26and that is you are not going over the top you are going to have to pick your way all
04:33the way down
04:34the field that's what they do and it's hard it's doable but it's hard so when you look at 49er
04:42games
04:42this year um even some of the games where you feel like some people after the commander game they were
04:47like oh Jaden started to he started to move the ball they they got 17 points well Kirk Cousins and
04:54Brock Bowers were they got 17 points how many times has somebody scored over 20 points against the 49ers
05:03this year well the Cardinals in catch-up mode back in week three and then that completely out-of-pocket
05:10Seahawks game where people were turning the ball over back and forth at one another and giving each other
05:15a short field and then the game that they lost um which you had them losing back in March yep
05:21yeah I
05:22mean or whenever the hell whatever yeah so they're not they're not they're not the best defense in the
05:27league um but I think they have a philosophy they are sticking to it and it's a good philosophy could
05:34they improve yes do they need to yes but I don't think if you're coming in today and being like
05:40this
05:41group they suck they don't they don't they don't suck and they did not have a bad game yesterday and
05:45you get credit for the turnovers they created you do and if you look at the plus minus around the
05:50national football league they are number two in point differential only Jacksonville with a plus 108
05:56which is a monster through eight games though the only one that's better and they've they're giving up
06:01about 20 points a game the Niners are and they're scoring just about well more than 30 points a game
06:07they've got eight games and just about 30 a game it's about 29 so you're about a plus nine every
06:14single game so we can sit here and pick and pick and nitpick and all the rest of it yesterday
06:19was
06:19the offense was unstoppable and the defense was bend but don't break and when it came time to make a
06:25play they made five of them in the second half just remember how privileged it is to show up on
06:31a
06:31Monday morning your team won by three touchdowns they were a massive favorite and they covered the spread
06:38twice so how privileged is it to be like i didn't really like a little bit yeah i didn't like
06:47okay okay just that's all i'm saying and you're not wrong like we'll we we are here on a victory
06:54Monday to talk every single piece of this out you know the deal it's Monday there's a ton going on
06:59brandon iuk's been reinstated it's our last chance by the way we'll do it throughout the day to talk
07:05about the trade deadline because by the time we get in here tomorrow it's already done it happens
07:09at one o'clock tomorrow so what should the niners do is a piece of our show today for sure
07:16um so we'll
07:17talk all of this out good and bad that was what i posted on instagram yesterday i'm like you got
07:22to
07:22take the bad with the good and the good with the bad but you're never ever ever to me gonna
07:27walk away
07:28with a net negative when you won a game by 21 points to get to seven and one like that
07:35just
07:35first so for me don't lose sight of that and then yeah let's let's go position by position and and
07:42talk
07:42this out um your phone calls eight at eight nine five seven nine five seventy and no reason to waste
07:48any time let's go john in dublin is first up today hi john thanks for the call hi how are
07:54you
07:54we're great we're great it's victory monday john that's great yeah happy happy victory monday i'm
08:00happy they won and um you know i have nothing to complain about i'm kind of a i was kind
08:06of iffy
08:07on purdy you know but once if you put up 38 points with the with like the third string receivers
08:12i
08:12have nothing to complain about you know but um the most the thing i want to talk about right now
08:17is
08:18just the trade deadline you know um it really like pisses me off i'm not gonna lie when i see
08:24teams like the jaguars and bears give up picks for um for these good players and you know and john
08:32lynch i feel like he's a guy who really does not he's like really stingy like he likes to get
08:36a bang
08:36for his buck on a lot of these trades and so what if you overpay on a lot of the
08:41picks you know get
08:42these good players go in this is your best shot trent williams is getting super old
08:46hitle's getting old this team probably won't make the playoffs next season so
08:49just go all in everyone's getting old and um over the pace you have to i don't care john can
08:56i ask
08:56can i ask you a question because you're in a very general mode on this who who for who like
09:02i i get
09:03and again this is the point i made in the crossover i think it's very easy for fans to just
09:08be like
09:08bleep it just start hucking assets everywhere which i would argue is complete mismanagement of
09:15a franchise is the willingness to do it for a great player there i'd say so but you got to
09:22put
09:22a name on it john who do you want yeah i agree i agree you know you can't just it's
09:27not it's not as
09:28easy as just like in madden just trade yeah there's like you need to manage a lot of things i
09:32know
09:33but they need to they need to get like they need to get help on the just get it i
09:39would like i'd be
09:39happy with one receiver doesn't have to be wilson or pick and just maybe like downs or um and good
09:46got on the defensive line since grace and halton got hurt just one last thing like i grew up in
09:51the
09:51bay area my parents picked the right city when they immigrated so that's a good thing um but i'm
09:57super like i'm so emotionally invested in this team i really want to see him win a super bowl
10:01yeah just in my lifetime i want to be one i was born in 07 and i've seen a lot
10:06of disappointment
10:07you know the one in 2023 i was damn near shedding a tear i'm not gonna lie i get it
10:12i just want to
10:12see them win one all i want is one not asking for 10 or whatever just one i'll be happy
10:18with my life
10:19john uh hang in there they're gonna get it while you're alive um and they might get it in february
10:25uh they're already seven and one with the people they have um and then when you brought up names
10:29those those were not those were not in fact you only brought up one name and that's not a first
10:34or
10:34second round draft capital type guy downs in josh downs he's a really good player um and i think he
10:39fits but um we'll see we'll see what the colts are still willing to do they kind of want reportedly
10:45a
10:45fourth rounder for downs and i think the colts already have the 49ers fourth rounder uh because that
10:50was deforest buckner so i get again the concept i get it do you want him to be
10:55aggressive but if you want all the chips in the middle of the table that's my question for who
10:59if the name is max crosby i'm with you i'm with you let's do it i i don't know if
11:05the raiders are
11:06making him available i have no idea i would highly doubt it with a first year head coach and
11:10a quarterback that you just drafted and you're trying to build the team so you have your quarterback
11:15you have your new coach you've got your edge rusher why would you part with any of that
11:19um i mean it's a time and place and a contractual thing and all that like the raiders are where
11:24they are but at some point this is going to become a a very young quarterback's team i don't think
11:30they're a super bowl contender over the next two to three years they're better do you know what i
11:34mean so all i'm saying is that they may but even if they want to make him available would they
11:38make
11:38him available to the niners no chance probably not i i agree with you