Game Breakdown: 49ers Shoot Themselves in The Foot, Fall to Browns 19-17
Breaking down the San Francisco 49ers' 19-17 upset loss to the Cleveland Browns.
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00:00 Niners give up 160 rushing yards on the ground.
00:02 It's no coincidence that that happened
00:04 when Dre Greenlaw didn't play.
00:06 Fred Warner's a great linebacker,
00:08 and he's better than Dre.
00:09 Eh, I wanna say he's better than Dre.
00:12 He's great in coverage.
00:14 He's like a big safety.
00:15 He had an interception today.
00:16 He might be the best coverage linebacker I've ever seen.
00:19 He shuts down the middle of the field.
00:20 You might as well just don't look there.
00:22 Side lines, underneath, can't throw over the middle against.
00:25 How you getting the ball over Fred Warner's head, you can't.
00:27 He's that good.
00:29 People just avoid him.
00:30 But without Dre Greenlaw in the field,
00:32 Niners couldn't stop the run.
00:35 4.7 yards per carry and 160 yards in the ground.
00:37 Like, they were getting dragged around by Kareem Hunt.
00:41 Fred Warner too.
00:44 Fred Warner doesn't exactly always deliver blows.
00:48 He's a little bit of like a catcher.
00:51 He'll catch players, grab 'em,
00:54 wrestle 'em to the ground, get dragged, often.
00:58 You know who doesn't catch players?
00:59 I'm quizzing the class.
01:03 You know who doesn't catch players?
01:05 That's right.
01:07 Who said it?
01:08 That was you, Dre Greenlaw.
01:09 Nah, Dre Greenlaw hits players.
01:13 He delivers blows.
01:15 He delivers pain, violence.
01:17 And not many players in the league do that anymore.
01:20 Not many players in the Niners do that.
01:22 He does it.
01:23 He gets flagged for it.
01:25 But when he's on the field, you can't run on the Niners.
01:28 Because he'll hit the crap out of you.
01:30 Pardon my French.
01:31 You can say that on television.
01:34 When he's off the field,
01:36 who are you really afraid of getting hit by on the Niners?
01:39 Warner?
01:40 Hafunga?
01:42 Gibson?
01:44 Burks?
01:45 Not sure.
01:49 Greenlaw's essential to this team.
01:51 He's the tone setter.
01:54 He's what Dante Wittner was to the Vic Fangio defense
01:58 10 years ago.
02:00 The Hittner character.
02:02 That's Greenlaw.
02:03 And without him, you saw the Niners were
02:05 kind of soft on defense.
02:07 They played well.
02:08 160 yards on the ground.
02:09 Though you can't call yourself a solid defense
02:12 when you do that.
02:13 So without Greenlaw, they're kind of soft on defense.
02:18 They need Greenlaw back.
02:20 In the past, they'd have Aziz Al-Shayyar
02:21 who could play just as well as Greenlaw.
02:23 But without him, they got Oren Burks.
02:24 That guy's a special teams player.
02:26 He's not delivering the pain.
02:28 I wasn't scared of Oren Burks, except for me.
02:30 I'm scared of Oren Burks.
02:31 I'm scared of a lot of things.
02:32 Spiders?
02:33 The dark?
02:35 Oren Burks.
02:39 I'm terrified of Oren Burks.
02:40 But football players aren't.
02:43 They might be scared of Dre Greenlaw.
02:45 He hits hard.
02:46 They need Greenlaw back.
02:48 I wonder if he plays next week.
02:49 It's really important to them.
02:50 Hamstring injury.
02:51 They want to be safe.
02:53 Cautious.
02:54 Brother Bob drafted Moody for long field goals
02:56 and deep kickoff.
02:57 Scott neither.
02:58 Yeah.
03:01 Ethan M says more of a team loss or a purdy loss.
03:03 Team loss?
03:05 What about special teams?
03:06 If the rookie kicker could have made two kicks
03:12 instead of one, if he could have been two for three
03:14 instead of one for three, they win.
03:16 I don't think they should be thinking field goal
03:19 on second down, says 29er.
03:21 See what you mean?
03:21 Tyrell Thomas says, would you trade Devontae Adams
03:23 for Debo in a draft pick?
03:24 And Devontae's like 31.
03:27 But.
03:31 No, I don't know.
03:35 I don't know about that.
03:36 Rob Schneider says, I count four seconds every drop back.
03:38 D-line ain't it.
03:39 Okay.
03:41 Dazza says Mason ran five for 27 yards.
03:43 He can get more touches.
03:44 Yeah, he can.
03:46 Mike V. Skate says, do you think they could have used
03:48 GK and Juice Moore?
03:50 Nah, man, you're only allowed to give Kittle
03:52 one target a game.
03:52 Sorry.
03:54 One catch.
03:55 Dazza, no, he cannot.
03:56 Kyle wants to.
03:57 I'm not saying that.
04:00 LOL.
04:00 Forever.
04:03 Niner Forever says, Moody needs to walk home.
04:05 From Cleveland?
04:07 That's a really long walk.
04:08 It's a really long walk.
04:09 All right, guys, I'm done.
04:11 I got articles to put up on SI.
04:13 Check me out over there, si.com/NFL/49ers.
04:16 I'll be posting things the rest of the day.
04:19 Washington football, hanging out.
04:22 Sorry your team lost.
04:25 It's one game.
04:26 Suck it up.
04:29 You'll be all right.
04:30 Armchair QB1 says it was a team loss
04:31 in a series of unfortunate events.
04:33 Rookie kicker effects showed up.
04:34 Purdy got the team into a position to win.
04:37 Yeah, you could say this game, the Niners should have won.
04:39 And it was not a good performance by the Niners.
04:43 Like, what would you grade their overall performance
04:46 as a team in this game?
04:47 C-?
04:50 D-plus?
04:51 As a team.
04:52 And yeah, they should have won.
04:54 So that says something, right?
04:55 You get a C-D-plus performance from the Niners
04:57 and they should win on the road?
04:59 That's great.
05:01 You know why they should have won?
05:02 'Cause they're good.
05:02 They're better than the Browns.
05:04 That's why they should have won the game.
05:06 Because they're better than the Browns.
05:08 And yet they found a way to lose.
05:10 And a lot of that has to do with the backup.
05:12 Not the backup, the rookie kicker.
05:14 But who wanted 'em?
05:16 Who thought moving on from the guy who's never missed
05:20 a field goal in the playoffs for a rookie kicker
05:22 was a smart idea?
05:23 The Niners!
05:24 So, you have to think about it.
05:28 Give Robbie Gold a call, see if he answers.
05:30 What if he doesn't answer?
05:32 What if the Niners' number is blocked?
05:34 Have you thought about that?
05:36 They gotta figure it out.
05:39 Carrier pigeon.
05:41 Passenger pigeon.
05:43 Put a little note on like a fortune cookie piece of paper,
05:48 a little tiny little white piece of paper
05:50 you can roll up, put it on the pigeon's ankle.
05:53 Tape it to the pigeon.
05:54 Say, "Bring this to Robbie Gold, who lives in Chicago."
05:59 Pigeon will take it.
06:00 Pigeons are incredible.
06:03 All you gotta do, tell 'em where to go.
06:04 Kinda like the owls in Harry Potter, but real.
06:09 And even more magical.
06:10 I learned this from Ghost Dog, the way of the samurai.
06:13 He would only communicate via pigeon.
06:15 And that's how I'm gonna communicate from now on, pigeon.
06:18 Anyway, that's next level stuff.
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