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00:03 The season for the 49ers for you, successful?
00:07 Yes, they went to the Super Bowl, a little bit of a rocky road in the middle.
00:10 But talk to me about your thoughts on the 2023 49ers here.
00:14 >> I think you have to view them as a success.
00:18 I mean, if you had told them after trading up to draft Trey Lance,
00:24 the third overall pick, that Lance would never start a playoff game for them.
00:27 That they would trade him away for a fourth round pick just to get him off
00:31 the team because it was a distraction to have him around.
00:34 And that they would still play for a Super Bowl while Trey Lance was on his
00:39 rookie contract.
00:40 I think, a year into that, they would have been like, my gosh, absolutely.
00:44 We will take that, not even knowing that it was because they took Brock Purdy with
00:48 the last pick of the NFL draft that they ended up getting there.
00:53 No, they're a team that is gonna have some real tough decisions when it gets to
00:56 free agency and restructuring their contracts.
00:59 Brandon Iuk's brother posted on Instagram the other day that he wants,
01:03 that Iuk wants to be a Raider.
01:06 And you kind of have to wonder how much of the guys on the team wanna be paying for
01:10 more, how many of them are happy with the way the offensive system is set up.
01:14 George Kittle, I mean, we talked about Kelsey getting old.
01:17 Kittle is gonna be 31, and he kind of plays more of a bruising,
01:21 fast-paced style than Kelsey ever did.
01:24 So maybe his age peak, maybe George Kittle's already past his age peak.
01:28 Certainly, it is possible that that would be the case.
01:32 Christian McCaffrey is gonna be 29 years old next season,
01:36 coming off of a season where he touched the ball over 400 times,
01:39 both as a rusher and a receiver for 20 games.
01:42 He had that lower body injury to end the year that seemed to impact his
01:46 performance a little bit.
01:47 And normally, we would say, well, the running back, like whatever,
01:51 he stick Elijah Mitchell back there, it's gonna be fine.
01:53 I think McCaffrey is pretty central to the offensive identity for
01:57 the 49ers.
01:57 And even if they would still be a good offense,
02:00 they would have to change the way they played offense if McCaffrey was less
02:03 effective next year.
02:05 And I certainly don't think you can count on him heading into his age 30 season.
02:08 That would be, if McCaffrey is still as good when he is 30 as he was when he was
02:12 28, I would be stunned.
02:14 Not saying it's impossible, cuz he is one of those guys who is built different.
02:19 But it's definitely gonna be a feeling of a near miss, right?
02:25 Everyone in that building is like, man, that was a pretty good shot to get it done.
02:29 And now we gotta kinda go back to square one and start building.
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