Our Biggest Fear For The 49ers
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00:00Restaurant, Baldy at 730.
00:01Let me ask this one then, since the vibes are off with the 49ers.
00:07I'll ask the audience this, 888-957-9570.
00:10Now, this could change and maybe people just aren't ready for football season.
00:14But I said, what if I told you, Shaski,
00:18if the Niners this season with the way training camp has gotten off
00:21and it's been a terrible camp, there's no doubt about it,
00:23with all the injuries and the holdouts and the hold ins.
00:26If I told you, Shaski, hey, the 49ers
00:29aren't going to make the NFC Championship game,
00:31despite all this stuff happening, considering how hard it is,
00:35considering how teams are getting better within the conference,
00:37Green Bay, Detroit, Philadelphia, I think is going to be back.
00:40The Rams maybe has something to do with it.
00:42Teva Bay, they did make the playoffs last year to division around
00:45and they were a drive away from making the NFC Championship game.
00:48And they gave the Niners all they could handle in the regular season.
00:51If I said, Joe Shaski, the Niners are going to lose in the second round
00:54of the playoffs.
00:56What would you say?
00:57Would you be disappointed?
00:58In the second round, the divisional round?
01:00Yeah.
01:01Wow. I mean, that would tell me that they had to play a wild card game, probably.
01:05And, oh, man, that, yeah, it'd be pretty disappointing
01:08because you're also like zooming out at the big picture.
01:11Like, is that the last big run for this, this core?
01:16You know, given given the finances of where the team's at,
01:18the age of where the team's at and looking forward at
01:23like what Purdy's got going.
01:24Like what Purdy's got going.
01:25So, like, I keep coming back to this, like best player on the team,
01:28probably CMC if you pulled all the fans, right?
01:33Right.
01:33How many prime CMC years we got left?
01:37Don't know.
01:39Don't know.
01:39Will we ever see a season like last year?
01:42I wouldn't bet on that.
01:44Like if we if we just said, like, he's probably got two prime seasons left.
01:48Even that feels aggressive.
01:50It's the NFL.
01:50Like anything could happen at any time.
01:52And so like as long as CMC's here and you got Purdy and Shanahan,
01:56I feel pretty good.
01:57I feel pretty good about their chances of competing.
02:00And let's just start with winning the division, right?
02:01We know it's about winning the Super Bowl, but you got to win the division first
02:04or at least you hope to, because that's the easiest route
02:07to clinching a playoff game at home.
02:10I'd be really disappointed because this team is really top heavy.
02:14Now, one of the oldest rosters heading into the year and all blah, blah, blah.
02:19It's more like this team's been through so many unbelievably long
02:23and difficult seasons that it takes a punishing toll.
02:26And I just seen it with the hardball era.
02:29It is very difficult to pick yourself up
02:33after losing the Super Bowl and then go through the grind again
02:37and then do it year after year after year, physically, physically,
02:41as well as the emotional toll.
02:43Took him five years to go from one Super Bowl to the other.
02:46So, like, I would think we're probably in a two or three year
02:50like kind of reset.
02:51So with all that said, though, it would be sad.
02:54All that said, all that said, though, with Lizard, a Super Bowl,
02:57having a Super Bowl hangover in four or five years played deep into January,
03:01early February, it shouldn't be disappointing if, say,
03:06they didn't make the industry championship game.
03:09I. With all that data and, you know, when we talk about 400 guys
03:14who touched the ball for 400 times or 400 times a season,
03:18that next season really, you know, there's a drop off.
03:21And look, it wouldn't surprise anybody if McCaffrey didn't have this season
03:24and he had a year ago.
03:25Devo Samuel is yet to have the season that he had in 2021.
03:29Hell, Brennan, I may not have the season he had last year.
03:32George Kittle, has he ever replicated his great seasons from the early
03:36the late 2019, 2020?
03:39You don't say he did have a thousand yards last year.
03:40I was going to say last year is really good.
03:42He was really good.
03:43Will he replicate that?
03:44Now you got a new weapons that we'll see about Ricky Pierce.
03:46All of you contributes.
03:48We'll see about your watch ratings if it contributes.
03:50Well, Brock Purdy had to type season.
03:52He had last year was a dream year for the 40.
03:55Absolutely. A dream year.
03:56And they were relatively healthy all year, you know.
04:00So, yeah, like all those things are true.
04:03You know, I guess this is kind of where it keeps coming back to.
04:07And I hate bringing these guys up as we talk all this hate.
04:11It just feels like it's the Chiefs to lose.
04:13And it feels like they're going to three peat.
04:15And not only are they going to three peat, they're going to have four Super Bowls
04:18and two of them are going to be against the Niners at minimum.
04:20And that just sucks.
04:22And it feels like we're in an unfortunate era.
04:26And we built a really, really, really good team that had two opportunities,
04:31really great opportunities to win a Super Bowl.
04:34And we're going to look back and we're going to be part of the montage
04:39of highlights for somebody else's Canton induction.
04:42And it just sucks.
04:44Even though they lost both those games in the last three minutes,
04:49like basically they lost on the last playover time.
04:52And in Miami, had the ball with a minute forty nine left
04:55at the forty nine yard line with three timeouts left.
04:59They're that close to winning.
05:00Is it the same core?
05:02Do you think that the core is the same from the 2019 Super Bowl to now?
05:06No, I mean, Kittle, Warner, Debo.
05:12The team's turned over a lot.
05:13It's turned over. That's the NFL.
05:14Greenwald was there. Greenwald was part of that team.
05:17But no, the safeties are different.
05:19You know, the safeties are different.
05:20Yeah. So, no, it is a different court.
05:23And that's that's football, right?
05:25I know. But what I guess what I'm saying is like, it's just when I look at like
05:29just the NFL as a whole, very few teams
05:33with a lot of the same players in a five year window
05:37lose two Super Bowls and then come back and are better.
05:41And when they finally win one, I, I would be shocked
05:45if there's anyone out there that has lost two before winning one.
05:48Maybe you've lost one in one one.
05:50I would love to know if anyone lost two Super Bowls and then come back in one one.
05:55Well, John Elway did. Right. Lost three Super Bowls.
05:57It took a long time.
05:58I know that. But he just asked me the name of a team, a team.
06:02In like a short period of time because they've lost two and five years.
06:06And then like Elway didn't win the first one until 96, 96, 97.
06:12So 89 and 96, 97, 98.
06:15No doubt. It's a long time.
06:17It's a lot of different Buffalo Bills.
06:18And I sound really pessimistic, but I'm telling you, I know you're not.
06:22I'm surprised because a lot of this has to do with the cloud
06:25of the IUCN Trent situation.
06:26So what is it going to take for you to get fired up for football season?
06:29Well, I mean, obviously, once, you know, things start happening
06:32on like the first week of the regular season is going to be awesome and all that.
06:36It's just the regular season feels so deemphasized.
06:39They were unbelievable in the regular season last year.
06:43And they played their worst football in December and January.
06:46So are you going to look at the regular season said so?
06:50Like, for example, if they start the season six or one, they beat the Chiefs.
06:56We still kind of be like, huh?
06:57No, no, no. I'll be super excited and I'll be pumped up.
07:00But that it's more like, again, increasing your odds of getting the bye.
07:06And that's the easiest, quickest path to the Super Bowl.
07:08Can you go through the wild card?
07:10Can you go through playing all three?
07:11I mean, the Chiefs just did it right.
07:13They went on the road and the Niners are battle tested.
07:15They can go on the road. It's just a lot harder.
07:17See, I thought the Viz were off.
07:20And then I attended that preseason game.
07:22On Sunday against the Saints.
07:24And there was a lot of 49er fans at that preseason game
07:27against the Saints who were jacked up.
07:29Stoked that football was back and were locked in.
07:34So I think maybe just being at a game may help
07:38because it certainly helped me.
07:39I was like, all right, it's I'm I'm I'm good with this.
07:42Football's back. It's getting closer and closer.
07:45You start to, you know, you see the schedule, the wire schedule came out
07:48and has asked me, what road game do you want to go to?
07:50I'm thinking, boy, and then you got a bunch of buddy said,
07:53we want to go to Buffalo December 1st.
07:54So now my juices are flowing.
07:57But a lot of fans are like you, Shasky, where you just.
08:01I could feel it.
08:02I could feel the lack of excitement.
08:05And I'm I'm a little stunned by it, to be honest.
08:07But even then, like I watched the whole game and then I watched it back
08:10and then I watched it back and like obviously did the condensed version on the NFL.
08:14Like I still love watching.
08:16I'm over here salivating over a seventh round linebacker from two,
08:19you know, preseason games. Right.
08:21So I still love the Niners. I still love everything.
08:23I'm not saying you don't.
08:24They feel to me it does feel a tick off.
08:27Like in terms of the normal optimism, how do we get that tick up?
08:31How do we get me? I'm alone.
08:32Is it? Is it? No, I don't think you're alone.
08:35Do they need to recycle it? Are you?
08:37Yeah, that would be a big help.
08:39Truett Williams coming back.