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00:0095.7 The Game, breaking news.
00:05Sorry to interrupt you, Dibs, but Kyle Shanahan, speaking on his conference call right now,
00:09we'll have the sound for you coming up in a little bit, has said that Debo Samuel,
00:13he has suffered a calf strain and he will miss a couple of weeks.
00:17Oh, crap.
00:18Did you say Juan Samuel or Debo Samuel?
00:22Debo Samuel.
00:23Oh, God. Because Juan Samuel used to play for the Phillies a long time ago.
00:26It'd be a lot cooler if he was out.
00:27That's interesting because...
00:29Debo Samuel out for two weeks, couple of weeks?
00:32Kyle Shanahan stated after the football game yesterday that there were no injuries to report.
00:38Yeah.
00:39That was stated in his postgame yesterday.
00:41So something popped up and that is not good.
00:46And I'm just looking at the play-by-play and Debo Samuel ran the ball on the last play
00:54that they would run from scrimmage.
00:56He lost nine yards on that running play.
00:58It was third and one at the Minnesota four, the first play under two minutes,
01:03and he lost nine.
01:04And we can get into that play call if you want at some point where he lost nine yards on third and one
01:10and he ended up kicking the field goal.
01:12Didn't like that play call.
01:13At all.
01:14But like even less how many people are telling Debo that he should have dropped the ball on purpose
01:19for two reasons.
01:20Number one, you're asking for someone in absolute blink of an eye to totally ignore his instincts,
01:26which is crazy.
01:27But number two, I'm not 100% sure that that was a forward pass.
01:31And if he drops the ball, that may well have been a fumble.
01:33Well, it's listed here as a run.
01:35Well, then there you have it.
01:36So stop telling Debo to drop the ball because Minnesota would have gotten the ball
01:39and the Niners wouldn't have gotten anything.
01:40And I'm looking at the box score and Debo is listed as two carries for minus 10.
01:45And that was minus nine.
01:46And I know he lost one yard on the other carry.
01:48So, wow, Debo Samuel is going to miss a couple of weeks.
01:53Yeah, this is troubling.
01:55This is really troubling and no one's going to feel sorry for you this weekend
01:59because you're going up against a team that's got neither of their receivers.
02:02But if you want to talk about all of the anyone who has had reservations,
02:10that's how I'll say it, reservations about the play of Brock Purdy,
02:14they are largely dependent on the two players he will not have for the next couple of weeks.
02:21The thought is, well, you could just dip it to Christian and dump it to Debo
02:26and you get all of these yards out of that.
02:30Well, okay, here we go.
02:32Let's take a look.
02:33Let's take a look.
02:35You can see Brock Purdy play a couple of games with no Debo and no Christian.
02:39And this is a problem.
02:43This is a big problem.
02:45This is a big, big problem.
02:46When you think about your biggest weapons so far this year, Jordan Mason's been fantastic.
02:52George Kittle has been really good.
02:55Brandon Ayuk has yet to really make a huge impact.
02:59Jawan Jennings has been solid.
03:01But now you're going to go without Christian McCaffrey and Debo,
03:03and I'm looking at Ian Rappaport at RappSheet on Twitter,
03:07and he says a calf strain and we'll miss a few weeks.
03:11So a couple or a few, if you're looking at a few, and we know about calf strain,
03:17and Dr. Nav Pandya joins us tomorrow cleared to play.
03:21We'll get his thoughts on the latest calf strain.
03:24But, man, Mark, I mean, what do you do offensively when you've got no Debo and no McCaffrey?
03:31You're going to have Jordan Mason and you still don't have Ricky Pearsall
03:34because he's recovering from a gunshot wound.
03:38You're running out of skill guys here in a hurry.
03:41I mean, you would hope that Brandon Ayuk is fully up to speed by week three,
03:46and, yeah, you're going to have to start seeing some other people.
03:50Like Jacob Cowling might have a role.
03:52He's a speed guy.
03:54Let's see what you can do.
03:55You know what I mean?
03:57Jawan Jennings will continue to have to play a big role.
04:00Kittle, Jordan Mason's going to have to run the ball.
04:02It is less dynamic.
04:04You know what I mean?
04:05Bet the under.
04:07Don't ask for 30 points.
04:09It's probably not the style to play.
04:12But let's see it.
04:14Let's see it.
04:15The Rams are as wounded as anybody.
04:17So you don't really get to use that card this weekend, quite frankly.
04:22They're even more hurt than you.
04:24Seriously, when you talk about, you know, Pukunukuwa and Cooper Cupp,
04:29they're two big weapons, and, you know, they had guys yesterday catching the football,
04:34and then you look at the back of their jersey, it's like, who's that?
04:36Yeah, exactly.
04:37Washington, and there was a Jefferson.
04:39It was like a presidential receiving corps.
04:42All right, 888-957-9570.
04:44Why do you think the 49ers lost yesterday?
04:47But we can also dive into the breaking news.
04:49The Debo Samuel has a calf strain and is going to miss at least a couple weeks.
04:54So right now, based on the way Kyle said that, I'd assume at least no Rams and no Patriots
05:00the next couple of weeks, and then you'll see after that,
05:03because obviously the calf strain is something similar along the lines to what Christian is dealing with,
05:09and so could it linger?
05:11Could it become a bigger problem?
05:12Sure it could.
05:13Let's go to Rich in Fremont.
05:15Hi, Rich.
05:16You're on with Willard and Debs.
05:17What's up?
05:18What's up, guys?
05:19Thanks for taking my call.
05:20Hope you guys had a good weekend.
05:21Unfortunately, on the loss, doesn't make it good.
05:24You know, I called in last week, and I said that without CMC in the backfield, okay,
05:31Kyle Shanahan's offense is not as dynamic, okay?
05:35And we saw that, okay?
05:38Don't get me wrong.
05:39I think Jordan Mason had a great game.
05:41But still, with him not back there, he just doesn't have enough weapons,
05:48and not only that, he doesn't have the ability to fool the defense.
05:52So they went with what they went with yesterday,
05:56and, I mean, the offense, in my opinion, didn't necessarily play awful, okay?
06:03They played a decent game.
06:05But the defense, in my opinion, didn't play well,
06:09and I would have thought that they would have got a hold of Donald a little better
06:13than what they did.
06:14Don't get me wrong.
06:15They got a sack, and that's nice.
06:16But you want to see at least two to four sacks in a game.
06:19That's when you know the defense is humming.
06:21And the other thing is, you know, Sorensen,
06:24I don't know what he was thinking with that one defensive setup
06:30against not only the highest-placed receiver in the game,
06:34but the fastest receiver in the game.
06:37You did not cover that back end well enough,
06:40and that's the reason why Justin Jefferson beat you.
06:43So if you're going to run plays like that against that type of talent,
06:49to the rest of the season.
06:51Thanks, guys.
06:52Rich, thank you.
06:54Yeah, I think that's fair.
06:56I don't like that as a defensive setup.
06:59I understand that the 49ers probably thought that they would send a couple
07:04extra bodies and they would get to Sam Darnold, and they didn't.
07:08So, once again, it's a risk that you take,
07:11and you're thinking at the two-yard line you're going to get away with that.
07:15You got bit.
07:17You got got.
07:18And my first thought goes to the Vikings offensive line.
07:22They did a great job on that play.
07:24No doubt.
07:25They did a great job on that play.
07:26And the Niners did not have the right guys back in coverage,
07:28and you didn't expect that they would go 60 yards in the air up top,
07:32over the top, and beat you with a 97-yard pass,
07:35and that turned out to be a huge play that was the difference in the game.
07:38I was just reading more quotes from Kyle Shanahan.
07:41I know we'll have more of the sound coming up,
07:43but apparently Debo got hurt on the third-to-last play from scrimmage,
07:48which I'm looking was a pass to the right that he got for two yards on the play.
07:55So, maybe by the time he got that last catch-slash-run,
07:59and he lost nine yards, he was already hampered.
08:01But you were at a spot he was going to play out the game anyway,
08:04even though he had maybe a calf injury before that last play.
08:07Well, Debo.
08:08Debo's such a warrior.
08:09He's going to stay in there.
08:10But, you know, we can adjust the question a little bit, too.
08:13And let me start by asking you,
08:15because I think this is where people's minds are going to go.
08:17So, you're going to get two weeks of 49er football
08:19with no Christian McCaffrey and no Debo Samuel.
08:22So, flounder or flourish?
08:25You know who I'm talking about.
08:27Brock Purdy.
08:28This is what you all wanted to see.
08:30This is what you've all been warning that we're going to see.
08:33So, what do you think we're going to see?
08:36Brock Purdy flounder or flourish?
08:38I think he's going to flourish.
08:40I think he will flourish.
08:41And it's going to have to be in a different way.
08:44And it's going to have to be a lot of George Kittle.
08:47And you saw some of the most productive plays yesterday.
08:50And I'm looking at the list of third down conversions.
08:54And they were 2 of 10 on third down.
08:56But he had three completions.
08:58Actually, I'm sorry, four completions to George Kittle on third down.
09:02Two of them went for first downs.
09:04The other two set up fourth downs that one time they converted,
09:08one time they didn't convert.
09:09But this is going to be a huge dose of George Kittle.
09:13And the other piece of it is can you get one of the young players
09:17to step in and actually contribute?
09:19Because I mentioned Garendo before and his one carry
09:22looked very, very discouraging.
09:24He looked tentative.
09:26And he didn't look like he really knew where to go or what hole to hit.
09:30And the other one is Jacob Cowling.
09:32Can he step in and shake off the muff that he had?
09:36Can he step in and be a receiver?
09:38This is so poetic.
09:39Because Bobby Chosin's on another team now.
09:41He's on the Dolphins.
09:42Yeah, exactly.
09:43This is so poetic.
09:44And I don't mean this in any of a good way at all.
09:46This is a horrible thing for the 49ers now to be playing significant time
09:51without Debo Samuel and Christian McCaffrey.
09:54But going into the contract extension offseason, it's almost poetic.
10:01You're going to get the answer that you wanted to get.
10:05Is Brock someone who can function without his top weapons around him or not?
10:11And what are your expectations?
10:14How do they change?
10:16I'm not expecting 35 points, 34 points the way we normally do.
10:21But, yeah, you also don't get to just be like, well, now I'm not good.
10:27Because that feeds right into what so many negatrons have said about you.
10:33So let's see it.
10:35You should be able to still read a defense and deliver a ball, right?
10:39You still got a running back who's giving you 100 yards or more both games.
10:44You got a wide receiver making $30 million a year.
10:46Yep, yep, exactly right.