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00:00How did this one make you feel because it was a classic sort of
00:04Mixed emotions kind of a thing no doubt about it. The the lead emotion is that the 49ers won
00:10It's a victory Monday you beat the Cowboys
00:12And so if we're just gonna make it about 530 to 830 last night. We good round here
00:18We good right in here, but it's hard not to project
00:23Where they're going next and also what we saw that's not good enough
00:27That's not gonna be good enough to have a special year, but it doesn't have to be good enough right now
00:31It just has to be good enough in 13 days when they come out of the by against the Tampa team
00:36And they're gonna have an 8-day rest advantage against a team that is down to wide
00:42You would figure that like last night will be good enough then and then you have Seattle coming off a bind
00:48We don't know if that will be good enough then but the beauty of this whole thing is it really is week to week
00:54and last night felt like an eight-week season in a nutshell because
00:59You were kind of okay in the first half the defense was good the offense couldn't really
01:05Cash in the third quarter was oh my god
01:08You're the best team in the history of football and then the fourth quarter was hold on Bessie hold on for dear life
01:14This thing is about to get really really uncomfortable
01:18So that four quarters last night felt like eight weeks into a nutshell
01:23Kyle Shanahan on his conference call today
01:26Or potentially this was last night. I don't think anybody cares. This is a couch
01:30This is last night on the podium with regard to the win
01:33And he always go into a season you expect to win them all so not exactly where you want to be but going into this
01:38Game, and we knew this was a big win
01:40You know we didn't want to be three and five going into the bye week having your backs against the wall like that
01:45Getting that win was huge being four and four not at all the record that we wanted when we set out
01:49But when you look at our division and everything feeling a real good spot
01:52I'm especially finishing it here with the wind hopefully we can take some time off rest a little bit
01:57Get a couple guys back. Hopefully and come back and string some wins together here in the second half
02:02Yeah, I mean okay two weeks off get healthy. You're gonna get you on Jennings. Maybe Debo will be his normal self
02:09You might have Christian McCaffrey yet when this team comes back around and Drake Greenlaw might just be another week or two or three
02:16away and
02:18Yes, I do think the 49ers will be active on the trade market
02:21And I'm betting that there will be at least one other new 49er by the time this team plays again, so
02:28With that projection which is the positive one. I like how would you answer this?
02:34If we made this a tale of two halves
02:38Which one was the real 49ers?
02:40Both I mean I could say the second half and you know say it. That's the team the third quarter
02:46That's the team you know Brock Purdy and the offense three straight touchdowns and 21-nothing
02:51And I think Dallas had 16 or 14 yards in the quarter. That's it. That's the team, but honestly
02:58Both are the team the first half where it feels like it's field goals in the air and yeah field goals great
03:05The defense was good, and they didn't really break. They bent, but they didn't break
03:10They were fine in the first half second half third quarter amazing fourth quarter is
03:14Like a lot of fourth quarters have been so if I had to pick between
03:19Which team in just a half they are it's the second half
03:23Which is the offense has the potential no matter who they have to be really really explosive
03:29Your tight end is going to the Hall of Fame your wide back
03:34Even though he has pneumonia and bad ribs and a bad shoulder or bad knee and bum ankle and the toe hurts and whatever it
03:40Happens to Debo the dude makes place, and he made some big plays last night your rookie first-round receiver looks to be
03:49Real enough. I like you're running back who is our be whatever six or seven
03:54He is so fast and so good and so tough
03:57And you know when Shanahan is humming like that this offense is amazing
04:01And then the fourth quarter happened, which is you've got Keystone cops
04:06You've got DB's running into each other you're rushing for
04:11Boring and
04:13CD lamb is open on every single play so for me the second half is exactly who you are
04:20You are at times phenomenal and at times head-scratchingly bad
04:25It's kind of funny especially if you've ever picked up a golf club in your life
04:29This is the way I think the human totally works
04:31Which is you think of yourself as the best version of yourself right all the time
04:37So you'll you'll you'll slice one into the woods
04:39And you'll go hold on a second hold on the breakfast ball
04:43And then you'll hit it down the middle and you're like that's me. Yeah, no you're right
04:47They're both you exactly they're both you and you got it
04:51You got to deal with that so that you can be that second person more consistently
04:55No one's asking for perfection all the time, okay?
04:59But it's funny that you sort of talked about the two tails of even just the second half yeah
05:04I think there's a characteristic in the first half that I really want to highlight
05:08Y'all got to stop committing so many penalties you think okay because the first half somehow
05:14I'm this is what I'm hearing
05:15I'm hearing this and this is just you know the voices out there in the in the in the trees
05:21But I'm hearing that six points is not good enough in the first half well, right
05:26Do you know how many points they had taken off the board in the first half?
05:29I mean there was a an actual touchdown yep, and then be there were at least two other
05:35field flipping plays that would have changed that I mean the 49ers would have clearly been ahead and
05:42Potentially by double digits, and I'm not blaming anyone, but them for that you've got to button the damn
05:51thing up yep
05:53Because when you look at the highlights of those plays Eric Saubert and the rest of you
05:59Yes, you're guilty. He held three times just stop. Yeah, stop it
06:05You you commit penalties when you don't have confidence that you are the best
06:10But like if you guys truly believe what you say you believe
06:14Well, we've been the best team in the league for a long time then let your guys cook
06:19Let them cook
06:21Beat people straight up, and that's what Kyle was upset about at halftime when he did the halftime interview
06:27Oh my gosh, Kyle. You've only got six points. He's like yeah, of course
06:31We've only got six points every time we got a big play somebody's holding somebody exactly clean it up
06:37Please because that unfortunately is part of you too exactly they do it almost every week
06:42Well, I'm looking at the game log that I did today third and one opening drive
06:47You had that false start where Conley and Pierce all were confused about who was supposed to go where and they're openly talking to each
06:55Other and they're like you go up you go back you go up you go back Brock snaps it
06:59Yeah, that's a false start dude the two of you are chatting trying to figure out
07:03What's going on that drive ends in a field goal because juice held on second and five you already mentioned the Debo
07:1167-yard touchdown which was awesome and as we talk about Brock's performance in the first half
07:17That throw was perfection up in stride Debo yak to the house
07:22Oh, but wait we got a penalty Saubert, and he did hold at least twice on the play
07:27I did he held he held again
07:29He held again, and then the other drive where Kittle had the hold on first and ten
07:34So then now it's first and 20 and you run that little screen to Debo and he drops it a throw
07:40That was right to him, and you had use check in front you had Kittle in front Pierce
07:45All was in front
07:46no one would have been a big play and that's a Debo drop and then that one ends because of the penalty again first and
07:5220 so you're so right about that first half if you're Kyle you're thinking the plays I called
07:59We're up 24 to 10 right now. Well. I thought like I'd love to give Kyle credit for play calling last night
08:06But I'm gonna revert back to my point last week
08:09Play calling was easy last night
08:11That team's awful yeah, they struggle awful, and it's not fully their fault
08:18They're injured to their two pass rushers are out would their defense be different if those guys were in maybe I'd argue probably even
08:26but with with what the Niners were going against like
08:30That was Brock Purdy's cleanest pocket all year all year
08:35That defense is not guarding anyone so did Kyle have a good game plan
08:40Yeah, I think he did was it executed well not at times not in the first half
08:47But it's also while I'll give him a little bit of a nod on let's go for it on fourth and three or let's even
08:53Throw the ball late in the game when we maybe
08:56Intuitively should be running because my god if you wanted a five-yard pass over the middle it was there on every play
09:03every single play and
09:06Brock miss Debo in the first half on the fourth and three Debo could have caught it didn't I mean it's just I don't know
09:13Man like I look at it
09:15I'm super super relieved that they won that football game and that for enough of it
09:21They look like a dominant team over a team that I think just does not have a whole lot to offer
09:27But there are butts there are big butts. Yeah in this one
09:32which is as you just said it's it the execution in the first half and then the
09:37The the the letting them back in the way you did in the fourth quarter
09:42Those things are head-scratching and frustrating. Well. Those are losing scenarios when you get into deeper
09:48Situations and games against the likes of Green Bay and Buffalo and Detroit which are three of your late November in early mid-december
09:57Opponents so you get into that stretch and those teams are probably gonna be playoff teams
10:02Green Bay Buffalo Detroit those are kind of playoff games for you
10:06and when you make these mistakes when you play that lackluster on
10:10Defense and you choose to to pass the ball and that the big one for me is second and three
10:16So you come out you're trying to kill the clock and you want to throw it and Brock doesn't throw it
10:20He scrambles for seven all right
10:22They use their timeout their first one second and three now you go ahead and run the ball
10:26Go ahead and run it or even QB sneak it they have not stopped the QB sneak you'd think all day
10:32instead he sits back to throw it and
10:35Garendo blows the the blitz pickup and imagine that a rookie running back who hasn't had to pick up a blitz much this year
10:42It's been Mason. It's been use check
10:44It's been other people and so he blows it and purdy is very fortunate to not cough that thing up
10:50And then we're having a different conversation today well, and so the extension of that question that we're kind of tossing around
10:57Which of these two teams is the real 49ers the first half of the second half
11:03I think could also be thrown out this way when you watch that game last night
11:07And you get the result that you do does it make you optimistic or pessimistic?
11:12For the second half of the season and and the only reason I'm gonna argue optimism
11:18Well, I guess maybe two reasons one of them is that's just the way my flippin brain works, okay?
11:23But the other reason is you do start to you see
11:29flashes of the team that you know this group can be and
11:34in theory
11:37When they come back you will be injecting rest
11:41you'll be injecting the offensive player of the year you'll be injecting another veteran wide receiver and
11:47Potentially your second-best linebacker
11:50And if you inject all of those things into this team
11:53And I do think maybe an acquisition in the run-stopping
11:57Sort of area of the field if you inject all of that into this team then then yes
12:03Yes, I think the 49ers will at least host one playoff game
12:08I do well
12:10That's to me the only way they're getting in is if they win the division so
12:13If you win the division you host a playoff game even if you're the four seed