• 2 weeks ago
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00:00The one standout is his defense of Nick Sorensen and saying that the last two weeks doesn't really change his opinion of Nick.
00:08And, you know, I would assume that that's a positive for him, like he has a positive opinion of Nick, probably more so than the fans do.
00:15Well, you know what's interesting there? And again, I want to know if you hear this.
00:21And, Grandy or Lucas, when we're putting all this sound together, who puts the little blurb in there in terms of what's being said? Lucas, is that you?
00:32Whoever's cutting, it depends on the cut. It's either me or Evan today.
00:35So this Sorensen cut, who did the one about Sorensen? Who did that? Was that you?
00:39Yeah.
00:40Alright, I love this.
00:41If there's a twinkle in the verbiage, it's usually Lucas. He tries to editorialize a little bit.
00:46I would love for everybody to weigh in on this. Is this accurate?
00:49I want you to hear what director of sports, Lucas Alexander, wrote on this clip.
00:56This is what he wrote.
00:58Kyle Shanahan, very satisfied with Nick Sorensen, comma, blames players.
01:08That's the blurb. Blames players.
01:14That's a good take.
01:15Did you listen? Is that what happened?
01:17Yeah, I'm very satisfied with Nick. I mean, I'm not at all satisfied with the results and how it's going right now.
01:22But, you know, some of the mistakes that we've made, I don't think what's happened here in these last two weeks, I don't think that's a schematic issue.
01:28It's a little bit more of a fundamental issue.
01:30And that also starts with me. That goes to all coaching and it goes down to the players. It goes to everyone in this building.
01:35So, you know, the results here these last two weeks haven't changed my opinion on Nick.
01:39I mean, did we miss the it starts with me and then all the coaches and then goes down to the players.
01:45Where do you get comma blames players?
01:47Because he's talking about the fundamentals and the execution.
01:50And he also mentions that it's up to the coaches to teach the fundamentals.
01:54But at the end of it, the players have to go out there and execute.
01:58Otherwise, it doesn't matter what the scheme is.
02:00And that's wrong. And is that blaming the players?
02:03All I heard him say was it's not a schematic thing.
02:07But I didn't hear him go. And that means it's Devondre Campbell's fault.
02:11If it's not about the scheme on defense, who else do you blame?
02:14Well, but he literally says like everything that this is the problem I have with the way we talk about sports in the age of social media.
02:23We have to pick one thing and huck a fireball at it like it's everything and everything is everyone.
02:32But not the scheme.
02:33No, not the scheme.
02:35Right. Not the scheme.
02:37Although if you talk to Andy Reid, what does he tell you happens on the sideline?
02:42Patrick Mahomes and other players.
02:44Kelsey will come over and be like, hey, coach, let's do this.
02:47All right, let's try it.
02:49I don't know if that happens on the Niner sideline.
02:51Probably not.
02:52I'm sure they go over to him and say, hey, Nick, I have an idea.
02:54Let's rush for.
02:56But and he says, great idea.
02:58But but in the linebacker room, Fred never speaks.
03:02I'm sure he speaks.
03:03He never he never goes over to the sidelines.
03:05Nick, this is what's happening.
03:07Josh Jacobs is is is X, Y, Z.
03:10We need to we need to bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep.
03:13Like, well, what we need to do is actually tackle him.
03:16They had 10 missed tackles in the first quarter, which was the most in the NFL this year.
03:20So that's where Kyle's talking about fundamentals and execution.
03:25It's not the scheme.
03:26If you have a defensive player in the hole and he fails to tackle the running back, that's not scheme.
03:32And so when I hear Kyle, he's not blaming the players.
03:35It's typical inflammatory Lucas jargon just to get it going.
03:39But if he was to do a a blame pie in that quote, for me, it's 75 percent on the players, 25 percent on the coaches.
03:48I guess zero percent on the scheme.
03:51OK, fine.
03:52But so it's but there might actually be sort of a factual take there.
03:58So he's saying and he said a bunch of times today, this is all about results.
04:03Nobody wants to hear that.
04:05And I'm sorry for how crass this sounds.
04:07Nobody wants to hear that three babies died this year.
04:10Yeah. With the 49ers.
04:12And your top draft pick got shot.
04:14Right. We're judged on the win loss record.
04:17Absolutely. And he said that.
04:19And it's next man up.
04:20And then he said, this starts with me.
04:24And then it goes from me to the other coaches.
04:27And then it goes from them to the players.
04:30And we all share the responsibility.
04:33Right. That's what I hear.
04:35So can't he have the opinion that the problem lies there and not in some sort of scheme,
04:42especially when schematically Kyle Shanahan has been brilliant through the last six or seven years offensively?
04:50This is more about the defense and Nick Sorensen.
04:52The defense has also last with better coordinators, more experienced coordinators, the scheme and better players.
04:58Absolutely. And the scheme is always going to look and work better when you have better players.
05:02I look again at last night's game.
05:05I've watched it twice already.
05:07And if I didn't have my best pass rusher, I, as a defensive coordinator, would be looked to junk it up a little bit.
05:14Try to do what you can to see about getting additional pressure, because you watch all these snaps that Alan took.
05:21And they rush for and for and for over and over again.
05:25And it's one thing if you're rushing for with Nick Bosa, because he's going to take up two of their five blockers.
05:30Or maybe you have to keep it running back in or a tight end to chip.
05:34But you don't have Bosa.
05:35And you're just going to rush for that to me is a schematic problem.
05:39So Kyle and I can agree to disagree.
05:42But when I heard that cut, I don't know if he's blaming the players.
05:46Blaming the players.
05:47But he's definitely pointing at the players more than he is the scheme.
05:51Well, he's pointing at what he thinks the issue is.
05:53And by the way, that could mean a lot of different things.
05:56I go back to your original point.
05:58You know what the Niners don't have on defense right now?
06:01It's not that they've got a poor scheme.
06:03They don't have any good players.
06:05Yeah.
06:06Nick Bosa's out.
06:07D'Amedore Lenoir's out.
06:09Charverius Ward has been through hell and has not played well.
06:12Fred Warner's got a broken ankle.
06:13Fred Warner's on one ankle.
06:14Yep.
06:15Dre Greenlaw watches football for a living.
06:17Javon Hargrave's on IR.
06:19And we're all sitting here being like, you dumb coaches.
06:22Well, I mean, what did Phil Jackson look like when there was no Kobe and no Shaq?
06:27They struggle a little bit.
06:28He's a crappy coach all of a sudden.
06:30So, again, I'm going to keep going back to what I said earlier.
06:34You can be mad at Kyle all you want.
06:36And the man literally just said, this all starts with me.
06:40Which is a rarity.
06:42And somehow people come out of that going, why won't you take accountability?
06:45And I would argue, why will you not look at all of the other years and call this what it is?
06:52Which is an outlier.
06:53I've said it 18 times in the last two weeks.
06:56This guy is having a bad year.
07:00It doesn't make him a bad coach or the wrong coach or any of those things.
07:05And for all of you who want him to take accountability, what is it he's supposed to say other than this starts with me?
07:12What do you want to hear him say?
07:13Well, you want to see him make changes.
07:15And that hopefully will come in the offseason.
07:17In the middle of the year?
07:18No, in the offseason.
07:19And, you know, if you bring back your special teams coordinator.
07:22And, again, your special teams yesterday was better?
07:26But still, there are calamities around every corner.
07:29So if you bring back that coordinator.
07:31And you bring back your defensive coordinator who has not had a very good defense.
07:36So if that's what you're going to do, then that's going to make it so that fans are wondering exactly how accountable you are.
07:42If you're just going to run it back.
07:44I don't know what.
07:47So I guess what we're saying is he should have done something differently to start the year.
07:52Not necessarily.
07:53But when you look at it now and you're 5-7 and you go into the future, I would hope you look to do things differently.
07:59Whatever that is.
08:00Whatever your process is to avoid this from being more than just an outlier.
08:05Yeah.
08:06Because right now it looks like an outlier.
08:08You've had bad years before.
08:09But previously you lost your quarterback.
08:11And that usually is the way it goes.
08:13Like the Jets' bad year this year is a really weird one.
08:16Because they didn't lose their quarterback.
08:18And they have a lot of talent.
08:19And they have three wins.
08:21Did you see?
08:22And I've got to check this.
08:23Actually, you might know where to check this even better than I.
08:25This is a total quick aside.
08:27This has to be the most fun little factoid stat that I saw all year.
08:32Did you know that in 12 football games this year, the New York Jets have been favored in nine of them?
08:40Wow.
08:41And they're 3-9.
08:43You want to talk about how stubborn we are.
08:47We refuse to believe that Aaron Rodgers can't play football anymore.
08:51I keep starting, Gary Wilson.
08:52Despite all of the evidence, it's been three years since Aaron Rodgers played good football.
08:59And we haven't noticed yet.
09:01Nobody's noticed.
09:03We keep showing up the following week going, the Jets are going to win this one.
09:08They're going to win this one for sure.
09:103-6 as a favorite.
09:12There are only about five or six teams who've been favored more often than the Jets.
09:18R-E-L-A-X.
09:21Incredible.
09:22Relax.