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00:00reporters after the game yesterday and said that the team got together on Saturday, talked about
00:10season, what's going on, their record, what they got to do. And he said that they talked about
00:17having a greater sense of urgency. He said it felt like two years. Well, you know what?
00:23You know what? And I got a question for you. I'm not George Kittle. He's more important than me.
00:28George, what effort problem? I think the message was we need to play with more of a sense of
00:37urgency and play desperate because you just haven't really sensed that. And like I've been
00:42on teams where it felt like, was it two years ago we were on and whatever, like eight, nine game
00:47win streak, wherever that was. And it literally felt like every play people were just scratching,
00:51clawing and fighting for everything. And I'm not going to call anybody out. Like we're all,
00:54we've all like not taking a playoff, like, you know, just not fought our heart hardest on every
00:58given play. And that was kind of the message is like, guys, just put, put it all out there
01:02because we have the players, we have the playmakers, we have the play call and we have
01:06everything to win games. But like, we have to do it out of desperation. And when you're playing
01:10desperate and you're playing like, hey, if we don't win this game, our season potentially is
01:13over. That desperation fuels guys in different ways. And it's just how you take that and how
01:19you channel that energy. And I thought our guys did a great job of that today. All right. They're
01:23going to have to do it again Thursday. That's the LA Rams. But 49er fans, when, when you hear
01:29George Kittle say that, not necessarily who do you blame, but what do you think he means? And,
01:35and why, why do you think the 49ers maybe hadn't been playing with that sense of urgency through
01:4112 games this year, as opposed to 12 games last year or through 12 games the year before?
01:47I, I, I gotta believe some of it must've been the mental fatigue of the last four or five years.
01:55I think some of it's probably physical. Obviously they've had some injuries. People have been in and
02:00out of the lineup, but you know, those are, those are, those are strong words as far as I'm concerned
02:06from, from George Kittle. And if, if the 49ers haven't been playing with a great enough sense
02:12of urgency, my question to 49er fans is who do you blame for that? But what's the reason for that?
02:19Everybody might think it's an excuse and maybe it is an excuse, but if it's true,
02:25then it also is a reason why they're six and seven and not nine and four, eight and five.
02:31Now with this, let me, let me say this to you. If you put your, put your, your,
02:38yourself in Kyle's shoes, if you heard that, how would you process that coming from one of your
02:45star players? And then two, I think I know the answer to this, but I'm asking anyway,
02:49let's just say this was a bear player that had said it when a team was not coming off a Super
02:54Bowl visit. Could you understand somebody like me saying, huh, that's kind of peculiar
03:00saying that because they're not doing it. We hear all the time where a coach's message is not
03:05getting through. They haven't quit on Kyle. I've never once thought that because I don't see it on
03:09film, but Stani, what if that was a different team that hadn't went to the Super Bowl? Would
03:14that hit different? Well, yeah, it would hit different because these guys are supposed to know
03:22after all this time, the level that they have to play for and or play at. All right. Like the
03:27other thing is I also think just in sports in general, and it may not be by a wide margin,
03:33but I think some teams play harder than others on balance and maybe the level the 49ers were
03:39playing at this year simply wasn't good enough or at least hasn't been good enough to this point.
03:44And they've been getting beat and now they're up against it and they got to figure out a way to
03:51just win by any means necessary. And when you are in a must win situation, you know what?
03:59You tend to play harder. The mind is crazy. Let's go to Rick in Anaheim. Hey, Rick, how you doing,
04:08man? Hey guys, how's the show? I just want to comment on I disagree with Stani. I think
04:16motivation is a huge factor in human psychology. I feel there's a reason why even CEOs pay
04:23thousands of dollars just to attend these mastermind classes where all they go and do
04:27is get motivated. And I feel that Shanahan is partly responsible for that. Being the coach,
04:33you have to look out where your players are weak, the weakness. And if it's mentally,
04:39then you got to figure out how to motivate them. I coached, you know, for a long time,
04:43middle league, and I could see when my players were just not in it and, you know, you're skipping,
04:49you know, even basic Robert speech, you know, it does a lot for you. It's like the human
04:53psychology of it all. So I think it does fall partly on Carl Shanahan to, to motivate players,
04:59find out how to motivate them, even if they are professional athletes making millions of dollars,
05:05you know? I mean, that's just, that's just the way the mind works. So that's, that's all I want
05:11to say. I appreciate the call. Yeah. I don't, I don't see it like that to the extent that you do
05:18in professional sports. I mean, there's so many games. The other thing is like,
05:26what kind of a motivational speech is Kyle going to give to a team that has eight all pros on it?
05:35I mean, I like what could be individual if you saw somebody or your thoughts, Donnie,
05:40you weren't giving it all, you know, you're not quitting. You think you are. That's where I guess
05:45I'm looking at it. Cause it's not every 53 man on the roster, but I just think that's a coach or
05:51coach's job to know. And almost, you know, in a crazy world partner, I wish that were the issue
05:58more so than Baldy coming on our station and saying they look slow or they're not getting
06:03home or they're not doing this or they're, you know, the holding penalties. I kind of wish it
06:07was just, okay, Hey, close the door, man, you looking at this, you're not playing. You think
06:12you are, but you're not. That's easier than just not having the talent or, you know, getting beats
06:19Donnie. So I just, I, that, that was, uh, he's the captain or one of them. I just thought that was
06:25odd. I think it, I don't think, I mean, I wouldn't use that word. I would think that to me, when I
06:32heard Kittle say that I, I heard him confirming what a lot of people thought, which is his team's
06:39been flat this year. This team is not for whatever reason, but able to find the motivation,
06:45the urgency, the desperation that it's, that it needed through 12 games. And that's why they came
06:53into the game five. And one of the big reasons why they came in five and seven. All right. So
06:58now they're up against it. They're five and seven. They meet as a team and they look at each other
07:02and say, guys, do we, can we really say truthfully that we've been focused? We've been
07:11playing urgent. We've been really attentive to detail, like all the things you do out of
07:17desperation. You know, I mean, I do kind of believe that if you're in a must-win situation
07:23and you're on the offensive line, it's like, yeah, now we want you to think twice about jumping
07:28off sides for an illegal procedure because we need everybody locked in focused and, and playing
07:36as hard as they can, as desperate as they can. And probably more, more important as smart as you can.
07:42And like, you can only play to your ability in terms of smartness wise, when you are completely
07:49locked in, not distracted and playing together as a team. Yeah. Well, I asked you this, if you
07:56were Kyle, how would that, you know, quietly on your ride home, how would you process those comments?
08:01But let me throw this to you. What if you're the owner? What if you, what if, what if you're York
08:06and you hear that? Do you, do you think like, huh? Like you, you understand it, but Stani, I think I
08:12would be kind of like, well, hold on y'all. We, I I'm paying a guy a nice penny to, to be able to,
08:19to recognize that this has been going on so long. If it has, and that's why they're six and seven.
08:24Yeah. I mean, to me, if I were the owner, I'd say, yeah, this is what happens when you go to
08:29the Superbowl two out of five years, you don't get it done. You knock, knock on the door. And
08:33now you come back and guys have been doing this for a while and they know it's going to be hard.
08:38And you know what? They gave in, they gave in a little, maybe. Okay. Give me this then.
08:44I'm not asking for much. The difference between the 49ers being a Superbowl team and six and seven
08:50to me, George Kittle basically said the crux of it is we've got to play harder.
08:58Okay. And you know what, who am I to say that that's not the, you know, that's not his reality,
09:04but Stani, we've been together all season long, even after a loss, have we come in once and I'm,
09:09I'm asking your honest opinion. Have you once said to me, goo, the Niners look like they're
09:14not playing well, you kind of mentioned hangover before, but you know, it didn't look like it on
09:19tape to the, to the, to the fan eye or my eyes that they were, they weren't going.
09:26What about missed tackles? What about missed tackles? Okay. That, that may be a function of
09:31not being, not playing desperate. And you know, the other thing is because it's football, it's
09:37like, it's not, it, it's probably hard to tell over the television screen, what, what guys
09:43aren't giving it their all. But I think inside the locker room, maybe the team knows that
09:48everybody's taking a turn at not playing hard at some point or the other. And when one player or
09:55group does it, you can't overcome it. And then maybe the next week they're all, they're focused
10:00and urgent, but somebody else isn't, or a few players play and they're not good enough to win
10:05games when they're not all pulling on the same rope. That's what, and when I say pull it on the
10:10same rope, I'm talking about all the crap that's happened this year with this team, the contracts
10:17and the injuries, and some of the unfortunate things that have been outside of their control
10:22off the field. I think, I think they've been distracted this year. And I just, you know,
10:29I look, I think this season was lost the first six games of the year because they, they were,
10:35I think they were hoping to kind of, again, just not do the bare minimum early in the season, but
10:44just let's go out and handle business. And maybe when they say handle business,
10:49then it doesn't feel like they have to play desperate. I don't, I don't know, but there's,
10:55there's something in that George Kittle sound that leads me to believe that they can play harder.
11:02Let's put it that way. And they all know they can play harder. And the reason they know it is because
11:08they know it because they've been together for so many years.
11:11Well, I, like I said, and that's been a staple of theirs is they, they go all out,
11:17they gang tackle. I know they had injuries, but I just never, you know, even in their losses,
11:23they've come in and kind of said, not that they don't have issues, that's obvious.
11:26Things haven't gone their way, but I just never felt like it. But who am I to say,
11:32you know, and I'm the team meeting guy that the guys that are, you know, they're every day
11:37and put their hearts and souls in it, that that doesn't mean anything. I just,
11:43I guess I'm shocked that that would, that he let that out. I don't know.
11:47Well, this is Shanahan on yesterday's win. How important was it?
11:52A lot. I mean, losing that close one at Seattle in the last play at home was so tough. And then
11:57the following two weeks were as bad as it got. So we had to step it up today. I wanted to play well.
12:01I thought we did play well. And most important thing was getting to win and we got it done.
12:05So I was proud of the guys, the way they came out and the way they finished.
12:11Mr. Excitement. Yeah, well, no, he's got study. I know it's a long shot, but the math is still
12:17there. And if they would have lost somehow yesterday, then we're having a funeral today.
12:22So three days, they're on national TV against the Rams and you need help. But that was such a big
12:29win yesterday, just from a morale standpoint, to keep that the standard. We got to win Thursday
12:36because we got action. And the reason Thursday's game is big is because we kicked the Bears ass.
12:42Yeah. And look, I can't, after watching the game yesterday, I can't envision a scenario
12:48which the Bears would have come in and won. I was buying everything, especially if the 49ers
12:54had the meeting. Well, not so much had them. Well, sure. Had the meeting,
13:00even though I don't think, you know, the season's going to be turned around.
13:04But yeah, I mean, if they recommit, like that's all you got to do. Like to me,
13:08there are some certain teams in the league that if you go out and play hard, you're going to win.
13:12And yesterday's game was, yes, absolutely. The 49ers, if they don't get beat in the
13:19effort game against the Bears, I don't know how the Bears win that game.
13:22I mean, I've never seen receivers that open against the 49ers in a while since,
13:29I don't know, feels like least early last year. But 8-8-8, 9-5-7, 9-5-7-0, we're reacting with
13:36George Kittle said and the fact that the, you know, 49ers got it together during a meeting
13:42on Saturday. And does that give fans hope that if they like, if that Kittle sound hits them
13:47and resonates with them, Stani, could you understand how a fan could say, we know we need
13:52help, but now we know we're going to leave it all on the line from the middle scoreboard.
13:57I mean, the fans won't be able to tell what the score is.
14:00I'd feel better. But again, just playing like that's the way I look at it is just playing hard
14:07and playing with a sense of urgency is not going to win you every game. And maybe the Rams are too
14:12good to beat with just that. You're going to have to then play well. You're going to have
14:17to catch the ball. You're going to have to not turn it over. You have to stop all that other stuff.
14:21But I do think it all starts with you got to play as hard as the other team
14:28or harder. Let's go to Chucky in Oakland. What's going on, Chucky? How you doing?
14:35Hey, good morning, fellas, man. Always enjoy hearing you guys' conversation.
14:40Hey, I just want to say, man, I saw you last week, man, on the news, man. You had a little
14:46interview with one of the newscasters, man. I just want to say, man, it was a good job, man.
14:53Hey, right on, baby, right on. Yeah, my thing is this, man. I think what Kittle said,
15:01I think it was something he always felt. I don't even think he's the only one that felt like that.
15:07It's just that now they're down to this crucial one game. You know, it's all, you know,
15:14do or die or else it's over. Now he's just been saying it out loud because they know everything
15:19we lie on each game from here on out. And inside of you, what you know, man, is great. You know,
15:27you have a deal and you answer what you do or just about answer because you wouldn't be doing
15:33the radio and in the business as long as you have. But I do have to disagree. I think all this is
15:39that Santa has pushed the reason why I say this because so you might be the personality that you
15:46are because, you know, throughout your years, nobody ever told you that you're number two
15:52state, right? But if you haven't been told that you're number two state, if you always had to
15:59work out and try out for a team, it's not about everybody. You don't get to play on the team
16:05because of participation. We just want everybody to be cool. But yeah, but if you had to try out
16:11and compete for positions that goes throughout, I don't care what level it is, it goes all the
16:17way up to the professional level. And my, and the motivation thing is not about a pep talk,
16:23you know, like Guru did the time before the Warriors game. The motivation could be just
16:28calling the people out, letting them know that they're not playing up to their potential.
16:33And by doing that, that will wake that game up and they will be able to hear everybody else
16:38accountable. Say it like Curry, what Curry do with Curry and the rest of the players on the Warriors.
16:44Appreciate the call, Chucky. Yeah, when like, here's the way I look at it. And Chucky,
16:48the one thing you said was that, you know, it all falls on, you know, Kyle Shanahan's doorstep.
16:53I mean, there's no doubt if, if, if you don't think the 49ers have met expectations and you
17:01want to blame it on Kyle Shanahan, of course, everything will always fall on the head coach.
17:07But when I hear a player acknowledge that they can do more and to a man in that locker room,
17:13they could do more. Then I do put it mostly on the players. I, and I, you know, we, we can talk
17:20about, we can talk about this. I mean, I just don't believe at the professional level when
17:28you're dealing with multimillionaires that a coach has to motivate his players. A coach to me has to
17:37prepare his players. He's got to give them a good, a good game plan. I mean, yeah, getting somebody's,
17:45you know, backside once in a while, if they're not doing their job, but I just, I just don't,
17:53I just don't think pro coaches can last very long on motivation.
17:59Wow. Well, you know what? I just don't think that's part of the job description
18:04in the NFL. I mean, yeah, it'd be nice to be a great motivator, but I think there's more
18:09important things and I don't think you need one if a team can motivate itself. And that's the other
18:14thing. I mean, we've been talking about this team as it's Superbowl contender for five years.
18:20We've been talking about this team. Like this is our biggest, best chance
18:24to win a Superbowl. It's like, how much more motivation do you need than that?
18:28Does Kyle Shanahan need to explain week in and week out? Hey guys, you know, we've now lost four
18:35of our last, you know, seven. So we, we need to get motivated. I mean,
18:39yeah, he, he mentioned in the clip, he didn't want to call anybody out. So I get that. But
18:47again, I'll say this to that. And what Chuckie was talking about, I didn't buy it, but I haven't
18:52played one down in the NFL. Some people said that the Niners possibly could be dealing with
18:57the Superbowl hangover. I think the chiefs are dealing with that, but if they're a better team,
19:02which if you look at their record, they are, they're, they're pulling out the games. But
19:07when you lose and then win a game and say, you've lost the others because you guys haven't been
19:12there mentally. I just, I don't know what to do with that. Well, if maybe I'm just supposed to
19:18listen, cause I'm not part of the team, but I just, the Niners that I've watched, I just felt
19:22like the urgency was there. But if, if the players are saying it's not, and they don't want to name
19:28who, you know, whoever, whomever, you know, what can I do with that? I mean, the way I look at it
19:34I mean, the way I look at it and is both, you know what? I think they're both having a Superbowl
19:39hangover. I think they both are. It's just that guess what? The chiefs have found a way to win
19:45three games. They should have lost and the 49ers lost three games. They feel like they should have
19:51won. And maybe that's just the fine line and the difference between the two teams. Kansas City's
19:58better. Kansas City can play at 90% and still win. Maybe the Niners have reached the point where
20:0390% is not good enough. But you know, if you want to say that the chiefs have had a Superbowl
20:10hangover too, I wouldn't disagree. How many one score games have they won? It feels like every
20:15one of the 11. I think 14 or 15 straight now. Good gosh. NFL record. That's where you just have to
20:23record. Take your hat off to Patrick Mahomes as far as I'm concerned. Does Andy Reid get any
20:29credit for that? He gets credit. And you know what? I think he should. And for all we know,
20:35Patrick Mahomes and the chiefs probably say or know in that locker room,
20:41you know what? We're kind of, we're getting some breaks this year.
20:45I think they probably know that. But they're the chiefs. 415 on the Comcast Business
20:54uh Comcast Business text line. Shanahan needs to upgrade his coaching staff.
20:59They're below average. Look at Andy Reid's staff. Stop top to bottom. All right. 415
21:07thought the loser of the Superbowl is the only one with the Superbowl hangover.
21:11Oh, I didn't know. I mean, I think he can go the other way too. I mean, I always feel like if you
21:18lose, that's more motivation for you to get back. It's the winner that that goes through that.
21:23Yeah, I think it could be both. I mean, look at the Warriors.
21:28When they came back after title years, I mean, they slept walked for two months.