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00:00The Niners blow out the Bears. It was an easy one
00:03Brock Purdy would drop back and there was there was time there were open people he delivered they caught it they ran
00:12It looked like the 49ers. Oh, yeah, I don't know if they're back
00:16But that's what they looked like they looked like the 49ers to me. They were back yesterday
00:20Yeah, maybe it's because it's Chicago, but they were back enough in that day
00:258 8 9 5 7 9 5 70 George Kittle said this about a lack of urgency
00:31with 49er players and
00:33We wonder if you've felt that do you see a lack of urgency with the team so far this year?
00:40I do but then the follow-up is why take a listen once again to George
00:44I think the message was we need to play with
00:48more of a sense of urgency and
00:51Play desperate because you just haven't really sensed that and like I've been on teams where it felt like
00:56Was it two years ago?
00:57we want and whoever like eight nine game win streak wherever that was and
01:01Hillary felt like every play people were just scratching clawing and fighting for everything
01:04And I'm not gonna call anybody out like we're all we've all done like not taking a playoff
01:08Like, you know just not fought our heart hardest on every given play
01:11And that was kind of the message like guys just put put it all out there because we have the players
01:16We have the the playmakers. We have the play call and we have everything to win games
01:20But like we have to do it out of desperation and when you're playing desperate and you're playing like hey
01:23If we don't win this game our season potentially is over that desperation
01:28Fuels guys in different ways and it's just how you take that and how you channel that energy
01:32And I thought our guys did a great job of that today. All we can do is kind of you know, shoot our shot
01:37It's all we got
01:39And and this is what I have felt for
01:43Many weeks now with the 49ers and I'm not going to excuse it. I find it understandable though
01:49I find it understandable
01:51Which is to say that I believe after the story of how they got here the San Francisco 49ers
02:00Collectively did not have a full top to bottom roster
02:06Believing that the rest of the NFC in the NFC West in the regular season were really a threat
02:12And and and that's not to say that they meant oh we can lose some games
02:16Of course, they don't think that way
02:18Of course, they went out and they ran and they hit and they threw and they caught and they were and they tried
02:24Absolutely, but I don't know when I listen to George talk to him to me
02:29This is more sort of like it's almost a little bit woo-woo like it's conceptual
02:35You know what? I mean?
02:36And sometimes the analysis I hear with it makes it sound like it's functional or a math thing
02:41Did you bring your urgency today? Oh, you left it in the car. Could you go get it? No
02:46It's a collective thing that can't be manufactured
02:50You can't just have somebody say it then you go get it and grab it and use it
02:54You you have to fully believe that the Seahawks or the Cardinals or the Rams?
03:01Boy, they might be better than us if we're not
03:05Absolutely peak performance and I don't think they believe that I think they do now
03:09Well, they were in games where they had those games to win and they didn't have to be in peak performance per se
03:16You were up on Seattle and they got the ball back with 240 to go
03:20And like you said earlier, you know Smith drove down the field on you and that was ballgame
03:25So is it the defense that isn't showing the urgency?
03:28and I I wonder where George pointed the finger and he didn't name names and he didn't name his own name and
03:35Normally when you have a quote like that the player says why I know myself
03:38There have been plays that you know, I didn't totally sell out on but George didn't say that so George's play great this year, right?
03:45I don't think anybody feels that way about George, right?
03:47So when George is saying that who is he saying it about that's my question
03:51Does it have to be like a person or a list of people? Well, is it every player but him?
03:55No, I wouldn't think so because he didn't point the finger at himself
03:59That's I think that's kind of what I was just trying to say. Like I don't think that this is
04:03Okay, you you number 59 you left your urgency in the car, this is a collective
04:09It's a collective that that you can't always put your finger on if they could put their finger on it
04:14They would you know
04:15I mean like if you see something like this coming if you know and
04:19You can just snap your fingers and do it you would do it you'd fix it, but I just don't think it's that easy
04:25It's one of those things that the 49ers if you want to call it overconfidence
04:30If you want to call it emotional exhaustion if you want to call it complacency
04:34There's all these buzzwords and and they do they they they they're like diseases, man
04:40they permeate their way into your being and your body and and and your your place of employment and
04:47And it's not it's not always that easy to get them out of there
04:51Partially because a lot of times you don't even know they're there, you know
04:55I think one of the reasons George said yesterday is because oh, oh
04:59That's what it's supposed to look like right against Chicago and so sure and so maybe it was just Chicago
05:05But it was still an NFL opponent that played the Lions Packers and Vikings the last three weeks and lost by a collective seven points
05:12Yeah, like they've been not winning but they they have been competing
05:17They have been putting the scare into big-time teams. Not yesterday though. Now, is that their emotional exhaustion?
05:23Maybe you know what I mean?
05:24I don't know but I think the reason George said yesterday is not because he's mad because there's a list of people who haven't been
05:30Doing it. I think suddenly he felt
05:33Sort of in the woo-woo way. He felt like it was. Oh
05:38That's what it's supposed to feel like out here and you can see it
05:41I mean watching absolutely home you can see from the jump when the offense just goes boom Shanahan
05:47Playsheet six plays or whatever was touchdown red zone touchdown what five of six in the red zone yesterday
05:54second time all year
05:56Touchdown on the opening drive second time second. Yeah, that's not in 13 games. That's not typical Shanahan
06:02No, no now is that urgency? Is it adjustments?
06:06We don't even really know
06:07What that would be and then the thing that really struck me is when the defense came on the field and it was oh wow
06:13And you know, yeah for the first time in halftime and I didn't even think about oh
06:17they're rushing for again because they're rushing for and they're getting home and the linebackers are firing over and there was one play where I
06:24Think it was Swift on the right sideline
06:27there was two or three Niners about to tackle him and Fred Warner came from eight yards away and
06:32Basically dove into his own teammates into the pile and blew the whole thing up
06:37Because he wanted a piece of it that badly and that's what I was looking at it going. Oh, yeah
06:42They're bringing a little bit different this Sunday 8 8 9 5 7 9 5 70
06:47Do you sense or have you been sensing a lack of urgency and where does that sit on?
06:53The reasoning for where the 49ers are grandpa daddy and Heyward is on the line. Hey GPD
07:00Thanks for starting our week off. What's up?
07:03Man, I love you guys
07:05when I first called I
07:07Was agreeing with Debs and then as the car as the show went on I was like, man
07:15You know up mark you got a damn good point. So the whole urgency and everything
07:21I'm gonna say this and don't cut me got don't come y'all quick
07:25As a loss as a leader
07:28Okay as a leader
07:30It is every bit about how you come at your guys and say look dude
07:34You can be out of here next week, bro, you guys aren't playing with a sense of urgency
07:40Everybody I don't care who you are. Chris McCaffrey a Chris
07:44Brock, you guys you can be gone next week. Even me. I can be gone next week
07:50We ain't we ain't living up. We ain't doing we got all this talent
07:55People and we're not living it up to what we were supposed to our expectations
08:01And so it does come from the leader and it doesn't come up and it goes downward right you gotta say look dude
08:08Hey, you're out of here next week. You got to step it up. I don't see you really stepping it up
08:14But then how do you step it up? Is it really in you? It's a nuanced thing mark
08:20You're right about that. You may not even know that you're not stepping it up
08:25That's where the leaders got to come in and see it and say
08:29Check this out, man
08:31You know what? You're on your phone. You're lagging while you're on work. Look at John over there. He's humping dude
08:37you're out of here and he's gonna take your job next week if you don't freaking get off the phone and step it up and
08:45That's what I think now when the back up against the wall
08:49Everybody's like oh my god
08:51We're out of here. We're out of here, man
08:53We don't win. We're really out of here. And that's where the sense of urgency is coming in that they're realizing that
09:02Yeah, the Rams are better than us to see how to bear enough, but they're really not better than us
09:08Because we are the Niners. We are good. We kicked everybody's butt last year
09:14Why are we not waiting? I know we have a lot of injuries and all that but look who's stepping up the rookies now
09:22And the youngsters and the rookies man, they're hungry now that
09:27Veterans are injured. Look at Gorindo man. That dude. He's coming in. He's showing what he's got, baby. He might take
09:36Chris's job. He might take McCaffrey's job, dude. He's looking
09:42You know what I'm saying?
09:45GPD it's a great call. I don't know about Gorindo and I don't even know if Gorindo is gonna play on Thursday
09:49the word on that right now is
09:52Kosh Anaheim has already spoken. We'll let you hear a little bit of it a little bit later and
09:56They're just gonna monitor throughout the week to quote see if he has a chance to play which means at minimum
10:03You're looking at a questionable kind of a 50-50 thing as far as the backfield is concerned
10:08It's a bummer that it's such a quick turnaround. It might be Patrick Taylor. It might be what's his name?
10:14Is he a Bonaconda maybe who was inactive yesterday, but maybe has time to get on with a couple of carries
10:21Yeah, he got some GT in there. So yeah, like I
10:24Again, I get all of that, but it's to say this. I
10:29Would argue that all of us, you know what I mean? Like
10:33on a daily basis
10:35How often is this happen in your life? You think you're putting in if someone asked you are you giving it everything you got?
10:42Yep. Yep. I sure am and then
10:46circumstances change or something
10:49Fires you up even more and you look back on your own behavior and you're like, oh
10:54Actually, I was not
10:57Maximizing my efficiency. I was not
11:00Maximizing my effort. I was not
11:02Maximizing my time. I mean listen, I'm gonna admit what is clearly a weak point in this conversation
11:09Because I keep bringing it up and so therefore maybe it is my own trigger in this subject
11:13but when people talk about
11:16Standing next to another human being and doing everything you possibly can
11:21with actions with words with punitive with
11:26encouragement
11:27Everything you can possibly do to motivate a person
11:31And and and I have been through that I have been through that
11:35I am still going through that as a dad and I am telling you right now
11:40To another man
11:41The only thing that has actually been able to work to get some of the people that I coach
11:49to get going and actually show urgency is
11:54a
11:55clock
11:57You're about to run out of time. I've been telling you for six months and
12:02now you're literally standing down the bear staring down the barrel of
12:08Losing what you love the most
12:11Now they go right it's a little different because you can't horse it is you can't cut your kid
12:16Well, you can you kick him out? You know, like yeah, it's not it's actually still illegal, right?
12:20I'm not 18 yet, but you know like I know what you're saying
12:23This is not a perfect analogy, but I'm sitting here telling you that it is way too in my opinion
12:30It is way too simplistic to simply think that Kyle Shanahan should have said something
12:37My god, it's so much more complex. I think it's also too simplistic to just
12:42Excuse him from not the mantle of responsibility that word cuz I'm not it's on all of them
12:48It's on all of them. I would put more of the responsibility on the leader in the individuals
12:54Yes individually
12:55You have to motivate yourself
12:57You do I do
12:58Grandi Lucas and all the rest of it if we have a bad show a bad series of shows a bad week month
13:05whatever it's up to our boss to try to correct it and write the ship and
13:10Reach us and motivate us and coach us and get us to be the best version of ourself that he can't write
13:17But then what do you do after he talks?
13:20Hopefully I respond if I don't then then he's not on that's on me
13:24Well, that's the opposite of what you're saying right now
13:27I'm saying is it's his job to then take actions if if I take his words and I don't improve
13:34We don't improve whatever happens then he can take further actions and do what and I don't want to say it
13:41I didn't want to say it to the microphone. What if he doesn't have another option?
13:44He has other options not really boss. Not really. Absolutely. Not really. He can switch day parts
13:49He can you know, which has a mode he can fire
13:54As an unbelievable trickle-down effect and you know damn well, that's not a snap fingers easy thing to do
13:59No, but so
14:02Easier to do it for the 49ers, you don't have to worry about really workplace lawsuit or you know
14:09Making sure you what you need hire somebody who's the same age and all your new player is that you're bringing in who's?
14:15Unproven and has no idea what the hell's going on. I just that like this idea this example you're
14:22Caught Ronnie Bell make an example out of him. I don't know man. That feels like kindergarten stuff
14:27Darius Tony got cut at the start of the year because he was terrible by the Chiefs
14:31Everybody get there's every team makes cuts at the start of the year. They did not react to him having a bad game by cutting him
14:38I saw that example as well. It's a bad one because could areas Tony is a bad player
14:42He literally dropped Thursday night football the season opener two seasons ago
14:48Yeah, he gave the game to the Detroit Lions. Did they cut him the next day?
14:52No, you want a more recent example
14:54Sure last week in New York LaVisca Chanel a special teamer for the Seahawks muffed two punts
15:00He was waived the next day. Okay, great. There's that's that's a good example
15:05I think Kyle Williams of the 49ers was cut after he muffed two punts in the NFC
15:09But let me also let me also guess and in fact, I'm not guessing that was not the first time LaVisca messed up
15:16Like like I love that we're all pointing to Ronnie Bell that I think was literally his first target of the year it was week
15:22Two this year. Yeah. Yeah, look at his past
15:26He's a guy who's had trouble holding on to the football his whole career is also wide receiver seven is why do you have a field?
15:33Yes, because there were like six injuries in that game
15:37I I just it again to me that just feels a little bit to snap react for the real world
15:46Well for me, it's a little bit too. I don't know
15:49It's a little bit weak for me to sit here after week 14 and talk about you know
15:54Hey, it was refreshing to kind of see our team go out there and and really compete where have we been the entire year?
16:00Where have the players been telling you the position coaches the head coach the GM?
16:05I'm telling the owner where you been and did you say they've been there?
16:08Oh, you're running a marathon and a little thing to me is an excuse. I'm not like that was Stiney's
16:14I got nothing about a marathon for you. I just think that there are circumstances that are a
16:20Understandable and be not excusable. That's life. That's all I'm telling you
16:24I think it makes it makes a lot of sense to me why the 49ers had a hard time
16:32accessing their a game this year and
16:36Then they did a bad job of noticing and then see
16:41There were a bunch of circumstances that then made it even tougher from injury to family
16:47Situations that were horrific and all of the other things in between
16:51So to whittle that down to one person or one thing. I just don't think it's possible
16:56Joe and San Jose hi Joe. Thanks for calling. What's up? Oh
17:00My god, thank you guys for taking my call. He's so surprised that we took it Joe
17:06Sometimes
17:09Yeah, here's my thing
17:11That was a great conversation. You guys are having. I just want to say that I think
17:16The problem is not so much the coach
17:19But you can have a player that give you that spark and that this moat that just drive the team like I could tell you
17:26one player
17:28McCaffrey gives them that spark man. He can break a
17:32Tackle he could break it for a long way and give that 49ers a spark just like the Warriors
17:39Which is that this guy named?
17:42The guy number seven for the Warriors
17:46Which is many healed
17:47Yeah, buddy here had that spark last night and they just gave the warriors that that edge
17:53And so I don't think it's so much
17:55Yeah
17:55I think it's the coach too
17:56But I shouldn't speak louder than words because you have that spark from a player and it just it just it just moved the team
18:04What do you guys think does that play a role?
18:07Having a player that gives the team at that spark and do the Niners have it. I think it plays a role Joe
18:12Thank you very much. It's funny. I'm like used to be Debo Samuel
18:15I'm laughing at myself because if you call this show and you're like, I know the guy who wears number seven
18:21I'm like, yeah, no clue to Marcus Russell. It's pretty funny. No idea to
18:26Note, like that was just a name that came to my now if you asked me
18:3130 seconds ago. What number buddy healed wears I might have said is it 214 if I have no
18:37Idea, I'll give you Steph and Draymond and beyond that 30 and 23 beyond that
18:42I could probably get I could luck into a couple more maybe right a GP to
18:47Well, he's zero now. Okay good. I'm trying to lead you to say to
18:51Brendan Podjimsky
18:54Absolutely, no idea what number two he does how about coming?
19:01Anything coming, uh, do you wear something that has a seven in it? Nope. Oh
19:08Well now that you gave
19:10Double-zero. Yep. I don't think that Pat Spencer. Yes 60. He wears something high 60-something
19:1860 is a 61 Grandy 68
19:24I
19:25Don't know
19:28There is some there is some data to as buddy goes so goes the Warriors totally which is
19:34Pat Spencer number 61. Look at one. Give it to me for you. Thank you
19:41For you home and bed all the way to his point to his point
19:44I think there's something to that are certain players more of like right heartbeat guys
19:51And you know like people look to them, of course
19:54I but I also don't think that any team in professional sports
19:59Maybe an NBA team who loses their best player if Denver loses no kitsch now
20:05They're not special anymore
20:06But in the NFL if you're not a quarterback, right if it's not a Mahomes or Allen thing
20:12I don't think that a whole team
20:16Should should fall apart
20:19When one player is gone, well, I do think the spark part of it green law, for example
20:25You lose green law. I mean I agree with that green law in particular because he's a spark
20:30He's a guy who's gonna light somebody up make a big hit make a big play
20:34I think Debo normally would be that guy, but he's not really involved in the offense this year
20:39So you don't really have those spark players this year. I think Debo looks a little better yesterday or no
20:44He did I thought he looked a little he still didn't like pop stats
20:47No catches. He still doesn't well when I saw from Debo is that a lot of the plays they designed?
20:53They're not designed for him
20:54They're designing plays for George obviously and Juwan and when Brock is looking for his second and third option
21:02He's not looking Debo except for me if that's what we've been saying all year is they're now waiting for that Debo play
21:08And if that's the case, how do you attack that you attack that by making it look like you're gonna run it for Debo
21:14And run it for someone else. Yeah, that's a great way to attack it though the tight end screens yesterday were fantastic
21:20Fantastic play calls Bears were playing overly aggressive defense. How do you attack overly aggressive defense?
21:27Let them through and then just pop the ball right on the other side of a couple of big one
21:32There's all kinds of space that was I thought that was Kyle Shanahan's best
21:37Called game of the year in terms of play calling. Yeah yesterday, especially when the plays work
21:43Say that but you're right the screens they ran a couple of draws. It was refreshing