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00:00I want to thank our good friend, Carlos Ramirez, for listening.
00:05What's up, Carlos?
00:06Tomapapa.
00:07Tomapapa is tweeting out some ideas at me with regards, and I like this idea.
00:13This is what I would do.
00:15This is what I would do.
00:17I do think there is a way to structure a deal so that it is not so, you know, scary for the 49ers.
00:26Because we know Brock Purdy is not a disaster of a quarterback.
00:29We at minimum know that.
00:30The whole tone of it is kind of funny to me.
00:33If this is his floor, well, it's not like he's just a ridiculously awful QB this year.
00:40He has not been as good.
00:41That's fair.
00:43But I think there is a way to structure a deal so that it is not in stone for five years,
00:51number one.
00:52And number two, I would like to see higher level play at the backup position.
00:59In case he gets hurt.
01:00In case things get out of whack.
01:02Have somebody else in there who, you know, you think could be interesting.
01:08Kind of the way you did last year with Sam.
01:10And Carlos just tweeted that at me.
01:11And I think it's an interesting idea.
01:14I don't know necessarily exactly who the people are.
01:17But man, if he was so, if Kyle Shanahan, and I'll still never know to my dying day if this
01:23was true, but if he was so damn rumored to be so infatuated with Mac Jones in the draft,
01:29well, let's see it.
01:33Let's see Mac Jones in the Kyle Shanahan system.
01:38Because the New England Patriots had a defensive coordinator call in place for him.
01:42And now he's a backup with the Jags who have nothing.
01:45He's a starter now.
01:46He's a starter.
01:47And looking pretty good.
01:48Not terrible.
01:49That's kind of the point.
01:51You know, like he looks like Sam Darnold used to look.
01:56So I don't know what he would do.
01:57Last year, the rookie deal.
01:59Fifth year option not picked up.
02:00I don't hate the idea of him as a backup next year.
02:03Yeah, not bad.
02:04And he's, you know, fits kind of the mold for Kyle Shanahan.
02:08Not super tall.
02:09Not super good with the arm.
02:11But a guy who can, you know, make some of the throws.
02:14Diminutive.
02:16Did Kyle love him as much as we were all told he did?
02:19If so, let's see it.
02:21Well, if so, then if he really loved him as much as everyone thought,
02:25then you should have stuck at 12 and taken him at 12.
02:28Agreed.
02:28Instead of draft, you know, trading three first round picks to move up
02:32and take Trey Lance, who also is a free agent.
02:34Well, he's available.
02:35Exactly.
02:36He's available.
02:37As for the contract, I'm looking at the Lamar Jackson deal that he signed.
02:41Grandy mentioned it before.
02:43He signed for five and 260, which is an average annual of 52.
02:47That's not important.
02:49The total guarantee was 135.
02:54For which player is this?
02:55Lamar Jackson.
02:56Lamar, okay.
02:56And he's not as good as Lamar, but this is a deal that was signed a couple years ago.
03:00And he got 75 million sign.
03:03I'm sorry, 72.5 signing bonus prorated over five years.
03:07So the first three years of the deal, not a huge cap hit.
03:11The fourth year, the cap hit is $75 million.
03:15So you get to that spot and, you know, you play out that year.
03:19And if Lamar still isn't good or he's hurt, he's 29.
03:22You can get out of it at that spot.
03:23And you can structure something with Brock accordingly.
03:26Um, let's take some more calls.
03:27Patrick in Florida is, uh, is on the line.
03:30Hi, Patrick.
03:30Thank you for calling.
03:32Hey, thanks for having me, Willard and Dibs.
03:35It is a pleasure.
03:35I'm a big fan.
03:38Oh yeah, no, thank you for the great content.
03:40You guys every day after work, uh, a little bit during too, but what I wanted to say was,
03:48uh, you know, I'm a big Brock pretty fan.
03:50Definitely don't think that, uh, Niners should move on from him.
03:53Um, but one thing I have noticed is this whole man coverage thing, because early in Brock's
03:58career, he was so good at adapting to when the league, when the league adapted to him,
04:03you know, that's the number one trait of a great quarterback.
04:06When the league has a book on you, you adapt to it.
04:09So early in his career, what did he do?
04:11He ran and rolled out to the left all the time.
04:14Teams caught onto that.
04:15He stopped doing it all good.
04:18The other thing that happened was he wasn't very proficient at throwing deep early in
04:22his career.
04:23He didn't try it a lot.
04:24And when he did, it was just off.
04:26It didn't look good.
04:27So what happened?
04:28Defenses forced him to throw deep and he quickly adjusted to that.
04:33And he, he, he became a nice deep ball thrower, at least last year and in the half, in the
04:38half year before that.
04:40So my question is, as far as this man coverage thing, this seems like it's something that
04:46he has not been able to shake this year.
04:48You look at those splits between, you know, his quarterback rating, his completion percentage
04:52and everything zone coverage versus man coverage.
04:55He leads the league in zone coverage.
04:57He's one of the worst when it comes to man.
04:59So what is that?
05:00Is it his arm strength?
05:02Is it the personnel around him as far as his wide receivers go?
05:05You know, I know that the Niners receivers were pretty bad as far as, uh, you know,
05:10gaining separation this year.
05:12And so it's like, you know, I want to lean towards that, but then at the same time, you
05:16know, the arm strength thing does make up a lot for, for those times where you got to
05:21just get it in there and that little window.
05:23And I feel like when they play man coverage press man in particular, he's forced to do
05:28that a lot.
05:29Um, so that's just the only concern is this is the one thing he hasn't been able to kind
05:34of shake this year, you know, and Patrick, thanks so much for the call.
05:39I would say, and, and, and Debs, I bet you're going to agree with me.
05:43They like is some of that on Purdy's plate for sure, but it's much bigger than Purdy.
05:49Like this is, this is, that's also, that's also Kyle Shanahan's, um, assignment right
05:54now.
05:54I would argue that it's definitely been Debo Samuel's assignment.
05:58And I don't know if Debo has the pencil in order to get this assignment done because
06:03everybody we've talked to has said, that's just not what Debo does.
06:06He's not a man beater.
06:08And, and, you know, that's maybe why they drafted Ricky Pearsall because in theory,
06:11he's supposed to be able to do that more.
06:13That's the evolution we're looking for.
06:15This started in the super bowl.
06:18Steve Spagnuolo set it out loud after the game and it literally signaled to the league
06:23because Spagnuolo, if you remember after the game said, I told everyone on our sideline,
06:28we came out in zone and he's like, this kid is picking us apart.
06:34We are dead.
06:35If we stay here, it's because the receivers are able to get open against it and he can
06:39deliver the ball.
06:40And so he switched a man and they had really good corners and they kind of to a degree,
06:45not completely, but they kind of, they at least slowed down Debo and Brandon and the
06:5049ers as a group were unable to adjust.
06:52And the league came back this year and said, perfect, let's do that every time.
06:56And you've seen the results and it still hasn't been that the Niners were just like some horrible
07:01offense.
07:01That's not what the stats say, but it's been a lesser team.
07:04No question about that.
07:06That's the job for all of them.
07:09And Kyle has to lead that.
07:10And to me, Brock follows suit.
07:12So anyway, it's, it's on him, but it doesn't start with him.
07:16It's on all of them.
07:17It starts with Kyle to me and the scheme and something that Jerry said, and you played
07:22it last hour about, you know, the way they go about running their offense.
07:25He has to adapt and they have to go to more wide splits where you're going to widen out
07:30the defense and make your receivers have to go out there and beat a guy one-on-one when
07:35you have everything tight to the line of scrimmage.
07:37And I'll ask Greg Cosell this tomorrow when we have him on our weekly visit.
07:41It seems a lot easier to cover when you don't have the same amount of space that you have
07:45to cover defensively.
07:47And, you know, Brock hasn't had the same amount of time.
07:50He's fled the pocket too eagerly.
07:52And, you know, Ricky Pearsall, I don't think has, even after the shooting and he's gotten
07:57into the flow, he hasn't been as much of a man beater, a man threat in the offense as
08:02I had thought that he was going to be.
08:04Yeah, I'll agree with that.
08:05I just think the two of them have not.
08:07And for, for good reason, they're not on the same page yet.
08:09They just haven't had enough time together.
08:11Telmo in the city next up.
08:13Hi, Telmo.
08:13Thanks for the call.
08:14What's up, fellas?
08:14How are you doing today?
08:15Good, Telmo.
08:18I, I, I need you guys to know this because you'll appreciate it real quick.
08:22I lost my first round of the playoff matchup in fantasy yesterday by point by 12 tenths
08:30of a point.
08:31Oh, I'm crying out loud.
08:31By 10-0-1-2 because of sincere McCormick got hurt in the game.
08:37Had he had another two yards, I would have won.
08:40But anyways, um, it was, it was, uh, I was sick, but anyways, um, back to this, this
08:47Brock Purdy thing, what are we doing?
08:49Well, what, what's going on here?
08:50Why, why are we having this conversation?
08:52I feel like this is all because of the generation where we get next day packages and all of
08:57our entertainment is in 30 second clips.
09:00It's all about like the right now, the right now, the immediacy of it all, because are
09:05we forgetting who the heck Sam Dunn is?
09:08Like he's nice.
09:09He has a good arm.
09:10He has moments.
09:11He's Sam Darnold.
09:13He's had so many years in the league to show us who he is.
09:17And we have brought Purdy.
09:19It's brought Purdy the perfect specimen of an athlete.
09:22No.
09:22Can he process, can he play good football, make good decisions?
09:26Is he experienced?
09:27Yes.
09:28Has he led?
09:29Has he taken a team further than Sam Darnold has ever closed his eyes and dreamt of that
09:33night?
09:34Yes.
09:35So people are like, oh, you know, they say the grass isn't greener on the other side.
09:39It's greener where you water it.
09:41We need to commit to Brock.
09:43Okay.
09:43And I don't understand.
09:45So what are you going to do?
09:46You're going to bring in Sam Darnold for 30 million and then he falls apart and then
09:50we're, we're nowhere better off.
09:53We're just back on the turnstile of quarterbacks where we've been since God knows when, since
09:58the Jeff Garcia days, we have an opportunity.
10:01We found gold in the last pick of the seventh round in the NFL draft.
10:06He's taken the team to two NFC championship games and was really the defense of fourth
10:11down stop away from winning a super bowl, even though he didn't play great, but or,
10:16or one lineman had made a block and we would have won their super bowl.
10:20So I don't know what we're doing.
10:21I don't know where this conversation is.
10:23I don't know what's going on, but people need to just chill out, go believe in yourself
10:30go believe in Brock, commit to Brock, keep building the team.
10:34The team needs adjustment anyways.
10:36Keep going down that path and let good things happen.
10:39Yeah.
10:40Tell them all.
10:40Thank you very much for the call.
10:41Why?
10:42And again, just to answer real quick, and I know you mean this rhetorically, but the
10:45conversation comes from Brian Baldinger, who's a big friend of the station.
10:48He goes on with the roast every week.
10:50NFL expert.
10:51And he said, I'd, I'd flip Brock for Sam right now, which may not really be realistically
10:56possible, uh, certainly with the way that he presented it.
11:00But the response from Telmo, I think is a very fair one.
11:04I'll just say this though, when he goes there, have we forgotten who Sam is?
11:09There's too much of that for me.
11:11Sam is this Brock is this, oh, but now Brock is this.
11:15And now Sam is this just like any other human being.
11:19Like these guys all have multiple personalities as employees, as quarterbacks, and it is based
11:27on what's going on around them.
11:30Brock is in a great system.
11:32The system broke down this year.
11:34Sam is now in a great system.
11:36And now you're getting that production.
11:38There's just, to me, there's a little bit too much labeling going on.
11:43These are living, breathing things.
11:44Each football season.