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Speaker 2: Forty nine or Football Let's Go. David Lombardi covers this
Speaker 2: team comprehensively for the San Francisco Standard and he is
Speaker 2: on the UMA guest line Dave our first kind of
Speaker 2: camp hit with murphin Marcus.
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 3: Hey, what's up? David? I'm doing great. How are you
Speaker 3: guys doing?
Speaker 4: I'm I'm settling back in here into the city for
Speaker 4: the season. And I think that the dog days of
Speaker 4: Trent were over because the first practice against somebody else
Speaker 4: has come, and now tomorrow we finally have a game.
Speaker 4: So the toughest stretches behind us, and it's really starting
Speaker 4: to feel real.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of the first chapter ending and now we
Speaker 2: go into the game starting tomorrow against the Titans. Chapter
Speaker 2: two and then eventually leading to the opener September tenth
Speaker 2: in Australia. So, David, if you had to kind of
Speaker 2: write the theme piece, you know, so you're that your
Speaker 2: teacher says, right, what's it?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 3: This summer will be the.
Speaker 2: Theme from July twenty seventh to now and is it injuries?
Speaker 4: You know, it's funny because obviously the Ricky Piersall situation
Speaker 4: was a gut punch, but that was an injury that
Speaker 4: he suffered last year is just something that has never
Speaker 4: fully healed. And I think that because last year especially
Speaker 4: was so so difficult with the injuries for the forty
Speaker 4: nine ers, I think there's this PTSD and I think
Speaker 4: that the media and social media is really ready to
Speaker 4: hop on it, so even guys that they're holding out
Speaker 4: for precautionary reasons, now it turns into a national story.
Speaker 4: There's the whole substation thing going on. I think that
Speaker 4: the injuries are actually overblown this year for the forty
Speaker 4: nine ers so far, and you can knock on wood,
Speaker 4: you can hope that they stay overblown, because obviously things
Speaker 4: can go further south in a hurry. So I don't
Speaker 4: think objectively that's the main story of Fort Anders' training camp.
Speaker 3: If it had been, they wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Have even conducted the joint practice with the Titans. When
Speaker 4: they start canceling joint practices like they did in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four, when they're supposed to have one with the
Speaker 4: Saints and they didn't have enough healthy guys to confidently
Speaker 4: get through one. Then I think you could seriously have
Speaker 4: that conversation. But for now, I think that the you know,
Speaker 4: obviously they do have an older offense, guys like Mike
Speaker 4: Evans and Christian McCaffrey. You have to believe that they're
Speaker 4: going to be ready for week one. They're managing them
Speaker 4: to ensure that they're going to be ready for when
Speaker 4: the games count. I think so far, the overarching two
Speaker 4: themes for the forty nine Ers have been how good
Speaker 4: Brock Purdy has looked at camp on the offensive side,
Speaker 4: and that's really really important for that offense to be elite,
Speaker 4: and the forty anders are going to need it to
Speaker 4: be the lucomotive that pulls the train. And two, what
Speaker 4: Raheem Morris is doing to the defense, because his resume
Speaker 4: has stops at many different types of scheme. Right, He's
Speaker 4: run four down front, five down front, four three three four,
Speaker 4: all this stuff, and.
Speaker 3: He's majored in secondary coaching.
Speaker 4: He's a dB guy, and he has brought the changes
Speaker 4: that we thought that he would bring based on his
Speaker 4: resume to this forty nine Ers defense. And he's creating
Speaker 4: this hybrid scheme that I think is going to be
Speaker 4: fascinating the track over the course of this season.
Speaker 5: David, You're right to your point. There's been a lot
Speaker 5: of talk to this offseason about that change from Robert
Speaker 5: solid to Raheem Moore. So with both of them being
Speaker 5: on the field yesterday for the joint practices, were you
Speaker 5: able to notice some of those differences, maybe different styles
Speaker 5: and schemes that Raheem's going to go with this season.
Speaker 4: There was one play that really stood out to me.
Speaker 4: I was standing five yards away from it. You know,
Speaker 4: sometimes you're really far away to join practices, sometimes things.
Speaker 3: Developed right in front of you.
Speaker 4: And it was Will Levis, one of the backup Titans quarterbacks,
Speaker 4: was rolling to his left and Jaden Dugger and Larry Wirth,
Speaker 4: through two forty ers rookie linebackers, were pressuring him and
Speaker 4: sprinting out toward the sideline to cut off his throwing
Speaker 4: vision on the rollout, and between those two guys there's
Speaker 4: almost fourteen.
Speaker 3: Feet of combined wingspan.
Speaker 4: Jaden Dougger has a seven foot wingspan. Larry Worth is
Speaker 4: not too far behind him, and they both had their
Speaker 4: arms outstretched up and Will Levis could not see over
Speaker 4: both of these defenders, two extremely unusually tall linebackers. I'd
Speaker 4: be yet to actually find a linebacker in NFL history
Speaker 4: like a stack linebacker with a seven foot wingspan other
Speaker 4: than Jayden Dugger. Normally, those guys are going to play
Speaker 4: edge rusher, and he's gonna play some edge for the
Speaker 4: forty nine ers as well, But they are very, very
Speaker 4: insistent on this hybridized defense where the guys in the
Speaker 4: front seven are playing in multiple different spots.
Speaker 3: And Morris is huge on length. I mean, he wants length.
Speaker 4: To clog passing lanes, to do what we saw Worth
Speaker 4: and Dugger do yesterday to Will Levis just completely choke
Speaker 4: off and any vision to where he might want to
Speaker 4: throw the football, and then Levis just had to throw
Speaker 4: the ball away and Larry Wirth was fired up and
Speaker 4: it was right next to me, so it just kind of,
Speaker 4: you know, was imprinted on my mind. Oh, this is
Speaker 4: what Raheem Morris wants from this defense. He wants extreme
Speaker 4: length and extreme adaptability. Because we have seen a practice
Speaker 4: where Jaden Dugger even worked with the defensive ends and
Speaker 4: I'm sure that he's going to be rushing to passer
Speaker 4: from that position, but he's also going to be playing
Speaker 4: that linebacker position for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: Interesting stuff to see Raheem Morris as he uses these
Speaker 2: pieces here, and yeah, jade and Dugger a linebacker rookie,
Speaker 2: he's getting some buzz here. Speaking of another rookie, I
Speaker 2: want to ask you about Romelo height in the pass rush.
Speaker 2: You know, listen, we talked about earlier in the shows.
Speaker 2: Last year's pass rush just one of the worst they've
Speaker 2: had in the Shanahan era, if not the worst. Nick
Speaker 2: Bosa is week to week with tendonitis. I don't know
Speaker 2: the key on white situation. Maybe you could fill me in.
Speaker 2: We know Diggy Zoo was a big ad we hope
Speaker 2: for Alfred Collins and CJ. West, But is Romelo height
Speaker 2: as a result because of their need for pass rush
Speaker 2: and because how he's flashing going to be a guy
Speaker 2: who plays this year and gets reps in sort of
Speaker 2: the corolary is how you're feeling about the past rush
Speaker 2: in general on August twelve.
Speaker 4: Well, so it's really interesting because he falls into a
Speaker 4: similar bucket Romelo Hyde as the other two guys that
Speaker 4: I was talking about, as Jaden Dugger and Larry Worth.
Speaker 4: Now they call it the feverback position. That's that's the
Speaker 4: new that's the new terminology. And kJ Wright, the linebacker's coach,
Speaker 4: explain that it's because fever means you're sick and you
Speaker 4: have to be a football sicko to play the position
Speaker 4: because you've got to learn a bunch of different spots.
Speaker 4: Some of the feverback candidates are going to be more
Speaker 4: linebacker rooted, like a Jaden Dugger or Larry Worth. Some
Speaker 4: of the feverback candidates like a Romelo Height are going
Speaker 4: to be more.
Speaker 3: Edge rusher rooted.
Speaker 4: So it's whatever position is more of your home base,
Speaker 4: that that's where you're rooted. So Ramelo Height is more
Speaker 4: of an edge rusher, but he's also the lightest edge
Speaker 4: rusher the forty nine Ers have had in these ten
Speaker 4: years under Shanahan and Lynch.
Speaker 3: He's under two hundred and forty pounds.
Speaker 4: He he is extremely quick off the ball, but even
Speaker 4: in college he executed several coverage drops and Chris Caserk
Speaker 4: says that he eats a lot of grass with his
Speaker 4: strides because he's he's very very quick and has long
Speaker 4: strides as well, with I think six to four heights.
Speaker 4: So Romelo Height has been very intriguing in a similar
Speaker 4: way that he can execute the adaptable defense that Raheem
Speaker 4: Morris is going to want to implement with the forty
Speaker 4: nine ers. But he definitely is the most polished pass
Speaker 4: rusher out of that trio of guys that I've talked about.
Speaker 4: Why one concern with the Romelo height and this is
Speaker 4: going to remind you guys a little bit of d Ford.
Speaker 4: And I know there have been comparison to the d
Speaker 4: Ford with the getoff, but he has jumped off sides.
Speaker 3: A lot in practice and.
Speaker 4: One on one during team drills, and it's obvious why
Speaker 4: his biggest comparative advantages is get off.
Speaker 3: So he wants to maximize that.
Speaker 4: But because he's a little bit lighter, he can't afford
Speaker 4: to get swallowed up by a tackle, so he has
Speaker 4: to have that initial step and it's led to him
Speaker 4: jumping off sides quite a bit. The forty Anders are
Speaker 4: trying to work on that, and he's trying to work
Speaker 4: on that. He might be more effective in home games
Speaker 4: and in games of the forty nine ers have a big,
Speaker 4: big crowd advantage, which is a lot of road games too,
Speaker 4: because with that noise, he's going to be able to
Speaker 4: better time up snap counts, and that first step if
Speaker 4: he gets it off on time not too early, is
Speaker 4: looks really really lethal. But he's going to have to
Speaker 4: learn how to deal with NFL hard counts and all that,
Speaker 4: so he's not jumping off sides.
Speaker 5: David, the rookie that has gotten the most headlines of
Speaker 5: offseason is days on stripling. What can you tell us
Speaker 5: about his connection with Brock Purty throughout camp and how
Speaker 5: he looked yesterday against the Titans.
Speaker 3: I mean, he might be.
Speaker 4: The best receiver in the class guy as yesterday he
Speaker 4: clearly looked better than Carnel Tait, who was the top
Speaker 4: pick of the class, but he had the benefit of
Speaker 4: a party throwing to him. And Purdy's been on fire
Speaker 4: this training camp, so it's hard to make that comparison
Speaker 4: when the situations are different. But if you just look
Speaker 4: at the large picture of work and I go back
Speaker 4: to college too. For Dejon Stribbling, he played in three
Speaker 4: different systems, succeeded in all three. Showed at Oklahoma State
Speaker 4: that he could run the intermediates and could separate on
Speaker 4: just some of the garden variety routes ten to twenty
Speaker 4: yards down the field showed an old miss that he
Speaker 4: could run the go balls and could catch the screen
Speaker 4: and run away from four to four corners that played
Speaker 4: for Georgia. I mean you put on the highlight tape
Speaker 4: there's a catch and run touchdown where Stribling runs away
Speaker 4: from a corner who was drafted, who ran a four
Speaker 4: to four to zero at the combine. So he's got
Speaker 4: legit four to three speed when the pads are on.
Speaker 4: And then you look at him now performing in camp
Speaker 4: and you see the size, you see the six to
Speaker 4: three heigh, you see the muscle he's separating. He could
Speaker 4: generate separation outside of the scheme. You know, him and
Speaker 4: Mike Evans are the two guys that Piersoll was able
Speaker 4: to do that. But he's hurt now, so he could
Speaker 4: really beat man coverage. And more important than anything is
Speaker 4: the fact that he catches everything that's thrown his way.
Speaker 3: He only dropped one pass.
Speaker 4: Last year at Ole Miss. He hasn't dropped anything yet
Speaker 4: over the course of training camp and another day, Leonard Hankerson,
Speaker 4: the receivers coach, he just mentioned that one thing that
Speaker 4: sold the fort andres on daj On Stribbling was that
Speaker 4: he would not back down from trying to cross sift
Speaker 4: block Rubin Bain, an edge rusher defensive end who went
Speaker 4: number fifteen overall to Tampa Bay who's about forty to
Speaker 4: fifty pounds heavier than him in college. And apparently the
Speaker 4: fort Anders fell in love with Dribbling when they saw
Speaker 4: that toughness because it showed them that he can run
Speaker 4: block in their system, and two showed them that this
Speaker 4: guy could probably run over the middle of the field
Speaker 4: and hold on to the football because he has the
Speaker 4: guts to try to get in there and block somebody
Speaker 4: who's fifty pounds heavier than him.
Speaker 3: And all of the things that.
Speaker 4: They kind of scouted have showed up on the field
Speaker 4: so far. So now we have to see it carry
Speaker 4: over the games. But every indication is that he's the
Speaker 4: real deal at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's having a great camp for sure.
Speaker 2: He were talking to David Lombardi at the s F Standard,
Speaker 2: who curse covers the fort Nars comprehensively read him at
Speaker 2: s F standard dot com. There's so many different things
Speaker 2: we can ask you about, but just in the final
Speaker 2: few minutes here, just look at the running back depth chart,
Speaker 2: because obviously we know about Christian McCaffrey, and I don't
Speaker 2: know if you feel about him being held out, if
Speaker 2: that's okay, if you know he's he's sent Ferrari Maserati.
Speaker 2: We're so sensitive to his every tweak, but behind him,
Speaker 2: you know, we were so excited about Kaylon Black the
Speaker 2: first few days of camp. I don't know what his
Speaker 2: status is. You know, Jordan James, at the end of
Speaker 2: last year, there was a hope that he would flash,
Speaker 2: but he has that rib thing, So just tell him
Speaker 2: to fill us in a little bit on the running
Speaker 2: back depth chart situation, you know for the next four weeks.
Speaker 4: Well, you mentioned earlier Kean White, he actually has a
Speaker 4: similar injury. It's an a doctor. It's a core muscle
Speaker 4: injury as Kaylon Black. So based on my understanding that
Speaker 4: that'll take a few weeks, it's already been a little
Speaker 4: bit of time for both of those players. So they
Speaker 4: I think they hope that to have him by week one,
Speaker 4: although I haven't fully.
Speaker 3: Confirmed that yet.
Speaker 4: And Jordan James, I would expect back by by week one,
Speaker 4: probably even earlier. For sure, that's a fractured rib, so
Speaker 4: a little bit more straightforward than the aductor injury. Those
Speaker 4: are tough injuries for the forty nine ERDs. They were
Speaker 4: running with only three running backs for the joint practice yesterday.
Speaker 4: Kalil Herbert actually had a couple nice cuts and runs.
Speaker 4: And they've got Patrick Taylor Junior, who has been in
Speaker 4: the system here for a couple of years now, and
Speaker 4: Sincere McCormick, who's been a practice squad running back for
Speaker 4: the team. I wouldn't worry about McCaffrey. I think that
Speaker 4: they're more than happy with the work that he's already
Speaker 4: put in, and then he's going to be ready to
Speaker 4: go for Week one based on what he's already done.
Speaker 4: Timing wise with the offense. Now, it's a matter of
Speaker 4: management for McCaffrey. Think that the plan proved to be
Speaker 4: really good for him last year. He was able to
Speaker 4: give him four hundred and thirteen touches and he has
Speaker 4: looked even more explosive than last year. And I think
Speaker 4: it's because he's got a year removed from the Achilles
Speaker 4: tendonitis in twenty twenty four, So even though he's gotten older,
Speaker 4: he's further away from the really troublesome injury in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four, and I would expect Christian McCaffrey to have
Speaker 4: a big year, but you do need to manage it right.
Speaker 5: Then.
Speaker 4: They've talked about the importance of that, which is why
Speaker 4: they have Jordan James, why they have Kaylon Black, and
Speaker 4: they're gonna be opportunities for.
Speaker 3: Both of those guys. The key is to get healthy,
Speaker 3: get back.
Speaker 4: And one thing Klay Kubiak said the other day that
Speaker 4: really resonated with me and said, you know, guys get
Speaker 4: hurt in the league. The pros are able to be
Speaker 4: ready regardless. The pros are doing the film study behind
Speaker 4: the scenes, are taking mental reps and yeah, maybe it
Speaker 4: will take him a week to knock off the rust.
Speaker 4: But if Kaylon Black is who the forty Anders think
Speaker 4: he is, even though he misses some of this training camp,
Speaker 4: they think that he could still be a big positive
Speaker 4: contributor for this team once he is back from the
Speaker 4: doctor injury.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to see him, so Dave listening to this,
Speaker 2: Given how you know Fortynards are not planning to play
Speaker 2: a whole lot of stuff if any tomorrow night against
Speaker 2: the Titans, what should a fort NFL fan look for
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night?
Speaker 4: Well, last year they didn't play their starters in the
Speaker 4: first preseason game.
Speaker 3: They never do with Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 4: They usually wait until the second game to play the
Speaker 4: starters for a couple series, and then the third game
Speaker 4: to play them for a quarter.
Speaker 3: Or maybe even a half.
Speaker 4: But last year they played the Broncos, and the Broncos
Speaker 4: put their starters out there and the forty nine Ers
Speaker 4: ran there essentially a second team defense, which was a
Speaker 4: ton of youngsters, especially last year. And I don't know
Speaker 4: if you guys remember, but the first two drives where
Speaker 4: that was the matchup Broncos won versus forty nine Ers rookies,
Speaker 4: the forty nine Ers dominated Denver. Like Denver, I don't
Speaker 4: don't even know if they picked up a first down.
Speaker 4: The Denver media was freaking out, and I thought that
Speaker 4: was a really, really good indication of things are gonna
Speaker 4: go well for the forty nine ers this year if
Speaker 4: they can stay healthy, and obviously they didn't, but the
Speaker 4: youngsters for the forty nine Ers in that first preseason
Speaker 4: game actually ended up playing really well early in the
Speaker 4: season before all they happened and then they lost their
Speaker 4: leaders and Bosa and Warners, So this might actually be
Speaker 4: a little bit more of a measuring stick for the
Speaker 4: forty and ers depths, and then people want to give
Speaker 4: it credit for because they do get to play the
Speaker 4: first unit of an opposing team. The Titans are going
Speaker 4: to play everybody. I know it's a young team, but
Speaker 4: they did add quite a bit of talent this offseason.
Speaker 4: I really like Robert sala as a coach, and I
Speaker 4: think it should be a really interesting test for some
Speaker 4: of the younger guys like a Jaden Douger, like Larry Wirth,
Speaker 4: you know that we were talking about, and if they
Speaker 4: can have similar success to what they did last year
Speaker 4: in Denver for those first two possessions, that'd be a
Speaker 4: big arrow up for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3: Good stuff, man, it's that time.
Speaker 2: We're finally ready to see those those guys in uniform
Speaker 2: on the field tomorrow and then on we go. So
Speaker 2: thanks for the time, love the coverage in the s
Speaker 2: F Standard, and we'll chase you down the road.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks David, Yeah, thank you. Guys.
Speaker 2: Have a good day, Yeah, David Lombardi, good connection too
Speaker 2: with the Lombardi solid connection. Yeah, I mean listen, you
Speaker 2: know he's listen, Niners. There's some good stuff going on,
Speaker 2: and you know, the more we talk about this, this
Speaker 2: Raheem Morris dB connection. Maybe we'll see it flourish a
Speaker 2: little bit. Maybe we will. Jaden Duggar, Romello Height, get
Speaker 2: to know these names. The fever back, feverback. I'm already
Speaker 2: thinking a bit. Yeah, already thinking about obviously, Peggy Lee fever.
Speaker 3: Is that where I went?
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course that's where this old guy went. Come on,
Speaker 2: that's a jam. Now that's a jam. Let's get the
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