WEBVTT - Matt Barrows Talks 49ers Australia Trip, Rams Preparation and Roster Challenges 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.880 Now back to murphin markets on the Sports Leader, streaming 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:08.920 live on the sports Leader dot com at knbr V 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:10.920 sports Leader app. 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.759 All right, we are back live on the Murph and 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.080 Marcus Show on a Wednesday morning, and joining us now 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:23.080 on the UMA guest line is one of our favorite 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.880 forty nine or beat writers, Matt Barrows from The Athletic Matt, 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.440 I've got John Dickinson filling in for Murph this morning. 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:30.360 How are we doing today? 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.800 I'm doing great, And you guys are a favorite of 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:35.880 mine too. I just want to let. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.199 You know that, Oh, Matt, I always love hearing that. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.159 You've always been one of my favorites from when I 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.160 used to book you for like Drew Hoffer and Ryan 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.920 Covey late at night, so it always appreciates time. Yeah, 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:50.120 that's a name drop for you. Yes, indeed. Well, Matt, 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.280 I know there's so many storylines to get into with 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.960 forty nine ers training camp, but before we get into 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.000 all the training camp schedules, I need to ask you 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.960 about the travel schedules for the forty nine ers and 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.200 the Rams. Five weeks and one day from today. It 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.760 sounds like the Rams are flying out one day before 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.600 the game. It was reported yesterday by ESPN's Dan Graziano. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.440 If you could please break down what you know about 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.720 the forty nine ers travel schedule and what you kind 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.440 of feel about the Rams strategy to fly in one 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:20.600 day before Australia. 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.280 Yeah, it's a study in contrast, so this week one 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:29.760 will be a great, you know, test of different strategies. 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:31.640 The forty nine ers are going to go out I 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.080 think more than a week ahead of the game, so 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:40.160 they are taking a very scientific approach. They are going 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.319 to try to acclimate I assume if they'll be practicing 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:47.520 in the morning because that game Australia time kicks off 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:52.640 at ten thirty, which is, you know, earlier than any 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.200 local start that you're you're ever going to have in 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:59.240 the NFL. The Rams are doing the exact opposite. They 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.600 are not going to to overthink it. They're almost literally 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:07.240 parachuting in the day before the game, and the idea 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:11.600 is that we're not gonna kind of go through the 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:15.160 rigmar role of adjusting our body clocks that might fail. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:20.080 We're just gonna react. And I believe they did something 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:24.840 similar in a game in London recently and it went 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.079 well for them. They blew the doors off the Jaguars 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.919 in that game, and I think that sort of sealed 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:35.799 their their their approach to these types of things that 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.960 you know what, we're not going to change things. We're 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.360 not going to torture ourselves through all these changes. We're 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.120 just going to go in and, like I said, react 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:50.000 to the situation. So it'll be interesting to see which 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.120 team comes out on top. I mean, talent obviously is 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:54.919 going to be a big factor in this as well. 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:59.280 But my thought is that if the forty nine Ers 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.440 sneak out of victory in that game and then have 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:07.560 what is it, three home games later, I mean, that's 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.520 a really great start to the season for them, and 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.200 they beat their biggest rival and then they have some 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.800 home games. If they lose it, though, and this is 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:21.120 my point that then you know they have done a 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.919 lot of work for nothing. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.280 No question, And they do, at least on paper, have 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.680 two of the more winnable home games on their home 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.640 schedule as those Week two and Week three games as well, 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.880 that I think could be perceived as as somewhat of 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:42.200 a softer landing spot considering the circumstances. I'm fascinated by 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.320 this The quote from Sean McVay. Going back to last year, 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.200 Matt and you mentioned them going over to London and 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.360 beating the Jaguars. They arrived the morning of the game, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.840 so I guess it was a night game in London. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.280 They got in the morning of the game. And the 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:00.680 quote from Sean McVay, we're like seal team sick, were 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.320 in and out before you know what happened. 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.520 See all teams score six. Yeah. I like that. I 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:08.440 like that analogy. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:11.880 So I don't know who would you give the like, 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.119 who would Matty Barrows give the the advantage to, because 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.159 we were just talking about it during the break, and 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.960 obviously there's a track record of the Rams doing it 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.279 this way last year in a little bit of a 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:26.760 different circumstance. But I feel like the forty nine ers 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.040 would have an advantage at least going into it. Wouldn't 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:33.400 wouldn't you You would think if they're they're a week 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.479 and their their bodies have adjusted, you would think that 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:37.719 they would have an advantage. 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.760 And I should say that they've done well on these 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:46.200 these longer trips over the years, the weeks that they 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:50.640 spend in West Virginia or Youngstown State or Colorado, they 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.040 usually do well in the next game. I don't think 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.679 their their record is perfect, but they feel like they 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:03.719 have a good handle on this bodyclock stuff, so you know. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.800 But then again, you know, the Jim Harball teams that 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.200 I covered used to kind of handle long trips, like 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.000 the McVeigh teams, let's let's just get on a plane go, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.760 you know, they were like the I always liken those 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.360 teams to the outsiders. You just you just show up 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.600 in the park and and have a fistfight. And he 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:23.960 was a shift fall, you know what I'm saying. So 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.159 I don't know, like I said, a study and you 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:31.960 couldn't have two more different approaches to a game in Australia. 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.120 Yeah, two different strategies being implemented by Sean McVay and 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.160 Kyle Shanahan. But these are two different coaches that are 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.640 in two different situations right now. With of course, Kyle 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:41.720 Shanahan is still recovering from the car accident from a 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.200 couple of weeks ago. Matt, what can you tell us 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.400 about Kyle's recovery and some of the progress he's made 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:46.240 throughout training camp. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.440 Yeah, he's making progress. I don't think he's ready to 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.440 take on the full day to day duties of a 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.880 NFL head coach. From what I understand, uh stamina is 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.320 still an issue. He just doesn't have the ability to 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:05.360 put in that workload. But he's he's moving in that direction. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:11.520 They had their longest practice of the summer on on Monday, 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.720 and he was out for virtually the whole practice, watching 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.320 it live, and he also addressed the team for the 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.359 first time. Over the weekend. He hadn't he hadn't held 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.960 any team wide meetings. So all of those are are 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.039 positive signs. But like I said, I don't think that 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:34.080 there's any sense that maybe in this next block of practices, 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:38.159 next four practices, he will be there in full. 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:39.680 You know. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.159 Then they have next week a joint practice with the 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:47.320 Titans and the Robert Salas, and then a preseason game, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:52.720 and then they have one in uh La with the Chargers. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:56.120 So that's sort of the next question. Is he up 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:00.040 and running in full before those? I think I've I 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.880 think another legitimate question is remember they had to cancel 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.880 a joint practice I think it was against the Saints 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.520 a couple of years ago because they just ran out 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:13.640 of bodies. They couldn't hold a kind of a legitimate practice. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:18.239 And they're starting to approach those injury levels. They're probably 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:23.160 not there yet, but there's more opportunities for guys to 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.800 get injured over the next few days. So I think 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.280 that that's always sort of a question do they have 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:32.040 enough healthy bodies for these joint sessions? 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.440 Well, you went exactly where I was going to go next. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.559 I mean, what's your sense for just how the forty 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:41.040 nine ers are navigating the here we go again nature 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.760 of some of these injuries, whether it's a season ender 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.800 like Ricky Piersoll, or it's some of the more day 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.880 to day, you know, dealings that at least on the surface, 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.520 don't seem like they're going to be relatively long term. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.040 Yeah, I think most of these aren't going to be 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:03.520 relatively long term, you know, but when when it happens 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:08.400 to a Jordan James or a Kaylin Black, younger guys 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:12.880 that that haven't been through it, you know, I think 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.920 that there is concern. You want them a practicing as 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.280 much as possible. In other words, now, both of those 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:22.000 guys look really good to begin camp, and it's going 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.080 to depend on how much time they miss. But you know, 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.040 Jordan James has a broken rib. He's a running back, 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.160 I would think that that rib has to fully heal 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.480 before he can get back into the action. But you 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:42.000 know too, I'm sure the your listeners want to know 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.760 why the forty nine ers have all these injuries all 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:49.280 the time, and I do believe it's because they just 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:54.400 go hard in these practices. The word callous is used 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:58.840 a lot by Kyle Shanahan, by John Lynch. You know, 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.600 they want these guys to get used to a certain 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:07.520 pace so that when the regulars even begins, they are 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.840 they are moving at a greater pace than than the opponent. 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:15.120 So they're building this callous right now, and then building 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:20.080 a callous you get wounded. So that's the that's the 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.280 trade off is that, yeah, you you get sort of 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:29.400 inured used to practicing hard, but you end up hurting 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:34.720 yourself as well. So that's, like I said, that's the 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.960 line that this team walks. I yeah, I'd love to 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:43.280 give those guys sodium pentethal and ask them if they 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.719 thought it was worth it last season because they were 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.280 a good team. They were better than a lot of 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.920 teams despite having so many injuries. So you saw that 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:56.400 callous in action, but you you you also saw it. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.880 You know cost the team uh in the end. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.199 Matt Barrows is the voice here this morning on the 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.880 Umaguest line, and this conversation is sponsored by Redwood Credit 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.320 Union for You for community for seventy five years, joined 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.160 RCU today at Redwood CEU org and Matt. Since the 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.120 last time we saw the forty nine ers on the field, 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.160 they've made an addition bringing in Deebo Samuel over the weekend. 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.920 Nineteen problems is back in the bay. What's been your 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:20.880 scattering report of what's it been like for you seeing 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:21.839 Deebo back on the field. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.080 Yeah, he looks like two thousand and in twenty twenty three. 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.760 Deebo Samuel, he's wearing nineteen. He's taking handoffs out of 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:36.440 the backfield, he's catching the short passes, lots of screens 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.679 and you know, his physique looks good. And that's what 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.640 that's what you're worried about with Deebo Samuel. That's Zeke 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:47.079 can get out of hand very quickly. But like I said, 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.640 remember the he was coming off of that twenty twenty 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:55.160 two season, which wasn't a good year for him, and 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.480 he went back and he watched the tape the following 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.360 off season and he didn't like what he saw, and 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.720 he came back inspired in twenty twenty three and he 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.800 didn't have a twenty twenty one like season. That was 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:14.200 his real breakthrough year, but it was better. So I 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:20.480 think that that's the reasonable, you know, optimistic expectation for 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.600 him is that he's back to that twenty twenty three form. 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.280 And Tim Kalakami made this point, I don't want to 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.960 want to steal it from him, but he noted that, 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:35.040 you know, having Deebo Shamuel on the team aughta mean 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.720 that they don't have to lean on Christian McCaffrey for 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.640 a lot of the pass plays that they did last year. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.160 I remember early in the season, Christian McCaffrey was finishing with 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.520 one hundred and fifty combined yards in like ninety five 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.360 of those were receiving yards, and so a lot of 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.720 the wear and tear, a lot of the touches that 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.680 he took last year were uh, receiving touches. So I 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.480 think that they're going into the season wanting to make 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.600 sure that Christian McCaffrey is better preserved than he was 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.480 a year ago. And we've all been thinking, oh, that's 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:12.400 going to be related to calin Black. It's going to 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.080 be related to Jordan James. I think it's also going 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:19.560 to be related to Deebo Samuel. So the addition of 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:24.479 Deebo Samuel helps the team in that regard as well. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:29.440 Matt third block of camp begins today, these these four 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.440 day blocks and then an off day, and they've had 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:35.120 the jog through practices. I saw you wrote about some 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.040 of the early trends. It popped into my feed early 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:39.920 early here. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:40.439 Doing this show. 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.880 I was able to skim it what without giving it 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.120 away because we obviously want people to go and read 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.840 it the athletic But what has stood out to this 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:55.240 point as some of the positive trends through the first. 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:59.200 Couple of blocks, and what maybe is concerning. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.760 Yeah, I mean it's not all bad news. I think 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:06.400 that there are a couple of position groups that have 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:11.319 stood out as real strengths, real real deep positions, and 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:17.760 those are cornerback and linebacker. And I think the addition 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.319 of Raheem Morris, who's a sort of a dB specialist 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.640 throughout his career and also a guy who's whose teams 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:29.760 have come up with a lot of interceptions at times, 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:35.840 is really helping. I think he recognizes who his cornerbacks are, 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.640 what their strengths are, and he's putting them in position 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:44.160 to capitalize on those strengths. So those two positions look good. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.559 I mean, anytime you've got Fred Warner and Drake Greenlaw 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.480 basically in the middle of your defense, it's going to 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:56.040 be a better defense. There are some concerns though, and 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.520 defensive end to me is just you know, sticking out 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.440 like a sore thumb. That should be better in a 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.600 few weeks when you know the Bosa is going full 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.840 speed and Michael Williams might be uh coming back to practice. 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:15.679 But it sort of exposes beyond them, just you know, 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:20.480 the dearth of talent there. You know, none of these 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:26.040 guys has has ever been a sack master beyond beyond Bosa. 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.960 So I think that that's going to be another concern 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.320 this year. Maybe Raheem Morris can sort of scheme the 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:37.960 forty nine ers around that, but that's that's been a 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.000 problem area. And the other problem area with with all 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:46.120 these injuries, that they don't really have any camp competitions anymore. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.960 You know, most it's usually you know, they had maybe 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.360 half a dozen going into camp, but you know, uh, 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.760 in five of those instances the one of the guys 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.720 were in one case both of the guys hurt. So 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:06.160 that iron sharpened iron cliche you here all the time 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.480 not really applying right now because that there's not a 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.840 second piece of iron or sharp in the gains as 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.400 far as the competition. So those are those are some 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.280 of the themes that are a few more that I 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.760 put forward. But I think that there's probably a little 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:27.440 bit more positive going on than maybe. If you're a 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.840 casual fan, you're you're picking up right now, Matt. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.240 Never a shortage of topics down in Santa Clara. We'll 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.360 let you get back to work. We'll let you figure 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.400 out your travel plans for week one in five weeks, 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:39.280 and we'll talk to you soon. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.120 Thanks, Matt, all right, anytime guys talk to you soon. 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.480 Appreciate There. He is Matt Barrows from The Athletic. You 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.640 can check out all of his latest articles at The 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.240 Athletic or check them out on social media on Twitter 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.320 as well. Matt Barrow's with great forty nine er coverage 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.040 coming up next, We've got the cooler of content. Maybe 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.520 you'll hear some sites in sounds from forty nine ers 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.040 training camp and you will hear from Kevin to comparing 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:05.720 the twenty seventeen Warriors to the twenty twenty six Philadelphia 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.320 seventy six Ers. All that and more. Next in the 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.320 Cooler of Content, it's Murph and Marcus with JD in 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.000 this morning on the Sports Leader. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.240 All right, everyone till this is. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:18.440 The cooler he's been in. 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:23.720 A cooler of content, corn capacious of joyful. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:24.880 News, might be honest time. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.560 Now back to murphin Marcus on the Sports Leader. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.920 Yes, indeed, it is the Murph and Market Show on 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:44.000 a Wednesday morning minus Murph. Surprise, surprise, he's back on 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:48.000 a back on vacation, which feels like another occasion. He's 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.000 been on vacation for like five straight Fridays. He's off 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.080 for the next couple days as well. He'll be back 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.880 next week. So that means JD is taking a dip 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.640 in the cooler of content, which of course is sponsored 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:03.920 by in Health with top physicians, surgeons and clinicians right 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.800 here in the North Bay. Marine Health puts you closer 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:12.160 to your best health, world class care, closer than you think. 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.600 And JD, We've got an interesting topic today. In the 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:20.760 Cooler of Content, it's Kevin Durant forever Warrior, trying to 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:26.920 maybe rewritee some Warriors history. I should say a lot 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:31.560 of conversation going on about Lebron James and his decision 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.639 to take his talents to Philadelphia, a lot of people 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:39.320 comparing it to Kevin Durant joining the Warriors in twenty seventeen. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.920 Kd's got different takes here was KD just a couple 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:46.760 of days ago, given his thoughts on the Philadelphia seventy 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:51.120 six Ers having more twenty points scores than the Warriors 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.720 did in twenty seventeen, and how the rest of the 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.679 league and social media viewed it as a problem at 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:02.920 the time, you know, like their contenders for sure. 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:04.600 I'm a kid. You don't think so. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:05.879 No, I'm just asking you. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.520 Last time they play bought three twenty points scores on 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.240 the team, they said it was unfair, which is the team? 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:11.600 Ivison? 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.440 Yeah, they got four twenty five point scores in the seat, 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:16.639 So he goat that they will be a contender. 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.040 Man, they will be a great team to watch. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.920 Yeah, I mean, there's no question that the seventy six 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.040 ers are going to be a contender. I guess the 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:26.320 question is, how do you compare it? To Kevin Durant 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:30.680 joining the Warriors in twenty seventeen. Now KD is going 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:35.919 roster versus roster on paper and comparing the total points 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.040 per game for each of the players versus the overall 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.960 resume in my opinion, because Kevin Durant did not stop 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.440 there with the audio, he also went on social media 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.560 to clap back. Maybe forgot the log out of his 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.639 Burner account, or maybe he forgot the log into his 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.480 Burner account and started taking shots at some of his 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:57.680 former teammates, saying that Klay Thompson never an MVP candidate 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:02.360 in nothing, Draymond Green fourteen points per game, seven rebounds, 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:06.199 six to six, and Steph and Joel are essentially the 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.240 same because they're both MVPs. Now, I think I disagree 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.960 with all three of those statements because you can't compare 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.600 this version of Joel Embiid to a unanimous MVP in 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.359 Steph Curry. You also just can't look at the box 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:21.119 score with Draymond Green because you know his impact is 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.800 way bigger beyond the box score. And then to take 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.840 a stray at Klay Thompson, who in his prime was 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:32.480 arguably the best two in the entire league offensively and defensively. 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.280 It's kind of weird to see Kevin Durant trying to 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.960 kind of shape his own narrative to maybe take some 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.600 of the heat off of him after he joined the 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.439 Warriors team after his team lost a three to one 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:46.080 series to the Warriors in twenty sixteen. 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.720 Yeah, I mean, Klay Thompson at that point was the 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.760 ultimate robin. He may not have been the best robin 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.639 in the league, but he was right up there. I mean, 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.080 top three, top top two, top five, like however you 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.359 want to categorize it. But I think and I agree 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:05.240 with you, that the Sixers obviously immediately are contenders. But 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:10.520 it's different because that Warriors team that Kadi joined was established. 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.360 The seventy six Ers team is not established at all. 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.120 It's a tremendous amount of unknowns. Embiid is a shell 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.120 of his former self, which I'm with, you can't use 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:24.640 this Steph comparison in that vein because we're not talking 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:26.600 about twenty nineteen Joel Embiid. 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:27.600 At this stage. 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:32.719 Maxi is awesome and an All star, but at a 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:36.760 budding superstar. But he has not accomplished anything in the 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:42.240 game that to this point Steph and Clay hadn't accomplished 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:45.399 in fairness there. And look, Jalen Brown's a Finals MVP, 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:48.680 He's in that conversation to this point of his career. 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:50.720 I think of being the ultimate Number two or the 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:54.440 ultimate Robin. I think maybe the way things played out 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:57.399 with Boston led people nationally to think that it was 0:20:57.440 --> 0:20:59.359 more of a one in a one A than it 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.200 actually and I think, as we talked about earlier, that 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.000 might have been part of why Boston was so willing 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:08.359 to move on from Jalen Brown. But there are a 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:12.000 lot of unknowns as to how these pieces, talented as 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:16.240 they may be, will fit together with Philadelphia and Lebron 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:17.200 joining that nix. 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:18.840 That Warriors team was. 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:26.040 Absolutely completely established in a rhythm, had won seventy three games, 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:29.640 had won a title, already should have won a second title. 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:33.600 Steph was a two time MVP unanimous in the seventy 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:37.159 three and nine year and then they just dropped KD 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:42.400 in the Harrison Barnes slot of the roster, and it 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:48.040 was an absolutely seamless fit from a basketball standpoint. So yeah, 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:53.119 that Warriors team, by far, in my opinion, is better 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:56.280 than this Sixers team with Lebron getting dropped into it. 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:58.480 Yeah, I would absolutely agree with you. Now it's a 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:01.840 different situation with this Sixers team not being able to 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:03.600 play a game yet with Jaylen Brown. So we'll see 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:05.159 how they look and how that all fits in. But 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:07.240 this is a Sixers team that went forty five and 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:09.080 thirty seven last year and lost in a second round 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:09.600 of the playoffs. 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:12.399 It goes back to the I think it was Dean Oliver, 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:17.919 the analytics legend in basketball circles, who put out the 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:21.280 number on social media of all of the usage of 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:24.480 all of the individuals. And it was Maxi, and it 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:27.239 was Embeied, and it was Lebron, and it was it 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:31.480 was Jalen Brown. And the usage added up from last 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:34.080 year with all of these guys individually to like one 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:38.880 hundred and thirty percent. So that's thirty percent usage that's 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:41.760 going to have to decline from somewhere, probably in some 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:43.120 form or fashion, from all four. 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:44.440 That's not easy to do. 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:48.520 If you remember, I mean Draymond took a step back 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:51.840 in terms of looking to try to score absolutely, and 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:53.639 that was coming off of a year where Draymond was 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:55.439 a thirty eight percent three point shooter. 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:57.679 Yeah, that's something to bring up a lot. Draymond was 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:01.600 improving tremendously as a three point shoot until KD came in. 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:04.200