Speaker 1: As you were listening to v Sports Leader in mid days,
Speaker 1: here is Larry Krueger.
Speaker 2: Well, we keep things rolling on a Friday, Larry Krueger
Speaker 2: with you. Matt Mayoko is gonna stop by bottom of
Speaker 2: the hour, and about ten minutes from now, we'll talk
Speaker 2: a little bit about what the Niners have cooking at
Speaker 2: training camp. They're eight days in. They're off today a
Speaker 2: little walk through, not an off day, but an off
Speaker 2: day for the media, and then Niners back in the
Speaker 2: practice field for a regular practice day on Saturday. I
Speaker 2: believe Sunday we might be just talking to the coaches,
Speaker 2: So we'll talk a little Niners coming up with Matt Mayoko.
Speaker 2: One thought on the Oakland A's. God, they fired general
Speaker 2: manager David Force today. He's been there forever a long, long,
Speaker 2: long time, and he's had opportunities to go other places
Speaker 2: and he's always passed it up to stay there with
Speaker 2: Bean in the A's and to get fired like that,
Speaker 2: it's just now the A's have lost twelve series in
Speaker 2: a row. I mean that is a ton so the
Speaker 2: most of the majors this year twelve series in a row,
Speaker 2: and recently they've just been told fodder. But really you're
Speaker 2: gonna you're dumping Forced. I guess they love Kotse so
Speaker 2: much that they can be like, we're not dumping Kotze.
Speaker 2: We love Katse, so we're just blamed. Forced found that
Speaker 2: to be a very odd maneuver, though very strange. Forced
Speaker 2: and being have been together for a long long time.
Speaker 2: I did not see him on the hot seat. But man,
Speaker 2: you lose enough, you lose. I mean they dump their
Speaker 2: pitching coach, you know now they're dumping the GM twelve
Speaker 2: series in a row. Ouch ouch A's have just been
Speaker 2: taking it on the chops. One thing that's going on,
Speaker 2: and we'll talk to talk to Mayoko about, is that
Speaker 2: the forty nine ers I think are really interesting this
Speaker 2: year on a lot of fronts. One, you could make
Speaker 2: an argument that they are old and crepit offensively. Juice
Speaker 2: is older, CMC is older, Evans is older, Trent Williams
Speaker 2: is older, Kittle's older. He's probably not gonna play until November.
Speaker 2: That would be my guess. You got a lot of
Speaker 2: older players there, but not brock Purdy, and brock Purdy
Speaker 2: is not old. Brock Purdy, on the other hand, is
Speaker 2: really heading into the prime of his career. And this
Speaker 2: is year five for him. He's playing his best football.
Speaker 2: He's twenty four for twenty eight the last two days,
Speaker 2: just completing a very high percentage some of these down
Speaker 2: the field big pass plays where he's throwing the ball
Speaker 2: forty forty five yards down the field. So can brock
Speaker 2: Purdy overcome the issues the Niners have on offense? You know,
Speaker 2: if you understay to me, hey, are the Niners gonna
Speaker 2: have a good year this year?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I can't really say. I'm in the
Speaker 2: camp that believes that they've got a lot of good
Speaker 2: young talent and that their top level guys have not
Speaker 2: really taken that step backwards. We don't know about Kittle,
Speaker 2: but the rest of their guys, you know, they're there.
Speaker 2: They're senior players, they're best players, their oldest players. The
Speaker 2: trans The Kittles are the trans, the Bosas, the CMCs,
Speaker 2: the Brendles, the green Laws, the Warners, you know, Bosa, Trent,
Speaker 2: all of them. They don't they haven't taken that I
Speaker 2: can tell from watching practice. They haven't taken a dramatic
Speaker 2: step backwards. It's not like they're regress significantly. So that
Speaker 2: was like one of the big questions how much would
Speaker 2: the Niners core regress? But there is this like there's
Speaker 2: definitely two distinct camps. There's like the people that are like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a pretty good football team, Kyle Shanahan, Rock Purdy,
Speaker 2: a lot of good talent, all three, you know, all
Speaker 2: three phases of the game. They've got some ability here
Speaker 2: and they're a super Bowl contender. And then other people
Speaker 2: are like, no, no, they're old, and you know, they're
Speaker 2: too many guys beat up, not enough talent, and they're
Speaker 2: not a legit super Bowl contender. And I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's like I could listen to an
Speaker 2: argument either way. I think they are a legitimate super
Speaker 2: Bowl contender. I think they're gonna they're gonna have a
Speaker 2: double digit win season. I think the Rams are one
Speaker 2: of the thinnest Super Bowl favorites I've ever seen. I
Speaker 2: do think the Rams are going to be disappointing this year. Seattle,
Speaker 2: on the other hand, I'm not sure about. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you guys have caught any of the hard
Speaker 2: knocks on on the Seahawks. It's pretty good though it's
Speaker 2: been already been pretty good. The first episode, Sam Darnald
Speaker 2: drops the Super Bowl ring out of you know, they
Speaker 2: lowered it down from the ceiling, and then they looked
Speaker 2: at their Super Bowl rings, these massive rings. I mean,
Speaker 2: just a ridiculously gaudy ring. It looks like a baseball.
Speaker 2: It's besides of a baseball. It's just so huge and
Speaker 2: there and Donald takes it out and it obviously it's
Speaker 2: supposed it's not supposed to come flying out. It comes
Speaker 2: flying out and falls on the ground and he looks
Speaker 2: over at the camera like, what did that just happen?
Speaker 2: Did I just drop my ten thousand dollars super Bowl
Speaker 2: ring or however much at costs? So that was kind
Speaker 2: of funny. But then there was another scene where Mike McDonald,
Speaker 2: the head coach of the Seahawks, is talking to Nicky
Speaker 2: man Worry and he just starts talking about himself and
Speaker 2: you can just see that Mike McDonald is just an
Speaker 2: ego maniac of the host order. Now, a lot of
Speaker 2: people who achieve great things do have high opinions of themselves,
Speaker 2: but I mean still, I mean he's talking to Nicky
Speaker 2: man Worry and he's like, you know, people think I'm
Speaker 2: one way and they're completely wrong about me. I'm not
Speaker 2: that way. And it's like, you know when somebody starts
Speaker 2: talking about themselves and you're like, you just you're looking
Speaker 2: for the ripcord and you're like, let me get the
Speaker 2: hell out of here. You know, you're standing in a
Speaker 2: room and all of a sudden, somebody starts talking about
Speaker 2: their beliefs, their philosophy, them themselves and well what I do,
Speaker 2: And all of sudden you're like, dude, I can't get
Speaker 2: out of here fast enough. That's where that was Nicky
Speaker 2: man Worri. It's like he's having a conversation with the
Speaker 2: head coach. Coach is like, you know, people think I'm
Speaker 2: one way, but I'm really nothing like the way they think.
Speaker 2: And you can see Nicky man Worry looks at McDonald
Speaker 2: like you're so full of yourself, you ego maniac. And
Speaker 2: he's like, all right, coach, I gotta go see you.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Mike McDonald, he's a great coach. He's got
Speaker 2: a great defensive coach and right now he's got the
Speaker 2: true upper hand on Kyle Shanahan head to head. But man,
Speaker 2: watching that hard knocks. I mean, he just comes across
Speaker 2: like the most arrogant guy of all time. They think
Speaker 2: I'm this way, but I'm really quite quite a bit different. Also,
Speaker 2: before we take a time out, Mike Sando came out
Speaker 2: with his quarterback tears. It's amazing. No matter what Mahomes does,
Speaker 2: he's still at the top of the tier. It's like
Speaker 2: he didn't play well last year. Now he's hurt, but
Speaker 2: he's still number one. Mahomes, Alan, Stafford, and Burrow. That's
Speaker 2: the top tier party. They ranked eleventh overall, which I
Speaker 2: think is about right. If you said, hey, what's brock Purty,
Speaker 2: I would say he's a top ten NFL quarterback, and
Speaker 2: I would say it with my chest out. But to
Speaker 2: put him eleven, it's not a disaster. They've got Lamar Jackson, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll put that in front of him. Herbert Okay, but
Speaker 2: Herbert doesn't win in the playoffs, and he's five hundred.
Speaker 2: Prescott's better than Perty, I think not Drake May one
Speaker 2: year suddenly he's better than Perty. Jared Goff's better than Purty.
Speaker 2: Perty beat him in the playoffs. Jordan loves better than Perty.
Speaker 2: He beat him in the playoffs. He's tied with Kayleb Williams.
Speaker 2: He beat him head dead. The reality is it's probably
Speaker 2: in whatever order. It's Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford, Lamar Jackson. Those are the top five quarterbacks
Speaker 2: in football. If you want to throw Herbert on just
Speaker 2: the ridiculous talent that he has, or Drake may Off
Speaker 2: of one year, you know, six seven on the list, fine,
Speaker 2: but then I would have brock Perty in front of Caleb,
Speaker 2: in front of Love, in front of Golf, in front
Speaker 2: of may in front of Prescott. I can. I'll give
Speaker 2: you Herbert if you want Herbert. Maybe I'd even give
Speaker 2: you Jayden Daniels, might even give you a Baker Mayfield
Speaker 2: on the right day. But Brock's a top ten quarterback.
Speaker 2: I think that if you want to say what where,
Speaker 2: what can you say definitively? You can say, definitively, brock
Speaker 2: Perty is an in the NFL. It's a top ten quarterback.
Speaker 2: All right. You know who's a top ten Niner? Beat
Speaker 2: writer Matt Mayoko, and he's going to join us next
Speaker 2: on the Sports Leader.
Speaker 1: As you were listening to V Sports Leader middays, here
Speaker 1: is Larry Krueger.
Speaker 2: Well, we keep things moving on a Friday, joining us
Speaker 2: on the UMA guest line. Matt Mayoko does a great
Speaker 2: job covering the Niners for NBC Sports Bay Area, and
Speaker 2: he's on the UMA guest line to talk a little
Speaker 2: bit about the Niners. Eight days into training camp. Matt,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm doing great, enjoying this Friday. Don't have to
Speaker 3: get in my car and drive to Santa Clara. So
Speaker 3: we be back at it on Saturday and Sunday when
Speaker 3: the traffic's a little bit lighter. But no, everything's everything's
Speaker 3: going well. We're both enjoying camp.
Speaker 2: Are we. Oh yeah, it's always it's always enjoyable. Now
Speaker 2: you are the pro who has the big camp hat.
Speaker 2: I did buy a big camp hat. I just haven't
Speaker 2: been able to really. It's like I can't. I don't.
Speaker 2: I feel like I can't wear it. I you know,
Speaker 2: I'm wearing baseball hats. I've got other hats because I
Speaker 2: just don't. I can't wear I bought like a World
Speaker 2: Cup sombrero, and it's just I don't know. I feel
Speaker 2: like it's gonna be too big of a statement to
Speaker 2: wear it out there. So I've kind of I have it,
Speaker 2: but I haven't actually busted it out yet.
Speaker 3: I even saw you wearing a backwards hat the other day. Yes,
Speaker 3: I was, yeah, I mean you look like you know,
Speaker 3: you got the baggy shorts, you got the the backwards hat.
Speaker 3: You're you're appealing to the young crowd. Craig, there you.
Speaker 2: Go, thank you, thank you. Yes. So then I don't
Speaker 2: get you know, people donating to my channel saying calling
Speaker 2: me unk. I'm getting a lot of a lot of
Speaker 2: unk lately. You know what I wanted to ask you about,
Speaker 2: Raheem Morris, because Jaden Dugger, the rookie from Louisiana, is
Speaker 2: a very unique prospect. He was he's very young, he's
Speaker 2: the youngest guy on the team. He's long, he's rangy
Speaker 2: thirty five inch arms. But he was running with the
Speaker 2: first team defense this week, and that kind of surprised me.
Speaker 2: Obviously it's a very positive sign. But then we kind
Speaker 2: of heard from Drake Greenlaw, the Fever linebacker. He mentioned
Speaker 2: the Fever linebacker, and then Raheem's talking about, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of that hybrid player who's a kind of a
Speaker 2: star player, or he used the word a spinner outside
Speaker 2: edge defender who can cover the slot receiver and tackle
Speaker 2: the running back and rush the pastor. And I feel
Speaker 2: like this is kind of a new frontier here. What
Speaker 2: are you expecting. Do you think Jadan Dugger is kind
Speaker 2: of a one of one or does he fit into
Speaker 2: a category with guys like Nick Martin and Larry Worth.
Speaker 2: I mean, it is interesting. It's a whole new kind
Speaker 2: of wrinkle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's completely different than those guys. And
Speaker 3: you know, I do want to get Raheem at some
Speaker 3: point to explain and maybe the next time he's up there,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of explain maybe the job descriptions of
Speaker 3: those different titles. But the way I see it is,
Speaker 3: you know, they're certainly doing whether it's experimenting or whether
Speaker 3: it's this is what we're doing. I think it'll be
Speaker 3: a little bit of both here in training camp and
Speaker 3: certainly in the joint practices and everything else. But I
Speaker 3: think Jaden Dougger's background makes him uniquely qualified for what
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers are looking for as they deploy
Speaker 3: more of those five man fronts. You know, he's got
Speaker 3: the size, he's got the length, he's got the athleticism,
Speaker 3: he's got the versatility. He played safety at Georgetown, he
Speaker 3: played edge at Louisiana Lafayette, then he played stack linebacker
Speaker 3: Louisiana Lafayette. So he's done a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3: And when you have a five man line and if
Speaker 3: they're only defensive lineman, there's going to be some shortcomings
Speaker 3: because quite obviously, on passing situations, not all five guys
Speaker 3: are going to be rushing on the same play, So
Speaker 3: there will be times when that happens, but there'll be
Speaker 3: a lot of dropping and trying to create confusion for
Speaker 3: the offensive line and for the quarterback. And so Doug
Speaker 3: gives them a guy that is, you know, would be
Speaker 3: I think by definition, their best cover guy dropping into coverage,
Speaker 3: but he also has the pass rush skills to do
Speaker 3: that as well as playing the run and everything else.
Speaker 3: So I think for what the forty nine ers are
Speaker 3: looking at, I think that makes a lot more sense
Speaker 3: than saying, have Luke Gifford as the third linebacker or
Speaker 3: you know the linebacker slash d n that hybrid guy
Speaker 3: who's you know, lines up on the at the line
Speaker 3: of scrimmage. So I do think that early on, even
Speaker 3: when they drafted him, he kind of thought like, Okay,
Speaker 3: how exactly does he fit? And now as we watch
Speaker 3: practice two weeks into practice, now we can see like, Okay,
Speaker 3: that makes a lot of sense why they would take
Speaker 3: him and how they can find a way to get
Speaker 3: him on the field right away.
Speaker 2: Matt, I've seen reports of twenty guy, the ninety man
Speaker 2: camp roster dinged up. Some of these guys are it's
Speaker 2: more precautionary. I think that if there was a game,
Speaker 2: they probably would be playing. But still it's a lot
Speaker 2: of injured guys. Chris Furster was asked the question the
Speaker 2: other day at the presser, Hey, are the joint practices
Speaker 2: with the Titans you know in jeopardy? And he made
Speaker 2: it seem like absolutely, not that it's like a full go,
Speaker 2: But then the way he kind of stated it, it
Speaker 2: almost sounded like, you know, maybe like he's obviously it's
Speaker 2: not his call directly, but he is kind of the
Speaker 2: messenger at this point. Do you do you think that
Speaker 2: the Tennessee joint practice is is it up in the air.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's a slam dunk that it's gonna happen,
Speaker 2: or do you think.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I would think that they're gonna happen.
Speaker 3: It's gonna happen. Uh, but we'll see. I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna stake my you know my claim on that one,
Speaker 3: but you know, for the Titans, they would want to know.
Speaker 3: I mean, if if we were to happen, I think
Speaker 3: they would have or if it wasn't gonna happen, I
Speaker 3: would think that they would have already canceled it because
Speaker 3: the Titans aren't going to be coming out here. What
Speaker 3: would that be three days early for a preseason game,
Speaker 3: So you know, they have to kind of figure out
Speaker 3: what they're going to do. If you know, they're not
Speaker 3: going to fly out on a Monday to practice on
Speaker 3: Tuesday in Santa Clara and then the game's on Thursday,
Speaker 3: so that's when practice is scheduled to happen. The joint
Speaker 3: practice would be on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I guess I'm less alarmed by the actual reality of
Speaker 3: the injuries during training camp than just putting out the
Speaker 3: list every day. Of these are the guys who aren't practicing.
Speaker 1: I mean, the.
Speaker 3: One injury that's the big one, and I think it's
Speaker 3: far and away the biggest one. And I don't even
Speaker 3: know if there's a number two injury that would be
Speaker 3: a reason for concern. It's Ricky Pearsall. Why because he's
Speaker 3: out for the season. He's not gonna play this season,
Speaker 3: but every other injury. Maybe next on the list would
Speaker 3: probably be Venerian Low, the swing tackle who got injured
Speaker 3: on the very first day of practice and has a
Speaker 3: high ankle sprain, so that's usually a four to six
Speaker 3: week injury. But I don't know that any of the
Speaker 3: other injuries. Maybe Jacob Cowing with the hip fluxuer, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I mean, I don't know that any of
Speaker 3: these are at all concerning as it relates to impacting
Speaker 3: the regular season. You know, the adductor injury of Kylon Black,
Speaker 3: it depends on how serious that is. Keon White has
Speaker 3: the same injury, at least described the same way, the adductor,
Speaker 3: which is basically growing. But I really see him out there,
Speaker 3: already see him out there working. I don't think the
Speaker 3: Mike Evans thing is any big deal. I don't think
Speaker 3: Christian Kirk at this point is a big deal because
Speaker 3: it looks like he's running pretty well. Stribbling is already back.
Speaker 3: So you know, the one that I thought, oh, that
Speaker 3: could be a bad one was Grayson Halton. You know,
Speaker 3: a bone bruise of the knee. We've seen that turn
Speaker 3: into something bad. But he's already back and making an
Speaker 3: impact felt. So I don't see the injury situation. I
Speaker 3: know it's you know, people love to talk about it
Speaker 3: because of where that practice facility is located and everything
Speaker 3: else in the history, but I don't at this point. Again,
Speaker 3: I mean, things can change, but at this point, I
Speaker 3: don't see the forty nine ers being that adversely impacted
Speaker 3: from by injuries other than Pearsaw. I mean, I look
Speaker 3: around the league and I see, you know, Jayalen Walker
Speaker 3: with the Falcons out for the year, Nick Scorton out
Speaker 3: for the year, the other the draft pick for the
Speaker 3: Panthers as well, Chris Brasel out for the year. So
Speaker 3: and the New York Giants lost their seventeen games starting
Speaker 3: nose tackle out for the year. So I don't see.
Speaker 3: To me, the bigger concern is when's Kittle coming back?
Speaker 3: When's Mikel Williams coming back off the pup list from
Speaker 3: injuries last year?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I think you're right, and we don't know
Speaker 2: the answer to those questions quite yet. Robert Jones suddenly,
Speaker 2: out of nowhere, went from the backup to Connor Colby
Speaker 2: at left guard to the starter at left guard, with
Speaker 2: Colby running with the twos and threes and running some
Speaker 2: reps at right guard. Do you think this is a
Speaker 2: momentary thing. I mean, Barrows had written a piece that
Speaker 2: Colby had commandeered this job, and it's almost like the
Speaker 2: Niners said, hey, no, he has it, you know, we
Speaker 2: Jones has got to say some say here too. It's like, literally,
Speaker 2: after that story hit the press, it's like Jones was
Speaker 2: inserted as the starter at left guard. Do you think
Speaker 2: Jones is going to be the starter at left guard
Speaker 2: or do you think it's he's the starter for the moment?
Speaker 3: I would I would think it's still Connor Colby. But
Speaker 3: that was interesting I did early in training camp. I
Speaker 3: asked Chris Firster, you know, is it possible that there's
Speaker 3: no competition? You know, is it possible because open competition
Speaker 3: implies that one guy's running with the ones one day,
Speaker 3: the next day or maybe even later in the same practice,
Speaker 3: the other guy's running with the ones, and they have
Speaker 3: a competition. And it appeared to me that if Colby
Speaker 3: Kolby was just going to stay in that job as
Speaker 3: long as he gave the forty nine ers no reason
Speaker 3: to replace him. First also said that, well, yeah, we'll
Speaker 3: end up going with the best guy. But if the
Speaker 3: best guy is Connor Colby from start to finish, then
Speaker 3: then what you said is true. There won't be any
Speaker 3: kind of back and forth. Let's have this guy work
Speaker 3: with the one. So it was a little bit surprising,
Speaker 3: and to me it's an indication that whatever they're looking
Speaker 3: at behind the scenes, film study, everything else, player evaluation
Speaker 3: looks to me like it means that it's not a
Speaker 3: fait a company that Connor Colby is the starter. I
Speaker 3: don't know that Robert Jones had a great day of
Speaker 3: practice yesterday when he was running with the Ones, so
Speaker 3: I would still kind of expect Colby to be that.
Speaker 3: But I think it's also probably a reason for concern
Speaker 3: that they felt the need to put somebody else in there,
Speaker 3: because ideally you'd want your five starting guys to just
Speaker 3: line up day one and be that way, no deviations
Speaker 3: at all through the end of the season, and that
Speaker 3: certainly wasn't the case. So certainly be watching during practice
Speaker 3: on Saturday to see who's out there with the Ones.
Speaker 2: Two quick hitters, will Pauling, Junior Berg and Jordan Watkins.
Speaker 2: All these guys to me look like they're outshining Jacob
Speaker 2: Cowing Bergins really surprised me. But I while Pat Pauling
Speaker 2: is coming on, he looks very solid catching punts. Watkins
Speaker 2: looks bigger, stronger, faster. Do you see the same thing
Speaker 2: I'm seeing that. It seems like Cowing is falling behind
Speaker 2: these other receivers.
Speaker 3: Well, I would say falling behind the other receivers, but
Speaker 3: his ticket is not as a receiver. I mean, what's
Speaker 3: the same way that that Sky Moore, you know, was
Speaker 3: a factor for the forty hours last year. He was
Speaker 3: a factor without ever really stepping on the field and
Speaker 3: playing offense. So Pauling is interesting. He would be kind
Speaker 3: of a guy that could come out of the out
Speaker 3: of the shadows and win that job. To meet Jordan
Speaker 3: Watkins seems a little less comfortable handling punts. That's the key.
Speaker 3: Whoever is the sure handed, the most reliable, the most
Speaker 3: comfortable handling punts is going to be one of the
Speaker 3: receivers on the team and one of the guys who's
Speaker 3: going to have a uniform on game days. So I
Speaker 3: still think it's it's Cowing. However, this hip flexer that
Speaker 3: we just talked about, if that keeps him out a
Speaker 3: period of time, then that does open the door for
Speaker 3: somebody else, But I would agree as far as you
Speaker 3: know plays being made as a wide receiver Cowing, it
Speaker 3: hasn't been able to you know, last year he had
Speaker 3: a lot of momentum going into camp and got injured.
Speaker 3: This year, you know, the ford AMers expected him to
Speaker 3: kind of step in where he left off last year
Speaker 3: before he missed the entire season, and I don't know
Speaker 3: that that's happened. So there is definitely a lot of
Speaker 3: gray area when it comes to how that wide receiver
Speaker 3: depth chart will look and how the punt return aspect
Speaker 3: will really impact their final decision, because it certainly looks
Speaker 3: like Deebo Samuel is going to be the kickoff but
Speaker 3: now who's going to be the plan returner.
Speaker 2: Matt Mayoko with us on the Yuma Guest Line, covers
Speaker 2: the Niners for NBC Sports Bay Area and does an
Speaker 2: amazing job. Mattie will let you go, but today I'd
Speaker 2: be remiss if I didn't ask you one about our
Speaker 2: our friend, our our fallen friend, the Great Late Great
Speaker 2: Dwight Clark. Today is August seventh. Today is my twenty
Speaker 2: seventh wedding anniversary, but it is also Dwight Clark day.
Speaker 2: And you know, I grew up as a kid in
Speaker 2: this city. You know, I was eleven when he scored
Speaker 2: that touchdown in the corner of the end zone, and
Speaker 2: he was my idol. And then he became a friend
Speaker 2: of mine and we had a chance to go golf
Speaker 2: a few times and do some events, and I miss
Speaker 2: him terribly. I thought he was one of my favorite Niners,
Speaker 2: and then when I got to know him, he became
Speaker 2: my favorite Niner. You got to spend a lot of
Speaker 2: time with him and did a lot of great things
Speaker 2: with d C before he passed, and got a chance
Speaker 2: to visit with him. Just your recollections of Dwight Clark
Speaker 2: before we let you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I remember watching the catch on my
Speaker 3: ouch in the in northern California and little community Richfield,
Speaker 3: where we could only get two channels at the time,
Speaker 3: And to get to know him as you did. The
Speaker 3: private thing that strikes me is it was the most
Speaker 3: important play in forty nine Ers history and one of
Speaker 3: the most impactful plays in NFL history, And for it
Speaker 3: to happen to the organization, for him to be the
Speaker 3: author of that play. He always joked, you know, to
Speaker 3: Joe Montana. They called it the catch, not the throw
Speaker 3: for it for it to be him. He was the
Speaker 3: perfect person for that because of how he embraced it
Speaker 3: and how he made every fan who came up to
Speaker 3: him feel special when they would ask him about the
Speaker 3: play or whatever. He acted like it was always the
Speaker 3: first time anybody had ever come up to him and
Speaker 3: asked about that. And so I remember one time going, man,
Speaker 3: does it ever? I'm sure we were someplace and two
Speaker 3: or three people came up to him separately and they
Speaker 3: walked away, and I said, does that ever get tiring
Speaker 3: for you to talk about that? And he just stopped
Speaker 3: dead in his tracks and he looked at me and
Speaker 3: he goes, would you ever get tired about talking about
Speaker 3: that play? And I'm like, you're absolutely not. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: get tired, and he goes, exactly. So he really embraced it,
Speaker 3: and he was the perfect guy to be the man
Speaker 3: who made the play that changed the organization.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What a kind soul he was, and man, I
Speaker 2: miss him. I miss him a lot. Matty. Great stuff. Man,
Speaker 2: You always doing an incredible stuff. Incredible job. We love
Speaker 2: your segments on The Leader. Thanks for jumping on all right,
Speaker 2: kurug thanks so much. I'll see tomorrow. Yep, see tomorrow,
Speaker 2: see you down there. Matt Mayoko, NBC Sports Bay Area.
Speaker 2: He's as good as any covering this team, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: All Right, let's do this. Let's take a time out.
Speaker 2: We'll come back with more. As we say goodbye to
Speaker 2: our front two day fill in John Lunn takes over
Speaker 2: this time slot Monday at ten. I'm the Sports Leader.
Speaker 1: As you were listening to V Sports Leader in middays.
Speaker 1: Here is Larry Krueger.
Speaker 2: Hey, we're coming down the home stretch. I hope everybody's
Speaker 2: enjoyed the last four hours. I know I have hope
Speaker 2: you guys have. That's gonna do it for us today.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Chips McCarthy for producing the great John Curly
Speaker 2: was our booker today and man, he booked up a storm.
Speaker 2: I told Curly off the air, I'm like, man, I
Speaker 2: couldn't have screwed that up, even if you know, if
Speaker 2: I tried, the way you booked that thing. Thanks to
Speaker 2: our guest John Lund, Pablo Sandoval, man, I love talking
Speaker 2: to the Panda, Mark Adams, Andrew Baggerley, Matt Mioko, George Kantos.
Speaker 2: When I did the show with Tolbert. Sometimes Tolbert would
Speaker 2: throw in like names of people that we hadn't talked to.
Speaker 2: It's like, I would like to thank this guy. It's like,
Speaker 2: do we talk to that guy? Uh, Tommy t But
Speaker 2: that is gonna do it us and thanks to Chips,
Speaker 2: thanks to thanks to to Kyle Chung who helped yesterday,
Speaker 2: and of course John Curley. John Curley outstanding one of
Speaker 2: the best in the biz. And we're really excited to
Speaker 2: work with Curly the last couple of days. You know,
Speaker 2: it's never easy to jump in on another time slot.
Speaker 2: It's never easy with the circumstances like this. But you
Speaker 2: know what, you know you if you like doing this
Speaker 2: for a living, you know you gottas. There's an old
Speaker 2: saying that radio begins when everything that you plan to
Speaker 2: do fails. And I'm gonna take some calls. No, you're
Speaker 2: not the guest lines down. I'm gonna book this guest.
Speaker 2: Oh he had to go somewhere, he's sick, he can't
Speaker 2: he's not gonna make it. Oh, well, now what do
Speaker 2: I do? Now? You gotta go make you gotta earn
Speaker 2: your bones, you gonna you gotta make go make that
Speaker 2: money and be a pro. But yeah, it was a
Speaker 2: pleasure sitting in for the last two days. I know this.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that have mixed feelings, but
Speaker 2: you know, and I understand and that believe me, we
Speaker 2: all do it the leader we do. We absolutely understand
Speaker 2: the audience and who's our who our listeners are, and
Speaker 2: how much so many of the personalities mean to the
Speaker 2: people who listen to the station, and so I do
Speaker 2: we all understand. But all I would say is, you know,
Speaker 2: John Lunn starts Monday at ten, and give him a
Speaker 2: shot because he's really really good and he's gonna entertain
Speaker 2: you guys and doing fantastic job doing this four hour
Speaker 2: deal every day by himself. And I'm sure he'll he'll
Speaker 2: hit it out of the park because that's what he
Speaker 2: does and he's just you know, one of the one
Speaker 2: of the best pros I've met since I've been doing
Speaker 2: this is the great John Lund. Really looking forward to
Speaker 2: this weekend Giants and Tigers. Brew Baker is the opener
Speaker 2: tonight for Houser Land and Roupe against Jackson Job tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: and we'll be out there for that and then Logan
Speaker 2: Webb one oh five Sunday against Troy Melton. Melton's really
Speaker 2: good seven and one with a one fifty eight ra.
Speaker 2: You know, if you're there to see the opposition, this
Speaker 2: Tigers outfielder Max Clark is definitely worth watching. Check him out.
Speaker 2: Forty nine ers can do off today or they had
Speaker 2: to don a walk through today, but they'll be back
Speaker 2: on the practice field tomorrow. I'll be back down there tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Saturday or Sunday. I believe we're gonna meet with the
Speaker 2: offensive and defensive coaches. So we got more coming from
Speaker 2: forty nine er camp. And make sure that you listen
Speaker 2: all next week because every night at six o'clock we
Speaker 2: have Niners Nightly, and when there's Giants baseball or something
Speaker 2: going on on six p' eighty, you'll catch it on
Speaker 2: the CAMBR YouTube channel every night. So listen for me
Speaker 2: every night Niners Nightly six to seven o'clock, either on
Speaker 2: the radio or if you don't hear it on the radio,
Speaker 2: go to the CAMBR YouTube channel and we'll be doing
Speaker 2: the show via the YouTube channel. Interesting stuff talking to
Speaker 2: Matt about you know, the forty nine er situation. There
Speaker 2: there's a this is a moving you know, evolving situation
Speaker 2: as far as the roster, and you know Jacob Cowing,
Speaker 2: I personally don't think Jacob Cowing is gonna make it, don't.
Speaker 2: I don't see it. I really don't. Will Pauling catches
Speaker 2: the punts better, Junior Bergen catches the punts better. Watkins
Speaker 2: is stronger, faster, bigger. Bergen and Will Pauling and Watkins
Speaker 2: are all made more plays than Cowing. So I kind
Speaker 2: of think Cowing, even though he's got the punt return ability,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Something tells me the Cowing maybe on
Speaker 2: the outside. Looking in. The Robert Jones Connor Colby competition
Speaker 2: at left guard suddenly got juicy. It looked like it
Speaker 2: was gonna be Colby's job, and now Robert Jones is
Speaker 2: the starter, and we'll see where that goes. To me,
Speaker 2: the biggest thing that you're gonna notice in the preseason
Speaker 2: with the forty nine ers is all the additional speed
Speaker 2: at wide receiver. I mean Dejon's stripling, you know Jordan Watkins,
Speaker 2: you know Wesley Grimes, Will Pauling. They're all sub four
Speaker 2: for forty guys, so there's a lot more speed. I
Speaker 2: didn't ask Maddie about Ogbo Acaranquo, but he really looks
Speaker 2: like he can help their past rest quite a bit
Speaker 2: as well. And then you know, talking to Matt there
Speaker 2: about you know this this new Raheem Morris wrinkle to
Speaker 2: their you know, the Niners have the same D line coach,
Speaker 2: and so they they're gonna do a lot of wide nine,
Speaker 2: but they want to be more multiple on their coverage front,
Speaker 2: on their coverages and their fronts. And I think they're
Speaker 2: gonna see Raheem use some linebackers as defensive lineman and
Speaker 2: walk a linebacker up and and take that from like
Speaker 2: a four to three, you know, look to you know,
Speaker 2: a five man surface and a five man front and
Speaker 2: just kind of make quarterbacks pause a little bit. And
Speaker 2: we'll get more out of Raheem as he talks more
Speaker 2: about you know, this star position or this this spinner
Speaker 2: position that Bruce Irvin was so good at, which is
Speaker 2: kind of a combo. It's a it's basically one player
Speaker 2: that can you know, cover the receiver and then that
Speaker 2: same player can make tackles in the box against the
Speaker 2: running back, and then that same player can out of
Speaker 2: a two point stance rush the quarterback and put some
Speaker 2: heat on the quarterback and move him off his spot.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think Raheem's going to be really
Speaker 2: interesting to watch. How does he utilize Jaden Dugger, How
Speaker 2: does he utilize Larry Worth the third? Nick Martin? Does
Speaker 2: he find players that can play these hybrid roles? And
Speaker 2: what is that looking like? So anyway looking that's what
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to seeing in the weeks ahead. Forty
Speaker 2: nine er camp wise, that's going to do it for us.
Speaker 2: Adam Copeland and Derek Poppa, they're at fifty eight Social
Speaker 2: outside the ballpark getting you're ready for the Giants and
Speaker 2: the Tigers Game one of three. Enjoy the fellas they
Speaker 2: are next. Thanks to everybody behind the scenes. We'll see
Speaker 2: you later on these Sports Leader