WEBVTT - Larry gives props to Roger Craig, and his best notes from 49ers' training camp 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.400 As you were listening to V Sports Leader in middays, 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:05.400 here is Larry Krueger. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.040 Welcome back to These Sports Leader. Larry Krueger with you 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.600 on this beautiful Friday. I hope everybody's having a great one. 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.560 Joining us on the Yuma guest line this segment is 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.800 Mark Adams from forty nine or web Zone, and I'm 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:24.239 super excited to have Mark on in this segment. He is, 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:29.000 in my opinion, one of the reasons that Roger Craig 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.240 is in the Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty six, 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:33.720 and he's with. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:35.840 Us on These Sports Leader. Mark. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.880 How are you, hey, Larry, how's it going? 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.320 Oh man, it's going so good. And I'm just you know, 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.720 I'm so happy, so happy today. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:46.839 You know. 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:48.920 Yes, I'm part of it is that I hit my 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:52.120 three team parlay last night in baseball, but that has nothing. 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:52.920 To do with it. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.400 It's really more My happiness has to do with the 0:00:55.440 --> 0:01:00.920 fact that Roger Craig taking his spot, his long awaited 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.760 spot in pro Football's hallowed ground and he is the 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.920 part of the Hall of Fame class at twenty twenty six. 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:10.240 It's an amazing class. 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:15.120 Drew Brees, Larry Fitzgerald Luke Keigley, Adam Vinatieri, and Roger Craig. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:19.560 And I just wanted to say not only congratulations to Roger, 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.040 his family, his friends, his teammates, and everybody who loves him, 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.760 but I also want to say congratulations to you, Mark, 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.560 because you you had a hand in this, You had 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:34.200 a role in this, and I'm so proud to say that. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.080 You know, I was maybe had a little small part 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.640 in this as well, and I'm so excited. I know 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.840 you are as well. It's not about you, it's not 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.400 about me, but it's about Roger. But tell us a 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:54.080 little bit about what you did to try to make 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.840 this a reality, because this is a long road and 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:58.640 this is this is not the first time you and 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.240 I have talked about Roger for the fame, and you've 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.880 spent a lot of hours invested in this. 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:05.320 Tell us a little bit about it. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.760 Yeah, it has been along road about thirty years that 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.840 he's been waiting to get in and it's long overdue, 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.760 it's well deserved. But you are one of the big 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.960 reasons why he's in. Because when I reached out to 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.440 you and said, hey, I heard in that pregame show, 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:27.040 I heard the stats, the case that you made. Can 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:28.960 I get a copy of that because I want to 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.880 write an article on it? And you gave me, you know, 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.280 you called me and said, here's here's the case, and 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.480 then you kind of challenged me, Hey, don't just write 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.840 an article. See if you can get some guys on board, 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:45.160 because you know, you're writer, you're a fan, that's great. 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.560 But if you can get some guys like Joe Montana 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.919 and Steve Young and Ronnie Lott, if you can get 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.080 those kinds of guys behind you, then this this could 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.680 go a long way. And you know, I said, okay, 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.040 I'll give that a shot, thinking how in the world 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.400 am I going to get, you know, in touch with 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.480 these guys. But I ended up had a contact with 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.240 the team who put me in contact with somebody else 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.240 that was with the team back from the glory days. 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.320 And then that individual just said, hey, who do you want? 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.320 And I said, I just started naming names, and I 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.919 started with Joe and Jerry and and Ronnie and all 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:26.079 these guys, and next thing I know, I'm reaching out 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.680 to him. And because it was Roger Craig, they they 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.000 all reached back out to me. And so it really 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.080 is a testament to the kind of person that that 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.680 Roger is because these these guys were all willing to 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:45.480 talk to somebody that they didn't know, just just just 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.960 for a chance that he might make it into the Hall. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.160 And so it was definitely a collective effort. Couldn't have 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.440 done that on my own. So I appreciate you. And 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.520 Matt Mayoko gave me a lot of guidance. Being that 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.320 he's a Hall Hall of Fame voter, he was able 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.000 to tell me, Okay, here's how they think, here's what 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.920 you need to to speak to as far as the 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.040 Hall of Fame voters. But you know, some of it 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:11.440 I had to do on my own. Like I got 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.800 Mike Singletary. Didn't have anybody get his information for me, 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.280 but he has a charity. I went to that charity 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.640 website and just filled out this little contact for him 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.320 and said who I was and why I was wanting 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.719 to talk to to Coach Singletary. And he called me 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.240 the next day. And so that that shows you how 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.159 great of a person Roger Craig is because so many 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.600 people were willing to help. I mean, when we were 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.880 making this big push the last time that we were 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.320 doing it, I think I remember right, Joe Montana was 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.680 out of the country, and so there were some people 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.400 Eddie de Barbelow's office, they were getting some of the 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.000 some of the guys like Lott and Singletary and Steve 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:58.080 Young and different guys. They were getting them together to 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.760 call Hall of Fame voters and say, hey, he needs 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:06.040 to get he needs to be selected. And Montana was 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.359 in another country and he took time out of his 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.000 schedule to call some Hall of Fame voters while he 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.599 was overseas. And so I think that just shows you 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.360 how great of a person Roger Craig is. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.880 You know, it's so true somewhere in this path. I 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.679 I did an event with Roger down in San Jose 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.880 and and I told him, I said, hey, man, we're 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.200 gonna we're gonna fight this fight. We're gonna get you 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.800 in there. We're gonna we're gonna, you know, because he's 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.800 he was too proud to do it on himself, do 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.000 it for himself. He's just he's not the kind of 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.599 guy who's gonna do that. He's just not He's not 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.039 Drew Pearson. He's not gonna. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.039 I should have been in you know. 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.800 And and yet you know what the squeaky Wheel gets 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.480 the grease and I I promised him, I'm like, man, 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.800 we are gonna fight this fight. We're gonna we're gonna 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.080 knock on every door, We're gonna remind people. But what 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:00.000 you were and and and and we're gonna we're gonna 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.120 get this done. And Roger was like, you know, very happy, 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.880 you know, very gracious, But you know, this means so 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.200 much to him, and it's meant so much to him, 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.320 and to have to wait as long as he has, 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.560 it's just it's not right. There are bigger injustices in 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.400 the world. I'm not pretending that this is the greatest 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.040 injustice of all time, but this is a guy who, 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.360 if Walsh had not died early, Walsh would have led 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.880 the charge. And unlike you or I, who don't maybe 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.240 quite have the juice, if Bill had said Roger's a 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.640 Hall of Famer and kept saying it, you know, he 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.040 would have been in probably a decade ago. And instead 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.159 he's had to wait, largely because Bill passed and he 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.159 didn't have that advocate. But I'm just glad that that 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.560 we could be that advocate and that and you talk 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.080 to a lot of guys, I mean and you did 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:52.800 a lot of interviews, So tell us a little bit 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.120 about this, because I know you put together a video, 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.559 like an extensive video, and then what happened with that video? 0:06:58.600 --> 0:06:59.720 Where did that video go? 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.800 So first I did I wrote a story on forty 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:08.600 nine ers web Zone, and then I took that once 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:12.440 we finished it, I took that and sent it to 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.400 all the guys involved, so Montana, Steve Young, Jerry Rice, 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:21.720 Eddie de Bartolow, Ronnie Lott, Brent Jones, Carmen Policy, George Seyffert. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.280 All of these guys got a copy of that article 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.080 so they could send it off to whoever they wanted 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.800 to send it off to. I then sent it to 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:37.560 every Hall of Fame senior voter that I had received. 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:39.960 I don't remember who it was, but somebody had given 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:41.640 me all of those names. I think it was somebody 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.920 from Eddie D's office. So I sent it all to 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.680 them and some of them responded said thank to you, 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.680 and some of them didn't respond. So then about a 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.960 year so later, we did that podcast series that you 0:07:56.000 --> 0:08:00.160 were a part of, and that was you making the 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.320 Hall of Fame case. That was some media people like 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.120 Matt Mayoko and some Hall of Fame voters. And then 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.800 that was the players, you know, Steve Young and Ronnie 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.600 Lott and some of those guys. And so once we 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.320 finished that, we sent that to the Hall of Fame 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.160 voters as well. But there was also an article in 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.920 there that I did that had Mike Singletary and Harry 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:29.200 Carson and John Robinson, who interestingly, interestingly enough, John Robinson 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.200 and Dan Reeves both at two different times during the eighties, 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:33.920 one of them in eighty five, one of them in 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.120 eighty eight said Roger Craig is the best running back 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.560 we have in the NFL. I'll remind you that John 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.360 Robinson coached Eric Dickerson, so those are big words, you know. 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.839 And then Mike Singletary to say, I put Roger Craig 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.199 right up there with Walter Payton. Those are huge birds. 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:54.720 So and so then Matt and Mayoko did a similar article. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.200 I don't remember which year it was, but he did 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.720 something very similar where he reached out to a lot 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.160 of players that played against Roger and and so he 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:08.240 put something together and I think through mister mister D's office, 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.400 they reached out to some other players I don't remember 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.480 who all that they reached out to but they had 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.880 they had other players contacting the Hall of Fame voters, 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.880 and so there was just this huge effort beyond what 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:28.240 I was doing to kind of collectively, let's just inundate 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:33.040 them with with with a passionate police and a passionate 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.360 case on why we think Roger Craig belongs to the 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:35.840 Hall of Fame. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.360 Well, I mean, statistically, there was no doubt he belonged 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:43.680 in and anybody could see that. But it's also about 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.360 what is the Hall of Fame? It's you know, and 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.400 who are these Hall of Famers? What's their role? Well, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.640 they're ambassadors for the sport. Who's a better ambassador for 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.640 pro football and the forty nine ers in NFL football 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.040 than Roger Craig. I mean, seriously, the guy, the guys 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.880 in you know, testament to hard work. You know, he 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.920 was a workmanlike player. I mean the workouts that Jerry 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.640 Rice is credited. You know, Jerry runs the Hill. You know, 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:15.800 it's like that was Roger's workout. You know, Roger introduced 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:16.680 Jerry to the Hill. 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.079 You know, it's like and you know, there's no bitterness 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:20.360 at all. 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.560 But I do think it's interesting that Jerry is so 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.200 great and I think Jerry's a big part of this, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.000 to be completely honest, and I told you that I 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:33.199 really felt like the number one reason that Roger Craig 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.960 belonged to the Hall of Fame was Jerry Rice. And 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:38.880 people would say, well, what do you mean. I said, well, 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:43.760 Jerry Rice is the greatest offensive statistical entity that the 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.360 league has ever seen. He blew out the records by tons. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.080 The leagues have been a passing league for the last 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.240 twenty years. People are still not even approaching Jerry's records. 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:55.960 So he played in an era where there was less passing, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.080 and yet his numbers are so dominating. And it's just 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:00.839 like anything else. It's like, if you have a two 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.720 hundred yard receiver with four touchdowns, guess what you'rre running 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.440 back probably had, you know, forty two yards and no touchdowns. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.920 And there were a lot of games like that where 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:14.560 Roger Craig's numbers were suppressed because he played with Rice. 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.160 And you could say the same thing about Waters, the 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.400 same thing about John Taylor, the same thing about Brent Jones. 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.280 I'm not saying they all belong in the Hall, because 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.120 there are a little bit more borderline cases. But when 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.959 you factor in the Jerry factor and how much he 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:30.360 dominated the ball. 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.120 And you look at Roger's numbers. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.080 There's just no doubt that Jerry, even though he's great 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.320 and there was not you know, it wasn't doing anything 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.920 to Roger, but just the presence of a dominant statistical 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:49.920 force like Jerry suppressed Craig's Hall of Fame resume and 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:50.439 and there's. 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:51.199 Just no doubt about that. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.840 And it's I'm just so glad that the correction has 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.480 been made, or that there were enough numbers out there, 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.959 there were enough people that realized. Did you know by 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.280 the way that salth pala Antonio was as passionate about 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.760 Roger Craig's Hall of Fame candidacy as we were. 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.280 Not until he started working, Because I think that somebody 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.959 because he made the last He's the one this past 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.200 year that made the presentation to the Hall of Fame 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:20.920 voters on Roger's behalf. And before he did that, he 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.160 reached out to me just because he wanted to collect 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.840 as much information as he could. And that was really 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:29.920 the first time that I'd ever heard that he had 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:35.160 any kind of push, you know, in Roger's favor. But yeah, 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.240 you're right, he really was passionate and he was pushing 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.320 for that. And I agree with you on the Rice thing. 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:47.920 Joe Montana said it. If Jerry Rice wasn't there, imagine 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.080 the kind of numbers that Roger Craig would have put 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.960 up because Roger had his thousand thousand season and eighty 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.600 five that was Rice's rookie year. And so from that 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:01.840 point on, I mean in nineteen eighty eight when they 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.240 won Super Bowl twenty three, that was kind of when 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.080 Rice was starting to be known as maybe the best 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:12.320 wide receiver in football and Roger was still Roger was 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.239 the NFC Offensive Player of the Year that year because 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.839 people who were voting for that recognized, hey, this is 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.960 He's not just a numbers guy. This guy means a 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.120 lot to this Super Bowl winning team. 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:31.080 No, no question, no question about it. Did mister D 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.200 is such a leader of this franchise and so many 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:35.960 of his words, I think he was a guy that 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.560 motivated South Palantoni to lead this charge to some degree. 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.199 Do you remember any of the things that mister D 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.760 said about Roger, Because I know, you know Rod, you 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:50.080 know Eddie understands that Roger needed to be in there, 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:54.200 and you know, really champion this, you know, behind the scenes. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.880 Yeah, I'm trying to think of what there was something 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.880 that he had said. Don't remember exactly what it was, 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.600 but I think that he talked about the fact that 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:09.760 Roger Craig changed Bill Walsh's offense. And I mean, you 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.480 look at today, there's whether it's Kyle Shanahan or whoever, 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.400 there are so many teams that are using at least 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:20.840 part of what Walsh did. And so I think that, 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.440 you know, when you can save that player changed the 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.760 offense of a guy like Bill Walsh, that's a huge statement. 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.120 And so I think that, if I remember right the barbelow, 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.480 one of his big things was that, you know a 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.360 lot of people blame the fumble in the NFC Championship, 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.520 and how many people in their life that are very 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:46.240 successful have a miscue. You know, I judge somebody by 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:50.040 one mistake. I mean, before there was the catch in 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.360 that nineteen eighty one NFC Championship game, how many times 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.200 did Joe Montana turn the ball over? It doesn't matter. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:00.440 I think that, Yeah, what matters is what happened in 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.960 the end. And so I think that that, you know, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.360 you don't judge based off one play, but that just 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.800 happened to be his final play with the forty nine ers, 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.240 And so I even had some forty nine Ers fans 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.920 reach out to me during this time and say, I 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.960 don't think he belongs in the Hall of Fame because 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.760 of that humble and my response ridiculous, Hey, maybe maybe 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.960 you should get a new team. Then No, E's like. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:27.000 Bro, mistake, Yeah, Bro, check yourself. 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.360 I mean, come on, so what Pablo Picasso, It's not 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.920 it's not really art because there was a little yellow 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:34.120 speck in the corner. 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:35.520 It's like, what stop? 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.560 Uh? A Niner fan sent this sent me a note 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:43.400 a couple of weeks ago, saying that Roger's signature run 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.560 is an example of his hall of fame. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:47.560 Uh. 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.200 You know efforts and I and I thought, you know what, 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.120 I can understand that he had that signature run against 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.160 the Rams, and it's like everybody thought he was tackled, 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.400 but he kept going and here comes the high knees 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:00.640 and but every he thought he was tackle but no, 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.520 he keeps going. And you know the effort and the 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.760 energy and the determination and it's like, you know what 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.440 it took all of that effort, all of that energy, 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.800 all of that determination, to get him to Saturday in 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.080 Canton and Mark, you had a huge hand in it, man, 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.080 and I just wanted to say thank you for what 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:23.000 you did. You went above and beyond, Man. You took 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.360 the baton and you ran with it. And I really 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.080 believe that this day doesn't happen without your efforts. And 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.400 I just wanted to highlight you today on camb Are 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.440 and let people know that story and know what you did. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.400 And I'm so proud of it, and I'm really I 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.720 feel like we got something. We actually made a difference, 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:43.920 and we got this guy to a place that he 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.920 rightfully belongs. And I just want to say thank you 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.520 from Niner fans everywhere for what you did. And I 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.680 just want you to enjoy the speech on Saturday. I 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:55.840 know I will. It's one of my favorite days of 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.800 the year. Raddy and I used to talk about our 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.480 favorite football days, and the one thing we agreed on 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:04.560 is we both loved the Hall of Fame speeches because 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:05.840 it's like that, you know, it's the end of a 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.840 guy's football life and there's some great moments there and 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.240 they're thanking people that help them and nobody gets there 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.760 by themselves, and there's always somebody who helped you, a coach, 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.280 a teacher, a mentor, or a wife, a girlfriend, whatever. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.880 And I'm sure Roger will shout out a lot. 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.840 Of people that helped him, but if it was if 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:24.760 everything was right in the world, he would shout out 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.879 your name because you had a huge hand in it. 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.480 Man. Congratulations man, and thanks for coming on. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.520 Camb are telling the story, giving a little background, and 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:35.840 enjoy that stuff this weekend, and way to go. 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:37.600 My pleasure. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:38.119 It was. 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:39.680 It was my honor to be part of it. And 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.800 I'm going to enjoy watching him, like watching him walk 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:46.160 on the field last night when they when they introduced him, 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.080 and you could just see on his joy, you know, 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.240 the joy. And so tomorrow I think is going to 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:53.399 be really special. 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.280 No doubt, no doubt. Mark Adams from Fort Netter websone. Mark, 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:01.520 thanks again, all right. We appreciate Mark for coming on. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.760 And what he did was really above and beyond, man. 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:05.960 He really took the baton and ran with it and 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.520 championed this cause and got his teammates and circled the 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:14.280 wagons and got everybody together and did all the testimonials 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.760 and the interviews and oh man, I mean, just a 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:18.879 great respect for Mark Adams. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.800 From forty nine Er website. All Right, as we were talking. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.280 It came across the screen that the on ESPN they're 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.520 saying the forty nine ers only have a seven percent 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.119 chance of winning the Super Bowl. 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:32.200 There seems to be. 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.840 Two distinctly different camps when it comes to the Niners 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.560 in this upcoming season. The people that are like, yeah, 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.760 they're absolutely one of the best teams in Pro football, 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.520 They're a Super Bowl contender. Perty's going to get one. 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.320 Shanahan's going to get one and bring it on. 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:46.960 Here we go. 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.480 And then there's the other side of it going the 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:53.199 Niners aren't legit super Bowl contenders. Chris Sims has said it. 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.800 Colin Coward has said it. Are the Niners in a way, 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.760 Cambi are What are the Niners this year? They legit 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:05.120 Super Bowl contenders that have a real chance to win 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.280 the Super Bowl at sofar in February? Or are they 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:12.560 pretenders with nothing more than a puncher's chance? Aint away 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.320 Cambi are. If you're driving around, where do you see 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.399 the forty nine Ers as it pertains to their Super 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.600 Bowl chances this upcoming year? Ain Away cambr If you 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.000 want to bang the number and get in. We can 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:24.960 take some of your calls. We're hopefully going to catch 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:28.960 up with Ronnie Lott, Matt Mayoko, Andy Bagerley, a lot 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:30.920 more straight ahead, so keep it locked right here. 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.040 Larry Krueger with you on the sports Leader. 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:37.200 Now back to the sports Leader Middays with your host 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:38.480 Larry Krueger. 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:42.200 Welcome back, Larry Kruger with you on a Friday on 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.080 the sports Leader. Man, We're having a good time. I 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.399 hope you guys are enjoying it today. 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I mean, I'm seriously, 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:27.639 has there ever been a better guy than Dwight Clark. 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:30.320