1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,519 Speaker 1: Over now continues live from the KNBR Casino Matrix Progressive 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:09,560 Speaker 1: Jackpots Studios Casino Matrix Progressive Jackpots are here. Where are 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: you just drop in? Please play responsibly, one eight hundred gambler. 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 2: All right, good to be with you on this Friday. 5 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 3: A lot of San Francisco Giants to lead the way, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,600 Speaker 3: but we got to check in on your forty nine 7 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 3: ers draft is less than three weeks away. We got 8 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 3: into some big names with krub and sod Hustack yesterday. 9 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 3: Perhaps we can play a couple of those soundbites, but 10 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 3: right now we have got the athletics. Matt Barrows one 11 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 3: of the absolute best and most trusted on the beat 12 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 3: when talking about all things red and gold. He joins 13 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 3: us on the UMA guest line, what's up, Matt? You 14 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 3: got silver, you got JD. How's it going going? Well? 15 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 4: Back from Phoenix where it was a nice, comfortable one. 16 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 5: Hundred degrees on one of those days. 17 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 4: In March, by the way, but things are really nice 18 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 4: here in the area right now, so no complaints. 19 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, we were getting a little worried as the Cactus 20 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 3: League was wrapping up for the Giants that some of 21 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:07,199 Speaker 3: the games they had. 22 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 2: Scheduled for the middle of the day. 23 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 3: We're gonna get pushed in tonight and I'm like, guys, 24 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 3: it's early March right now. 25 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 2: We're talking triple digits already in Phoenix. 26 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 3: But hopefully you were able to get some good information 27 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 3: and maybe get a little pool time as well. 28 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, no pool time. You know, I can't just go 29 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 4: straight from winter skin to Phoenix sunshine. I would just 30 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 4: burn to a crisp if that happened. But yeah, I 31 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 4: think we got some good information, you know, nothing totally juicy, 32 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 4: but a little bit more of what they're thinking about Brandon. 33 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 4: I you where things stand with Trent Williams, some big 34 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 4: ticket items going into the spring portion of the off season. 35 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 6: Well, I was gonna ask you, Matt, how does this 36 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 6: sort of compare because it seemed maybe it's just the 37 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 6: nature of social media and things that get clipped and 38 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 6: things that that get written about, but it seemed like 39 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 6: this was a more interesting owners meeting, uh, you know, 40 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 6: than than than other that I remember other owners meetings 41 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 6: being from reading and and and and watching clips about 42 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 6: it in the past. Where where would you sort of 43 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 6: rank it in terms of interesting owners meetings to cover? 44 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 6: Given some of the comments from John Lynch, Kyle Shanahan, 45 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 6: and even Jed York. 46 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 5: Yeah, it was interesting. 47 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 4: I mean one of the things that made it really 48 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 4: interesting was that Jed York basically contradicted John Lynch and 49 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 4: Kyle Shanahan when it came to Brandon Aiyuk, which was 50 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 4: you know, Yorke made the suggestion that yeah, we we 51 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 4: we could keep him on the roster. Uh, you know, 52 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 4: we're paying him all this money, he's a great player, 53 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 4: why not keep him around, which is polar opposite of 54 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 4: what John and and Kyle have been saying. And I 55 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 4: think it's all kind of towards the same end that 56 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 4: they want something in return for this guy. So they'd 57 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 4: like a a draft pick, they like something. This this 58 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 4: idea that they've invested so much in Brandon Nyuk, not 59 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 4: just monetarily, but you know, all the the we have 60 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 4: that he went through this, that, and the other, and 61 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 4: they they don't like the idea that they're just gonna 62 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 4: cut him and. 63 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 5: Kind of let him go wherever he wants. 64 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 4: They feel like they should, you know, for the good 65 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 4: of the team, be pressing to get something back for him. 66 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 4: So I think that that explains, Uh, Jed York's comments. 67 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 5: If you want this guy, you have to you. 68 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 4: Have to give us something for him, and they they 69 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 4: really can don't. They're not in any sort of salary 70 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,119 Speaker 4: caps traits right now. They can they can keep him 71 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 4: sort of in this this limbo, I think until September one, 72 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 4: which is when an option bonus is due. So if 73 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 4: you are a team, I just say it's the commanders 74 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:02,119 Speaker 4: that has an idea that adding him to your offense 75 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 4: for twenty twenty six, and you. 76 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 5: Want to get him in the building, and you want 77 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 5: to get. 78 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 4: Him on the practice field, and you want to get 79 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 4: him on the examination table to check out that knee. 80 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 4: You know, if you want to do that sooner rather 81 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 4: than later, and you would think that they would, then 82 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 4: you have to give the forty nine ers something in return. 83 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 3: Matt, what do you think about the larger forty nine 84 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 3: ers free agency approach in terms of the people they 85 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 3: chose to bring into the building or, in the case 86 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 3: of someone like drag Greenlaw bring back into the building. 87 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 3: I've seen two sides and two different narratives out there 88 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 3: about the forty nine ers, and one is that they 89 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 3: need to get younger and not continue to bring back 90 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 3: older players with a lot of football mileage and an 91 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 3: injury history. And then there's also the notion that they 92 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 3: are leaning into their veteran core in the president, knowing 93 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 3: that at some point your best players are going to 94 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 3: have to be closer to the age of Brock Perdy 95 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 3: and Geameter Leonor and younger rather than your Kittles and 96 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 3: your Bosas and mccaus freezing guys that have. 97 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 2: Put a little bit more football miles on them. 98 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, some of the guys that they brought in or 99 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 4: are in their thirties or are going to be in 100 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 4: their thirties very soon. And that's you know, Mike Evans 101 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 4: and Christian Kirk and so you know, I think that 102 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 4: those guys are a twenty twenty six duo. You know, 103 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,239 Speaker 4: a lot's been written about Mike Evans Steel and how 104 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 4: technically it's a three year deal, but practically it's more 105 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 4: like a one year deal or two year deal. Point 106 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 4: being is that they don't see these guys being part 107 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 4: of the long term plans in San Francisco. So I 108 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 4: still think that this team can stand to add a 109 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 4: wide receiver, perhaps early in the draft. 110 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 5: It's a deep draft for that for that position. 111 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 4: I thought that maybe the best, you know, acquisition wasn't 112 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 4: a free agent signing, it was the trade for oh 113 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 4: dig Azua just adds a veteran presence to that defensive line. 114 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 4: They've got the young guys that they want to see, 115 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 4: you know, continue to improve. He just adds something that 116 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 4: they just they just didn't have going into the offseason. 117 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 4: They haven't had in the last two season, which is 118 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 4: a penetrating defensive tackle guys that's going to create pressures 119 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 4: up the middle. 120 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 5: So I thought that that was a good one. 121 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 4: It sort of sets them up for the draft. I 122 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 4: think it they they addressed enough holes that you can 123 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 4: see them hitting the remaining ones later this month. 124 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 6: Matt, I want to go back to Ayuka a little bit. 125 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 6: How how much of the forty nine ers stance on 126 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 6: Ayuk in your mind, is just general pettiness versus the 127 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 6: notion that he has been trying to orchestrate his way 128 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 6: to a particular team in the NFC East that plays 129 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 6: its games in Maryland and has Jaden Daniels at quarterback. 130 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 5: I'm trying to decipher who that team might be. 131 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 2: But yeah, I think you may have grown up around 132 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 2: that area. 133 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 4: I here, I did. 134 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 5: I didn't go to games in Maryland. 135 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 4: They were in the district of Columbia I was when 136 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 4: I was a lad. But yeah, I mean absolutely, I 137 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 4: think that that is something that doesn't sit very well 138 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 4: with the forty nine ers, just the whole notion that 139 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 4: you can be under contract making millions and millions of 140 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 4: dollars and if you're not, you know, happy, all of. 141 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 5: A sudden, you just kind of decide that. 142 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 4: You think, sure, you're going to quit the team and 143 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 4: go somewhere where you want to go. I don't think 144 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 4: that's anything that any team wants to propagate. And again, 145 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 4: I think the point is that they they have the 146 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 4: means to keep him around, they don't have to cut him, 147 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 4: so they they want something in return. And I think 148 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 4: that's it's probably the right. 149 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 5: I mean, and I get the I understand the. 150 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 4: Argument that you're you're doing this out of spite and 151 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 4: that it's vindictive and you're you're holding onto a guy 152 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 4: that you have no plans at all to you know, 153 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 4: have in your locker room on playing field in twenty 154 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 4: twenty six. But they they owe it to themselves, they 155 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 4: owe it to the organization to get something for him. 156 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 4: And even if it's a sort of. 157 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 5: A pittance type of thing. 158 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 4: You know, next year's draft, the twenty seven draft, people 159 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 4: are already talking about it. It's it's supposed to be 160 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 4: really good, really deep. So you know, adding, let's say 161 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:54,199 Speaker 4: it's a sixth rounder, which seems like nothing right now, 162 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 4: but it could be something that you know is a 163 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 4: factor in twenty twenty seven. So you know, again, I 164 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 4: think they're trying to get something in return so that 165 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 4: they're not just letting this guy that they've invested quite 166 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 4: a bit in go and sign wherever he wants. 167 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 3: Talking about Barrows here on the UMA guest line kind 168 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,080 Speaker 3: enough to join us at the end of the week. 169 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 3: So when Papa was in, one of the discussions we 170 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 3: had surrounding Mac Jones and whether you would trade him 171 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 3: or won't was okay, let's say you trade mac Jones, Well, 172 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 3: then who's your Mac Jones going to be? Who's the 173 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 3: new one going to be? Is it going to be 174 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 3: Curtis Rhurt? Could you go and get someone who's a 175 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 3: free agent out there? And so the reason I bring 176 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 3: that up is because the big talking point was the 177 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 3: forty nine ers saying they need to lessen Christian McCaffrey's workload. 178 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 3: But in order to do that, you got to have 179 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 3: an RB two that you can throw out there and 180 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 3: trust at a high usage rate. So I guess the 181 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 3: question is who is the RB two that the forty 182 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 3: nine ers can routinely throw out there to actually follow 183 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 3: through on these intentions, and is that player currently on 184 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 3: the roster. 185 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 4: I think the player currently on the rosters is Jordan James. 186 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 4: I think that that he started to impress them as 187 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 4: the year went on. Again, not a lot of rooms 188 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 4: for Jordan James when Christian McCaffrey is a nineteen game starter, 189 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 4: when Brian Robbinson Junior is a nineteen game player, and 190 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 4: they only. 191 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 5: Use two tailbacks a game, so we didn't get to. 192 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 4: See that faith that they had in Jordan James. But 193 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 4: the fact that they didn't re sign Brian Robinson, they 194 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 4: didn't bring in any veteran runner of note. I know 195 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 4: that they resigned Patrick Taylor Junior, but I don't think 196 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 4: that he surpasses Jordan James on the. 197 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 5: In the pecking order. 198 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 4: I think that all kind of points to them believing 199 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 4: in him. Now, you know, ideally you have a guy 200 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 4: that can do a lot of the things that Christian 201 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 4: McCaffrey can do as your number two, which which Kyle 202 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 4: Shanahan I thought did a good job of explaining why 203 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,199 Speaker 4: it's hard to take this guy out of the game. 204 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 4: Off the field, Jordan James isn't that. I don't know, 205 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 4: if you know, outside of Bjon Robinson, whether there is 206 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 4: that in the league right now. So you know, for example, 207 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 4: here's some here's some red meat that you guys will 208 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 4: will love. I've heard that they've done a lot of 209 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 4: work with with Mike Washington, the uh, the tailback out 210 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 4: of Arkansas, who's you know, one of the I don't know, 211 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 4: two or three best tailbacks in this draft. 212 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: Uh. 213 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 4: And he's a guy that a lot of people like, 214 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 4: and he's good at catching passes out of backfield. Big back, 215 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 4: you know, has NFL tailback written all over him. The 216 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 4: forty nine ers have have looked at him quite a 217 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 4: bit in the run up to this draft. I don't 218 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 4: think that they're going to take a running back in 219 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 4: the first or the second round, but I mean it's 220 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 4: not out of the realm of possibility that they add 221 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 4: yet another young runner to that mix. It's been their 222 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 4: mo in recent years. Look at all the third rounders 223 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 4: they've taken. They do not have a third rounder this year. 224 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 4: That would mean that they'd probably have to use that 225 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 4: late second rounder on Mike Washington, which again I just 226 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 4: want to caution I don't think that they're going to do. 227 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 4: But it was a bit of a surprise that he 228 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 4: was so heavily on their radar. 229 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 3: Well, hey, no, we got to look at some names 230 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 3: to watch, certainly as we get into the draft, so 231 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 3: we appreciate the red meat as you labeled it, is 232 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 3: Jordan James someone who can thrive in the passing game. 233 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 3: Like when I think about the Robinsons and the Jordan 234 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 3: Masons and some of the other McCaffrey backups, we've seen 235 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,559 Speaker 3: effective runners, but McCaffrey being such a weapon in the 236 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 3: pass game. I'm not saying that you can find a 237 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 3: McCaffrey two point zero out there, because they just don't 238 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 3: really exist outside of you know, maybe someone like a 239 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,959 Speaker 3: Bjeon Robert. But is Jordan James trusted enough to even 240 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 3: do similar things in the passing game just to a 241 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 3: lesser degree, I. 242 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 4: Don't know the answers to that. I mean, we did 243 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 4: not get a good look at him in the summer 244 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 4: and certainly in the regular season. I think that he's 245 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 4: capable of it. I think the really talented pass catcher 246 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 4: out of the batfield is Isaac Grendo. You know, he 247 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 4: used to be a wide receiver. He's got blazing speed. 248 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 4: We saw little glimpses of that in twenty four. No. 249 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 4: Twenty five. I forget what year we are anymore. His 250 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 4: rookie year in twenty four, where he was able to 251 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:45,719 Speaker 4: kind of get down the field and make some nice catches. 252 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,959 Speaker 4: The issue there is he's the superior pass catcher of 253 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 4: the two route runner of the two, but Jordan James 254 00:13:54,760 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 4: is the superior runner of the two and runner Trump's 255 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 4: pass catcher when it comes to the pecking orders. So 256 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 4: you know, if one guy really excels in the area 257 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 4: in which he's weak, I think that he's the clear 258 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 4: number two to Christian McCaffrey. So I think it makes 259 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 4: for sort of an interesting off season. If Isaac Grendo 260 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 4: can can prove to these coaches something that he didn't 261 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 4: do last year in twenty twenty five, which is I 262 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 4: can be a reliable runner for you, then I think 263 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 4: it's possible that he's the number two going into the season. 264 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 6: How is the way Matt, that the forty nine ers 265 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 6: handled free agency shaped? How you think they now look 266 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 6: to assign their draft board positionally? And have you I 267 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 6: know you haven't revealed it, but do you have your 268 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 6: draft crush yet? Or did you just reveal it a 269 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 6: couple of minutes ago? 270 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 4: So funny, No, I haven't, not yet. It's so funny 271 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 4: that you asked that, because last night I decided. 272 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 5: You know, I had a real epiphany. 273 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 4: I said to myself, you know what, this guy's my 274 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 4: draft crush. I'm going with this guy. And I felt 275 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 4: good about it. So it was a load off my shoulders. 276 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 4: I haven't I haven't come out. It isn't official yet, 277 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 4: but it's it's in the offing. It's coming, and uh, 278 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 4: I think it's a good one. 279 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 3: I can't wait. I mean, look, you don't have to 280 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 3: unload it on us. We'll respect the process here of 281 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 3: your work with the athletic but. 282 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 2: I'm going to be keeping an eye out. I'm going 283 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 2: to be keeping a big time for this. 284 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's coming next week. It'll be a big thing. 285 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 4: You know, billboards, you know, ABC Special, a lot of stuff. 286 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 6: Yeah, just don't just make sure John Lynch writes uh, 287 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 6: two initials on a on a card and gives you 288 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 6: an envelope or whatever the whatever. That the old Trent 289 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 6: Balkey story, Right. 290 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, that was kind of who was that? 291 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 2: That was that wide receiver A J Jenkins? 292 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 4: AJ Jenkins? Yeah, yeah, that name was written in an 293 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 4: envelope well before the. 294 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 6: Draft, Thatt, We uh and it should have been al 295 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 6: Sean Jeffrey, Right, wasn't that? 296 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 2: That was. 297 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 4: AJ Jenkins? 298 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 5: AJ Jenkins was one of the. 299 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 4: Worst draft picks this team has ever made. 300 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 3: I forget how this came up on the show the 301 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 3: other week, but I don't remember if it was with 302 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 3: JD or if it was with Crue. 303 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 2: But we were just going over. 304 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 3: Different gaffs and we brought up how in twenty twenty 305 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 3: three the Raiders selected the wrong Byron Young. 306 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 2: That's an Alzheimer two. 307 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 4: That's right. But yeah, it's bad for the forty nine 308 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 4: ers too, because they've got Byron Young in their own division. 309 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 3: Yeah right, Matt, thanks so much for checking in with us. 310 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 3: We'll be keeping an eye out for the draft crush, 311 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 3: and let's just hope that John Lynch files all the 312 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 3: picks to the proper intention and that the right bodies 313 00:16:58,960 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 3: come to Santa. 314 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 2: Clara here the next year. 315 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 4: Okay, sound good? 316 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 3: Matt Barrows read him in the Athletic. You can give 317 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 3: a follow at Matt Barrows keeping it nice and simple. 318 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 2: There, so a nice little check in on the forty 319 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:11,479 Speaker 2: nine ers. 320 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 3: We'll do a little recap of this conversation when we 321 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,639 Speaker 3: come on back. Andy Baggerly is gonna stop by before 322 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 3: the end of the hour, and Walt's gonna hit us 323 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 3: with a little take it or leave it at one 324 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 3: point thirty before we send our way off into a weekend. 325 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,399 Speaker 3: And wow, what a busy weekend this is gonna be. 326 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 3: We're gonna have a fun Monday show depending on how 327 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 3: it all shakes out, but certainly a lot to talk about. 328 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 3: It's Papa and Silver with JD on The Sports Leader.