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Speaker 1: Welcome to the forty Niners You've Got Mail podcast presented

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Speaker 1: by Manscape. I'm your host Lindsay Polaris. Today we have

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Speaker 1: a special alumni edition of the podcast. Joining me for

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Speaker 1: this episode is four time Super Bowl champion Jesse Sapolu.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for coming on the podcast. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for having me on, Lindsey appreciate it. Alright, So, Jesse,

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Speaker 1: before we dive into all the playoff talk, I did

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Speaker 1: want to call attention to your foghorn duties in week eighteen.

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Speaker 1: How much fun was it to energize the faithful here

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Speaker 1: at Levi Stadium before that regular season finale? It was fun.

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Speaker 1: I mean they informed me two days before I flew

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Speaker 1: up for the game. But I've done it before when

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Speaker 1: it was actually on the field, But the doing it

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Speaker 1: from up there was a lot more fun, I thought.

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Speaker 1: So that was a pretty neat experience. You mentioned that

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Speaker 1: it was a pretty good view of Levi Stadium, right,

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Speaker 1: it's a pretty good video of the field. You know.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to stay up there and just watched the

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Speaker 1: game from from the stage, and uh what it was

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Speaker 1: exciting to get the the faithful's going, you know, because

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Speaker 1: at the time I was doing it at the number

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Speaker 1: one seed was still in place, so it was it

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Speaker 1: was important for me to try to get the fans going. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: definitely a high stakes game on Sunday. So the forty

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Speaker 1: Niners actually closed out the regular season on a ten

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Speaker 1: game win streak, setting a new franchise record for most

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Speaker 1: consecutive games one to close out the season. The record

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Speaker 1: previously held by a team was one that I believe

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Speaker 1: you were part of. It was the seven San Francisco

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Speaker 1: forty Niners in the league. That's so competitive. How difficult

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Speaker 1: is it to sustain a win streak that extends through

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Speaker 1: months of the regular season. It's very difficult because the

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Speaker 1: typical NFL season is like a roller coaster ride. You know,

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Speaker 1: most teams go through that. But uh, and if you remember,

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Speaker 1: we started off three and four, and we did not

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Speaker 1: play well in that week against Kansas City. But you know,

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Speaker 1: but the important thing, uh, for players that are used

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Speaker 1: to winning and winning championships, is understanding that you have

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Speaker 1: to focus on one game at a time and and

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Speaker 1: not look back to have the game that was a

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Speaker 1: bad game affect you, not look too far forward, but

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Speaker 1: just take it one game at a time. One moment

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Speaker 1: at a time and then you try to look up,

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Speaker 1: you know, when the season regular season is over. And

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Speaker 1: I think all guys did a great job of doing that.

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Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, the forty Niners ended up lanning

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Speaker 1: in that number two spot. They will face the number

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Speaker 1: seven seed Seattle at home on Saturday, so the team

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Speaker 1: isn't going to have the luxury of a bye that

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Speaker 1: comes with that number one seed, and they will be

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Speaker 1: playing on a short week. But what can you say

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Speaker 1: about having momentum and not stopping play as you head

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Well, it's just understanding that this is

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Speaker 1: kind of a new season. You know, it's elimination time,

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Speaker 1: and you did everything in your power to put yourself

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Speaker 1: in the best possible position, UH to to get to

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. But I think all guys are so

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Speaker 1: good and coach Shanahan is so good at, you know,

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Speaker 1: allowing the guys to focus on this particular game, you know,

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Speaker 1: and and everybody's talking about, you know, it's hard to

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Speaker 1: be a team three three times in the row. Yes

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Speaker 1: it is, But greatness comes from overcoming a lot of

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Speaker 1: hard things and and I think I think our team

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Speaker 1: has a potential to do that. But they have to

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Speaker 1: take it one game at a time. And you mentioned

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Speaker 1: that this team Seattle. This will be the third meeting

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Speaker 1: between the forty Niners and the Seahawks this season. The

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Speaker 1: forty Niners faced a similar challenge last year, having to

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Speaker 1: face the Rams three times. What lessons can they take

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Speaker 1: from that experience? I think the listen is it's very difficult,

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Speaker 1: a pretty good team, and for us to try to

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Speaker 1: beat them three times in the row, I think it's

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Speaker 1: more of a mental mountain to overcome, you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: have to bring yourself up. You know. It's like a

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Speaker 1: for them. And I think the fact that coach Shanahan

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Speaker 1: have played a lot of winning football. The leaders of

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Speaker 1: playing a lot of the guys played in that Super

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Speaker 1: the mission done. Non well documented the NFC West rivalry

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Speaker 1: between the forty nine Ers and the Seahawks face each

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Speaker 1: it's a postseason game as opposed to, you know, a

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Speaker 1: typical regular season meeting. Well, I think it's it's exciting

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Speaker 1: for our fans, it's exciting for their fans, but this

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Speaker 1: time we got them here. I think, you know, some

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Speaker 1: But I think any time you go up against your

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Speaker 1: I mean, we were a play away from going to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So the familiarities there. But I think

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Speaker 1: the team that focus this one player at a time

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Speaker 1: look too far forward will win on Saturday. As a player,

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Speaker 1: do you find that the division rivalry games, especially in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, are they more fun or more stressful, because,

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Speaker 1: like you said, there's kind of no surprises, a lot

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Speaker 1: of familiarity between opponents there. Well, it's it's intense. I've

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Speaker 1: actually played the Rams three times in nine and we

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Speaker 1: went on to win the Super Bowl. But the Rams

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Speaker 1: a lot of people consider it the best team ever

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Speaker 1: It's not an easy thing to do to play your

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Speaker 1: The forty Niners are going to start a rookie quarterback

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Speaker 1: Brock Purty in his six appearances? Well, actually, I was

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Speaker 1: I spoke to him about me being you know, his

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Speaker 1: It's definitely been playing at such a high level, and

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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty Niners in this playoff run? Everybody talks about,

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Speaker 1: you know, we have the best roster, you know, and

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Speaker 1: coming on this year is is you is having a

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Speaker 1: at the obvious people are still upset about the snub

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Speaker 1: for the Pro Bowl, Uh for Christie McCaffrey up, you know,

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