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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the forty Niners You've Got Mill podcast,

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Speaker 1: sponsored by Manscape Keiana Martin, joined by NBC Sports Bay Areas,

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Speaker 1: forty Niners insider Matt Mayo go to discuss everything that

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Speaker 1: is transpired over the last couple of weeks in previewing

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Speaker 1: the forty Niners weekd in matchup against the New Orleans Saints. Matt,

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Speaker 1: I think I have to start this by giving a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a backstory of what happened last week.

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Speaker 1: Is that okay? That is okay, But I also want

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Speaker 1: to tell you that if we're really going to talk

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Speaker 1: about everything that's transpired of the past couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: then I think our weekend is shot because we're gonna

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Speaker 1: this will take like several days to go through. We

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Speaker 1: are going to power through this. We're we're going to

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Speaker 1: fast forward and try to go through this as quickly

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Speaker 1: as we can because it's been a lot. It's been

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Speaker 1: a crazy, unprecedented last couple of weeks for the forty

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Speaker 1: nine Nurse. But I want to start with last week.

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Speaker 1: Last week, myself and Matt were on a podcast and

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Speaker 1: we're literally in the middle of recording, and that's when

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Speaker 1: news broke that there was a positive test among the

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Speaker 1: forty Niners locker room, causing the facility to shut down,

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Speaker 1: forcing several players to miss that Thursday night game. Literally,

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Speaker 1: Matt and I are in the middle of a conversation

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Speaker 1: and we just have to stop and and literally shut

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Speaker 1: down production. And we're going right to uh getting some

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Speaker 1: content out of updating everybody on what was going on. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Let's let's see how we can break this down. So

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Speaker 1: we had four players going on the COVID list Deebo, Samuel,

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Speaker 1: Kendrick Borne, Brandon, I, Trent Williams, UM and they were

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Speaker 1: sorely missed against the Packers. Now Kendrick Borne is back

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Speaker 1: on that list, but the forty Niners are getting Deebo,

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Speaker 1: Samuel Brandon. Now you can Trent Williams back ahead of

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Speaker 1: Sunday's game. Um, Matt, what do we make but just

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Speaker 1: all of this news that came out last week, and

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Speaker 1: how do we expect Do we expect a better offensive

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Speaker 1: this week? Yeah? I mean, what what we can make

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Speaker 1: out this is that we don't know what to make

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Speaker 1: make out of this because there are so many unknowns

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Speaker 1: in just society as a whole, and let alone football. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you're trying to play football during a pandemic,

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of unforeseen circumstances. And that's

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Speaker 1: what everybody was saying, from Richard Sherman to Kyle Shanahan

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Speaker 1: of Fred Warner, to Jimmy Garoppolo to George I mean,

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Speaker 1: it did no matter, John Lynch. Everybody was talking in

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Speaker 1: those days about you know, when we when we first

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Speaker 1: the team that did the best job of handling the

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Speaker 1: unknowns and the uncertainties were going to be the team

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Speaker 1: best set up uh to have success this year. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, with Kendrick Borne, for example, you're talking about

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Speaker 1: a positive test followed by multiple negative tests, which means

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Speaker 1: he's now off COVID, and then a positive test he

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Speaker 1: goes back on, and then more negative tests. And so

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Speaker 1: as we're taping this, there seems to be a pretty

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Speaker 1: decent chance that Kendrick Borne will be available for the

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Speaker 1: game on Sunday against the Saints. But what we also

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Speaker 1: probably have more confidence in is saying that Brandon I

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Speaker 1: you will be available, Trent Williams will be available for

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Speaker 1: he would be available for the game. So just right there,

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Speaker 1: when you're talking about your left tackle one of the

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Speaker 1: that's quickly become your number one receiver, I think that

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Speaker 1: automatically puts Nick Mullins and the forty Niners offense in

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Speaker 1: a better situation heading into this game against the New

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Speaker 1: that New Orleans is playing something really good football. And

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Speaker 1: exhibit A was Sunday Night, the game that they're coming

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Speaker 1: off of, where they're facing a pretty good Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: offense with Tom Brady and company, and the Saints shut

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Speaker 1: them down. And likewise, the Tampa Bay defense is a

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Speaker 1: the forty Niners are getting some people back, but no,

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Speaker 1: the challenge does not get any easier going to New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: I want to detail this matchup in just a bit.

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Speaker 1: But I want to talk about another potential return of

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Speaker 1: fault and that's Richard Sherman. We haven't seen him since

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Speaker 1: it up to Dr Sherm is what he called him.

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Speaker 1: His own prognosis probably begs to differ. But whether it

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Speaker 1: the Rams, how do you expect that position to work out?

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Speaker 1: With Richard Sherman making his way back in particular, and

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Speaker 1: particularly with the way that Jason Verrette has been performing

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Speaker 1: Fortys to have when you're this late into the season

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Speaker 1: a situation the forty Niners will relish because it's so

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Speaker 1: much the opposite of what they've experienced throughout this season.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, maybe they ease Sherman back in trying to

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Speaker 1: he's played, But more than likely when he comes back

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Speaker 1: I just can't envision them taking Jason Varette off the

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Speaker 1: field at this point. He's played so well. Pro Football

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Speaker 1: Focus announced their mid season All Pro team and Jason

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Speaker 1: Varette was the first team cornerback on that team. A

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Speaker 1: guy that, according to their records, there have been four

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Speaker 1: kind of leaves Emmanuel Moseley kind of kind of twisting

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Speaker 1: He's had some pretty difficult assignments here in recent weeks,

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Speaker 1: most notably that game against DK metcalf Um. But you know,

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Speaker 1: interested in signing him. Richard Sherman, seeing how he how

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a it's kind of an odd

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Speaker 1: on the field for the season. But all that will

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Speaker 1: will have a lot of questions to answer and later

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Speaker 1: on down the line. But looking at right now, this

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Speaker 1: But we're gonna just dabbling it a little bit here.

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Speaker 1: But forty Niners now without their star tight end and

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Speaker 1: their starting quarterback George Kittle and Jimmy Garoppolo, both likely

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Speaker 1: how big of a loss will start off with George

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Speaker 1: Kittle but how big of a loss is it to

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Speaker 1: lose your your top offensive weapon and George Kittle, Well,

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Speaker 1: it's it's huge because it has basically an impact and

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Speaker 1: negative impact on three areas of the team. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the energy he provides. In this season, of all seasons,

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Speaker 1: really it really hurts the team on on pretty much

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Speaker 1: Just from what you've picked up, how confident is this

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Speaker 1: in the week after that, c J. Beethord replaced him

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Speaker 1: the leash is shorter for Nick Mullins, And you know,

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Speaker 1: is it they don't have the confidence to give him

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Speaker 1: the team. And then you have Alvin Kamara, who is

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Speaker 1: an incredible offensive force and might be I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: certainly on the shortlist for NFL Offensive Player of the

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Speaker 1: Year based on his ability to run the football, score

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Speaker 1: with the ball in his hands as a runner, catch

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Speaker 1: the football. You already have sixty receptions for more than

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Speaker 1: five yards receiving his ability to score as a pass catcher.

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Speaker 1: He's just a dynamic threat for the sa Aints. And

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Speaker 1: to see him kind of matched up against Fred Warner,

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Speaker 1: or looking at the other way Fred Warner matched up

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Speaker 1: against him, it might not be the matchup that swings

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Speaker 1: the game one where or another, but it's certainly something

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Speaker 1: that I think will will be you must sy TV,

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Speaker 1: something that we'll all be kind of looking at to

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Speaker 1: see how Fred Warner, a guy who has been so

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Speaker 1: good in coverage, how he matches up against the best

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Speaker 1: past catching running back in the league. Right now, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: has that name that Moniker all Pro Fred Literally in

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Speaker 1: line I mean, if he continues to play the way

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Speaker 1: he is, certainly should get that recognition that he rightfully

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Speaker 1: deserves after the season he's been having. Um. But let's

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Speaker 1: look at the this game as a whole. Is there

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Speaker 1: a position group, especially on this Forting Niners team, that

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Speaker 1: you think has to excel in order for the forty

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Speaker 1: Niners to hang on in this match? Yeah, I'd say

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Speaker 1: it would be the offensive line. And you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: it's a it's not gonna be easy, but it's easier

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Speaker 1: going to New Orleans without the crowd there. There will

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Speaker 1: be about six thousand people, so you know they'll be

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Speaker 1: able to hear the snap count and get off um,

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Speaker 1: you know, not not not get beating off the snap

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Speaker 1: of the ball like a lot of teams have have

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Speaker 1: experienced when they go to New Orleans. But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean the Saints do have a good pass rush to

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Speaker 1: their defense I think is better than it's been in

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Speaker 1: a long time. Uh, this's Tray Hendrickson. Guy coming off

466
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Speaker 1: the edge is has quite a motor. We all know

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Speaker 1: about Cam Jordan's. But if if Mike McGlinchey, if Trent

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Speaker 1: Williams kind of hold up there into the bargains on

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Speaker 1: the on the edges and allow Nick Mullin's a little

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Speaker 1: bit of time in the pocket to make some throws

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Speaker 1: to distribute the football. And if the forty Niners are

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Speaker 1: able to move the ball, they're able to get the

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Speaker 1: running game going a little bit with jrck McKinnon and

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Speaker 1: maybe a little bit of Jamachael Hasty if they're able

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Speaker 1: to you know, connect on third and fours and keep

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Speaker 1: the chains moving. Every first down that the forty hours

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Speaker 1: offense makes, every third down completion that Nick Mollins makes,

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Speaker 1: that moves the chains. That means a little bit more

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Speaker 1: time on the sideline for Alvin Kamara, for Michael Thomas,

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Speaker 1: for Drew Brees and Emmanuel Sanders. So all that stuff

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Speaker 1: is gonna play into it. Forty have an opportunity against

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Speaker 1: a good defense to control the game with ball control.

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Speaker 1: I don't see the forty is hitting the Saints with

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Speaker 1: big plays. You know, I don't think you're gonna see

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Speaker 1: three play seventy five yards scoring drives. You're gonna see more,

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Speaker 1: you know, eleven play seventy five yards scoring drives. And

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Speaker 1: and that's that's okay with as long as they eat

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Speaker 1: up the clock, as long as the drive ends up

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Speaker 1: in points, then their chance of winning this game increases

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Speaker 1: because you're eep and Drew Brees over there on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: So to me, it's it's all about the offensive line

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Speaker 1: setting the tone, running the ball effectively, and maybe more importantly,

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Speaker 1: giving Nick Mullins enough time to find open receivers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you brought it up. This is gonna be the forty

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Speaker 1: nine first game of the year with fans in the

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Speaker 1: stands at the Superdome. There will be six thousand fans.

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Speaker 1: I believe inside the building. I remember last year. I

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Speaker 1: believe you're there. I don't think you've missed a game

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Speaker 1: last year. And just the crowd noise there at the Superdome,

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Speaker 1: I've never Everyone says that, you know, Century Linkfield is

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Speaker 1: one of the loudest, but being there at the Superdome

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Speaker 1: and just hearing that crowd, I don't understand how anyone

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Speaker 1: on offense was able to hear a single thing. But

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00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: I mean that's going to be a completely different dynamic

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Speaker 1: for the team that they're certainly embracing getting some people

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Speaker 1: in the building, even if it is opposing fans there. Um,

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Speaker 1: but it's lucky on it. If you remember last year,

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Speaker 1: there were a lot of that is true, and I mean,

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Speaker 1: of course I would never ever in a million years

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Speaker 1: go down Bourbon Street. But from what I was told,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of forty nine our fans like

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Speaker 1: forty and our fans pretty much engulfed and took over

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Speaker 1: Bourbon Street Friday night, Saturday night before the game, and

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Speaker 1: from what I'm told, uh, Sunday night after that game.

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Speaker 1: So here's my thought is that there's gonna be six

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Speaker 1: thousand fans there. I bet you there's going to be

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Speaker 1: some red. I would think that I have fortys, have

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Speaker 1: a lot of fans in the South, that a lot

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Speaker 1: of those fans will know that this is their one opportunity,

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Speaker 1: the only opportunity fans have had to watch, and I

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Speaker 1: would bet there will be a pretty healthy percentage of

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Speaker 1: forty fans out there watching the game. So uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it should be interesting to see. It won't be the environment,

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Speaker 1: but it will be the first time that fans of

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Speaker 1: the forty Niners can see this team live and in

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Speaker 1: person for season. I'm a witness. I you might avoid

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Speaker 1: Bourbon Street, Matt, but I actually it was my first

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Speaker 1: time in New Orleans, so I felt like I had

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Speaker 1: to Um. So I got to experience Bourbon Street and

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Speaker 1: walk around the streets of New Orleans. And when I

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Speaker 1: tell you that forty Niners fans were there, they were representing.

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Speaker 1: They had on their red and gold. Um And as

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Speaker 1: you saw, like in looking at that game and in

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Speaker 1: the stands, a lot of fans showed up at the Superdome.

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Speaker 1: So I agree, I think there will be a decent amount.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not going to be overwhelming, given you

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Speaker 1: only have six thousand allowed in the building, but I

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Speaker 1: think there will be a decent amount of forty Niners

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Speaker 1: fans in the building. I know the team will certainly

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Speaker 1: appreciate that, something that's been missed this year. Um. Well,

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Speaker 1: before I let you go, I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: something that you wrote about on NBC Sports by Area.

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Speaker 1: You wrote a piece on one of the under a

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Speaker 1: pre created players from last year's win over New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: Everyone thinks of George Kittle and that fourth and two

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Speaker 1: and you know, carrying three defenders with them, uh into

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Speaker 1: Saints territory. But Robbie Gold is an underappreciated hero of

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Speaker 1: that contest, winning that game winning field goal. After he

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Speaker 1: spoke with him in writing this piece, what did you

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Speaker 1: learn from Gold and just the pressures of those game

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Speaker 1: winning moments. Well, it's funny because I had a couple

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Speaker 1: of friends, a couple of couples from the Bay Area

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Speaker 1: who met me in New Orleans for that game. And

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Speaker 1: one guy, you know, has his forty nine starter jacket

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Speaker 1: and his wife was there, and then another couple, and

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Speaker 1: he couldn't even watch the final few minutes of that game.

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Speaker 1: And and when the Saints took the lead, you only

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Speaker 1: buried his his head in his hands and was inconsolable.

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Speaker 1: And then the forty hours moved down there, and so

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Speaker 1: you can imagine what it was like for a fan,

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Speaker 1: whether at the game or on your couch. When George

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Speaker 1: Kettle makes that play, they get down within field goal

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Speaker 1: range and now here comes Robbie Gold for the game

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Speaker 1: winning kick. And it's not you you miss it and

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Speaker 1: you go to overtime. It's you either win it or

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Speaker 1: you lose it right here. And so you know, I

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Speaker 1: know that fans were just either couldn't watch, you know,

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Speaker 1: their their hearts pounding out their chest, their their palms

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Speaker 1: are sweaty. So I asked Robbie Gold, like, what's your

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Speaker 1: body going through? What kind of physiological changes is your

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Speaker 1: body going through when you go out there for that kick?

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Speaker 1: And he said, nothing, I will come on, he goes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he goes, I prepare every for every kick as if

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Speaker 1: it's a game winner. And he goes, it's all about preparation.

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Speaker 1: And I said to him, I said, hey, give me

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Speaker 1: some self help advice. Right, whether you're whether or a

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Speaker 1: basketball player who's standing on the free throw line with

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Speaker 1: a chance to win it in the closing seconds, whether

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Speaker 1: you're somebody who's entering a boardroom and you have to

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Speaker 1: give you give the presentation of your life. Heck, whether

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Speaker 1: you're a frontline worker. And trust me, I'm not trying

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Speaker 1: to compare being a frontline worker with kicking a football,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of those same principles apply. Right. It's like,

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Speaker 1: how do you when you're in a high pressure, high

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Speaker 1: stakes situation, remain focused and not let the nerves get

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Speaker 1: to you. And his thing was, it's all about preparation.

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Speaker 1: If you prepare during the week for you know, the

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Speaker 1: worst case scenarios, the best case scenarios, this is what

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Speaker 1: this situation could be like, and you put yourself in

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Speaker 1: that position, then when that time comes, you've already gone

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Speaker 1: through it, and there's no reason to stress out about

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Speaker 1: it because the stress comes from not doing the prep work.

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Speaker 1: So he says Wednesday and Thursdays are his most stressful

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Speaker 1: days or his biggest days at work, because that's when

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Speaker 1: he does all the studying, all the prep work, all

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Speaker 1: the you know, that's when he covers all the bases.

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00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: And once you get to the game, you've already gone

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Speaker 1: through it in your mind, you've already gone through it physically,

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Speaker 1: You've already put yourself in that spot so that there

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Speaker 1: are no surprises. So maybe that's easier said than done.

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Speaker 1: But I think through the fact that Robbie gold is

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Speaker 1: in his sixteenth year as an NFL kicker, and we

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Speaker 1: see a lot of talented guys in and out of

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Speaker 1: the league in the snap of the finger and here's

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Speaker 1: my snap of the finger. But you see that. So

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Speaker 1: what cuts, what what breaks him apart from the rest,

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Speaker 1: is that he has somehow managed to do just that,

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Speaker 1: that that he's kind of conquer or the mental side

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Speaker 1: of the game. And so to me, that's something that

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Speaker 1: kind of everybody can can relate to and strive to

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Speaker 1: improve that that mental side. Whatever your job is, whatever

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Speaker 1: pressures you've come through. If you can kind of prepare yourself,

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Speaker 1: that takes a lot off your shoulders as far as

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Speaker 1: the pressure side of it, knowing in your mind that

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Speaker 1: you've done everything you could to prepare for those moments.

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Speaker 1: Did we just did? I just get like a self

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Speaker 1: help book? Here? I feel like now I feel I can,

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Speaker 1: I can, I can attack anything. And now in my

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Speaker 1: the the book that I'm putting out in the tapes

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Speaker 1: are available for order now and you get a free

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Speaker 1: pair of snake steak knives. So yeah, there we go,

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Speaker 1: Matt Mayoko. You never know what you're gonna get. We

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Speaker 1: get self help books, we can get some steak knives,

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Speaker 1: we get a little bit of forty Niners insight. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It is always always a pleasure of having you. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate again your inside uh as the forty Niners Insider

627
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Speaker 1: for I asked you this every year and I always

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Speaker 1: forget the number, but I think we're at twenty six years?

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Speaker 1: Is this year? I think it is six? And Kiana,

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Speaker 1: you also forgot to mention that you and I are colleagues.

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Speaker 1: That we appear not together, but we appear at separate

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Speaker 1: times on forty Niners Pregame live on NBC Sports Bay

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Speaker 1: Area and as every Sunday we will be appearing at

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Speaker 1: nine am. So giving you a plug because you do

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Speaker 1: tremendous work for the forty Niners for diners dot Com

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Speaker 1: as well as said NBC Sports Bay Area and your

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Speaker 1: Armchair Quarterback show is an immediate hit. It appears live

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Speaker 1: on Monday evenings and throughout the week. So I just

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Speaker 1: want to give you a big props and and a

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Speaker 1: little applause for you the work you're doing. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Yeah, join joining Matt. Usually I'm listening

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Speaker 1: in to what he's saying and that's where I get

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Speaker 1: all of my knowledge from creeping in on what Matt's

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Speaker 1: talking about. But yeah, you can catch both myself and

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Speaker 1: Mad every game day on NBC Sports Bay Area at

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Speaker 1: nine am for pregame live as we're breaking down the

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Speaker 1: upcoming matchup. Also, again, yea Armchair Quarterback. That's every Monday

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Speaker 1: live on Facebook at twelve noon. You can watch it

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Speaker 1: on NBC Sports Bay Area at four pm and throughout

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Speaker 1: the rest of the week. Also, I gotta throw on

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Speaker 1: another plug, uh you. I know you can always catch

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Speaker 1: Mayoko's amazing work on NBC Sports Bay Area. But also

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Speaker 1: we have Mayoko's take on forty niners dot com. It's

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Speaker 1: like your own personal column to preview whatever it might be.

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Speaker 1: If it's the upcoming game, um if I know a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago you were writing about Robert Sala

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Speaker 1: and Fred Warner. Um. So it just other things you

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Speaker 1: can catch Matt Mayoko on. So Mayoko's take on forty

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Speaker 1: niners dot Com, which we love to read every single week. Matt,

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Speaker 1: it is a pleasure having you. Uh, let's do this

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Speaker 1: again sometime hopefully maybe later on down the season, and

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Speaker 1: maybe we have something else to talk about. Maybe we

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Speaker 1: are talking about that p Worth that everyone is asking

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Speaker 1: about the playoffs. You never know, but you never know.

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Speaker 1: It's stranger things have happened. Yes, absolutely, just thank thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for having me on and look forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing you Sunday morning at Levi's Stadium when we

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Speaker 1: take the show. Can't wait. I'll see you on Sunday,