Speaker 1: What's up, faithful, Welcome back to the forty nine Ers
Speaker 1: First and ten podcast presented by Cisco. I'm your host
Speaker 1: Brian McDonald. I'm joined with forty nine Ers team reporter
Speaker 1: Lindsay Plaraz and forty nine Ers insider. As you said, Epik,
Speaker 1: welcome guys back to the podcast. Today, we are breaking
Speaker 1: down the forty nine Ers twenty twenty five schedule reveal,
Speaker 1: giving some mini camp updates on the team. But Lindsay,
Speaker 1: first thing, I want to know what was your first
Speaker 1: reaction to seeing the full twenty twenty five schedule.
Speaker 2: Okay, my eyes immediately go to a Week fourteen by
Speaker 2: which is I've never seen anything like that for the Niners.
Speaker 2: So I did some digging. It's a first to have
Speaker 2: the buy that late in the schedule. During the Kyle Shanahan,
Speaker 2: John Lynch Era and I went back as far as
Speaker 2: two thousand and three, the Niners have not had to
Speaker 2: buy week in week fourteen, So that's something that definitely
Speaker 2: stood out in terms of I mean, I guess we
Speaker 2: won't know how things play out right, it depends on
Speaker 2: how the team is doing at that point, but it's
Speaker 2: certainly very very late into the season. You know, quick
Speaker 2: hits five primetime games, which was cool to see. There
Speaker 2: were six last years, so definitely keeping theme with that.
Speaker 2: And yeah, you know the Niners are playing the fourth
Speaker 2: place schedule. I think that bodes well for a big comeback,
Speaker 2: kind of this re energizing of the team. So I'm
Speaker 2: excited and obviously starting the year off against the Seattle
Speaker 2: Seahawks is kind of a cool thank so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of I wanted to know your thoughts on
Speaker 1: the home versus awaye schedule and what that balance is.
Speaker 2: Out like, Yeah, I think it's a little tough early
Speaker 2: in the season, to be honest. Those first nine games,
Speaker 2: only three of them are going to be here at home,
Speaker 2: So on the back end of the schedule we'll see
Speaker 2: a lot of you guys, the faithful here at Levi Stadium,
Speaker 2: but a lot of back to back road games in
Speaker 2: that first chunk of the season. And I won't say
Speaker 2: like pre buy because the buy is coming in Week fourteen,
Speaker 2: but very very heavy on the road game schedule early
Speaker 2: in the year.
Speaker 1: Well, hazees, I also want to know your first impressions
Speaker 1: of the schedule. What part of the schedule do you
Speaker 1: think we'll test this team the most Well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, first of all, I want to talk a little
Speaker 3: bit about the bye week. I think ideally it would
Speaker 3: be better if it's like like a week a week nine,
Speaker 3: like in the middle of the season. But it's much
Speaker 3: better to have it like in week fourteen than for example,
Speaker 3: back in twenty nineteen when the team obviously had a
Speaker 3: really good season, But I remember that year they have
Speaker 3: it around week five, so it was.
Speaker 4: Way too early.
Speaker 3: So I think it's much better to have it later
Speaker 3: than too early. That way, if you're preparing life for
Speaker 3: a playoff run in December, you get that bye week
Speaker 3: that the players they have the chance to recover. But
Speaker 3: back to your questions about the harder part of the schedule.
Speaker 4: It could be in general.
Speaker 3: On paper, obviously the schedule doesn't look really hard. But
Speaker 3: at this point of the year, I think it doesn't
Speaker 3: make too much sense to talk about which team is
Speaker 3: going to be good, which is bad because that we
Speaker 3: have their record from last year, but a lot of
Speaker 3: them since they finished last in their divisions, they had
Speaker 3: the chance to acquire very high draft picks, so yeah,
Speaker 3: they could. Things could change a lot, But for example,
Speaker 3: looking at the schedule, I think one of the hardest
Speaker 3: parts of it is when in Week five when you
Speaker 3: have to go play the Rams in Los Angeles, and
Speaker 3: then the following week you had to play Tampa Bay
Speaker 3: Buccaneers in Tampa and that's a ten am game. So
Speaker 3: so yeah, I think those those two games are argainst
Speaker 3: are really really good teams back.
Speaker 1: To back perfect And Lindsay you just mentioned those five
Speaker 1: primetime games. Does that feel like the right amount given
Speaker 1: the profile of this team.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously twenty twenty four not the season that
Speaker 2: you know, anyone in this organization wanted. We know this,
Speaker 2: but if you look at the recent history of the Niners,
Speaker 2: lots of success, have reached the NFC champinished multiple times
Speaker 2: over the last five years, a Super Bowl berth at
Speaker 2: the end of that twenty twenty three season. So I
Speaker 2: think the five primetime games, you know, you talk about
Speaker 2: a lot of teams that didn't do great in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four and revamped. The Niners were able to pick
Speaker 2: eleventh overall in the draft. They really really went heavy
Speaker 2: on the defensive side of the ball in the draft,
Speaker 2: like they're coming back strong. That's the plan. That's obviously
Speaker 2: not a unique plan. A lot of organizations are also
Speaker 2: doing this. So I think this shows a lot of
Speaker 2: high hopes for the forty nine ers in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: I think it reflects the high level of play that
Speaker 2: you're going to see from this organization come this season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really exciting. Faithful a list for you going
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty five of which times the Niners are
Speaker 1: going to be in primetime Week five versus the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams. That's going to be on Thursday Night Football,
Speaker 1: Week seven, versus the Atlanta Falcons, Sunday Night Football, Week twelve,
Speaker 1: versus the Carolina Panthers, Monday Night Football Week sixteen, Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 1: Also Monday Night Football Week seventeen, the week right after
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears on Sunday Night Football. He's I want to know,
Speaker 1: when you're calling these games and they're in primetime, do
Speaker 1: you see any players or moments that really shine in
Speaker 1: primetime versus a regular time game.
Speaker 3: Well, obviously, since the Niners have like a lot of
Speaker 3: stars on the team, even though we lost a lot
Speaker 3: of players in free agency, but you know, we still
Speaker 3: have a lot of good players like Christian McCaffrey, your skittle,
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of opportunity for different, different guys
Speaker 3: to show up in primetime, and it's just a different atmosphere,
Speaker 3: even like our routine I think feels different when you're
Speaker 3: preparing to call the game. You see, like people are
Speaker 3: way more excited and their the lives of Monday night
Speaker 3: football or Sunday night football, Thursday night football. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a different environment and we definitely have a lot
Speaker 3: of players has good options to shine during prime time.
Speaker 1: Throughout all your history calling games here at Leby Stadium.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite primetime moment that comes to mind?
Speaker 3: Primetime moment, I will say maybe yourge Skittle against the
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was very fun.
Speaker 3: Yes, and obviously because of the big rivalry with the Cowboys,
Speaker 3: so so yeah, that was very very fun and coming
Speaker 3: from George Kittle usually every everything does, really it is
Speaker 3: really fun.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite primetime moment?
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I mean I hate to copy, but yes,
Speaker 2: and I would say the twenty twenty three version of
Speaker 2: that primetime game because a certain a certain attired choice
Speaker 2: by George.
Speaker 1: Kittle that we don't really talk about.
Speaker 2: Your waves and I just you know, if you know,
Speaker 2: you know, but very fun to see and it's kind
Speaker 2: of again just a rivalry renewed, and it just kind
Speaker 2: of gets the competitive juices flowing for everyone and kind
Speaker 2: of like, as you said, Monday night football, Sunday night football,
Speaker 2: Thursday night football. It just brings about this air at
Speaker 2: the stadium. You kind of have to be here to
Speaker 2: really feel it. But when you know you've got national attention,
Speaker 2: I think everybody shows up with a little extra juice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know the faithful are looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: But not only do we feel that energy in the
Speaker 1: air at Levice Stadium, but also on the road. The
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers invasion is soon to come in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. Also, cities and days are still to be announced.
Speaker 1: But lindsay, what can fans look forward to in these
Speaker 1: fan invasions? What are the events like on the road?
Speaker 2: Okay, so I it took me. I think I made
Speaker 2: my second season was when I went to my first
Speaker 2: invasion and I was blown away by you know, you know,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of forty nine Ers fans everywhere, but
Speaker 2: to see them all congregated in cities not attached to
Speaker 2: the Bay Area, to me, it's fascinating. It's awesome. And
Speaker 2: they are just as energetic as the season ticket holders
Speaker 2: that you see coming every Sunday during the football season.
Speaker 2: So it's a large gathering of Niners fans. Everyone's decked out,
Speaker 2: there's the like big Niner chains, jerseys. Everything is awesome.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of food, beverages. Our fan engagement team
Speaker 2: does a really great job of bringing in a love
Speaker 2: to come to all of the invasions. There's raffles and games,
Speaker 2: and I think it's just like a good It's like
Speaker 2: a Pepper rally. It's a Pepper rally but better and
Speaker 2: you get to just make a bunch of new friends.
Speaker 2: I've met a lot of fans on the road that
Speaker 2: like they come and pregame the game day experience there
Speaker 2: and then you see them at the game the next
Speaker 2: day is really cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a huge forty nine Ers, faithful party hazies.
Speaker 1: From a team perspective, do you think these fan takeovers
Speaker 1: give the forty nine Ers a real edge on the
Speaker 1: road When you see that stadium that's not Levi Stadium
Speaker 1: still covered.
Speaker 4: In red, Oh, definitely definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like I remember back in twenty twenty, back in twenty two, Yeah,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two I was part of, like of all
Speaker 3: the invasions and during those away games, like looking at
Speaker 3: all those forty nine Ers fans, it was amazing. Even
Speaker 3: the players say, I think sometimes like guys like Fred
Speaker 3: Warner said, man, it feels like we're at Levi Stadium,
Speaker 3: so so yeah, it is definitely different in that stands
Speaker 3: for the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 1: Awesome, Well faithful, stay tuned to the forty nine or
Speaker 1: social channels to check out those fan invasion dates. Now
Speaker 1: let's get on to our schedule release video with the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers rebranding being announced on social media. If
Speaker 1: you haven't seen the new look, you could check it
Speaker 1: out on forty nine ers dot Com and the team's
Speaker 1: social media channels. But this year the theme is leaning
Speaker 1: into that Western look, hence the concept of the schedule
Speaker 1: reveal video playing off that classic eight Big Game Oregon
Speaker 1: Trail and making it our own called the Golden Trail. Lindsay,
Speaker 1: can you share just how big schedule release date is
Speaker 1: for media teams across the NFL.
Speaker 2: It's honestly a creative super Bowl. I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's the right term for it, but I think every
Speaker 2: organization's creative team, so whether content marketing, videography, whichever way
Speaker 2: you go with these schedule release videos, it's like who
Speaker 2: can do better? And sometimes it's social media concepts that
Speaker 2: really take off. Sometimes it's like the more stylized ones,
Speaker 2: like we saw with our schedule release video. I just
Speaker 2: love that it is. It's got that flavor of competition
Speaker 2: right and it's all in good fun. I love watching,
Speaker 2: honestly all of the schedule release videos because sometimes the
Speaker 2: ideas are very outlandish and they totally work. And for
Speaker 2: our schedule release video, I would like to say shout
Speaker 2: out to our co worker Mason Ye, the person that
Speaker 2: you will see in the intro of this video. I
Speaker 2: think the intro is actually my favorite part because it
Speaker 2: reminds me and I'm going to date myself here, but
Speaker 2: of the movie Jumanji. It has those same type of
Speaker 2: cinematic vibes, so I really love that part.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I loved seeing the teases throughout social media and
Speaker 1: all the fans dropping in comments, the eyeballs or what
Speaker 1: is this so excited that it's finally out?
Speaker 4: Hazies.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on the team's rebranding, sort of
Speaker 1: leaning into not only the history of the team, but
Speaker 1: the history of California with that western look.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's awesome.
Speaker 3: I think it's great because when you look at the
Speaker 3: history of the forty nine Ers, like at the Callers
Speaker 3: looking here at the helmet, they always stay light truth
Speaker 3: to their history, even even with the name of the team,
Speaker 3: like the forty nine Ers, the goal garage, the Callers
Speaker 3: their goal there red.
Speaker 4: So I love it. I definitely love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, faithful. If you haven't seen the schedule reveal video yet,
Speaker 1: it is live on forty nine ers YouTube channel and
Speaker 1: on forty nine ers dot Com, be sure to check
Speaker 1: it out. Also, if you haven't seen it, there's a
Speaker 1: tease at the very end hinting to a part two.
Speaker 1: To keep your eyes peeled. There's a lot more exciting
Speaker 1: news to come. Now, let's close out today's episode with
Speaker 1: some mini camp updates. Lindsay, can you introduce us to
Speaker 1: the new coordinators, what they've shared and what you've observed
Speaker 1: from their coaching style so far.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, there's actually just really one new face, and we
Speaker 2: have we've talked a little bit about him as they
Speaker 2: were all getting hired, but Klay Kubiak taking over as
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator. He's been with the organization for several years,
Speaker 2: just kind of a natural progression to become an offensive
Speaker 2: coordinator and his coaching journey here with the Niners. And
Speaker 2: then we have the return of Robert Sala, now a
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator departed in twenty twenty one after being here
Speaker 2: for four seasons, back in the building, has some head
Speaker 2: coaching experience under his belt. And then we have Brant Boyer,
Speaker 2: who spent nine seasons with the New York Jets, worked
Speaker 2: previously with Robert Sala, has you know, been credited with
Speaker 2: creating some really successful special teamers across the league.
Speaker 1: So that is a.
Speaker 2: Completely new ish, new ish set of coordinators for the Niners.
Speaker 2: We heard them talk for the first time before the
Speaker 2: players the rookies actually hit the field for Rookie Minni Camp.
Speaker 2: I'll talk a little bit just about Robert Sala, you know,
Speaker 2: I think it was I think his return is very
Speaker 2: much highly anticipated by a lot of the fan base
Speaker 2: also the coaching staff. And I think one of the
Speaker 2: things that stuck out to me is that he said
Speaker 2: he's just returning with a new perspective after having three
Speaker 2: plus seasons of head coaching experience, and he said he
Speaker 2: has a lot of empathy for head coaches now because
Speaker 2: he's been in those shoes and he's just very indebted
Speaker 2: to the organization that they gave him kind of that
Speaker 2: pathway for success and that pathway to become ultimately a
Speaker 2: head coach, and he's, you know, ready to do this
Speaker 2: again with him, stuff with Kyle Shanahan, with John Lynch.
Speaker 1: Well, his is what are your first impressions of these
Speaker 1: rookies during rookie Minicamp?
Speaker 3: Well, for starting like with Michael Williams, he was impressive. Obviously,
Speaker 3: you know in the in the rookie minicamps, they don't
Speaker 3: have the paths and we know that comes on until
Speaker 3: training camp, so we still have to wait for for that.
Speaker 3: They do a lot of you know, seven and seven
Speaker 3: individual drills, but on those individual drills, like Michael Williams
Speaker 3: and man, oh my god, he was impressive. You could
Speaker 3: you could feel his power even from from the distance
Speaker 3: when we were watching him. Yeah, he looks like really
Speaker 3: really strong and he could I think he's obviously respecting
Speaker 3: a lot of big things from from him.
Speaker 4: Obviously, guys like like CJ. A. West.
Speaker 3: Even when he talked to the media, you see his
Speaker 3: great personality and one thing I obviously heard like from
Speaker 3: the rookies, like during those press conferences that a lot
Speaker 3: of them mentioned that is going to be that they
Speaker 3: have the feeling that is going to be like a
Speaker 3: really closer group, And I think that's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. I know this was rookie mini camp,
Speaker 1: but have any veteran players made a presence and shown
Speaker 1: their leadership at practice obviously.
Speaker 3: In practice, not really, but a lot of those rookies
Speaker 3: said that they had the chance to meet like guys
Speaker 3: like Christian McCaffrey, obviously Fred Warner. So so they're in
Speaker 3: the building. So yeah, that's obviously good, especially for these
Speaker 3: John guys.
Speaker 1: Amazing. Now that we wrap up, lindsay, if fans could
Speaker 1: only make it to one game this season, which do
Speaker 1: you think is the must attend matchup?
Speaker 2: Ah, one game at Levi Stadium or on the.
Speaker 1: Road anywhere, just any game on the schedule.
Speaker 2: Okay, I hate to say this, but it is a
Speaker 2: core memory of mine is a game at Loomin Field.
Speaker 2: This one's a little bit different, and I do realize
Speaker 2: it is the season opener, but Blumenfield at night on
Speaker 2: a Thursday night has been my one of my favorite
Speaker 2: moments of every season. I've actually never been there in
Speaker 2: the day, so I don't know why, but I'm gravitating
Speaker 2: towards that one. So go to the season opener, come
Speaker 2: out being, come out strong, and then obviously come to
Speaker 2: every other one after that.
Speaker 1: Yes, we need the Faithful's presence and weak one and
Speaker 1: Seahawks Niners is always an iconic matchup. His is which
Speaker 1: game are you personally most.
Speaker 4: Excited to cover?
Speaker 1: And tell me why.
Speaker 4: Definitely.
Speaker 3: It's a very hard question because I'm excited about all
Speaker 3: of them. But if I have to pick one, definitely,
Speaker 3: he has to be the home opener. I meant it's
Speaker 3: on the Cardinals. Yeah, division rival, because you want to
Speaker 3: start strong in your division.
Speaker 4: You're facing Seattle.
Speaker 3: Obviously week one, that's an away game, but yeah, you
Speaker 3: have to you got to start with a win, and
Speaker 3: I think people are going to be.
Speaker 4: Like, really, really excited.
Speaker 3: It's always tough to play against a guy like Calor
Speaker 3: Murray running around having to chase him, but yeah, I
Speaker 3: think it's a it's a really good, good game to
Speaker 3: be the home opener this this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome. Well, Faithful. With the twenty twenty five schedule
Speaker 1: now revealed, tickets are on sale. Head over to forty
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Speaker 4: Bye, guys,