Speaker 1: You need one first down. You don't have mccaffre, you
Speaker 1: don't have Mitchell, you don't have J. P. Mason. We
Speaker 1: like I can he do it? Hand off to Garndo
Speaker 1: off the right side.
Speaker 2: He runs for a first down and he's gonna score.
Speaker 1: He should go down, but he ventures first first touched
Speaker 1: out of the NFL. Corendo ten four hold down on
Speaker 1: a one yard line.
Speaker 2: Perfect. The game is over. We've got a new clue.
Speaker 3: For Marry Isaac Garndo, the closer on Thursday Night Football
Speaker 3: gets the deal done for the San Francisco forty nineers.
Speaker 3: What's up everybody?
Speaker 1: Look?
Speaker 3: On NFL Daily TNF Recap edition, Patrick claibone here in
Speaker 3: the garage looking at a swelt in a much more
Speaker 3: comfortable looking Nick Schook as we had a comfortable and
Speaker 3: fun game for a while in Seattle.
Speaker 4: Nick, Yeah, it looks like we were cruising towing to
Speaker 4: blow out and then the Seahawks decided to wake up
Speaker 4: right when the Niners. You know, they just went back
Speaker 4: to what they did the week before, which has led
Speaker 4: a team back into a game. But fortunately for Niners,
Speaker 4: fans spent all weeks stressing about how can our team
Speaker 4: figure out how to close games. They found a way,
Speaker 4: and they did it in a number of different ways,
Speaker 4: including going to George Kittle, and then, as you just
Speaker 4: heard leaning on the run game when they needed to
Speaker 4: bleed clock, Isaac Garrendo coming through in a big spot
Speaker 4: with Jordan Mason's sidelined with a shoulder injury, and the
Speaker 4: Niners move back to five hundred in a big, big way.
Speaker 2: A huge way.
Speaker 3: Ultimately, you heard there on the call from KNBR. They
Speaker 3: lose Jordan Mason in the game. He's got an injured shoulder.
Speaker 3: He's in and out of the game. There are a
Speaker 3: couple of times where it's like, all right, Jordan Mason's back.
Speaker 2: He actually had a.
Speaker 3: Nine yard run. Then he's back to the sideline. A
Speaker 3: second half where Seattle has so many opportunities, Nick, and
Speaker 3: that's going to be my big takeaway from the game,
Speaker 3: not just the second half. The end of the first half.
Speaker 3: There were two attempts in the back of the end zone,
Speaker 3: one where DK Metcalf got Kevin duranted. Also Isaiah likelyad
Speaker 3: right where he's about an inch. You know that size
Speaker 3: fourteen shoe if it's a size twelve, Yeah, where's a
Speaker 3: twelve go in and it's a totally different type of situation.
Speaker 3: Not you know, momentum, that's not important getting the points right.
Speaker 2: What's actually important.
Speaker 3: You get the points going into the half, and then
Speaker 3: you can come out and you're in a better position.
Speaker 3: They were just playing from behind after that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it was a struggle for them.
Speaker 4: You know, they go to halftime down sixteen to three,
Speaker 4: they give up a touchdown to go down twenty three
Speaker 4: to three, and Loomenfield's pretty quiet, you know, the Twelves silence,
Speaker 4: sitting on their hands, and for good reason, their offense
Speaker 4: had really shown any reason to be excited about this game.
Speaker 4: It was very lopsided, one dimensional all night. For the
Speaker 4: second straight week. The running game was a non factor.
Speaker 4: Genos Smith ends up throwing fifty two passes. But they
Speaker 4: find some life by going up tempo, which is really
Speaker 4: where they're at their best. It's not really a reliable
Speaker 4: strategy in the NFL. It's more of a collegiate thing
Speaker 4: than an NFL thing. But out of desperation, they start
Speaker 4: speeding up the offense and before you know it, they're
Speaker 4: moving the football down the field and next thing you know,
Speaker 4: it's twenty three to ten. Because Leviska Chenault responds to
Speaker 4: a George Kittle touchdown by taking it ninety seven yards
Speaker 4: through the dynamic kickoff for a touchdown. Then they come
Speaker 4: back and score another touchdown on thirteen played ninety four
Speaker 4: yard drive that only took five and a half minutes.
Speaker 2: That's kind of speaking to the up tempo.
Speaker 4: And suddenly it's twenty three to seventeen and they got
Speaker 4: a legit shot. But the problem was was the same
Speaker 4: thing that showed up early in the game. Geno Smith,
Speaker 4: when being asked to do so much, throws a crucial
Speaker 4: interception that kills their comeback hopes and from there they're
Speaker 4: just fighting their way back and they can never catch up.
Speaker 3: And you could see Geno's frustration on the sideline after
Speaker 3: the play. In Kirk Kerbstreet, you know who was Kirk
Speaker 3: was very critical of DK throughout the game. I think
Speaker 3: the criticism of dk Metcalf on that play was a
Speaker 3: little bit more legit because he's running the dig on
Speaker 3: the backside and Rinaldo Green is clearly behind him. If
Speaker 3: you look at the angle from behind Geno Smith, all
Speaker 3: you see is gigantic DK Metcalf with nothing in between
Speaker 3: him and Gino and he appears to be open, but
Speaker 3: he's drifting back. And it's this type of thing where
Speaker 3: you celebrated earlier in the season, right where they're making
Speaker 3: a late read deep in the secondary that DK turns
Speaker 3: upfield and goes for a touchdown. Here he's starting to
Speaker 3: leak back and it's the other side of the coin
Speaker 3: there where if he's fading away and the defender still
Speaker 3: tracing across the field, it winds up being a pass
Speaker 3: directly to Ronardo Green.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he opens it up, he opens up for the undercut,
Speaker 4: and he makes a great play and picks it off
Speaker 4: and before you know it, you know, the Seahawks have
Speaker 4: all the momentum. Whether it matters or not, it's in
Speaker 4: their favor and then next thing you know, they've turned
Speaker 4: the ball over and the forty nine ers capitalize. And
Speaker 4: I have to say this because this has been a
Speaker 4: big issue with them this season and really in Kyle
Speaker 4: Shanahan's entire coaching career, is establishing leads and then failing
Speaker 4: to figure out how to put games away because of
Speaker 4: that pick. They then turn that into points and it
Speaker 4: goes from twenty three to seventeen to twenty nine to seventeen,
Speaker 4: Kittle gets another touchdown pass his second of the game,
Speaker 4: his second on third down in a goal to go situation,
Speaker 4: and then how's he celebrate? He finds his wife and
Speaker 4: Kyle Huescheck's wife in a suite right along the field
Speaker 4: level there, and they go jump into the stands to
Speaker 4: celebrate with their wives. And that was great, right, But
Speaker 4: for the Seahawks, disaster catastrophe because they had fought so
Speaker 4: hard to get back into the game and the same
Speaker 4: mistake that hurt them early hurts them again. And I
Speaker 4: hate to put it on Gino because he's going to
Speaker 4: obviously take all the flak, and it wasn't earned interception,
Speaker 4: but it's more of two guys not being on the
Speaker 4: same page, which was the story of the night for
Speaker 4: DK Metcalf. He finishes with eleven targets. He had three catches,
Speaker 4: three catches on eleven targets. He was visibly frustrated in
Speaker 4: the first half. The sideline report for Kee Hartsung was
Speaker 4: I don't need to hear the pep talks. I just
Speaker 4: want to go make plays. You see that face right
Speaker 4: there if you're watching on YouTube.
Speaker 2: He's mad.
Speaker 4: They're down thirteen nothing. He can't get anything going because
Speaker 4: the Niners are playing good coverage, but also the opportunities
Speaker 4: just aren't there. He did find a way to make
Speaker 4: a play late in the game, and even that one
Speaker 4: was called back by a penalty. So a really frustrating
Speaker 4: night for DK where he probably felt like he had
Speaker 4: some opportunities and ultimately couldn't deliver.
Speaker 3: There is a universe out there somewhere where this is
Speaker 3: a seven catch for one hundred and seventy six yard
Speaker 3: and two touchdown game for DK Metcalf, Like it's very easy.
Speaker 3: You don't have to change too much. The play you're mentioning.
Speaker 3: Kenny Walker for some reason was bouncing up and down
Speaker 3: after going out rod. He never got set and so
Speaker 3: it was I legal shift on a play where that
Speaker 3: provided no advantage, Like, there's no advantage. It's not that
Speaker 3: he was, you know, doing some cheap motion and he's
Speaker 3: moving towards the line of scrimmage. He's literally bouncing up
Speaker 3: and down instead of getting set. It wipes off a
Speaker 3: DK touchdown. The aforementioned would be touchdown before the end
Speaker 3: of the first half, where it's it's stated and it's
Speaker 3: on record. In this divisional rivalry, the forty nine or
Speaker 3: secondary's methodology is to be annoying to DK Metcalf, to
Speaker 3: try to get in his head. But aside from the
Speaker 3: circumstances going the other way, they also, as you mentioned,
Speaker 3: play very good defense on DK. This isn't like some
Speaker 3: new thing. This is a trend that's continued. It hasn't
Speaker 3: you know, the rookie Ronardo Green, you know, this is
Speaker 3: first time doing this, but it's consistent. I think team wise,
Speaker 3: player wise, specifically, they know specifically what they need to
Speaker 3: do to deal with the Kaelin Metcalf, and it just.
Speaker 4: Shows what it is is force a lot of tight windows.
Speaker 4: And Gino, to his credit, tried to force passes in there,
Speaker 4: and he actually got a lot of them on target.
Speaker 4: It's just that the window was so small that the
Speaker 4: likelihood of a catch was very low. There was one
Speaker 4: play in the first half I think it was a
Speaker 4: third down attempt where he's blanketed. I mean he's covered
Speaker 4: by like two or three nine ers and the ball
Speaker 4: hits him in the hands, but he's also got a
Speaker 4: dB holding him around the waist.
Speaker 2: He's going looking for the flag.
Speaker 4: They don't get the flag because there's just so much
Speaker 4: traffic there to begin with. That was kind of the
Speaker 4: story for the night for them. And because they're so
Speaker 4: on one dimensional right now. If DK is not going well,
Speaker 4: then all right, let's go to Tyler Locket, Let's go
Speaker 4: to Jackson Smith and Jig. But but those are supplementary receivers
Speaker 4: in this offense. DK is the focal point. If he's going,
Speaker 4: then your offense is going to go. Earlier in the season,
Speaker 4: you know, they go play in New England, he has
Speaker 4: a long touchdown catch. It seemed like he was just
Speaker 4: a week by week thing where there will be one
Speaker 4: long DK touchdown reception per week. You could bank on it,
Speaker 4: fantasy owners. It was gonna happen. Sunrise of sunsets. DK
Speaker 4: gets loose for sixty five seventy yard touchdown catch. That
Speaker 4: has not been the case in the last two weeks,
Speaker 4: and that definitely wasn't the case on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Night even when he did, which, by the way, that.
Speaker 4: Throw by Gino was a phenomenal play where he's under
Speaker 4: pressure and he sees DK behind coverage and puts it
Speaker 4: over the top perfectly for him to catch, and you think, oh,
Speaker 4: they're back in it, and then.
Speaker 2: It's wiped out. By the penalty.
Speaker 4: It's it's a tough spot for the Seahawks right now,
Speaker 4: because you know, we saw them go play against Detroit
Speaker 4: a couple weeks ago and put up a ton of
Speaker 4: points and fall short. You know they're capable of that,
Speaker 4: but they're only capable of that when they have a
Speaker 4: balanced offense and without this running game, which has been
Speaker 4: just very uninspired to me in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: It was again tonight. You're just asking too much of
Speaker 4: Geno Smith. Not that he's not able.
Speaker 2: To do it. It's just it's a lot to ask
Speaker 2: of any quarterback in the NFL, and not.
Speaker 3: Just the offensive circumstance, over on the defense as well.
Speaker 3: Where you seen now in games you had Daniel Jones
Speaker 3: in terms of adjusted yards per attempt. One of the
Speaker 3: best ten games of Daniel Jones's entire career comes against Seattle.
Speaker 3: You literally saw Jared Goff not miss once. And here
Speaker 3: we are tonight where you've you've got Jordan Mason out,
Speaker 3: you need a stop, You've got three timeouts with under
Speaker 3: a minute thirty to go, and Isaac Guerrero is running
Speaker 3: down the sideline choosing not to score a touchdown. It's
Speaker 3: there's the margins are very very slim for this team,
Speaker 3: and as you mentioned, right with Eugene Cyril being back
Speaker 3: there and getting the line's share of attention and the
Speaker 3: way we approach quarterbacking, there's a lot going on in
Speaker 3: Seattle that you know, is having to deal with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's probably pretty startling to Seehawks fans
Speaker 4: who thought when they hired Mike McDonald their defensive issues
Speaker 4: would be fixed.
Speaker 2: But it was a personnel thing.
Speaker 4: And they tried to address in the off season and
Speaker 4: they've been pretty banged up, but they didn't get some
Speaker 4: guys back tonight that I didn't that were questionable to
Speaker 4: play Boy Mafe Julian Love being two of them.
Speaker 2: I wonder why on the touchdown passed.
Speaker 4: The Deebo Samuel early in the game, where Love fails
Speaker 4: to close in from the top, why Mafe isn't coverage there,
Speaker 4: you know, like that's a guy that's a good pass rusher,
Speaker 4: right get after the quarterback harassed Brock Purty, who did
Speaker 4: a great job of navigating the pocket, kind of dancing
Speaker 4: around early in the game. A little unorthodox from him,
Speaker 4: but like lean on your strength. We know the against
Speaker 4: the run that's just not their strength. It is really
Speaker 4: disheartening to see them give up a long run at
Speaker 4: the end of the game, to make that long effort
Speaker 4: to just score a touchdown to get within one possession,
Speaker 4: and then instantly it's wiped away by a long Garendo run.
Speaker 4: That's really hardening. That's a bummer. You hope it gets
Speaker 4: better when you get some of those guys back, But
Speaker 4: where they are right now, you see their weaknesses and
Speaker 4: it's a struggle for them to win games. And now
Speaker 4: they're three and three, they're in an NFC West that's
Speaker 4: very much for the taking with the Niners at three
Speaker 4: and three as well. But this is a turning point
Speaker 4: potentially for a team because you look at it and
Speaker 4: you go, well, we still can't stop the run.
Speaker 2: We have to get better at that.
Speaker 4: If we don't get better at that, then teams are
Speaker 4: going to know how to beat us, and we're gonna
Speaker 4: have a hard time. We're gonna have to ask Gino
Speaker 4: to throw fifty passes a game as it stands right now,
Speaker 4: and that makes for a tough outlook for the next
Speaker 4: month or so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the forty nine ers make it tougher. I
Speaker 2: don't want to make it all Yeah.
Speaker 3: See, there was a nice win, especially considering the way
Speaker 3: things ended with the Kaiser White interception against the Arizona
Speaker 3: Cardinals last week where Brock comes back. He's eighteen of
Speaker 3: twenty eight two to fifty five three touchdowns. Two of
Speaker 3: those one was a probably the throw of brock Perty's
Speaker 3: year down the sideline, it to the corner of the
Speaker 3: end zone to George Kittle, had Kittle with another one
Speaker 3: and then the one where Deebo does all the work. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I know the party yak conspiracy people are going
Speaker 3: to pounce on that one and be.
Speaker 2: Like, see, see, it's all a myth.
Speaker 3: But like that was the first huge yact play of
Speaker 3: the forty nine Ers season where Brock didn't have to
Speaker 3: do a lot. So, yeah, everybody's gonna get one of those.
Speaker 2: Occasionally.
Speaker 3: The Seahawks, I'll approach this delicately, might have gotten one.
Speaker 3: On the night there was a punt by Mitch Wesnowski
Speaker 3: that went to d Williams. His teammate Devin Wilderspoon pushed
Speaker 3: the gunner into him and so it appeared on replay,
Speaker 3: which Terry McCauley pointed out on the broadcast that detouched
Speaker 3: that ball. Then he got note from the folks in
Speaker 3: New York that they did not have the angle that
Speaker 3: we were able to get after the fact, and so, yeah,
Speaker 3: the Seahawks even had another opportunity there that they couldn't
Speaker 3: take advantage of.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we're still in the early ages of
Speaker 4: the replay center and replay assists. It is interesting that
Speaker 4: they didn't like at the angle that a lot of
Speaker 4: people saw on Amazon. But all they catch a break, right,
Speaker 4: and that happens in football games. One team will catch
Speaker 4: a break here and there. How do you capitalize? They
Speaker 4: didn't capitalize on that, so it didn't really end up
Speaker 4: mattering all that much. But in the moment, of course,
Speaker 4: you're like, whoa, how did you miss that?
Speaker 1: You know, the.
Speaker 4: Seahawks are a sloppy team, and that's a play that
Speaker 4: happens across football at all levels. I'm not saying that
Speaker 4: that alone was sloppy. Devin Witherspoon's trying to block a guy, they.
Speaker 2: Run into the returner. It happens. It happens more than
Speaker 2: you think it does.
Speaker 4: But I also look at the numbers in this game
Speaker 4: and just trying to justify what I saw with my
Speaker 4: eyes nine Pembleys for sixty nine yards. We talked about
Speaker 4: the one that wiped out the DT touchdown catch, but
Speaker 4: there's false starts, there's all kinds of issues on both
Speaker 4: sides of the ball that just get in the way
Speaker 4: where the operation just was not clean. And credits to
Speaker 4: the forty nine ers, because again, we don't want to
Speaker 4: make this all about negative Seahawks talk. They did the
Speaker 4: good job of capitalizing and really finishing this game. I mean,
Speaker 4: I know we've talked about a little bit already, but
Speaker 4: this is a team that blew a game against the
Speaker 4: Cardinals last week.
Speaker 2: I mean, they were reeling after that.
Speaker 4: People are questioning Kyle Shanahan and yeah, he's thirty eight
Speaker 4: and o going into that situation where he's up by
Speaker 4: ten points to the fourth quarter and they lose that game.
Speaker 2: So he's got that track record.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, we also know some of
Speaker 4: the games that he's lost in situations where he's held
Speaker 4: leads this tonight on the road in a tough environment,
Speaker 4: when the other team fights their way back in the game.
Speaker 4: This has to be a feather in their cap that Look,
Speaker 4: you know what, we can finish games. We can finish
Speaker 4: games when we don't have Jordan Mason, when Deebo Samuel
Speaker 4: might get a little dinged up again, as it seems
Speaker 4: he does every week when you know things aren't necessarily
Speaker 4: going right for us. We have enough talent and enough
Speaker 4: moxie to overcome that and finish it off in the
Speaker 4: most traditional way possible, which is a fullback rushing touchdown.
Speaker 3: In fact, let's go ahead. Let's go ahead and listen
Speaker 3: to the call of Juice getting in the end zone
Speaker 3: and going to greet his significant other.
Speaker 1: Pretty under center, hughes check goes into an eye and
Speaker 1: he's down on the three point stance, a true eye
Speaker 1: ahead of Grendo. Devo comes in motion, laps they give
Speaker 1: it on fullback forced years Jack touchdown, ju.
Speaker 3: Juice and so a nice moment for the Juice to
Speaker 3: the yust Zech family. But now that I'm thinking about it,
Speaker 3: because Isaac Guerrero kind of slowed up to burn clock there,
Speaker 3: he should have just gone ahead and punched that thing
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 2: I knew that was going to be discourse. I knew
Speaker 2: that was gonna be the complaint online. Why not get
Speaker 2: Grenda's first touchdown? He just sacrificed to run clock give
Speaker 2: him the ball. But then again, there's this big brand
Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan. What am I going to do on the
Speaker 2: goal line.
Speaker 4: They're expecting to me to give it to Girndo. Let's
Speaker 4: give it to the fullback and catch him by surprise
Speaker 4: and it works to perfection.
Speaker 3: It's just a it's a it's a funny. We've come
Speaker 3: a long way with Kyle Shanahan calling plays. I'm thinking
Speaker 3: about last year where he's absolutely force feeding at CMC
Speaker 3: to keep the streak alive in a game that was deep,
Speaker 3: deep into garbage time. You never know what's coming. And
Speaker 3: you mentioned blowing leeds late.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: The stat, the regular season stat is one thing. They've
Speaker 3: done it a couple of times in the big game
Speaker 3: in the Super Bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs, who
Speaker 3: they have coming up next on October twentieth, looking forward
Speaker 3: to that when the you know, the Thursday night game
Speaker 3: gives them a little bit of the break. And now
Speaker 3: after losing three straight shook, it's it's the Falcons up
Speaker 3: next for the Seahawks, who are kind of reeling right
Speaker 3: now going up against the team that's you know, not
Speaker 3: doing it on the score, but vibes wise, the Falcons
Speaker 3: are hot right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they're hot. They figured out how to
Speaker 4: put up points in the last couple of weeks. Kirk
Speaker 4: Cousin threw forever five hundred yards recently, like they're starting
Speaker 4: to unlock that offense.
Speaker 2: And I'm looking at the Seahawks last three games.
Speaker 4: You lose forty two to twenty nine, twenty nine to twenty,
Speaker 4: and thirty six to twenty four. So we no, you're
Speaker 4: gonna end up in that like twenty to thirty range
Speaker 4: of points. But is that going to be enough with
Speaker 4: this defense the way it is right now, that's the
Speaker 4: big question. I'm not sure. And then right if that
Speaker 4: you get Buffalo, which they have their own issues to
Speaker 4: sort out after a nine for thirty performance by Josh
Speaker 4: Allen in Houston last weekend. But that's a tough couple
Speaker 4: of game stretch and suddenly you could go from three
Speaker 4: to two to three and five and on this long
Speaker 4: losing streak and it's crisis mode in Seattle. So they
Speaker 4: got to get back on the horse and find a
Speaker 4: way to win before long.
Speaker 3: It's a it's getting early, it's getting late early. It's
Speaker 3: as we roll through this twenty twenty four NFL season.
Speaker 3: That's the Thursday Night Football recap. Nick shook any final
Speaker 3: thoughts before we say go.
Speaker 4: I to the people, man, it was a great game.
Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be a boring game,
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