Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the forty nine Ers First and
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Speaker 1: up to date forty nine Ers news. First thing in
Speaker 1: the morning. I'm your host Brianna McDonald and joining me
Speaker 1: is forty nine Ers beat reporter Larry Krueger from CANBR
Speaker 1: and The Krug Show. We're going to talk the latest
Speaker 1: on Niners today. Larry, thanks for joining me, Brianna.
Speaker 2: Great to be here. It's great to talk after a win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, the forty nine ers came back from the
Speaker 1: buy and secured a win on the road. What was
Speaker 1: your overall take on their performance, especially after some of
Speaker 1: the struggles leading up to bye week.
Speaker 3: Well, I think Shanahan said it to the team before
Speaker 3: the game, or maybe the night before, Hey, this is
Speaker 3: going to be a grimy, hard game. I mean Tampa
Speaker 3: is injury depleted, but you know we saw the week
Speaker 3: prior innsas City on the Monday night or they they
Speaker 3: fight and they claw, and there's a lot of fight
Speaker 3: to that football team. And Baker Mayfield's a great competitor,
Speaker 3: and you know Tampa came out and gave the forty
Speaker 3: nine Ers all they wanted. If the fort Niners make
Speaker 3: you know all their kicks. If they're a little bit
Speaker 3: better in the red zone, this probably would have been
Speaker 3: a blowout game. It probably would have been more like
Speaker 3: closer to forty to twenty. But but you know what,
Speaker 3: it was a huge win. It was a gut check win.
Speaker 3: It was great to see Christian back. One thing I
Speaker 3: noticed is that Christian's presence definitely opened up the kind
Speaker 3: of the chunk.
Speaker 2: Yardage plays for the other receivers.
Speaker 3: Jennings had a thirty yard reception, Pierce All had a
Speaker 3: forty six yard reception, Deebo had a thirty two yard reception.
Speaker 2: Kittle did as well, So it was great to see.
Speaker 2: It was great to see.
Speaker 3: And then I love the young kid Evan Anderson who
Speaker 3: had a penalty that was costly at the end, and
Speaker 3: then he immediately atones for that by blowing up Rashad
Speaker 3: White in the backfield and a key sequel at the
Speaker 3: end of that game. I love the way the rookie
Speaker 3: from Florida Atlantic is playing yeah.
Speaker 1: And wide receiver Ricky Piersall had a standout performance with
Speaker 1: his first career touchdown and some key clutch catches late
Speaker 1: in the game. He's been nominated for the PEPSI zero
Speaker 1: Sugar Rookie of the Week Award. How do you see
Speaker 1: him progressing in this offense and how do you think
Speaker 1: his role will continue to grow?
Speaker 2: You know, he's a great guy to talk to in
Speaker 2: the locker room.
Speaker 3: You can tell he's got a terrific attitude and he's
Speaker 3: just what you love to see is just guys who
Speaker 3: get a little bit better, a little bit better, a
Speaker 3: little bit better that consistent effort. And I think he's
Speaker 3: getting ready to step into the shoes that are vacated
Speaker 3: once I you went down. I mean, he's not Ayuk
Speaker 3: and they're different players, but Ricky's tough. The players really
Speaker 3: love him. He's got great ball skills and kind of
Speaker 3: underrated short area quickness and stop and start and change
Speaker 3: a direction. So I think he's going to be a
Speaker 3: guy that brock per is going to absolutely love. I
Speaker 3: think there's a chance that he could emerge for the
Speaker 3: Niners and give them what pukain Nakua gave Stafford in
Speaker 3: La just that guy on third and six that can
Speaker 3: run a stop route and be so in tune with
Speaker 3: the quarterback that it's almost you could almost know what's
Speaker 3: coming and still can't stop it. I think there's potential
Speaker 3: for that and that is really exciting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the forty nine ers, A lot of the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers rookie class has been playing a lot
Speaker 1: of snaps this season within some first year players like
Speaker 1: Dominic Poone have been key contributors. What's been your assessment
Speaker 1: of how the rookies have performed so far, particularly Poony
Speaker 1: at right guard.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, it's just he's been spectacular. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's so mature, he's very intense. He grades out incredibly highly.
Speaker 3: If you watch his film. He does what he's coached
Speaker 3: to do, but then he also fills in for other guys.
Speaker 3: So he'll block his guy, and then he'll look to
Speaker 3: the left or right and see if he can help
Speaker 3: Brendle or mckivts.
Speaker 2: And it's just a really good player. And it's not
Speaker 2: just him.
Speaker 3: I mean, to me, I thought, the most amazing stat
Speaker 3: that I saw this week is that Ronardo Green has
Speaker 3: one of the best numbers against against in pass coverage
Speaker 3: this year of any player in the NFL. He's second
Speaker 3: in the NFL. Ronardo Green is second in the NFL.
Speaker 3: He's played one hundred and fifty eight snaps. He's the
Speaker 3: second highest graded defender in the NFL according to PFF
Speaker 3: as far as corners go. So I think we're looking
Speaker 3: at Ronardo. He's been very quiet, he doesn't talk a lot.
Speaker 3: He's very intense. But we've been looking at him as
Speaker 3: a good young player. But I don't think he's a
Speaker 3: good young player. I think he might be potentially one
Speaker 3: of the forty nine ers greatest young players, and a
Speaker 3: guy who a year from now or two years from
Speaker 3: now is going to be regarded around the league as
Speaker 3: one of the elite corners in the game.
Speaker 2: So great.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a good second round pick. It was a
Speaker 3: spectacular second round pick. And the more I see of
Speaker 3: Ronardo Green, the more I realize, you know what, him
Speaker 3: and Lenore are going to be special for the next
Speaker 3: three or four years together.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, Kyle Shanahan has often been praised for his adaptability
Speaker 1: with the way the roster has had to adjust this
Speaker 1: season due to injuries. How do you think Shanahan has
Speaker 1: managed to keep the team competitive despite these challenges.
Speaker 3: Well, it's it's really been amazing, Brianna, if you think
Speaker 3: about it, I mean, the forty nine Ers are averaging
Speaker 3: over seven yards on first down. It's the second best
Speaker 3: in all of football to the Baltimore Ravens. And they
Speaker 3: haven't had the reigning offensive player of the year until
Speaker 3: just this last game, and I Yukes out for the
Speaker 3: year and other guys have missed times.
Speaker 2: So you know, you know it's funny.
Speaker 3: Is there are people that are critical of Kyle and
Speaker 3: yet if you look, they're a top five rushing offense,
Speaker 3: they're a top five passing offense, they're number two in
Speaker 3: time of possession, and they're dominating on first down. These
Speaker 3: are all great offensive indicators, and so in some ways,
Speaker 3: I kind of feel like he's doing one of his
Speaker 3: masterful coaching efforts to have this team still producing offensively.
Speaker 3: Now they got to bet on d they have to
Speaker 3: be much better on special teams and it all counts,
Speaker 3: but offensively without CMC, I've been very impressed.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, the forty nine Ers are now facing a divisional
Speaker 1: rival in the Seattle Seahawks. How do you expect the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers will approach this game differently compared to
Speaker 1: their first meeting earlier in Week six.
Speaker 3: Well, the one thing about this game you gotta remember
Speaker 3: is Seahawks are coming off the buy and they've they're struggling.
Speaker 3: They're they're not playing good football. They've lost five of six,
Speaker 3: they've lost a couple in a row. They're trying to
Speaker 3: hit the reset. They've made some tough personnel decisions. They
Speaker 3: just cut their linebacker Terrell Dodson. They're they're, you know,
Speaker 3: whatever their best effort is. I think it's going to
Speaker 3: come right here. But you know, their offensive line has
Speaker 3: not been great. Now they do get Abraham Lucas back
Speaker 3: at right tackle, that's gonna help quite a bit. But
Speaker 3: I'm looking for the forty nine or defensive line to
Speaker 3: kind of set the tone in this game. I think,
Speaker 3: you know, it'll be interesting to see the last game.
Speaker 3: They came out and they tried to commit to the run.
Speaker 3: They ran Walker twenty five times, but only for like
Speaker 3: eighty three yards, So they ran it a lot, but
Speaker 3: they didn't run it efficiently. To me, that's where it starts.
Speaker 3: You have to stop that run game. Seattle runs less
Speaker 3: than any other team in football, and they throw it
Speaker 3: more than any other team in football, and they don't
Speaker 3: have balance. So I think the game plan's got to
Speaker 3: be because the Niners possessed the ball. I think number
Speaker 3: two in the league. I think the Seahawks might be
Speaker 3: like twenty eighth in time of possession. I would start there,
Speaker 3: dominate time of possession, keep Seattle's defense on the field,
Speaker 3: wear them down, and beat them in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Well, with a divisional rival up next, Larry, give us
Speaker 1: a look at the entire division. What's the state of
Speaker 1: the NFC West like in Week eleven?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's a really interesting division in that
Speaker 3: Arizona has continued to get better. I think, you know,
Speaker 3: Jonathan Gannon is a really good football coach and Manti
Speaker 3: ausin Ford is a pretty good personnel guy. So they
Speaker 3: come into week eleven and kind of in the driver's
Speaker 3: seat in the division they're playing. Well, have to buy
Speaker 3: this week, so they won't play, they'll get to watch everybody.
Speaker 3: The Rams just lost at home to the Dolphins, and
Speaker 3: you know, the Rams just really.
Speaker 2: Didn't look good. They didn't look sharp.
Speaker 3: And I think the Rams, you know, probably the team
Speaker 3: that's gonna fade in this division. And then Seattle. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think this is a huge game for the forty
Speaker 3: nine ers because if they can deliver a knockout blow
Speaker 3: type win, they could send Seattle reeling and really into
Speaker 3: a kind of a rough patch in the second half
Speaker 3: of the year. So I think this is a pivotal
Speaker 3: game for the forty nine ers because I think they
Speaker 3: can deal Seattle a serious blow. And then it's also
Speaker 3: a big game because they got to win these division
Speaker 3: games so they can make you know they their ticket
Speaker 3: to the playoffs is to outrun the Rams, the Cardinals,
Speaker 3: and the Seahawks to the NFC West title. And it
Speaker 3: starts Sunday.
Speaker 1: Finally, to get some more of your insight, what do
Speaker 1: you see as the key matchup in this game? Where
Speaker 1: will the forty nine ers have to excel secure win
Speaker 1: over the Seahawks.
Speaker 3: Well, you always have to be able to stop DK Metcalf.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just a monster.
Speaker 3: He's got an mcl sprain, but he's gonna go I
Speaker 3: was talking to some of their people yesterday. They don't
Speaker 3: feel like he's gonna miss this game. So can Mooney
Speaker 3: make it back from the tragedy that he just went through?
Speaker 3: And he is in a lot of ways the DK
Speaker 3: Metcalf stopper, So I'm looking for Mooney to come back
Speaker 3: and have a huge effort against DK. And if you
Speaker 3: can take away Metcalf. As much as this team loves
Speaker 3: to throw the football, I think this that's the way
Speaker 3: you beat Seattle. As you you know, Mooney's won against
Speaker 3: Metcalf the last two or three matchups, and if he
Speaker 3: wins again, I think the Niners that's a big key.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Larry, that will do it for today's episode.
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