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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the official forty Niners You've Got Male

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Speaker 1: podcast sponsored by Nanscape. I'm excited this week to be

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Speaker 1: joined by Eric Crocker, former NFL cornerback and defensive back specialists,

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Speaker 1: also a draft in NFL scouting analysis and consulting with

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Speaker 1: The Crocker Report, and you're also a contributor on fourth

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Speaker 1: and nine. You can follow him on Twitter at Eric

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Speaker 1: Underscore Crocker. Eric, first and foremost, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us. How's it going? Oh yeah, everything, everything

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Speaker 1: is going good. I guess for me, but I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I could say the same for the health

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Speaker 1: of the forty Niners right now. You jumped right into it.

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Speaker 1: You didn't even give me a second, did you. But

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Speaker 1: you know what, You're absolutely right, and I want to

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Speaker 1: touch on that in just a moment, but let's just

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Speaker 1: start with this season in general. Football is finally amongst us.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot to talk about forty Niners wise in

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Speaker 1: week one. But first things first, did you even think

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Speaker 1: we'd ever get to this point where football could actually

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Speaker 1: be played, you know, by by nature? And you know

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Speaker 1: you've been following me A lot of other people that

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Speaker 1: you know probably listen to this podcast, and they know

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Speaker 1: by nature I'm I'm an optimist, So I always figured

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Speaker 1: there was gonna be a season until they told me

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Speaker 1: there wasn't gonna be a season. So yeah, I was

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Speaker 1: definitely very hopeful, and I'm just glad they put all

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Speaker 1: the right protocols in in place. Uh, it seems like

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Speaker 1: it's running like extremely well, even better than like that.

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Speaker 1: I thought there would definitely be more cases than what

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Speaker 1: we've seen pop up, but they've been doing an amazing

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Speaker 1: job keeping all of that in check. Yeah, I totally agree. Um,

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Speaker 1: but what's so different this year is there's no fans. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you have no fans in the stadium. You're kind of

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Speaker 1: playing in front of it. It's it's empty, it's quiet.

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Speaker 1: You might have some pumping crowd noise, but that's all

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Speaker 1: you've really got there. But as a former cornerback, how

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Speaker 1: does that affect the way you play? The energy hearing calls? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, like me, you guys probably can't tell because

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Speaker 1: I'm so like calm who like collected on Twitter and everything.

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Speaker 1: But like I was like a really turned to a

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Speaker 1: player on the field, and I fed into you know,

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Speaker 1: having the crowd having a noise, seeing their reactions like

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Speaker 1: you know, if I made a play, you know, looking

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Speaker 1: and seeing people that I knew, and you know, like

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Speaker 1: I fed into all of that, and they don't have

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Speaker 1: that this year. So I'm really curious. I wish I

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Speaker 1: could talk to some of the players that asked them, like,

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Speaker 1: how do you guys play through that part of it?

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Speaker 1: Because you know that that's the type of stuff that

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Speaker 1: really you know, obviously you're doing a job and you're

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Speaker 1: getting paid for it, so you know that the money

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Speaker 1: obviously inspires you, but you know, when you're out there,

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Speaker 1: you need that extra something to you know, know that

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Speaker 1: there is really a big deal in this matters and uh,

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Speaker 1: the fans are a really big part of that, and

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Speaker 1: they just don't have that this year. I totally agree.

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Speaker 1: And usually I wait until a little later on in

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Speaker 1: the podcast to get into fan questions, but we have

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Speaker 1: some that are already relevant to what we're talking about. Uh,

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Speaker 1: forty Niners Hodge, we all know who that is, sent

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Speaker 1: in a question and asked, do you think the energy

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Speaker 1: from the fans could have probably helped this forty Nighter

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Speaker 1: against the Cardinals. I definitely think it helps. You know,

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Speaker 1: it helps the home team. Uh, you know, they don't

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Speaker 1: have that extra you know, set of eyes on them

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Speaker 1: the crowd. That was a big thing that a lot

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Speaker 1: of the the four Niners pointed out last year. The crowd,

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Speaker 1: the faithful, everybody really into the game and gave them

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Speaker 1: extra energy. Remember when Bosa went down in the divisional

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Speaker 1: fans were certainly missed that that home field advantage on

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Speaker 1: could be a game changer. You look at what happened

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Speaker 1: I mean that was one of the loudest atmospheres I've

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Speaker 1: agree with you. So let's jump into some of the

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Speaker 1: questions revolving around Week one. Forty Honors fall to the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals to twenty. It was not a perfect game.

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Speaker 1: It was not a pretty game. Even our Cardinals head

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Speaker 1: coach Cliff Kingsbury said it looked like Week one for

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Speaker 1: both of the teams. It wasn't just the forty Niners

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Speaker 1: who didn't play up to par, but also Arizona. But

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Speaker 1: do fans have the right to begin panicking? I know

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Speaker 1: you see it on Twitter. Fans are losing their minds

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Speaker 1: after the performance that they saw from the forty Niners.

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Speaker 1: But what's your thoughts? Definitely way too soon to panic.

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Speaker 1: If you we go back to last year Week one

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Speaker 1: couple of pig sixes that really helped change how that

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Speaker 1: away from, you know, how bad they look, and I

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Speaker 1: think the expectations weren't as high for the fourty niners. Then, well,

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Speaker 1: this game I thought was pretty similar. They had some

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Speaker 1: that I think they'll definitely be sharper uh moving forward.

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna start with some fan questions. Daniel Brannon

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Speaker 1: Was it the lack of production from the forty Niners

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Speaker 1: What do you think was one of the main issues

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Well, I definitely don't think the forty Niners

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Speaker 1: And then when you look at the airs on the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: In the games last year, there were two very competitive games,

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Speaker 1: that with Trent Taylor. He's really been underneath, but he's

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Speaker 1: right now, and they went out and signed a veteran

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Speaker 1: Mohammed Sanu, veteran played under Kyle Shanahan back in with

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Speaker 1: Now he doesn't fix the issues with the vertical passing game,

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Speaker 1: just a little bit of an injury update, Deebo Samuel

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Speaker 1: at least until week four while coming back from that

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact on Sunday against the Jets.

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Speaker 1: UH Shanahan said, at first he wouldn't rule out a

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Speaker 1: they did on Monday. Monday, it was looking kind of

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Speaker 1: grim for the team. But Eric Franklin wants to know

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Speaker 1: and it's not just the forty Niners. If you look

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Speaker 1: Like I said, you lose MEM's who they drafted in

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Speaker 1: He's hampered with a hamstring injury. Now Crowder is hampered

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Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury. And that was kind of their guy,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, who they have to, you know,

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Speaker 1: fall back on Preman. I think that's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: really big issue. And then they have a totally new

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Speaker 1: offensive line. Every single position is a new player for them.

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Speaker 1: And when you have the forty Niners defensive line coming

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Speaker 1: in with you know, we know how good boss is

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Speaker 1: and you have the four and Eric Armstead, that's gonna

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Speaker 1: make life really difficult on on Sam Donald. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't think this is gonna be one of his better games.

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Speaker 1: you as a USC guy, you know you're rooting for

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Speaker 1: a guy like Sam Donald, but it's also gonna be

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Speaker 1: just as tough for forty Niners fans this week wanting

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Speaker 1: to see Frank Gore succeed, but then you're also rooting

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Speaker 1: against him, so that's gonna be definitely an interesting matchup.

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Speaker 1: Forty Nighters, Uh seeing Frank Gore for the first time

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Speaker 1: since seventeen I believe that was when he was with

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Speaker 1: the Colts, So that's gonna be a interesting matchup as well. Yeah, definitely,

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Speaker 1: Frank the tank man, the inconvenient truth, very underrated player.

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Speaker 1: He's had an amazing career. Man, I'm excited to watch

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Speaker 1: him play, but again, not at our inspans, so you know,

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Speaker 1: if you can get like, you know, for yards or

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Speaker 1: something like that. I was Alred, good, good job. That's

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Speaker 1: enough right there, though, no more than that, but that's it.

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Speaker 1: Just let's cut it off right there. Frank Gore entering

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Speaker 1: into his sixteenth or now he's in his sixteenth NFL season,

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Speaker 1: unbelievable career and getting the respect he definitely deserves. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's let's wrap this up a bit. Um. You're looking

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Speaker 1: at teams like the Cardinals bringing in somebody like DeAndre Hopkins, uh,

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Speaker 1: Seattle getting guys like Jamal Adams. I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of fans we're hollering for the forty nights. They were

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Speaker 1: literally adding John Lynch at all times of day to

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Speaker 1: get him to try to grab a guy like Jamal Adams.

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Speaker 1: He goes to Seattle. Louis Mendez wants to know, do

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Speaker 1: you think that the NFC West is more difficult now

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Speaker 1: this season than it was a year before? You know,

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Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, man like

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Speaker 1: teams are gonna get better. That's just how it works.

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Speaker 1: The NFC West was very challenging last year. You know.

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Speaker 1: The way I look at it is, you know, if

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Speaker 1: San Francisco didn't beat these teams, right, they didn't beat

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Speaker 1: the the Seahawks, like they're probably like the number one

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Speaker 1: seed in the NFC if you if they if they

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Speaker 1: didn't beat the Rams last year, which they did, you know,

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Speaker 1: they beat them both times. But if you flip those

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Speaker 1: the Rams are like an eleven or twelve win team.

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Speaker 1: And then now you have the up and coming Arizona Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: who are you know they beat the four nine week one.

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Speaker 1: It's it's very difficult, uh division, And I mean the

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Speaker 1: NFL is you know, it's difficult to win in general,

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Speaker 1: so four nots it it's gonna be tough. It was

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Speaker 1: always gonna be tough. We knew the NFC West was

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Speaker 1: gonna be extremely tough. Obviously, teams adding these playmakers and

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Speaker 1: you know, league guys, difference makers, that makes it a

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Speaker 1: little tougher for and I was just gonna have to adjust,

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Speaker 1: and I think they have definitely have the right coaches

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Speaker 1: in place to make sure that they make the proper adjustments.

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Speaker 1: Is the NFC West the toughest division in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: because I feel like we can't roll out the NFC South.

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Speaker 1: But in your opinion, what's the toughest. Oh, I think

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Speaker 1: the the a f C North. With this, I think

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Speaker 1: that would be a little bit more different. I think

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Speaker 1: the point honors. I think the NFC West definitely is

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Speaker 1: the most difficult division. But yeah, that that that a

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Speaker 1: f C North, I think you can kind of rival

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Speaker 1: it a little bit. Definitely, some really talented teams. They're uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, you got the Steelers, you got the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: I'm really bullish on the Steelers this year. I think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be really good once bearn Rockysbor kind of

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Speaker 1: gets in stride. Uh. I was expecting a little bit

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Speaker 1: more out of the Browns, but yeah, that's tough. And

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Speaker 1: then obviously the Bengals they are just kind of out

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Speaker 1: of here. But the three guys, the three teams, the Bengals,

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Speaker 1: the I mean, the Browns, the Steelers, and the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: I think they'll be very, very competitive. I like that.

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Speaker 1: I like that. You hear a lot about what the

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Speaker 1: Saints are doing and what the Bucks are doing, but

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Speaker 1: you cannot discount uh he's that the a f C

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Speaker 1: nor to agree with that one. All right, Well, looking

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Speaker 1: at the NFC, let's say, I mean, I was saying

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Speaker 1: this earlier this week. You know, everyone's really upset about

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Speaker 1: starting off this year oh and one. But that doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean that the forty Niners can't go fifteen and one.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna throw that out there. But let's say

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Speaker 1: they do. Who's the biggest threat in in the NFC?

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Speaker 1: Who do you say? Definitely the Saints? You know, they

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Speaker 1: just they have all the they have all the guys

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Speaker 1: around them, the tools, obviously that the quarterback, they have,

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Speaker 1: the head coach. I just when you look at their

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Speaker 1: team and how they've always played together, obviously they just

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Speaker 1: want to, you know, a big home game against Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 1: They just have everything that they need to be able to,

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Speaker 1: you know, compete and beat a team like the So

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Speaker 1: I think definitely the Saints. That's that's gonna be the

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Speaker 1: team to beat. Saints are without Michael Thomas, I believe

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Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks somebody else who's dealing with

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Speaker 1: another I believe it's a hamstring injury as well. So

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Speaker 1: again going back to the point you made, it's not

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Speaker 1: just the forty Nighters. You actually follow the forty Nighters,

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Speaker 1: so you're seeing these injuries, Uh, just up up front,

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Speaker 1: but it's it's a lot of teams that are dealing

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Speaker 1: with it. But that's how do they bounce back without

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Speaker 1: a guy like like Michael Thomas. I mean, they do

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Speaker 1: have weapons on offense and and what I will bring

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Speaker 1: up as Emmanuel Sanders. But what's your feeling of the Saints. Well,

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Speaker 1: it seemed like okay, it's like, okay, we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to play with my without Michael Thomas. So we're just

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Speaker 1: gonna just give the ball to camera every play and

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Speaker 1: every time I little running into the end zone, so

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Speaker 1: that might be the game man. Now just get the

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Speaker 1: bottle camera and then okay, let's go it to you know,

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders too, because we have him, We'll give him

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Speaker 1: some test shouts, so that that's when we looked like

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Speaker 1: they when they went to on Sunday. All right, last thing,

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Speaker 1: eric Um, any any projections, any actions? What what are

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Speaker 1: you feeling? And you don't have to give me a record,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to give me a specific staff, but

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Speaker 1: is there anything that you feel as you've seen this

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Speaker 1: fort the Sporting Niners team in just week one, but

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Speaker 1: you know the potential they have, you know their coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: But what's your outlook on this team heading into the

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Speaker 1: rest of this season. I'm really excited. I'm the things

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Speaker 1: that happened in the first game, I expect it with

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Speaker 1: no uh no preseason. You know, you don't have your

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Speaker 1: outside receivers there. Uh you know, guys just kind of

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Speaker 1: a little rusty starting off. If somebody was going to

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Speaker 1: kind of sneak up on the forty Niners, I thought

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Speaker 1: it was going to be early. But once you start

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Speaker 1: getting these guys back and everything starts clicking, I think

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Speaker 1: the forty Niners and and I put it on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: I said, by week eight is gonna be a force

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Speaker 1: to reckon with him they're going to be so good.

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Speaker 1: You just kind of have to whether through the little

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Speaker 1: storm early on, getting that groove, get guys back, getting

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Speaker 1: the rhythm how they want to do things. It won't

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Speaker 1: be as choppy, and I think you'll see a really

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Speaker 1: really good team down the stretch. I like that and

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Speaker 1: I hope so. I think a lot of us the faithful,

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Speaker 1: were spoiled going eight no last year, but I definitely

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Speaker 1: think that is something that can happen this team actually, uh,

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Speaker 1: firing on all cylinder cylinders as this season progresses. Eric Crocker, Uh,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate having you. Don't forget. You can follow him

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Speaker 1: on Twitter at Eric Underscore Crocker. Appreciate having you. I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: You have me ready, You have me anxious for the

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Speaker 1: rest of this season. I'm ready to get some weapons

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Speaker 1: back on offense as well. Following this conversation, Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: excited and I'm excited to see Brandon I becaud like

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Speaker 1: full going practice. Um, that's somebody I'm really excited to

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Speaker 1: see and he should open things up just a little

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Speaker 1: bit for Jimmy Garoppolo. Another weapon for Jimmy Garoppolo getting

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Speaker 1: back optimistically this week was a full participant in him

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Speaker 1: and Ben Garland forty Niners Center, who's in place for

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Speaker 1: Western Richberg who's on PUP. So another guy the forty

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Speaker 1: Niners and getting back another reason to get excited about

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Speaker 1: week to forty Niners looking to redeem themselves against the

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Speaker 1: New York Jets. I appreciate having you. We got to

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Speaker 1: have you back on sometime anytime. Thanks for having me,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. H