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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the official Morning Got Real podcast sponsored

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Speaker 1: by Man. I'm excited podcast for a number of reasons. Well,

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Speaker 1: reason number one, it is game week. We are finally

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Speaker 1: entering into the regular season, despite not having preseason and

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Speaker 1: all of the craziness that's gone on over the last

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Speaker 1: few months. But also excited with for my guest today,

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Speaker 1: I am joined but from the athletics, David Lombardi. You

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Speaker 1: can catch him on Twitter at Lombardi himself, no one else,

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Speaker 1: just him, Lombardi himself. David, how's it going. How excited

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Speaker 1: are you to see a game? You know, even just

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Speaker 1: watching practice, I felt like there was some normalcy coming

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Speaker 1: back as far as the football schedule went. So the game,

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Speaker 1: I think is going to be a real blessing after

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Speaker 1: all these months of just talking about football and speculating

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Speaker 1: about what the forty Niners may do, what they say here,

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Speaker 1: what they may do their you know, with with a

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Speaker 1: good team, there's more scrutiny involved in that situation, right,

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Speaker 1: So I feel it's been double torture for forty Niners

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Speaker 1: fans because they do have that good team. So you

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Speaker 1: do scrutinize and over scrutinze things and be they're coming

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Speaker 1: off of a Super Bowl loss, and that's when you

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Speaker 1: really just want to get back out there. And that's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen on September, And how do you think they're

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Speaker 1: going to pull this off? And I think the NFL

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Speaker 1: has done a great job. Not enough people are talking

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Speaker 1: about that. In my opinion, I think that so far

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Speaker 1: the NFL and the forty Niners obviously part of that effort,

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Speaker 1: have done what they need to do to make sure

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Speaker 1: they can pull this off this season. There's still a

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Speaker 1: lot of hard work ahead, but boy, am I excited

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Speaker 1: to watch some football on September thirteen. Tell me about it.

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Speaker 1: Forty Niners hosting the Arizona Cardinals Sunday. As David said September,

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a ton of storylines we can talk

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Speaker 1: is a great opportunity for us to just kind of

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Speaker 1: go through this roster. Forty Niners set their ross. They

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Speaker 1: turned the roster down to fifty three men practice squad.

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Speaker 1: They got six team guys, which I feel like right now,

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Speaker 1: practice squad has been It's more important than it has

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Speaker 1: ever been given the circumstances of COVID um, it's improved

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Speaker 1: from sixteen or ten players to now sixteen and that

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Speaker 1: also includes six veteran players with unlimited experience. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: like that year's prior. One guy I can pull out

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Speaker 1: as an example everyone's been talking about is Jonathan Cyprian,

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Speaker 1: who was a veteran now going into his eight NFL season.

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Speaker 1: At first he said practice squad wasn't necessarily an option,

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Speaker 1: and now change of heart on the team's practice squad.

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Speaker 1: So before we dive into the actual roster, were there

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Speaker 1: any surprises for you when looking at how this fifty

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Speaker 1: three took shape or this practice squad took shape. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. With Jonathan Cyprian, I think that's

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Speaker 1: great insight into the building that Kyle Shanahan and John

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Speaker 1: the media when somebody asked him about two weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: would you consider joining the practice squad? And he flat

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Speaker 1: out and said no, based on what we've heard after,

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan called Jonathan Siffrian into his office right after

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Speaker 1: something that we really want to change your mind on.

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Speaker 1: This is something that's really important to us because this season,

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Speaker 1: like you said, the practice squad is a different equation

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Speaker 1: amongst some players in the league that the practice squad is,

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Speaker 1: much closer to being a part of that fifty three

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Speaker 1: if they're already in the building and learning the system.

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Speaker 1: So I think the fact that Kyle Shanahan went out

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Speaker 1: that was extremely indicative of how well this forty Niners

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Speaker 1: the forty Niners this year. Um As far as surprise

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Speaker 1: fouls who had an awesome training camp right at linebacker.

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Speaker 1: We saw that pick six, I didn't think he was

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Speaker 1: one of the qualities of every guy in that linebacker room.

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Speaker 1: The forty Niners are so good in coverage at linebacker.

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Speaker 1: Now they're gonna have six of those guys who can

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Speaker 1: great insight, David Lombardi. At Lombardi himself, I always say this, like,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate your your articles, especially your tweets. I follow

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Speaker 1: you in and all the time I'm liking I'm retweeting

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Speaker 1: because it's great insight. How long have you been covering

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Speaker 1: the team, David Well. I was lucky enough to come

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Speaker 1: in two thousand seventeen. And there's nothing quiet like being

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Speaker 1: able to chronicle the build of something that's turning out

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Speaker 1: to be something great. For the forty Niners, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they've already won an NFC championship in dominant fashion and

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Speaker 1: when I came aboard in seventeen. It obviously was a

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Speaker 1: it around so quickly. Absolutely, I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: heading right into week one. How does not having a

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Speaker 1: been other teams out there that were eyeing him, but

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Speaker 1: what you've seen from college. I think that it mattered

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Speaker 1: simulate blocking even without full life contact. But the one

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Speaker 1: just don't know. And Kyle Shanahan is really honest about this,

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Speaker 1: is is breaking tackles making full tackles, and the breaking

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Speaker 1: there is no tackling map that you can get away from,

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Speaker 1: right and the Fortinander has decided not to go fully

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Speaker 1: Shanahan's part to also avoid that as much as possible,

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Speaker 1: on that practice slud. That's a great point that you

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Speaker 1: keep going with running back. I feel like this roster

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Speaker 1: there weren't too many surprises. You know, everyone kind of

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Speaker 1: does their fifty three projections and and for the most part,

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Speaker 1: I feel like there weren't too many wild cards. You

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Speaker 1: may have had a guy here, like you said, Demetrius

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Speaker 1: Flannagan Fowls, he's one person, um, But I feel like

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Speaker 1: what this team was gonna look like, which is completely

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Speaker 1: different from both when you and I began covering the

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Speaker 1: You got Tevin Coleman where he moster. Jerick McKinnon we

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Speaker 1: to throw Kyle you check the fullback into the mix,

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Speaker 1: but Pacy got him onto practice squad. Anything stand out

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Speaker 1: that Jeff Wilson is a very underrated player who we

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Speaker 1: himself last year against the Arizona Cardinals one they came

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Speaker 1: a phenomenal story last year. That was a close game.

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Speaker 1: the hill based on what last season's performance indicated. So no,

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Speaker 1: I I don't see the forty Niners going and making

432
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Speaker 1: a move on that front unless we see a rash

433
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 1: of injuries. To be honest, we haven't seen that yet.

434
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 1: These guys are all expected to be back or uh

435
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,120
Speaker 1: you know, have a very good chance to be back

436
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: for Week one. So let's not act like this team

437
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 1: it's all too beaten up. And I know there's a

438
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 1: lot of panicked on social media. That's what I'm responding to,

439
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,119
Speaker 1: until this team is not healthy week one, let's you know,

440
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:18,919
Speaker 1: let's pump the brakes of it. Because the goal of

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00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 1: the training staff has been to get the rented team

442
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 1: ready for week one, not for week zero or or

443
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:26,199
Speaker 1: the end of training camp. They're all shooting for that

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Speaker 1: week one return date. And when when you consider that

445
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 1: the receiving corps looks it looks fairly complete right now

446
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 1: for the forty nine. I love that well put calming

447
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 1: that it's it's like the hysteria that when once there's

448
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,439
Speaker 1: a soft tissue injury and then there's hysteria all across

449
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Speaker 1: social media. But I think a lot of us forget

450
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Speaker 1: that this is football. There will be injuries. You can

451
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,119
Speaker 1: guarantee that's going to happen. And it's not just in

452
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Speaker 1: this building. It's happening everywhere. You're looking around the league

453
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 1: and seeing some guys going down. Um, but that's what

454
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 1: comes with this game. But again, not preparing for week zero.

455
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Speaker 1: I love that you said that preparing for week one.

456
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: Jumping over to tighten. We just talked about this a

457
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Speaker 1: little earlier. We talked about Jimmy Garoppolo's number one receiver,

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Speaker 1: George Kittle, forty Niner star tight end. In addition, we've

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Speaker 1: got Ross Dwelly, Jordan Read, the newcomer veteran Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: tight end, and then also Ricky Charlie Warner, who was

461
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Speaker 1: a standout run blocker in college. Uh, George Kittle said

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Speaker 1: he wants to see four tight end sets. I'm sure

463
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan got that notice. But left tackle Churm Williams

464
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Speaker 1: said that this might be the best unit in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you, David, what does the addition

466
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Speaker 1: of both Jordan Read having that veteran presence helping take

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Speaker 1: some of that pressure off of George Kittle. What does

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Speaker 1: he add to this offense? And then also I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about Charlie Warner and what he does as well. Well.

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Speaker 1: After the draft, I called up Charlie Warner's high school

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Speaker 1: coach over from Georgia, because, like George Kittle, Charlie Warner

472
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Speaker 1: was known as a blocker in college, but he didn't

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Speaker 1: catch many paths. Is we're we're talking about thirty or

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Speaker 1: forty catches throughout his old entire college career. So I

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Speaker 1: wanted to know what this guy might bring as a

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Speaker 1: receiver because I really knew that Kyle Shanahan has you know,

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Speaker 1: over his time with the forty nine, is the one

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Speaker 1: thing that he's black and I know that he really

479
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Speaker 1: wanted to develop this offseason was the ability to catch

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Speaker 1: the ball and be a receiving threat from the blocking

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Speaker 1: tight end role. Right, you have George Kittle, who's obviously

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Speaker 1: a blocking tight end, but he's the receiving tight end.

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Speaker 1: You also have that y tight end, that guy who's

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Speaker 1: in line more often, who's a blocking specialist. And you know,

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Speaker 1: in the past, we've seen Garrett Sellec do that role.

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Speaker 1: Last year, we saw Levin to do that role, but

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Speaker 1: it hasn't been that great of a receiving threat. So

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Speaker 1: Leavin Totola only caught one or two passes last year

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Speaker 1: and Garrett Sellec catching passes down field became you know,

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Speaker 1: it was such an abnormality within the scheme of the offense.

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Speaker 1: Is that the forty Owners developed the whole celebration called

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Speaker 1: Select Time to to to celebrate it. Right, the forty

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Speaker 1: Owners want to turn that into a regularity. They don't

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Speaker 1: want Select time, they don't want it to be Warner time.

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00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: They want Warner to catch so many passes that that

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Speaker 1: that's something that you expect that it's not something that

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Speaker 1: everybody goes crazy about every single time the guy catches

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Speaker 1: a ten yard pass. So so I really wanted to

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Speaker 1: find out if Warner had that type of ability since

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Speaker 1: he wasn't really used that way in Georgia. And his

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Speaker 1: high school coach went out and said that this guy

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Speaker 1: could be the next Rob Gronkowski. I mean, I'm quoting him.

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Speaker 1: I think the exact you know, so I don't get

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Speaker 1: the words wrong. Was Charlie Werner as a player who

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00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 1: can develop until Rob Gronkowski type player obviously made my

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Speaker 1: jaw drop. You know, you're like it was this hyperbole,

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00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 1: you know what's going on here? And then he sends

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Speaker 1: me a video of Charlie Werner. Uh is just doing

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Speaker 1: a standing backflip, Like he just jumps up and does

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Speaker 1: a backflip without you know, even having this to step

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Speaker 1: into it. And then you realize that this guy is

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Speaker 1: six five, you know, two fifty pounds and he's doing

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. And then you go and watch him

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Speaker 1: a training camp and he's starting to hide point footballs

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Speaker 1: on passes over the seam in a way that we

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Speaker 1: did not see Garence do it all with the forty niners.

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Speaker 1: We didn't see uh living in toy Lolo do that.

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Speaker 1: And you know he's not as fast as George Kittle.

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Speaker 1: This is more of a four seven forty instead of

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Speaker 1: four or five forty. But the pure athleticism outside of

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Speaker 1: the speed, ability to hide point the ball, ability to

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Speaker 1: get open on cuts is awesome, to be honest. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he had a huge camp. So I think that with

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Speaker 1: Charlie Werner, you are looking at a guy who can

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Speaker 1: develop into a very credible NFL receiving threat, and that

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Speaker 1: can that can really revolutionize the forty matters offense because,

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Speaker 1: like you said, Jordan Read, this is already a Pro Bowl,

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Speaker 1: all pro level type of receiver when he's healthy at

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Speaker 1: tight end. Add that to Kittle and then had a

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Speaker 1: third one. I don't know about four tight end sets,

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Speaker 1: but I see this team running some three tight end

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Speaker 1: sets this year for sure, and and that's gonna be

533
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Speaker 1: hard to defend because defenses around the NFL have gotten

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00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: smaller over the years. They've gotten smaller and faster. Fortyers

535
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: are counterpunching by getting bigger and faster with these tight ends,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's where Shanahan is really a step

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00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: ahead of the game. I would love to see a

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Speaker 1: guy like Charlie Warner being that dual threat, not only

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Speaker 1: as a blocker but also as a pass catcher. And

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Speaker 1: then you remember George back at Iowa what he had

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Speaker 1: maybe forty eight total catches over his four years at Iowa.

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Speaker 1: Um so who knows forty and just could have another

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Speaker 1: gym and a guy like Charlie Warner. I'm gonna jump

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Speaker 1: to the old line. I talked about Trent Williams a

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Speaker 1: few seconds ago. But you have Trent, you have Mike

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Speaker 1: McGlinchey as your two tackles, Daniel Brunskill, Tom Compton, Ben Garland,

547
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Speaker 1: Colton mckivitts, and justin school center Weston rich Bird will

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00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: start the season on p U p uh. We talk

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00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: a lot about versatility. I feel like that is a must,

550
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: especially looking at this old line and dealing with injuries.

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Speaker 1: But the big question was who starts at right guard

552
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: now with Weston potentially well, Weston gonna miss some games

553
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: into the season. You also have been Garland, who's dealing

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00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: with an ankle injury. Who's that center, who's at right guard? Well,

555
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: afforda owners certainly hope that it's Ben Garland at center

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Speaker 1: and Daniel brun Skill at right guard. And you know,

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00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right to be focusing on those two positions

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Speaker 1: because I thought that was the forty weakness down the

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Speaker 1: stretch last year. I thought that better performance, their better

560
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: health there probably would have meant a Super Bowl championship

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Speaker 1: for this team, and it didn't. You know, with all

562
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: the blame that is throwing Jimmy Garoppolo's away for that

563
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, just put on the film and you'll see

564
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Speaker 1: the forty Niners getting dominated inside by Chris Jones, is

565
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: obviously one of the best players in the NFL. But

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Speaker 1: you know, that's that's the reality of the NFL. When

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00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: you play huge games, you're gonna go up against great players,

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Speaker 1: and those great players are going to create fracture points

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Speaker 1: and you have to counter with performances of your own

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Speaker 1: of those fracture points to make sure you neutralize those

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Speaker 1: great players. So if the forty owners want to be

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Speaker 1: the Chief this year, if they want to be any

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Speaker 1: elite team this year, they're gonna have to get better

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Speaker 1: performance at center and right guard, especially in past protection.

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Speaker 1: So Ben Garland was good last year, especially run blocking wise,

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Speaker 1: he was middle of the pack when it came to

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Speaker 1: past protection. But again that that that's I think a

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Speaker 1: phenomenal performance for a backup center. Forty Owners hope to

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Speaker 1: get West and Richard back back and fully healthy after

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Speaker 1: week six and when that guy has been healthy that

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Speaker 1: was before time with the forty Niners. With the Giants,

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Speaker 1: he was the top three past protector at center. So

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Speaker 1: the forty Owners have a reinforcement coming the goal. I

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Speaker 1: think the training staff needs to be to make sure

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Speaker 1: not to rush this guy back, make sure this guy

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Speaker 1: rich Bird comes back and is able to be at

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Speaker 1: a hundred percent for basically the first time in his

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Speaker 1: forty Niners tenure, because I think that would solve a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of problems up front. And then the hope

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Speaker 1: is that Daniel Brunskill, who was awesome last year starting

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Speaker 1: at left tackle, right tackle, and then right guard, you

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00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: didn't give up a single pressure against Seattle in week seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this guy, he's been all over the line.

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Speaker 1: He's been taking center snaps here in the pinch during

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Speaker 1: training camp. But I think the forty Niners really believe

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Speaker 1: that his home can be right guard and he could

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00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: be the answer at that position for this team. So

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00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: you know they don't want any further injuries. They want

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00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: Garland back from that ankle injury, then they want Richford back.

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Speaker 1: And I think that the key is that if those

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Speaker 1: two guys in man center, bron Skill doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: mess around a center, run Skill can focus on right guard,

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Speaker 1: and that solves a whole lot of the issues at

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Speaker 1: the forty Niners saw last year and may solve some

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Speaker 1: of the heartbreak they saw last year in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: switch over. We are washing our hands with the often,

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Speaker 1: so we're going to head our way to the defense,

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Speaker 1: starting with one of the most exciting positions. Everyone's so

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00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: excited to talk about some of these names, and rightfully so,

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00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: looking at what they did last year. I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: the defensive line. Eric Armstead, Nick Bosa, d For Kevin Gibbons,

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Speaker 1: Carry Hider, d J Jones, Javon Kinlaw, Kentavius Street and

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Speaker 1: Solomon Thomas, a couple of names I definitely want to

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Speaker 1: highlight in their forty Niners aimed to have Nick Boson

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Speaker 1: de Ford on hand for week one. Both missed the

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Speaker 1: latter half of training camp with injuries. Speaking of Ford,

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Speaker 1: Forts restructured his contract over the weekend. People are assuming, oh,

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Speaker 1: something big must be coming up down the pipeline. But

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Speaker 1: what's your take, what's your idea behind that? Well, you

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Speaker 1: look at the larger situation here on the forty Niners

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00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: are about to enter a very potentially compromising time for

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Speaker 1: a team that is in contention because the salary cap,

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00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: which is tied to lead revenues, is very likely going

628
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: to tumble in two thousand twenty one because fans won't

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Speaker 1: be in the stands and obviously essentially every business in

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00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: the world right now has been affected by what's happened

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Speaker 1: this year. So the forty Niners entered this whole COVID

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Speaker 1: thing with their future projections indicating or predicting that the

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00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: salary cap in two one was going to be somewhere

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Speaker 1: between two hundred fifteen and two hundred twenty million dollars. Well,

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00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: now the floor for the salary cap in one has

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Speaker 1: been set at a hundred seventy five million dollars. Maybe

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Speaker 1: the NFL will be able to recoup some of the

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Speaker 1: potentially lost revenue. Maybe it won't go all the way

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00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: down the hundred seventy five million dollars, but I think

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00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: everybody has to budget and has to act as if

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Speaker 1: it will. You know, otherwise you could really leave yourself

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00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,719
Speaker 1: in a very vulnerable and compromised position. So the difference

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Speaker 1: between a hundred seventy five million and two hundred and

644
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: fifteen million is vast. I'm not a math person, but

645
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: I think that's forty million or so dollars. And the

646
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: forty Niners are doing and have done whatever it takes

647
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: to be able to put themselves into a better position

648
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: next offseason when they have so many players who are

649
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: free agents that they're going to need to resign. Uh.

650
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: So they're not over budget because as of right now

651
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: they don't have much cap space at all. So remember

652
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: the cap space here carries over to one if you

653
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: don't use it. So by restructuring d Ford's contract right now,

654
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: opening up nine point five million in new space, the

655
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: forty Honors will be able to support some of that

656
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: money over and do some of the expensive business that

657
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: they have on the agenda in one and it's you know,

658
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: that's extend Trent Williams. Maybe you want to extend Richard Sherman.

659
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 1: I mean, the whole secondary is going to need an

660
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: extension next year. The don't have a DBS under contract

661
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: except for Jimmy Ward past that season, so uh, it's

662
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: gonna be one of those. Carmon Policy, who was the

663
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: former Forty Honors President general manager back in ninety four

664
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: when the forty Honors built their super team the salary

665
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: cap first came out, That's exactly what he had to do.

666
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,280
Speaker 1: The forty Is essentially invented this. They were the first

667
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: team to be able to work the cab by by

668
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: giving a bigger signing bonus as part of a restructure

669
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: so the cap hits are spread out over future years.

670
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: And the Niners did that back in ninety four. It

671
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: changed the way that the NFL work. They set the example.

672
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: Everybody copied them. Well, now six years later, because of

673
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: this whole cap current due to COVID, the forty Niners

674
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: have to do the same thing. Karmen Policy said about

675
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: ninety four, he said it was like dancing through rain drops. Well,

676
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: the Ford is gonna have to dance through rain drops

677
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,399
Speaker 1: again if they're going to keep this roster together and

678
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: the d Ford move, you can expect more like that.

679
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: They're part of that. And what they require an ownership

680
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,280
Speaker 1: that is committed to the football team. Financially. Fordy owners

681
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: have that because you have to pay the guy the

682
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: nine point five million or I think with in d

683
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: Fourth's case it was thirteen million signing bonus. You have

684
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: to be willing to pay them all that money at once.

685
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: Not every team is able or willing to do that,

686
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: but the forty Niners are, and that that's what's going

687
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: to allow them to work in the cap here a

688
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: bit and get through these tough times. We're talking about

689
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,839
Speaker 1: dollars in the forty Niners were forced to their hand,

690
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: was essentially forced to trade away a guy like de

691
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: Forrest Buckner. Um, it's hard to pay a guy like

692
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: that when you you have so many other guys to

693
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: take care of. Um. You actually wrote something about or

694
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: similar to this on the Athletic and you're talking about

695
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,280
Speaker 1: how do the forty Niners replace the guy like DEFO,

696
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: It's not going to be just on one guy, your

697
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: Javon kim Law, It's going to take effort from basically

698
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: every guy you've got here to help pick up that load.

699
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: But I want to talk about the interior guys, Guys

700
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: like Solomon Thomas, who has had a great training camp,

701
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: can Tavia Street, Kevin Gibbons. What did you see out

702
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: of some of these guys at camp. Well, the depths

703
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: along the interior defensive line is going to be excellent

704
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: this year. And that's actually an area of the team

705
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: and an area of the defense that I think is

706
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: clearly already improved over, and that that's the thing that

707
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: fort Ners need. That's not just a luxury because you

708
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 1: have lost the Forest Buckner. So when you lose your

709
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: front line free technique along the interior of that line,

710
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: you're not going to be especially if it's the star

711
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 1: of Buckner's caliber. It's unrealistic to think that one player

712
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: is going to replace him. The forty Niners in the

713
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: long run do hope that Javon kin Law replaces the

714
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: Forest Buckner's productivity at that three technique spot. But Buckner

715
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: obviously is an all pro kind Laws a rookie kid

716
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 1: Law is a very different skill set than Buckner. Whereas

717
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: Buckner came into the league as a player who you know,

718
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: had the pass rush technique moves, but needed to learn

719
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,959
Speaker 1: how to anchor, kin Law has come into the league

720
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: as a player who doesn't really have the pass frush

721
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: technique moves, but he already knows that an anchor. And

722
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: he's three. He's thirty pounds heavier than the Forest Buckner.

723
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: So you're gonna get more of a run stopper at

724
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: first from Javon kin Law. You're probably gonna lose a

725
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: lot of the pass rushing punch that DeForrest Buckner gave you. Therefore,

726
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: the depth on the interior is going to have to

727
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 1: supplement whatever kim Law gives you so that you don't

728
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: lose too much from the Buckner departure. And that's where

729
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: Solomon Thomas bulking up from two six pounds to over

730
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: two pounds so he can be exclusively on the inside

731
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: comes in. That's where Cantavius Streets amazing surge coming off

732
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: of a really tough a c L Tare and twenty

733
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: eight team comes in. I mean, Street has looked like

734
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: a completely different player, and his teammates say that he's

735
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: made the biggest jump of all the defensive linemen. Uh

736
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: and that's where that's where Kevin Gibbons comes in. Also,

737
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: don't forget Carrie Hider, big signing, came out of Dallas.

738
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: Knows Chris to start from his time at Detroit. You know,

739
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: you talk to guys who know the defensive line, they

740
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: say that Carry Hider is one of the toughest linemen

741
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 1: in football. He's not going to be a flashy lineman,

742
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: but he's exactly what the forty Niners need. He's like

743
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: a Ronald Blair could play everywhere, except Ronald Blairs. I

744
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: think natural home is on the edge, on the outside.

745
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: Carry Hider can play everywhere, but his natural home is

746
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: on the inside. So between those four guys, I mean,

747
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: then you throw healthy d J. Jones in the mix,

748
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: and he's amazing athletically, I mean as a noose tackle

749
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: of three technique athleticism which just doesn't grow on trees.

750
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: You know, between all those guys, and then you know,

751
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: you hope that Javon kim Last starts sprouting into a

752
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: star by the end of the year. Well, I think

753
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: the forty Niners have a lot of weapons to play

754
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 1: with on that interior defensive line. And by the time

755
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: all of said and done, if if they play their

756
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: cards right and they've got a great coach and Christmas

757
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: Derek to to shuffle those cards around in the middle,

758
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: they can be better than last year on the defensive line,

759
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:45,399
Speaker 1: simply because depth is so important. Yeah, that's something that's

760
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: very exciting to see. How can this team with the

761
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: depth pieces, with another year aside from some of the

762
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:57,439
Speaker 1: new guys, but another year under Chris Casseric, how this

763
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: group can take another step forward. That's one the I

764
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,919
Speaker 1: feel like one of the things that I'm looking forward

765
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: to most when when looking ahead to this season. Jump

766
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: into linebackers. All right, we have Kwan, Alexander I, Fred Warner,

767
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: I have an asterisk by his name. We'll get to

768
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: in justus, a second, Dre Greenlaw, ziz Al share Mark Nazacha,

769
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 1: and Demetrius Flanagan fouls. We talked about him at the

770
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: top of the show. Warner. Warner is currently on the

771
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: COVID reserve list. Um Lynch at the forty Niners have

772
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: seven linebackers that they're excited about. The seven all The

773
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: seventh includes veteran Joe Walker, who is on the team's

774
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: practice squad. But how do you replace a guy like

775
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: Fred should he not be on hand in Week one? Well,

776
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: the forty Niners. The good years is they have three

777
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: starting caliber linebackers on this team. So beyond Fred Warner,

778
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: you have Kwan Alexander and Dre green Law. And you

779
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: look at the way that the NFL is playing these days.

780
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 1: Last season, the forty Niners were in their nickel package

781
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: of the time. So nickel pa pitge means that you're

782
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: taking your third linebacker off the field and you're putting

783
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: Kawan Williams, who is a very high performer, onto the field.

784
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: So when the forty Niners only only need two linebackers

785
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 1: for the snaps, that automatically alleviates much of the crunch.

786
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: And we actually saw that last season. Right when Pawn

787
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: Alexander went down with a torn pectoral muscle, Jake Greenlaw

788
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: stepped right up from the third linebacker spot to the

789
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: second linebacker spot and made the biggest play of the

790
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: year for the forty Niners in Seattle. So it's it's

791
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: a matter of depth a linebacker, and I think the

792
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,240
Speaker 1: forty Niners really haven't because they have those three starting

793
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: caliber guys but even if you have to go beyond that,

794
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,399
Speaker 1: say that you have another injury and Fred Warner is out.

795
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: I think that's where as these al Shire comes in.

796
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:48,720
Speaker 1: And I think that we saw that when you started

797
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 1: running with the first team there towards the end of

798
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: training camp. This is a player who the forty Niners obviously, uh,

799
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 1: we're able to I think, you know, just an under

800
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: the radar gem, you know, hidden gem kind of signing

801
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: uh the last season, really fast tackle machine in college

802
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: playing down there in Florida. And he he's coming along

803
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: for the forty Niners based on what I've seen in

804
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 1: practice so far this season. So, like you said, they

805
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: have bodies there. Demetrius Planting and Fells is another Aziz

806
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: al Shay your type player you know, as far as

807
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 1: under the radar, undrafted, coming out of nowhere all of

808
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: a sudden, making the fifty three man roster. So you

809
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: have to like the fact they got three starting caliber

810
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: guys and then potentially more in the pipeline beyond that.

811
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: That is a very healthy looking position group for the

812
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: forty Niners. And again the key is those guys can

813
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: all cover. You can't say the same about a lot

814
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: of teams in the NFL, especially within the forty Nighters division.

815
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: Seattle great linebackers five years ago, but those guys struggle

816
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,439
Speaker 1: to cover and Shanahan exposed them for it last year.

817
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: I don't see the forty Nighters getting exposed in coverage

818
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: on the second level with who they have a linebacker.

819
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,439
Speaker 1: I want to jump to the forty Niners defensive backfield

820
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,320
Speaker 1: and we're going to kick it off with cornerback. You

821
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: were just talking about nickel package. Well, Kaywan Williams and

822
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 1: that mix Richard Sherman and Kello Witherspoon, Jason Varette and

823
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Moseley, same group returning from last year. Mike Turner

824
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: from Canada wants to know how do you expect the

825
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: defensive backfield to take shape? And I'm in particular gonna

826
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: point at this right quarterback spot. Who starts opposite Richard Sherman. Well,

827
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: it sounds like Emmanuel Moseley will have that lockdown. He

828
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 1: might have had a lockdown before this, but I don't know.

829
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,280
Speaker 1: To me, it seems the battle seemed a lot closer

830
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,720
Speaker 1: than some people are letting on between Moseley and Jason

831
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 1: Varette for the spot opposite Richard Sherman that Jason Varette

832
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: as a minor hamstring train right now wasn't enough to

833
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: keep him off of the initial fifty three man roster.

834
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: But what I think it will be is I think

835
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: it will be enough to keep him out of that

836
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: starting job at least at the beginning of the season

837
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,760
Speaker 1: right cornerback. Beyond that, I also think that Jason Varette

838
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 1: is more versatile than a guy like Emmanuel Moseley. And

839
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 1: I think that Jason Varette can easily slide over to

840
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: the slot and be the Forda Niners slot corner in

841
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: case Kawan Williams and his cap strain lingers, or in

842
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: case the forty Niners need a dime back matched up

843
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: one on one against the speedy slot type wide receiver.

844
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 1: And look what's happening Week one. Arizona is going to

845
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 1: come in with about one million wide receivers on their

846
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: roster with Cliff Kingsbury and his offense and Kyler Murray

847
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: throwing to them. I mean, it's gonna be a college

848
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,319
Speaker 1: style big twelve offensive CODA owners have to face Week one.

849
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: It do not be surprised as a boarding Niners counter

850
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 1: by putting a ton of cornerbacks on the field. It's

851
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 1: not just gonna be about Sherman and whoever plays right cornerback,

852
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: probably Emmanuel Moseley. It's going to be about your auxiliary

853
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: depth at corner and that's gonna mean bringing Kawan Williams

854
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: out onto the field to cover somebody in the slot,

855
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: and that second slot needs to be covered. I think

856
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: Jason Barrett is probably that guy for the forty Niners. So, um,

857
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: you know, football is changing now. You know, it's obviously

858
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: not been three yards in the cloud of dust for

859
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: several years, but now the college game, especially with a

860
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: guy like Cliff Kingsbury, is moving into the NFL as

861
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: far as scheme goes, and that means that you're gonna

862
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: need a lot of dbs to keep up. And I

863
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 1: think it's good that the forty Niners are deep in

864
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: the secondary for that very reason, and they'll be tested

865
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: in that regard. Right out of the gate week one

866
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 1: perfect segue, because I wanted to talk a little bit

867
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: more about Jason Varette. I want to know what have

868
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: been your impressions of him throughout camp. We know that

869
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: he was coming off of i R last season, how

870
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: din injury written career, hoping that he can look like

871
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: that Jason Varetta that we've all known in love, But

872
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 1: what have you seen out of him? Does he look

873
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: back on par to I'm not saying, but does he? How? Does?

874
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 1: How is he looking well? The recovery from an injury

875
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,320
Speaker 1: always has a physical and a psychological component, and I

876
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,760
Speaker 1: think that Jason Varette might have been passed the physical

877
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: component last season. I don't think he was there psychologically yet.

878
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: We obviously only saw him very briefly against Pittsburgh and

879
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 1: that did not go well when he came in for

880
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: a Kello Witherspoon in week three, So that's where Emmanuel

881
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,959
Speaker 1: Moseley was really able to take control of that job

882
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:18,879
Speaker 1: at that point of the season. So I I think

883
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 1: that Verrette still needed a little bit more time to

884
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: get his you know, head on right post injury and

885
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,760
Speaker 1: rediscover the attacking mentality that made him a pro bowler

886
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 1: in San Diego. And I saw him with that attacking

887
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: mentality during his training camp and mean several past breakups.

888
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: He was aggressive, he was physical, and again he's physical

889
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,800
Speaker 1: without being the biggest guy. This is not your prototypical

890
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman s covered three corner who's six two six

891
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 1: three um shoving guys around to the line of scrimmage,

892
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: you know, almost bringing safety size to that cornerback position.

893
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 1: This is a cornerback built from you know, the more

894
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:02,320
Speaker 1: old school, smaller frame, but still brings when he's confident

895
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: and well, still brings that same physical dog mentality to

896
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: the cornerback position that this scheme needs. And I also

897
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: also think that he brings that same physical dog mentality

898
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,320
Speaker 1: that is handy at a nickel back position, which is

899
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: why I mentioned that he would be versatile for that

900
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: as well, because a nickel you need a smaller guy

901
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: who's quick enough to keep up with the Trent tailors

902
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 1: in the world. Right. So I really have enjoyed watching

903
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 1: Jason the Varette play this training camp. I think that

904
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: you can see why he or how he made the

905
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl a few years back in his game uh.

906
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 1: And I think that if he stays healthy, and I

907
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: know it's a huge if with a guy like Jason Varette,

908
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: if he stays healthy, this is gonna be a guy

909
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: that can really contribute for the forty Niners this year.

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914
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: manscape dot com. Let's wrap this up on defense. What's safety?

915
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: Jimmy war Jakowsky, Tar tar Various More, Marcel Harris, No,

916
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 1: there's no Jamal Adams. No, there's no Earl Tomas. Forty

917
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: niners appear happy with the guys that they have Tar

918
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 1: Various More looking to take strides. I mean, we've seen

919
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: him and what he's done so far through camp, But

920
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: what's been your impression of this group? You know, the

921
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 1: safety position for the forty niners is interesting because I

922
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,320
Speaker 1: think a lot of people go out and trying to

923
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: knock them for a lack of interceptions last year when

924
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: they there's a couple of things that play. The forty

925
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: niners pass rush was so good last year that there

926
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: are actually fewer interception opportunities than you would expect. You

927
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 1: have to you look at the pass rushes are effective

928
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: and gradients, so a terrible pass rush and I'll be honest,

929
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: the forty owners. Any terrible pass rush, especially from the

930
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: edge in eighteen, gives the quarterback enough time to bake

931
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,359
Speaker 1: the cake in the pocket, and he's not gonna throw

932
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: any interceptions, and the safeties are in the cornerbacks and

933
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 1: everybody's really hung out to dry, so you won't see

934
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: the turnover numbers. At the opposite end of the spectrum

935
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,359
Speaker 1: is a completely overpowering paths rush, one that doesn't even

936
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: give a quarterback a chance to hey, throw the ball

937
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: or be make the catchable paths, even one that's catchable

938
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: for the defense. And the fort and Niners actually had

939
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: one of those. They went from one of the spectrum

940
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,919
Speaker 1: to the other end of the spectrum, and that that

941
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily good for the safety statue. I mean, it's

942
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: obviously good for the team, but when people in this

943
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 1: fantasy football era world always trying to look at the

944
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: amount of interceptions the guy has, the four ends pass

945
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: rush were so overpowering last year that that there just

946
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:42,959
Speaker 1: weren't that many opportunities for Jakuski Tart and Jimmy Ward.

947
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: You almost have to have a slightly worse pass rush,

948
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 1: but one that's good enough to force the quarterback into

949
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 1: dumb decisions to rack up those those turnover numbers. So

950
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: I wouldn't read too much into, you know, some of

951
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:58,720
Speaker 1: the criticism that's heart and and and Ward have gotten,

952
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: and that led to a lot of fans clamoring for

953
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:04,800
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams and Earl Thomas. I think the Ford and

954
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 1: understate that that they're especially on the Earl Thomas front,

955
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: I think they're better off with Jimmy Ward. Jamal Adams

956
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 1: is obviously a generational talent, so I mean, what team

957
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to have a guy like that. But Jack

958
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: Bosky Tart is a really good player and comes at

959
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 1: a much better cost than Jamal Adams, and I think

960
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 1: he'll get his. As far as the turnovers go, it

961
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: just may not be as many as you'd expect, and

962
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,320
Speaker 1: that's through no fault of his own. That's because the

963
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: forty Niners are straight up dominant along the front. And

964
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 1: as long as guys like Tart and and Ward play

965
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,760
Speaker 1: within the scheme, do their jobs the complement that pass rush,

966
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: that is all the forty Niners can ask for, and

967
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: all they'll need is defense will remain very good as

968
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: long as they play within the scheme, and those turnovers

969
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 1: will come when they're supposed to come. I want to

970
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 1: go back to the last two position groups that we

971
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: talked about. Christopher Smith from New Orleans wants to know,

972
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,479
Speaker 1: do you think that the forty secondary is good enough

973
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 1: to get back to the super Bowl? Secondary is absolutely

974
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: good enough to get back to the super Bowl. It

975
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 1: didn't really have holes last year. I mean, there's there's

976
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,800
Speaker 1: maybe I'm reading too much into into some of these questions,

977
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: but I'm I am obviously always getting a pulse of

978
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: how people feel. And when I'm on you know, Twitter,

979
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 1: you always people start to say, oh, all the secondaries

980
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: this weak length because Patrick Mahomes came in with seven

981
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: minutes left and you know, threw into one busted coverage,

982
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: picked up forty five yards of Tyreek Hill and the secondary,

983
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't able to stop the Chiefs and

984
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,399
Speaker 1: preserve the Super Bowl win. But to me, that's all

985
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: recency bias. Yeah, especially super Bowl is this great cultivator

986
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: of recency bias. I get it. If you don't get

987
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: it done in the Super Bowl, people are going to

988
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: be doubly or triple or quadruple e upset and it's

989
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,839
Speaker 1: gonna you know, just feed that fire and it's gonna

990
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,479
Speaker 1: be It's gonna be a lot of disappointment. Everybody wants

991
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:02,959
Speaker 1: to point fingers throw blame, but you know, let's let's

992
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: put that into perspective. Let's look at the overall body

993
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,479
Speaker 1: of work, not just through the regular season, but also

994
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: through the playoffs to get to the forty niners to

995
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. That was the number two secondary or

996
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 1: past defense. I guess I should say in all football,

997
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: behind only the New England Patriots. You look at all

998
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: the advanced numbers. You look at what Jakusti Tart gave

999
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: up in coverage, what Jimmy Wore gave up in coverage.

1000
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,800
Speaker 1: You look at the All Pro season that Richard Sherman

1001
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: put together. You know, one bad play one, you know

1002
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: getting beaten once, as Richard Sherman did by Watkins, and

1003
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl does not negate in all Pro season.

1004
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: It does not mean that Richard Sherman needs to start

1005
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: thinking about moving to safety. I mean, I think it's

1006
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: just asinine to look at one snap when you have

1007
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: five other snaps to look at, and you know, just

1008
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 1: because that snap came most recently. So um, I don't

1009
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want me to offend the question

1010
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: or I don't want to read too far into the question.

1011
00:52:56,600 --> 00:53:00,800
Speaker 1: But you have an entire season of ADDA that showed

1012
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: that the forty Niners secondary wasn't number two in all football,

1013
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: and you know, with guys still developing and progressing, has

1014
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 1: a good chance to be number one this season. So

1015
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: of course it's good enough to go back to the

1016
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. You cannot look at the last seven minutes

1017
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 1: of one game, even if it was the Super Bowl

1018
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: and think that you know that is not true. It

1019
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: just it just doesn't make any sense. So the forty

1020
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 1: Niners are good enough. A lot of what happens in

1021
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl this year, if they do make it

1022
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: back and play a Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson, to

1023
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: be honest, is going to be reliant on their offense.

1024
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:39,280
Speaker 1: They can't start stalling in the fourth quarter again, because

1025
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: your best defense is very often a good offense, especially

1026
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: in this modern day NFL. The defense and the secondary

1027
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:48,800
Speaker 1: for the forty Niners is hands down good enough to

1028
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:50,879
Speaker 1: get the job done. I think there are hands down

1029
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: good enough to get the job done. Last year, some

1030
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: things just didn't fall their way at the end of

1031
00:53:54,719 --> 00:54:00,720
Speaker 1: the season. David Lombardi at on Twitter at Lombardy himself,

1032
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 1: I appreciate your time. I appreciate your insight, your knowledge.

1033
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: I couldn't think of a better guest to kind of

1034
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: break down this fifty three man roster than you, So

1035
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 1: I appreciate your time. Any any party words you have

1036
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:16,320
Speaker 1: for us. I think it's gonna be a great season

1037
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 1: for the forty Niners and maybe weird hopefully we'll have

1038
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: some fans allowed by the end of the season, maybe

1039
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 1: even a Levi stadium and uh, you know, any sense

1040
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:27,720
Speaker 1: of normalcy I think would be good for the forty

1041
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 1: Niners this year because this was a team that was

1042
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:32,839
Speaker 1: might have been a year ahead of schedule last year.

1043
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: They they you know, are still on the upswing. You

1044
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: could still feel that roster maturing into a really dominant force.

1045
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 1: And for their sake and really just for everybody's sake,

1046
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 1: you want as fair of a fight as possible in

1047
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: the NFL. You want every season to be determined without

1048
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 1: feeling there was an asterisk there because there were no fans,

1049
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: people didn't care as much, blah blah blah whatever. The

1050
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:57,360
Speaker 1: forty Niners are on their ascendency right now there. You know,

1051
00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 1: one could argue that they should be Super Bowl favorite

1052
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,760
Speaker 1: this year based on the roster based on the trajectory.

1053
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: So you just want to see a normal season go

1054
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: off to see if they actually, you know, deserve that

1055
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: preseason heights, to see if you know this is what

1056
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:14,760
Speaker 1: the team is actually about. You don't want outside factors

1057
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 1: to go in, especially on precedent, outside factors to go

1058
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 1: in and mess that up. So I think what we

1059
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: all just need to cross our fingers and and and

1060
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 1: hope that the situation and the policies and and all

1061
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 1: this and all that are conducive to a season that's

1062
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 1: well played and allows the Floridaanders to show us what

1063
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 1: they've really got. Because we have spent months talking about

1064
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 1: this and now it's finally time to see it. And

1065
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 1: I'm really really curious, and I'm very uh, I'll be

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Speaker 1: very engaged because I have speculated about this for too long.

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Speaker 1: I just need to see this team take the field

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Speaker 1: and place in football. I feel like the fans are

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Speaker 1: very excited to hear that. They have the exact same feeling,

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Speaker 1: the exact same sentiment. My colleague David Lombardi, you can

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Speaker 1: find him again at Twitter at Barty himself with the

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Speaker 1: athletic We appreciate your time David will have to have

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Speaker 1: you again some time this season, and we'll have to

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Speaker 1: do something like this again, chat a little bit about

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Speaker 1: what's going on anytime. You know. I love doing it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks David, have a good week. Thank you.