Totally Normal Stuff. Why Do You Ask?

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. Watch 2026. We're back, baby. We [00:00:10] Speaker B: got helicopters out here. [00:00:12] Speaker A: Nothing's ever been more true. Jeez. Christ, Jake. I mean, what. I guess it will end soon. Or not. I don't know. [00:00:21] Speaker B: No. No, it won't. This is the beginning of a long. From what I can tell, [00:00:27] Speaker A: the. [00:00:27] Speaker B: This is the beginning of a long bargaining situation where they have to decide, okay, you owe us so many million dollars, you clearly don't have it, obviously. So, like, what's the. What's the plan here? You want back in the NFL? We don't want to pay you. You already forfeited that money, but you didn't actually forfeit it back. So what do we do here? [00:00:53] Speaker A: Do you think that they finally get the NFL PA involved, which probably should have happened? [00:00:58] Speaker B: It [00:00:59] Speaker A: sounds like all this went down. [00:01:00] Speaker B: Do you think? Yeah, I'm, like, wondering what was. I'm very curious. Like, more of this will come out the mechanism, because, like, John lynch was, like, very glowing of Drew Rosenhaus. [00:01:12] Speaker A: To be fair. I've known Drew for a long time, having covered the Dolphins in Miami for a stretch and just being in that community where he's based, like, Drew's awesome to deal with. Like, he's great. Well, he hasn't returned my calls this week, but, like, I probably have the wrong number these days. I haven't reached. Drew's not like. Drew is. Drew's a charming sob, like, and not, like, in a malicious way. Like, he's a straight shooter. I like Drew a lot as an agent. He just has a real penchant for some characters on his roster, and I think. I think it gives him life. I mean, Tyree Kill and Brandon, I. [00:01:49] Speaker B: He's like, listen, if I can figure this one out. [00:01:52] Speaker A: Come on. Kind [00:01:53] Speaker B: of. This [00:01:53] Speaker A: agent game was too easy. Let's make it more confident. [00:01:56] Speaker B: I'm just curious, like, what the end game is here for both sides. Because. Because the 49ers, there's some weird cap ramifications that are unclear. Where they're, like, probably gonna have to eat a lot of money regardless, [00:02:07] Speaker A: right? [00:02:08] Speaker B: So they're like, if [00:02:09] Speaker A: he's well off stated, [00:02:10] Speaker B: right. If he's reinstated. [00:02:12] Speaker A: Well, I think that's. I think that's the thing. I think the Niners want this thing to drag out into the off season so that there's absolutely no ram. Or at least past the trade deadline, so that there's absolutely no ramifications whatsoever on this year. This team. They were. [00:02:26] Speaker B: Yeah, [00:02:27] Speaker A: they loved their situation where he was just hanging out, doing nothing, and they didn't have to pay him and he didn't count against the books now or ever. And they were just in this weird Kristaps Porzingis limbo. And they loved that situation. They do not love the current situation. I tweeted this out and people got after me on Twitter, the Everything app. X, of course, as if there [00:02:49] Speaker B: really is everything. [00:02:51] Speaker A: It really is everything. Idiots, losers, douchebags, deers. And people are like, I just merely described it as this is going to be a pain in the ass for the Niners. Because it is. It's just an annoying pain in the ass. There is no right, there is no wrong. It's just an annoying pain in the ass. And it's a pain in the ass because they didn't. They were in a perfect situation for them. There were no ramifications. They didn't have to deal with it. You know, send out your little videos, Brandon, if you want. Like, this was great and now they actually have to deal with it. And there, there's. They're going to deal with it, but the longer they can put off dealing with it, the more they stay in this weird state of limbo which is fiscally responsible for them and the longer they can negotiate it, the better maybe that fiscal situation can be. But if nothing else, it's just a pain in the ass. [00:03:44] Speaker B: I think they think they brought Parag back as a consultant for this one. [00:03:48] Speaker A: Yeah, this is Fly him in. [00:03:51] Speaker B: They're like, listen, he's, you know, he technically doesn't work for, for this organization anymore, but he's back. [00:03:57] Speaker A: I, I would, I would definitely fly in Parag from Glasgow or Leeds or wherever he is south of Spain, living a sexy beast lifestyle. Shout out. Sexy beast. Great movie. Where. Yeah, I would, I would fly him in. He's. He's never. [00:04:11] Speaker B: Yep. [00:04:12] Speaker A: He's never been better suited for anything in his life than this deep, strange, peculiar contractual situation. He was built for this. [00:04:23] Speaker B: Good for him. Yeah, I don't, I don't know how it resolves. I know it's going to get much weirder before it does get resolved. And I mean that's kind of how the whole situation has been. It also should be stated. [00:04:36] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:04:37] Speaker B: just to go back to like before this all started. What a strange player for this to be. The guy that just like blew up and everything got weird. Someone who just was like so completely under the radar in a discernible non issue, very well liked, seemingly pretty humble. Again, we don't actually interact with people day to day, so there's always stuff under the surface. But it was. It was not like people were like, yeah, Brandon. Like, that wasn't a thing. You know, like his teammates weren't like, yeah, I don't know about this guy. [00:05:06] Speaker A: Like, he was like a tough. He was like a tough person to get quotes out of. Right. I would have. I would have fairly long conversations with Brandon and they're entirely in a professional setting, but, like, he. Unassuming would be the word that I would use and very in his head about stuff. Just kept to himself, you know, not a lot of flash and muster. I. I don't know what changed. I. I really don't know what changed. Obviously there's. Am [00:05:32] Speaker B: I gonna, like, project what. What happened at all, but, like, it is. I just wanted to state that it is, like, still strange for this to be the guy that the saga happened with. [00:05:45] Speaker A: I keep getting myself into trouble with this. I just want to make sure that we're. We're have some ground rules laid out on this. I'm not going to say what the main rumor is, which is one that I believe. I'm not going to speak it out loud. I would. I take some silver lining in this recent little thing that they have going on here, that that situation is behind him and maybe he's back to being himself. That's all I'll say on the matter. [00:06:15] Speaker B: Yeah, just from this. Yeah, from the start, it was just like, pretty sad, [00:06:20] Speaker A: right? And very out of character, as I think you and I both thought. I think the night, to be fair, the Niners thought that too. I mean, you talk to some folks around the Niners, I'm like, what the fuck happened? Like, really? Of all. Of. All of all the people, he was low on the list. Not. Not the bottom, but low on the list for sure. [00:06:40] Speaker B: But [00:06:40] Speaker A: why do Shivers be weird? [00:06:42] Speaker B: They now have footage of him getting out of the van. Now my question is like, does he get arrested? Because there's literally a warrant out for. I know they won't. What a strange. Sorry. So strange. So strange. [00:06:58] Speaker A: If you get. If you get that video, I'm happy to. I'm happy to play it on the interwebs here on our [00:07:03] Speaker B: stream news. Bay Area has. We don't need [00:07:05] Speaker A: lively on the scene. [00:07:09] Speaker B: The chopper's got it [00:07:11] Speaker A: to the chopper. It is. [00:07:14] Speaker B: He's looking up at the chopper. Anyway, should we move on to the other issue at hand, which is. [00:07:19] Speaker A: I need to tell you. I need. One of the weirder NFL things that I've ever been a part of was when Peyton Manning, after his wife Needed steroids for a neck injury. Peyton Manning was doing his tour of NFL teams and he flew into Miami to go see the Dolphins. And obviously, I don't think that this is news to anybody who follows the NFL in any way. The Dolphins were and remain desperate for a quarterback. Not that Malik Willis has played poor, like, poorly or anything, but, like, they don't have their Caleb Williams in Chicago. Right. Which was another team that was just. Would give anything for a franchise level quarterback. And I think there were seven news choppers trailing Peyton Manning's white suv. And that was just a very weird day. And I'm pretty sure Peyton Manning wanted to go to the Dolphins, saw all that and was like, nope, we're not doing this. This is weird. This is weird. So. And yes to. To. To who? I believe the. The cheat. Cheat ripers the cheap. How do you pronounce that, Jake? [00:08:29] Speaker B: Cheat. Cheat. Rippers. [00:08:32] Speaker A: First off, welcome. I believe you're a new commenter and appreciate you joining us. White Bronco. Very white Bronco coated. That Peyton Manning Miami situation. I do not believe it was a white Bronco today. [00:08:43] Speaker B: Broncos very in now retro. [00:08:45] Speaker A: Very [00:08:46] Speaker B: bad. [00:08:46] Speaker A: I rented a Ford Bronco just in my travails and I'm like, yeah, everyone seems to like the Bronco. It seems like a kind of a nice car. Let me do it. That car sucks. Like, are [00:08:57] Speaker B: you driving the new version or the old school? [00:09:00] Speaker A: No, I would. I would kill for. [00:09:01] Speaker B: That's what I mean. [00:09:02] Speaker A: If I had unlimited money, I would. [00:09:05] Speaker B: They're really expensive. [00:09:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I would. It wouldn't be about the car itself. I would get an old. I would get an old pickup truck or an old Bronco or something, and I would electrify it. Like, that's my unlimited money plan. So that's the [00:09:18] Speaker B: thing. Here's the thing. People see Dieter and they think he's all grumpy, but actually his entire house runs on biofuels and he's got little windmills, little pinwheels in the front of his house that every. All the energy is just. It's wind power and peanut oil. [00:09:35] Speaker A: I. I would, I would. I make my own peanut butter now as a reference point. But you can get. You can get a huge tin of salted peanuts at Costco for $7. And you can get like, all you do is put it in a food processor. [00:09:50] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, [00:09:51] Speaker A: and you can get like 20 jars of peanut butter out of that thing. Or you can pay 14 for two jars of peanut butter at Costco. Listen, we got to play smarter, not harder, which is not The Tosh Lupoi way of things in Cal. I've said my piece. A video will probably be coming out as this one's still going on on my channel about Tosh. Oh, boy. I wanted it so bad and it's going so poorly. How about we talk about some football? [00:10:15] Speaker B: Yes. Or the guys who are not. The other guys who are not playing. [00:10:18] Speaker A: Christian Kirk. Yeah. Just Torres Meniscus or something. They're like, we [00:10:23] Speaker B: don't know if it needs surgery because we didn't ask because it's over. I don't. That's felt like what Kyle's saying. It kind of felt like they were maybe not out on trading for a wide receiver, but sort of like, do we really need one at this point with all the guys coming back? And now it's like, okay, yeah, it's. You need one. [00:10:45] Speaker A: Okay. We. I'm sorry. We are going to all do this together now. I. I appreciated all of that. We are going to watch Evan Webeck of the California Post, the Niners number one stakeout beat writer right now. We're gonna. I'm gonna pull up. We gotta open up some system settings. This is going poorly. Can I just send this to you and you post it and you put it up here? [00:11:08] Speaker B: Sure. [00:11:08] Speaker A: We're live. We're live streaming the live stream out of the live stream. Here we go. I can also just click a proper setting here. I'm using an Uber. Things are happening. I will not quit and reopen later. Okay, here we [00:11:21] Speaker B: go. You want me to stream the one minute video. [00:11:24] Speaker A: I want you to po. I want you to share your screen and to put the video that I just sent you up on the screen with audio. That's what I want. [00:11:32] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. [00:11:35] Speaker A: And we're gonna all watch what Brandon and I have not seen this. I have not heard this. We're all gonna find out what Brandon Iuk said. And Drew Rosenhaus probably more than [00:11:43] Speaker B: I think he just said he's healthy. [00:11:47] Speaker A: Are we going to go with that? [00:11:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay, let me see. Let me see. [00:11:55] Speaker A: Just present her invite. It's a big button. Okay. In the meantime. [00:12:00] Speaker B: Here we go. [00:12:01] Speaker A: All right. I will add this to the screen. Okay. [00:12:06] Speaker B: Is this working? [00:12:08] Speaker A: Give [00:12:08] Speaker B: me. This is terrible. This is [00:12:10] Speaker A: terrible [00:12:10] Speaker B: content. [00:12:11] Speaker A: This is janky. Yeah. Just hit it. Hit a play. Hit the play button. Do Harrison Riches. Who's Harrison Rich, by the way? I've never seen that. We get nothing. Okay. [00:12:22] Speaker B: This is terrible content. We're done with this. [00:12:24] Speaker A: That good try everybody [00:12:28] Speaker B: try [00:12:30] Speaker A: probably on me. Probably should have prepared. Should have known that the content was coming and that I would need to post it. I think [00:12:37] Speaker B: he just said he's healthy. They didn't really say much. [00:12:44] Speaker A: Whole situation's a big hot mess and it has no practical. Has no practical bearing on anything the Niners are doing week to week. Anyone? Here's another one. We have a long list of these at this point. Anyone who's like, you know, the Niners might actually play Brandon Iuk because they're down wide receivers. Those people should be blocked and reported. That's just idiotic. Absolutely. [00:13:10] Speaker B: Also like, it's also like for literally any team. Like, let's just say all of this contract stuff was solved. Like hypothetically, let's say like they solve it right now, today, all of it gets solved. He gets reinstated to the NFL. The idea that he's like going to be available and ready to play a football game for any team within the [00:13:29] Speaker A: span of a [00:13:29] Speaker B: month. [00:13:30] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:13:32] Speaker B: like, I don't care if he's healthy. Like, it's just. He hasn't even been around any facility. That's. Yeah, [00:13:39] Speaker A: it's. It's really a tragic tale, but it's so chaotic and stupid right now that it's hard to really take that into full account because just a. A confederacy of. Of dunces happening there. Let's talk about the Raiders, who probably would have been all over Brandon Iuk under previous regimes but now are. Are trending towards competence. Jake, is that a fair way to. To put it? [00:14:02] Speaker B: I would say they are tre competence. I would say if Mendoza plays the second half of this season and turns out to be pretty good, they could compete for their division next year. I think it's very much on the table. I think what will be interesting to see going forward is like, can they add an actual other wide receiver? I mean they. I like Trey Tucker. I like Jalen Naylor. But like they. Brock Bowers is their wide receiver one and to an extent that works. But like functionally I think you still need another guy who can maybe play X. I mean maybe this just works. Maybe Bowers just is that guy and you can move him around to do whatever you want with him because he is so special. But I still think they need that. I also think defense still has a lot of question marks. [00:14:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:55] Speaker B: Is really susceptible. I don't actually think. I like. They have a lot of pieces I like but I still think it's. [00:15:02] Speaker A: On the whole, it's pretty rough goings and they've been giving up 30 something every game for the last couple of games [00:15:08] Speaker B: and The O line they invested in and still looks good. [00:15:11] Speaker A: Well, it's a one way O line and we'll get into all that. On the wide receiver thing, I'm interested about Jack Besh, the wide receiver, I believe. Tcu, if I'm remembering correctly, they use him as [00:15:22] Speaker B: an athlete. Yeah. Shrine bowl favorite of many. [00:15:25] Speaker A: Big, big Shrine guy. Big fan of the feds. [00:15:28] Speaker B: Or maybe he's a Senior Bowl. Senior Bowl. [00:15:30] Speaker A: Okay. I just love using the. We just love the Shrine bowl so much. We just presume all good players come from the Shrine Bowl. Besh was not my favorite prospect coming out, but he was a. He was an idiosyncratic prospect in the sense of you could see a role where he'd be really good. And that role is. And again, I don't mean to overstate this really shitty Puka. Nakua is the role. [00:15:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:59] Speaker A: Where you use him as like a lead blocker in. You know, they don't really do a lot of insert blocking or anything like that. Power slot, you know, tight to the line, just big body. And then he does have. He does have an uncanny knack. You. You can't call it wiggle, but he's got a knack, which is I think what they would refer to as good route running. [00:16:20] Speaker B: He's a crafty player. I like. Yeah, yeah. I. He's hard not to like. He was not like my favorite prospect, but there's like. He is. He's pretty physical. Like he. I think he's a pretty good jump ball player. [00:16:36] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:16:37] Speaker B: he's. I feel like struggle with a lot of injuries, but I think. I think that is like a pretty fair comp for him. It's an interesting team. I think it's really interesting that like they drafted this running back really high and like can't use him as a running back. [00:16:51] Speaker A: That doesn't surprise me. I believe I had him fourth in the running back class that year. It's so funny what happens when you actually watch him play at Boise State, which by the way, it's not as if Boise State. Some scrubs. [00:17:04] Speaker B: He also doesn't seem healthy, which is both parts. Like, because he's like objectively, I think Nate Tice was on this like the second slowest running back in the NFL this season. [00:17:15] Speaker A: He always has [00:17:16] Speaker B: like, he had that ankle injury early on and so like he wasn't a guy that was like testing off the charts to begin with. And so you add that he's just objectively slow. [00:17:25] Speaker A: My stance, having watched him now. And I appreciate the Raiders and just Basically giving up on him in last week's game. So it made it a lot easier to get through the other two games. [00:17:37] Speaker B: He's like a third down back now. He's like, receiving. Then they're like, they're good. We're not going to run it if he's in the game. [00:17:42] Speaker A: Correct. I think he was on the play for five running plays against the Jets. He only touched the ball on two of them. The other three were Kirk Cousins. Quarterback [00:17:53] Speaker B: Mike Washington ran it 25 times, I think. [00:17:55] Speaker A: Yeah, Mike Washington. Mike Washington had 25 carries and 60% of the snaps last week. Washington was an interesting prospect. I think we both agreed that he had a. We didn't like it. [00:18:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:06] Speaker A: Because we were watching Arkansas. But the skill set indicated. Because he could really scoot in the open field. You go right. He. If he does have the feel he could be a really good outside zone runner and kind of a Raheem Mostert model. [00:18:18] Speaker B: If he gets the edge, he's, like, gone and very hard to tackle. Well, he's actually not that hard to tackle. He goes down easier than he should for a guy that big. [00:18:26] Speaker A: But that's. That's a frustration in college, in the NFL. It's obvious. [00:18:30] Speaker B: He's got Poppy, he's got pop, which was, like, undeniable. I just didn't think, like he navigated space or read things all that well. [00:18:38] Speaker A: And he still doesn't, by the way. He's. He's been a nice player for them. He was really good in the preseason. And he. He is the better of the [00:18:46] Speaker B: two. [00:18:49] Speaker A: He's the better of the two running backs for the Raiders right now [00:18:51] Speaker B: for sure. [00:18:52] Speaker A: But I think that that has mostly to do with Clint Kubiak, shocker of all shocks, wanting to run outside zone and not a bunch of gap stuff. And Ashton Genti is not an outside zone back. He never was. I know that you'll. A lot of people will point out, oh, in college, he was unbelievable on outside zone. If you had Boise State's offensive line and you were playing Nevada every week, you would look great on outside zone, too. [00:19:17] Speaker B: He's also just exceptional, like breaking tackles. [00:19:20] Speaker A: That's his entire shtick. His shtick was I break tackles. I see the hole hit the hole design plays, interior runner, can't bring them down. A lot of that stuff just doesn't translate at the NFL level. I mean, it does against some teams, but it shouldn't against the 49ers. And then Washington does have that sort of ability to ride the wave and then hit It. But goes down easy, as you noted. So their run game is. Is bad. It's a bad. [00:19:49] Speaker B: It's. It's one of the rare matchups where it's just like, good run game, bad run defense, bad run game, good run defense. And I know the calling the 49ers a good run defense can be questionable because it's very hit or miss, but they've been pretty good. [00:20:06] Speaker A: They've been fine. [00:20:07] Speaker B: They've [00:20:07] Speaker A: been good. [00:20:08] Speaker B: I would argue. [00:20:08] Speaker A: Well, this is not the week. Well, I. I'm of two camps here because obviously Kubiak knows the 49ers extremely well. Right. Does not know Raheem. Right. Like, wasn't in the building with him, wasn't going up against him in practice. But, like, if you've been around the 49ers, you now have tangential understanding of the full Kyle Shanahan cinematic universe, and Raheem has always been part of that. So I wonder. I wonder if this is the week where the Raiders, who are a team that's trying to establish something and set baselines and foundations, I wonder if they get pragmatic and go away from that and say, we're running duo. Every damn play with Genti or Washington doesn't really matter. But we're running, dude. [00:20:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:54] Speaker A: Because that is still the susceptibility here. And we will see if DeForest Buckner changes that at all. I would imagine [00:21:01] Speaker B: they have been less susceptible because of the weird split. I've been like, I finally started tracking exactly which techniques. [00:21:08] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:21:08] Speaker B: they're running. And it's like, they're running a lot of, like, two i4 I like, stacked on top of top of each other and then a wider guy there. It's. It's a lot of weird stuff. [00:21:18] Speaker A: Loading a gap they're doing. [00:21:19] Speaker B: But then. [00:21:19] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:21:20] Speaker B: but then the other part of that, like you're saying, is, like, it opens up a potential. Like, the other side is very vulnerable. But they're sort of what they're doing in that mold is trying to trust, like, Fred and Warner or Fred and Greenlaw to fill and, like, solve those issues. [00:21:35] Speaker A: Which. Yeah, I mean, that. That's. That's a predication of. Of. Of any. Any defense that has Fred Warner on it in general, which is just get it to the second level, and the second level will take care of it. But then it's also Raheem Morris being a very aggressive play caller, but in kind of that, you know, specific way, which is, we think this is coming. We're going to overload it. Right there. And we don't believe that you'll counter is the four week that is taking over the NFL right now, which is attacking protections. And just saying you can't possibly block all of these people on one side when you're lined up that way. Which again comes back to one of the points I've been making again and again, like offense have rules about where you can line up and how you can line up. You can do whatever the hell you want on defense. [00:22:24] Speaker B: By the [00:22:24] Speaker A: way, did you stand [00:22:25] Speaker B: any Falcons last week? They. They did an interesting thing where they stacked like four offensive linemen to the left. [00:22:32] Speaker A: Yes. [00:22:33] Speaker B: And I was like tracking the gaps and I was like, is this. Technically, it's like, what, what gap is this? Like what alignment is [00:22:39] Speaker A: that? Because they [00:22:41] Speaker B: had like the right tackle is right guard and they didn't have a right tackle, they just replaced it with a tight end. [00:22:46] Speaker A: Yeah, I, I wouldn't be shocked. I don't think that they're inventing anything here because you see this a little bit at the collegiate level, especially with like direct snaps and stuff. Like Chip Kelly's getting into some weird stuff at Northwestern right now, which is really actually fun to watch. Which I hate to say because I don't care for Northwestern, but I wouldn't be shocked if in, not next year, but in two or three years, we start seeing more off balance lines. And instead of loading up with a tight end with tight ends on one end of the line, you just fundamentally shift positions on the line and then go into heavy personnel on top of that to create like an eight man line but just overload the left side. [00:23:28] Speaker B: The Bears have been doing some weird stuff with tight ends where they drop like two is in sort of like offset fullback positions. [00:23:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:34] Speaker B: And then they move them together. [00:23:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:37] Speaker B: It's funny because sometimes you watch stuff like that and you're like, is that good scheme or is that just fun to try? [00:23:43] Speaker A: Well, with Ben Johnson, you know, the answer is probably both at the same Porque no los dose, but [00:23:48] Speaker B: right. [00:23:48] Speaker A: Mostly the latter. Ben Johnson does get a little high on his own supply. He's [00:23:52] Speaker B: like, we're throwing it to number 73. This is our eighth string right guard and he's getting the ball. I don't care. It's a key situation. He has to get the ball. [00:24:02] Speaker A: I'll never make NFL prime time if we don't do this. It's like, yeah, he lives for the talks. Just need [00:24:09] Speaker B: respect it. [00:24:10] Speaker A: I respect [00:24:10] Speaker B: it. [00:24:11] Speaker A: Listen, if it works, it's awesome. If it doesn't Work. You're a moron. So I appreciate someone who's willing to put it on the line. I don't think. I don't think that the Raiders are going to put it on the line. I think the Raiders are getting more simplistic as the season has gone on. [00:24:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Tank Kirk, you think he's trying to. [00:24:31] Speaker A: I don't. I don't. So you. We talked about the offensive line earlier. Like, the offensive line can't run block worth a damn, but it can protect pretty well. Like, it's done a pretty good job. And Kirk gets the ball out pretty fast. He's pretty. Sometimes. [00:24:44] Speaker B: And then sometimes he really holds on to it. Like, he's like, getting it out, getting it out. And then he's like, I'm gonna hold it for eight seconds and take a sack here. [00:24:51] Speaker A: Yeah. But he's only been sacked, I think, like, four times in the last three weeks, which is actually kind of a lot now that I say it out loud. But for a guy who can't, I think they [00:25:00] Speaker B: will get home quite a few times. [00:25:02] Speaker A: I think so, too. I do think that there will be some intermediate to deep hits, though. Again. [00:25:09] Speaker B: I agree. I agree. I. I've got a couple predictions that we. [00:25:14] Speaker A: I would. I would love to hear them. [00:25:17] Speaker B: All right, let's start. Let's go with tame lame into interesting one. Siegel gets mixed back in [00:25:27] Speaker A: you. Yeah, that's 100% correct. And I hate it already. [00:25:31] Speaker B: He's going to get like 12 defensive snaps. [00:25:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, third series of the game. They're secret. Mustafa quarter. [00:25:38] Speaker B: They're going to take Mustafa out. It's going to look disjointed. They won't move Jair out. Or they'll try a couple big nickel stuff. I don't know. [00:25:49] Speaker A: That's. But [00:25:49] Speaker B: it won't be what we want. It won't [00:25:51] Speaker A: be what [00:25:51] Speaker B: we want. [00:25:52] Speaker A: They'll never give us what we want. I [00:25:54] Speaker B: don't understand why. [00:25:55] Speaker A: It's like a tantric thing. And [00:25:56] Speaker B: of course, because I'm not there. No. No one can ask the right questions. Like, no one's asked about Conor Colby. Trick. Check the transcripts. No one's asking about it. [00:26:04] Speaker A: Because what's the alternative? I mean, the alternative is. The [00:26:08] Speaker B: alternative is Carver Willis, which is. I'm not saying that's a better alternative. I'm just saying it's reached the point. Let me just say this. Yeah. He's objectively a bad player. I'm not even trying to be funny. I [00:26:21] Speaker A: know you're not like. And [00:26:22] Speaker B: he's Objectively a bad player, and [00:26:24] Speaker A: you're not the hot takes guy. So I [00:26:26] Speaker B: watched. I just watched. He gets torched in a way that like no other 49ers offensive lineman does, by the way, Dom Puni. Hey, [00:26:35] Speaker A: it's been a little shaky at times, [00:26:37] Speaker B: but, like, legitimately, you see many times where they. You see Brendel, as the game goes, going, okay, well, I actually have to ignore what this calls for and try and help. And even when he does try and help, he gets beat so quick. One side. You also see that many times where Brendel or Trent will be like, okay, he's going to be there, and then he's looking in the wrong direction. In addition to that, he's just getting beaten straight up and he's on the ground at a rate of like 3 to 1 to every other offensive lineman. He's bad. [00:27:09] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:27:09] Speaker B: he's objectively a bad player. Is Carver Willis better? I don't know. They would know better than I am. I would. My prediction is that he and Carver Willis have some sort of rotation, that they get Carver Willis in the mix. That's based on nothing. [00:27:23] Speaker A: In this case, [00:27:23] Speaker B: week. [00:27:24] Speaker A: That's [00:27:24] Speaker B: based on nothing. That is based on no intel whatsoever. And there's a probably I'm wrong. Let's just say that they probably just stick with it. That's the most likely scenario. But my prediction is that Willis gets some time. [00:27:42] Speaker A: I would try to get Willis in as soon as possible. Along the lines of, you have Dallas, which is not a good defense, but does have some beef up front. [00:27:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:52] Speaker A: And then the Vikings and the Seahawks after that. If. If Connor Colby is going to lose them a game, I'm looking at two right here, November 22, November 29, where we will just leave one of those games and be like, why'd they lose? Well, there's a million. No, it was. It was Connor Colby. They lost because of Connor Colby. [00:28:13] Speaker B: Yeah. And I know I've said this before, like, I'm not trying to do a shtick. He's just objectively a bad player. [00:28:19] Speaker A: You're having to watch it. I mean, I. I feel. I feel your pain of having to watch it. You want to see people succeed. You don't want to watch bad football. [00:28:25] Speaker B: And it's not to say there are zero good things. He, like, he doesn't do any good things. There are [00:28:29] Speaker A: times [00:28:30] Speaker B: he does stuff well in the run game. He can get to the second level because he's athletic. Right. He's tested well. That was like. The whole thing is like, he's a guy that can move in space. He just is so keen to like lean and get off balance and end up on the floor. And it happens again and again and he misses play calls and he does the wrong thing far too often. He's just a bad player. [00:28:54] Speaker A: Can I give a tame prediction? [00:28:55] Speaker B: Sure. [00:28:56] Speaker A: It comes down to third downs, Jake. Third downs are going to decide this game because the Raiders have gone 17 of their last 37 on third down, which isn't great, but like against the [00:29:10] Speaker B: Rams, [00:29:11] Speaker A: it's okay. They were really good against Buffalo. 7:12 on third down last week. Against the Jets, 7 of 11 on third down, they're not rocking a lot of third and shorts. It's a lot of third and intermediates. When they played the Rams, the Rams ran all over them and they stopped him on third down and the Rams had no problem in that game. 3 of 14 on third down. Now they did go to a five on. On fourth, but still the point stands. Raiders have actually been plus in the turnover margin over the last couple of weeks. They've only lost one turnover in the last three weeks. They're still giving up 30 something points. [00:29:45] Speaker B: They haven't forced a ton of turnovers. [00:29:47] Speaker A: They've only. They gotten three. They've gotten three in the last. So they were plus two against the Rams. They were plus one against the jets. And again, so it really just comes down to third down. But when you go through it, I mean just quickly, you know, they lost 33 to 30 to Buffalo, whose defense is abysmal. [00:30:04] Speaker B: They [00:30:05] Speaker A: lost 35 to 21 to the, to the Rams. The Rams. The Rams. Oh my God. What, what they did to them in the run game. They just ran duo at him again and again and again. They went for over 200 yards. And then the jets and the Raiders in a mid off 38, 33. But again they're doing this with the turnover margin. So it really just. If the Niners. I don't know where the turnovers are going to go. No one ever does unless Sam Darnold's your quarterback. If the Niners can win on defense on third down. Oh, big, big statement. This, this has a chance to be a total blowout in my estimation. Even with the receiver issues at this team. [00:30:43] Speaker B: Even with. Yeah, I mean they should be able to run the ball really, really effectively. I think McCaffrey, like we haven't talked about that like as a hamstring. [00:30:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean it happened in the Atlanta game, [00:30:58] Speaker B: should be okay. But like [00:31:00] Speaker A: so he claims. [00:31:03] Speaker B: Here's the thing with McCaffrey, it's like, oh, it's fine. And then he's out for the year. We'll see. It should. They should be able to run the ball effectively. It's just not a good unit. The Raiders also just, like, it's Max Crosby, and then no one else really gets home. It's just. And they don't. Don't blitz a ton. They're effective when they do blitz, but, like, they just don't have a lot to bring to get home. [00:31:27] Speaker A: They also just will play too high at all times no matter what. Like, they will just never bring an eighth man into the box. They will never sell out to sell the run. They're. Yeah, they're just getting. They're just getting wrecked in the run game. [00:31:40] Speaker B: But again, as Luis mentions, like, no, Evans is still massive. Like, they've been terrible on offense without Mike Evans, and that will present some problems. I just think the 49ers will be able to run the ball so effectively, even if McCaffrey is, like, coming out. [00:31:57] Speaker A: I think Kayla, after [00:31:58] Speaker B: every three [00:31:59] Speaker A: plays, 30 carries would. Would make this work. I [00:32:02] Speaker B: think the lanes will be clean even for Black. [00:32:05] Speaker A: Just. And [00:32:05] Speaker B: I think Black needs, like, one game where he gets going to be like, all right. I actually have a feel for this. Now, [00:32:10] Speaker A: just for reference here, Week 7 against the Rams, 35 carries against 202 yards. Kyron Williams had 16 for 99. Blake Corum had 17 for 93. It's like a college football line. And then last week against the jets, they allowed 6.15 yards per carry, 27 carries, 166 yards. Braylon Allen had 147 on 21 attempts at 7 per. Not [00:32:34] Speaker B: great. [00:32:34] Speaker A: Basically, they're good for a point for every 10 carries lately. [00:32:41] Speaker B: That's tough. That's tough. [00:32:43] Speaker A: You're not gonna. You're not gonna get it there. And yeah, you mentioned the blitzing. Like, they're blitzing less than a third of the time. 5, 5 plus fast rushers less than a third of a time. Totally dependent on, you know, down in distance and stuff. This is, again, everything about this team says. We're trying to set baselines and standards and foundations to build off of when we have more talent because we have enough talent to set the baselines. [00:33:08] Speaker B: They're like, here's what. Here's our theoretical outline of what we want to be as a team. [00:33:12] Speaker A: Yeah, they're not doing what Miami [00:33:15] Speaker B: run the ball on second long so goddamn often. It drives me crazy. [00:33:18] Speaker A: Well, it's what the defense has given them. I I've never been the biggest Clint fan. I do think that he does some really interesting stuff in the past game to play on. He'll play on coverage rules and he'll put in a route that's not part of traditional set and he'll throw, you know, mix two together with some alchemy and defenses don't know what to do with that. He was really good with that last year late with the Seahawks where it's like, oh, you thought this was a dagger out. Actually, he's running a corner and it's like. But when you're set up in a certain way, it really burns you. This team can get that done, but it's really hard when you don't run the ball and you're constantly behind the chains and you have someone who can't extend plays. And I could keep going with the issues, but he. He's not doing what like Jeff Halfley's doing in Miami, which is like, we're just gonna throw a bunch of on the wall and see what sticks. Like, they're not doing cool stuff. [00:34:18] Speaker B: Agreed. I will say you mentioned hits over the middle. I do think Naylor has run some really nice routes and he does a good job of stacking one side of the field up. The defenses account for it and an open stuff over the middle for some of those hitters, I think they're going to get a few. And I also think Fred, in a similar way to Daniels, the Falcons get to pick in the same way where he sort of flashes a blitz and then drops back where they're looking for something over the middle. Maybe for Mayor or for Naylor. Yeah, I think that's [00:34:49] Speaker A: going [00:34:49] Speaker B: to like [00:34:50] Speaker A: 100% [00:34:51] Speaker B: laser focus and Fred's gonna get one. [00:34:53] Speaker A: Well, and I, I do think that both offenses are going to be running like, you know, Kyle week one install. Also, [00:35:00] Speaker B: Mayer's awesome [00:35:01] Speaker A: mayor is a good player. They have two very, very good tight ends. [00:35:04] Speaker B: Yeah, one. Yeah. One. 1.5 tight ends. Brock is barely a tight end at this point. [00:35:11] Speaker A: He's. He's something. [00:35:12] Speaker B: He's incredible, but he's barely a tight end. [00:35:15] Speaker A: I. I do want to say, David, I want to see them use James. I do, too. I don't think we're seeing James again. [00:35:21] Speaker B: No. [00:35:22] Speaker A: The fumble. I, I don't. I don't agree with this, but we know how Kyle acts on this thing and yeah, in general, my, my. Really, my only concern is because I really think that the Niners defense can line up really well against this team. I think having the Exact combo that they have at corner helps. Where Lenore wants to be more physical, you try to get him on Besh as often as possible if Besh is in there. Otherwise, you have two guys who really aren't going to press or push you around. So that's good. Renardo Green territory. Just stay athleticism for athleticism. [00:35:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:57] Speaker A: Obviously, all the concerns we had coming out of the Atlanta game going into the Atlanta game about safety persist. But Buckner. How many snaps do you think Buckner plays? I'm going to set the over under at 14 and a half. [00:36:09] Speaker B: Oh, I think more for sure. [00:36:11] Speaker A: You think that he. That's just hit the ground running. [00:36:13] Speaker B: I think it's 25, 30. [00:36:15] Speaker A: Okay. [00:36:15] Speaker B: I think it's not a full, like every down player, but, like, a lot. I also wonder if they have sort of a Jair deep alert. If they say, okay, we've got like an alignment or it's. Or, you know, Mustafa rotates in the box. [00:36:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:35] Speaker B: Which is rare because they're mostly just having Jair go in the box. But if they're like, all right, Jair's single high, do they have a Trey Tucker alert and say nine right at him? Just test him. Because that's what I would do. [00:36:48] Speaker A: That's what I would do, too. But again, I don't think that Kubiak is in a position to be doing pragmatic [00:36:57] Speaker B: for sure. [00:36:58] Speaker A: Mixing stuff up. I haven't. I have. I haven't seen it on the tape yet. Maybe this is the week it all breaks through. Probably not. And then [00:37:07] Speaker B: send him back to Minnesota, baby. [00:37:11] Speaker A: We'll see. We'll see. With Carson Wentz this weekend. If Carson Wentz goes and shits the bed. [00:37:15] Speaker B: The saw this. This. This soft benching of Kyler. That's never a soft benching. It's just a benching. It's like, oh, he's hurt [00:37:21] Speaker A: the soft forever. [00:37:22] Speaker B: Like, come [00:37:23] Speaker A: on. Yeah, it wouldn't hurt. I also think that the Eagles would be a really nice spot for Kirk. And I think I've mentioned this before in that. That division's so crappy that if you can, like, just win one game, you're, like, back in it. [00:37:39] Speaker B: Also, the amount of, like, shock that would, you know, enter the Eagles veins for a quarterback who throws the ball over the middle. They're like, whoa, we didn't know this was possible. [00:37:49] Speaker A: Makai [00:37:50] Speaker B: Lemon Stock just goes through the roof. [00:37:52] Speaker A: I literally hold Makai Lemon Stock simply on that basis of they have to find somebody who could throw it. Like, they got Sean Manion all he does is throw it over the middle. [00:38:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:01] Speaker A: Like, yeah, I think there are a lot of teams that, that should be interested in Kirk and. Yeah, we'll, we'll leave it at that. We'll have a lot, a lot to say before the trade deadline. Just really quick, once again, to list out the injury report. Mike Evans is out. Never even suggested that he would play in this game. Such fun time. [00:38:21] Speaker B: He's out next week, too, clearly. [00:38:23] Speaker A: Yeah, just [00:38:25] Speaker B: so, like, he's not going to practice for another two weeks. Well, maybe he's, he's out for the. Until December. [00:38:31] Speaker A: Well, next, next week, by the way, is turf in Dallas, so he's definitely not. [00:38:35] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:38:36] Speaker A: And then Mexico City. I don't know. How's his passport? And then Seattle after that. I, I, I would, if I had to wager a guess right now, I'd say that he's back for Seattle, though they would probably really need him back against Minnesota, where you just need to kind of throw it up there and hope someone catches [00:38:55] Speaker B: it. Yeah, that looks like a rough, rough matchup. [00:38:59] Speaker A: That game might set football back some ways, but be really fun to watch. [00:39:05] Speaker B: Origami. It might be a [00:39:07] Speaker A: one. Nothing. [00:39:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:09] Speaker A: How is that possible? Mexico, I don't know, man. Dosa, Cero, [00:39:14] Speaker B: they just, they just, they're like, listen, we're, we're actually not playing with a football. We're just going to have a soccer ball out there and we're going to have them actually play soccer. [00:39:23] Speaker A: Third down, punts. That's all I want. Debo's out with the hamstring, which the optimism on Debo's hamstring that persisted, like, coming out of, like going into the buy, I found strange, seeing as he thought he died. [00:39:37] Speaker B: The initial timeline was like, he's going to be out a while. And they're like, yeah, he's, they're like, oh, just nevermind. No, we got too excited. [00:39:44] Speaker A: No. And then Christian Kirk with his knee, it's just slowly moving up. They have to stop this before it gets too high because next would be growing. It's, it's, it's brutal. [00:39:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Do you, do you think they make a trade for a wide receiver? And if so, who would, who would it be? [00:40:02] Speaker A: I don't think they make a trade for a wide receiver, but I think I haven't been in this mind space. A little bit like a Calvin Ridley, I think would make sense for them. [00:40:17] Speaker B: The most popular name would be Garrett Wilson. Garrett [00:40:20] Speaker A: Wilson's not available. I do not know how to express this. Any clearer to anyone else? I'm going to. You don't have to take me seriously. But like, seriously, how many times do I have to say this? This is not baseless conjecture. He's not available. Every team in the NFL has called the jets and asked them who's available. [00:40:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:47] Speaker A: And Garrett Wilson's not. You know why? Because they are going to have three top 10 picks and they're going to pool two of them together and go draft a quarterback. And you know, it would be really nice to have. If you're drafting a quarterback, especially with the team that clearly is just a quarterback and a head coach away, the rest of the team's actually not that bad. You should probably have Garrett Wilson on your team for your rookie receiver or for your rookie quarterback to throw the ball to. Like. [00:41:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Now, okay, the more reasonable one that will be suggested, Josh Downs. [00:41:22] Speaker A: Is that terribly reasonable? I [00:41:25] Speaker B: don't know what it would like, what it. It's hard to assess like what his trade value is, but like, they don't have a fourth, so it'd have to be a third. [00:41:33] Speaker A: I, I don't, I don't think that they can afford him. [00:41:37] Speaker B: I would, Yeah. I would also guess that like, other teams outbid him, which is also why they probably went for Juwan. They're like, that's the right price. [00:41:44] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't, I don't think that there. I just don't know that there [00:41:48] Speaker B: will be like the right price. But I also think they're going to be in a situation where it's like they just don't have the dudes. Like, if they lose to the Raiders, which is like absolutely possible. I don't think it will happen, but absolutely possible. [00:42:03] Speaker A: He's. The way that I view Downs is that he is everything they ever thought in the best case scenario that Jacob cowing could be. [00:42:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:12] Speaker A: Which. Yeah. Hell yeah. Like, listen, if someone's like, hey, we're gonna get Josh Downs. I was about to say, Caleb, that would have. I would have passed out with glee. But we're gonna go get Josh Downs. Like, hell yeah. Fine. Yeah. I don't care. Like any of my draft picks. That's one less thing. Josh [00:42:29] Speaker B: Downs. I also think given like what this team needs, the. They need like a receiver with size. I know that's like a very football man. Hey, they need a big guy. Like, go get a big receiver. But like, they really genuinely do. [00:42:41] Speaker A: What evidence is there that they need a big bodied receiver this year? I mean, what have we seen that's given them Given anyone the indication that they need someone who can just throw a 50. 50 ball to. What have we seen in the last two years that in any way indicates that? Jake, Sorry, I was told that we need more conflict on the [00:42:57] Speaker B: channel. I wish, I wish I [00:42:59] Speaker A: just yell shut the fuck up directly into a microphone [00:43:01] Speaker B: probably. I wish they had Dejan stribling. I would. I would like to see him. [00:43:05] Speaker A: But they're good. They're getting drop back and that is. [00:43:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:11] Speaker A: Now. Now [00:43:11] Speaker B: kind of huge. It's kind of. [00:43:13] Speaker A: Yeah. The fact, the fact that that's kind of huge is not a great sign. They should have stribling back. I folks that I've talked to in the last, let's say 10 days felt better about it than they did. Like, there's like a world of possibility there. Whereas before they were like, I just don't. And that might have just been the natural process of healing. I think [00:43:34] Speaker B: it's just when somebody's like in a boot for like months, it ne. It's like, oh, he'll never play again. And then you're like, oh, he's out of the boot. He's back. [00:43:42] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:43:42] Speaker B: it's just the human [00:43:43] Speaker A: nature, like visual progress helps in. In terms of finding optimism. But then, you know, Debo will be back and Mike Evans will show up for a week or two and then go away again because body be old. [00:43:59] Speaker B: It's like, is he going to get better by resting? [00:44:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, unless he's getting a full off season, it does seem like all of his injuries are like he's going to need an off season. [00:44:10] Speaker B: Just put him in the hyperbaric tank. [00:44:13] Speaker A: I. I'm [00:44:13] Speaker B: gonna extreme. [00:44:14] Speaker A: I'm going to continue to maintain my stance that the answer isn't wide receiver, that the answer is to find a good third tight end. [00:44:21] Speaker B: I just don't think they'll do that. [00:44:22] Speaker A: I know that they won't, but. [00:44:23] Speaker B: Right. I don't. I don't disagree with you. [00:44:26] Speaker A: That doesn't mean [00:44:26] Speaker B: I think it's a great. [00:44:27] Speaker A: Right. Like, [00:44:29] Speaker B: I also think it's much easier to find [00:44:31] Speaker A: and cheaper. In general though, Doogie Howser GM is trying to make that untrue in the same way Nick Casserio is trying to turn wide receivers into the only currency like there is. Again, Kyle. Kyle is an offensive genius. No one does game planning better, all this stuff. But he is not a big ideas guy. And he always has a big ideas guy or somebody who, you know, does the big ideas for him, whether it be Mike McDaniel or lately Brian Flurry. I, I guess it would be Clay now. How's that going? I, I. Because I don't. I don't know. I asked around. No one could really give me a name. [00:45:15] Speaker B: Right. Mike will be back soon enough. [00:45:18] Speaker A: Yeah. I think they're just. I think, yeah. As a consultant and then. Which [00:45:22] Speaker B: is funny because it's like, I'm not. I'm not going to defend how that season has gone, but I don't, like, it's hard for me to fully blame McDaniel. I know he deserves a lot of the blame. [00:45:36] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:45:37] Speaker B: But it's like, there are a lot of injuries and it's also not an easy scheme to pick up. And it doesn't feel like [00:45:46] Speaker A: his. His mistake was not. His mistake was not [00:45:51] Speaker B: dumbing down, being pragmatic enough. He was too idealistic about what they could achieve. [00:45:56] Speaker A: Well, and all of the players were wrong. They built a bully ball football team. And then he's like, we're going to beat him with speed. And it's like, okay, A Marion Hampton can't run that way. He's in the genty class of, I can really only do gap stuff, but, like, oh, I'll pull away. So you think I'm a outside zoner. No. He doesn't have feel. He doesn't have vision. He doesn't have that ability to put the ground in his foot and go, or foot in the ground and go. And then like a Ronde Gadsden doesn't work. Or Ronda Gadsden was a fun player when you had a bully ball team because he was like a weird changeup. [00:46:32] Speaker B: What if they go get your boy? The Chargers lose another game and they say, all right, we'll trade. We'll trade you your sweet boy. [00:46:38] Speaker A: I don't think that they'll do it on the basis of they just paid them. And I certainly don't think the [00:46:43] Speaker B: Niners. I'm with you. It's like eating a ton of money. It doesn't matter. [00:46:46] Speaker A: They're not going to take. There's not a lot of great deals. [00:46:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:49] Speaker A: They kind of need an expiring contract. I mean, they need somebody who's on the way out. And again, I just come to tight end. And the point I was trying to make before I got ridiculously off the rails, as per usual, is last year McVeigh ran out of receivers and he's like, we do tight ends now. That's all we do. [00:47:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:08] Speaker A: In the same way that, you know, when the price of beef was too high at McDonald's. They're like, we're all chicken. I don't know why anyone has ever said that. We did hamburgers. We do chicken here. [00:47:16] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:47:17] Speaker A: And then the price of beef went down again. And they're like, I don't know what you were talking about with the chicken. It's it. And they did it. And then everyone's like, oh, the future of football. And it's like, no, he just made the, he made. Pardon the, you know, recent punt here. Like, [00:47:30] Speaker B: you should just go get Mo Ali Cox or [00:47:32] Speaker A: Correct [00:47:32] Speaker B: Andrew Rogel Tree. Just. I [00:47:34] Speaker A: think, I think they should get Ian Thomas off of the race. [00:47:38] Speaker B: Johnny Mund. [00:47:39] Speaker A: Ooh, don't, don't tease me with a good Johnny Mont time. [00:47:42] Speaker B: Just go get a 33 year old who's a big guy. [00:47:45] Speaker A: What about, what about John Bates from Washington? That'd be. [00:47:48] Speaker B: Of course, yes. Obviously you could mention almost any name to me, [00:47:52] Speaker A: any tight end. I, I, and I think that it would. Fiscally, it's imprudent, but I do think that, you know, maybe a tight end, because you have to pick one or the other you can because you're now going to define Luke Farrell's role a little bit more and you're going to define George Kittle's role a little bit more. So you have to go and get just a big hulking blocking tight end. Or you got to go get a wiggle boy. You got to go get your second tonjas. Or you can go get your Mo Ali Cox. The answer is Mo Ali Cox. You already have the phone number. Make it happen. [00:48:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it [00:48:21] Speaker A: was solved a lot of issues. So I swear. Plus you can line them up out wide. What a time that would be. Maybe you can play him at left guard. I don't know. What's your score prediction, Jake? [00:48:32] Speaker B: 30. 24. [00:48:33] Speaker A: Oh, man, [00:48:35] Speaker B: it's high. [00:48:37] Speaker A: No, [00:48:37] Speaker B: but I, I do think it's just like bad defense from the Raiders and then the Raiders get the Niners with a couple like hitters that turn into like not good drives and then just like suddenly a couple touchdowns. [00:48:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I see that. I, I have 28, 16. [00:48:55] Speaker B: Sure. [00:48:56] Speaker A: I think [00:48:58] Speaker B: there's just no world in which I can pick the 49ers to lose this game. Even without Mike Evans, which is a massive problem for them. I could again with any of these games. Like, they can always lose. I just, [00:49:11] Speaker A: I just think the Raiders have a really bad [00:49:13] Speaker B: defense and I just don't trust the whole Kirk operation. They can't run the ball effectively. It's Just. Yeah, [00:49:22] Speaker A: there's something. Something way off now. There will be, I imagine, a good deal of Raiders fans. I don't think, you know, being on the road is an issue for the Raider, seeing as they play 14 road games a year. [00:49:35] Speaker B: We haven't even done like the correct over under. [00:49:39] Speaker A: The correct over under of what? [00:49:41] Speaker B: You know, fights. [00:49:43] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I think it'll be rather tame, actually. [00:49:47] Speaker B: Yeah, [00:49:47] Speaker A: it's never as big as it. It's been in [00:49:49] Speaker B: separate. It's usually. And it's also like the preseason games. What [00:49:54] Speaker A: else are you going to do? I want to [00:49:55] Speaker B: fight. Nothing will ever hold up to the Coliseum. I'd say I'd set the over under three and a half. [00:50:03] Speaker A: This is like big ones. [00:50:06] Speaker B: Oh, I. I would. I would set the over on three and a half for ones that people post on social media. [00:50:15] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Yeah. I mean, there's definitely going to be a couple of those. This is one of those where I was happy they moved it later because it's like I need to get in before the people do. Like, I am not traversing that parking lot beforehand. That guy who rides around in the motorized chair, I might bring like a little pocket knife and just pop the tire. Like he has a big lazy boy and he rides around the parking lot. You're [00:50:39] Speaker B: like always trying to drive around it with a car. It's the worst. The media. Yeah. Now [00:50:45] Speaker A: we. It's not couth for us to complain about this, but I want to make something very clear. That stadium has been around for 11 years and every week it's like they just opened it. No one knows what they're doing. It's unbelievable [00:50:58] Speaker B: every time. [00:50:58] Speaker A: Brandon, if you want to make. You want to make back $13 million, spend the rest of the year organizing the 49ers parking lots and we'll call it even because they would. Accenture would charge $50 million for that job. They'd show up for one day and be like, we don't have enough manpower. There's not enough AI on the planet to fix this. Oh, [00:51:17] Speaker B: I did. I did forget one prediction. Bowers probably mosses somebody and it's probably dry here. [00:51:25] Speaker A: Yeah. But I don't think. I don't think Bowers has that big of a game. [00:51:30] Speaker B: I think he has one touchdown and 68 yards. [00:51:34] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it's [00:51:35] Speaker B: like five. [00:51:37] Speaker A: Yeah, that's where I'm at. I'm like four catches, but all of them absolutely whoop ass. [00:51:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:42] Speaker A: It's an inverse [00:51:43] Speaker B: chains like three times on third down [00:51:45] Speaker A: and yeah, there's Just a bunch of drives where the only good play was an 18 yard absolute mossing from Bowers. [00:51:52] Speaker B: It was funny, by the way, just to rewatch that game. And I was like, oh, they were really in it. Like, they were really in it. And then Brock got picked off, and they were playing terrible. [00:52:01] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. No, they. And everything about that game was stacked against them. And then they, like, what if we added to it? And then still it was like, right there. [00:52:09] Speaker B: And I literally watched on the one drive, like, I watched the moment where Jack Jones got cut, where Malik Mustafa's like, what are. What are you doing? And that was [00:52:18] Speaker A: true. It's true. Gonna be a weird one. This has been a weird two weeks, my friend. A weird two weeks. [00:52:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:26] Speaker A: Excited to just get back into just the general rigamarole of it. Agreed. We got loose for these two weeks, and it wasn't for us. We gotta. Gotta tighten this ship up. [00:52:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. We got a couple questions before we get out of here. [00:52:39] Speaker A: That'd be great. [00:52:40] Speaker B: For being the only outfit to cover IUK in a way that doesn't make me want to jump off one of Portland's many beautiful bridges. [00:52:47] Speaker A: They do have beautiful bridges. [00:52:48] Speaker B: They do. They do. It's. Portland's interesting because it's like Four Hills. It's like the. What a weird. Interesting. Interesting movie. Good movie. [00:52:58] Speaker A: Wildwood. [00:52:59] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like the Leica. You know, they made Coraline, so it's like the stop motion one. Pretty [00:53:03] Speaker A: good. [00:53:04] Speaker B: Pretty good. Not for kids, though. [00:53:06] Speaker A: No [00:53:07] Speaker B: Decapitation. [00:53:08] Speaker A: Oh, I'm glad that you said that. I'll take my youngest. She'll be into it. Yeah, I was gonna go see. I was gonna go see the. The Nathan Fielder movie. That's what [00:53:16] Speaker B: I'm seeing right after this. [00:53:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I was gonna go see that. And the babysitter showed up late. [00:53:22] Speaker B: Ah. [00:53:24] Speaker A: Went to a new Chinese restaurant. It was very good. Yeah, we made the most out of it. But it was like, you know, first date night in months and [00:53:32] Speaker B: ruined. [00:53:33] Speaker A: It's not the babysitter's fault. I wasn't on top of it. It's fine. I'm not bitter about it at all. I have watched the history of concrete, though. [00:53:42] Speaker B: Oh, [00:53:43] Speaker A: spectacular. [00:53:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I can't wait to watch that. [00:53:46] Speaker A: It's just John Wilson. It's like, what if we did this for 90 minutes instead [00:53:49] Speaker B: of [00:53:50] Speaker A: 40? It's like, done. [00:53:50] Speaker B: Awesome. [00:53:51] Speaker A: Sold. [00:53:52] Speaker B: Last two questions. What are the reasonable expectations for DeMarcus Robinson this week? [00:53:56] Speaker A: All the targets. [00:53:58] Speaker B: Both a sacrificial X and not a sacrificial S. [00:54:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:03] Speaker B: To mostly jog and then get a couple like Jawan third down catches. [00:54:10] Speaker A: I want to make it very clear what I'm saying here. Do you remember what Kendrick Bourne did last year with Mac Jones? [00:54:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:18] Speaker A: That is all you're gonna see this week. They're gonna run so many goddamn bang eights between Brock Purdy and DeMarcus Robinson, your head's gonna be spinning because the Raiders. He's [00:54:28] Speaker B: gonna take a couple shots. [00:54:29] Speaker A: He is going to take a couple of shots because they, like. Stokes and Chin are out for blood. They're not particularly good. [00:54:38] Speaker B: They have Stokes and Stukes. And Stukes hits pretty hard. [00:54:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Sorry. It's Stukes. The. The Arizona kid who. Who you liked. [00:54:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Like in like the second round or something. [00:54:48] Speaker A: Second round. [00:54:49] Speaker B: He's like a really fun, like, fifth rounder. [00:54:52] Speaker A: They got a masses out of Cal. Yeah, I think he's in this week, though. I'm a little. [00:54:59] Speaker B: He started off really well and then everybody like lost the plot [00:55:02] Speaker A: as per usual. [00:55:03] Speaker B: They know who they're starting at. Corner. Well, [00:55:06] Speaker A: I'll say. Like, Nicobi Dean and Quay Walker aren't terrible, [00:55:13] Speaker B: but [00:55:13] Speaker A: they're not good. [00:55:14] Speaker B: Agreed. It's weird because Nakobe Dean's like too small to play the position he plays, but he plays pretty well. [00:55:20] Speaker A: I would say the same for Quay Walker. I mean, I think both of them were just wrongly shaped. Strong safeties. [00:55:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:55:26] Speaker A: Born too late. They're Sebastian Valdez ing it. Like, I like both of them, but not together. And I know that they play together. Georgia. I don't like them. [00:55:35] Speaker B: Hobbs. Yeah, I guess Nate Hobbs. Is he activated? [00:55:40] Speaker A: He is questionable with an adductor. [00:55:45] Speaker B: Right. So [00:55:46] Speaker A: abductor and adductor. [00:55:48] Speaker B: There's one that's a groin and there's one that's something else. One. [00:55:51] Speaker A: I don't know. My actors. [00:55:53] Speaker B: There's a lot of actors. [00:55:54] Speaker A: Oh, we're going to have to get Gray's Anatomy out. Not the TV show, the big book. [00:55:58] Speaker B: We'll have a lot more to break down after this than we did going into [00:56:00] Speaker A: it. Stout with a shoulder. Surround knee. Surround knee and foot. Neil and demarcus Robinson, ankle. Nate Hobbs, adductor. I'm just reading Mayoko's tweet here. All of them are questionable. So, [00:56:16] Speaker B: yeah, [00:56:16] Speaker A: as are we. [00:56:17] Speaker B: And yeah, we will. We will talk to you. Dieter will talk to you after the game and I will talk to you again on Monday. [00:56:24] Speaker A: Looking forward to it immensely. [00:56:26] Speaker B: See [00:56:26] Speaker A: you folks.