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49ers Preseason Game 1 Reactions - Stribling, Rourke and More · Guy Football Focus with Guy Haberman

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: What's up guys, guys here at the stadium after the game, normally I would go home, think about the game, do a podcast at whatever time I would get home 11 o'clock, quick video.
• 0:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I'll do something Friday morning, but just want to do a quick reaction video here after the first preseason game felt good to be back.
• 0:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's days just appreciate 72 degrees and that today was one of them.
• 0:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was an awesome night out of Levi Stadium.
• 0:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, next week will be a big week because then I just go to the Chargers in that joint practice.
• 0:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's just a better team than Tennessee, right?
• 0:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like flat out.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Tennessee is trying like they they went and signed some guys, they drafted.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we'll see, but they were three win team the last two years.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, they're in a different place, and that's why Robert Solis playing the ones, and then honors or not.
• 0:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so it gave you some good experience.
• 0:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: It gave you good measuring stick to see some of the 40 matters against some of these starters.
• 0:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, that was good.
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, especially, so many things happen in the pre-season.
• 1:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: You just don't know.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Turns out four years ago four years ago on Wednesday actually exactly was August 12th 2022 was the big Brock Perti preseason game where a number 14 looking like a baller 14's a good number if you're a quarterback trying to prove something here for the 49er Sam Darnl wore it Curtis Rork War it hopefully he's okay The quarterback draw play they got him hurt
• 1:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: You could tell something was wrong, Tim Ryan said it.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: So he looked excellent.
• 1:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Excellent.
• 1:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: He looked better tonight than he looked in camp, I thought, which is probably maybe a little bit you'd say a testament to the Niners defense.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe the juices get flowing.
• 1:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you get some nerves right ahead and play in a football game in a couple of years because he had the ACL surgery after his college career ended.
• 1:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that was awesome.
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: That was awesome.
• 2:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: I am in my suit still, I am still at the stadium, normally like I said I would get home, but it's a little different today.
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: This video is from my car.
• 2:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason it's from my car is it's very exciting.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's just a lot going on.
• 2:15
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• 2:17
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• 2:20
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• 3:05
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• 3:23
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• 3:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so, you know, here we are from the car.
• 3:28
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• 3:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: So thanks Matt and Volvo cars Marin and my family is loving this.
• 3:54
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• 3:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: So drove it down to the game today.
• 3:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Daysion's dribbling.
• 3:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that is the story for me coming out of this game.
• 4:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was, you know, I know some of you go to the practices.
• 4:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe the volume, like the percentage of people that go to practice or prop.
• 4:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would guess very high, like the percentage of them that watch YouTube that percentage is probably very high.
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's still not that many people, relative to the amount of people out there that are 40 miners fans.
• 4:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you're not a fan, you've been reading about or watching videos about or hearing about, days on dribbling.
• 4:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if I were you, and I weren't at every single training camp practice like I've been, uh, and OTA and all of that, I'd be like, guys, it's a practice.
• 4:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Or guys, it's training camp.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Or could, could days on dribbling really be that good.
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: And this is one preseason game.
• 4:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you still gotta do it in the, you gotta do the real deal.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: in the real games, but I think every time you had a check mark or a checkpoint, you just want to continue to be the same.
• 4:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's what, you know, he's made Brock Perti so special.
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Every checkpoint, it was the first he was the third stringer, then it was the second, and it's like, oh, he just keeps doing the same thing, and that's what Dave John's dribbling did today.
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: He just keep looking like a pro.
• 5:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: The catch he made down the right sign line to me,
• 5:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know he's in 15, so some people say Joanne Jennings, or he's a crap tree, but he's faster than both of those guys.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was a carbon copy.
• 5:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: It felt like to me of the fourth down conversion that Ricky Pierce all caught from Mac Jones last year against the Arizona Cardinals.
• 5:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Going left to right on the screen down the right sideline.
• 5:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was it was a great adjustment in the air.
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: There are things that, you know, maybe great corners will take advantage of and then you got to get better at, like, you know, I think a lot of times
• 5:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: younger receivers and route running in the NFL, but here's the thing about it is like he always seems on time Probably not always is not the right word, but he he looks on time with the quarterback Both in the game and in practice.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, it's critical him and a rebel height.
• 5:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: There are so many experienced There's future Hall of Famers on this team
• 6:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, so Christian McCaffrey and Fred Warner and like, you know, the Niners of those far as those guys can take them, but they need help, they won superstar, we see plenty of bad teams with superstars on them.
• 6:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: It takes a full team, you know, I remember doing the study a few years ago when the Chiefs won the Chiefs beat the 49ers, and the Chiefs were like two years ahead of the Niners in terms of roster turnover, and they'd done that Super Bowl team in 23 had a lot of really productive young players on it, and we talk about Kelsey and Chris Jones and Mahomes.
• 6:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Rightfully, but that team drafted really, really, really well and got a lot of snaps out of their previous three drafts, and That ultimately like you can't say that's the like Patron Holmes is why they win the Super Bowl and Steve Spegnull is why they win the Super Bowl all those things There's no one thing and so then I just really need to remell a height.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: They really need Alfred Collins and CJ West
• 7:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: and Alfred's getting to see legs after you know the off-season surgeries so it's good to see him back out there and I you know I'm pretty optimistic about him but when you draft a guy at the top of the second round third we're top of the third round like Cremelo height.
• 7:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, if you're gonna take a big step, those guys need to impact that you you can win 12 games without your rookies Impact, but can you really compete for a championship without the guys who you draft high that those are supposed to be the talented players Delivering and day jump dribbling is just hit never check point
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and the beauty for him is he's got my Kevin's and he's got George Kittle and he's got Christian McAfrey and he's got Debo.
• 7:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you saw so I did the tell it.
• 7:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I guess I'm skipping around a little bit But I did the television fill him in for Greg Papa this year some of you have asked in the comments Will I be doing every game?
• 7:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I will be doing every game that Greg Papa is not doing so you know last year There were a bunch of us all hands on deck kind of team effort
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: to fill in for Greg, this year of Greg's not doing the game, then I'll be doing the game.
• 8:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if Greg is doing the game, then I'll be the sideline reporter on radio.
• 8:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's the plan.
• 8:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: That means I'll be with the team every week, no matter what, that's the schedule.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: But you know, so tonight and next week and the following week, it'll be TV.
• 8:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Which is fun.
• 8:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: You guys know, I've called a lot of TV.
• 8:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: I love doing it.
• 8:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot of fun.
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Tim Ryan the analyst is
• 8:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: phenomenal in every single way and I guess that explains why I'm in a suit and tie for those of you watching the video.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: But what was I saying?
• 8:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Stribbling rookies, Trent Williams.
• 8:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: We interviewed him on TV and he said, and Tim Ryan has been telling me this for the last 48 hours.
• 8:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's like,
• 9:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Trent, who is really good at media, said, and they used to say, well, he's made so much money, why isn't he do it?
• 9:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, like, there's a lot of money getting paid to these guys, so I mean, it might be fun.
• 9:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: For the same reason, KJ writes coaching because he wants to do it, so Trent's really good.
• 9:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: But Trent said, he goes, you know, I told Debo, this is the first real adversity you faced.
• 9:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, and I interpreted that as I told Debo at the first time you really had to prove to people something, like, you're not washed up.
• 9:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he said he thinks Debo is going to have a huge year.
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Tim Ryan has been telling me he thinks Debo is going to have a huge year.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I've been watching Debo in practice for, you know, the short amount of time that he's been here.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's in great shape.
• 9:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's not one-on-one, you know, like the Rams, they got, they got a treadmill.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: like all.
• 9:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: But he's, you know, not the whole rest, he's just an ingredient in this recipe of McAfrey plus Evan plus kiddo plus dribbling the juice will be back soon.
• 10:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: So there's just a lot that I think they're going to ask.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, Debo's here not because Pierce all got hurt.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what the 49ers have said.
• 10:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's here because they were thinking, now maybe accelerated, like, oh, let's just get him in here.
• 10:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: But they were thinking about it.
• 10:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: They still think he can play and, you know, that's,
• 10:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I still think you can play.
• 10:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I definitely still think you can play.
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, but for Trent to say that today, I thought it was really interesting.
• 10:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Curtis work, check that box.
• 10:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Grace and Halton made a couple of plays.
• 10:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, really it's going to be these Oster Diggies who Alfred Collins, like those are the guys.
• 10:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think, you know, Michael coming back soon.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: But the soon-ish figure, you know, kiddo feels like he's going to beat everybody back.
• 10:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, I don't, I don't, we wouldn't expect to see Bosa anyway the next two weeks.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: In games, but like, is he gonna practice?
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's such a big thing right now.
• 11:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a defense that is built on this, this, this, and Nick Bosa coming off the edge.
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: This year they are plotting and planning to pressure a lot and blitz and all that, but, you know, everything works better with Bosa.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Does not feel like left guards figured out yet?
• 11:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like the Colby was in the lead, and now he's not.
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: But is it going to be a solidified position?
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jaden Dugger made some plays today.
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I thought about Jaden Dugger?
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: You made two tackles that caught my eye.
• 11:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: And on the first one, and it was a cam ward, I thought of Nick Martin last year early in the preseason taking a bad angle.
• 11:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: And this year early in the preseason Jaden Dugger taking a good angle.
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I talked to KJ right about this the other day for an Aresline Backer Coach.
• 11:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was a great player.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then Bobby Wagner, the duo, just like Jaden Dugger tall.
• 12:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: long and he said I know the video's been posted so I'm not gonna re-hatch the whole thing but he said you know the biggest thing is is pad level when you when you're that tall now there's advantages to it but pad level getting low but I I thought today like you saw his arm length duggers arm length and speed
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Some guys have tools, but it doesn't really show up in production.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I felt like you saw it today.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I thought that was cool.
• 12:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Jordan Walk is fighting for his life.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Made a couple plays that I can't word.
• 12:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Didn't think it looked good in practice here that I didn't look good in the game that I, you know, it's whatever.
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not watching them every day in practice.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's easy to have a bunch of takes about guys.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: You see a couple of times.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, but Dave was gonna be all over him.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Brian Dave was gonna be all over him.
• 13:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: The ball brother who they got on that staff with Solan, Dave ball and Gus Bradley.
• 13:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: But man, I don't know.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Biggest question right, like now that you watch a game, even though McAfrey's not all these guys aren't playing.
• 13:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: But you just, you know, I think you quickly think back the last year and you go, okay, what mattered?
• 13:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's really simple.
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Can they run the football?
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: hopefully, Evans and Debo and like all this kiddo when he returns, it all loosens it up a little bit.
• 13:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: But can they run the football?
• 13:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Can they run the football?
• 13:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Can they stop the run?
• 13:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of change, a lot of new players, new coaches, excitement and dissipation, and I am excited, and I am anticipating, and just like, I think it can be really good.
• 13:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: but let's go back to the fundamentals and we're not getting that answer today it'll be you know joint practice next week but again can they run the football that's it that's going to be the whole thing both sides can they stop the run if not every everything is so much harder and last year the overcame it because Kyle special and like you know i don't think we talk about this a lot certainly not as much as we did once upon a time with pro sports or college sports
• 14:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: because the illusion of like, you know, a team being like just brothers doing anything for each other.
• 14:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: But that's what the good teams are.
• 14:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: And last year's nine or team was that they didn't want to championship.
• 14:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: They got blown out in the second round by arrival.
• 14:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: but my guess is for the guys on that team it was a special year in the sense that like they proved something they overcame and all that and that's great but you don't want to do it again that way you don't want your backup quarterback to have to go five and three again uh... so you know i i think there's a lot to be excited about but we won't really get that answer can they run the ball can they stop the run until the season starts but he's a thing the season is right around the corner you know i'm sitting here
• 15:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: nearing midnight.
• 15:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's 20 days away from wheels up to Melbourne, Australia.
• 15:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's not it.
• 15:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't get to start slow.
• 15:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now you win that game and it's going to feel amazing coming home.
• 15:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Amazing.
• 15:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
• 15:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I hope those of you who went to the stadium tonight got the
• 15:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, week two of the season feels like forever away, but it'll be her soon.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm excited.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I will be flying with the team to LA on Monday afternoon, joint practice with the Chargers on Tuesday.
• 15:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Tell you what I see there.
• 15:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then game on Thursday, which will again, will be on KPIX, CBS, call them that one.
• 16:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then same deal the next week.
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know joint practice the next week with the Raiders, but we'll be in Vegas.
• 16:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: you know, here we go.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: So thank you to Puesto, the Adler brothers, they're awesome.
• 16:14
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• 16:28
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• 16:29
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• 16:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, thank you sincerely from the bottom of my heart.
• 16:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think we're going to have a fun year, fun year.
• 17:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, without thinking about Greg Papa, we're thinking about him all day and told him that.
• 17:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: And, uh, he has a lot going on in his life.
• 17:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: And yet, he always is supportive and encouraging of me and, um, it's because he's special.
• 17:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: He'll be back.
• 17:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right y'all.
• 17:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
• 17:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll talk soon.