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The NFL Season Is Here | Preseason Reactions + What's Ahead · Guy Football Focus with Guy Haberman

0:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey guys, guy here reacting to the forty-nine last preseason game, not doing some big deep breakdown, but some important things.
0:09
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're looking ahead to the forty-nine.
0:11
[SPEAKER_00]: There's roster cutdowns, one PM on Tuesday.
0:14
[SPEAKER_00]: What a bizarre experience seeing Jim Harbaugh trail ants.
0:21
[SPEAKER_00]: The son of Terrell Owens and the son of Jerry Rice.
0:26
[SPEAKER_00]: all in the same game at Levi Stadium.
0:29
[SPEAKER_00]: It really hit me yesterday and I posted a photo and I know Brad reposted Brad Graham of the SF-nine as reposted it on Instagram and it got a lot of attention from his repost because he's a great amplifier in addition to the stuff he does.
0:45
[SPEAKER_00]: But it was a photo of I'm standing in the booth, the TV booth at Levi Stadium, which isn't
0:52
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, one of the greatest booth I've ever been in without a doubt, the view of the whole thing.
0:56
[SPEAKER_00]: They got a bathroom, there's so much space.
0:58
[SPEAKER_00]: You're on the fourth floor, not the eighth floor.
1:01
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're you're high, but not too high low, but I too low.
1:04
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm getting ready to go down on the field.
1:06
[SPEAKER_00]: And I look at the monitor and Jim Harbaugh has his has a hand on Frank Gore's arm shoulder and a hand on the four of the moments there too.
1:14
[SPEAKER_00]: But he's got a hand on Frank Gore's shoulder and a hand on Patrick Willis's shoulder.
1:18
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, what a bizarre, and it really hit me how, and I said this to Tim Ryan during the broadcast or maybe beforehand.
1:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Jim Harbaw packed a lot into four years.
1:30
[SPEAKER_00]: Kyle Shannon has been an NFL head coach longer than Jim Harbaw's been an NFL head coach.
1:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Which, of course, I mean, Jim left went to Michigan for nine years and that was back in the NFL.
1:39
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think the charges are going to be great, by the way.
1:41
[SPEAKER_00]: But I want to love him games last year.
1:43
[SPEAKER_00]: But he packed so much into four, really he packed so much into three years.
1:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Jim Harbaw and Kyle Shannon had her three and four all time on the forty-nine years postseason wins list.
1:58
[SPEAKER_00]: And to see them coaching against each other, to see Harbaugh back, it just bizarre.
2:05
[SPEAKER_00]: And I got, you know, there was something about trail lands I wanted to get into the game that I didn't get into the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'll mention it here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I headed on my board.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it just he didn't, he had a couple of three announced.
2:16
[SPEAKER_00]: And I am not a subscriber to the trail answers.
2:23
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think a lot of people are rooting for him.
2:26
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the pick.
2:27
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not going to rehash all of it.
2:29
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought Sam Donald was clearly better than him three years ago in camp.
2:33
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's been a lot of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he is he has found it now this year.
2:37
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't see it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it doesn't mean he can't become, you know, have a long career in terms of the like he's about to become a starting NFL quarterback.
2:49
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I mean.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really see that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but, you know, we'll see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
2:56
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be QB two or I. It looks like he'll be QB two or they're going to keep three Taylor.
3:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, Nicky.
3:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I have a run package for them with Greg Roman or they're going to run them a little bit.
3:05
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Herbert can do that stuff, but you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: rather keep Herbert out of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Niners just played, how did we get through four preseason games, sometimes five preseason games for another Chargers head for?
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[SPEAKER_00]: But how did we do that game ended last night?
3:20
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Niners had no in-uniform non-lumping quarterbacks.
3:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Carter Bradley was limping around, tent from the first series, tent at Mordecai.
3:29
[SPEAKER_00]: They run a sneak.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, he comes out of the sneak limping.
3:34
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Brian Robinson, they made that move official on Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'd love to see Brian Robinson in short yardage instead of QB sneaks.
3:42
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you saw, and you just, can you afford to have Brock Pertis gotten better at the QB sneak?
3:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Roblo was always really good at it.
3:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you afford to have Jimmy and their sneak in the ball?
3:50
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, maybe if Mack Jones, Mack Jones supposed to be healthy, will be healthy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you can afford it, but see in ten or more to get hurt on a sneak.
4:00
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's it really is a credit to Jalen Hertz that he's he doesn't get hurt on on those on those on those quarterbacks needs, but anyway, if you things from the game, you know, it's been so quiet with I don't get to the trailands thing later, I think, but it's been so quiet with John Jennings.
4:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Then he post yesterday morning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: which is out of the playbook, you know, the receiver or the player, I did money playbook.
4:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Will it be any movement on that between now?
4:41
[SPEAKER_00]: You would think the democracy Robinson, everyone's waiting for that suspension, Ricky Pierce all, healthy, still waiting on IU, Jacob Cowling, not healthy, at least six weeks.
4:56
[SPEAKER_00]: The Marcus Robinson's gonna be a really useful player.
4:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I know I keep saying it every preseason game, but it came from watching him and practice.
5:03
[SPEAKER_00]: It came from watching him from last year going back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, I really like him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they're gonna miss him, not because they have these other injuries.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that too, but just because he's gonna be a really useful player for them.
5:17
[SPEAKER_00]: And that comes from looking at his body, like just how big and physically is, but he comes from also watching him practice.
5:25
[SPEAKER_00]: And watching him really play hard in these preseason games and I, you know, he's playing this much, I'd imagine, I don't think Kyle Shanahan has said it explicitly, but because they know he's going to, you know, they're expecting him to have two, three weeks off, whatever it's going to be once the season starts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I just, I've just been really impressed with him on the field.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's going to be missed.
5:47
[SPEAKER_00]: And Jordan Watkins, when will he be back?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even if he's back in time for week one, what can you really expect from him after missing time?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And just being a rookie receiver and this offense, there's a lot that comes with that.
6:00
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's going to be tough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that one of the big headlines, a couple of the big headlines from the game,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely Jake Moody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, missing the extra point, I saw somebody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got a, and I meant to pull this athletic alchemy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think he's got a huge, no, I think I know because I clicked on it today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got a huge YouTube channel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I went and clicked over and went some of his basketball stuff, which was cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But he quoted me, I don't remember exactly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I referenced the wind a few times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The wind out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was careful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I tried to be careful to say it to him right during the game because Junior Bergen had a moth really bad for him trying to make the fifty-three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think this is just me talking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd be surprised.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Luke Graham the returner for the Chargers had two moths.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jake Moody misses the extra point early.
6:52
[SPEAKER_00]: And I definitely referenced the wind a few times and Tim Ryan, the third and mouth of the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, you know, there's been three must today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's the wind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Tim's like, no excuses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I wish later I'd said something else, which is that I watching Thomas Morse to the Ford Manor's punter pre-game.
7:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I think part of the reason that Luke Graham muffled two punts for the chargers is that Thomas Morstedt has a lot of different kicks in his back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, seventeen, almost two decades in the NFL, thirty nine years old, I watched him in pregame really manipulate the ball and it really does not come across on TV.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How NFL punters can manipulate the ball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Morstedt has this pun that he practiced in pregame.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I watched him do it that the ball
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[SPEAKER_00]: Elevates and then just kind of hangs and then nose dives.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that combined with the wind makes it probably impossible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's probably not an accident that the three muffs were from rookies.
8:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Luke Grimm is a rookie, two for him and Junior Bergen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: thought it was encouraging that sky more looked really comfortable catching the ball because the wind wasn't issue and that's I just want to say the wind is wasn't issue and also the expectation for professional kickers and patent catchers is that you can deal with it.
8:19
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Robbie Gold was very good at it, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Robbie Gold understood the wind at Levi's stadium and figured it out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean it's not complicated, but
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know if the wind was a factor for Jake moving on the first kick.
8:31
[SPEAKER_00]: That thing was just it looked like straight left, but it was clear that Kyle Shannon, you know, that the camera had some shots after he misses it, then he kicks the ball out of bounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That really looked like was a frustration point because
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[SPEAKER_00]: That also was not close to being in bounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're clearly trying something, but that was not close to being in bounds.
8:52
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he and Bramp Boyer pass each other on the sideline without a word.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it looks like Kyle Shanahan's looking over there, shoots him a glance or something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it looked like on TV.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's hard to see those ankles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can be looking at anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it was clear to me in pregame, the wind was such a factor in everybody's mind in the kicking game.
9:15
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know some people take that as, I'm not, I really, that's not an excuse.
9:19
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just reporting the weather, okay?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just reporting the weather and it's part of the job to figure that out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of held my breath, because the movie comes out for the second extra point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't a field goal, whatever the order of it was.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: The old line, like those aren't booze, those were booze.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then it was a very sarcastic cheer, a huge roar of a sarcastic cheer after he made the kick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then there were like a little less, but still some booze the next time in a big cheer, but kind of sarcastic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, I think what everybody had hoped is that this would kind of be in the rear view mirror by the time you get to the season.
10:02
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's clearly that's just, you know, not going to be the case.
10:06
[SPEAKER_00]: And you hope for Moody's sake and for their sake that he can string some weeks together of just multiple makes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, he's, he's the kicker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what they need to have happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that's story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to Seattle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we don't quite know what this team is because we haven't gotten to see it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: all of these injuries, crazy amount of injuries.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so no perting, like all these guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what this team actually looks like after three preseason games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And even after watching practice, because you haven't seen them all together, hopefully Mike Williams is back.
10:44
[SPEAKER_00]: CJ West is back by the opener.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But these are guys who are playing, they haven't even played NFL.
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[SPEAKER_00]: CJ West did, but Mike Williams didn't play NFL preseason games.
10:54
[SPEAKER_00]: There's just a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot of pressure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Nick Martin was flying around
11:00
[SPEAKER_00]: and making plays yesterday that was important.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He got progressively better the first, the second to the third preseason game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's what Michael Williams was missing out on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what CJ West was missing out on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what up to Stout, who really did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I did not think the early reports of him in practice, how good he looked at Nickelback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think those were overblown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought I thought it was real.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so for him to now miss time, that really hurts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It really hurts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They just,
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see, we will see, because we haven't seen it yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's one of the big headlines.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought Skymore making some plays.
11:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Just being solid was another big headline for them, because they just need something in the special teams game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They need predictable and solid.
11:50
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, part of the whole brand boyers here now, and you know, we're gonna, they're gonna draft on special teams in the seventh round.
12:01
[SPEAKER_00]: That hasn't worked yet, but they gotta, how do you now with all these injuries make decisions that are special, you already don't get many special teams, centric decisions.
12:12
[SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to your fifty three-man roster, you just can't afford to have a guy who's only a cover guy, but you know, can't be your fourth safety, let's say, or whatever.
12:21
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... but this is also a team that needs to make it serene ill who who is by far away their best special teams player these played over two thousand special team staffs he's missed two games and it's career like that's an important player uh... but you know more than that like can nigh martin play special teams he made a big hit on special teams yesterday can he play it's critical that nigh martin
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[SPEAKER_00]: does not make mistakes on special teams because he's going to play really valuable special team snaps.
12:52
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're going to, you know, if you're missing extra point here in a field goal here, you know, some of those field goals get missed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you're not going to take advantage of every point on special teams that you can't afford for breakdowns, you can't afford for muffs.
13:04
[SPEAKER_00]: So that whole thing is just not yet as buttoned down is as you hope that they hope that it would be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's that situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what to make in Jennings.
13:16
[SPEAKER_00]: We got two weeks here, but I do think if he's activated, cleared, whatever, right before the open, he'll be on the safe page with broad party, at least there's that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not worried about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the end of the day, I think he's got it.
13:33
[SPEAKER_00]: There's not really any work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really much from to do.
13:36
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got to get on the field of play.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got to prove if he doesn't get paid to the next contract payer, whether it's them or somebody else that he's worth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got to go out there
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[SPEAKER_00]: earn the next contract.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's really for him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the lack of leverage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got to go earn the next contract or accept the less than he wants and take that money and then and then show these worth it.
14:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I was thinking about it like for a guy who seems some people
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[SPEAKER_00]: play to prove people right and some people play to prove people wrong or do whatever.
14:11
[SPEAKER_00]: It's great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's healthy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to perform for the people that believe in me, not for the people that don't, but not everybody ticks that way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds great and it's good for your mental health to perform for the people who believe in you, not to perform out of hate for the people that don't, but for some people to perform out of hate for the people that don't believe, or that you perceive not to believe,
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[SPEAKER_00]: is that works better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think John Jennings plays like that kind of guy.
14:38
[SPEAKER_00]: So is it the worst thing in the world?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is he's out there planning angry for the forty vatters?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even if he's angry at them?
14:42
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't, you just don't know how somebody's gonna handle this situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I do, I do think he's a guy that might, if I had to, yeah, I don't know.
14:54
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how that plays out.
14:55
[SPEAKER_00]: You gotta get to week one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the other thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We had two weeks before now and the first game, you gotta get there with him.
15:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't seem to be much of a trade market will be interesting to see what the Niners do.
15:05
[SPEAKER_00]: The fifty three man cuts want to clock on Tuesday, but remember this, the Niners drafted eleven.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have not been this high in the waiver order since they drafted Nick Bosa and were second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: in the waiver order, the order in which you get to select players that have been waived.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the year they drafted trade lands third, they were, I think, twelve in the wave, they traded up in the waiver order that year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's the highest they've been in the waiver order since then, not you get in superstars here, but
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a little advantage, I guess.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that wave or order doesn't reset until the third week.
15:49
[SPEAKER_00]: I think after the third week of the NFL regular season, so going into week four where it starts resetting based on your the current standings.
15:58
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you go look historically where they were what they did when they were number two in the waiver order.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Go look at the players.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They claimed that year there wasn't much.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know if anything comes to that, but something to watch for.
16:15
[SPEAKER_00]: Brian Robinson, like after, you know, Garendo, he had the shoulder.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He kept running it out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Did not run the ball well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was disappointing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but it's also not, you know, there's so many moving parts literally, and I had already said three illegal motion penalties.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, you don't have a lot out there in terms of offensive line continuity, offensive continuity, blah, blah, blah, blah, but that was not the, that was not the performance you wanted to see, I think.
16:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Trailans, I do want to say this, and I wish I'd gotten the cinder in the game.
16:55
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't all bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd forgotten about this game, maybe you forgot about this game, but the forgotten trail-ance performance that really did matter for the forty-nineers.
17:06
[SPEAKER_00]: That was before the famous week-eighteen game in twenty-twenty-one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: in LA, the Rams game, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The famous Debo catches that ball, Jalen Rams, he goes for the interception, Debo takes off running, couple of big third down conversions from Jimmy Garoppolo, no Trent Williams, the honors trying to get to the playoffs, trying to save their season, they eventually would go on to the NFC title game, and lose to the Rams.
17:36
[SPEAKER_00]: But to help them get to week, eighteen in a chance to make the playoffs, they had to, they played the Texans week, Seventeen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Texans not a good football team, but Jimmy Garoppolo had an injured thumb
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[SPEAKER_00]: And trail ants had to start that game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We felt like a must win game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the Texans were like a four win team, but the Niners trail ants were first half in theirception.
17:54
[SPEAKER_00]: The Niners were down seven, nothing, Robbie Gold hits a field goal.
17:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Before half time to make it seven to three Texans.
18:01
[SPEAKER_00]: And then trail in the second half, those are a couple of touchdowns and the four winners come back.
18:05
[SPEAKER_00]: And they won the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was the last touchdown he threw
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[SPEAKER_00]: in a game was to debo against the Texan's January second, two thousand twenty two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I just want to mention that game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd forgotten about that game until I was preparing for this preseason game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh, the forgotten kind of must win trailance game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jimmy couldn't play and in trailance and Kyle Shannon found a way.
18:29
[SPEAKER_00]: So to recall it, score to touchdown, which was cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cool to be there for, you know, somebody made a joke.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you're so ready for Luke Ferrell's first career touchdown.
18:39
[SPEAKER_00]: And instead, you got three comments, which was awesome.
18:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, to wreak, I remember being at Levi's Stadium, I think I called it a open tryout.
18:51
[SPEAKER_00]: on the broadcast, I think I corrected myself, but a local prote is what it was.
18:56
[SPEAKER_00]: So you know, guys who play local colleges or from the area, even if they didn't play local colleges a couple of years ago, and three goans was at that local prote, like guys just maybe a couple of us will get signed by the Niners.
19:08
[SPEAKER_00]: T.O.
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[SPEAKER_00]: was there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tyreek actually I did a video a couple years ago.
19:12
[SPEAKER_00]: It's somewhere in the in the YouTube history to recome made a catch and I just remember this almost ran me over on the sideline.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not the first not the last time I was got ran over on the forty nine or sideline, but so that's to recallence and development and work and hard and work and hard and work and hard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so good it was awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was really excited.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As it happened, I debated, do I do the full Joe Starkey?
19:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's always, always, always.
19:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he said it like six times.
19:42
[SPEAKER_00]: He caught it.
19:44
[SPEAKER_00]: That felt like a little much.
19:45
[SPEAKER_00]: I dropped one.
19:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and I tried to do the Starkey voice there.
19:52
[SPEAKER_00]: in the call, but awesome for him.
19:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome for him.
19:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Like that guy works really hard and he's not going to make the fifty three-man roster.
19:59
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's a developmental receiver, but he's worked his ass off to develop.
20:03
[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember seeing him last year in training camp and I said, you know, everybody was talking about him because he was an easy name to talk about and get attention.
20:15
[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember saying like he's not making the team.
20:20
[SPEAKER_00]: But it doesn't mean he doesn't full stop.
20:23
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I said then.
20:24
[SPEAKER_00]: But the other thing to say is like, but it doesn't mean you can't work at it.
20:28
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what he's been doing.
20:29
[SPEAKER_00]: He's been working at it.
20:29
[SPEAKER_00]: I think watching him and practice him last year.
20:31
[SPEAKER_00]: This year he's a better player.
20:33
[SPEAKER_00]: He had a drop in the right in the radar game.
20:36
[SPEAKER_00]: But that was a fun moment.
20:38
[SPEAKER_00]: That was really cool.
20:39
[SPEAKER_00]: And he did his dad did TO celebration.
20:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Like that was awesome.
20:43
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just fun.
20:44
[SPEAKER_00]: And it felt fun.
20:46
[SPEAKER_00]: It was fun to watch.
20:48
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just wanted to acknowledge.
20:51
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm, you know, you're very aware of it in the preseason where you're seeing the, the guys at the bottom, or guys that won't make the roster, guys who will be in the practice squad, scratching and clawing.
21:02
[SPEAKER_00]: I think everyone's so aware of it from watching hard knocks over the years, too.
21:05
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, you might get one, you might get one shot to just justify being on the practice squad, or whatever the case is.
21:16
[SPEAKER_00]: They clearly like him, like they like him.
21:19
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you watch him, he works really hard at it.
21:22
[SPEAKER_00]: So I just tip at the cap to him, really cool moment, glad I got to be there for it.
21:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope he enjoys the highlight.
21:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully there's more to come for him.
21:32
[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, I'm always very aware of, I think it comes from my time to calling my little baseball games.
21:41
[SPEAKER_00]: You always want to know when it's somebody's first home run.
21:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, in the moment.
21:48
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, and for me, part of that is not for everybody else.
21:51
[SPEAKER_00]: You need to inform the audience at large.
21:55
[SPEAKER_00]: But kind of knowing what it must mean for that person.
22:03
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to overstay it or make too much of it.
22:05
[SPEAKER_00]: But they'll cherish that.
22:08
[SPEAKER_00]: That highlight.
22:09
[SPEAKER_00]: They'll watch that highlight.
22:10
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if they score a hundred more, their first one matters.
22:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Things change after that.
22:18
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you catch eighty five or two hundred and seven, those are all great too.
22:23
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think that first one is you saying to everybody, I did it to yourself.
22:30
[SPEAKER_00]: I did it.
22:31
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a preseason test.
22:32
[SPEAKER_00]: But he did it in that stadium in that uniform.
22:36
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's awesome.
22:37
[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's what I'm always thinking about.
22:42
[SPEAKER_00]: in that moment, you want to not to go to inside broadcasting here, but I think it's important to try and understand what why that moment matters to somebody.
22:58
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the forty nine, there was a Curtis Robinson had a pick six.
23:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Curtis Robinson is not a guy we talk about a lot, fighting to make the roster.
23:05
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Will.
23:06
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.
23:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Torres ACL last September, in practice.
23:13
[SPEAKER_00]: That's, he's running around because he scored a touchdown, but he's really running around because he just spent a year working his ass off to come back from an ACL injury and then had a pick six on Saturday.
23:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Like that, I'm getting to inside baseball probably, but that's why it matters.
23:34
[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, it didn't mean to spend that much time on it, but I did.
23:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and I thought I had more notes here, but I have more things in my head that I wrote down.
23:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Here we go.
23:47
[SPEAKER_00]: The seasons beginning, it will be busy.
23:51
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm excited about it.
23:53
[SPEAKER_00]: This week begins the college football season for me.
23:55
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a game.
23:56
[SPEAKER_00]: There were games yesterday.
23:56
[SPEAKER_00]: She Stanford lost a heartbreaker at Hawaii.
24:00
[SPEAKER_00]: I was state and I don't I think I love going Hawaii.
24:03
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been to Hawaii many times for football.
24:06
[SPEAKER_00]: I've covered the Hawaii football program Hawaii and Timmy Chang.
24:11
[SPEAKER_00]: They're had coach covered him.
24:14
[SPEAKER_00]: a couple of years ago, really like them.
24:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Every time around the Hawaii program, it's a great experience.
24:19
[SPEAKER_00]: It goes back to my time with Dick Tommy.
24:21
[SPEAKER_00]: We did a game in Hawaii and I met so much to him.
24:24
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a legendary coach and a wonderful person and a huge San Francisco Giants fan and lived in Hawaii and had us at his house and it was amazing and it's just the best.
24:35
[SPEAKER_00]: I sell that because I don't know why any team would ever schedule Hawaii on the road non-conference.
24:39
[SPEAKER_00]: It always happens week one and it's
24:43
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not always an L, but it is just such a big, it is so risky.
24:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Your players are out there in Hawaii.
24:50
[SPEAKER_00]: They're having a good time.
24:51
[SPEAKER_00]: It is, I would never, ever schedule that game.
24:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Good for Hawaii.
24:56
[SPEAKER_00]: Frank Reich, you know, Stanford's coach right now.
25:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Good for Hawaii.
25:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Tough L for Stanford.
25:02
[SPEAKER_00]: I root for Stanford.
25:03
[SPEAKER_00]: I root for Cal.
25:05
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you know, a lot of people at both places I root for him.
25:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't watch the game live.
25:11
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't realize they were playing out there until later, I got a text, and I was like, oh, I went back and skipped, skipped through the game on Saturday, and when I got home, and I was like, I know what's going to, I didn't know the score ahead of time, and they lose on a walk off field goal.
25:25
[SPEAKER_00]: I just, it's, it's never good.
25:27
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all my time going there with Fresno.
25:28
[SPEAKER_00]: You just, ever just worried about everything.
25:31
[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, and then, you know, Kansas State lost Iowa State and double in yesterday.
25:35
[SPEAKER_00]: That was also a great game.
25:36
[SPEAKER_00]: So the college football season starts for me this week.
25:40
[SPEAKER_00]: USC on Big Ten Network on Saturday.
25:43
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, you know, the NFL season starts the week after that.
25:48
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be at Penn State Week, too.
25:50
[SPEAKER_00]: There'll be some more information about, I won't jump the gun on all that.
25:54
[SPEAKER_00]: How things will play out this year.
25:57
[SPEAKER_00]: But we'll get to that middle of the week and, or so.
26:02
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, we'll be talking about everything here.
26:04
[SPEAKER_00]: So appreciate you guys.
26:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Fun preseason, filling in for Greg Poppa on television, loved it.
26:10
[SPEAKER_00]: appreciated a lot of you who reached out and were supportive about it or were excited about it too, exciting for me to share it with you.
26:20
[SPEAKER_00]: And now we now we keep it rolling.
26:22
[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll have a busy football season, but it'll be great.
26:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Looking forward to it.
26:27
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26:28
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