September 22, 2023 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon explain how you can’t re-make a QB in the NFL. breakdown Ryan Poles’ comments on Justin Fields. Jason tells you why Brian Daboll is the most disappointing NFL HC so far this season. And Brock Purdy isn’t fantasy great, but he's more than good enough to win the Super Bowl with this talented 49er team.
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could be a drive that puts it away for the
forty nine ers. And the only thing we're wondering is
there be a backdoor covered by the Giants. Twenty three
to twelve. The Niners have the lead in this game
and they have the football. This has been one of
those It's not that the Niners have played great and
it's not the Giants have played so incredibly poorly. But
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this is a case of when you're a really good team,
even your B game, you'll be a little bit over
a B game, because that's kind of what the Niners
have had so far tonight. Even your B game is
going to give trouble to a lot of teams. And
the Niners defense has been able to take Darren Waller
away and that's been a big thing because the Giants
are having trouble moving the football now. They are stiffening
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in the red zone defensively, which is keeping them in
this game a bit. But you know, they have taken
away what the Giants like to do. No, Saquon Barkley
was really really rough coming in. I expected Daniel Jones
to get outside the pocket more. That has really stunned
me that the Giants have not done that a little bit.
And right now I'm kind of riding the lightning here
on my Giants getting eleven because it's a push. Right now.
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I'm in twenty three, twenty three. I'm the only one
in the country who picked the Giants getting eleven tonight,
and I'm a little nervous about it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
No pushing through to the eleven points. I'd have gotten
on board there, right, that Saquon Barkley injury that pushed
it teetering past that ten breakthrough number there, ten and
a half eleven is where you found it in a book.
And obviously, as we've watched this game unfold, defense has
played well in spurts for the Giants, but then they
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surrender the third long to let a drive continue, and
long protracted drives, you know, are not your friend, you know,
normally for offenses. But the forty nine ers to this
point of avoided turnovers been able to convert your kicker.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Moody is still perfect on the year.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
And for brock Purty, it doesn't have to be sexy,
it doesn't have to be a dominant game. They're controlling
time of possession, running clock. They're up near four hundred
total yards to the one thirty eight put up by
the Giants. And to your point about Daniel Jones currently
credited officially with two carries for five yards. Shocking, right,
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Brita got the touchdown run. That's truly the only time
he moved forward over the course of the night.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And I'll tell you something just happened, really surprisable. We'll
get to the Bears in a second. But the Giants were.
They had the forty nine ers in the third and
two and they were just outside of field goal range.
And the Niners complete a pass and Christian McCaffrey catches
it and he catches it right at the sticks and
they give him the first down, but he has to
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come back to the ball and he catches it and
coming down, you can clearly see the ball hit the
ground and it was it's tough to see on the
play because he's got his arms around the ball, but
you can see the ball hit the ground. And I'm like, okay, well,
Brian Dables got to challenge this because this is the
game right here, this is the game you're talking about.
The Niners punting and getting and the Giants getting the
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ball back down eleven and I'm waiting and I'm waiting
and I'm waiting and there's no challenge Nope, And I'm saying,
what are you what's going on here? How do you
not challenge that?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
This is the game.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Even if you lose, this is the game of care
about you timeouts? Right now, you're down by eleven.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
You got to keep down scores already exactly, well what
are you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And there's no challenge and I don't get why they
didn't throw the challenge flag. And what happens Two plays later,
the Niners are in the end zone Deebo Samuel on
a thirty yard touchdown catch, and it is now the
Niners up big, and the only thing we're wondering is
can the Giants get a back door cover? Can Daniel
Jones get you some fantasy points? Extra point is up
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and good, making it thirty to twelve with six minutes
to go on the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
A Dori Jackson beaten on that route. Samuel, who had
left the game moments earlier. Earlier in this drive, looked
like he had landed awkwardly on the football or maybe
took a knee to the back going down one of
those fighting for extra yards, and then everybody comes from
behind and dog piles you. Now he's back and running
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free in the secondary.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I think he's okay. I I think he's all right.
I think we saw him on the sideline.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You were a bit concerned, like, yeah, he looks a
and then he's back into the game and it's like, ah, here,
say I get.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
A free you go. No can know, Samuel, that's gonna
make things. Oh no, no, everything is fine.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, you're really cheering for your your giants to beat
the spread here, it's really in your brain.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
The most important thing of the night thirty to twelve,
now forty nine is with the lead again about six
minutes left to go in the game.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But you know, if Jackson had turned around, that could
have been the fourth would be interception.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, oh no, it's a thirty yard touchdowns. Still hating.
I'm sure people still hate rock Party tonight, which again
makes zero sense. O your fault. But speaking of quarterbacks,
we'll have more on this game coming up in a
few minutes. But speaking of quarterbacks, Bear's GM. I look,
I thought today we would get a little bit more
info on the Allen Williams situation. Defensive coordinator who was
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fired or who had left the team a day ago
saying I'm gonna spend time with my family. He had
been away from the team for a few days. Reports
that Hallis Hall was raided, and then those reports debunked,
and then we find out today that oh no, no,
it was Williams home that was raided, not Hallis Hall.
Oh okay.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, So the original it's been crazy thing that sent
Twitter a buzz yesterday was both the home and the
Hallis Hall offices. That throws away, and then you get
McAfee and his show citing sources that Williams over the
red nobody's jumped out to say that that's categorically not true,
or at least I hadn't seen anything as the day
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war on, because certainly the Bears aren't talking about it anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Nope, he's gone something to see here, So that happened,
and we're still waiting to hear that. But then we
get a press conference from Ryan Poles Bears GM who decided, Okay,
there's too much stuff going on, I need to say
some things here. So he said, we're still waiting for
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information on the Allan Williams part of it. Okay, that's fine.
We understand that. I don't want to say anything until
we get it, because who knows when the FBI raided
somebody's house, man, That's.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Okay, And I don't want to be on the hook
for legal reasons, right as a reporter, as a talk show,
whatever else, and certainly for the Bears, you just want
to sit there and say nothing to see here.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
But then Poles addressed the Justin Field situation a day ago, said, hey,
you know the coaching that's done here. You know, I'm
thinking too much about the coaching. I need to just
have that happen during the week and then go out
and play on Sunday. It's too much in my head.
The coaches. I'm getting a lot, and it's a lot
to process. I'm not playing like I know I can play.
So this is Justin Fields basically saying, hey, I don't
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really want to be coached this way anymore. And now
things you know are bad between he and eber Flus
and everybody else. But Ryan Poles decides today to say,
wait a minute, let me try to pour some cold
water on this and tell you that, hey, yeah, things
are tough right now. However, everybody loves Justin Fields.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
We have adversity right now. Slow start owing to not
where you want to be. We've dealt with life issues, injuries,
and that's all real part of what we do and
what we got to deal with in terms of Justin.
That can't be more clear than this. No one in
our entire building, none of our coaches see Justin as
a finger pointer at all is always taking ownership of
anything that's happened on the field. He works with his teammates,
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works with his coaches.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Fine solution, except in this press conference yesterday. So everybody's
trying to make nice because they know for the next
few weeks they have to all make it work together.
And we told you yesterday, by the time we get
to the trade deadline. By the time we get to
that point, something's going to happen because it's now Justin
Fields versus Eberflus and the coaching staff. Either Eberflus is
going to get fired or Field is going to get benched.
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That's what's going to happen. Right that. This is where
this has had at all. This is where it's all
going right now. Justin Fields decides I want to get
this out here. This is what I want to do
at quarterback. It's my career and if I have to
go someplace else after this year, I want to go
out my way. And this is ebra Flu's trying to
hold on to whatever cachet he still has because another
couple of losses and everybody's going to want him fired.
But it's going to be Fields is on the bench
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or eb is going to be fired. That's how this
is going to end. But let me just say this
because this is a situation that didn't need to happen.
Why because every team makes the same mistake with quarterbacks
when they bring him into the NFL. Is that they
all think that a quarterback coming in, Hey, yeah, he's good,
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but we need to teach him really really deeply how
to do X, how to do this. We got to
teach him how to do it. And in this case,
it's we want justin fields to be in the pocket.
We have to be able to read defense as want
him to stay in the pocket more, longer and complete passes.
I understand that that's the stupidest thing you can do
to a quarterback coming out of college. Now, quarterbacks come
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out of college now full formed, right, they come out
as this is the player they are. They've been succeeding
playing this way their entire life. They succeeded in college
playing this way. It's the reason they are top picks
in the NFL draft. What you can do in college
throwing the football, running the football, right, this is how
you come in. And yet every quarterback and every player
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that I see fail that I can look at a
team saying we tried to teach him to do we
want him to do this way more. That's always gonna fail.
And teams are stupid when quarterbacks come into the league.
You can bang out the dents in their game. I'm
not saying they can't. They can't be taught, they can't
be molded a little bit. You can bang out the dents,
but that's as far as you can go. Because Justin
fields successful because of the way he played at Ohio State,
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So you want him to do that in the NFL.
It's what he brought him success all the way through.
Now you say, okay, we're gonna take away the instinctiveness
that you use that makes you a good player, and
we're gonna make you into something else. Right, The Raven's
been trying to do it with Lamar Jackson and he
hasn't sniffed his MVP form right, Because teams you can't
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do this. If you're a head coach, you have to
let the guy be who he is and kind of
bang out the dents. And if this means he's a
quarterback for five years, then he's a quarterback for five years.
BETTERFI a really great quarterback for five years than a
guy you try to change and in three years is
out of the league. Because that's what's gonna happen to
Justin Fields if you continue to try to turn him
into something that he's not. You gotta let a guy
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be who he is. This is not nineteen eighty three
or nineteen eighty nine where a guy comes out and say, hey,
you played at a small school. We need to teach you
footwork and all these things. You're either the way you are,
you're not. The Jets the same thing with Zack Wilson.
We're gonna teach you all these different things. Guess what,
Zack Wilson is not nearly the quarterback he was in
college because the Jets decided to say, just don't suck
and it's not working. Any team that tries to change
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a quarterback too much, it never works. And Justin Fields
is the latest guy for that example. And this is
on the Bears. This is on the Bears. Let me play, Okay,
so now they should let him play. Let him play
and let him do his thing and see how it goes.
Just like Al Pacino, when any given Sunday says at
the end, when Aaron Etckart wants to call in all
these different plays and all that stuff, and al Pacina goes, ah,
let the kid do his thing, right, and Aeronker goes,
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it's not about the kidness thing. Ah, Let the kid
do his thing. Confidence in the player to do what
they can do to their best extent. That's what teams
need to do with quarterbacks. And yet I see it
all the time from the three guys I just talked about,
and now you're seeing it with Justin Fields.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah. I mean, there's certainly a bit to the refinement
of it, and for Lamar Jackson, right, the expansion of
your game to where you can operate more efficiently and
effectively through the through the pocket, right as opposed to
one read and gone. But you can't eliminate.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It, right.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It's the old rule of thumb of all right, my offense,
and let's layer it over the top and you will
mold into it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
No, it's what does your quarterback do well?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Right. Yes, they finished with a terrible record and we
had the number one overall pick, but there were a
lot of things. I think anybody watching the Bears last
year would have said, all right, there's some positive stuff
from justin fields to work with. Now you try to
all right, let's layer, let's add on. Well they didn't
do it, get a lot done in the preseason at all,
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in the workouts in camp and certainly in preseason games.
So trying to get time in with DJ Moore and
all these other players not gonna happen. And I saw
the great yelling factories today of the Bears and the
you know, use whatever terms. Well it's like, yeah, that's
nothing that we haven't been saying for forty years in
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Chicago except for a couple of outliers in terms of
how the organization's been run. So nothing new here. Welcome
aboard for if you haven't been paying attention. But the
larger thing is looking at the tape. And again I
watched it again, so you didn't have to.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
And people can.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Jerry pick a couple of plays he's had time in
the pocket? Yeah, consistently. And what's interesting in all of
this is you've lost your left tackle for the year
and it's such an afterthought to what the games are
and you've got Kansas City this week or whatever. But
you could see the paralysis by analysis just not getting
rid of the football.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
So it's the and what would you rather have? Would
you rather have him in the pocket throwing an incomplete pass?
Uld rather have him tucking it under a couple seconds
and gaining eight yards, but throwing the incomplete pass?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
But what was rather have than to do? Hey? Take
off of the football, do your thing right? What Hey,
it's a result oriented business. You would have better results
letting him do his thing again? Bang out the dents.
You can't. But you can't change a guy. You can't
change a quality. He's been grating in the red zone.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
He's been great downfield, but you're not calling those plays,
you know, the downfield throws. You're not getting him out
to the edge, just like last year. Yeah right, they
started the same way last year. Hey, you stay within
the pocket and stay confined. No calls of design rollouts.
Get him on the edge and then he can look downfield.
If it's not there, he runs and picks up the
first down, live to fight another series of downs.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's just silliness. He's got the talent. He's got the talent.
It's on the Bears first, screwing it up.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But it is good that Pulls went out there instead
of forcing the coach to try to go do that.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Sure, Hey, we're gonna fire him in a few weeks,
so I'm gonna talk to your well.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
He got yesterday. He didn't have to do the talking
because it was his birthday today.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
He had known it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
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So here we are now two minute warning in San Francisco,
and it has been all forty nine ers. They lead
the game, they have the football. It is a thirty
to twelve lead. Brock Perdies Night is done twenty five
out of thirty seven for three ten and two touchdowns.
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Thirty seven. Shut up up, Sam Darnold Now in the
game playing quarterback and handing off and handing off beautifully.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
But did you see that step from under center? Oh yeah, yeah,
he looks lighter and talking.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
About leading the back into the hole. Right, yeah. He
looks much lighter in the forty nine ers uniform than
he ever did with the Jets or Panthers.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Now he looks so much anywhere extra like rib protection
or something. So yeah, a state puff, marshmallow. We're going
to hand the ball off. How good he is?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Just he survived the Jets as a miracle. He has
t shirts survived I survived the Jets, Mark Mark Safe
from playing with the New York Jets, you know, twenty
eighteen to twenty twenty two. Uh, Sam Darnald in the game.
Look at this, This is jare right now. I am
sorry for you, sorry for me. If you started Daniel
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Jones in Fantasy this week, This final status for Daniel
Jones twenty two out of thirty two, one hundred and
thirty seven yards and a pick and only five yards rushing.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You didn't even get the scramble running for his life,
you know from on the buff yards from Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
All right, I'll give you a deal. With dealer's choice,
What do you want to do first? Brock Perdy or
Brian Dabele and Daniel Jones? What do you wanna do first? Well,
the better story is the burning the Bernie. It tastes
like burning. You kind of just did that, rough Wick.
I did it exactly like burning.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Okay, because I'm thinking about Brian Davil with this, I'm
gonna lose. Red face screaming up and down, chasing official.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
He looks like the upset guy at a picnic, like, Hey,
who's been in my cooler taking all my stuff? Come on, right,
where are those kids? It was in my cooler? Uh?
I don't understand what the Giants did tonight. I I
really don't, not because I'm mad that I took the
Giants getting eleven and I'm gonna lose. Okay, that's fine.
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But the way the Giants were gonna win this game,
and I'm stunned is that I didn't get anything I
thought i'd get from the Giants on a Thursday night.
Now you're coming into this game with no Saquon Barkley.
What did I when I when I picked this game
last night, I said, Brian Dable, I know what he's
going to do because the guy last year coached the
year in the NFL not even close the first three weeks.
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I don't know what the hell he's doing. No, I
really do. You're talking about there is no more disappointing
head coach in the NFL so far than Brian Dable,
because you're talking about Week one where they don't show
up for a home opener against the Cowboys. Game two,
they don't show up for the entire first half against
the Cardinals. They pull it out in the second half.
And tonight, what I'm so surprised at is that what's
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the way for the Giants to win? The Giants to
win tonight was clearly going to be Daniel Jones getting
outside the pocket, making plays with his legs, right, because
you don't have a rushing attack and a little bit
of creativity, right, What did I say? Some trick plays,
some formations, some things you're not gonna you're not used
to of with the Giants. And I get it's a
short week, but come on, man, this is the NFL.
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And I didn't get any of that from Brian Dable tonight.
There was no creativity, There was no here's what we're
going to try to stay in this game.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It was like, we're just putting our offense out there
and seeing how it goes. Almost as if, hey, if
we lose the game, we're supposed to lose the game.
And from his fans standpoint, when a fan say, hey,
we're supposed to lose the game, I get it. From
a coach as standpoint, I don't get. I don't I
don't get Brian Dable at all. The first three weeks
of the season. Again, the guy was a genius last year.
Everything that he was, the Giants were more prepared for
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every game than the opposition was. He would win games
against teams he was supposed to beat, they wouldn't be close.
He would win games against teams with the same talent,
and he'd win games against teams with more talent. He
was a great coach. And now this year, I don't
get what he's doing. And tonight I don't get the
lack of preparation. I don't get the lack of creativity.
And we talked about a few minutes ago when the
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game was on the line, when it's twenty three to
twelve and the Niners have the ball and they're outside
of field goal range. They complete a pass on third
down for a first down to Christian McCaffrey and you
could see on the replay the ball hits the ground.
Now does McCaffrey have control of it? Are they going
to overturn it? Okay? I don't know if they overturn it,
But you gotta throw that challenge flag because you're talking
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about first down for the Niners in field goal range
and now or another three downs to get further into
field goal range. And the game is over and there's
no challenge from the Giants who had all three timeouts.
How do you not throw that flag?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Go?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Maybe I get lucky or the referee seat and go yep,
ball hit the ground and it's got to come out nothing.
And then what happened two plays later? Brock perty throws
a thirty yard touchdown to Deebo Samuel and the game
is over. He is I don't understand what's happened to
Brian Dable. It's almost like he is, you know, changed
by like one of those freaky Friday or spaceship moments,
and somebody like Adam Gase is coaching the team, and really,
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Brian tables brain is of Adam Gase's body somewhere. I
am stunned at what's going on with the Giants so
far through the first three weeks.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, you would have thought Mike Kafka and Dable, knowing
you're coming in shorthanded, you don't have sat Quon Barkley
at your disposal and Brita who's acquitted himself well and
spots before. Okay, fine, he's your lead guy. But Daniel
Jones making plays with They're like, look, it's a tough task,
right going to San Francisco short week. One of the
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best teams. We could argue what top three to four
teams in the NFL. Maybe you argue them first in
some circles while McCaffrey's healthy and you've got Purty playing
as efficiently as he is. But we look at the
situational football and third down defensive calls, so wink Martindale,
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he's on the hook.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Two.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
You had some curious penalties called on both sides. So
really not a lot game there, but certainly for the Giants.
A couple of times you watch Davile lose his mind,
but creativity on the offensive end, Jalen Hyatt a couple
of huge plays the rookie wide receiver last week to
get them back in that game to ultimately win it
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against Arizona. Played very few snaps, couldn't get on the
field and no targets. Londale Robinson comes back, a guy
who was a difference maker in parts of games he
played last year. Five targets. Daniel Jones two rushing attempts. Like,
that's the stat that will not make any sense to me.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Forty nine ers can take away Darren Waller, and yes
they're gonna spy Jones trying to run. But even like
we were talking about with fields before, designing a rollout
to get him to the edge to maybe break containment
and maybe you get a deep ball that you mix
therein and you get a little bit creative in your
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route and the route trees that you're running. Here, it
was a pedestrian effort all around. Couldn't get off the
field on third down and your point, We talk about
it with the NBA and college hoops all the time,
and when we dive into any other basketball endeavor, like
what are you doing? You're trying to extend the game
as long as you can, right give yourself a puncher's
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chance on that McCaffrey catch might have been overturn.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Maybe maybe not. But that's how do you not the game?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
How do you not throw it? It's that moment game
that's the whole game. That is, either you throw the
challenge flag, you win the challenge. It's fourth down and
maybe the Niners are punting and you get the ball
back down a score right, maybe right, Matt, Or you
give them the first down and the game is basically
over because they're gonna get in field goal range. And
as we see, they scored a touchdown two plays later.
(23:24):
That was the game. That was the game. I know
you want to throw a challenge flag when you know
you're gonna win. I understand that today, but this is, Hey,
this is rubber hits the road. This is the moment
of the game. And they didn't and he didn't throw
the flag, and I'm watching it saying, you've got to
be kidding. And they even showed him, even showed Brian
Dabiles day look it out of the field. No one's
telling him, hey, throw the flag. No one's saying, hey,
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maybe coach, Hey, ma I thought the ball hit there,
looked like it might hit the ground. Hey coach throw
that challenge, flag do something. Let let let let's try
to figure out if maybe we get a break on
this nothing from him. I don't know what's happened to
the guy. This is not the guy that I saw
last year coach rings around other teams with his preparation
and his game day adjustments. There there's this is not
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the same guy. Really, maybe maybe this is Ai. Brian
Dable and Brian Dables off somewhere going man. Last year
was really difficult, and I'm gonna take some time away
and I'm on an island right now somewhere just you know,
enjoying margaritas and hanging out. And we have AI, Brian Dable,
who look he looks like Brian Dables. He's still coaching
a little bit like Brian Dabel, but he's not doing
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Brian Dable things. I really, this is this is stunning
to me.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
And I know this game did not work according to
the script that has been so successful for Dable and
company last nineteen games. The graphic they threw up, they
average one hundred and forty five rushing yards per game. Okay,
this is where you know the old uh you know,
we we talked about friends earlier in the week, one
of the great lines uttered by the David Schwimmer character pivot. Pivot,
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you need to do something differently with your offense. The
run game is being taken away. You're not getting anything there.
Waller is being taken away. Guess what you got five
guys that are kind of the same in your receiving
core and the rookie deep threat that you suddenly decided not.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
To use a couple of big catches last week uncosgatable
and he's not there.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
We'll just trying to stretch the field. If nothing else.
These guys, we were throwing flags all over. Now they're
only twelve penalties in the game, certainly seem like a
lot more. Why because they were big. They were big
penalties throughout this game. So why not try to force
the issue. You'd already gotten one.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Uh fugazy which is a favorite order in sports radio. Forgezy.
You know, I mean we got one of those. What's
the fugazy? Forgezy is a fake, It's a forgeze. So
we got that. You know, we got one of those
along the sideline.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Why not throw it up a couple of times see
if you can't draw one with highatt downfield.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
He's something to handle. Look, no creativity and no adjustment.
When the Niners decide you want to go to Darreka,
We're not gonna allow you to go to Darren Waller.
And Waller never got in the rhythm of the game,
and he had a big play he could have made
he did not make. The forty nine Ers had the
plan coming in. Okay, this is their guy. So now
we stopped me and see and the Giants had no answer.
(26:13):
And now suddenly it was I'm watching the same play
as be run. And the forty nine ers have tight
coverage on the wide receivers because right now, the Giants
wideouts are just a bunch of guys. Right. Isaiah Hodgins
was a great find last year the end of the
year in the playoff, and now what do you even
get a target? One target, one target tonight?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
He was Daniel Jones's guy. Hyatt gets nine snaps, right.
I don't Wandale Robinson. I love him, right, he got
hurt last year. That was a big good to get
him back in. But I mean, they have no identity
right now, and I mean it. I don't get what
Brian Dable was trying to accomplish tonight. It's like he
walked into the game going, it's gonna be really tough.
(26:50):
Let's get out of this game without knee injuries. Like
really if he if he says that in this postgame
press conference, I would say, okay, boy, you're gonna get
killed for that. But at least I understand. At least
I understand, Hey, we weren't gonna win. This guy. I
want to get out of here with had a lot of
injuries and be ready to go in ten days. And
that's the season really starts. One and two is okay?
You know we lost to the Cowboy, we beat the Cardinals.
One and two were fine. See, he's just gonna start
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for us, and when we get Tae Quon back and
everything else, Like, at least I would get that. At
least I would get that. But I mean, this was tonight.
As the game kept getting a little bit further away
from them, there was no desperation. There was no sense
of urgency from the Giants say let's try something a
little bit here.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
And you played terrible football and you were still kind
of in the game. Yeah right, I mean that's the thing.
This one line, like.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
The Jets and the Cowboys from Sunday. This game looked
a lot like Jets copas.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
One turnover, one one opportunity, because I mean, you look
at the yardage, you look at the time of possession,
you look at the stats like there's there's just no comparison,
like you would be like, why wasn't this more than
the final score? Why was the differential? And not even
more from this game? But the Giants hung around, forced
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a couple of field goals, and then offensively just ineptitude.
I've watched this McCaffrey play a number of times, and
you know, even if you don't think you're gonna get it,
you've got to at least try to stop the momentum.
You gotta try try to do something instead. There's Deebo
Samuel one hundred and twenty nine yards and a score
for him tonight, and we just saw the efficiency of
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the forty nine ers on third down, all of those things,
and Brian Dable offensive wizard, coaching wizard, all of that.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
He took the night off. Maybe he's the Rex Ryan
of head coaches. Like he's peaking in his first year, right,
we talk about guys who peak as a rookie. You know,
and hey, this guy peaked as a rookie. Then he
like a Miles Austin someone like that. Oh yeahok, at
you hey, you know, maybe Brian Dable just just peaked
as a rookie head coach and that's it. And now
he's just hey, yeah, I'm a star now. Yeah, yeah,
(28:48):
you want to criticize me for my kid's birthday. Yeah,
I'm still there. I really, I'm no more disappointing a
head coach than Brian Dable so far in the NFL season, unreal, brutal.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
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Speaker 1 (29:08):
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much spicy mustard, Mike Carmen, But now I can breathe.
I think I could breathe in the moon.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I was gonna say that would really clear up the sinuses. Boy,
I was thinking of drinking some of that just to
help myself out.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Paul Harmon's finger must have more, must have more hot mustard.
I feel, I feel like Homer Simpson. Oh it was awful.
Oh my god, my head. But Tom Mustard, where can
I get some more love? Mustard? The Niners beat the
Giants tonight rather easy, yep, rather very workman like thirty
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to twelve. What the spread? My giants did not come
through for me? No, the Giants getting eleven. We tried
to tell you it was close, It was close. It
really wasn't. Well, Brian Dable really let me down.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Well, there was a lot working against it. And look
to do the excuse making, but let's just call it.
Coming into the game, you're playing down two offensive linemen. Yeah,
you're playing down Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
No, But I choose to blame Brian Dable. No, and
then you should.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I'm not saying you don't have to adapt and adjust
and try something different.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I don't know. It was. Look, Brian Dable, we talked
about him a few minutes ago, the most disappointing head
coach in the NFL so far this season. There was
no creativity, no way to get out of it, no
using Daniel Jones's legs, none of that tonight, And I'm
stunned at that from Brian Dable. Now, the flip side
of it, because we talked about him lot more on
him coming up in a bit is private because of
that mustard.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
I know it mattered because you know, you're happy that
brock Purty succeeded.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
I bet fifty crandit the Giants they lost harmon. Oh no,
the I would say the hate and the vitriol that
brock Purdy took after the first half of the Niners tonight,
people just get out of control, and I mean pundits
and analysts with wanting to jump on top and criticizing
(31:03):
until in the quarterback he stinks, Right, I get it.
We're in that time and we've had a week where
Kenny Pikett he stinks. Deshaun Watson he stinks. Justin fields,
he stinks. First half for the for the forty nine
did that all on air?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah? But first half of the forty nine Ers tonight,
he threw a couple of balls that could have been
picked and probably should have been picked, but they weren't.
And the end results were he threw for a buck
fifty in the first half and a touchdown and the
Niners had seventeen points. And this is why games are
sixty minutes long and not thirty minutes long. Because at
the end of the night, brock Perty was pretty good.
(31:36):
He throws for another touchdown, the clinches the game, and
the end of the night three ten and two touchdowns
twenty five out of thirty seven. You want me to
make it sound even better, make it sound better. I'm
gonna take me to a whole other level too. Oh,
take me to that.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Level from next gen stats. Ready, this is fun. The
Giants and wing Martindale, not the game show host, blitzed
Purty on eighty four point six percent of his dropbacks,
So that's the highest blitz rate they've ever recorded since
they've been in business. He was twenty of thirty one
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on those blitz attempts for two hundred and forty seven
yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Realignble with fire. Look, brock Party is not a guy
that's gonna win passing championships. He's not gonna throw forty
touchdowns in the year. What he's going to do is
give you is he's an upper level mid right. That's
he's not mid right, because that you know that that's likely,
you know that that's what you hope that Zach Wilson
becomes at some point is mid, but he's an upper
(32:37):
level mid and he's been that way since he came
into the league. This is a week where he throws
for two fifty to three hundred yards and two touchdowns,
doesn't turn the ball over a lot right now, four touchdowns,
no picks through the first three weeks of the season.
This is who brock Purty is. This is a guy
that you can win a Super Bowl with, you can
win multiple super Bowls with brock Purty. You don't need
to throw for three point fifty and four touchdowns every
(32:59):
single week, but you can't hand the ball off and
go for a buck fifty and a touchdown and a pick.
Right That's why what brock Perdy does is more than
good enough to win. He's elite. Any team that is
talented that gets this kind of production because he's been
nothing but steady since he came into the league, You're
gonna win a lot of games.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Right. If that's that's them, and it has been.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Your quarterback is two seventy five and two touchdowns, You're
gonna win. You're gonna win all the especially with the
talent that they have surrounding him. They want tonight no,
Brandon Ayuk doesn't matter. Tonight, other guys stepped up to
Perdy found them. He makes the right decisions with the football,
and that goes into your what you talk about blitzing
is that he always knows where to go with the
football and he makes those decisions saying, hey, I see
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where the one on one play is. I'm gonna give
my receiver a chance to win the ball here. It's
what he did with Deebo Samuel on the touchdown. He
does that a lot. He does that a ton.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
But these guys all fight through contact or we're talking
about yak yards after contact, yards after catch. Tonight it
was a lot of get a guy in space and
then off they go. Because the other thing the forty
nine ers do. And it was one thing I always
appreciate a guy that we both you know, we had
our moment with a puppy monkey baby.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
You had him as a JETI as a bear.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Brandon Marshall, like, one of the things you always appreciated
about his game was that he would block right if
the ball didn't come his way. He was downfield blocking,
and that's one of the things that the forty nine ers.
If you're going to be part of their system. You're
going to help and Yak is such a big part
of what they do. Play good defense, run the football,
find balance, and your quarterback doesn't have to be all worldly.
(34:33):
It worked for years with Jimmy Garoppolo and now maybe
Brock Party's Garoppolo plus right, I mean a little more efficiency,
a little more downfield strike, but the same results.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
You're winning games. And to what you guys said, there's
a reason Brock Party is eleven and one telling me
Man Rock Party, I think he had a reason he won.
Did you have a reason? What you guys said is
the reason he's won. There's a reason mountil you score
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could be a drive that puts it away for the
forty nine ers. And the only thing we're wondering is
there be a backdoor covered by the Giants. Twenty three
to twelve. The Niners have the lead in this game
and they have the football. This has been one of
those It's not that the Niners have played great and
it's not the Giants have played so incredibly poorly. But
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this is a case of when you're a really good team,
even your B game, you'll be a little bit over
a B game, because that's kind of what the Niners
have had so far tonight. Even your B game is
going to give trouble to a lot of teams. And
the Niners defense has been able to take Darren Waller
away and that's been a big thing because the Giants
are having trouble moving the football now. They are stiffening
(01:30):
in the red zone defensively, which is keeping them in
this game a bit. But you know, they have taken
away what the Giants like to do. No, Saquon Barkley
was really really rough coming in. I expected Daniel Jones
to get outside the pocket more. That has really stunned
me that the Giants have not done that a little bit.
And right now I'm kind of riding the lightning here
on my Giants getting eleven because it's a push. Right now.
(01:51):
I'm in twenty three, twenty three. I'm the only one
in the country who picked the Giants getting eleven tonight,
and I'm a little nervous about it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
No pushing through to the eleven points. I'd have gotten
on board there, right, that Saquon Barkley injury that pushed
it teetering past that ten breakthrough number there, ten and
a half eleven is where you found it in a book.
And obviously, as we've watched this game unfold, defense has
played well in spurts for the Giants, but then they
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surrender the third long to let a drive continue, and
long protracted drives, you know, are not your friend, you know,
normally for offenses. But the forty nine ers to this
point of avoided turnovers been able to convert your kicker.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Moody is still perfect on the year.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
And for brock Purty, it doesn't have to be sexy,
it doesn't have to be a dominant game. They're controlling
time of possession, running clock. They're up near four hundred
total yards to the one thirty eight put up by
the Giants. And to your point about Daniel Jones currently
credited officially with two carries for five yards. Shocking, right,
(02:59):
Brita got the touchdown run. That's truly the only time
he moved forward over the course of the night.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And I'll tell you something just happened, really surprisable. We'll
get to the Bears in a second. But the Giants were.
They had the forty nine ers in the third and
two and they were just outside of field goal range.
And the Niners complete a pass and Christian McCaffrey catches
it and he catches it right at the sticks and
they give him the first down, but he has to
(03:25):
come back to the ball and he catches it and
coming down, you can clearly see the ball hit the
ground and it was it's tough to see on the
play because he's got his arms around the ball, but
you can see the ball hit the ground. And I'm like, okay, well,
Brian Dables got to challenge this because this is the
game right here, this is the game you're talking about.
The Niners punting and getting and the Giants getting the
(03:46):
ball back down eleven and I'm waiting and I'm waiting
and I'm waiting and there's no challenge Nope, And I'm saying,
what are you what's going on here? How do you
not challenge that?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
This is the game.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Even if you lose, this is the game of care
about you timeouts? Right now, you're down by eleven.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
You got to keep down scores already exactly, well what
are you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And there's no challenge and I don't get why they
didn't throw the challenge flag. And what happens Two plays later,
the Niners are in the end zone Deebo Samuel on
a thirty yard touchdown catch, and it is now the
Niners up big, and the only thing we're wondering is
can the Giants get a back door cover? Can Daniel
Jones get you some fantasy points? Extra point is up
(04:26):
and good, making it thirty to twelve with six minutes
to go on the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
A Dori Jackson beaten on that route. Samuel, who had
left the game moments earlier. Earlier in this drive, looked
like he had landed awkwardly on the football or maybe
took a knee to the back going down one of
those fighting for extra yards, and then everybody comes from
behind and dog piles you. Now he's back and running
(04:51):
free in the secondary.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I think he's okay. I I think he's all right.
I think we saw him on the sideline.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You were a bit concerned, like, yeah, he looks a
and then he's back into the game and it's like, ah, here,
say I get.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
A free you go. No can know, Samuel, that's gonna
make things. Oh no, no, everything is fine.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, you're really cheering for your your giants to beat
the spread here, it's really in your brain.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
The most important thing of the night thirty to twelve,
now forty nine is with the lead again about six
minutes left to go in the game.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But you know, if Jackson had turned around, that could
have been the fourth would be interception.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, oh no, it's a thirty yard touchdowns. Still hating.
I'm sure people still hate rock Party tonight, which again
makes zero sense. O your fault. But speaking of quarterbacks,
we'll have more on this game coming up in a
few minutes. But speaking of quarterbacks, Bear's GM. I look,
I thought today we would get a little bit more
info on the Allen Williams situation. Defensive coordinator who was
(05:49):
fired or who had left the team a day ago
saying I'm gonna spend time with my family. He had
been away from the team for a few days. Reports
that Hallis Hall was raided, and then those reports debunked,
and then we find out today that oh no, no,
it was Williams home that was raided, not Hallis Hall.
Oh okay.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, So the original it's been crazy thing that sent
Twitter a buzz yesterday was both the home and the
Hallis Hall offices. That throws away, and then you get
McAfee and his show citing sources that Williams over the
red nobody's jumped out to say that that's categorically not true,
or at least I hadn't seen anything as the day
(06:28):
war on, because certainly the Bears aren't talking about it anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Nope, he's gone something to see here, So that happened,
and we're still waiting to hear that. But then we
get a press conference from Ryan Poles Bears GM who decided, Okay,
there's too much stuff going on, I need to say
some things here. So he said, we're still waiting for
(06:52):
information on the Allan Williams part of it. Okay, that's fine.
We understand that. I don't want to say anything until
we get it, because who knows when the FBI raided
somebody's house, man, That's.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Okay, And I don't want to be on the hook
for legal reasons, right as a reporter, as a talk show,
whatever else, and certainly for the Bears, you just want
to sit there and say nothing to see here.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
But then Poles addressed the Justin Field situation a day ago, said, hey,
you know the coaching that's done here. You know, I'm
thinking too much about the coaching. I need to just
have that happen during the week and then go out
and play on Sunday. It's too much in my head.
The coaches. I'm getting a lot, and it's a lot
to process. I'm not playing like I know I can play.
So this is Justin Fields basically saying, hey, I don't
(07:36):
really want to be coached this way anymore. And now
things you know are bad between he and eber Flus
and everybody else. But Ryan Poles decides today to say,
wait a minute, let me try to pour some cold
water on this and tell you that, hey, yeah, things
are tough right now. However, everybody loves Justin Fields.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
We have adversity right now. Slow start owing to not
where you want to be. We've dealt with life issues, injuries,
and that's all real part of what we do and
what we got to deal with in terms of Justin.
That can't be more clear than this. No one in
our entire building, none of our coaches see Justin as
a finger pointer at all is always taking ownership of
anything that's happened on the field. He works with his teammates,
(08:15):
works with his coaches.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Fine solution, except in this press conference yesterday. So everybody's
trying to make nice because they know for the next
few weeks they have to all make it work together.
And we told you yesterday, by the time we get
to the trade deadline. By the time we get to
that point, something's going to happen because it's now Justin
Fields versus Eberflus and the coaching staff. Either Eberflus is
going to get fired or Field is going to get benched.
(08:38):
That's what's going to happen. Right that. This is where
this has had at all. This is where it's all
going right now. Justin Fields decides I want to get
this out here. This is what I want to do
at quarterback. It's my career and if I have to
go someplace else after this year, I want to go
out my way. And this is ebra Flu's trying to
hold on to whatever cachet he still has because another
couple of losses and everybody's going to want him fired.
But it's going to be Fields is on the bench
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or eb is going to be fired. That's how this
is going to end. But let me just say this
because this is a situation that didn't need to happen.
Why because every team makes the same mistake with quarterbacks
when they bring him into the NFL. Is that they
all think that a quarterback coming in, Hey, yeah, he's good,
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but we need to teach him really really deeply how
to do X, how to do this. We got to
teach him how to do it. And in this case,
it's we want justin fields to be in the pocket.
We have to be able to read defense as want
him to stay in the pocket more, longer and complete passes.
I understand that that's the stupidest thing you can do
to a quarterback coming out of college. Now, quarterbacks come
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out of college now full formed, right, they come out
as this is the player they are. They've been succeeding
playing this way their entire life. They succeeded in college
playing this way. It's the reason they are top picks
in the NFL draft. What you can do in college
throwing the football, running the football, right, this is how
you come in. And yet every quarterback and every player
(10:05):
that I see fail that I can look at a
team saying we tried to teach him to do we
want him to do this way more. That's always gonna fail.
And teams are stupid when quarterbacks come into the league.
You can bang out the dents in their game. I'm
not saying they can't. They can't be taught, they can't
be molded a little bit. You can bang out the dents,
but that's as far as you can go. Because Justin
fields successful because of the way he played at Ohio State,
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So you want him to do that in the NFL.
It's what he brought him success all the way through.
Now you say, okay, we're gonna take away the instinctiveness
that you use that makes you a good player, and
we're gonna make you into something else. Right, The Raven's
been trying to do it with Lamar Jackson and he
hasn't sniffed his MVP form right, Because teams you can't
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do this. If you're a head coach, you have to
let the guy be who he is and kind of
bang out the dents. And if this means he's a
quarterback for five years, then he's a quarterback for five years.
BETTERFI a really great quarterback for five years than a
guy you try to change and in three years is
out of the league. Because that's what's gonna happen to
Justin Fields if you continue to try to turn him
into something that he's not. You gotta let a guy
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be who he is. This is not nineteen eighty three
or nineteen eighty nine where a guy comes out and say, hey,
you played at a small school. We need to teach you
footwork and all these things. You're either the way you are,
you're not. The Jets the same thing with Zack Wilson.
We're gonna teach you all these different things. Guess what,
Zack Wilson is not nearly the quarterback he was in
college because the Jets decided to say, just don't suck
and it's not working. Any team that tries to change
(11:30):
a quarterback too much, it never works. And Justin Fields
is the latest guy for that example. And this is
on the Bears. This is on the Bears. Let me play, Okay,
so now they should let him play. Let him play
and let him do his thing and see how it goes.
Just like Al Pacino, when any given Sunday says at
the end, when Aaron Etckart wants to call in all
these different plays and all that stuff, and al Pacina goes, ah,
let the kid do his thing, right, and Aeronker goes,
(11:52):
it's not about the kidness thing. Ah, Let the kid
do his thing. Confidence in the player to do what
they can do to their best extent. That's what teams
need to do with quarterbacks. And yet I see it
all the time from the three guys I just talked about,
and now you're seeing it with Justin Fields.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah. I mean, there's certainly a bit to the refinement
of it, and for Lamar Jackson, right, the expansion of
your game to where you can operate more efficiently and
effectively through the through the pocket, right as opposed to
one read and gone. But you can't eliminate.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It, right.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It's the old rule of thumb of all right, my offense,
and let's layer it over the top and you will
mold into it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
No, it's what does your quarterback do well?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Right. Yes, they finished with a terrible record and we
had the number one overall pick, but there were a
lot of things. I think anybody watching the Bears last
year would have said, all right, there's some positive stuff
from justin fields to work with. Now you try to
all right, let's layer, let's add on. Well they didn't
do it, get a lot done in the preseason at all,
(12:59):
in the workouts in camp and certainly in preseason games.
So trying to get time in with DJ Moore and
all these other players not gonna happen. And I saw
the great yelling factories today of the Bears and the
you know, use whatever terms. Well it's like, yeah, that's
nothing that we haven't been saying for forty years in
(13:22):
Chicago except for a couple of outliers in terms of
how the organization's been run. So nothing new here. Welcome
aboard for if you haven't been paying attention. But the
larger thing is looking at the tape. And again I
watched it again, so you didn't have to.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
And people can.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Jerry pick a couple of plays he's had time in
the pocket? Yeah, consistently. And what's interesting in all of
this is you've lost your left tackle for the year
and it's such an afterthought to what the games are
and you've got Kansas City this week or whatever. But
you could see the paralysis by analysis just not getting
rid of the football.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
So it's the and what would you rather have? Would
you rather have him in the pocket throwing an incomplete pass?
Uld rather have him tucking it under a couple seconds
and gaining eight yards, but throwing the incomplete pass?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
But what was rather have than to do? Hey? Take
off of the football, do your thing right? What Hey,
it's a result oriented business. You would have better results
letting him do his thing again? Bang out the dents.
You can't. But you can't change a guy. You can't
change a quality. He's been grating in the red zone.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
He's been great downfield, but you're not calling those plays,
you know, the downfield throws. You're not getting him out
to the edge, just like last year. Yeah right, they
started the same way last year. Hey, you stay within
the pocket and stay confined. No calls of design rollouts.
Get him on the edge and then he can look downfield.
If it's not there, he runs and picks up the
first down, live to fight another series of downs.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's just silliness. He's got the talent. He's got the talent.
It's on the Bears first, screwing it up.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But it is good that Pulls went out there instead
of forcing the coach to try to go do that.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Sure, Hey, we're gonna fire him in a few weeks,
so I'm gonna talk to your well.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
He got yesterday. He didn't have to do the talking
because it was his birthday today.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
He had known it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
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So here we are now two minute warning in San Francisco,
and it has been all forty nine ers. They lead
the game, they have the football. It is a thirty
to twelve lead. Brock Perdies Night is done twenty five
out of thirty seven for three ten and two touchdowns.
(15:58):
Thirty seven. Shut up up, Sam Darnold Now in the
game playing quarterback and handing off and handing off beautifully.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
But did you see that step from under center? Oh yeah, yeah,
he looks lighter and talking.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
About leading the back into the hole. Right, yeah. He
looks much lighter in the forty nine ers uniform than
he ever did with the Jets or Panthers.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Now he looks so much anywhere extra like rib protection
or something. So yeah, a state puff, marshmallow. We're going
to hand the ball off. How good he is?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Just he survived the Jets as a miracle. He has
t shirts survived I survived the Jets, Mark Mark Safe
from playing with the New York Jets, you know, twenty
eighteen to twenty twenty two. Uh, Sam Darnald in the game.
Look at this, This is jare right now. I am
sorry for you, sorry for me. If you started Daniel
(16:46):
Jones in Fantasy this week, This final status for Daniel
Jones twenty two out of thirty two, one hundred and
thirty seven yards and a pick and only five yards rushing.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You didn't even get the scramble running for his life,
you know from on the buff yards from Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
All right, I'll give you a deal. With dealer's choice,
What do you want to do first? Brock Perdy or
Brian Dabele and Daniel Jones? What do you wanna do first? Well,
the better story is the burning the Bernie. It tastes
like burning. You kind of just did that, rough Wick.
I did it exactly like burning.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Okay, because I'm thinking about Brian Davil with this, I'm
gonna lose. Red face screaming up and down, chasing official.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
He looks like the upset guy at a picnic, like, Hey,
who's been in my cooler taking all my stuff? Come on, right,
where are those kids? It was in my cooler? Uh?
I don't understand what the Giants did tonight. I I
really don't, not because I'm mad that I took the
Giants getting eleven and I'm gonna lose. Okay, that's fine.
(17:50):
But the way the Giants were gonna win this game,
and I'm stunned is that I didn't get anything I
thought i'd get from the Giants on a Thursday night.
Now you're coming into this game with no Saquon Barkley.
What did I when I when I picked this game
last night, I said, Brian Dable, I know what he's
going to do because the guy last year coached the
year in the NFL not even close the first three weeks.
(18:12):
I don't know what the hell he's doing. No, I
really do. You're talking about there is no more disappointing
head coach in the NFL so far than Brian Dable,
because you're talking about Week one where they don't show
up for a home opener against the Cowboys. Game two,
they don't show up for the entire first half against
the Cardinals. They pull it out in the second half.
And tonight, what I'm so surprised at is that what's
(18:35):
the way for the Giants to win? The Giants to
win tonight was clearly going to be Daniel Jones getting
outside the pocket, making plays with his legs, right, because
you don't have a rushing attack and a little bit
of creativity, right, What did I say? Some trick plays,
some formations, some things you're not gonna you're not used
to of with the Giants. And I get it's a
short week, but come on, man, this is the NFL.
(18:55):
And I didn't get any of that from Brian Dable tonight.
There was no creativity, There was no here's what we're
going to try to stay in this game.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It was like, we're just putting our offense out there
and seeing how it goes. Almost as if, hey, if
we lose the game, we're supposed to lose the game.
And from his fans standpoint, when a fan say, hey,
we're supposed to lose the game, I get it. From
a coach as standpoint, I don't get. I don't I
don't get Brian Dable at all. The first three weeks
of the season. Again, the guy was a genius last year.
Everything that he was, the Giants were more prepared for
(19:22):
every game than the opposition was. He would win games
against teams he was supposed to beat, they wouldn't be close.
He would win games against teams with the same talent,
and he'd win games against teams with more talent. He
was a great coach. And now this year, I don't
get what he's doing. And tonight I don't get the
lack of preparation. I don't get the lack of creativity.
And we talked about a few minutes ago when the
(19:43):
game was on the line, when it's twenty three to
twelve and the Niners have the ball and they're outside
of field goal range. They complete a pass on third
down for a first down to Christian McCaffrey and you
could see on the replay the ball hits the ground.
Now does McCaffrey have control of it? Are they going
to overturn it? Okay? I don't know if they overturn it,
But you gotta throw that challenge flag because you're talking
(20:04):
about first down for the Niners in field goal range
and now or another three downs to get further into
field goal range. And the game is over and there's
no challenge from the Giants who had all three timeouts.
How do you not throw that flag?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Go?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Maybe I get lucky or the referee seat and go yep,
ball hit the ground and it's got to come out nothing.
And then what happened two plays later? Brock perty throws
a thirty yard touchdown to Deebo Samuel and the game
is over. He is I don't understand what's happened to
Brian Dable. It's almost like he is, you know, changed
by like one of those freaky Friday or spaceship moments,
and somebody like Adam Gase is coaching the team, and really,
(20:39):
Brian tables brain is of Adam Gase's body somewhere. I
am stunned at what's going on with the Giants so
far through the first three weeks.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah, you would have thought Mike Kafka and Dable, knowing
you're coming in shorthanded, you don't have sat Quon Barkley
at your disposal and Brita who's acquitted himself well and
spots before. Okay, fine, he's your lead guy. But Daniel
Jones making plays with They're like, look, it's a tough task,
right going to San Francisco short week. One of the
(21:10):
best teams. We could argue what top three to four
teams in the NFL. Maybe you argue them first in
some circles while McCaffrey's healthy and you've got Purty playing
as efficiently as he is. But we look at the
situational football and third down defensive calls, so wink Martindale,
(21:31):
he's on the hook.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Two.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
You had some curious penalties called on both sides. So
really not a lot game there, but certainly for the Giants.
A couple of times you watch Davile lose his mind,
but creativity on the offensive end, Jalen Hyatt a couple
of huge plays the rookie wide receiver last week to
get them back in that game to ultimately win it
(21:54):
against Arizona. Played very few snaps, couldn't get on the
field and no targets. Londale Robinson comes back, a guy
who was a difference maker in parts of games he
played last year. Five targets. Daniel Jones two rushing attempts. Like,
that's the stat that will not make any sense to me.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Forty nine ers can take away Darren Waller, and yes
they're gonna spy Jones trying to run. But even like
we were talking about with fields before, designing a rollout
to get him to the edge to maybe break containment
and maybe you get a deep ball that you mix
therein and you get a little bit creative in your
(22:35):
route and the route trees that you're running. Here, it
was a pedestrian effort all around. Couldn't get off the
field on third down and your point, We talk about
it with the NBA and college hoops all the time,
and when we dive into any other basketball endeavor, like
what are you doing? You're trying to extend the game
as long as you can, right give yourself a puncher's
(22:57):
chance on that McCaffrey catch might have been overturn.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Maybe maybe not. But that's how do you not the game?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
How do you not throw it? It's that moment game
that's the whole game. That is, either you throw the
challenge flag, you win the challenge. It's fourth down and
maybe the Niners are punting and you get the ball
back down a score right, maybe right, Matt, Or you
give them the first down and the game is basically
over because they're gonna get in field goal range. And
as we see, they scored a touchdown two plays later.
(23:24):
That was the game. That was the game. I know
you want to throw a challenge flag when you know
you're gonna win. I understand that today, but this is, Hey,
this is rubber hits the road. This is the moment
of the game. And they didn't and he didn't throw
the flag, and I'm watching it saying, you've got to
be kidding. And they even showed him, even showed Brian
Dabiles day look it out of the field. No one's
telling him, hey, throw the flag. No one's saying, hey,
(23:45):
maybe coach, Hey, ma I thought the ball hit there,
looked like it might hit the ground. Hey coach throw
that challenge, flag do something. Let let let let's try
to figure out if maybe we get a break on
this nothing from him. I don't know what's happened to
the guy. This is not the guy that I saw
last year coach rings around other teams with his preparation
and his game day adjustments. There there's this is not
(24:06):
the same guy. Really, maybe maybe this is Ai. Brian
Dable and Brian Dables off somewhere going man. Last year
was really difficult, and I'm gonna take some time away
and I'm on an island right now somewhere just you know,
enjoying margaritas and hanging out. And we have AI, Brian Dable,
who look he looks like Brian Dables. He's still coaching
a little bit like Brian Dabel, but he's not doing
(24:27):
Brian Dable things. I really, this is this is stunning
to me.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
And I know this game did not work according to
the script that has been so successful for Dable and
company last nineteen games. The graphic they threw up, they
average one hundred and forty five rushing yards per game. Okay,
this is where you know the old uh you know,
we we talked about friends earlier in the week, one
of the great lines uttered by the David Schwimmer character pivot. Pivot,
(24:56):
you need to do something differently with your offense. The
run game is being taken away. You're not getting anything there.
Waller is being taken away. Guess what you got five
guys that are kind of the same in your receiving
core and the rookie deep threat that you suddenly decided not.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
To use a couple of big catches last week uncosgatable
and he's not there.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
We'll just trying to stretch the field. If nothing else.
These guys, we were throwing flags all over. Now they're
only twelve penalties in the game, certainly seem like a
lot more. Why because they were big. They were big
penalties throughout this game. So why not try to force
the issue. You'd already gotten one.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Uh fugazy which is a favorite order in sports radio. Forgezy.
You know, I mean we got one of those. What's
the fugazy? Forgezy is a fake, It's a forgeze. So
we got that. You know, we got one of those
along the sideline.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Why not throw it up a couple of times see
if you can't draw one with highatt downfield.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
He's something to handle. Look, no creativity and no adjustment.
When the Niners decide you want to go to Darreka,
We're not gonna allow you to go to Darren Waller.
And Waller never got in the rhythm of the game,
and he had a big play he could have made
he did not make. The forty nine Ers had the
plan coming in. Okay, this is their guy. So now
we stopped me and see and the Giants had no answer.
(26:13):
And now suddenly it was I'm watching the same play
as be run. And the forty nine ers have tight
coverage on the wide receivers because right now, the Giants
wideouts are just a bunch of guys. Right. Isaiah Hodgins
was a great find last year the end of the
year in the playoff, and now what do you even
get a target? One target, one target tonight?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
He was Daniel Jones's guy. Hyatt gets nine snaps, right.
I don't Wandale Robinson. I love him, right, he got
hurt last year. That was a big good to get
him back in. But I mean, they have no identity
right now, and I mean it. I don't get what
Brian Dable was trying to accomplish tonight. It's like he
walked into the game going, it's gonna be really tough.
(26:50):
Let's get out of this game without knee injuries. Like
really if he if he says that in this postgame
press conference, I would say, okay, boy, you're gonna get
killed for that. But at least I understand. At least
I understand, Hey, we weren't gonna win. This guy. I
want to get out of here with had a lot of
injuries and be ready to go in ten days. And
that's the season really starts. One and two is okay?
You know we lost to the Cowboy, we beat the Cardinals.
One and two were fine. See, he's just gonna start
(27:11):
for us, and when we get Tae Quon back and
everything else, Like, at least I would get that. At
least I would get that. But I mean, this was tonight.
As the game kept getting a little bit further away
from them, there was no desperation. There was no sense
of urgency from the Giants say let's try something a
little bit here.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
And you played terrible football and you were still kind
of in the game. Yeah right, I mean that's the thing.
This one line, like.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
The Jets and the Cowboys from Sunday. This game looked
a lot like Jets copas.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
One turnover, one one opportunity, because I mean, you look
at the yardage, you look at the time of possession,
you look at the stats like there's there's just no comparison,
like you would be like, why wasn't this more than
the final score? Why was the differential? And not even
more from this game? But the Giants hung around, forced
(27:56):
a couple of field goals, and then offensively just ineptitude.
I've watched this McCaffrey play a number of times, and
you know, even if you don't think you're gonna get it,
you've got to at least try to stop the momentum.
You gotta try try to do something instead. There's Deebo
Samuel one hundred and twenty nine yards and a score
for him tonight, and we just saw the efficiency of
(28:20):
the forty nine ers on third down, all of those things,
and Brian Dable offensive wizard, coaching wizard, all of that.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
He took the night off. Maybe he's the Rex Ryan
of head coaches. Like he's peaking in his first year, right,
we talk about guys who peak as a rookie. You know,
and hey, this guy peaked as a rookie. Then he
like a Miles Austin someone like that. Oh yeahok, at
you hey, you know, maybe Brian Dable just just peaked
as a rookie head coach and that's it. And now
he's just hey, yeah, I'm a star now. Yeah, yeah,
(28:48):
you want to criticize me for my kid's birthday. Yeah,
I'm still there. I really, I'm no more disappointing a
head coach than Brian Dable so far in the NFL season, unreal, brutal.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
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Speaker 1 (29:08):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmus. Who just had a little bit too
much spicy mustard, Mike Carmen, But now I can breathe.
I think I could breathe in the moon.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I was gonna say that would really clear up the sinuses. Boy,
I was thinking of drinking some of that just to
help myself out.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Paul Harmon's finger must have more, must have more hot mustard.
I feel, I feel like Homer Simpson. Oh it was awful.
Oh my god, my head. But Tom Mustard, where can
I get some more love? Mustard? The Niners beat the
Giants tonight rather easy, yep, rather very workman like thirty
(29:47):
to twelve. What the spread? My giants did not come
through for me? No, the Giants getting eleven. We tried
to tell you it was close, It was close. It
really wasn't. Well, Brian Dable really let me down.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Well, there was a lot working against it. And look
to do the excuse making, but let's just call it.
Coming into the game, you're playing down two offensive linemen. Yeah,
you're playing down Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
No, But I choose to blame Brian Dable. No, and
then you should.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I'm not saying you don't have to adapt and adjust
and try something different.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I don't know. It was. Look, Brian Dable, we talked
about him a few minutes ago, the most disappointing head
coach in the NFL so far this season. There was
no creativity, no way to get out of it, no
using Daniel Jones's legs, none of that tonight, And I'm
stunned at that from Brian Dable. Now, the flip side
of it, because we talked about him lot more on
him coming up in a bit is private because of
that mustard.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
I know it mattered because you know, you're happy that
brock Purty succeeded.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
I bet fifty crandit the Giants they lost harmon. Oh no,
the I would say the hate and the vitriol that
brock Purdy took after the first half of the Niners tonight,
people just get out of control, and I mean pundits
and analysts with wanting to jump on top and criticizing
(31:03):
until in the quarterback he stinks, Right, I get it.
We're in that time and we've had a week where
Kenny Pikett he stinks. Deshaun Watson he stinks. Justin fields,
he stinks. First half for the for the forty nine
did that all on air?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah? But first half of the forty nine Ers tonight,
he threw a couple of balls that could have been
picked and probably should have been picked, but they weren't.
And the end results were he threw for a buck
fifty in the first half and a touchdown and the
Niners had seventeen points. And this is why games are
sixty minutes long and not thirty minutes long. Because at
the end of the night, brock Perty was pretty good.
(31:36):
He throws for another touchdown, the clinches the game, and
the end of the night three ten and two touchdowns
twenty five out of thirty seven. You want me to
make it sound even better, make it sound better. I'm
gonna take me to a whole other level too. Oh,
take me to that.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Level from next gen stats. Ready, this is fun. The
Giants and wing Martindale, not the game show host, blitzed
Purty on eighty four point six percent of his dropbacks,
So that's the highest blitz rate they've ever recorded since
they've been in business. He was twenty of thirty one
(32:10):
on those blitz attempts for two hundred and forty seven
yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Realignble with fire. Look, brock Party is not a guy
that's gonna win passing championships. He's not gonna throw forty
touchdowns in the year. What he's going to do is
give you is he's an upper level mid right. That's
he's not mid right, because that you know that that's likely,
you know that that's what you hope that Zach Wilson
becomes at some point is mid, but he's an upper
(32:37):
level mid and he's been that way since he came
into the league. This is a week where he throws
for two fifty to three hundred yards and two touchdowns,
doesn't turn the ball over a lot right now, four touchdowns,
no picks through the first three weeks of the season.
This is who brock Purty is. This is a guy
that you can win a Super Bowl with, you can
win multiple super Bowls with brock Purty. You don't need
to throw for three point fifty and four touchdowns every
(32:59):
single week, but you can't hand the ball off and
go for a buck fifty and a touchdown and a pick.
Right That's why what brock Perdy does is more than
good enough to win. He's elite. Any team that is
talented that gets this kind of production because he's been
nothing but steady since he came into the league, You're
gonna win a lot of games.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Right. If that's that's them, and it has been.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Your quarterback is two seventy five and two touchdowns, You're
gonna win. You're gonna win all the especially with the
talent that they have surrounding him. They want tonight no,
Brandon Ayuk doesn't matter. Tonight, other guys stepped up to
Perdy found them. He makes the right decisions with the football,
and that goes into your what you talk about blitzing
is that he always knows where to go with the
football and he makes those decisions saying, hey, I see
(33:41):
where the one on one play is. I'm gonna give
my receiver a chance to win the ball here. It's
what he did with Deebo Samuel on the touchdown. He
does that a lot. He does that a ton.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
But these guys all fight through contact or we're talking
about yak yards after contact, yards after catch. Tonight it
was a lot of get a guy in space and
then off they go. Because the other thing the forty
nine ers do. And it was one thing I always
appreciate a guy that we both you know, we had
our moment with a puppy monkey baby.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
You had him as a JETI as a bear.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Brandon Marshall, like, one of the things you always appreciated
about his game was that he would block right if
the ball didn't come his way. He was downfield blocking,
and that's one of the things that the forty nine ers.
If you're going to be part of their system. You're
going to help and Yak is such a big part
of what they do. Play good defense, run the football,
find balance, and your quarterback doesn't have to be all worldly.
(34:33):
It worked for years with Jimmy Garoppolo and now maybe
Brock Party's Garoppolo plus right, I mean a little more efficiency,
a little more downfield strike, but the same results.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
You're winning games. And to what you guys said, there's
a reason Brock Party is eleven and one telling me
Man Rock Party, I think he had a reason he won.
Did you have a reason? What you guys said is
the reason he's won. There's a reason mountil you score
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