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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (00:01):
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Speaker 4 (00:18):
All right, we are back on Media Row in San Francisco.
Getting ready, thank God for the game on Sunday. Understood
about my wits end. Ready to rock and roll on
Sunday at three thirty hopefully watch the Seahawks take this
thing home for the second Lombardi in franchise history. But
a guy that I think knows a thing or two
about this town. He played football at San Jose State.
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He was a forty nine er for a while. It
is with us now in person from Media Row in
the Bay Area. Jeff Garcia, former quarterback, with us on
the year.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
How are you, man, Hey, I'm doing great, Thank you,
and I know you guys have a lot to cheer
about with Seattle having such a great year. And yep,
hopefully they can finish it differently than the last time
they faced the Patriots on the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, ever thought about that.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
By the way, well, I was hoping Marshawn would get
a one day, one game contract to say one yard
line give.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It to the Beasts.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
How about we do this, We bring Malcolm Butler out
for the coin toss, Marshawn Lynch, let him wrestle. Whoever
wins wins the Lombardy. Oh, never mind the game, right
because I think Marshawn Lynch would rip him apart.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
By the way, my money's on Marshall for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Let's talk about, first of all, the two quarterbacks in
this game, right, I mean obviously second year guy versus
a guy that was up until last year kind of
a journeyman in Sam Donald. How surprised are you if
I would have come to you three or four years ago,
for example, and said, Sam Donald, the Super Bowl is
in your hometown in twenty twenty six, and Sam Donald
is going to be starting in that game.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Would you bought that?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
No way?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Yeah, no way, if if anything, in order to buy that,
you would have had to think it was a Trent
dil for like situation with the Baltimore Ravens, and nothing
against Trent, but that defense was ferocious and led that
team that being said, you have to love the path
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that Darnold has gone. You know, the New York Jets
were hoping to land a Drake May type situation that
New England has been able to build with Drake in
New England.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
But the New York Jets are the New York Jets.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
There's a reason why they are where they are right
And it's unfortunate that you anoint so much pressure on
a young man to be your savior when you don't
have the rest of the pieces to the puzzle lined
up in order to help that young man, and that
young man is not ready to take on that sort
of responsibility. But at twenty eight, twenty nine years old,
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now he's hitting the prime of his career.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
He could have still ten years totally.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Left in his career and you could get the ten
best years of your life. I came into the NFL
at twenty nine years old, five years in the Canadian
Football from Canada. Five years I went. I weathered the storm.
I went through experiences both good and bad, a lot
of them good playing up in the Canadian Football League
with Calgary. That being said, when I came to the
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forty nine ers, that first year, I went through a
lot of ups and downs.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
That team was going through a transition. But I wouldn't
have been able to handle that if I was twenty
two years old.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
At twenty nine, I could weather it, I could deal
with it. I could block out the noise. The next year,
at thirty years old, I broke a record for passing
yard for the forty nine ers that stood for twenty
plus years until Brock broke it a couple of years ago.
I did things the next three years, led them back
to the playoffs, back to back thirty plus touchdown seasons,
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three Pro Bowls, things that were never probably expected out
of a guy named Jeff Garcia, following Joe Montana and
Steve Young. But I had that awareness, that maturity, that
confidence to go into a locker room, and even though
I was new to the team, I wasn't wet behind
the ears. And Darnold has gone through that now having
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to experience what he did in New York Carolina. Then
he finally got his feet underneath him when he was
able to be under Kyle Yes, watch Brock play the game,
learn a system that is built for a quarterback, to
learn how to manage the game properly, utilizing a run game,
the play action, the movement. Then he goes to O'Connell
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out there in Minnesota who's from that same tree, and
then now Kubiak.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
In Seattle, another guy that comes out of the.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
McVeigh, Shanahan, all those guys systems, So you have carry
over and what he did in Minnesota and what he
now put back to back two of the greatest years
for an NFL quarterback as far as wins are concerned.
It's just phenomenal and I'm happy for him when he.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Was talking about blocking out the noise, and he has
been here before.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
He was with them in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Now, he wasn't the starter, He wasn't getting all the
questions of starting quarterback would get. But how much does
it help him that he was a part of this
media circus just two years.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Ago, absolutely without being the headliner. I think he was
a great preparation for him, just how to handle the
week where you need to get your rest, where you're
gonna eat, you know. Back then, not being the starter,
maybe a little bit more open to hey visiting with
family and friends, but maybe seeing how certain guys were
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handling all of the exposure or the attention and how
to cope with.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That because it can become a distraction.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
And I think he's at a time in his life
age wise, maturity wise, experience wise, having been with the
team that's gone to the to the Super Bowl. Hey,
I'm I'm focused on what the task is at hand,
and that's leading this team to a win on Sunday.
Nothing else matters. I don't care about a party. I
don't care about a dinner with family.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It could all wait.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
We'll celebrate when it's all said and done. Well, take
care of business right now.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Jeff Garcia is with us. Spent a long time in
the National Football League. We remember you more as a Niner.
By the way, playing the Hawks. You known back in
the day of the Kingdome a little bit there before
they moved over.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I didn't play in the Kingdome.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Never aged me too much. Ninety nine, two thousand, two thousand.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I got we'll see, Seattle was not in our conference.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Three, so we were doing trips to New Orleans, Carolina, Atlanta,
and Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
For for division games.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Then they fixed it.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I'm looking at your photo at Pro Football Reference dot Com.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I think you look younger now than you did back.
That's odd.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
We need to get that picture.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Look at the ginger, I mean trying to trying to
hold on to some hair that just wasn't holding on.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
How is this thing, Jeff get derailed for Seahawks?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Right? Like the favorites obviously okay, fine, but they're not
twenty point favorites or four and a half point favorites.
How does this thing get derailed for the Seahawks if
it does get the.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
First of all two very competitive football teams.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I don't know how.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
The only way that it could get derailed is if
the entire D line was thrown into jail the night
before the game.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Wow, when you have a.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
D line like Seattle has and an ability to get.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
After the pass the passer, the.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Ability to play team defense the way that they play
and not taking anything away from New England, they played
good defense as well, But what I saw is the
difference to that Seattle team, especially at the latter parts
of the season, and how they dominated the forty nine ers.
It was defensively shutting teams down. Yes, how they played
defensively allowed their running game to catch its wheels during
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the game allowed Darnald to catch his rhythm during the game,
and granted, he's got some great weapons at.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
His at his disposal as well.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
So I really think it's first of all, you got
a quarterback that has has aged well and has experience.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
He's not gonna go out there.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Hey, he had a rough playoff game last year in Minnesota,
so he had that experience. Yes, Okay, don't screw it up. Okay,
go out there, take what the defense gives me. Utilize
my running game. But your defense is going to give
him opportunities. And you know, if they can force that
young quarterback on the other side into a couple of
critical errors, that's gonna work in favor for Seattle.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
So do you see the Patriots having as tough a
time scoring as the Niners did those two times?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
They played set.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Different, different approach offensively. But I think I think, well,
here's the difference. New England's offensive line is better than
the forty nine Ers offensive line, So I think they're
gonna they're gonna have a little bit better opportunity of
maybe giving Drake may that half a second longer.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It might not be too much longer.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
But that little bit of time and Drake is extremely
athletic as well. He can lengthen plays when need be
when it breaks down around him. But that being said,
I don't think that there's gonna be a huge margin
of success that New England will be able to create
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based upon just the fact that they have a better
offensive line in a different type of passing game. I
think Seattle's capable of shutting down whoever whenever they play
against somebody, and hey, it stems from their head coach.
He's a defensive minded guy. The philosophy that he has
brought to the Seattle Seahawks. I mean, you gotta love
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the way they play team football, special teams.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
They're solid.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
They had a great pickup midseason getting the returner that
they got. I mean, he creates explosive plays offensively until
the running back got injured.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
They had a two headed running game. They have weapons out.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Side, and they have a good quarterback that has you know,
experience under his belt.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And then that defense has just risen.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
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Speaker 1 (10:57):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Good stuff, Thank you guys. Right yep.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Jeff Garcia with US former NFL quarterback, former Niner on
the radio show says the only way this thing gets
derailed for the Seahawks on Sunday, I believe the quote
was if the entire d line gets thrown in jail,
then it'll get direct right.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Well, just make sure that doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
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keep Byron Murphy and Leonard Williams and the gang out
of prison on Saturday Night and We'll be fine. We
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