49ers vs. Rams in Australia: Brock Purdy, Raheem Morris, and the Keys to Victory

0:00This is Jorva! Chevy is called the heartbeat of America for a reason, and Silverado keeps its rhythm. You feel it in the Turbo Max engine with Best in Class Standard torque, and available Z71 off-road packets that keeps you rolling when the road turns rough. And the most functional truck bed with Best in Class Cargo space, they're trucks that work as hard as you do, so you can do more of what you love without missing a beat. See your Bay Area Chevy dealer today. Based on latest competitive information, it excludes other GM vehicles. Now back to Murfing Marcus on the Sports Leader. Streaming live on vSportsleater.com and KNBR. The Sports Leader app. I tell you what, in terms of the court of public opinion, the 49ers are through to the semis without dropping a cent. They have absolutely won over the entire city. This is a Rams game. Australia is supposed to be the Rams district. They've put in work over the last few years with a few different trips and clinics,

1:00and that sort of thing. But it's fair to say that everything that the 49ers have done over the last week has completely blown that out of the water. The enthusiasm that the players have shown, the fact that they've complemented the city, they've been out and about, they've done things, the executives have been here, given time to kids. There's a real feel that San Francisco, even though they weren't obligated to, decided to come out and give of themselves to Melbourne and Australia, whereas the thought is that even though the Rams are the home team, this is more of just a business trip for them. Yeah, good stuff. Zander McGuire from Seven News, Melbourne, on our show. This morning, good book in John Curley, and shout out, Zander McGuire for staying up late to give us that drop. And I had to think about Marcus, he said, none is a through to the semis without dropping a cent. I was like, wait, what? I mean, I kinda understood what he was talking about, but I just looked it up. That's a phrase in Australia, popularized by Aussie rules, football, legend, Sam Newman. It's a metaphor from tennis, meaning you cruise to the semifinals without dropping a set, but in Australia, it's a phrase for,

2:01quote, cruising through life seamlessly, pulling something off flawlessly, getting a perfect result. Oh, mate, you threw the semis to that drop in a set. So it's like the American version of a sweep. Yeah, kinda, yeah. But not really. I think it's even better through to the semis, because you still gotta get through the semifinals, but it's pretty good, man, pretty good. That's the nine. Well, thank you for the clarification, because at first I thought he said without dropping a cent. So did I. And I thought like a penny, a nickel? So I actually Googled the phrase C-E-N-T, and they said, you may have misheard it set. Yeah. You want to play it again there? Turn the court of public opinion that could make terrible Australian accent. I tell you what, in terms of the court of public opinion, the 49ers are through to the semis without dropping a cent. I love it. Well, then they got to play the damn game. Okay, we won the PR war great. I mean, it matters, right? There's karma, there's energy, there's bio rhythms, all that stuff. And it's gonna matter when it comes to momentum and home field advantage. I mean, that's one of the reasons why Sean McVeigh requested to the NFL

3:01that Kyle and the 49ers fly down to Australia, because they didn't want to deal with Levi South and the SoFi takeover. So, guess what? You know what? 49er fans are gonna takeover MCG, or as Matt Meioca likes to call it, the G. Which, you know, hey now. Yeah. I'm gonna get some directions. I'm still looking for it. Use Apple Maps, buddy. Up down, which way are we going? So, keep trying. It's gotta be there somewhere, right? You talking about McVeigh. You talking about McVeigh. Oh, there's a joke. I'm gonna get into that. Hey, you talking about McVeigh, requesting that game down there. And you're playing ACDC, obviously, the AC Rockers. And they have a song called, what Dirty Deeds done cheap, right? Dirty Deeds. Yeah. Is it a Dirty Deed by McVeigh? 100%. It isn't dirty, dude. It is. Stop running from the truth. Stop running from the 49er takeover. Yeah, yeah. To dirty Deeds. Yeah. As our friends, Zander just told us, if you were worried about 70,000 49er fans showing up down at Sofai, get ready for 100,000 at MSG.

4:01Yeah. MCG, excuse me. Yeah, yeah. MSG would be... Madison Square Garden. Which is, by the way, just a little quick note. I saw our buddy, Chris Kelly, Saturday Night Live, is a stage manager who was, by the way, celebrating the sweep, by the digression, off the digression, CK texted and said, did you enjoy the first sweep of the season? And I said, CK, no love for the Atlanta sweep. He said, ha ha, no. That was sweep-us interruptus. That was pretty good. All right. Good, fine. Good, fine. Yeah. But there's no more debate. No more. The shines got to sweep the season. No more. Three consecutive days against the same team. And we'll talk to Larry Barabat, that in just a few minutes. SNL's first host this year has been announced. It's your boy, Jaylen Brunson. Really? New York legend. Damn, okay Jaylen. He's going to host the SNL season. That's pretty cool. That's a very New York centric guest. Good for Jaylen, yeah. That show is specifically for New York City, that if he want to want a title, title with the Dallas Mavericks, he's not hosting SNL. No, no, no, so Nick, don't forget. I believe in Wide World of Walt.

5:01It is Nick's NBA champion coach Mike Brown, who's saying who let the dog go? Who let the dogs go? Who? Mike Brown is an NBA champion head coach, man. That's pretty cool. Yeah, we did not discuss that enough. Shout out Mike Brown. By the way, while we're on these NBA digressions, is anybody alarmed about the Steph Curry real estate sell off? Because I am. I'm officially here to tell you I am alarmed. He has now sold his Atherton estate. And the Chronicle Doug a little deeper found out he sold a condo in San Francisco that he had at the four seasons. And then yesterday he had a business warehouse down in the dog patch district. He sold that too. So I don't know. He hasn't signed his contract extension. Are you trying to tell us something? I'm not trying to provoke. I'm just trying to report real estate transactions. Look at you falling the cookie crums. Yeah, I don't want to talk about that. Come on, the 49ers are playing tonight. Let's talk some football. Yeah, exact. I don't want to talk about Steph still in his house. I know. And his condo. And his business warehouse too. I want to resist you in a place to live.

6:03I don't leave us. Steph me sleeping in his car in the chase parking lot there. He's going to be sleeping on my couch down the street from chase center. By the way, you and I had a little moment in Petrero Hill yesterday. We had a lunch out. We had some friends and I got to shout it out. Nice little hoodie's got there. Yeah. Nice little neighborhood. Nice little breakfast. I'd go to Blooms, buddy. I would pop my head into Blooms and then you told me, oh, yeah, it's a beautiful bar. It's a little bit of an older demographic. Shout out Blooms, which I believe is actually a Tennessee volunteer bar. I gave the recommendation to Tony V when he first came to town, not sure if he's made the trip. The Blooms or not. Well, that was when he had deep suspicions about the media because of his February Scottsdale in a mansion. Yeah. He wasn't buying anything. He's like, look at this radio loser trying to set me up and catch me on tape. Trying to provoke. So you say it's a Tennessee bar so they could play Megan Moroni's Tennessee Orange, but nobody in that bar would know that song because they're too old. Probably. Yeah, shout out the Blooms, shout out to the Yankee, shout out the plow where we went to breakfast yesterday. Yeah, fantastic. And our waiter who knew a ton about baseball, by the way, hey, the Rams are pissing me off.

7:07They showed up in Melbourne and I'm getting footage of them walking off their plane and they're, I got to say, they look cocky. They look cocky. And then I watched them at a walk through at Melbourne. They're yucking it up. And they had this look of like, look at us. Our travel plan is better. And I was like, you know what? I want to beat you. I want to beat you. I want to beat you. The Rams have never like made my blood boil the way other teams do like USC or the Dodgers, right? Because of their move to St. Louis. It robbed us of a great rivalry. You know, it was really good in the 80s and in the 70s when the Rams pounded the Niners in the 70s and then it was awesome to own them in the 80s and then they left. And they were gone. And then they won a bowl in St. Louis, the greatest show on turf. And as a good team and shout out, Calisoges own Dick for meal for under the program. So when they came back, I was kind of like, well, yeah, so I haven't, but I got to say, seeing them this morning on my algorithm. I was like, yeah, like you guys see, I'm a little surprised by that take initially because we've talked about this topic before in the 49ers biggest rivals.

8:10Is it the Seahawks? Is it the Rams? Is it the Cowboys? And I would say your generation, aka the Blooms generation definitely sides more with the Rams being the 49ers bigger rival. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, the Austin play the Navy. If he was, yeah. Since 20, you know, since the 2011, the Harbock Carol years. So it's about 15 years now. It's about 15 years. Don't get me wrong. I mean, like I'm telling you, the Rams still piss me off. You know, you can have multiple rivals like the Raiders, for example, they got a bunch of rivals, you know, everybody, depending on what day you're talking overnight, Dave, he either wants the patriots to just be destroyed off the face of the earth or the Steelers to be destroyed off the face of the earth or the Broncos to be destroyed off the face of the earth or the Chiefs to be destroyed off the face of the earth. Don't forget about the chargers. You can have multiple rivals and the Rams are a rival. So are the Cowboys, obviously, because all the playoff history with against the Cowboys. But yeah, there's something about McVay. They've won four of the last five. They're the darlings and they're trying to, I don't know, they had a look coming off

9:12the plane like they, I don't like it like their S don't stay. Yeah, they need the working down there. George Kiddles doing the tribute to the Australian rules football legend who's fighting an illness. This one just means more. Yeah, I need it. And I understand where you're coming from from the 40 on our perspective, but also from the Rams perspective, they believe that they do have the better travel plan. And they have used this before when they traveled the London took the same strategy and it worked out well. They believe. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. And they start, they also stayed a week on the East Coast before they left. They were only doing a five hours from the East Coast to London. That's only five hours. I agree. I'm just saying I understand why the Rams are confident in their game plan. They should be shown up confident. I mean, they're the odds on favorite to win the Super Bowl this year. They're the team that everybody's talking about. ESPN's throwing out the topics. Is this going to be a perfect season? I'd feel pretty damn good getting off that plane with Miles Garrett as well. Yeah. All right. We'll see as the great Tom Brady once said, we'll see. We'll see. All right. That's another rival of Marcus and Tom.

10:12Yeah, exactly. Even in silver and black. Still a rival. He's a rival from within. He's trying to bring you guys back. Larry Bear is next. And then, of course, the big hit is the 49ers Rams. Who you got? Let's get some calls going tonight for the big hit 808 KMBR. I should say today for the big hit 808 KMBR is the phone number. Larry Bear talking giants sweeping the, sweeping the Cardinals by damaging the Cardinals, knocking them out of the wild card too. Pretty cool on these sports leader. Chevy is called the heartbeat of America for a reason. And Silverado keeps its rhythm. You feel it in the Turbo Max engine with best in class standard torque. And available Z71 off roadpack is the keeps you rolling when the road turns rough. And the most functional truck bed with best in class cargo space. There are trucks that work as hard as you do. So you can do more of what you love without missing a beat. See your Bay Area Chevy dealer today. Based on latest competitive information, excludes other GM vehicles. And the sports leader presents on Giant's executive show.

11:13Every week we go straight to the offices of third and king and here for the guys who are calling the shots for the orange and black. Hurry up! Hey, hook! Now, here are Murf and Marcus with Giant's president and CEO Larry Bear on the sports leader. All right, let's do it, man. Oh, man, four days, 10, everybody. First Giant's are 10 and 7 and their last 17. The kids, you gotta like these kids they said in 1986. And they sweep the St. Louis Cardinals. Big comeback yesterday down six to one. We are less than two weeks away from KMBR beer day. Wednesday, September 23rd, Marcus and I will be out there as we will hopefully other KMBR hosts. $6.80, coolers, lights, $10.45, Corona's. We might even pull a beer or two behind the bar. Who knows? Well, Larry Bear, the executive show sponsored by Benjamin Moore Payne's Experience, the Benjamin Moore Retail Difference that are independently owned, authorized retailers today or at Benjamin Moore dot com. Larry, good morning. How are you?

12:14Hey, Larry. Good morning, Murf. Good morning, Marcus. How are you guys doing? Good. You're a 49er fan. You ready for tonight? I am. I am. I am. No, it's good. You know, we did a special request. Giant's off day when the four-in-air is open. That's very good. Actually, it works out very well for us. Very well for us. For sure. The Melbourne. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good stuff. Hey, we are less than two weeks away from KMBR Beer Day. Let's hype it up. Are we doing special tickets that day, too? Yeah, it's KMBR Day. You guys are giving you the keys to the house. And we're super excited about it. And you know, you are all of the planning. I mean, here we are in September. Something tells me that there was some conversation with Rob Mamprid, like back around the opening day, Netflix opening day. And it's all happening. So two weeks from yesterday, the 23rd, we'll be playing the twins. You'll be, you, we will have $6.80, of course, light and $10.50, Corona, so $6.80 and

13:19$10.50. There were 10.45, I think. Yes. 10.404.5 is our FM signal, right? That's right. And that's right. That's why it is. It's not, it's not $10.50, it's $10.45 for Corona, so it's a nickel less than the, then I previously mentioned. And it's a, it's going to be a fun day. We're going to have all sorts of, you all the personalities, including you guys are going to be out there early. You can go to public house and, or I call it public house, D58, social, and go to that facility early and see all the KMBR personalities. And there's also going to be a ticket offer. That same $6.80 for view level and $10.45 for the bleachers. So it's going to be a lot of fun and it'll be a way to usher in fan appreciation weekend, which will have the Dodgers, the final three games at home. Yeah, and you can take advantage of that ticket deal by going to sfjans.com slash KMBR to get those special tickets. And Larry, you're right, we're going to celebrate that final week of the season, but also celebrate

14:22the career of Mike Kruko. So I'm sure we'll toast a couple beers on KMBR beer day. I've seen the new adobe logo on the right center field wall. What can you tell us about how the organization plans to honor and celebrate Mike Kruko over these final games of the season? Well, we're going to have all sorts of special things going on. You've seen during the games that we've had the home games and will be the case this weekend against the Padres. Tributes, testimonials, surprises, don't want to give everything away. But one of the things that we've really seen is just a complete love for Mike. We had dinner with him last night for a group that I've been working with him for 30 years on the television side. And the thing with the fans wanted to connect with Mike and send him a message, express their love. So we've set up some adobe hotlines about that Kruko. Hotlines. So you can call old fashioned way 415-972-1973, which is the year he was drafted.

15:24So it's 972-1973 for hotline deliver him a message by voice. You can do it by email at micacruco. It's miccruco. It's sfjans.com. You can do a physical note if you're so inclined at a game, the mailbox on the prominent level. And of course on Sunday, September 27th, his last broadcast, it'll be a really, you know, a miccruco day takeover in the ballpark. We'll have all sorts of, you know, tributes and ceremonies and everybody that comes to the game will get an adobe button. And pretty cool. We'll have special guests. After the game, there will be, you know, there will be a tribute to Mike as well. It's a noon start that day. If you remember all the games, something the last day of the season, now are synced up to the start at noon. Big day on the 27th, but leading up to it, there's ways to connect with Mike as well.

16:25You know, so much love. You guys know it firsthand. You have them three days a week and it's pretty special. I want to go, that's really cool. I didn't know any of the stuff you guys are doing. The VoiceMales 415-972-1973, everybody write that down, put it in your phones, 415-972-1973, or if you want to email, it's miccrucoatsfgiantz.com, is that right? Right. Okay, that's it. Yeah, and if it's going to load, if you want to do a physical load, you know, the way you can do a technology now, we can put, we could take pieces of the notes, pieces of the audio and put them up on the board. You've probably seen that, right? You could do like, you know, it's kind of like a thought bubble where you have folks that your fans that are expressing their messages to Mike. We'll get them to Mike and it's going to be, you know, already there's thousands of them, hundreds, thousands coming in, but then we'll be able to put some of those up on the board as we go through into the September 27th.

17:26So, you know, your message may, I can't promise. Every message is going to get on the board, but we'll try to do what best we can. Larry, this has been, I took over. I'd start doing this show in 04, right? And Mike has been a part of daily, a multiple daily, what am I trying to say? Multiple times a week. He's been on the show since 2004 and people have asked me, oh, has it like we're going to KBR and I'm like, well, the day that Mike Kruko and Dwayne Kuiper retire, I have to retire because they, I have a career because of them. People listen to them so much that they kept our show afloat through these years. I kind of feel like you guys must be in the same boat. Like, well, we're good as long as we have Kruken Kai. I mean, forget Naze and McCovie and bonds. Are we got Kruken Kai, right? So, what are we going to do? Larry, without him and how do you find his replacement? Yeah. And, you know, the replacement question is going to be, we put that to it for another day as you can imagine. I know we're really just focusing on Mike now. But to your point, Murf, you know, when you think about, we were talking about this last night,

18:29and we were all talking about Mario was there. And we were talking about how players will come and go. And if you have a great career, you're playing 10, 15 years. But you're not playing 30. But as a broadcaster, you can have that, not just that longevity, but that daily impact through generations of Giants fans. And that's what's happened with Kruken Kai. You know, we say players come and go. And we value them and we love them and the ones you're mentioning or forever seared in our hearts. You know, Maze, McCovie in that era, Marish El Sapeida, Barry Bond, Buster Posey, Tim Linsichum, etc., etc., but these guys, I mean, 30 years, you know, 35 years. And so it's, it's, it spans generations. And you also, I think in our minds, because they're with us every day,

19:29you don't really think of them going. You say, we say players come and go, but you know, broadcaster, no, they're not, they're not going. They're, they're with us and they're never leaving. And that's kind of how we all as fans who grew up listening to, literally listening to the games on the radio and fans that still do. And then watching the games every night on television as well, you don't think they're ever going to leave. I don't know, man, and you'll Larry, you say 30, 35 years in the booth, it goes back, they wore the uniform longer than that back in the 80s. Yeah. So I mean, I have, I mean, I have, yeah. So we're all going to go through this and yeah, go ahead. It's hard. And it's hard to do. It's, you know, that, I mean, you think about how hard it is to, and how special, and how unusual it is for two players who played for your franchise for a bunch of years. And those were important years, right? When we came back in 87 and won the division and then the World Series in 89, you know, those are big years in giant history. And to have them

20:31span, you know, wearing the uniform and then going behind the booth and being, you know, it's a very best of their craft, hall of fame worthy. It's, it's, it'll be forever, forever with us. Very much so. So we'll look forward to that the day, KMBR day on the 23rd and then that final weekend, the Willie Mack award on the 25th, Larry, which he won. Mike won that. So it's going to be really, really, really tough. So listen, listen, we'll let you go. We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll circle back again before the 23rd. Hopefully get some more action going on that, but it's SFGiants.com slash KMBR. Is that right? Okay. And then again, to call Mike, it's 415-972-1973 or Mike Kruko at SFGiants.com. And oh, by the way, before let you go, I mean, nice sweep, Larry. Way to go. I tell you the teams, just they're playing relaxed and there's a lot of kids that are young players that want to make their mark. And we get a really good reaction from the fans that

21:35enjoying it. And it's, it's fun. I think that there's fun. You know, last, last yesterday's game was I know it was hot. And so there were people were in the shade. So that was pretty unusual. And they're screaming and yelling in the, in the bottom of the eighth inning and run explosions. So, so I think it's, it's, it's fun. We, it's, we're not where we want to be. I mean, it's clear. We're not where we want to be. And on September 10th, yeah, we're going to have fun with it. And we're going to use it as a platform for, to push into 2027 off today. Watch the 49ers and then Padres this weekend. Maybe spoil some of their season. That'll be fun. So, all right, Larry, we'll see you soon. Okay. Take care. Sounds good. She on the 23rd. Yes, sir. Larry Burr on the executive show. Marcus, as you know, that's right. Because the Giants executive show right here on Kambiar, a sponsor by Redwood Credit Union for you for community for 75 years. Okay. With under respect to the Giants, the executive show, it's the 49ers season opener. Let's go big hit time. Let's line them up. 808 Kambiar is the, is the number who you got? You being realistic about

22:37this, the Rams are the favorites. They have the roster. They're getting all the love. Almost nobody's talking about the 49ers. Is that because you guys think the Niners are overmatched by the Rams? 808 Kambiar is a phone number. Or do you have Kyle Shanahan out scheming Sean McVay is Mike Evans. Gonna be the difference. The return of Nick Bosen, Fred Warner is that can be the, is George Kittle gonna do something tonight. Christian McAfry, Kaelan Black, the O-line blocking Miles Garrett, all these things. We want your opinions. It's a great day. Oh, by the way, you can come give us your opinions in person at Almanac Brewery in Alameda, Google it. Almanac Brewery Alameda Adventure Land noon Thursday today. We have a special guest at 1215. They haven't told me who it is. They just said it's a mystery guest at 1215. So mysterious mystery guest. I'm looking forward to this. I can't wait. A mystery guest are good. It never like that's a bad mystery guest. That's never a bad thing. Yeah, always a great payoff on a mystery. Okay, 1215 mystery guest. And we

23:38start it noon. Come on out. Have a beer. Have some lunch and talk 49ers or call curly right now. 808 Kambiar is the phone number 415 808 5627 is the Golden State Lumber and show him text line. If you can't call, but sure, give us a call 808 Kambiar old school sports talk radio on these sports later. Chevy is called the heartbeat of America for a reason and Silverado keeps its rhythm. You feel it in the Turbo Max engine with best in class standard torque and available Z71 off road package that keeps you rolling when the road turns rough and the most functional truck bed with best in class cargo space. They're trucks that work as hard as you do. So you can do more of what you love without missing update. See your Bay Area Chevy dealer today. Based on latest competitive information, it excludes other GM vehicles. This is the big hit sponsored by Benjamin Moore paints. Experience the Benjamin Moore retail difference at our independently owned authorized retailers today or at Benjamin Moore dot com. Merfin Marcus continued live from the Casino matrix

24:38progressive jackpot studios. Casino matrix progressive jackpots are here. Where are you? Just drop in 1-800-Gampler. When I look at my clock and it says a time, then I try to see my family's time and it says the time to decide yesterday. I mean, we get how that's possible. So I feel like I'm in the future. And then also when we play on our Friday, which I think is the Thursday in the US for such creatures we have. It's so I call today Tuesday. I don't wait. It's so I call today Wednesday, which is the first day we put in a game plan. But I think it's Monday. However, it's Sunday in the press. So like, I'm going to mess that up all week if you guys ask me, but today is just our first day of the game plan, which is a Wednesday and we'll put in some on a Thursday. Friday's the final part of the game plan. Saturday we walk through when we play on Sunday, which is a Friday in Australia and a Thursday and on the US. So don't ever make me do that again. Oh, guess what? Guess what? Craig David featuring Kyle Shanahan and the latest remix here. There you go. Guess what, Kyle? It's Sunday. Kind of because it's not Sunday here.

25:42It's Saturday here. Wait, it's Thursday here. Wait, it's Friday there. Oh my God. 535 kickoff tonight. By the way, I'm looking at my clock, my world clock right now. Thank you for that banger. Craig David seven days. Kyle Shanahan, 12.54 a.m. in Melbourne. And you know what I'm saying right now? Rams wide awake. Rams are wide awake. They're staring at the ceiling. Barc Simpson eyes. Barc Simpson eyes staring at the ceiling right now. So, uh, 808 KVR is the phone number. The big hit is you guys bang the number. Let us know what do you guys think is going to happen tonight. Is it the 49ers have outsmarted the time zones and are going to be crisp and fresh and won't make any mental mistakes like Drake May throwing a ball into the end zone into coverage when you're down by three with 30 seconds to go. Tough night for Drake May or is it going to be the Rams whose bodies are going to be more attuned to a 530 kickoff granted maybe after a night of no sleep. I don't know. 808 KVR is the phone number or is it just Matt Staffer's too good or is it the

26:43Brock party a year later with new weapons. Day John Stribbling and Mike Evans and the return of George Kittle from an Achilles injury. That's right. For us, put out their official injury report. The Oton Nick Bosa not on the injury report. George Kittle not on the injury report. Mike Evans not on the injury report. Christian McCaffrey not on the injury report Alfred Collins out. James Thompson Jr. the undrafted free agent out of Illinois is questionable for tonight. So Marcus, we are finally here in your list of the KMBR M and KMBR FM San Francisco. These sports leader are a chemist media station 808 KVR is the phone number. Bang the number and let us know what you guys think. What do you think? The weight is finally over and Murph in 24 hours will be doing the big hit on a Friday morning and we'll have all the answers to your questions. I'm lying. We probably won't have the answers to any of these questions. I don't know how the travel plans are going to affect this game. I don't know who's doing it right. I really don't. There are so many questions going to this game and the thing that does concern me,

27:45even though you just gave me the injury report because we've been asking questions about Nick Bosa and George Kittle. I'm curious whether or not they're going to be on a pitch count tonight and how their bodies are going to react to a being in Australia and be getting back on the field after skipping most of training camp and the joint practices and the preseason game. Like we saw a few injuries in the game last night and I'm not saying that's because Sam Darnell wasn't in football shape or AJ Brown wasn't in football shape, but we know that there's a big difference between being in shape and being in football shape. So that's my question is how long of a leash is George Kittle and Nick Bosa and those guys going to get today and how are they going to react to that Rams defense that acquired Miles Geerth. It's going to be wise. So there's scary stuff here that the Rams have won four of the last five against the 49ers and the one the four NARS won was I don't want to say they stole it that they kind of stole it down there in LA. They kind of got outplayed, but Mac Jones made enough plays in Alfred Collins who's won't be playing in this game. Knocked the ball out of Kyron Williams's hand. So the NARS, listen, they won the game and it was a road game kind of not really a road game in LA.

28:46So, but last then then Rams came up here to Levi's and kind of ran him out of the gym. Yeah, that's for the last matchup was not really closed, but obviously a lot different when you don't have Nick Bosa and Fred Warner on the field. So that should make a huge difference. And really to me, I think the biggest X factor in this matchup week one and beyond might be Raheem Morris because we talked so much about Kyle Shanahan versus Sean McVeigh and the offensive masterminds. Well, guess what? There are two defensive coordinators that actually have to game plan for Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVeigh and Raheem Morris, of course, with his background being a former defensive coordinator for McVeigh with the Rams. He knows that system pretty damn well. So I'm curious to see how he disguises his looks, how he makes things more complicated for Matthew Stafford because we talk about it all the time about how Matthew Stafford gets the ball out quicker than anybody else in the National Football League. So, will Raheem throw in some disguises, give him some different looks, send some more blitz, try to create some instant pressure maybe up the middle.

29:47You got to make Matthew Stafford uncomfortable because when he's comfortable, he's one of the best footballs and he's one of the best quarterbacks in football. Yeah, other angles too. I got my hat on. Run the damn ball. Will the 49ers be able to run them all. Christian McAfry last year's average charge per carry was down, you know, and whether that was the O-line or whether that was Christian McAfry slowing down a half a step. You hate to even say that because the guy you see the guy with his tarps off, he looks amazing, right? Yeah, also he led the NFL in total touches last year. And overall, was the number one fantasy player across the board. That's including quarterback scores. So you can't really say he lost a step, but he did not have those explosive plays that we've seen previous. Yeah, he's very in his career. Yeah, he was very was down undeniably. So where does K-Lon Blackman and Kyle finally fall in love with a backup running back? But last year was Brian Robinson. I like the move at the time. He was okay. He was like a C-plus kind of as a backup didn't turn out to be the game changing backup you wanted. Uh, K-Lon Black could be that guy. I mean, K-Lon Black finally looks at one of those guys other teams have had, you know, when I watch other teams are like, man, where that guy come from? Like,

30:49for example, uh, uh, Jadarian or the guy last night for the C-ox Jadarian price, although he didn't get too loose, but a couple times he burst and he burst and looked pretty good. Well, Kiron Williams in for the Rams, et cetera. What do I expect Jeremiah Love's going to be for Arizona? Yeah, I was going to say, but you look at that combination of Kiron Williams and Blake Koram, who's a phenomenal backup running back could probably be a starter on most teams. I don't know if the 49ers want to commit to that full one two punch. It's also hard to get Christian McCaffrey just to come off the damn field. He never takes himself off. So I don't think it's going to be as a split backfield like we've seen over the last couple of years with a Dave Montgomery and Jermir Gibbs out with the Detroit lines, but you got to figure out a way to kind of lighten that workload for Christian McCaffrey. This is eight away KMBR is the phone number give Curly a call. Let's hear what you guys have to say about it. It's tons of text coming in. 707 says keep in mind the local game time kickoff is 10 30 AM Friday and Melbourne. So one of the arguments against the 49ers plan is that after you've become acclimated, you've now acclimated yourself to a 10 30 AM kickoff. Whereas the Rams, when it kicks off at 10 30, their bodies are still

31:53at 5 30 Pacific time, meaning that they're ready to play more. However, my counter to that is, yeah, but they've just been awake all night. They're not sleeping at all. So how are they going to feel about that? By the way, eight, three months is kind of tired of hearing about the travel plans. It's going to be the narrative, no matter who wins. Listen, these guys are elite professional athletes and flew with luxuries that normal people can't even comprehend, which is pretty true too. 71 for says the Rahim Falcons on Monday night football beat the Rams. They had three picks and three sacks last year. So there you go, buddy. Yeah, that's the Rahim Morris factor that I'm looking for tonight. All right, eight away can be our phone number and listen, we asked for calls and and we got a call from Sean and Sandra fell who Marcus, I believe by my math, there'd be a sophomore in high school about now. A sophomore. No way. Sean, we've watched you grow up, buddy. And it's great to hear from you on Niners opening day before school. Go, Sandra fell high bulldogs. How you doing,

32:53Sean? Hey, what's up, Sean? I'm great, boys. I'm excited for this game tonight. It's got me hyped up. Maybe more than the last couple of years. I don't know what it is, but something about, you know, Niners Rams Thursday night. Pretty good game last night, but I'm just super excited. I'm excited. I have big goals for this team. I like Mike Evans. I like, I like, Debo coming back. I like CMC. I think party's going to have a good year. I just like the way this team's shaping up, Murf. Okay, Sean, I like it. I like the attitude. Now the argument would be Debo Samuel, Dre Green law, you trying to get the band back together that these guys are older now. This is not 2021, 2022. Sean's not the only one getting older. Debo Samuel. So, uh, you, are you, are you worried at all that the Niners are not their key guys? Mike Evans, Christian McAfry, Nick Boas, uh, all little older and have injury concern, Sean. That's the worry. Yeah, I mean, I think they're all going to lose a step at some point. I don't know if it's this year. I think they, Debo, I mean, Debo, they look horrible last year in Washington from what I

33:54thought. He obviously slowed down a little bit playing behind, uh, did singing, washing out another one. Terrible. Yeah, there we go. Terrible. Terrible. Yeah, yeah. No, but I think he'll still have an efficient year and it's nice to have somebody like Mike Evans to like a veteran like that who come in and consistently give you a lot of yards. I love it, Sean. So you're hyped. I am too. Sean, have you been to Australia in your young life? I have not. I've not been to Australia. We can't get your opinion, your official opinion on jet lag. No, but I did go to the Australia World Cup match this year and they're very nice people. Okay. Well, I will, we'll take that, buddy. Meanwhile, you got school, when does school start? 830, 830. What's your first class today? Uh, Spanish. All right, Spanish. Uh, Como, uh, don't they install a biblioteca, Sean? Uh, and La Crosse. Hey, I'm going to see you in the pool. Am I going to see in the pool again this fall? You are. You are going to. All right, let's go. Let's go. I look forward to it, buddy.

34:55I see you and your mom and dad and go off to school. We like that you're hyped for the game and we'll check in soon. Vamo, Vamo. Yeah. Thanks, man. There he is. Sean is here. Phil. Oh, one and only Sean started comedy. He was like in sixth grade, I think. I know, dude. He has grown. His voice has changed. He's getting older and older just like this 49er roster. He's a baseball player, but he decided in the fall he wanted to try something different. He played water polo. I'm at the San Rafael, TN Waterpolg in there. Sean from San Rafael. Great strategy. Yeah. Uh, if you're a baseball player, hop in the pool. Joe Ryan. Yes, Steven Schrosberg. Yeah. Uh, huh. Yeah. Disgrossberg in the wild. He was a big swimmer. Yeah, uh, huh. Yeah, he was actually kind of a husky kid in high school until he started swimming, lost a bunch of weight and gained a lot of velocity. There you go. Brady in Vallejo is next up at 808 KMBR, bang the number, how you feeling about tonight, the time for talking is done. The game kicks off at 535 tonight on KMBR 680 and 104 five with Tim Ryan and Guy Haberman on the call. Brady, you're next up out in Vallejo. Brady. Good morning. What a Brady. What you got? Man, guys, I'm so happy football seasons back.

35:57It's time for us to show up tonight. I'm, I'm looking forward to seeing what Raheem Morris has got cooked up for old Maddie Stafford. And, uh, yeah, no, it just feels so good to wake up and know that tonight will hopefully be walking away from Australia with that win. Yeah, buddy. I like the angle Raheem Morris versus Matt Stafford. I don't know. I mean, Stafford to me is a guy who it's almost like he's getting, he's like the bottle of wine, you know, getting better and better with age and he doesn't play such a physical style where he never, he kind of keeps himself out of harm's way. So I'm a little worried to be honest. Stafford seems to be getting better with McVeigh each year, Brady. No, absolutely. I just feel like, um, like you guys mentioned before, uh, just a second ago. It's like we did, they did get the win with him at LAN last year. So I'm hoping with if he can neutralize him a little bit, we can put some pressure on him. Maybe get an interception or two. I know we aren't, uh, you know, the biggest interception team. Yeah. But, uh, the high powered offense, I definitely feel

36:59like it's going to be like a horse race. You know, I feel like those two offenses are going to be first one to 30 wins. All right, Brady. I like it. I like your hyped. I like your Raheem angle. I like the high powered offense to enjoy the highlight of the game. Man, we'll talk to you down the road. You guys too have a good day. Thanks, Brady. Just a guy hyped for the game. Yeah, and I'll piggyback on top of Brady's comments because I talked about how I think the X factor will be Raheem Morris. And yes, I did bring up the blitz packages and disguise and looks against Matthew Stafford. I think we also need to see a lot of that five man front that he's been rolling out during training camp. Like last year, we all saw the battle of the Linus Grimidge be lost against the Rams and the Seahawks. Now with the Alfred Collins injury with the Sammy O injury, that definitely takes off some of the depth on this defensive line. So they might need to throw more bodies out there so that they can't stuff to run on first and second down. And then maybe you get Matthew Stafford in a third and long situation where he does have to hold on to the ball for longer than two seconds. Yeah, God, listen, Brady made a point about the the Niners and Interceptions. And they're not, I mean, it was watching the game last night. And it was just to see

38:03how, even though they're missing a couple DBS, including Nick M. and War, it was out last night. Just their guys, their corners cover, they just cover better. Yeah, there were several. In fact, the play where AJ Brown got hurt was blanket covered from the corner. And that the first interception Drake made through down the field wasn't necessarily an obvious interception. It was a play made by a DB who went up and tipped it up in the air and had a safety help that made a pick. That's the kind of thing. Niners DB's just haven't been doing it last few years. But it could be different this year with Raheem Morris. Like think about how many different quotes we've gotten from Dimo and Ronaldo Green and up in style about how they think the backfield of this defense is going to be better because of Raheem and his background working with DBS. Maybe that's a slight difference. They also brought in a guy like Jack Jones, who was a ball hawk earlier in his career. Maybe they get more turnovers. And also if they could just create more pressure, we know that the front seven connects to the back of the defense. That should help out the 49ers defensive backfield as well. Great text from the 310 area kids. Sean from San Rafael's voice is dropping

39:06like a pass thrown to Romeo dobs. Oh, that's pretty good. Yeah, that's very, very good. Very high level text. I hope nobody started Romeo dobs and fantasy last night. I would not assume so. Man, he had some bad night. No catches in a couple of big drops. 369 checks in says I cannot wait for the 49ers season opener tonight. I cannot wait to hear our where our boys win in the land down under 6 5 0 says Matt Stafford is one hit away from retirement. Well, that's a violent image. Yeah, but he has been dealing with that quote air quote bad back for the last couple of years. But the problem is nobody's able to hit him because it gets rid of the ball so damn quick. 19 5 says any concern about the game being on Netflix look what look what Netflix did to the San Francisco Giants. Oh, no. Are we going to have people we blame that's on top of taxies down in Australia. We're blame next. By the way, big news too is that in addition to the game being on 680 and 1045 is that because of FCC or Congress rules or NFL rules, there's a rule that you can a streaming service game has to be broadcast over the air in the local market. So San Francisco and L.A.

40:10Get it on non Netflix channels NBC. Barrier has a game. Thank God NBC. Barrier is the game. I know, right? So you don't have to watch you have to go in and out of your of your Netflix stream. All right, 808 KBR is the phone number. Bang the number. How you guys are feeling Ramon in San Jose is next up at 808 KNBR Ramon 49ers Rams tonight. Dude, what you got? What up Ramon? I think it's going to be my wife's a 9 or a 9 or a 8 or a 9 or a 2. I think it's going to be 24 to 14. Niners winning. I predict as long as they design their running please away from mouse guard, I think they'll be okay because their linebacking court for the Rams is not as good as the Niners right now. But their secondary is a little better, I believe for the Rams. Yeah. So I think as long as they could do a little bit more running, sweeps or zone blocking the other way, I think they should be okay. I mean, I love the way you're thinking. I'm just like, how do you hold the Rams to 14? Either blitz or some sort of packages

41:15with Rahim Morris because either bolster or wearers out there, they just got to go wow, like killer bees out there all over the plate. Nox and balls down. I mean, the Rams led the NFL in yards and points last year. Yeah. And they put a 42 last match. They got to take advantage of the rookies in the use of them. Just let them wreak havoc out there reckless abandon. That's my thought. I love it Ramon. Play with your hair on fire. But what were your Raider fans? So as Marcus, how you feeling about your Raiders? I think okay. I'm the offense line because they got Linderbond at that center. But I mean, they still have issues that left guard and right guard too. I mean, I'm left guard and right tackle. So that's my worry. The linebackers are okay. They're a little bit better for the Raiders, but the quarterbacks as well. I think they're okay. But we'll see. We'll see. I'm not too sure about the Raiders right now. I'm still relief for them, but we'll see.

42:16Sounds like a man with 25 years of scar tissue. Yeah. And also, we got the news yesterday that Brock Bowers will not play this Sunday. He's got a neat injury. So yeah, not good news out in the desert. All right, Ramon. Thanks for the call. We appreciate you, man. See if that changed the line here on the Raiders and the Dolphins, which is in Vegas, a 125 kickoff Vegas, a 3 point favorite. Yeah. A lot of people have been asking me my advice on survivor pools and whether or not I would take the Raiders as a Raider fan. I'm not taking that risk in week one. All right. Alex and San Jose is next up eight away. Can you be ours the phone number? Banging the number old school. What are you thinking about tonight? Alex, good morning. You're on with Murphy Mark is how you doing? What you got? What about? Well, more and boys, how you doing? I wanted to call, get your guys thoughts upfront. I'm not a Niner fan. I'd say a Chicago bear fan, but if you guys go back and look in the playoff game, the Bears who didn't have a great past rush were able to put a ton of pressure on Stafford in that playoff game. I think it was close to like 40%

43:22of the snaps. He was pressured and he had a not a great game in the playoff. Do you think the Niner's have the defensive players? I do like Rahim Morris edition. I feel kind of like what a couple of other callers have said about how they did against him last year, mixing up the schemes. But do you guys think the Niner's have the personnel to put the pressure on him to not to give him, you make him hold the ball for more than two seconds because he is getting older and slower. That's essentially how you shut that guy down. Yeah, by the way, good call out on that Bears game. Over time, Rahim said to win that game in overtime, 2017, Stafford was only 20 of 42 for 229 with no touchdowns and he got sacked four times. Now that game was in Chicago. Correct. So they did have to deal with some weather, some snow, some cold weather for Matthews. Yeah. Yeah. So and maybe there'll be a little snowstorm tonight. Anyway, the story is Alex. Unfortunately, that's the knock on the Niner's is that the D line did not get replenished enough unless we're going to hear from guys we don't expect like Grayson Halton or James Thompson, Jr. Now Mark has pointed out his favorite

44:29signing of the Aussies was Osa Odigizua. Can he be the guy that Nickbos is needed next to him since, you know, got since the days of DeForest Buckner, right? Yeah. Or is that a guy like Romello Hite who they drafted this year in the third round, I believe he seems like he's going to be a pasch rush specialist. I'm expecting to see him a lot on third down tonight. I mean, the idea of getting pressure on Stafford's crazy, but it also involves coverage on the back end. And that's where the 49ers we just talking about their corners have just, you know, just in Ronaldo Green and will it be a Dima Lenore? Obviously. And, you know, up in stout, these are the guys who are Johnny on the spot. Can those guys hold their coverage long of against the Puka Naku as of the world and the Devante Adams is of the world. So it is a daunting challenge, but that's an interesting point because the Bears defense was not good last year. Remember, it was terrible. Nice one. That last regular season game at Leavives that Sunday nighter that the Murphy family was at was just an absolute march up and down the field for both teams. What a game that was. And so the 9ers, I mean, the Bears figured out how to stop them. The Rams won their first playoff game at Carolina 34 to 31. Stafford in that game, 24 or 42, three touchdowns only got sacked once, but the Bears got to them. The Bears

45:32got to them. And by the way, Interceptions, he just doesn't throw them in the postseason here. I'm looking here. I don't have his passing Interceptions here. So I'll figure that out. Yeah. And that's the reason one of the big reasons why he was the league MVP last year. And maybe the 49ers need that type of performance from Brock Pertie, who was able to beat the Bears last year in that match we were talking about. But one thing we really haven't talked about Brock didn't play against the Rams last year. Matt Jones has two starts. Now, this is Brock Pertie entering year five. I'm curious to see how he takes it to the next level. We went through our quarterback charts this off season. We both had him ranked as a top 10 quarterback. Most people around the league do not view him as a top 10 quarterback. But if Brock Pertie is able to take that next step with Mike Evans and Deshawn Stryppling, who knows? Maybe there's a couple of trips to the strip club tonight. Mike Evans on my fantasy squad. Hey, well, close out the big hit with Ray on 101. He's on Highway 101. Ray on 101. Good morning. You're on with Murphy Marcus 49ers Rams. Ray, what you got? What up, Ray? Hey, good morning. Yeah, here I am driving through the city. They're going to look at the beautiful

46:37skyline, the bright sun shining on the building. This is an international city, the most beautiful city in the world. I think that's exactly why the Niners went to Australia for five days, the networks to build a fan base out there. I think that's going to be a massive, massive fan base for the Niners going forward. Brilliant move on their part. Not talk about it all. Well, we did talk to we had a real early this morning before you drove into your beautiful San Francisco skyline. We had a reporter from Melbourne named Xander McGuire and he said that the 49ers have won their hearts and minds totally. So hopefully that will play out at what they call MCG, Melbourne Cricket Ground or the G. Now there is a space between the bench and the way that it's an oval. So the fans are not going to be on top of the field. So any noise, I don't think, would cause any too much of a rockess atmosphere given the distance. It almost looks like foul territory at the old Oakland Colosseum. Yeah, yeah. Or if anybody goes back to the old Cleveland Browns at municipal stadium when the Browns played, there was that same kind of oval spot. But anyway,

47:38Ray, you're, yeah, you should go back. We might replace some of Xander McGuire actually in the 930 hour because he was great. And he talked about the 49ers. He used the Australian phrase in terms of public opinion made, the 49ers are through to the semis without dropping a set, which I thought was an interesting comment. We looked at it's an Australian phrase for like living life easy, living life well. So anyway, thanks for the call, Ray. Enjoy the skyline. And thanks, everybody for your calls on the big hits. All right, Larry Krueger is going to join us at 915. We got the cooler of content 830 John Groot and checked in on the Melbourne situation, among other things. But we can also try to squeeze in some more calls and texts on the 49ers and the Rams tonight 535 round table at noon in Alameda. We're all going to be there live and in person. Come on out. Have a lunchtime beer and a lunchtime snack. Check out the round table noon to 230 Alameda's Almanac brewery adventure land. Google it. We'll see you there. And we've been told there's a mystery guest at 1215. A mystery guest at 1215. We've been told that to just be there.

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