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Total Domination: 49ers beat the Rams 27-7 in Australia

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Hour 1 - Copes and D-Pop recap the 49ers impressive 27-7 win over the Rams. They discuss the biggest takeaways from the game including Brock Purdy's connection with Mike Evans, plus the 49ers run game. 

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Tim Ryan here with your Bay Area team and Ford. Now get a California Explorer annual day use pass with your purchase or lease of a brand new Bronco or Bronco sport. It's got goat mode like your players driving to the game or off-roading. There's seven available modes. Ford is America's number one for new vehicle quality among mainstream brands. Visit your California Ford dealer today proud partner of California State Parks. Named by JD Power 2026 US Initial Quality Study Award. Information visit JDpower.com slash awards awards based on 2026 model year. There you go. We've given you everything Australian. I think we are all Australian to out at this point. Although we did give you the very nice calls that were very, very popular. Thank you for joining us. Dirty work is coming up. Oh, in just mere moments to talk more about the 49 year dominant 27 seven win over the Rams. What's up, man? What's up? How are the Australia calls in comparison to Guy Haberman? They weren't quite as good, but they were pretty good. Like do we have one of them just off cuff? I haven't heard these rock party.

That comes to pretty stands again. Good protection rolls out right throws for the end zone touchdown. San Francisco dominating and Divo heaves them all into the crowd of the pucker in the town. I like it. That was good. I mean, that was a really good. I was open to give some nicknames like Dingerie. Dude, Divo in the end zone. I think it'd be funny if like they had a mirroring broadcast team that was like the Australian version of Guy and the Australian version of Tim Ryan. You can call that a touchdown. He has a touchdown. That would have been amazing. Ryan. Who's the? Australian Ryan. Yeah, that'd have been amazing. Yeah. That was impressive. Dude, that was the more I talked about it on post game with JD last night. Like the more excited I got about it. We're talking on the round table

yesterday that like the build up to baseball seasons like a whole lot of build up and you get opening day and then it's like a slow burn for six months, right? Right. Football is like it means something. And that came carried weight and you did it against a division opponent who everybody fancies a super bowl favorite to go the bowl. And the nighters. I mean, they. I know that I know the Rams flew in the day before and all that crap, but put all that aside and say, dude, the nighters beat the defending MVP. That's one of the worst game shine. It's ever coached. I think in terms of play calling. You've got Matt Stafford. First time he'd gone without a touchdown in what 17 games or something like that. He played 18th consecutive week one start. It was a, I mean, like I don't know if I'm more impressed by the offense or what the defense did. Brock Pretty was protected yesterday. How Shanahan took miles geared out of the game. I mean, I'm, I'm walking on on cloud nine thinking about if this team can build something around what we're he more is just doing on the defensive side. And by the way, Nick Boasa, one of the best run defense game to have ever seen from it. So considering how well they ran the ball in the first half, too. I'm just, I'm excited for what the prospect is. And like by all accounts, this team should

be three and oh, yeah, you look at this schedule here. They come back and play the Miami Dolphins and Arizona Cardinals. So we'll see where they're at when they play the Denver Broncos. It'll be a true test. But yeah, man, I was thoroughly impressed what they did yesterday. Not make excuses with the travel or anything. The Rams got their ass kicked. Yeah. And look at Japan. We'll probably do it differently. I'm under, I'm under, I love him. He's a cartoon. I think that I think that it's the, it's easier to say what they didn't do because everything that we talked about on the, on the round table and everybody we been talking about is, you know, run defense, pass rush. Can they protect? Can they run? Can these old guys still do it all 30, all three touchdowns were 30 plus year old wide receivers? It's going to happen one time ever. Yeah. Manifield history. And what's going to happen here? If somebody gets Washington back in 92, I just do bow out and I'll get you. Okay. But the everything you look at what's going to happen is like, Debo is going to be against linebackers. You know, they've just got so much talent. And it's like, okay, how are we going to cover them? And, you know, a comp with John Jennings and Mike Evans is an embarrassment. I mean, Mike Evans that first drive where he gets all the third downs and then snatches

the ball from Jaylin Watson. Oh, yeah. The dudes legit three first downs on the opening drive first first three catches. And then his next two catches also went for first downs and his final catch what for a touchdown. Yeah. Five catches for money. Mike Evans. Yeah. Plus they, they, he did one thing and I wonder if this will continue. How did one thing which was 10 carries for CMC 15 total touches. Caitlin black had 14 carries. And I know some of it was a blowout. I get that. Maybe he's finally putting and putting it in there that look, it's almost like Steph Curry less is more. So you, he's, he's 30 years old. You can't get, like you can, you can run him into the ground this year, but his subsequent seasons will be worse. So what you've got to do is you got to make sure that he's less of him so that he can extend his career out a little bit more. So we talked about, because we talked about this over a year, like, can they balance the, the, our manage the carries for CMC? And I, we talked about it at the end of last year, Derek and I did a lot where I said, I hate to think like this, but you have to prepare for it, especially in the NFL, that you just had a guy come out of a 400 plus touches last season. And he's the reason this offense worked when you lost all these other pieces and add to carry

basically that the, the team considering what the defense wasn't capable of doing last year. But we always talk about how do you manage this stuff? Because at some point you got to think about life after McCaffrey. But if you can, to your point extend his career, it's the first time I think we've really seen Kyle manage his touches within a game, especially in the first half. That speaks to the trust in K one black and it speaks to the variety of other weapons that they have. Well, and he's a North South guy. Yeah. We saw it and we saw it some of the preseason. He's a North South guy. He takes one foot into the ground goes and Kyle loves that. So, you know, I think everything across the world, Osa had, you know, four pressures, even though they didn't get to him. He was, he was very effective and eight cubic hits. Yeah. Staff was uncomfortable. Yeah. He morris, man. Yeah. I mean, we'll have to see what happens with struggling. Tunges, I think is a bigger loss than people think because kiddos kind of battling back a little bit. But outside of that and the kangaroo suits and the meat pies at the end that Nell like tried to make them eat. By the way, listen out dude, meat pies are like my favorite thing to eat from Australia. But Nick, Nick boasts was like bodies of temple. No, man, I'm not eating those carbs, man. I'll eat that kangaroo suit there. Yeah. If it was just straight kangaroo,

he would just probably, yeah, he'd be down for that. You have a kangaroo, you have a kangaroo suit with a mega logo on it for you. I like to do that. I agree more. I like to do that on international TV now instead of just national. Outside of that, Luke Keekley with three minutes left was like, if the if the Rams push it down the field here, they got an opportunity and then they on side kicking them like, come on. I guess I can like, how was he? How was he in the broadcast? Not great. A lot of people are saying he was great. He kept saying the Rams are in it. Dude, it was like, was six minutes left. The Niners are just running the ball. And in Sean McVase, like, he wasn't hurry up with 12 minutes left in the fourth. Yeah. He was a great lineback at John. Remember what? What are the best? He was the green dots. I don't know if you know that. He was a dot. He was the green dot for all teams at the same time. I think it's cookly, but I've always been it's Keekley. I think that's the mentality of like a linebacker who's sitting there watching his offense down and again. And he saw it all the time in Carolina. He's sitting like, hey, maybe he's like trying to talk himself into a fantasy football victory. Well, maybe if this guy gets an 80 yard touchdown, then we get the onsite. Well, he's got all the time.

face and drew breeze, but like, yeah, it doesn't happen with your guys. No, no, no. The Rams are totally out of it by the second half. So, yeah, I mean, every fast one to get, I mean, the second half starts with a D. Bo return. Yeah, set you up for another test. I mean, I just, I just keep thinking about how much special teams last year stabilized under, under brand boy, and how this year, I'm hoping it can be more because it's an X factor for a team that so often was not just not available to the Niners. It was a deficiency that would hurt them. And if you got D. Bo, also, I would look at the active and inactive from last night. Nezha on Stribbling obviously goes out with an injury, but Jordan Watkins was an active. That's how she cowings the five Watkins was the six. I imagine Watkins will be active until Stribbling. And then that goal line stand. I mean, that was the play of the game. That was journey point. I mean, it was it's 17 seven. They stop them and then they go 99 yards. I thought the biggest thing was they called the off sides and that's the emphasis on the on the in the league this year where it's the, you know, they're not going to go away with a two push, but what they're going to do is they're going to start calling off sides on short yardage because they call it a receiver. Somebody, well, they, they call it like Robinson or maybe they did. I think they call it. They call it.

They're going to start calling it because the offensive line jumps. Yeah. But then Kyle goes, okay, then that's throw it out of here and they got that room and then that led them to go 99 yards and that is 24 seven. It's all this play calling was unbelievable last night. We're showing them like they was just doing basic stuff. I didn't understand it at all. Kind of a basic B. Watch me on 60 minutes though. I asked people if they could like, imagine being around him all the time like that. That that that that that that that that that that that me and Mike Wallace on Sunday. Mike Wallace, not the Pittsburgh Steelers White receiver. Oh, be tough. Yeah, I did. Thank you. Nice to different Mike Wallace. You're going to hear the clock in the background. I asked if I could get an earbud with just the ticking sound. I want to hear while I talk. I mean, like again, we talked about like it was almost so crazy. It might work their philosophy. But like that. He looks, it looks idiotic. It looks idiotic at this. Yeah. Without, I think two things can be true is they dominated and there's no question. There's not a one anyway. The Rams did was idiotic. Yes. Fullers. Yeah. And now they get a Monday night game and then they get one more home game right before they go to Philly. No, they have to go and then Denver and then Philadelphia.

Yeah, they could start out rough. It's kind of like last night like Shumick Vays demeanored. Everything was like, let's just get out of here. Let's let's just punt this game. This is a humbling day for us. Yeah, it's a humbling day for him. Yeah, I bet it was. I can't really tell it what day, but it's humbling. You know, I'm saving all my good stuff a later in the year. So just acting like time zones didn't work. Yeah. It doesn't matter. They avoided the time zone change and the time change like they've waited off as last night. Yeah, I mean, it was that off that office. That office broke last night. All right, boys. Let me in time to talk about it. Dirty work is coming up next. Thanks to Tim. Thanks to bags. Appreciate it. We will talk to you on Monday at 10 a.m. Dirty work. Fucking more than nine years over the rims next only here on the sports leader. Okay, the fun's over. They've done the dirty work of the radio business. Anybody messes this thing up for me tonight is through engineering, board operating and producing. Not only are you fired, your life is over. And now they have the microphone. Nobody messes up. Let's say me. Don't mess up. Adam Copeland. You want to some

sort of like hard hitting the Bob Lee journalist and he came to the wrong place. Derek Papa. Oh boy. Okay. He's getting hot. Is he a hot staff? How is he feeling? It's getting hot boy. It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it. Ridiculous. Completely ridiculous. Welcome to Dirty work. K and B are 104 5 and 6 80. The sports leader. It's going to be worth on a Friday afternoon. Adam Copeland, D-Pop, getting done with you. And his team web gets his ass out of the chair. And I know he's I know he's excited to do so. Tim had a long ass day. So did you? Both you guys? Yeah, but I mean like Tim's was longer than mine. Yeah, I know. I don't want to. I don't want to I don't want to. Great job, Tim. Yeah, good work yesterday. Tim, seriously. Run the run of the whole, uh, produce the entirety of the, the roundtable. How was coming back at halftime? You had to lead, uh, had to leave Almanac and come to daily city. Yeah, there was really good planning by everybody involved. Uh, we, uh, yeah, we left Almanac from the, uh, the roundtable. Oh, no, not

the roundtable. We did the roundtable then JD and I did pregame. Yeah. JD actually drove back too and came back to the studio with nice. So Tim and I drive back and JD, Tim actually has a really funny photo. It's really funny. It's just kind of a stupid photo on his phone. We were in his car. Dude traffic was so bad getting back from Alameda. Seriously? Bro, we got to the, to the toll plaza. The bridge really quickly, like within like 10 minutes of leaving Almanac. Yeah, we get through the toll plaza and through the lights and all that. Uh, get onto the bridge from the minute we got onto the bridge. It took us like 41 minutes or 42 minutes to get from the bridge. Oh, good lord. Here to the studio. And normally that's a, I don't know, 16, 18 minute drive or something like that. Probably from the beginning of the bridge, maybe like 25, 20, but it's like almost double the time. We pulled into the garage at work at the end of the first quarter. So we were watching the game on my tablet in the car, listening to God and, and Tim on the call. Uh, but I was then having to do like I had to do the half time show again. Yeah. It's game like I watched the game and it was a longer half time. Right. When you're watching a game like to do a post game or a half time show, like I'm watching it with knowing there's thing I got to find highlights, gonna find injury. I give everything going on. It's not going on. When you're in the press box out of game,

it's way easier because everything's happening around you. You're in a work environment. Don't make announcements on things. You just kind of got to figure it out for yourself when you're watching remotely, especially when that remotely is in Tim's front seat. Uh, we're trying to cross the bridge, but Tim had to take a photo with me where I'm watching the game on his tablet. And I've had my phone out and I think I was taking notes of the game. It's just a dump in the car. But no, hell of a game. Fun post game show with JD last night. And I, I mean, this is not something Kyle Shanahan or the Niners wanted to have to do. And the Rams, the embarrassment in my mind is like they came out with all that stupid news yesterday and Peter Shreggers going, they sent players and people over the last two years to figure out what was the best thing to do. Oh, you sent people to play a football game. Did you? You sent them to go prepare for a week of NFL football that sleep research. You just, you just, it's how everybody's talked about it. He's gone. Like I don't know if that's the right idea. It seemed like it was so mad scientist and so crazy. It might work. I also felt like there was a level of arrogance to it. But they requested the 49ers, a rival and division opponent, be their opponent in that game.

One in part in pettyness to say, well, we don't really have a brand or a home field advantage. So we're going to go play this game in Australia. And we're going to take away the advantage they seem to have. Instead, they packed the stadium with like double the amount of people that would have been there in nine or a year if they had just played the game in LA. Yeah, when the loss that he sleep, you were not all this, I mean, they would have gone to Australia anyway. But of course, it was a, a sort of hilarious result for how they operated this thing. And I said to you, dude, I talked about it last week. I said around the round table yesterday. I said, the only way I'm going to feel like the travel schedule was a factor is really if like the Niners beat the Breaks off them in the second half. I think I said exactly if they were up by like three scores or something like that. And what's funny is I came away thinking, oh, yeah, it was a factor. I also came away thinking if the Niners played like that and the Rams clearly were not up to the task. I don't know how much of that comes into play being in Australia. Like three scores was the difference in going to Australia. I'm thinking if you play that game in LA, even if the Niners win it, it's a closer game maybe. But if the Niners play like that,

I'm not sure the Rams had an in-em yesterday. I think it says, I think it says more about the 49ers than it does about the Rams and about that travel. I also, I'm like, tough bread, dude. As Mike Evans said after the game, he didn't really know he said, when they get here, he kind of laughed and they said, oh, they got here like yesterday. And he said, yeah, man, I damn, I, ladies said, yeah, might have done them some better. He said, look, we had a task. We had a complete and we executed. But it just comes off looking foolish. It could have been a little mad scientist like I've been doing. We just said, what a genius. And now we look at it and go, man, just more credit to Kyle Shanahan and their game planning and their strategizing and their philosophy and how they handled this thing. No, I mean, they always prefer that in February. They were going. Yes, exactly. And Kyle let it be known at the owner's meeting. He wasn't happy about this and kind of joked around that that Xiaomi V kind of pushed him into this game. You know what? They rushed the opportunity here. They made the most of it. They always do these long road trips and stay a week in advance of a game. So you mean like when they've done the green briar trip, it's funny as they've kind of gotten away from that. Now, maybe they have it at the schedule that played in the past. Yeah. And I don't know. I think the one time it really

turned them off. It could have been the 2020 season because then they went to, I think that 2020 season, they before they had to go to like Arizona because of COVID and all that here and they play their games in Arizona. Yeah. The they stayed at the green bar. Do you remember they had to bring in an MRI machine? I don't agree. But do they had so many injuries? And after that, they may have done it once since then, but I know after that at like 19, they might have done it 21, but I think the players would kind of like, maybe it's not the best thing. It becomes a 10 day road trip. So it just really depends on really where you are on the season. But I think after that, it was like, man, if you have a slew of injuries like that, it is not a great situation to be away from your facility for that amount of time. Right. I mean, regardless though, they were prepared. And honestly, I'm not going to use the excuse that the Rams traveled the day before. They got their ass kicked. That's all them. Like the bottom line is the Rams were the more hyped up team, all the stars. And I don't want to hear like, I'm sure some people that the take is going to be like, well, they don't have Aaron Donald. They don't need Aaron Donald. Aaron Donald's a luxury. They look bad on defense. They look bad on offense. How Shanahan looked like the better coach, the better play collar,

his, his play calling to take away Miles Garrett in this game was unbelievable. Miles Garrett wasn't 100% but regardless. Oh, Kettle was 100%. Yeah, exactly. Postes 100%. Cowshen and his other person. Shanahan was prepared. Raheem Morris was prepared as well. And honestly, the presence of Fred Warner spook Matthew Stafford. I still say the play calling from Sean McVeigh was pissed poor last night. Regardless, I'm not going to make an excuse for the travel. The 49ers kicked the Rams ass last night. Well, how I'm so excited about this. I genuinely like came away. Like genuinely, like really, I try to watch it. I'm even killed. I'm cheering here while I'm watching. I get excited about the Niners, of course. Yeah, I'm rooting for my, my, my favorite. I want them to win. I want to see you super bowl. Right. And I'm ready to get heard again. You know, I mean, I'm ready. I'm off. I have to last night. I'm like, come break my heart, dude. Yeah, come do it again. Come break my heart. But I'm looking at this last night. I'm like, man, Fred Warner did Mississippi. Like I know that there was talking him playing in the NFC championship. And they made it there last year. How much when you say he spooked Matt Stafford, the first play of the game of the season might have spooked Matt Stafford. I mean, he was fingertips from an

interception. Right. And then punches a ball out later and then give me a comeback player that you're now. Well, there might be a backup quarterback who makes some run. I mean, her backup quarterbacks will come in after not playing for a long time. And then Gino Smith is what I'm getting. You don't believe in Drew Lock. Get out of here. Come on. No, I believe in the C. OX defense. He looked fine in the first game. He was fine. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but the defense is like they can get by because of what they have, but you got to look what the 49ers have in their opportunity in the NFC West where you're up one game on the Rams. The C. OXR didn't want the quarterback issue. So can't take advantage of that and go three and notice throughout the season. 808 KBR 415 88 567. We'll pour over this game. We'll gush over this game. I want to get to a lot of calls today too. We have our shoes, jures and beers coming up for you. We are going to be here for a long time today. Full show. And more. It's all right. I'll get this. You guys all ready for this. Niners win 27 to 7 in Australia. We got Giants pregame 615 tonight for a 715 first pitch. I looked at the schedule. I'm like, they're still doing that. Yeah, they're still doing it. Still down there. Still down there. 13 King taking on the the Dres tonight. The dads come to town and you know, it was coming to town.

The Dres obviously. Yeah, the dad's yeah. Go ahead. But forever giant Robbie Ray. Oh, yeah, forgot. Yeah. It's a giant this year. Yeah. Point. How long ago does the trade deadline see? I know. It was a month and a half ago. Not even. It was like a month a week ago. Yeah. I'm really damn it. Can't believe that guys. We're talking football. Yeah. We're going to be heavy on football. We will catch up with sluss and with Richard really a bit later in the show. Marcus Thompson joins us as well. And I'm missing a guest. Larry Krueger. Larry Krueger joins us. He's probably talking Niners right now somewhere. Oh, yeah. He's always talking to my windshield. After that performance, guys, they brought Perdi's beer than Jeff Garcia. Dude, this guy Krueg comes on with us last night. He's doing his YouTube show. jumps off of his YouTube show in the middle of it to come to a hit with me and JD on the postgame. And then goes back to his YouTube show. Then JD gets off from me and him at 1030 and JD jump up. Krueg's. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, dude, it's just a cross pollination of nine or high. 808 KMR. We got a cheers. Cheers and beers coming your way. What did you like? What didn't you like if anything about last night's game or what gave you pause and what were you drinking last night for the start of the 2026 season? Also, the question I've got for the listeners out there.

What made you happier last night? The defense or the offense? There's not really anything bad to look at on either side. Still didn't get a sack, but they made Stafford clearly uncomfortable. I felt like we saw where he more is his impact immediately. I think we've we've all feel pretty good about the diversity on offense when Kyle Shanahan has weapons. This offense can be electric. Does anything change for Brock Perdi this year? Does this become his team entirely where he's the captain and the engine of what makes this offense go? Not just Christian McCaffrey. More to come. Dirty work on a Friday. Adam Copeland, Deepop Danny Dunn, the Niners are 1-0. Let's get to your calls next on these sports leaders. Tim Ryan here with your Bay Area team and Ford. Now get a California Explorer annual day use pass with your purchase or lease of a brand new Bronco or Bronco Sport. It's got goat mode like your players driving to the game or off-roading. There's seven available modes. Ford is America's number one for new vehicle quality among mainstream brands. Visit your California Ford dealer today, proud partner of California State Parks. named by JD Power 2026 US Initial Quality Study Award. Information visit JDpower.com

slash awards awards based on 2026 model year. Now back to dirty work. Adam Copeland and Derek Papa on KNBR 104 5 and 680 AM V sports leader. Perdi straight drop from under center. Perdi loads up. Perdi throws down the middle of the field. He's got the burgers Robinson and he catches it in the end zone. It's a touchdown 40 Niners in Australia and the Niners take the lead back. Perdi's under center. He takes. He wants Evans. He just puts it up. Give it to Mike. Mike's got it. He pulled it in for his first touchdown. 40 Niners. Mike Evans. And that is big on big and it was tight coverage from Jalen Watson on Mike Evans. Brock Perdi could not put that in a better spot. Second down here for Perdi. He is in the shotgun. He takes the snap. He's got a good pocket. Now he's going to escape it out to the right. Throw on the run. And zone. Debo brought it down. He throws the ball away into the stands with another

touchdown. 40 Niners want to drive. And that should do it. The San Francisco 49ers come 17 times zones. Come 8,000 miles away from home to play on the road on what is sacred ground here in the Southern hemisphere. The first ever regular season game in Australia in a divisional rivalry. The 49ers beat the Rams 27 to 7. 30 work on a Friday afternoon. Adam Copeland, Deepop Danny done hanging out with you. Nice montage there. The 49ers 27 to 7 victory over the LA Rams. I mean, it's a game where I come out of it. So excited about what we saw and about the potential for this team that I don't even I almost don't even know where to start. Like where do you begin to talk about things? And Kyle Shanahan is the obvious choice. Of course. We just talk. I mean, he's better. We just talked about it. You and I and Danny before the show started that he I said to you, he's better than anybody at neutralizing a threat on the opposition. If he's got the weapons at his disposal, like he had yesterday with,

by the way, days on scribbling, I know he went down with the ankle injury. And we'll, I guess, get more information on that. I think you should just be getting back. Almost back or just got back a little bit. I don't have a thing today, but not today. I'm saying they're just like at 11 a.m. this morning, they're still on a plane. You know, they were still on there. So if they're not even I don't even know if they're back yet or they're getting close to it or just about now, depending on how long after the game they actually flew out. Right. But he played more snaps at the time that he went down with the injury. He had played a higher percentage snaps than Mike Evans had, even to that point. So think about the weapons at Kyle's disposal yesterday. Larry Krueger was all over on the pregame and on the round table saying, DeMarcus Robinson is going to be a factor this year. And that's probably your one two three right now. DeMarcus Robins, Mike Evans, Debo and DeMarcus Robinson is learning to stay on scribbling is how. But if Kyle's got weapons like that at his disposal, two running backs, a tie done. And by the way, Luke Farrell had a grab, right? Jake Tonjes. It's a bummer. He went down with a knee injury, but he had so such a variety of players, not just carry the ball, but catch passes in crucial situations. Brock was after the interception as good as you'll ever see. I thought the

game plan was phenomenal to come out and throw it as much as they did early. But you came back and he said, you heard somewhere, you were coming with us, take yourself that Kyle is like the offensive Bill Belichick. Like if you were a powerhouse team and Belichick was out there, he was the best game planner there was. He knew how to strategize week to week and what he was going to implement. Kyle Shanahan, I think, is identical in terms of the offensive side of the ball. Oh, absolutely. I think that he did a fantastic job neutralizing Miles Garrett and General Oskey, you know, diagrammed it today on get up where, yeah, where George Kittle was blocking him initially and then would go out for a pass. Everything was like a screen. Everything was just a reaction to keep Miles Garrett away from obviously Brock Perty and rushing up field. But yeah, I mean, Kyle yesterday was, he was prepared. He was ready to do this game where I thought Sean McVatus kind of showed up and like, let's see what we have here. There was nothing creative with his play calling whatsoever. I was waiting to see like, they were running the ball pretty effectively with Blake Korn and Kyron Williams. And for every reason, they kept going to these play calls where Matthew Stafford being shotgun.

What happened to like all the PA boots or like, you know, everything that God, Matthew Stafford out of the pocket a little bit to throw to the tight ends and the flat. And I know that very well, it did a fantastic job covering the middle of the field. He spooked Matthew Stafford, but I thought the play calling was terrible from Sean McVaey. And Kyle, she improves once again to know when had the survey in the off season. Why he's the best play calling on the football right now and the defense. I have to give credit more to the defense yesterday has to be the most exciting. That makes me the like, I'm fascinated by what the offense did, but the defense like I asked you last week on Friday. I think it was Derek. I'm like, what questions do we want answered in a week? What like, what's the question we most want answered? He said, I don't know if we're going to get answers. I said, no, but we've talked about a lot of the stuff. And it's all like, is Mike Evans going to be a big enough factor? How much will he play? What does Debos say on your look like? Conqueror McAfry still do it. How's Boa's going to look? One of the best run defensive games we've ever seen from Nick Boa said, how does Fred Warner look? For a green laws back, like we didn't get everything answered, but we, I think we left with every one of those potential what ifs on a positive note? No, you feel that's it's hard to have a

game like you're feeling better about the offensive line. You feel better about the defensive line. But as far as the defense, I thought we're he more than a fantastic job is bringing pressure. And yes, they didn't get to Matthew Stafford with the sack, but it was so said to Gizu, it was bringing up in stout on a blitz. It was bringing Nick Boa's so Rahe Morris, we talked about a yesterday. Can he be a factor in this game knowing the shomic ve offense and knowing Matthew Stafford? So it played a factor. And of course, the addition of Mike Evans paid dividends yesterday. His third down conversions. I mean, when's the last time you saw a 50 50 ball like that in the end zone with a wide receiver for the 49ers? It's been a minute. Maybe Terrell Owens. I don't even know, but Mike Evans has that reach to go over a pretty damn good corner in Jalen Watson and get that ball down. So I thought Brock Purti played a damn good game yesterday. And you know what? It might be where this the soft fence now is a little more Brock centric. Now what does that mean? It's mean the quarterback is doing more. It's not so dependent on Christian McCaffrey. We talked about it with 10 to win in the offseason two hours. Like is it where the quarterbacks, the most important player on the field? It's like not really the caution hands offense. Now it could be the case where you saw that deep ball to the Marcus Robinson. It was a A plus

effort by the 49ers yesterday. Honestly, I mean, we'll do cheers, cheers and beers. I have no complaints. There's no complaints whatsoever. Yeah. There's no cheers at all. My cheer is is Desjardin scribbling in Jake Thompson. Of course the injuries. Yes. And but you know what? It doesn't really face them. It didn't. This is this is to that quote from the 10 new in article. Joanne Jennings is a good player, but he shouldn't be like the guy on a team win in 12 games. Now you don't want to wear your missing. Obviously, your impactful players in Fred Warner, Nick Boe. So that's what did them in last year. It'll still look exactly. So it's a lot to rely on 30 old 30 year old receivers through the entire year, but the defense looked damn good yesterday. The offense looked damn good yesterday. And yeah, the Rams look pissed poor, honestly. Well, that was what was so exciting to me. I'll go back to the defense. So exciting to me about the offense was we talked all offseason about Kyle Shanahan has not had a weapon like Mike Evan since he had Julio Jones and Atlanta agreed, right? And immediately you see the impact of he and Brock together, right? Found him multiple times three times in the opening drive 15 play drive for a field goal that results in three first down catches for Mike Evans two more later on. First five catches

is an I don't go for first downs. The sixth one is a touchdown. And to your point about the high point and like blast from the past type stuff with Mike Evans, you had agreed take this off season before Pierce all got hurt. You said, I think Pierce only needs to be the guy who leads in yards. And Mike Evans needs to be the guy who leads in touchdowns. But if you've got Evans available at the or in the red zone and George Kittle and DeBosadio and Christian McAfry and Brock Perdi can use his legs like who do who do what is your what's your how do you stop that like there's so many options now versus just give it to McAfry and try to punch it in. We hadn't seen a play like that in a long time. I also when he threw the 39 year touchdown to Marcus Robinson in stride in the back of the hands. Did you did you notice who wasn't on the field that play? No Miles Garrett like Kyle Shinahan was prepared for everything. So when he wasn't there they took the deal. So he saw that he wasn't on the field like now I'm going deep. Did you notice that that's what I'm that's incredible. So that play happens and I said either to Timber to JD I was like I can't remember the last time. I saw Brock Perdi or any nine or quarterback for that matter Jimmy

Garoppolo for him and there. He'd a ride receiver who took the top off the defense over the top in stride for a touchdown like that. We normally see them hit a guy in stride in the midfield or in the middle of the field. You're just out of the catch. It's all yards after catch. Can 49er fans some of the last time they saw Brock Perdi do that and I did I've seen every snap this guy's ever played in the NFL and the reason I couldn't remember it is it had never happened. Here's the note Brock Perdi's 39 year touchdown pass to Marcus Robinson traveled 44 yards relative to the line of scrimmage in the year. It's the longest completion of air yards in Brock Perdi's career. Really? Okay. Because he went into the back of the ends and so 30 like from his drop back to the end zone where he catches it. 39 area yards or excuse me 44 area yards is the longest of Brock Perdi's career. We've never seen a play like that from Brock Perdi but I don't think he said the weapons and I know Robinson was here last year but that doesn't happen just because you got a fast guy. You've got to be able to scheme it into the game. Well Robinson was more of a factor down the stretch when Brock Perdi came back from injury. I don't know if there was a connection there with the best game. Of course, I wouldn't even say the Minneapolis colds game. I'm on a night football that opening drive. He threw a bomb to a Marcus Robinson. So maybe don't forget

he missed time with the suspension early in the year. Right. But it was more where Matt Jones' guy was Kendrick born and then when Brock Perdi came back, he he wasn't he was the Marcus Robinson guy. Who's your guy Matt Kenborn? Yeah, that's my boy. I know back in the day. Yeah. For half a season, yeah, exactly. New England. Yeah. And honestly, the most I would say two seasons. Yeah, yeah. The the best thing going forward for this offense was the fact they were not reliant on Christian McCafferring. K-Lon Black got his touches more carries the Christian McCafferring this game. So it shows. I know yesterday we talked about it. You know, JD was skeptical is is is a couch. I'm going to change for the game one. He did a little bit. He got he went rocky for us. Did you fight the change? You can change the offense can change. No more fighting in Australia. Yeah, do all the Australian fans at the end of the Kyle Kyle Kyle. And he and that's that's the day. Kyle Shanahan ended communism in Australia. Yeah, that's it. Let's all let's all eat me pies together. I'm telling you, they were missing out. Man, I mean pies phenomenal. It's like my favorite thing to have. I think people are grossed out by like, sweetie Todd and like, I don't want to eat that. He's out of the Oh, because he's cutting people up and he's put him into pies. I mean,

he's cutting their hair first. That's true. Isn't he a barber? Yes. The demon barber fleet street. Yeah, dude. The demon barber fleet street. I saw that man. It's right up Johnny Depp's alley too. Yeah, not as best singing. No, I just don't like all he does is play creepy roles. Yeah, that's what he's playing. Ebenezer Scrooge and a prequel is that's like Tim Burton, right? It has to be. It's got to be must be when I saw when I saw the script of like what it's called. Yeah, I'm like, or screwed. Yeah, whatever. Not scrooge. Not scrooge with Bill Murray. I think might be like Ebenezer or something. I've always I've always wondered what happened right before Christmas night. Yeah, with Ebenezer. Yeah. What was it like to re Thanksgiving? This is right if you're this is right up a your alley of like the the biopics that are not biopics. They're just one section of something that happened kind of like air or the new mad movie that's coming out. Have we talked about yet in the grab bag? The new movie that's coming out on Amazon Prime, the origin story of hooters. I sent that to you. Okay, let's save that in the in the text. Let's let's save that because because because I can imagine what that's that is anyway. I like I I don't know what it's about, but I got some ideas. Yeah, yes, I'm guessing it's a horn dog.

Who wants some wings? Oh, let's change the course of history. But no, this is all about women. Come on now. You know, Jose Conceco met his wife at hooters. Not surprised. So I'm on a podcast. I saw him on the all the smoke podcast. Oh really? Yeah, he goes that's what I met my because he met her at hooters invited her to the game the next day. And the first game she'd ever come to is the game where the ball goes off his head. Oh wow. He's a guest playing for the rangers after the game. She's like, was that supposed to happen? Or was he? Just like, no, and that's what she fell in love with. It's like that I married her. That's how I got my supermodel daughter. I was like, all right, Jose. All right, all right. All right, dude. Bass brothers, bro. All right, anyway, came in. Yeah, neither David Rick, JP Brady Joe, Kamacho. I see you guys waiting on the line. Kamacho. And Kamacho is down in LA. We'll get to all of your thoughts. Because I want to get a reaction now from everybody. I mean, we can go like, you know, your biggest thoughts. But what belief did you have Thursday morning about the Niners that maybe you don't have now? And that can be a positive thing. What did Thursday change your mind about with these San Francisco 49ers? Can't wait to get to your calls next 30. We're going to Friday. It's the greatest show in America. And it's only here on these sports later. Tim Ryan here with your Bay Area team and four.

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your Mac Jones cracks me and then he starts cracking up. He's got a funny laugh. Oh, yes, he does. Mac Jones. I like him. He's lightened up since leaving New England and Jacksonville. But yeah, I mean, that was a good flight home man. 16 hours and you win. Kick that team's ass to same sorry ass rams. There you go. This guy played for Nick Sabin and then Bill Belichag. That didn't smile for years. No. And smile since he was like in high school problem. Yeah. Because he signed his letter of intent to go to Alabama and Kyle so happy to go lucky all the time. No, okay. We don't smile in Alabama. Uh, 808 can be our 415 808 5627. The number to call and the number to text. Let's go out to the phone lines and get some of the, uh, the fan reaction here. The Niners get to win 27 to seven. What did Thursday change for you about how you feel about the 49ers? David is in Napa. What's up, David? You're on these sports leader. Hey guys, how's it going? Pretty good. All right. I'll give you some cheers and I've got a cheer as well. It's a perpetual one that I'll bring up. Okay. Cheers. I'm old enough to remember Bill Walsh and Joe Montana. And the way things used to work was the ball would go all over the place. Joe threw it exactly on time, short passes and that opened up the run and the gash in the second half.

And that's what I saw yesterday guy completely in control with the coach who just moved the ball every where he could right on time. Yep. And I could give a million other cheers. Let me give him my cheer. Okay. It's, I tell us to my buddies all the time. I'm, you know, August. And I don't have any disrespect for you guys do, but I came in thinking how both the probably isn't going to play left guard is counter-colby is probably going to be, you know, cut. Both, you know, Mike Evans, he's been hurt. August means absolutely nothing. If there was a rehab friend of football fans, check yourself in in August and don't pay attention to anything. It's worthless. I, I, I, I would counter that a little bit though and say that like the 49ers admitted after the last preseason game going into their trip to Australia, they didn't know who the left guard was, right? Like they drafted a guy in Carver Willis. They had counter-colby who was getting playing time and like we went from like a two or three man race tour. Like we got down to Austin Pleasants was out there in the third preseason game of the second preseason game at left guard. Like they were up

to five guys that were working out there. So I mean, these were all questions that we had to discuss and talk about. It was also I said the 49ers on paper looked like they could be really good, but there's the most questions to be answered. And I felt like a lot of them were answered, at least beginning to be answered in a positive way yesterday. I mean, Matt Mehlke told us last week if you'd asked me a week ago or two weeks ago, I thought Boza wasn't playing. And he said, now I kind of feel like he's gonna. We didn't know anything about Kiddles. Why hear you on that? But it is the machine that is NFL media that were also some uncertainties around this team. We're just all addicted to it because you want to know what's going on. But I think now you know. I also yeah, yeah, I if I lost you guys. The other thing that I saw in last night's game and I think I saw it the Seattle game is because people don't play much in the preseason. I thought the you know, travel had some to do with it, but none of these teams were really firing except for the 49ers. And I think these days when you sit out all training camp and you sit on the side, the product isn't as good as it going to be in week two, three, four, five.

Yeah, I think that's a huge factor early in the season. I appreciate the call David. They usually say that a lot about preseason now where it's not just sitting out training camp. And we've seen this effect the Niners by the way with guys. I mean, Brandon, are you coming into 2024? Mm hmm. Was terrible and didn't look like he was he was in shape. Do you know, Samuel after a holdout for his contract looked bad at the start of his season? Nick Boza, they go to the Super Bowl that year and he was good, of course, in 2023, but wasn't as electric as they needed him to be in the past rest that season. He wasn't in his best form after waiting all off season and signing right before week one against Pittsburgh. So I like I would I would echo some of that. I think it's pretty impressive what the Niners did in terms of their chemistry yesterday relative to so few of those guys having played in the preseason. No, they look at the best offensive team in the first two games. The NFL season. I think teams are slapping the first month. Oh, yeah. I mean, all the time the sea hawks are missing. They're starting quarterback, but the pay trades looked awful in the fourth quarter, throwing three interceptions and the Rams. Yes. I mean, Matthew Stafford looked like he took all the snaps and training camp and everything, but he looked terrible yesterday. And then yeah, Miles Garrett was not practicing with that with that knee swelling. So look out for that,

maybe hindering him during the season here. But no, the Niners are firing on all cylinders yesterday. And it's because of Kyle Shanahan. It's because he got you know, today came out. They got a contract extension good because honestly, I know that guys have won super balls to me. He is by far the best play call in all football the way that he was prepared for this game. You may see it this weekend like guys like Matt LaFloor or you know, other great play colors. And that's not ready yet. They don't know their teams yet and how they're going to use them offensively. Even though they're great play colors, they don't know Kyle knew right away going to Australia, even though he hated going to Australia and being roped in by Sean McVay, he went there, embraced it and kicked his ass. I'm going to rope them in. Let's go to let's go to Brady Brady is in Vallejo. What's that Brady or on these sports leaders? Hey, what's going on guys? Hey, I was calling yesterday. I talked to Murphy Marcus and they go, Hey, what do you think the score is going to be? And I said my prediction 27 29ers. And I think I just you know, might have given the Rams a little too much credit

because I got the nine or store right on the head. I love the complimentary backfield. We got Kalen Black in there. We sprinkled him in. You know, I told Murphy Marcus I go, Hey, I think we're he more as a burst Matthew Stafford is going to kind of be the matchup to watch and Marcus and Murphy said, Hey, you know, to be honest, I think Matthew Stafford's going to get the best of them. And he cooked something up with, you know, underman defensive line. I'm really happy with all the looks that he gave him. I mean, that was surprised. Yeah, I appreciate the comment. Thanks so much. I like the we talked about this with her. He more is relative specific with Sean McVay about how well he knows him, right? And there is something to that that you understand the weapons he has you understand how to counter some of that. And when he more is now back into a role that we talk about this all the time with coordinators becoming head coaches. And I'm not saying anything about where he more is being a bad head coach or anything like that. I know he lost his job in Atlanta. Was he in Tampa before that? He was. As the head coach

that coach and then he went to the red. Yeah, and then then lost that gig. But he's only focused on defense now. There's so much more you have to worry about as a head coach. There's so many more responsibilities you have in terms of media, in terms of dealing with injuries. I mean, he just has to worry about anything but being the head coach of that defense and developing talent. And the young secondary that needs to develop was a factor, I thought yesterday. Dude, I mean, I want to shout out. We want to go another cheer. Can I just shout out to an Arnold green? I mean, how in the, the, I know we're all going to talk about the the goal line stop, which the Tiger game changes after that. The nighters march 99 yards. Really like 99 or a half yards and get a get a touchdown out of that. I think that was the D. Boe touchdown. Yes. Right. But prior to that, the interception came right after Brock Purti had thrown a pick. And the Rams had taken the lead. The Rams come down and make it. And it got a little wonky for a minute. And the momentum could have shifted in a really bad way. The Rams third drive after the Niners go three and out. Have a bad pun. By the way, from Waitman, the Rams come down and in a couple of plays for play drive. They get a 39, a 41 yard gain from the Niners 49 to Puka. That was their biggest play of the day. They make it seven to three.

They didn't really have any sustained drives ever. The Rams didn't for anything where they were consistently putting it together until the drive when we're not a green picks off Matt Stafford. Brock Purti comes back first and 10 from the Niners 46. Brock, there's a pretty bad interception. That was like a WTF pick. Yeah, it was bad to quit and link. But then the Rams come out and they're gashing the Niners on the ground. I mean, it felt really bad for them. And I'm like, oh, no, this pick's going to make it 14 to three because the Rams come out and they open the drive with a run by quorum for five, another 10 yard run by quorum, then a six yard run by quorum, then a 13 yard run by quorum. And they get no gain on a run by Kyron Williams. Stafford incomplete pass and then third and 10 from the 35. And we're not a green picks him off. At the very least you're afraid of going down 10 to three at that point. And the Niners never look back. So we're not a green gets the Niners first interception in week one. You don't want to come last year? Do you remember the end of the half against the Texans last year? That's right. Week eight. Dimo and Orgot won right before the end of the half week eight. Nice to get a pick before October. Yeah. You know what? The key was putting the Rams in third and launch.

Third and 10. That was it. And honestly, I remember a year ago, Matthew Stafford and Devonte Adams weren't really jelling initially. There was a game against the Philadelphia Eagles where he just missed him wide open consistently. I thought that was the case last night. The Eagles win that game. Yeah, they came back. Yeah, they were down like 19 to seven. It came back. The Rams coughed that one. And then they went out run. Yeah, they did. And usually the Rams offense comes in a little sluggish. But yeah, man, like they had opportunities to go up 14 to three last night. And they squander that drive. They throw that interception. We're not not green. Last time we saw him that playoff games can shoot on the sideline by Kawashanahans. Have a great performance last night. I thought the secondary played great last night. Even Pukinakua, like yes, he had a pretty good plays last night. But in coverage, the not as handled their business. So they didn't need they didn't need to get to Matthew Stafford as far as sacking him, you know, blitzing up in stout Osidekizua on that that second and 10 to set up the interception. Oh, Jack Jones, bro. He's a dude's weapon. Yeah, exactly. Pass break up staff for. He was I think completed one pass or no passes. Yeah, when he was on the field. He was out there in nickel was was Jack Jones. They were good. They've got pieces that they

could rotate in. No, man, but the game flipped in the second half where the Niners are up 10 to seven and then scoring on that first drive. He was returned to start the second half. And then the Rams, you know, Pukinakua is tackled on the one yard line. I thought you could be a little more creative. There's Shamaid Vay and this is doing a QB sneak. Give it to Kyron and Williams. Do a play action fake touchdown at 17 to 14. You don't know where the game is going to go. And then the game was over at that point 99 yards later. Kyle was in his bag where he more. It's was in his bag. It was it was a great, great game by the 49. It's funny. I didn't hate the play call because last year when the Niners beat the Rams and we. Is it week five? When the nine. Oh, yeah, LA, the Thursday night game and the Niners beat them. Do you remember when they were down at the goal and they just kept trying to give the ball to Kyron Williams and they weren't throwing it to Pukin. Right. Yeah. We were all like, why didn't he throw the ball to Pukinakua? Yeah. He's the biggest strongest dude right there. I thought it was not a bad play call considering Pukin misted by an eyelash. I thought it was a phenomenal play by Dimo Lenore who's in single coverage right there and takes down Pukin after goal. Right. That's a tough play to make on a big dude. No, absolutely. Right. It's a demon. But as far as the fourth and goal, like you want your, I mean, I get it.

Like in hindsight, we all like, you know, we we question the call, but if 38 year quarterback taking a QB sneak and it has a bit effective for them lash. I think they were over two on QB sneaks. I think they tried to do that. How many tight ends do the Rams have like five? You can't do like a full back. That's another one. Yeah. A full back dive with a tight end get creative or do like a play action fake to one of the tight ends. Do some spider two. Why banana like come on. I thought it was terrible play calling by McVeigh. People talk about Kyle Shannon. He's going to get more creative with his play calling a couple of years ago. I'm like, look at this fantastic last night. Here's when you look at that and you know, this guy's a talented play caller and you're not getting creative play. That tells me the talent on the field is not good enough. Right. Because when he has the talent, look what he's capable of doing it on that play. I think it did you do it. It's created with a stop on Stafford. Yeah. But shut a key on white and somebody else was in there too. Maybe Halton might have been in there on that time. Two years in a row, man. They're getting a push on fourth and once last year. Covered William stop to end the game for them. So Niner's defense. Well done last night. I see all you guys wait on the line. Rick Joe Kamacho, Skierko, Dr. Don. We will get to your calls 808 KM be our four one five 808 five six two seven is the number to call and detects what did yesterday's game make you feel in any way differently

about the 49ers. If at all, do you feel I mean, I don't know why you'd feel any worse about them. But what specifically do you think has changed in your mind about this team? We'll do that next. Got something don't you work on a Friday. Do you? Oh, yeah. Oh, I like that. Sure, man. Yeah, man. I thought that's a good color game tomorrow. Big game. We got tomorrow. Oh, how's day 430. The Ohio State. Yes. I can't ever root for the last day. Now it'll be on the 1050 Hooker horns, baby. I will see a quick break. Three work rolls on on these sports leader. Tim Ryan here with your Bay Area team and four. Now get a California explorer annual day use pass with your purchase or lease of a brand new Bronco or Bronco sport. It's got goat mode like your players driving to the game or off-roading. There's seven available modes. Ford is America's number one for new vehicle quality among mainstream brands. Visit your California Ford dealer today. Proud Partner of California State Parks. Name by JD Power 2026 US Initial Quality Study Award. Information visit JDpower.com slash awards awards based on 2026 model year. Now back to dirty work. Adam Copeland and Derek Papa

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That's a good looking interception. Well, I mean sometimes I mean, not this is the thing with picks. They're not all created equal. No, they're not. I wish there was a stat in football, not even a stat. I'm okay with totaling the interception. Drop pass that turns into an interception. I used to be like, yeah, because there was a season maybe five years ago, four years ago. I have to go back and look where my homes had like six or seven interceptions in that season. Yeah, that were like off the hands of his receiver, interviewer, like tiptoe interceptions. Yeah, that's where I'm like, so he put it on their hands and the receive, there's the things every receiver would tell you I should have had it. Okay, right? But my whole philosophy changed when Steve Young, the great Steve Young said, second, it leaves your hands is your responsibility. Yeah, and I'm like, that's that's true. You threw it. It's your response, but it's your stat. I would like there to be like a, and I've kind of thought this in baseball too. I've talked about this where like guy hits a ball on the ground and he's really fast and he's running up the first baseline. Shortstop fields it and he looks up and he's like, oh my god, and he hurries it. And it's an error because he hurried the throw because the guy was running. Sometimes, it's usually they'll give that a hit, but sometimes they'll give it an error. And I'm like, right, but it's

kind of a forced error like in tennis. I kind of wish there was like a little parentheses or a sub stat that was like, yeah, like, like, maybe it was like an unfore... I don't know, not an unforestation system. It's an exception. Yeah, where it's like, clearly it wasn't, it can be up to the scorekeeper. A TV official score, whoever's doing it. I'm just saying it's like, there are some where it's like it's tipped into the air, like the Seahawks had that great tip for one the other day. That was a bad pick. Yeah, that was a bad, that would have been on Drake May. No, absolutely. But the one from Brock yesterday was pretty bad. And my thing was, it was more about the Rams had just scored, you immediately give them the ball back. And then they start pushing it into your territory. They were 15 yards outside the Red Zone, right there. It could have gotten bad. So I was really frustrated in the moment. We're not agreeing to take it back and then Brock didn't, didn't have any flaws for the remainder of the game. Yeah, so that's just one play, but he rebounded pretty nicely. Okay, you asked, what's the biggest concern going into the season that we feel better about today? For me, it's the running game. Like, yes, I still want to... I still want to see more from the defensive line as far as pass first. I still want to see more from the offensive line. We'll see as he, as he goes on. But yesterday, the way they were able to effectively run the football in the

second half down their gullet. It was Christian McCaffrey. It was K-Long Black. And yes, they did not have a 20 yard run yesterday, but Brock pretty came down your close 18 yard rush yesterday. So I liked how efficient they were. But by the way, the long for every run, for everybody who was a ball carry yesterday, I think there was four. Yeah, K-Long Black, I think D-Bow had one for 12. Every player who carried the ball for rushing yards, their long was over 10 yards. There you go. There you go. So it was such a struggle a year ago, where I would like that we saw a different running from Christian McCaffrey. And finally, someone different running behind Christian McCaffrey. So that was the biggest worry I had. Was like, are they going to change things with the running game? First game out the gate, K-Long Black gets carries. Yeah. He had more carries in the game. 14 to 10. I think over CMC. And I don't think anybody's upset about the usage, especially when you sprint it out like that. Let's go to Rick and Hayward, 808 KMDR415, 8085627, Rick. What's up, dude? You're on these sports leaders. Faith, those houses are going today. Victory Friday. Yeah. Yeah, Victory Friday, I wish we had 16 more of these. That would really be nice.

I'd be a lot of pressure from the postseason. I'd like to lose a few times. I don't want that question. I don't want that. I don't want that. I don't buy that. Yeah. I don't buy that at all, Adam. You win, you win, you lose, you lose. Yeah. I don't see that. I don't know, man. If they're like 16 and O, then I want it. I mean, I feel like 14 and O, I kind of want it. But I also, I hate I hate that notion of like dude, they haven't seen a loss all year. That's why no college basketball team goes undefeated. Yeah, exactly. Down seven in like the sweet 16 with a minute and a half left, like we've never been here. But it's like a crazy here. They're wanting to know. Yeah, yeah. I'm not going to Dante Wittner all I see are winnable games. Yeah, come on. Yeah. I do want three and O. I demand three and O. Three and O should happen. Okay. So we're going to have to win. Yeah. And then the Denver game. We'll see how Denver is. Okay. Just to let you know, Brock's pass was actually 53 Ariards. He threw it from the 46 right at the NFL logo. And that ball went all the way to the middle of the 49er logo. Yeah. When Robinson caught it, it was 53 yards

in the air. I don't think I've ever seen Brock throw of 53 yard air. You have you haven't. That's the note I was. No, no, no, this is you. I know you're saying those yard. I'm getting this from next gen stats. Next gen stats note is rock. Pretty 39 year touchdown pass to DeMarcus Robinson traveled 44 yards relative to the line of scrimmage. So you're saying you're giving him credit for the Ariards behind the line of scrimmage. I think is what you're talking about. Yeah. By the way, just from the line of scrimmage, it's the longest completion Ariards winds of his career. So we're splitting hairs here. Bottom line is we've never seen a plane like that. It was a rocket. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now the the the cheers. I still want to see more from the past. Yeah, you're here. They didn't get one back on him. I mean, that is that the reason why the ramp, the reason why the ramps lost this game was the ineffective play of their quarterback. He was horrible. He threw three over the receivers that past that that interception through. That was a horrible pass. And basically they they they could have been in this game if they would have kept running because

they had 72 rush yards in the first half out of their 122 yards. If they were to just keep running the ball, the Rams is who I'm talking about. Yeah. It would have been a much closer game. So, you know, even though it was 27 to seven, I don't go away from this game saying, we kicked their, you know, what? I think the Rams did a little bit of their own killing themselves of this game, not to say that I'm disappointed. I want to. Isn't that six or one half dozen of the other? I mean, if you play as well as the Niners did and the other team beats themselves, you won the turnover battle. Plus there were two turnovers on on downs in that game where you got stopped. So I agree with you that they beat themselves, but the Niners also executed in every thousand of the game, which led to a three score asking. So I hear what you're saying, but I do think it's kind of half like six or one half dozen of the other. It's like basically we're kind of talking the same thing, but when you're as dominant as the Niners were in this game, Sean McVeigh, this might have been the worst game he's ever coached legit as far as preparation.

In terms of how this game unfolded for him. That's Stafford hadn't gone touched out, hadn't gone without a touchdown pass in a game in like 17 games. Yeah. By the way, that staffer didn't throw a pick against the division last year. Rick, we got to run. I appreciate the call. We got a bunch of other calls. I'll say the worst game, Sean McVeigh ever coach was a super bowl the first time against the Patriots. It was 10 free. It was 13 to three and three. He did not prepare very well at all. I didn't prepare. Like also, Bella checked, changed things defensively. He was like, I never see this before. I thought I was going to be just the same thing. We've seen all year long. He's like, come on. How naive are you? That was an electric offense. Yes. It was a big time offense. And that's where this Rams offense is not as explosive as you think it is. Like, yes, they have Pukinaku, they have Devanti Adams. They only have guys that stretch the field. I know they looked they looked more human to me yesterday offensively. Now the run game is still really good for them. And I think what's going to be interesting is they're going to have to lean on the run game a lot more this year. They do have a two headed backfield, which is really good. But they're not like a spread it out. Like I'm going to throw a bomb 60 yards in the air. They they're off. And last year was predicated on 13 personnel in the tight ends, which they did yesterday. But it was crazy to me how they were effective running the football, but not doing

play action off of that going to his to rich point. They stopped around the ball in the second half. But like you run the ball to set up the pass. So you can do play action. I understand like Fred Warner was very good in coverage with the tight ends, but also like mix it up a little bit. Different formations have Tyler Higby or Colby Parkets and these other guys they have. So, yes, I think the Rams shot themselves in the foot, but also is because the Niners did kick their ass the entire game on both sides of the football. It was better defensive coverage. Like it was nine a day from a year ago. I'm entertainin' Bethune trying to cover those those tight ends. The game last year. It was like what six for six on the first six drives for the Rams that game. Oh, yeah, it was bad. Totally different. Yes, the ball sailed on Matthew Stafford to that interception. Yes, he didn't get sack yesterday, but he felt constant pressure. I'm not gonna pick on the first play. I'm not gonna say the defense is fixed as far as the pass rush. Better coverage, but really to me what I came across, you know, what really stood out to me was the effective running game was really Christian McCaffrey between the tackles. K-MOM Black as well. So I was very, very encouraged by what was going on with the offense there.

And I just want to circle back sort of contextually. The 49ers opened the second half with that touchdown. Drive seven plays for 51 yards. D-Burye that great return to start. I think that's the Mike Evans touchdown. Yes. The second one. Yeah, because the first one with D-Rob, second one was Evans, then D-Burg got the third one. It's 17-7 at that point. Then the Rams have the turnover on downs play to stop at the goal line drive. Yeah. Really a drive apiece for each team in that quarter. There's two long drives. They did have a 12-play 72 yard drive to get down there. That was their longest sustained drive of the game in terms of number of plays. And they did run it six times on that drive. But by the time they don't score the Niners give it back, they're down 24-7. And it's 12-5-7 in the fourth quarter when they fumble. Yeah, when they fumble the ball, so they get the ball back with. When Higby fumbled, yeah. Yes, give me 11-19 left when they fumble. They get the ball back with about 13 minutes remaining in the game. And they're down 24-7. They couldn't really run it. They had one drive in the third quarter. They ran it half their plays. And they didn't punch it in. No, they're not going to do that when they're down 24-7. Yeah, let's get back out to the phone lines here at 808 KMB. Our Joe's been

waiting a while in Manthiga. Joe, you're on these sports leaders. What's up, boys? How's it going? What's up, Joe? You guys ready for football? It's good. I think it's all safe. My first cheer, man, is we don't have to think about the sorry-ass giants until next spring. Me and you don't. Joe, pre-game is 615, dog. I'll be here for you, man. All right, well, hey, man, this season's long gone for me, but. Oh, yeah, not getting it. I'll say another cheer, man. Like everyone said, all summer, oh, this team is old. The window is closing, you know, woo-woo-woo. But the Rams were the team that looked old. I mean, Devon, they all had them all those cats. Like they looked old. This matter's team looks complete and great as we know they can be if they're healthy. Now, now the question is, can the teams stay healthy? And what's it going to look like against the real test with the Seattle? That, you know, that's the game, it's the Seattle. And the only cheer I really have is in the very

beginning of the game, Connor Colby looked kind of sketchy. There was that play on the, who's the first second driver got thrown to the side, but I think he's going to be fine. I think he'll have a good year. And that's not it, man. Hey, Joe, I appreciate the call, man. Thanks so much, dude. I just vibe. Yeah. I was ready for football. That's what I've been ready, man. I'll say this too, though. I'm not going to just sleep on the Rams after this game. Like, yes, they look crappy yesterday. That being said, I don't know how much the travel factored in, but it probably played a great deal at the same time. They look terrible. So let's see what happens next week when they play the Giants on Monday night. Let's see how they answer back and have to play these big time matchups with the Broncos and the Eagles. Let's see what happens when they play the Niners again, week 13 coming off a buy. And yes, the true test at this point, I mean, as far as physicality, yes, the C. Oxdale brought it defensively. They look great on Wednesday night against the doing the Patriots, but I'm not going to say the Rams are not who we thought they were. Yeah, I'm not going to label them yet. It's just when a team comes in with this much hype that was just in the NFC championship game. You know that they're and they still

got the same MVP quarterback and head coach. I mean, things can change year to year, of course. But one, I'm going to enjoy this one, especially today. I'll come back to I'm going to come back down there a little bit tomorrow. I'm pretty excited about what we saw yesterday about what the the future holds and what the potential for the team could be if they're capable of playing consistently like we saw yesterday, right? And I don't not until they give us reason to believe otherwise. I don't know why we would because so much of our concern was predicated on injury, health, the diversity of the offense. I mean, dude, we thought Ricky Pearson was going to be the two. And we thought like scribbling is going to be the two. Now, D. Bo's you two do kind of touch down yesterday. Marcus Robinson's probably your three. They still have a lot of variety in that offense. What I'll say though is this week one victory. I'm trying to remember if I've been as excited about a team and their potential for the season after a week one game because a lot of times you're not playing a division opponent or you're not playing a team that's a super bowl contender. And the nighters just did play the team of the best odds to win the bowl and kill them week one. Right. So that's that feels good. It's also a division game. It's also a guy who Kyle

Shannon has a lot of success against in Sean McVeigh. I'm not labeling the Rams as as frauds or washed up. We'll say Devont they didn't play all that much. You play a high percentage of snaps yesterday. No, because their offense is based on those tight ends, which they got away from. I have no idea why they didn't go to that. It was weird. It was odd yesterday. But also I'll say this. I'm not going to I'm not going to let I think this is more about the Niners than it does the Rams. Yeah. What the Niners are capable of. But I'm not going to get to ahead of myself to the point of the college. Just a minute ago. Joe, I think it was who I said it's all about what happens October 11th against Seattle. That's going to be a tough one. No matter what you're on the road in Seattle. Also, you got to readjust to the time coming back here. That's certainly a thing. Denver's a tough one too at home. Absolutely. I think you get real fortunate with the next two games. It's also another division opponent and coach you know a system you know in the Arizona Cardinals. No, absolutely. But I also think that the way that you look at yesterday, like obviously everything that went on this offseason, the Rams getting miles carried and other moves they made. Tremick, Duffy, Aaron Donald, the Niners dealt with a lot themselves, like having to deal with

how Shanahan, the car accident. And I'm not going to bring up the jet York thing. That's a, you know, it's a different thing. Well, like it's not only to the football team, like losing Ricky Pier saw, I thought was monumental, honestly. And yes, you could replace him with Debo Samuel, but just shows that how Shanahan is coaches roles with the punches, man. Last year, all the injuries, they sustained on defense. They still won 12 games. So yes, we'll see what happens with the John Stribbling and Jake Tanges and you need Jake Tonders because you don't know George Kittles 100%. But it was good to see him out there yesterday. They just adapt, man. They just roll with it. The Kaushanahan. I said, no, I use this phrase all the time. Finds a way to win. Whoever the wide receivers are, whoever the running backs are, it could be where you bring back a Debo Samuel and to Marcus Roberts and all these guys are 30 years old, but he still puts up 27 points. I just, I'm excited. I said, I'll come back to earth tomorrow. Let's not forget how different a team can look. Late in the season, then from how they look week one, right? Like, let's not forget what a season can do to a team. I'm not talking just injuries. I'm talking evolution. Rocked pretty into an NFC championship game and was the third quarterback when that season

started in 2022, right? The nighters in in 2021 were what were they three in five, right? And they'd lost every running back and then Debo gets shifted into the back there. That's more of Kyle's brilliance with being able to adjust on the fly with what he has. So that's all I don't want to like say temper expectations. We should be excited. But I also am like, I don't think the Rams right now or who the Rams are going to be. And I think the 49ers, if this isn't who they're going to be and they've got another level above this, there's reason to be excited. I do want to get to a Kamacho. He's been waiting for a while. He's down at LA Kamacho. What's up dude? You're on these sports leader Kamacho. What's up dudes? So dude. Well that. Hey man, so a few things. Number one, Deepop. You know, you're your commercials that win your serious crack me up. When I'm serious. He's talking law firms and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I listen to them. And then for you, Cope, that'd be super cool if you could interview Sean McVeigh and then like slip in some kind of like comedy in there. Just like imitate him in an interview.

Like get him on and do the impression to him. We could probably hook that up through Jordan Rod Reeves. Yeah. Yeah. Like in the last segment of it maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Well, what we'd have to do. Yeah, we have to have them on and then like talk to him. And then we'd have to like talk football and whatever with them. And then we'd have to reveal at the end. Hey, I kind of do an impression of you. Oh, do you know, but it's it is a weird thing to do an impression of somebody to somebody unless they're your buddy. Like if it's your friend, you're just kind of making it. Like it's not necessarily endearing. You know what I mean? Sorry guys. So here's what I really wanted to say though about the 49ers. Okay. Is that you know, I think that they take on the persona of their coach, right? And there was so much angst going on with with Kyle Shanahan. I think the team fell off that, right? And I think the team kind of like took on his persona like, I don't care. Like I'm injured. Like let's go. And I think that kind of gets lost in the shuffle a little bit. How important that is and how much they respect him, you know, it showed to me yesterday.

Yeah, we got a lot of respect for a man. Camacho, macho man. We love him. Do thanks for the call. Come on. Listen up, Camacho. Yeah, dude. That's a good one. Uh, attention, California. Well, I'm almost gonna be goofy. You got a compliment and he was like, hey, you should interview like that. Do the questions. And I was like, kind of like gave my thought in. He's like, anyway, here's one call. Yeah. Just make it happen. Just make it happen. Let's go. You make it. Let's make it happen. Come on. We're so late. I just don't want to go to break them. I like talking about this game. We don't have to. What's Danny gonna do about it? Danny would have buy me some leads ads in this radio world today. Come on. Let's let's keep talking. I'm ashamed. Clearly, I mean, somebody's got a pig red to come back. Well, that's true. And also, I need my draft king scratch. Yeah, dude, you have a little California. Uh, all right. We all, by the way, giving away two. Is it two tickets? Hold on one sec. Let me read this. Let's like Danny. Okay, two tickets were given away to go see the Santa Jose earthquakes. That's right. My team. Ted Ramey, Santa's earthquakes. Derrick's quicks. He just saw them down and I do that a lot. They fell on a draw. That drove one. Nils would fell like more of a win for Austin,

FC. Yeah. From Q two stadium. Of course, in Austin. I can have two teams, right? I mean, you were a writer fan. And you're now an Iter fan. So that should be no problem. All right. It seems, I mean, is everybody with me? Derrick's kind of coming around in the night. I think he's starting to go more excited. This, this, this, this showcase reds course. Not even a joke, dude. It's an observation. Okay. All right. You know, what else is an observation? You sitting in the seats at the stadium calls me once at the game watching. Watching the set. It was a step. I forget what it's called. I don't want to say the wrong name of the field at Santa Clara. No, no, no, it's a Santa. Oh, Santa. It's a PayPal. I'll find out. It's not a fire. It used to be anyway. We're giving away two tickets to go see the quicks taken on L.A. FC. Oh, no, they're playing in at Levi's. That's right. Yes. They're at Levi's. That's the name of that stadium. Just leave us. They're playing there on the 19th of, of this month. That's September 19th. That's a Friday. It's a week from today. You can win tickets simply by being at collar 10 when you hear the Q to call. This isn't the Q to call. This is just me trying to explain what we're giving away. Collar 10 415 896 came here wins two tickets to see the Earthquakes

in L.A. FC at Levi's stadium on September 19th. The price is furnished by the quates. You can get the rules at these sports later dot com. Listen for the Q to call and you know who's birthday. You can celebrate when you're down at Levi's stadium for that game. Jeremy Irons. That is dude, it is his birthday. Jeremy Irons. There you go. And it's it's PayPal Park. It is PayPal. Yes. But they're playing it. Levi's. Yes. This game is going down to Levi's. Also, uh, Daniel Patebaker. Oh, Hey, Danny, who's Daniel Patebaker? Glad I wasn't a kid star on Disney Channel and stuff. You didn't know that. That's here. It's over. What was she on, Danny? Um, I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know from the flash. The the CW show. Oh, okay. I don't think a lot of people know her from that. No, they know her probably from her earlier. Like the witch is a wave early place or something. I don't know. Something was a. I know Larry David was on that. Was he really? Oh, yeah. Uh, 808 came to our 415 808 56627 number and call and text. I don't even know when our guests are. I don't even know. I'm not. I'm just too hyped

on the market. Thompson and 350, ritually a 450. We have Susan slusser at 530 and of course, crew, Larry Krueger at 550. That's right. I knew we had a bunch of guests. I just didn't know what time they were. I'm like, yes, running late on time here. All right. We got to take a quick break. Skierker. I know you've been waiting for a while. Dr. Don Brad and Eddie Grant Promise. We will get to your calls. I'm sorry. We've been, uh, I mean, talking to other colors, but also pouring over this game. We've got a lot more to get to and we will get to all of your calls. If you guys hang on the line after the break 808 KBR is the number to call. Niners went at 27 to seven over the Rams. I think everybody's feeling good. Don't want to get ahead of myself, but I'd need three and oh more of your calls next on these sports. What's up, dude? What's up, dude? What's up? Tim Ryan here with your Bay Area team and four. Now get a California Explorer annual day use pass with your purchase or lease of a brand new Bronco or Bronco sport. It's got goat mode like your players driving to the game or off-roading. There's seven available modes. Ford is America's number one for new vehicle quality among mainstream brands. Visit your California Ford dealer today. Proud Partner of California State Parks.

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