tonight
and Friday and Saturday and then Sunday, I like it. But
I don't, because I never know who's playing when like.
So I do like having it diluted a little bit, but it's
virtually impossible to keep up with who's playing went, but
when the games are played, what are you watching for week? 3 of
the preseason, right? It's overload on Saturday, to your
point. That's what I
like to see it. A little more spread out Saturday is going to
be tough. It's like holy crap. That's a lot of football. All
games on Saturday. But I think the first thing is one of
the games tonight. There's no question.
I want to see Trail ants. I do,
you know, we got to see a little bit, the two drives and
preseason game. One number one, I'm pretty sure he's going to
play tonight. That's was that was the supposed plan from
the get-go that I think Shanahan stated. So
yeah, just the growth there the continue look. And for
the obvious reasons I mean we all everybody 49ers have a Super
Bowl team.
Trained Lance's development is going to be crucial to how far
they can go or if they Reach that potential
and the lingering question with Jimmy, Garoppolo, how long are
they going to squat on and Beyond August 30? Will it be
into the regular season? Will they keep him around in
the event? Somebody has a quarterback injury and will it
betray Lance at some point? Wouldn't
that be the ultimate ending to the story?
If Garoppolo ends up playing again, for the 49ers because Lance
has gotten injured, I'm looking at the Steelers quarterbacks.
Yeah. They night against the Detroit Lions because Mike
Tomlin has made it clear that what happens in that Stadium
setting that's another one of his buzzwords.
Only how these guys perform in a stadium setting is very
relevant to who the starter is going to be week one. And it
has been mixed rubis Keys job to lose all along, but Kenny
Pickett has shown enough. I think to make it a very
difficult question
as to which guy you go with.
And at the end of the day I defer to
Mike Tomlin but he he is going to really have a couple of
viable options
and it's going to come down. I think the
who shows better
on Sunday night at home against the Detroit Lions, I'm with you.
Our that probably would have been my next pick. That's a big
one. It is it's been pretty good to risk. He's done. Well,
can he pick it is done phenomenal. And then we have
the offensive line issue there to where you wonder how much
that plays into it and you want to throw
the young kid out their
first game in Cincinnati with that old line,
you know, maybe not working great together as a unit. So
I'm with you and even Mason Rudolph to your point with
the Steelers. Cubies and
Mason Rudolph from all due accounts. Like I know Chris
Mortensen said it on TV last weekend.
He's going to get traded here soon. He's going to go
somewhere. I think there's teams that look up. We needed
to upgrade in our backup and I don't think Mason Rudolph will
be there much
longer, so it's another audition for him as well.
So that is definitely one of the must watch has of
the weekend. I think, I don't think I'll get caught. I don't think
he'll get caught because they gave him
a pretty sizable signing bonus. So I agree with you that they
may be looking to trade him, right? And that that that
cutting him would be the last ditch scenario if they would
even do that. Maybe
Hold him into the regular season. Yeah and somebody gets
hurt. Yeah I think that's a very real possibility.
Definitely I'm with you there Mike then the other one I look
at it I don't know if Brady's playing. I know they said there
might be a chance he
plays but I don't care if he does or not, it's the buck so
line that I want to watch just the new parts in the middle.
We know the tackles are going to be good, I mean worse,
I believe is still dealing with a little bit of injury at right
tackle and Dominique
what does it say? That again, oblique got no really. That's
right. Oblique hasn't been practice. Yep. So that I I mean
we're not going to see him and you know, hopefully he's ready
for Week 1. We know left tackles good, but that interior
part of The
Old Lion. I mean, there's there's injuries. There's
issues there, Shaq Masons the only guy there that you go.
Okay. He's played and he's shown some, you know, some,
some good play
throughout his career.
But that's going to be big, especially when we know Tom Brady
is not gonna be able to scramble and move and do all
those things at his age.
Somebody tweeted recently, that Hakeem Hicks is wreaking havoc
at practice. Well yeah. All the all the interior offensive
linemen are hurt and he's He is right? And he said, yeah, yeah,
yeah, he stays help us. Slow him down with your starters.
Yeah, that goes into what we're talking about the week-one
matchup with the Cowboys. I mean, holy cow, you deal, with
Hakeem Hicks and Vita Vella and
you know, try on Smith and Shaq Barrett, holy crapola, Batman
Seahawks quarterback battle Friday. Night at Dallas. Gino
starts, trulock gets plenty of playing time.
What will we see? What will be there? What will allow Pete
Carroll to make the decision on who is start, is going to be
week one. And then at what point after Friday night, do we
actually find out who it is? So you have maximum opportunity to
get the guy ready.
They may, they may not make the decision after that game. They
may hold it for another week until we get to Labor Day
weekend and the preparations begin in Earnest for the Monday
night game. But I want to see what those two Seahawks
quarterbacks do. I don't think Jacob Eason
Could make a rich strike run up the outside to take it, but but
I,
I just feel like, they're waiting, they're waiting,
they're waiting for someone and maybe Friday night will get
an indication as to what's going to. Yeah, it does seem like
nobody's really grabbed the bull by the horns really there
to wear. Yeah. It does seem like they're still very much on
decided at this point so
we'll see where that goes. That's definitely a good one
and I'm going to be watching that as well. I think the
Battle of New York is where I'll go next. You know. Because
it really more. I want to see some people. Yeah, I want to
see Joe Flacco, I think that's that's the biggest thing. But
also do something, you brought up earlier in the show there's
the Daniel Jones Tyrod Taylor just to continue development of
Daniel Jones
and a new offense and all of that. So
there's some interesting storylines in that game but primarily
we just want to see Joe Joe Flacco with that first team
offense and see what he looks like. You know, playing QB.
You know, I've got a couple more on my list.
I want to see what Baker Mayfield does as the as
the starter. Now, he's going to play, definitely some for
the Panthers, this weekend. I want to see what happens with these
Vikings backup, quarterbacks. Now that Nick Mullens is there,
I think Sean mannion is going to get the Short Straw,
come next Tuesday.
But tonight, and
I'm not doing this for promotional purposes, but the reality is
Amazon Prime has its first game tonight.
Up against an NFL Network game,
and if I'm Network game starts at 8,
I believe and the Prime game starts at 8:15. 8:30, it's
49ers, add text. And so if you want to watch Trail ants, you
got to have Amazon Prime. How many people even know
that the NFL games, you're going to be on Prime this year
on Thursday, night, and Nielsen is going to do the ratings
first time ever, a streaming services had Nielsen ratings.
I don't know what the numbers are going to be during the regular
season Amazon reportedly was telling sponsors. They're going
to get 12
million if you're not, I'm sorry Amazonia. Getting 12
million game. You're not getting
12 million average per minute audience. Like the real number
is projected, for all of the networks are not getting 12
million tonight. I think it's going to be a bismal.
This specially with a game on NFL Network at the same time.
I don't think many people are going to go searching for
the 49ers Texans game and when those Nielsen numbers come out,
I think people are gonna be like, holy crap. Is this a sign
of things to come? No, it's not because it's a preseason game
but I still think they're going to be Be well, short. I think
it's going to be like, five, six million at best. Well, the
even the good games right here and I think they know that
I know Amazon has a reason to Hype it and pump it up and get
more people interested. But I think they, I think they're
adults about this. They've traded
massive audience for massive money
from this streaming
reality that the NFL is now venturing into. Yeah,
no, it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Definitely, and that game, you know, we know Rogers isn't
playing I don't know, but I haven't heard anything about
Kansas City. So I mean if and and
they played a lot the starters in Kansas City where I can
certainly see them not playing on this one I'll be interested
like if they're not playing I'm you know again I'm won't be
watching that one a whole lot. I've seen enough of the
the backups
of the Packers here to have a good feel for that group and
you know again the the Chiefs you know, not necessarily
worried about that. So I would be tuned into one, the 49ers in
the trail ants and the other aspect of that is Is
Davis Mills was absolutely horrible last week against
the Rams. I mean, horrible. I mean, it was, it was not a good look
at all.
And they got to be concerned
and that ties into the Jimmy Garoppolo thing. We were
talking about a little bit earlier there as well. So
I'll I'm going to be having my eye on that game. I think
a little more closely than the Packers Chiefs.
If they want to talk to the 49ers, they will be in
the building tonight. It's 8:00 Eastern on NFL Network for
Packers Chiefs, 8:15. P.m. Eastern is the kickoff for
the first.
Time ever exclusively on Prime video and we'll see what
the numbers are. Again, they won't be good. The question is, what
will they be three weeks from tonight
when it's Chargers
Chiefs in the first-ever exclusive Prime Time streaming
only game?