with Debo Samuel Christian McCaffrey and Brandon I you can
George kittel and an offensive line that buys Brock / D enough
time to distribute the ball and how he's managed to play
unaffected
by being thrust into this machine that just keeps
rolling. Just keeps winning. Just keeps going. I've said for
weeks now, as long as they keep that nucleus of key players
healthy, no one is going to beat them including the Dallas
Cowboys, even with
Michael Parsons, and the other great defensive players
that They have.
Yeah, it's amazing might because you talked about how
the first of the year sometimes, doesn't matter. And
I think that was the case. You think about all
the quarterbacks the 49ers have gone through to get to this
point,
they lost to the Bears early in the season, you're thinking,
man. This team's horrible. Then they go make the trade for
Christian McCaffrey. Now they have all these parts and you're
looking at this team going, how in the world are we going to
stop this offense?
Even with the rookie quarterback? We're not even
talking about hey rookie. Backs have never done this, never
done that, he's six, and, oh, we've just, we kind of shifted
that conversation to
this team. So good that it doesn't matter that he's
a rookie quarterback, and he's shown that, and he's just been
so good with this offense. I don't think he would be this
good with the Bears offense or some other offenses in the NFL.
But he's doing great with this offense, Mike and so we're not
even thinking of him as a rookie quarterback anymore.
No, we aren't and we never really have once he showed
the ability to hold it together when he was thrust into service
in the first quarter of the game, against the Dolphins,
there were not many questions about Brock Purdy and yeah,
last week, a few shaky throws early
in the rain against the Seahawks. He settled down and
he kept it going and it's easy to do when it's not all on you
when you don't have to go out and try to win the game, with
your legs, with your arm, with a big play, in a big spot. But
he can run, he can throw he can do a lot, but when you've got
that defense specially
and those weapons on offense,
it becomes a lot easier
to get it done in to win football games. So the Cowboys will win
this game if they what Shireen
I think if it's it they get after Brock pretty and rattle
him. We haven't seen him, rattled. Mike and I think
that's going to be the key is to get him, hit him, hit him
early, hit him often
he you know He's been really good at not turning the ball
over.
He's only had, what two games this year. Since he's been
the starter that, he's turned it over and the six games now. So
at least two touchdowns in seven consecutive games for
him. So, you gotta get after him pressure. And I don't know
that we've seen that from anybody that has faced
the Cowboys can do that, the Cowboys have the players who
can get to the quarterback,
who can sack the quarterback, who can hit the quarterback.
And I think that's what What it's going to take for them is
to really get after him early.
I think the Cowboys win if that Prescott plays like he did on
Monday night and I know that that was one of the best games
of his career, but that's what it's going to take. That's what
it's going to require to go into Santa Clara and beat this
49ers team,
great Dak. Hey, you may have wasted the best game of your
career on a night when you didn't really need it because
they probably would have beaten. The Buccaneers easily
even if doc wasn't as spectacular as he was, so we'll
see if he can string two together. I hope he does.
I hope he does. But that's at all test against a much better
defense than the one
that they just faced and it requires
a running game to take some of the heat off the passing game.
Sodac can do what he's capable of doing, I mean he had that
easy touchdown roll into the End Zone on the bootleg because
they
take the running game seriously and they focused, they went all
in on the handoff on the inside and it busted it open for Dak
to run around the edge. That's the kind of stuff that you need
a full
effort by the offense allowing Dak Prescott to have the game
that he had last week. It would also Also help
to make your kicks.
Brett Maher was perfect on his kicks, Thursday, and practice
going 646, should be be kicking more than six times. Don't,
don't you need more than six during practice to wipe away
the stench of what happened on Monday night, I would be having
him kick and kick and kick and kick and Sheree. And I said these
the other day and I was 100% serious,
he should be at all times. Kicking
amid, the deafening Roar
of his last name being chanted.
In unison, by 70,000 people
because I guarantee you
that's what he's going to hear
on Sunday. This 49ers fans know, they're smart. They
understand they're going to be inside his head, they're going
to be chanting, ma her mama her
I Hope they've subjected him to that because he's going to be
subjected to it on Sunday night.
He sure is Mike. And I think it's going to be important for
him to make his kicks this week. It didn't matter last
week and you go back and you think about, How many
how few plays decide a game, you think about that? You talk
about those touchdown to fourth quarter touchdowns, including
the one you alluded to, when that did the bootleg around
the corner and there's nobody there except Dalton Schultz to block
for him who had no one to block.
So I had to point out,
they had to Fourth Down touchdowns
Tom, Brady, threw an interception, trying to throw
the ball away.
And you think if those plays had gone differently, this
would have been In a closer game and those extra points
would have mattered but as it turned out, they didn't. But in
this game, you figured that extra points are going to
matter
and field goals. If he has to kick, those are going to
matter. So absolutely. He's got to be better than he was and
a big part of this game. Because if you're missing kicks, Mike
and this game
Cowboys aren't going to win this game.
Well now, and when you miss your first for extra points in
the game's 24, nothing instead of twenty five, six seven or
eight what happens? It's a three score game.
Yeah and I felt like the door remained open for the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers and it wasn't until they scored a touchdown and
didn't get the two-point conversion that I thought.
Maybe this is too much to expect the Buccaneers to do.
But 8 8 and 8 is 24,
that would have been a huge mess for the Cowboys. If they
had lost that game simply because Brett Mark couldn't
make the extra points and it is going to be in his head it's
unavoidable and the for
Niners fans are going to do everything they can to be in
his head when it's time for him to go kick. So
the we talked about what the Cowboys need to do to win,
let's flip it over. To the 49ers. They will win this game.
If they watch Shireen
I think of their defense plays as they've played all season.
If Nick BOCES, Nick Bose, I think we all expect him to be
defensive player of the year. He was pft's pick as defensive
player of the year. We know how
violent this defense is, how good they are. We've seen it
all year. Year long and we know the record when teams play them
the week after they don't win.
So the team that play, if the Cowboys beat them, they may not
win next week, but I don't think the Cowboys are going to
beat the 49ers because I think their defense is going to play
as good as they played all season. And if they do,
they will win this game.
You know, you mentioned it boasts of being our Defensive
Player of the Year, not that anybody cares. But we have
started a tradition where the coach of the year gets
something more than satisfaction all because Mike
Vrabel asked for something.
One thing led to another and we sent him a ham
Brian De bois-guilbert box of cigars,
I don't know. Maybe we should be offering something like
something of what I see. I got to be careful. You never know
what they're going to choose.
Could be something that we can't fit into the budget,
but you have me feeling guilty that we only give the coach. Of
the Year something, maybe Nick boson needs something to. But
you're right defensive player of the year,
he may get some MVP votes. Now that it's expanded to five,
I may have had him his fifth frankly on my 5:01
three list of of MVP
candidates. But he's another one,
you keep these guys healthy and I said this yesterday and
I don't want to jinx anybody but it's one thing for them to be
healthy when the game starts. They got to be there when
the game ends and the way these guys play it's particularly
relevant to the 49ers
they jump out of bed and run through it.
All they play without hesitation, they have compiled
and it's been a great balance between Kyle, Shanahan and John
Lynch, because I think John Lynch has a knack for
finding guys who were wired, like he was and an age where
there's limited tackling to the ground in practice
limited padded practices.
You need guys who are at any given moment, ready to go
and they have an endless selection of guys who at any
given moment are ready to go. The problem is, you get injured
if you're to read, To go
sometimes the wall wins.
That's the problem. So if they can keep these guys, healthy
all game long, Nick Mosby keeps going all game long, Fred
Warner Dre, Greenlaw arik Armstead. Who's look
Spectacular. Now that he's back in the fold healthy again,
it's just going to be too much for the Cowboys. I know we want
to have a great game and it's gonna be a huge audience,
whatever the final score it's going to be 40 to 50 million
people tuning in Sunday night. Look at what the Cowboys Drew
on
on Monday against the Bucks. I mean, this is a real game, it
should be a great game. We want to Great game. We wanted to
come down to the wire. I just think the 49ers if they keep
doing what they've done all year, it's going to be very
difficult for the Cowboys to
keep up with him. So just keep being who you've been 49ers,
and you'll win this game, doesn't matter. It's
the Cowboys doesn't matter who it is the 49ers right now in my
view, the best team in the NFL they keep it together. They're
going to keep winning and winning and ultimately win
their first Super Bowl
since 1994.
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