that I think three point seven percent of the country actually
saw and that was
the 49ers hosting the Miami Dolphins and I know Bengals
fans upset. Now they want their respect. You have to respect
the Bangles and we'll get we'll get to you this segment. Just
chill
Bengals fans, just chill.
49ers Dolphins is more eventful
for
one. Very big reason.
A high-end Super Bowl contender.
Is down to
a seventh round. Rookie quarterback who was the last
guy. Drafted. I'm not big into the whole mystery relevant
thing in a seventh-round draft. I because,
how many guys, not even drafted,
make teams become starters, pro bowlers Hall of Famers.
The last guy drafted doesn't matter. I don't, I've never
been into that especially with the seventh-round draft,
however, Brock Purdy,
From Iowa State,
last man, drafted.
Now, the last man standing sort of
in San Francisco. I mean they still have backups but
you're already screwed. They always have your down to your
third string quarterback has screwed. Well, the 49ers are
down to the third, string quarterback and they're not
screwed miles. He looked pretty good yesterday.
You know what's really interesting Mike?
When you're playing an opponent in the Miami Dolphins, that
runs the same scheme as you do your baby down to probably
a lot of the same terminology, right? And you're studying that
thing
Film, and you are the backup quarterback. So you are
the show team quarterback. There's probably no better week. That
brought pretty could have come in
and executed the offense
to a high level because that's what he was doing the entire
week anyway and it helped quarterbacks always talk about
oh, I prepare like, I'm the starter I prepare like I'm
the start.
No, you don't, because you don't get starters reps and
that's just one of these inherent things that comes with
being in the NFL. There's not enough time To get two,
quarterbacks prepared to play
in any given week there just isn't.
So when Brock / D, has to come in for an injured, Jimmy
Garoppolo after the first drive of that game. And again,
there's just no better time for him to come in because he had
been running that offense the entire week. Instead of
say running, I don't know
like the Cowboys offense or whatever the 49ers using
the Buccaneers offense is if they're going to play them this
week, right? So there was a good opportunity for him and he
executed
Is well as anybody could have in that situation. I mean, he
exceeded my expectations, great point. And you get bonus points
for using the actual lingo of show team. Instead of scouting,
the the non astute football, Observer thinks it's called
the scout team, the true inside the Beltway football,
Aficionado who follows it in his work for a couple of teams
knows. It's actually called the show team here is Kyle,
Shanahan the coach of the San Francisco 49ers upon
Learning the bad news that Jimmy Garoppolo who exited
early with a foot injury, has a broken bone
and is likely done for the year. He is
let me just hearing it, it's pretty crushing
his we know what Jimmy's been through, how hard he's worked
at this. You know I got that news a little in the second
quarter
so it was a little different for me. Even just
how happy we were that game. That was a really cool game,
just as a team and all the stuff that went on throughout
the game and just be able to overcome some things. And so So
such a special win
but definitely mixed emotions here in about Jimmy.
I told the guys right after the game and
so I know that give them some mixed emotions fast too but
hell of a job. I brought coming in. Stepping it up. He
did a real good job today and
we're going to be ready to
do our best overcome this.
Look
As starting quarterbacks being lost for the season go.
Among playoff contenders
now that the cream has separated for the most part
from the crap,
the 49ers of the one teen least affected. By this Jimmy
Garoppolo has been perceived as the weak link anyway,
we don't win because of him. We went in spite of him. He's
the guy that as long as he doesn't screw anything up the rest of
the team, can take care of business as long as we don't
have to count on, make a big, throw in a big spot. Everything
will be fine as long as we can overcome those periodic moments
of Jimmy,
He doing a Jimmy G thing, the train will keep rolling.
So really look at any other Contender the Bengals without
your burrow screwed cheese without Pat Mahomes screwed
bills, without Josh, Allen screwed Eagles without jamming
hurts screwed, Vikings without Kirk Cousins
screwed.
The only team
among all the high-end contenders that would just kind
of shrug at the loss of the starting quarterback is
the 49er. So yes, it's big news,
but
I think it's no big deal. For the 49ers. All right. I don't
know.
I don't know. My God, I think it's bigger than no big deal
because Jimmy Garoppolo has been in those situations before
and he's not a seventh-round rookie. So, what situation
talking referring to are you referring to the situation
where he freaked out, Kyle. Shanahan to the point where he
turned
him into Bob Griese and said you just hand the ball off, in
these playoff games, and the rest of the team will take care
of things. Is that the situation you're talking about
because I think Brock heard he can execute or Brock / D,
can execute the hands.
Coughs, if it comes easy for you to know his name. Robert,
you know who we met? Yeah,
yeah. You're gonna know is
a by the end of the regular season, we're going to know
Brock Purdy's name. All right, because every possible pun has
probably already been exhausted for Brock
Purdy.
Yes. Well I'm sure we'll do something with that probably,
you know, in the coming weeks but not
just from an emotional standpoint though, right?
I mean, this is already a team that lost its starting
quarterback early on, in the season in trail ants.
So you have Jimmy Garoppolo who is the backup quarterback, and
I think it's important to kind of remember that, which sort of
gets lost because he's been a starter for so long in San
Francisco
that he was the backup this year.
So now you're down to your third string quarterback. And
whenever a team is down to third string quarterback, like
you said, I mean, you think you're kind of screwed but even
though there are limitations with Jimmy, Garoppolo
people, talk about how good he is as a teammate, how much he
cares, how the kind of emotional lift that he Divides.
So I mean at least for the time being, it's still it's
something that they're going to have to overcome. And whenever
you're talking about a young quarterback, who just doesn't
have any experience in
general, going from what you had with Jimmy Garoppolo down
to that, that that's a significant thing now, I think
Brock Purdy can execute the offense.
I mean, what is it? Frank Reich said,
you know, before he got fired I can prepare a quarterback to
win one game but then once they get film on that guy, we'll
see. What happens? And that's the kind of situation you're in
now if Brock birdie but if there is any situation
that a Young quarterback who doesn't have any experience,
that was drafted in the seventh round can come in and feel
comfortable let's call it then yeah it's with the San
Francisco 49ers who have the best defense in the league and
also have a collection of weapons that Rivals.
Anybody offensive ly.
This is a decent situation that Brock / D is walking into,
but it's not like,
there's not going to be some kind of drop off from Jimmy
Garoppolo even with his limitations. But I think
the drop-off for them will be as small or smaller
far smaller than it would be for any other Playoff
Contender. It's a system and its a system expert. Yeah,
crafted by Kyle Shanahan
where they're always staying ahead of what the defense is doing.
They specifically devised and Chris Simms talked about this,
their first order of business, every week is coming up with
ideas in the Run game, not the pass game to exploit the
A valise of a defense you know the end of the day, you got 11
guys, you can deploy them. However you want Kyle Shanahan
figures out how a given team chooses to most commonly
deployed its players under certain circumstances down in
distance, whatever the case may be. So how do I take advantage
of those 11 guys? How do I get a guy to move this way and
create a hole that that guy can run through?
So,
I just, this is nothing against Jimmy Garoppolo, the guy was
done, they had thrown him overboard,
he was out, and they brought him back.
Back in. They were going to trade him and if they didn't
trade him, they were going to cut him. And we have to late
August. They looked around. And I think
a big part of the reason was we're still not real sure about
Trail ants.
Are we ready to really go forward with Trey Lance's, our starter
when we have this other guy who knows the offense? He's here.
Maybe we can work out a deal and pay unless and a win-win
for everyone and they did that. And then by week two, they
needed it. So
this is a locker room
that's been through.
Every possible crazy quarterback scenario. You can imagine
which I think it makes them more. What's the word well-adjusted?
They're very well adjusted because they've had to adjust
to everything so they'll adjust to this and they'll just keep
going. I mean they've got a pretty damn good record.
They won the game against a very good. Miami Dolphins. Team
with a total team effort with a defense stepped up and got it
done and slammed the door on the Dolphins. So it proves
that this formula works. You don't even need to say
bear with me. We'll make it work. Next week
it already worked Brock pretty got thrust Into The Fray early
and they beat one of the hottest teams in the NFL and
they made to Otunga by Lola. Look ordinary. So I think that
I think that the 49ers
will be fine if it was any other high-end Contender it
would be.
So can they hold on? What are they going to do? Is there
anybody out there? Can I get Big Bend to come out of
retirement? I mean, you know, we're throwing around all sorts
of names just for
Craps in Giggles yesterday
as the guys that they can bring in, you know, Philip Rivers. I
Drew Brees, although he was hit by lightning, unless you
wasn't. I mean, there's all sorts of guys that are out
there that are available. Sorry, I the over-under was,
was 11 million help me sell mentioned the the
lightning thing that. Yeah, very funny. It was a funny joke,
if I'm very, very funny joke, I'm waiting for other
sports book ambassadors to be swallowed by an alligator or,
you know.
Anyway, anyway, it's
he, hey, I have some fun. That I'm going to refrain from
articulating. Let me share this thought with you.
I don't know if you,
I don't know if this is flashed for you. We were showing Brock
/, D earlier. This is my way to transition out of the mess that
I'd wanted into
Brock / D to me, looks like that guy who looks like
somebody, but you don't know who it is.
It looks like that guy from that thing.
He may be
kind of a Twist on that. He looks like somebody that you
should know who it is, but you don't know who it is. Like that
is I that that? Well, I know him. Um he's,
he's Wade. Who is he?
Yeah, that's him,
that's Barbara.
Yeah, kind of yeah. I mean that's just
I don't know. He's one of those nondescript
quarterback. You yeah, he looks like the the create a player
certain
like Madden,
start with yes. And then you have to history, shape, it and
do all kinds of other stuff. And then, you know, you come
out with your, create a player that's kind of what he looks
like. The Smiling Brock party at the bottom. The screen looks
a little like John Harbaugh but the
stoic Brock / D is just kind of like, he looks like
a guy that I should know exactly who he looks like. And
I can't think of who it is that he looks like but the 49ers
still look like a great team cement. Yes, that's
professionalism at its finest.
The 49ers are moving in the right direction, the 49ers will
be dangerous, they will travel well, if and when they go on
the road but
they're going to have
the pregnancy in a three seed.
So they're going to be hosting the 6 seed.
To start the postseason and then they'll go to,
you know, the way it's falling now Minnesota.
Yeah, you know, good luck Vikings
dealing with that defense.
So if it comes to it, I just think the 49ers
for
we've been here before, where a contender loses, its
quarterback in December and it's like, that's it. Put
a fork in them. They're done, it's over, they're frauds, they
can't, they can't perform them.
I just, I think that this is the one case.
That we can point to
where
the 49ers should be optimistic and they should have a little
spring in their step. Once they realize they can win with Brock
Purdy and they can't well and I think they will.
Yes, I do things about the 49ers win in regards to that.
I mean, the throwed to me that signaled that brought Purdy is
ready for the opportunity
was late in the second quarter. It was third down and 10 and
Miami pretty much sent the house right at Purdy, right?
And he's still Stays in the pocket and he fires the ball
pretty much right into the teeth of the bullets.
Right? To George kill, it goes for a first down at the. You
got 19 yards when they needed 10, right? That to me was one
of those signals where it's like, okay. Even though Brock /
D is a seventh round rookie.
They can be okay with him because
he's not scared. He was prepared for that moment and
that's something that a lot of, you know, quarterbacks that
have been in this league a lot longer than the him have really
struggled with it time. So
that to me was a really good
Fine. And also when you've got the defense and the defense is
playing as well as it played Kyle shaneandsam. Talking about
this, it is postgame press conference that he kind of
called out in sort of ingest
the defensive line
for not playing quite as well as the linebackers in their
last win. And apparently the defense of wind took that very
personally because after Nick Bosa forces last sack which
ended up
as a fumble return for TouchDown for Dre. Greenlaw,
you know, he comes back over to the sideline and Kyle Shannon,
says, I thought we were going to celebrate and effectively.
Nick Moses said, that's what happens when you call me out
and a team meeting. So he didn't say it quite like that,
instead of little
more explicitly, but if they can keep that defense playing
at that high level there, I've said it for weeks now, they
have a championship-caliber defense and they showed
a yesterday against the Miami Dolphins, who are as
good on offense about anybody in the league when you consider
the speed that they've got, right? If you can keep playing
like this, That then that's how you rally around Rock per diem
play, good football
and the key to the 49ers continues to be keeping
the nucleus of the best players healthy. And yes, yes! Jimmy
Garoppolo was part of that nucleus, but he was kind of on
the fringes of it. You need Nick Bosa, you need Debo
Samuel, you need Christian. McCaffrey
you need the best of the best to be healthy once they start
getting banged around and they can, and they have, because
they play with no hesitation,
they do run into that brick wall.
And usually the brick wall Has
sometimes one of the bricks wins and a guy gets injured and
he's got to fight through it and maybe he can't play at all,
or he plays, and he's impaired. That's the issue for the 49ers.
That's the thing that can derail them
on their path to another Super Bowl. And they still in my mind
continue to be a team that can get there and, and it's a great
opportunity falling out of the sky
for Brock Purdy as they are looking.
Continuously for their long-term answer at quarterback
and they don't know what they have in trail ants and they
still don't know. I guess it would be fitting if at the end
of the day after they gave up everything they did
to move up to number three in the 2021 draft Alaska. I taken
in 2022 becomes a guy that they can feel good about and rally
around and eventually figure out. Who the hell it is? That
he looks like
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