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pickleball, count that our role prior to the opposite, way
going left her teach, I'm gonna throw back right and it is
juggled and charged. Kennel, makes the catch the Midfield,
What A Catch, my church, kiddo
on the throw back there for Brock birdie. Bobbled it
a couple of times, but was able to reel it in.
Right there. I sort of caught up though. He's a little caught
it. I've been lucky. I'm a straight
edge right there isn't around
by our next guest. George kid who came bearing? Gifts? Yes,
we use Old Spice. Got so much Old Spice. I do I do it right
here. I still want a hoodie. I got the T-shirt. Yeah,
I smell good. You're such a quarterback.
That's incredible. How you doing? Wonderful, man, happy to
be here. Enjoying hanging out with you guys. You have a zest
for life. You have a zest for football.
It's infectious. Its
Aegis and you've always been that way and no matter how many
years you play in the NFL if you like it's never going to
change. No, I won't change. I love football. I love life.
I wake up every single day in the great state of California.
I see the sunshine blue skies, I practice in December and 60
degree weather. Have a wonderful Farm of acreage
Nashville, Tennessee. What I
have to complain about my great, Bernie doodle. Also,
my God. Yeah, I got 110 Missy, the best hard to be away from
her. I feel terrible because of the second, you get home to
like, they're excited to see you, but the same time. They're
like, where have you been?
I've been here, right? That's all. This, but she is hanging
out at the use checks house because they have a wonderful
dog to. So, she's in good hands. He ours doesn't get
along with other dogs.
That's
almost have to, like, like the better,
your dog, totally crazy. And likes everybody. She sleeps, 18
hours a day. Bless her heart. Wow. She's like 30 minutes
boost of energy and then she sits over. It's amazing, right?
Easiest dog, to take care of what talk about. Like, just
don't care that much about it because I could listen to you
talk about anything like you're just a culture with the 49ers
and how, you know,
coach Shanahan Kyle kind of lets you guys. It seems like be
you guys and it's pretty rare. Yeah, for sure. I mean, like,
early on
like this culture, some that we've developed, right? It was
not just a coach Shanahan and John Lynch came in in 2017 and
I was all of a sudden. Yeah, we have these guys that are
working the way that we work but over the course of a couple
years and then like with certain players, like
Joe Staley was their right. And he had a certain work ethic Tim
Garrett. Selleck was there a tight end? He had a certain
work ethic and then you had you had me
You added Fred Warner on defense the next year. Yeah,
Quan Alexander was a huge addition for us in 2010,
was 2019. Right? And like his attitude, but like, this
culture has just started to kind of develop in 2019 was
kind of where it took off. Yeah. And then you'd like to
force Buckner are Farmstead. Nick bolso is an on that. And
so like when you have a good group of guys that are all High
character and psychos about football Cycles, you love
football but they also want to
get better every day.
You can like let you can kind of like eyes off the leash
because they like we hold ourselves to a high standard,
right? I want to be the greatest, right? Fred Warner
wants to be a
Hall of Fame linebacker Nick. Both want to be a Hall of Fame
Divas events. Like when you work like that you can be who
you want to be as long as you show up every day and you're
accountable and respect your teammate. Yeah. And the problem
is, is Debo explain to us the other day in practice, gets
beat the hell out of each other,
we do practice hard.
But I mean, like
there is a part of that, you need to go through, to an extent,
to get like your body in shape for football. Because
they're honest like training camp, doesn't really even get
you ready for NFL contact. Like I know like some people go out
there and do like live tackling drills, which is I think is
crazy. Me and practice.
But yeah. Do we practice our
for sure? Is it super fun everyday lineup against Nick
boson and nine technique of running outside Zone? I don't
know, it's not fun every day.
That's the hardest thing that I'm going to do it and it makes
it easier when you have to do it again. Somebody like, I'm
okay with it and I think we've gotten to the point to where,
like, we've figured out kind of reps and stuff like that for
guys, and
I don't think we're running guys in the ground, like I hear
of other teams who have 100 play scripts on multiple fields
and they're doing ones and twos and up multiple Fields. Like
that sounds like crazy. Talk to me,
but like that. What some teams do. So I think we've
established a pretty good way to do it. Do we practice at
a high level? Sure, we're flying around all the time. But
I mean, we were pretty healthy by the end of the year besides
the most support position football quarterback. But
besides that, I mean, we're rolling, right? All right. So
I'm going to go there, I'm going to go to this this these
two teams first off because you're in this class of these
teams. I know it's unfortunate how it ended and all that.
Yeah, but you're every bit could have been here, you know,
what was your assessment of like Chiefs Eagles, you know,
through George kettles, eyes being on the field with them
a little
bit this year. Um my take is this. Yeah if the Eagles don't
take Travis Kelce out of the game, right?
They're going to lose right? Straight up I think
Travis Kelce Patrick Mahomes are the best tandem in football
there's nothing like them. Yeah, nothing.
They're fantastic amount of touchdowns. They have Playoff
records, like they're so good in the playoffs and even just
regular seeds to sow Packer Mahomes MVP, much deservedly.
So a fantastic football player. But if you guys let they let
Travis Kelce. Extend those drives get this third Downs as
long as make those like third and
shorts. Yeah, there you let him.
Him take over the game, they don't stand a chance. So like
what? I hope like,
as a defensive coordinator, what I hope they do,
they should double team him. Put a guy on the line of
scrimmage chip them every single play, like what, that's
what Bill Belichick does with the Patriots, right? Because
whenever I watch like, whenever I watch Chiefs tape, and I see
the Patriots, like they have two to three, guys on every
second of every play.
Yeah. And they're like, anyone else has to beat us, right? So,
if they could figure out a way to take Travis out of the game,
which good luck, he's Fantastic, Future Hall of Famer.
If they find a way to do it, I think the Eagles can win
the game but they don't, I think the Chiefs are going. All
right, all right, that's it. That's interesting. What do you
mean? What do you lean? Just like,
I don't think you're gonna take Travis Kelce out of
the football. Yeah, hey, right. Okay, so, there you go. Right.
Right.
Your game against the Eagles.
Essentially ended with the Brock / D injury.
It remained interesting for a while. Yeah and it felt like
you guys were going to get my run but then especially after
Josh Johnson left with 13 minutes and 30 seconds left in
the third quarter, right? Pretty tough. Your thought on
how that all transpired that day
I mean with Brock doesn't get hurt. Like I'm fully confident
my team like I'm not going to guarantee a victory but I was
confident us to work on this game tight,
right? Like yeah you got me, didn't I go in every single
football game knowing that I'm going to win the game and then
when I do, I'm like well, that sucked like why didn't I win?
Let's go fix that, right? But if you don't have that
confidence, I don't think you're gonna last very long in
the NFL.
When Brock got hurt, we saw Josh came in.
I think, I think we might have gone three and out but then
the next our defense, held our next drive, we go down and score
a touchdown, Christian McCaffrey house at insane around 12,000
or people were actually crazy stuff. So it's 77
And I think we ended the half. We'd like yeah, Josh, he drops
a staff. It's a fumble. They scored 20 17 but we're getting
the ball out. Like
I was so confident us. We've converted a third and 12. Josh
hit me on like a double move out route, was it? Okay we can
still move the ball and then the next player Josh got here
and I was like
and then I hate Purdy / Purdy's coming back in but he can't
throw the ball. Like
that's what this is. I'm like oh well and that point it was
like a 21-7. I was like okay well if we can run the ball and
score this drive, maybe our defense can figure some out and
do some spectacular but I didn't
get 6:32, you can't throw the football at this point. You
just kind of you're just disappointed because I think
everyone watching was this point every football fan was
disappointing because Horrors, it wasn't some good game,
wasn't a real game, right?
And like, do I think 31, 27, score is accurate? No, of
course not. But I mean if we're in the Eagles position we would
I think we would have done the exact same
thing. A lot of quarterback, I don't know if there's
a different out, there's a possible of a different
outcome, so it is what it is. When did you when do you know
about Brock /? D
wreck? When did you know where I know you said all the right
things that early on, but I'm sure when he first came in you
were like I don't know. Can we really make a run? Here.
I wonder what was their, a game a moment where you were like,
okay we're going to be okay. There are three in Chronicles
your schedule. If you want to see it,
chronological order three things that happen, right?
First was in OTAs. I like to
throw Jabs at rookies, just to see how they are like are you
going to jab me back or you confident yourself? Or are you
just going to be like oh my gosh, George is talking to me.
Like I don't like I'm friendly. Like I don't bully people but
like I just want to know like your psyches made up just
a little bit.
Yeah. And so Brock would fire back at me and like zingers me
I'm like Okay, Brock,
I love it. That's why I like that confidence. He had a he
had a presence to himself. Did we get to training camp? And he
starts off at this number three,
and he beats out the number two guy.
And then the third preseason game against the
Houston Texans. He throws a laser right down the middle of
the field is running, a special route and covered two hits
roster. While they are tied in right down the middle of
the field,
like, bang, bang. Beautiful, Catch
catches, it gets smoked, as a beautiful pass,
I was like, that's an NFL pass, right? That's a quarterback
that can play in the NFL and then he gets a shot against
Miami. In the very first play comes in to cover. Zero.
Right. Right delivers. It covers your in his face like
ten time, right, delivers, right? If a guy can do that and
he's okay with pressure and getting hit, doesn't Flinch,
you can win games. And then after that, we were confident
I've an important on football question.
I don't know how new this is. It's the first time I've ever
noticed it, but I have a new level of respect for George
kiddo. Because on his right hand is Hobbs. Yeah, from
the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, the funniest cartoon strip ever
made. Look at that. That is awesome. How long have
you had that I got last summer? It's awesome. Incredible. And I
appreciate a Calvin and Hobbes, I got a Hobbs court on Tuesday.
It's in the handwriting of the comic book too. Yes.
Suppose we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense.
We couldn't react to a lot of life. That's kind of me. I just
got off at every school. That's amazing. It seems like it's
before your time. I'm actually letting it Calvin on the other
hand. This year,
I'm Calvin, your Calvin, I'm Calvin. So what this Calvin?
Well, I don't want to say it. What's Calvin piss on
you. Ha ha Cowboys fans hopes and dreams.
I love it. Just sometimes.
Alright we only got like 90 seconds, know.
So, I love when you go to Old Spice time, here let's go.
You want to talk about. Well dude, this product placement
was fantastic. It was answer sitting on. I know
I'm happy part of the Old Spice Swagger campaign,
24/7 protection. That's what you care about. Yeah, we're
friends, right? Right serious. Yes, he had something in his
teeth. He would tell them right. No, you wouldn't know
not great. If he was falling off the stage,
I wouldn't had yesterday. He didn't even help me. He laughed
a lot and he's actually worked for his water. I would tell you
that something in your teeth and I know, but if you didn't
smell very good,
Good. Right. It's kind of hard to tell someone that because
there's not really anything you could do about it. Yeah. 20 to
start your day with Old Spice. Swagger smell great have
the confidence to dominate the day. Watch your friends, fall off
a stages and just laugh at them. Yeah, confident yourself. It's
okay. Circle twice
George. It's awesome. You want about favorites. It's great to
see you. As always. All the best next-gen we always say to
we don't want to see you next year. There was one year. We
didn't see it. We don't want to see you there. Yeah,
let's go. Yeah, just give me one quarterback for a full
season. That's all I want. Good luck. Are you looking forward
to having an off season? It's normal. What do you like
turmoil?
I mean,
I'm kind of an outgoing guy. Enjoy everything turned out.
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