middle afternoon, the 49ers at the Cowboys
just old-school Vibes, the catch. It was 40 years ago.
This week. They had all those great NFC championship games in
the 90s.
The Cowboys are three point favorites. The 49ers on
the road 51 point over under,
let's start with,
let's start with 49ers offense against Cowboys defense,
especially because we've got Kyle Shanahan,
who previously coordinated the Falcons offense for Dan Quinn,
who was the head coach of the Falcons Quinn's? Now
the coordinator the defense in Dallas
who has
a larger
dossier of information about the other guy. Is it Shanahan?
Knowing what Quinn does, or is it Quinn knowing what? Shanahan
to? I think it's Shanahan.
I do it, you know. Again, of course, I favor shinny, and
I think China hens, brilliant and he's as smart as he is good at
out. The Box thinker when it comes off as a football as
there is in the sport
and I think he's going to have a good field and Quinn who's
you know, his defense is more versatile than it wasn't Atlanta,
but not incredibly versatile. It's still, it's not going to
like take like a genius to figure out how they play you
and what they do,
you know. Again, they're going to play a ton of man to man,
which I'm not sure how that works yet. I'm not sure.
Listen, there can be aspects of that where you go, that could
be good. Trayvon digs may be right on Debo Samuel. You make
Jimmy Choo.
She have to throw the ball too tight Windows,
you know instead of hey, we're playing Zone and they did some
play action fake and our linebackers up in the whole
trying to stop the run. And then there's just Debo Samuel
running down the middle because there's a huge awesome whole
from the fake Shanahan created.
You know, that to me is where I go a little bit back and forth,
but we'll also with the man to man, as much as they play it.
I worry about Shanahan coming up with a lot of ways to like
cross them up and screw them over that
way to, you know, hey, I got a guy man to man. I'm George
kid'll. But also,
Responsible over the D Gap in the Run game.
Oh, wait, Shanahan did a fake run at the D Gap. I'm
responsible for it. Let me run up there and make the tackle.
Oh, wait, Jimmy, kept the ball. Oh, no, I have kid'll. He ran
that way, but I was here to stop the run. That's
where I worry about it.
So, I don't know where that goes. I'm favor. Shanahan.
Obviously there to me. The biggest thing is, can
the Dallas d-line? Screw the game up for the 49ers. Can they, can
they do that? I do think they
Have that potential
I do. I mean that's a special group of there with Demarcus
Lorenz and Gregory, you know, and Michael Parsons do all
the ways, they move him. So that's where that's an intriguing
matchup on that side to me. Mike.
Yeah, and look, we see it time. And again, the way that Kyle
Shanahan orchestrates, the run defense, I'm curious to see how
much are the Run offense. I'm curious to see how much he's
going to trust.
Jimmy Garoppolo is going to be a Bob Griese type game, right?
Where it's just run it, run it, run it, run it and I agree with
you. I think that Shannon. And
knows Quinn better than Quinn knows Shanahan, I think about
the Shanahan McVeigh pairing is that we see ya from their time
together in Washington. I think Kyle is always paying attention
to anything and everything that any of the coaches in his
vicinity or doing because he knows at some point. He's going
to be. Yeah. Facing them. Yeah. And evitable, right? And he's
paying closer attention to them
than they are to him. And he's going to find a way to make
that offense go. And there's also a certain value. We've
talked about it. In multiple games now,
churning your offense on the ground keeping a higher powered
past based offense on the sidelines and making it
frustrated and have a greater sense of urgency when it's time
for that offense
to get on the field. I think that's an edge as well
to that to that very ornate and complex system that Kyle
Shannon Works to Perfection as long as. Yeah, and we've seen
at the two most important players not the quarterback.
Yeah, Deebo Samuel
and George kid. All right, get those guys involved.
And and the Cowboys defense may not have any answer. That's
right. And, you know, you're right about the pen point about
Shannon. Shannon has the kind of guy that Hillary even
remember things. He told other coaches and use that against
them like hey,
I know he remembers, I told him that.
So he'll Dover defend that and I'll be ready for that. He's
very good at that. Let alone not letting everybody know his
tricks when they leave the building and go coach somewhere
else. He's like, yeah, you know, some of them
but I kept the best ones in my pocket here. You don't know. So
all of them, he definitely aware of that. There's no doubt
Mike and it's a great Point by you had the other side of
the ball.
I you, you know, the Cowboys offense. It's overrated.
They're all lines overrated.
But you know, as far as what we've talked about, with
the 49ers, you want to move the ball on them. We know their
Corners aren't good.
Can the Cowboys throw the ball? Outside the numbers and attack
them there and that capacity, you know, the 49ers are also
a defensive, a little bit play. Like, they'll go.
We'll play cover two, and we'll protect her.
Owners and will call your bluff and we'll see if you could
actually run against our six-man fronts. Yeah, you might
have us outnumbered but we got a great deal on and great
linebackers. And we're going to just kind of trust
them and we're not going to let you burn our corners on
the outside now, so, they're Dallas is gonna have to run the ball
to a degree because I can't imagine San Francisco, just
coming in and going
hey. Hey Doc, here's good looks for you to throw to Cooper and
CD lamb outside against are below average Corners. I would
think they're going to first going to play. Let's protect
those guys and let's actually see.
If this when my opinion like you've heard me, say overrated
Cowboys offense of line can actually push the 49ers front
seven around,
I feel like what they did on Saturday against the Eagles,
where the Eagles basically weren't playing anyone, right?
It was a, it was a confidence Builder. I think the off. Yeah,
right, right. Because they, they
and I think they feared the Cardinals
but they maybe should fear the 49ers
a little bit more. I'm going to go.
This one I am, and
I'm taking the score 2827 because that was the same final
score of the, as the catch game. So the hell, yeah. Super
Bowl, 25, the catch game. You're going back into history
here. Yes. Yes. I am.
And I've I have greater faith in the 49ers. We've been saying
it all year. Yeah. You don't want him in the playoffs. If
you're one of the teams in the NFC, right? And they had their
chance. They had their chance. The Rams were up 17, nothing.
It was over. It was done. The
the saints were beating the Falcons.
The 49ers are losing.
The Rams and it would have been the Saints instead of the 49ers
in the playoff field. What a difference that would be for
the other teams. The 49ers begin their reign of terror
through the NFC playoffs filled with a win
at Dallas and the going to make somebody else very nervous next
week and the way it plays out. If the Bucks win, it means it's
Reams Hesco a Korean baby. I know. Right? Which is scary and
they're not going to want to see them. Come to town. I'm
going San
Francisco as well.
I'm going 2824 very similar to you. I'm just taking a field
all the way for the Dallas Cowboys. I think the
Neither has the better team
I do and I just don't trust the Cowboys. The way it looked
a little bit on the offensive side of the ball down
the stretch, definitely don't.