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And here's your host, John Chapman. What is going on, faithful? The 49ers come on on top 24 to 14 and improve to 4 and 0. For only the fifth time in franchise history had they had this start. Unbelievable game in your plan against a top tier opponent. The Denver Broncos, they are the comeback. Kids of the NFL, the graphics, if you were watching the broadcast, were just this constant. Oh, this is what the Broncos do. They come back in the fourth quarter. They come back in the fourth quarter. That's just what they do. And it seemed like it almost was heading down that stretch until it didn't. You had the huge explosive to George Kittle, take Prendle with the lead block to free him

on the huge explosive play. And the 49ers come out on top 24 to 14. The quality wins of this team despite the resiliency of all of the injuries or despite the entries, the resiliency continues. The 49ers continue to find ways to win. And it's always different. And yes, in this game, as there are in every single game in the NFL, the injuries will continue. You hate it. Kyle Yuschek will have to see what that looks like. We'll talk about that a little bit more. You have Marquis Segal go down not once but twice. You have up to the style of the game and come back. You have Drake Greenwell go down not once but twice. He comes back both times. But it doesn't matter. The defense played an incredible game holding the Broncos to just 14 points. And you were able to even win on special teams with even though you had a blocked kick, even though you've got pinned inside the 10 several times like D-Bull Fumbling on a kickoff return.

Sometimes, and I say this consistently, football's a weird sport. The better team doesn't always win. I do think that the 49ers are by far the better team in this situation. But if you just switch that D-Bull Fumble on the kickoff which Braden Willis recovered and then the Plunk return, Fumble by them, we're seeing a nil recovered like those two plays. It's a different ball game. And if the Broncos and 49ers played each other 10 times, 49ers might win seven out of those 10, but they're still going to lose some of those games. The ball bounced the 49ers way this time. That does, and I say that not to be little or to tear down with the Niners accomplished today. I say that because that doesn't usually happen during the Kyle Shanahan era, which now he's coached to more games than the great Bill Wasch, which is an accomplishment. But in this era, it has been a lot of calls against you.

Balls not bouncing your way. Whenever you get in those crucial moments, it just seems to always go the other teams way. That was not the case today. And in a season where you're already the most interteam in the NFL, sometimes luck plays a factor. I think the 49ers were the better team, but whenever you are the better team, and you're at home, and the ball bounces your way, good things are going to happen. And you came out up 10 points. The 49ers get to victory and improve to 4 and 0. Let's get to some of these super chests. What's up, trade, love it. Let's go. That says MV, party. Brock Pertey continues to just stack quality play on quality play on quality play. You look at his stat line, it's not a lot to be, you know, boastful about 19 of 30, 218 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions, no sex, 107.4 pass already.

Like it is solid. That is a winning performance. It's not necessarily an MVP performance, but whenever you constantly stack these types of games, mind you, the top five wide receivers on your depth chart to start the season are all injured. Brock Pertey just keeps doing things. And getting through the reads that Brock Pertey is able to get through in such a quick pace consistently. I think that's the thing. You look at the touchdown pass to Debo. He looks right reads one, two, three, then he's like, okay, I'll scramble, but keeps his eyes up. I'll just dump it out to Debo and the flat uncovered. That's 100% Brock Pertey. Now, the George Kiddell touchdown play, which is the biggest stat positive for Brock Pertey. He didn't really do much, right? Like that's just a screen catch and go. You hit the tunnel screen. Like that was the best, that statistical play for Brock Pertey. So the box score watchers aren't really getting the full story. And I did feel through the first kind of half of this game that this was the first time

where the lack of wide receivers were a major issue for the 49ers offense. You had Jacob Cowan, not going in motion in the correct times. You had Jacob Cowan running the wrong routes. Brandon Cook's was out there, but again, struggling with all the pre-snap motions, not used to all of that. And he's new to the system. And then what probably could have been a pass in interference call, but it was a bang, bang, play. I'm a defensive guy. I didn't think it was technically pass in interference, but it could be called. Go ahead, that catch on third down. So like you had, you know, Brandon Cook's out there was an effecter. Jacob Cowan definitely not a factor. Jordan Watkins not a factor. None of those were. And so yeah, Brock Pertey. He just keeps solidifying winning football play consistently against a great team. The Denver Broncos are good. Now they started to suffer some injuries. They had their two corners go out and it's like, yeah, that sucks. You still got about nine more injuries to go before you even close to the 49ers, but

this is, this is the stage of the NFL you are in in October. If you watch the Eagles and Rams play like the Rams won a game against the Eagles had, I think they lost like eight starters when that game was over and they barely eat out a win. 49ers win by one by 10, one by 10 against the Broncos who were in the AFC championship last year. You don't apologize for injuries. You don't apologize for wins. The Niners control this game. They weren't down three nothing at the start, but man, they found ways to constantly get back into the lead and into control of this game. And whenever it looked like the Broncos were coming back, no, no, no, we're going to put that on the side burner, understand where you are. This is a 49ers game. This season just continues to go the way the 49ers wanted to. Upstarts my BAM Phil hashtag CC are defense, nearly let us down. See, and I see like on social media, I'm a lot of complaints about the defense and I'm just like, man, I don't know about that.

You held them to under 300 yards. They went eight for 17 on third down. So under 50% on third downs. You held them, you look at their rushing, what everybody talks about, 82 yards rushing, held them under 100 yards again. They have it's 3.7 yards per rush. That's incredible. You gave up very few. I think there were two explosive past plays, maybe three, but that was it. Defense did everything that they needed to do to win. And if I had to give credit for this victory, I'm giving it to the defensive side above anybody else. Defense, I thought had the best game in your dealing with injuries, right? Marquis Seagulls down twice. You've got Drake Green laws down twice, up to and stouts down. Jack Jones was probably the biggest weakness. And the only touchdown that they scored was when up to and stout didn't play. What a difference up to and stout makes, right? He gets out there and just shuts everything down. He comes off the field. Jack Jones gets burned for not one, not two, but three plays on one drive and gives up

to touchdown. But that's Jack Jones. He's the best player on the field of the worst. And so sadly we've had two to three appearances. Week one, he was incredible. It was eight snaps, but he was awesome. But then weeks two, three and four, he struggled. So that's kind of where it goes. But the defense, man, they answered. They answered the call. I mean, you give up three points in the first quarter. You shut them out in the second and third. You give up 11 points in the fourth quarter. So yeah, it did start to bend a little bit more, Phil. I do agree with you there. Appreciate you, man. Love you. You're always in here and it makes me very happy. Darren, my man, what's up? Thanks for the Super Chat. Let's freaking go. For an O, I'll see you in doubt, dude. I cannot wait. Dallas is going to be a good time. We're going to be out there. It's going to be an absolute blast. We've got all kinds of stuff going on this year. Dallas a little ways away. Next week, man, we are close. We're going to be in Seattle.

We're going to be over at the press box with Ricky running waters Saturday from 4 to 9 p.m. Then we have our all inclusive premium tailgate. Kids are free to all events. Go to 49ersrushrotritt.com, get your tickets. And if you can't come to Seattle, we're going to be in Atlanta. We're going to be in Dallas. We're going to be in Mexico City and Los Angeles. Tickets are up to all of those events. Please do not wait. Please do not wait. But you get back to this idea and you're like, dude, the 49ers are 4 and 0, 4 and 0. And as you look across the NFL, like those undefeated teams, they are quickly disappearing. You had the Vikings barely beat the Miami dolphins. Now you've still got, you know, this game's still going on. Did they finish the football is heating up. And everyone's pulling up because price picks has all your picks in one place.

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That is a shanning hand team. Can they execute in the playoffs? Now that's your four. That's where you're looking. And so as you keep stacking these quality wins, you not have wins against the Rams and neutral field. And then you have victory against the Broncos. I don't think you count some Cardinals. I don't think you count the dolphins. But in your two games, you know, you don't make your schedule. The Niders are a top tier contending team period and they keep finding new ways to win. You can blow teams out. You can win close ones like the Cardinals game or you can stave off a comeback. Just heavy team like the Broncos and just keep them at bay. And so stacking those new ways to win games, I think that that is key. And quality teams find multiple ways to win games. Football is ugly. And today, like if you got to watch any of the other NFL slate, right, there's so many close games and it's coming down to the last player, this player, whatever else.

Niners handled their business and it looked like the Niders game was going so much so to all these other one score games and it just didn't happen. It just did not happen. And like you look across just the NFL today, like I want to open up just the scoreboard here. Man, the mount of one score games that took place, cheese raiders, one score, Chargers Seahawks, one score game, Patriots bills, one score. You had Jaguars Bingles, one score. You had Rams Eagles one score, Packers Bucks one score, Titans Ravens one score, Cowboys Titans one score, Vikings, Doffens one score, the Steelers Brown game earlier in Thursday. That's 10 one score games. There's only 16 games, a freaking week. And there's still one more to go. 10 one score games this week. And we're not one of those. The Niners are one of the few teams. You have two 20 point wins.

You have a 10 point win and a 6 point win. The Niners lead the NFL and points differential. I don't expect that to change. It's going to take a while to tally all of whatever. But the Niners continue to show that they are an in control team that can find different ways to win. Can't be five and no without four and a. And man, I don't want to look too much for it. We're going to do that the rest of this week. The Seattle Seahawks game is the biggest game on the schedule for the entirety of the year that is going to be huge. We're going to spend a lot of time on it. Just update real quick. I am still out of town for the wedding spending time with the in-laws, which has been great. I'm flying back tomorrow. But because of that, the film breakdowns just got to wait one more day. Those will be done Tuesday and Wednesday will do an all-out effort. So we'll get the first half done Tuesday. We'll get the second half done a Wednesday. So those film breakdowns will be coming. But they won't be coming out Monday because I'll be flying. I got to have my double monitor and all whatever to break down the film stuff.

So we will have a show tomorrow, which I'll do at the airport, but won't get the film breakdowns until Tuesday. Sorry about that. Traveling is just, it's the way it goes. Look at this. S1K Friday, I think for the Super Chat, your generosity, legend. The defense bends, but doesn't break and help is coming. Valdes though, has he done enough to start? I tweeted out that, man, Sebastian Valdes is just a, get the job done guy. There's not a lot of plays that are considered highlights. He just, he stays in his gap. He is where his responsibility on the back end needs to be. He maintains his rushing lane just consistently, consistently, if that makes sense. He had two tackles, one solo tackle, he had one quarterback hit. Neither team was able to affect the quarterback in any real way. The 49ers finished with two quarterback hits.

Keon White had one, Sebastian Valdes had one. No sacks for either team brought continues. This illustrious start to an NFL season where he's just not taking sacks. Just no negative place. Unbelievable. He's not going to get it to the 49ers offensive line, of course. But man, Sebastian Valdes, you had to have somebody step up with all these injuries to the defensive line you had to. Who was it going to be? Sebastian Valdes was the guy, the whole love, the guy loved the story. The consistency was always the issue. The lack of traits was the issue and why he never got called up. But now, not only has he been elevated, he's on the 53 now. Well, that stay, I don't know, but I'm glad he's getting paid. I'm glad he's putting out good tape on there. And now the 49ers are in a position where if you cut Sebastian, you might not get him back to the practice squad. So I hope he's to hear to stay on the 53. I love consistent tape. That is rare for the 49ers in the defensive tackle position.

I don't think he should be a starter. We'll get into the snap counts and the tape and all that stuff. It's not allowed that to speak for itself. Yeah, he's again, just another one of those guys that just keeps freaking just doing what he's supposed to do all the time. Do your job. Sebastian Valdes does that. Scott, thank you so much for the super chat. Fair weather fans pooping out anxiety on social media. Yeah, social media is other than man, I'm with you. Best to avoid game played out, much like you predicted. We were pretty close, man. Now I did have both the 49ers and Broncos scoring more in this game. This was a defensive battle to go into the half three to three. It just was an ugly offensive game that was dictated by the defense. And we get spoiled with Kyle Shanahan. You really, really do. Like, why don't you have 20 points at the half? What is wrong with you? This was a weird game. Shanahan definitely said, I hated the play call of the quarterback sneak on fourth and

two. I know it said fourth and one on the broadcast. You could clearly see that was just a shade under fourth and two. I thought that was dumb. But called a good game. Didn't have a lot of trust for the wide receivers. You kind of see why with Brandy Cooks with Jordan Walkins with Jacob Cowan and Mike Evans. That dude is running around grimacing and pain and then walking to the sidelines after a guy, not jogging every step that man took was painful. But he's a damn gangster. And he finished the game with five catches 76 yards in eight targets. You had no one else. There's nobody else. You had D-bo who ended up with five catches, which was good. I think he fumbled three times. But we didn't lose any of those. Mike Evans is just so freaking good. You have to credit that man. Just sheer will. Just not caring about pain going out there and doing what he's got to do.

Right here, Steph, and how about Brindle blocking on that kiddo play? It was awesome. It was just got just enough of the guy to spring kiddo free. They overload Blitz. They bits the B and the backside C gap overloaded. Therefore, if you kick one out and the safety takes a bad angle, it's off to the races. We saw exactly that. What a play call from Shanahan. Loved it. Whenever you get the perfect play call offensively against what the defense is doing, it's just like a match made in heaven. If they didn't blitz, that play might have been two to three yards, right? But it was a perfect play call whenever they were being so aggressive. And you caught Vance Joseph. Vance Joseph, who has like a 40% blitz rate. So he blitzes a lot. So you knew it was going to happen at one point. Just perfect. And yeah, Jake Brindle, he had, he's adding highlights, right? We've had so many years of Brindle where there's just like a great and past protection.

Gets the calls. Terrible running blocking that's going to show on the tape as well this week. But that play was incredible. You have to give it to him. 64, a plus man put the game on ice. Got just enough of the guy. Love the effort. The mobility getting out there. Hell yes. Hell yes. Hell yes. Scott. Bills lost. San Francisco has the top offense. Well, there we go. Yeah, the bills got beat by Drake me. And again, just further. One of my axioms. I do not bet on Josh Allen games because he's either all world or it's just weird as hell. And that's what it is. But yeah, the 49ers put up 24 points. So it's not like they went ham offensively, but it was a controlled effort where they had to do what they, where they did what they had to do to win the game. One of bad offensive game, protected the ball, moved, moved up and down the field, had a couple of sustained drives. Run game was great. That's probably one of my biggest, you had a hundred yards rushing at the half for the

49ers. So the 140 rush yards on 35 attempts. Dude, what did I say? I want 35 plus attempts. I want debo run of the ball. I want Kellen Black run of the ball. I want CMC run ball. I want all these guys running the ball. They fed into that. It was very clear early on. The game plan was established the run and they did that. Now you only got four yards of carry against one of the worst rushing defenses in the NFL. If you ask yourself, hey, you're going to run the ball 35 times for 140 yards. You take it every damn time. It doesn't matter who you're playing against. It doesn't because that means you're having sustained drives. You're getting first downs, 49ers, one of first downs. That was one of our best. We covered that one. Like covered the spread, covered the alternative line. So like we did pretty good. This was a good betting week. We already cleared one of our teasers. We still have one leg out on another teaser. We even had a free bet with Dak Prescott this week. So another positive week.

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That you have to talk about. Brock, pretty obviously, like this offense does not work without him. It just doesn't. He was in cred way through 30 passes. We bet Brock, pretty under 31 and a half passes. So that one, we kind of sweat it out a little bit, but we hit that one. How he's able to manage this offense with the lack of weapons? And it just keeps going. It really, really does defensively. I'm going to drain green law and playing against his former team led the team in tackles. Had 12 tackles, seven solo stops. Twice early in the first quarter, he made a tackle close to the Denver Broncos sideline, calling out Sean Payton. That, you know, their sidelines know just how intimidating that is. That like that dude put everybody on notice and went out and delivered. Plain heart, practice once this week. Had to leave the field twice, came back, just made place. One a perfect game, but he was the tone center. And everybody in that Broncos uniform knew 57 was coming for you.

So I'm going Brock, pretty, I'm going to drain green law. And then here this one, you guys might get mad at me here. I'm going braiding Willis. I'm going braiding Willis. You had which could have been the biggest play of the game was Dibo's fumble right to start the second half. Like put it changed everything. They would have got the ball on their own 20 yard line going into score. Dude, braiding Willis Johnny on spot, recovers it. That was huge. Then Kyle Ustek gets hurt. Hopefully he's okay. That need didn't look good. I did see the broadcast for you showed Kyle's face after the injury. He's sitting there saying like, I'm fine. I'm fine and fine. But Kyle, I don't think you're fine. I hope he's fine. Hopefully it's okay. But he stayed out there too on the bench. He didn't go into the locker room. He's like, I'm staying out here. He's tough as hell. That dude's just, he's awesome. But braiding Willis comes in, delivers several key blocks. And that's the time they went all the way down the field and scored their loan off

expensive set up touchdown drive. Because he had two touchdown drives, one of them is because of the special teams fumble recovery. And then you had this one that was the long drive, the link to the field. And braiding Willis was in for half of that. And I thought he did really damn good and just stepped up. He made several special teams plays. So those are my three game balls. I'm going Brock Perty. I'm going Dre Greenlaw and I'm going braiding Willis. And like if I had to do a fourth, which I usually only knew three, Mike Evans, just how tough he was. And like there's a lot more players that you could throw in there. But those were the guys that just gave these. Perculate in efforts to bring this W home for the 49ers and before no. Look at this 49ers George. My man, thank you so much. You are a legend. Shanihan started slow, but good play at the end. Good plays at the end. Gabe Cowan, a thumbs down. That is appropriate. Try to get Cowan involved. Ran that trick play in the first quarter.

And it was like second and two. And he got nothing like. Yeah. And you again, what you got from Sebastian Valdez, you're hoping to get from the wide receiver position. And you just haven't gotten it. You had those two big plays from Jordan Walkins, which was cool. He got no targets in this game. He was out there a lot. Just the lack of trust at the wide receiver position. Just shows consistently in this game. And Mike Evans is going to be healthier next week. That's going to help out a lot. But I don't think you're getting anybody really back for that Seahawks game. But what we'll spend time talking about that. But yeah, Cowan definitely stuck down big time. Scott, thank you, man. Kittle is a gift from the football gods. He is unbelievable. I did panic a little bit whenever he lit up and extended the ball as the Broncos player was chasing him and gaining ground. But do George Kittle, four catches, 70 yards, one touchdown, 56 yards on that screenplay

to ice the game. He just keeps getting the damn job done. He just keeps getting the job done. And you saw in the very first quarter, Patrick Sir Tan was manned up with George Kittle. What shows you, one, how great George Kittle is coming off into Kittle. He's not anything to be playing by this point. I said week three would be the earliest where at week three, he'd been playing longer than that. But Patrick Sir Tan on George Kittle tells you how little they're scared of the wide receivers. And Mike Evans is awesome, but he's not playing a full snap rate. And he's out there jogging, you know, 80% of his routes still getting the job done. But they're like, dude, he's not going to be this deep. George Kittle is. We're going to put the best player on the Denver Broncos team manned up with a tight end in his 30s coming off in the killies. George Kittle is different. He is not like anybody else in the NFL. I'm just going to be very honest.

Ben, thank you so much. Appreciate you, man. Assuming our D line studs are all healthy at the same time at the same point, what do you think our NASCAR package looks like, personnel wise? Well, now you've got two guys you can get more than two guys that you can kick in. Nick Bosa, he's a must. You're kicking in, Michele Williams. And then you're going to have Ramello on the outside. And then that third spot, this is something that we're not really used to. You'd see Shanahan do the NASCAR with three D.N.'s and one defensive tackle. Who would be OSA? You could go for D.N.'s because Keon wipes a hybrid. And so you're not technically sacrificing that muscle on the inside. So you would have Bosa and Ramello hide on the outside. Michele and Keon white on the inside. And it's just like good lord throw Sam O in there and he could fill in any one of those spots because he's versatile and just got that power rush.

That would be pretty fun to see. Now I say Ramello height. His he's the most frustrating 49er player for me right now. Falls down on his own on crucial plays gets pancake consistently. So I'm driven off the ball. I think 12 yards by carat bulls and just like put it in a suitcase and shipped out of the freaking stadium. At some point you can't get manhandled continuously week after week after week after week. Now I'm hoping that the tape will make me feel better about what he does. He finished with two solo tackles. That was it. You know, we'll see about pressures and stuff and we'll get to the tape and when the analytics come out. But I'm like man, don't have a lot of confidence built up and what Ramello height the rookie has done. He's not not look good. And it's not so much that he hasn't look good. There are plays where he looks like a middle schooler out there trying to play against

NFL guys. So I don't know 94. I get it. He's tough. He's playing with the club on his hand. I like that. Patrick Willis should be proud. Yeah, it just hasn't been good man. Just hasn't been good. Has it been effective. But you don't have anybody else. You got to play him like he's out there starting because you just don't have other guys. He's don't. Scott, thank you so much again man. This looked weak against the helpless Eagles. They almost lost that game and like the Eagles, they just, they look putrid man and they still almost won that staffer just throwing picks like nobody's business and there could have been two more picks out there. As of week four brought brought clearly has surpassed Stafford no sacks, no intercept. He has one pick Stafford throws his many interceptions and touchdowns. Yeah, Stafford like the Rams don't look good. They really, really don't. And so they're eakin out wins against other hobbled teams, but a win on the road is a win on the road.

No doubt about it. But yeah, if you watched that Rams game, there's no way you walked away from this saying, you know, this is a good football team. They were not a good football team. They have a lot of explosive players and then they make a lot of explosive plays, but consistency is not one of them. A lot of injuries, a lot of mistakes, a lot of turnovers, just a lot of issues there. Now if they gel, that's a different story, right? So like they have playmakers at all levels of offense and defense. There's no doubt about that. But this is the most injured that they have been since they've only been that injured once since Sean McVase there and they didn't make the playoffs. Every other time they've been top 10, healthy, esteem, and the NFL, they are not this year. But yeah, I'm walking away from this, just saying, yeah, like the Rams, obviously if they get hot at the right time, they're two and two now. And you know, if you want to update just kind of the NFC West standings, you've got the 40 hours in first place at 4 and 0.

You have the Seattle Seahawks behind them at 3 and 1. You have the Rams at 2 and 2 and you have the Arizona Cardinals who should have won that game at 1 and 3. That's the way it shakes out. And you look at the divisional record, which is the most important. 40 and ours are 2 and 0. Seattle Seahawks are 1 and 1. Rams are 0 and 1 and the Cardinals are 0 and 2. You have a, you have more division wins than all three teams combine times 2. Like, you have a chokehold on the division. It's October and that can change very quickly. You win next week at Seattle, which is going to be difficult. But if you do that, man, now it's like, okay, 5 and 0, 3 and 0 in the division having wins against all three of your division opponents, that's going to be a 2 and a half game. This game coming up guys, it is, it's everything. It really, really is. It just, it matters so much.

And yeah, I do agree here that Seattle is still kind of the team to beat. For sure, I mean, they're defending Super Bowl champions. You got blown out the last time that you were up there. You've got to go answer. And you put up offensive anything against that defense. That's what you got to see. So we'll see what that looks like for sure. A couple of other things that I just want to look through. Rush wise, I thought that this was, you know, Kellen Black looked good. He got six carries 13 yards, but he had 2.2 yards per carry. His vision is not what CMC is, but I do like that they gave him more carries. Now CMC at the same time, shout out to my man, Mark, says CMC way too many 2 yard carries. CMC had 15 carries for 52 yards. Not great. That Dibo Samuel running had three rush attempts for 44 yards. That was awesome. I want Dibo to get more carries, but he fumbles the ball so damn much.

It's like, okay, we can't do that too much more. They even pulled him off one play on kickoff return. Like dude, we're going to, we're not going to put you out there. You got to protect the ball a little bit better. Dibo is currently leading the NFL and drop percentages. Ball security, like you got to fix it and, you know, that one he fumbles and he's jogging off laughing. And I'm just like, dude, that's not the right message. I get it. You don't want to like be swollen and whatever your Dibo, you get it, your pro, but like, dude, don't laugh after you fumble the ball. Like, I don't know. I don't know. It kind of bothered me a little bit. And yeah, so you know, right here, like at what point are you going to start kidding guys back healthy? I'm curious to see what Braden will is going to look like because I think he's going to be around for a little bit. But the offense and with him getting all the reps with the ones, we'll see. Is he Kyle use check? No, absolutely not. Like Kyle's check, Kyle use check was like, will eventually be a Hall of Famer. Most fullbacks don't get in, but his accolades are incredible.

And you know, that catch that he made was awesome. And he just does all the same things consistently. But yeah, I'm curious to see what it's going to look like with Braden will is down there. Really do right here. British Dibo puts us on his back way too often for slander. Yeah, I don't think it's slander. I mean, he's actually is leading the NFL in drop percentage. He does have a lot of negative plays, but that's who Dibo's been, right? So I don't think a slander in him, but I mean, the 49ers pulled him off of the puntment or not me, they did put him back out there. So we'll see what that looks like. We'll just have to wait and kind of see, you know, how that is. But this game was awesome. And the 49ers just keep finding ways. And I'm going to say, and like, I can't wait, this is going to be the way the 49ers won differently is why I keep getting excited.

And she can't always just, oh, we're just going to move up and down the field and score on five consecutive possessions. In the playoffs, you play against these solid, stout defensive teams with quality run games where you can't do that. I'm pumped to get to the tape to try to figure out how they did this and how sustainable it is. And if you don't, if you want to learn, there's only one place to go. I painted, I really see the tape. You got to see the tape to really see what it looks like. And I'll see you close around film the things that we saw tape, the things that we require. I hope you look the same on tape. Get better from the tape before hoping to have some good film on those guys and we'll get to those things we got in the plane. If the 49ers coaches and players have to watch the tape, what do you think you need to do? Well, guess what? We got to tape. The 49ers rush.com and our Patreon channel patreon.com slash 49ers rush podcasts. We have every offensive defensive special teams play outlined in all 22 and in zone coaches tape to go through and show you play by play.

What this guy did wrong? What this guy did right? Who was wrong? Who was right? All those things. It's way better than just grades or anything you got. Trust me. Once you sign up, you get it all seven day free trial right now. Plus we have monthly zoom hangouts. We place our monthly bets weekly bets, season long bets all on there. If you want to be a better fan, you want to understand football better? Guess what? The 49ers rush.com is the place to go. All right. We do have some new updated information. Kyle Shenan said that he it appears that Kyle use checks knee is a spring. One they let him walk off the field. That was nice. He said he was all right, which never really the adrenaline that goes through your body after an injury. You're not the best to give the diagnostic whatever. And the fact that he was still on the sideline sitting down of course, but that's promising. So Marquis Seavill's got an ankle and a shoulder. Upton style has a shoulder, but he came back in.

So all three of those are going to be getting MRIs tomorrow, according to Kyle Shanahan. So that's huge because this would be the least to this point. The injuries always pop up after the game is over and we don't find out about it until Wednesday. But when somebody's like mysteriously appears on the entry report and they're like, Hey, what happened to so and so is like, I got hurt in the game. Like that always happens, but across my fingers, this might be one of the healthiest outcomes. So far this season, which is something to be celebrated with this team because the injuries are going to continue until more Malibu improves. Yeah, shout out to Jerry Greenlaw, dude. I just love it. Fred Warner was incredible. I probably want to Fred's hardest hits against that tight end. I don't know what tight end it was that he hit, but he just buried that dude in the ground. Fred Warner, he was in and out of the blue tent. You know, I don't know if it was cramps or what, but he was slow to get up a few times,

but he didn't miss a lot of plays. He was out there. Now Garrett Wallow did get some snaps. I don't know how much of that is they're trying to kind of rotate a little bit. Drake Greenlaw or if they're just trying to protect kind of what's going on there with, you know, Drake Green, I don't know, but Greenlaw looked awesome. Yeah, right. And I think everybody can kind of agree like, where would the 49ers be without Debo Samuel in Drake Greenlaw? Where would they be? I don't know what this offense or defense would look like at this point with all the injuries. You have all the defensive line injuries in the run game is permeable, but it's getting the job done. It's getting the job done. You held them in to under four yards per carry under 100 yards total. That is awesome with what she got to work with because of the linebackers because of the safety. Jaya Brown, I think he played really well. Lots of good tackles, really good club ridge. And on the trick play, the flea flicker, he kept his debt against the post player like

Jaya Brown played well. Malik Mustafa played incredibly well. Like if Marquis Seagull's going to miss time, that rotating of safeties that they've been doing on the back end when Jerry Gray, that's huge because now you just plug Seagull or Seagull out. Malik Mustafa in, you're not changing pace. You're not changing pace. And so man, and then you look at Debo Samuel, he's helping in special teams, he's helping in the run games, helping in the past game. You got all these wide receivers hurt. He goes out there and gets five catches. You love that. And a lot of them just on check downs and whatever else. But man, the Broncos made a concerted effort to take away the middle of the field in this game in the past game. So what do you do? Hook to curls. You just start hitting those quick outlets and Broncos, like dude, I'll take 40 yard check down. That's no big deal. No big deal consistently. So I love it. So yeah, I saw this too. It was Zach Allen, number 99, who blocked the field goal. Carver Willis let him just walk right across his face and then touch him on that extra point.

We'll go through it in the tape, but Carver Willis, it was his fault. But on long field goals like that, you have a lower trajectory. You have a longer wind up. So the timing tempo is in as quick. The block percentage rate goes up tremendously. But I'll have to go through the tape and see if there was a low kick. But 100% Carver Willis didn't do his damn job. Come on, man. But Sonya, did I see someone talking, Cracked a Brock, yeah, it was Zach Allen. He was a damn good player. He tried to sack Brock and Brock like weasel down kind of did his Brock thing and Brock just kept talking back to him and how that turned out for you, buddy. How that turned out for you, buddy? How did that turn out for you, buddy? I love, I love the way this team is. Love Brock, party, love Fred Warren. There's so many guys where you can just be like holy cow, man. Yeah, and right here, Kid Clientel, our resident safety expert, that special team's fumble recovery was huge that Serenil made.

Last week, Serenil was the arbitrage, right? That turnover allowed the carnal to get back into the game. This week, that was the first touchdown drive for either team and just how quick, you know, the wrist versus the forearm. This hits the ground. It's a fumble. This hits the ground. It's down by contact. It's a game of inches. Sometimes the ball got a voucher way. I love that Serenil had the huge positive after last week. That's what it's about. Hey, I got you guys. I'll get you back. I'll get you back. And Serenil did that. Yeah. See, that has a huge probably the most important play of the game. That are the Kittle touchdown. Those are the two biggest plays of the game. Those are then and usually in football games, you can pick kind of three to five plays that tell the story and the outcome. Dude, it takes two plays. The pump return fumble recovered by Serenil and that George Kittle huge 50 plus yard

scamper. Those are the ones. Those are the ones. And that's why the 40 diners are for no for only the fifth time in franchise history. If you are a 40 diner span, you should be so site about where they are right now. So site they have handled their business headed into rivalry week, baby on the road in Seattle, on party with us, come party with Ricky Waters. It's going to be awesome. That's going to do it for us today. Enjoy this victory. Talk to your trash at work tomorrow. Talk to your trash. You guys are the best in the world. Thank you for allowing me to do this. For spending time with me. I love this and you guys are awesome and how do you not love this team? Let's go, baby. It's a celebration. Until next time, stay strong, faithful. Kitchen and bathroom professionals know what goes behind the tile matters.

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