49ers vs. Rams in Melbourne: Expert Analysis, Predictions, and NFL Australia Buzz

0:00Tim Ryan here with your Bay Area team and Ford. Now get a California Explorer annual day use pass with your purchase or lease of a brand new Bronco or Bronco sport. It's got goat mode like your players driving to the game or off-roading. There's seven available modes. Ford is America's number one for new vehicle quality among mainstream brands. Visit your California Ford dealer today proud partner of California State Parks. Named by JD Power 2026 US Initial Quality Study Award. Information visit JDpower.com slash awards awards based on 2026 model year. Now back to Merfin Marcus on the sports leader streaming live on these sports leader.com and KNBR the sports leader app. Yeah Larry Kruger likes Vegemite sandwiches turn it up turn it up Walt. Yeah traveling on a fantasy football draft that got an F that's what he's traveling on sponsored by Timbertech decking and railing. Oh I love Timbertech everything would should be visit Timbertech.com Larry congratulations on your

1:04F on the fantasy football draft. Good morning happy football season buddy. What a blare. Well you know good morning fellas my guys great to be back with you it's game day. I'm not worried about what Yahoo thanks some I don't care what some Yahoo thanks about my fantasy team. They gave me an F because I didn't take the kicker I didn't take the defense but if you notice last night was the beginning of the fantasy season and I believe it was yours truly who has the highest score going into tonight. Well nothing it means squat it means nothing but you know I'll I'll take my F and I'll wear it probably. JSN is pretty good draft pick and he gave you 22 last night so nicely done there buddy. You are going against copes who is one of those teams that we can't say on the air. I was going to say Murf I was looking at our league and you and me and Danny Dunn are the only people that picked names that we could actually say. Yeah we've already gone over this a couple times this week and we're not going to

2:05be a name in team names this year. We're going to keep it just I think you'd be identified by team owner. Yeah owner. Keep it simple. Now Larry I have to ask because the 49ers faced a lot of criticism this year at their draft by not going with the consensus board and all the mock drafts. Have you faced any criticism in the KMBR fantasy league with not going with the consensus board and going with the Larry Krueger big board? Well exactly Marcus you know me I wear criticism as a badge of honor. It's a it's a major major portion of my career has been criticism. So yeah no I actually you know I'm the guy who thinks I know more than everybody else so then I doesn't bother me that we you know you criticize I'll take the criticism. I mean my team stacked man I got pretty and break or may feel like I got to I got to squad this year so I'm coming for blood. I like it like Dejon's dribbling we'll see what happens. Our buddy will finally man we talked and we talked and we talked and we talked and we is here although we got to talk some more actually today at noon in alameda with a special guest

3:07a 1215 to all right Krueger what do you think that I guess the news would be they lost Alfred Collins and James Thompson is questionable so how serious how much of a crisis is the D line? Well you know what it's the problem was not that Alfred Collins got hurt the problem was that Alfred Collins wasn't playing well before he got hurt so it's actually kind of a gift. It's like having a terrible host on your radio station you got rid of them you know I mean it's like you know you don't have to worry I mean I hate to say that because I love Alfred Collins but Alfred Collins wasn't playing well he was rushing the passer he wasn't he wasn't anchoring against the run and I don't think that was going to change I watched it all summer on a daily basis I'm not 100% sure why they didn't try to put him on some kind of an injured list because he seems to be a shadow of what he was last year he was a key cog in that Rams victory down there and he anchored against the run and was functionally strong late in the year but you know what

4:10it just I don't know what happened to him I don't know if it's a shoulder the knee the combination but his he had absolutely no ability to play the run and he's not a past russure so you know I kind of think this might be a break you know you're not you were about to invest a bunch of snaps in a guy that wasn't playing well and wasn't going to play well and now you're going to have to find somebody else but you know what there's an the chances are that somebody else can play and they do have some other guys here James Thompson's real CJ West if he's in shape and I'm kind of question that but he he can really help out Grayson Holt and is really really quick I think you may see Keon White on some third downs inside next to Osu Digi Zua with maybe an agbo Bosa you know flanks and those two guys in in Osu and Keon inside so I still think they're going to be able to mount a rush but you never want to see your defensive line depth depleted especially before you play a game layer there's been a lot of talk throughout training camp about the

5:13different looks that Rahim Morris could bring to this defense now with these injuries with my kill winds being on the P.U.P. with with Lys without Sammy O without Alfred Collins do you think we'll still see that five man look tonight against the Rams and maybe slow down some of that run game that's a great question Marcus I think you're I think you're on to something I think we will see maybe less of it the question is if the Rams go three tight ends how do the Niners counter do they go base personnel and if you do go base personnel sometimes it's hard to disguise your coverages out of base personnel it's more difficult than if you play a nickel or a dime they played a lot of nickel last year against you know the 13 personnel the three tight ends do they play nickel do they play big nickel take up and stout off and put Marquis Seago on there I kind of a three safety look or do they play base and use Dugger and you know I'm not sure I'll say this though solublits 24% of the time last year it was the highest blitz rate he had ever had with the 49ers but guess what Rahim in Atlanta blitzed 40% of the time that was the second highest blitz rate

6:16in the league so I would expect to see more man coverage more blitzes and just a variety I think you're just going to throw a lot of volume a lot of different looks at Stafford he also remember beat Stafford in Atlanta last year and a game where the Falcons had three picks and three interceptions yeah that's big one yeah yeah we've been talking about that also is pointed out by a caller actually the bears got to Stafford Lashar now it was cold it was a win tree games that's different but you know you can be slowed down I mean we've kind of built him into this Superman he's pretty darn good in fact do you make anything of the fact that they've won four the last five and the only one the night is win was sort of that I don't want to call it a fluke but it was a sort of pulled one out of their rear end how do you feel about the last time the nine or saw the Rams Stafford put up 42 well I mean I think this is a really good Rams team I mean they you know they're one of the best teams in in pro football so and there's all kinds of things they can do I mean they got a Hall of Fame quarterback who's also the reigning MVP but no we saw Steve Young's career and I

7:17and I you know these quarterbacks that are good late I mean Tom Brady's the exception right he's in his own category put him aside he played to 46 the average guy is going to drive off the cliff at some point 37 38 39 so you just never know and and Steve Young was great until it was over like he was playing his best ball and then all of a sudden one day it's over and I think Stafford's going to have the same kind of thing I'm not saying that tonight he's going to be bad but one of these days he's going to be old and I know when's that going to be I don't know but I'm kind of hoping that that the 49ers can show him some different looks you know the one advantage the 9ers have is the 9ers have prepped all summer for this game and guess what the Rams haven't the Rant Stafford no snaps all all summer not one in the preseason Kyron Williams none Koram none Adams none Puka none they're walking into this game having basically this is like their first real action all year

8:19where the 9ers are a bit more battle tested Brock Pretty's 3 and 0 and openers he's played incredibly well this summer I think the 49ers are going to get him tonight but I think it's I think this Ram team is is clearly one of the best teams we've seen talent wise they're very top heavy but it's one of the most talented teams we've seen in the last 20 years Larry taking a look at the 49ers offensive line how are you feeling about the left guard situation heading into the season I actually feel pretty good about it I'm not as concerned about this spot as other people Conor Colby really look good to me when I went through the the preseason three games with a fine tooth comb I think he has been raped over the coals way too much I think he's playing at a much higher level than people you know have said and then Carver Willis is I think they're going to share the left job the left guard job Marcus I think I think we'll see a little bit of Colby we'll see a little bit of Willis I talked to Willis at his locker for about 20 30 minutes the day before they left for for Australia and he's like hey I'm I'm ready I'm ready I'm going to do all the mental reps I'm

9:22going to you know I'm going to if I if my numbers called I'm not going to be the guy that lets everybody down so I do think that that combo is going to get the job done and then let's just talk a little bit about the the George Kittle factor here Larry and he's back I mean I don't know what can we realistically expect it's just this amazing story it's only been nine months since he tours Achilles you and I lived in an era when that ended careers but you're realistic hope this is kid will get in the end zone tonight that's a tough call you know how many what kind of snaps does he have does he play you know do they use them more as a blocker do they use them more as a receiver you know what puts more strain on the Achilles I mean I I don't know it's actually eight months and because he had the surgery January 14th right good call so we're talking about that when not quite eight months yeah so I mean he's he's breaking new ground which is awesome for you know medical advancements and you know football players and these types of injuries in the future but I I think I'd be I'd handle him with kid gloves I would I would not try to use him I try to use

10:27Ton just a lot more Ton just had a great summer he's taking it to that next level Ton just last year was an unknown now they paid him a little bit of money he's he's got a nice little vibe going with Purdy so I would use Kittle sparingly in this game I just I wouldn't push it he just means much to their psyche too much the fan base just and and to me you got to be responsible with him it's his career he's doing one for the team here to try to you know get them off on the right foot but I would protect him from him all right finally Brock Purdy last time we saw him was in the playoffs he actually quietly through two picks and Philly won in Seattle so his last two games he's thrown two three picks he actually threw two in the season finale against Seattle two or pardon me one in the season finale against Seattle two so I don't know I'm not trying to put this in the universe not trying to be a bad guy but you know I'd like to see no picks from Brock Purdy tonight you know question from him but you know this is Brock Purdy Brock Purdy's not going to be

11:28and I love Alex Smith and if he's listening he's going to hate this but he mean the that Alex Smith NFC championship game where Alex just kind of threw it you know throw all these out patterns and they were just a little bit you know away from the receiver but didn't take any real chances Brock Purdy is not like that he's going to take chances he's going to throw the 50-50 ball I think what you're going to see this year and this is what I'm looking forward to seeing the most tonight is last year the 49ers had the slowest collection of wide receivers I have ever seen on one team at one time I mean every four seven guys four eight guys Kendrick Bourne, Chauhan Jennings good receivers but slow now you've had it struggling with his four three speed Evans is a downfield guy Watkins is a four three guy Cowings a four three guy there's a lot more speed we've seen him attack down the field in this camp and there's a lot more separation Merff so when there's more separation you're not throwing as many 50 balls you don't throw as many 50 balls your interceptions go down I think those numbers are coming down this year because I think

12:31you're going to see receivers in the clear and I think you're going to see Brock dot them up so I I think that it could be the key to the the entire offensive turnaround is how much separation do 49ers receivers get and I'm expecting them to get a lot more than a year ago. Kruk saved some of those takes we'll see you in two and a half hours in Alameda dude I can't go I just fired all my bullets. I got nothing. I'm talking about Vegemite. I got nothing Bob Agnew told us the audience changes every 15 minutes right so just just re-react the same re-react the same takes. All right buddy. All right but it will see you soon thanks. We'll see you guys out there. Yeah in Alameda at Almanek Brewing people asking will the KNBR Roundtable be on YouTube Walt the answer is yes right the case on YouTube the roundtable. Theoretically we should be streaming it today. Yes we will be streaming it and a special guest at 12 15. Yeah right around the corner. Let's go. All right let's end what was an incredible week of Aussie Aussie Aussie. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, jetlag this jetlag that jetlag this jetlag

13:36that Melbourne this Melbourne this flat white coffee that flat white coffee this uh let's end it with an actual Aussie. Zander McGuire who's a popular reporter for seven news Melbourne joined us really early this morning and I think the light crowd needs to get a little Aussie in their lives before we get out of here and head to Almanek Brewing and Alameda for the roundtable at noon. So Aussie accents coming your way next on these sports later. KNBR sports leader Tim Ryan here with your Bay Area team and four now get a California Explorer annual day use pass with your purchase or lease of a brand new Bronco or Bronco sport. It's got goat mode like your players driving to the game or off roading there's seven available modes. Ford is America's number one for new vehicle quality among mainstream brands. Visit your California Ford dealer today proud partner of California State Parks. named by JD Power 2026 US Initial Quality Study Award information visit JDpower.com slash awards awards based on 2026 model year. Kitchen and bathroom professionals know what goes

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15:38streaming live on these sports leader.com and KNBR the sports leader app. Well how much fun is this we are going down under Bay we're going to Melbourne you know it's been a problem for us that our show is on in Melbourne 11 pm to 3 am it's not exactly prime time for book and guests but we found a gamer a soldier a man willing to brave the late hour in Melbourne Australia he is of course seven news Australia presenter and he's on zoom right now. Zander McGuire we saw him interviewing Eddie Piniero down there when the 49ers landed and he can give us the whole lay of the land down there is the 49ers and Rams kick off tonight at 535 you can see him on our YouTube Twitch and Twitter looking good Zander at 11 15 in the evening there late night thanks for hopping on Merphin Marcus out here in San Francisco how you doing I should should I say as a dumb American get a mate. How you doing. What's up Zander? There we go. 44 seconds it took for American get a I love it boys now

16:40fantastic to be with you it's 1117 pm here so I'm going to be in it the grand in about 7 hours time but I'm pumped pumped to be with you guys and on the airwaves in San Francisco and just pumped for everything to to get underway for Australia's first ever a regular season NFL game a couple leave it. I love it I love it and so give us some of that energy tell us if somebody had to describe you how did the 49ers do this week in Melbourne what did the city think of the San Francisco 49ers? I tell you what in in terms of the the court of public opinion the 49ers are through to the semis without dropping a cent they have absolutely one over the entire city this is a Rams game Australia is supposed to be the Rams district and look they've put in work over the last few years with a few different trips and clinics and that sort of thing but it's fair to say that everything that the 49ers have done over the last week is completely blown that out of the water the enthusiasm that the players have shown the fact that they've you know complimented the city they've been out and about they've done things the executives have been here given time to kids there's a real feel

17:42that San Francisco even though they weren't obligated to decided to come out and give of themselves to Melbourne and Australia whereas the thought is that even though the Rams are the home team this is more of just a business trip for them. Zander you mentioned that the Rams technically are the home team and we know that Sean McVay requested the 49ers because they didn't want the 49er faithful to take over so Phi Stadium in LA but it sounds like the 49er faithful are taking over down under how much of a home field of advantage do you think this will be for the 49ers? Well if you was worried about the 75,000 seats so Phi Stadium you better get ready for 100, 14,000 honors fans at the MCJ tomorrow morning let me tell you about that. Now I think also something that might not have fact in is that there's a massive legacy fan base of the 49ers from the the Joe Montana days the Jerry Rye stays like Australian to massive sporting fans and we've had ASPN beaming in for years and Joe Montana has actually come out to Australia a few times and give it of himself over the years so yeah let me tell you it'll be I think I expect a pretty one-sided

18:45fan base especially all the new tools that were going that maybe go for other teams or were under-sided at the start of the week they have really one over the hearts of everyone here in Australia and I tell you who else has I don't know if you guys know about Grant Cohn. Yeah, we do very well very well yes, he's unbelievable. He's an NFL an Australian football like panelists now he's managed to get himself on all the shows next year he's got an eyebrow next year he's played everyone on a break. He is a character he's been very controversial over your grand as a dear friend you won't believe this Zander but I'm old enough. Grant's father was is a great journalist a great writer here in San Francisco and then so Grant kind of launched his own thing and he started doing sort of the more of the YouTube videos as opposed to the traditional print that his father did and Grant is aggressive with his takes he's very he's very well as you know as who's the guy Bond temp Bonta belt the bonds the bonds the bonds is getting

19:46it from Grant he's getting the full Grant Cohn treatment down there. So so grants come out and he started with the food reviews and everyone's going oh Grant loves fish and chips he loves kebabs he loves and all of a sudden he's he's killed the sacred cow the bond who is basically considered one of the greatest players of the modern era who played a probably seven out of 10 to play off game the other day and Grant has just got a rope on him and he's been doing it on every network in the country as well. You got to admire it that's the bond checked in on this by the way. He's been suspiciously silent. Grant's received a lot of messages of support from the players that he's gotten behind so it's clearly he's like so he's funny here's how old I am. Grant was eight years old and came to my wedding and took over the dance floor to Michael Jackson's Billy Jean. So at a young age he was always making a scene. So wow. I'd like to say that on the inside you know tomorrow I get him on the dance floor. Yeah. Yeah. And he just turned on a tweet saying he'll be back in April as part of something called the Gather Round. What is the Gather Round in April?

20:47The Gather Round is when the entire AFL goes to Adelaide for one festival of football. It'd be like if every NFL game for one weekend was played in San Francisco. That's an amazing concept and Grant's going to be right in the thick of it and it's a small city Adelaide so we'll be recognized left front center. Oh, the voice you hear is Xander McGuire. He is from seven news Melbourne. He stayed up late for us because it's 1121 PM back there and he's got early duty at Melbourne cricket ground tomorrow. So we won't keep you too much longer. A little bit about the actual football. The big debate back here is and are all anybody's talking about they're not talking about Matt Stafford. They're not talking about Nick Bosa or Christian McCaffrey. They're talking about Jetlag. This is all we're talking about. So let me ask you have you been to the states in your world travels many many tons. My brother actually lives in the States. He's the ponta for a hostile. Oh my gosh. That's cool. Wow. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But now

21:47many of the sites many times. Okay. So tell us given what you know of the travel, what's your opinion on the great Jetlag debate? Two very different approaches. The 49ers go for a whole week. The Rams knife in like burglars in the night. Who's doing it right? Yeah. First and foremost, I got to say for the the great American warriors that we always hear about in the NFL, I cannot believe the winging that has been going on about the 15 hour flight from San Francisco and LA guys come on. It's not that bad. You just have an extra beer on the flight. You sleep a little bit more and have a look at the pods that they've been in as well. The fully lie down seats. No, I think in saying that you do know a few days to acclimate us 100%. Yeah. 17 hours difference in time zone. I mean, I understand that the Rams sports scientists and that have among the best in the world think that they can play on adrenaline and and get themselves right. But I think in terms of what's going to happen tomorrow morning, Australia time, there's no doubt that the 49ers have set themselves up better

22:49to succeed in the next 24 hours. I mean, what happens in week two? I guess there's a debate that the 49ers might be off kilter when they come back to the States. But I mean, I think Carl Shanahan was saying the other day that he's been bolt up right with his eyes wide open in bed and all hours of the night until about yesterday or two days ago. So it took him that long to get himself right. And even some of your broadcasters have come over here and said that they haven't felt themselves until the last 24 to 48 hours as well. So you can soldier on, but in terms of being 100%. There's no way the LA Rams will be at 100% with the jet lag. Zander, big picture outlook. What is the current state of American football in Australia? Like how popular is it compared to other sports? Is it the most popular American sport? I know major league baseball has been down there before. NBA is a global sport as well. How big of a brand is the NFL in Australia? And how much bigger do you think it will be after this game? The NFL brand in terms of fans watching the games is massive. It is huge. So the Super Bowl every year is on, you know, roughly eight o'clock in the morning, seven o'clock in the

23:52morning, Australia time. And it's among one of our highest rating sport programs for the year. People love it. Australians turn out for sporting events like a few other cultures in the world. And that's not just NFL. It's, you know, English Premier League, it's, you know, World Cup. It's all these other sports. The NFL is definitely the biggest sport in Australia. It's grown exponentially in the last 10 to 15 years, I think. People don't play it. But, you know, the whole wave of punters that transition from Australian football over to college football and, and the NFL has really helped the growth of it as well. Like kids come through school now and they think, you know, I could go and play college football in America. That's a viable career path for me. But, no, in terms of viewing, one, it's already massive. What this will do can't be overstated. Like this is massive for the fabric of, of our sporting culture. And the fact that there's a four year commitment as well just means it's going to keep getting bigger and bigger. Oh, actually, I'm going to be honest. I didn't know there's another one next year too. Well, thanks. Sorry. I'm so dumb that in all my, in all my

24:56research for this game, I did not know that's awesome. That's, that's great knowledge there. So good to know that this is the next two teams get to have the great jet lag debate for sure. Just in terms of Australians, I don't know if you were able to have the time worked out for you guys last night, but the Seahawks played the Patriots and the opener and the punter for the Patriots was Mitch Wischnowski, our old buddy from, from Australia, who was a 49er punter. So, the imprint goes on and the Eagles, of course, Jordan Milada, their offensive tackle is a, is a, a non punter zander. So there are actual position players too. Yeah, there's a few of the big out boys of Pacific Island descent. They come across and they are big boys to be reckoned with. Jordan Milada, tell you what, he made a lot of headlines when he saw in that $100 million three contract for the Philadelphia Eagles. That's, that's mind-boggling condom money. Yeah, the AFL here, which by the way in Melbourne is, is a tribal sport. People, it's, it goes courses through people's, through people's veins. We have 10 teams from the AFL that are based in Melbourne and

26:00it is in the middle of the playoffs and no one here could give us stuff about it this week. It is all about the NFL completely. But the salary cap for the AFL is about $20 million dollars Australian for a season for an entire roster. Right? So that's our most lucrative sport. And you've got guys that come out here who are, you know, buddy, back up long snappers that almost make the entire salary cap like it's, it's mind-boggling for us. So we're, we're very grateful and in awe of the show that's come to town. Yeah, it's so great. It's great to get your perspective, boots on the ground. And thanks for telling us the 49ers did good. And did, uh, of all our, the 49ers we thought would be the best ambassador. It's George Kittle. Did it, did it bear out that way that he's the, the best personality? That is so funny. He say that because he has been the best. And I can't remember who it was. The guy that was, was asking how close Australia was to Antarctica. Yeah. Yeah. Brock Perty's impressed a lot of people with just being a pretty all-around good guy. But

27:01gee, George Kittle has been funny. So George Kittle actually, if, if, if, I've just got a bit of time, here is a famous rugby player based out of Sydney named Jai Arrow. And he was a superstar rugby player. But he got diagnosed with MND or ALS, I think, as it's called in America. Yeah. So he's had to retire and all around Australia and sport across all the codes when people score a goal or a trial, whatever they do, they do an arrow celebration to pay tribute to him. And unfortunately, the disease is really getting grippy even quite quickly. And George Kittle learned to this. He reached out to him and everything like that. And he was planning on doing the arrow celebration, which had everyone in Australia so excited until Kittle found out that the NFL would find him $40,000 because it's a weapon. Oh, man. We'll raise the money. We'll pay. We'll pass the hat. There's been offers of GoFundMe's and there's a lot of prominent Australian sport creators who have, who have reached out and said, we'll pay the fine if you do it. So I would say, that's something to watch for tonight. That's something to watch for tonight. It's big news that he's

28:04playing. You know, he tore his Achilles on January 11. It's only been nine months. So it's it's his return has been credited in part to his indomitable spirit and personality for sure. So so you guys have a favorite tight end to root for two. So well, listen, you've been a great sports and you're you got to be up work in a few hours. So off to bed, you go. We appreciate it's been a great chat. And hey, I hope maybe we'll have another occasion to have you on. I don't know what it will be. Maybe next year. The 49ers go back. Or if you ever need us for any American stuff, we'll hop on a zoom for you. So thanks, Xander. Much, much appreciated. Enjoy the game. Thanks, Xander. I love it. God's. Hopefully we said the 49ers back eight in next year. We love you, guys. There he is, man. Hope you enjoyed that. We did. Xander McGuire, a reporter for seven news Melbourne, Melbourne. I'd like to see Kittle do that celebration. Yeah. That would be awesome. A paid tribute with that arrow celebration. Now I thought maybe George Kittle would really embrace the Australian culture and do like a shoeie after scoring a touchdown. But he addressed that early in the week. Thought he would get fined by the NFL for drinking alcohol out of his

29:05cleat. Sounds like he still could get fined if he does this celebration. But that's definitely something that we'd pass the hat around that would a shoeie. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Shoey. It's huge down under down in Australia. A lot of Australian UFC fighters will celebrate after their match. Who's the? I just like grab like a random shoe from the crowd and chugging a beer out of it. The best Australian UFC fighter. Alexander Volcanoesky or my guy Robert Whitaker. Love it. The grim reaper. How do we not get bogged on this week? Andy Bogge. Yeah. That him anyway. Fun stuff. Xander McGuire. He was great. We're almost done, buddy. Oh, no, wait. I'll see you at noon for the round table in Alameda. I hope you got two more hours of takes in your march. Re-wreck those takes to Almanac, Brewery and Alameda. Me and Marcus will be over there. Hopefully Walt goes. Curly's going to stay here and man the fort. How about that? He's got a hold down the station. I want to see curls over on the island. That's a sit. All right. Alameda mystery guest at 1215. Mystery guest at 12. I don't know who it is. I can't wait. Well, I'll find out. Well, sign off. I think we're continuing a string of Marcus learning. I don't know. It's just

30:09happened this week that I've been throwing out some tunes and y'all are learning. I think it's going well. We'll see. We'll see. And is the doctor in next on these sports later. Tim Ryan here with your Bay Area team and for now get a California explorer annual day use pass with your purchase or lease of a brand new Bronco or Bronco sport. It's got goat mode like your players driving to the game or off-roading. There's seven available modes. Ford is America's number one for new vehicle quality among mainstream brands. Visit your California Ford dealer today. Proud Partner of California State Parks. Named by JD Power 2026 US Initial Quality Study Award. Information visit JDpower.com slash awards awards based on 2026 model year. Hi, this is Dave Roberts heading into summer without a medical emergency kit. That's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything. That's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit. It includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick at home or on the road, you already have what you need. It's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home. Say $45 with code blue at

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33:16grounds or the G sublime in the offspring all on Thursday October 1. All right good job everybody. Hey people checking in eight when they says I hope Kettle in the 49ers do that arrow celebration. That final be well worth it. It lives on Lee as the only now if we have time to squeeze in. Walter's actually got a press conference quote from George Kettle being asked about doing that AFL celebration if you would like to hear it. Let's go. I would love to but I get fined and penalized for it because it's a weapon. Trust me I've thought about it. What about right John's little hop maybe one of those or what the AFL refs do. We impractic in that one. My fingers are not by promise. Yeah of course. There you go. So I forgot about that rule that you can't pretend to have a weapon. Yes. God. By the way five one knows been texting in all morning. His name is Vance is Ty is on a seven fight losing streak. Yeah. Ty has not been doing these shuys recently. We also have George Kettle talking about the shuie if you would like to hear that

34:17quote as we squeeze it in our last couple seconds of sound. Okay. Let's go. Potentially I'm pretty sure drinking alcohol is also illegal and you why are you guys ready to get me fined. I've been fined. It's not fun. I'll see what I can do. I have some we have some things thought of so we've got to get in the zone. You guys are all trying to get me fined. If you if you send me 15 grand I'll do it. Oh. Oh. 369 says I'd pitch in to help pay that fine for Kettle. Hell yeah. Absolutely. Arrow celebration. Shui celebration. Who cares? Get into the end zone. George Kettle. All right Doc put on the white coat and walk in with the stethoscope. Most scary the scariest words and modern medicine. Dr. Boucher. We'll see you now. Hey, you're talking to the man that helped George Kettle get through his rehab process by picking up marbles with his feet. No, all riffing aside, it is time for today's Stanford health care health report sponsored by Stanford Health Care and it's our final injury port on the 49ers before they face off against the Rams tonight. And we mentioned the breaking news yesterday out from Collins. Not only out for the week one matchup out for the entire season. Rookie undrafted defense tackle. James Thompson,

35:23junior is questionable, but we did get the news that George Kettle and Nick Bosa are ready to go to square off against Miles Garrett, Matthew Stafford and the L. A Rams. And that my friends was your Stanford Health Care Health report sponsored by Stanford Health Care. Doc Boucher says Bosa and Kettle are ready to go. I love here comes Bosa. I will end it with this is the third straight day Tuesday was potato, potato, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, it's called all thing off yesterday was Glenn Campbell, Wichita alignment because Raymond Ritter from Wichita did the tribute video for my Kruko in this time in Wichita. And then this morning we had Matt Meyoko on. It was midnight in Melbourne, Melbourne and Mattie. You can see his eyes were flagging out in Melbourne. And I said in my brain, the way my stupid brain works, I said, wow, it's midnight midnight in Melbourne. Let's send Mattie to bed like I said, you know, Marcus like midnight at the oasis, send your camel to bed. You said, no, so Marcus go ahead and the ladies want to know what it is a ham sandwich. Can I

36:25get an A man? What did water boy learn today? What's going on? So he learned the mighty Maria Moldauer who lives over in Mildali. Shutter out. And she had this banger in 1973. I think you guys will be welcome here. Give it to me Walter. Little. Go Maria. Interesting. Interesting. All right. Yeah, I think it's kind of free out rock man. But it's kind of like pre-cred smooth and shut up to the Texers who chimed in earlier today reminded me that this was the song during the prom scene in American pie. Great. Great. I love the producers users. So there you go. Three straight days we've had to go into the jukebox there. Marcus learned it. It'll be on his playlist soon. All right. See you now. Meet somebody. I'll see you in a few hours. See you in a couple hours. Farron. Special guest at

37:291250. Miss three guests at 1215. Farron. Don't want to miss it. We get to see Johnny London. Hey, Farron buys you Johnny Leland is next. You'll listen to Cambier Am and Cambier FM San Francisco. These sports leader, Accumulus media station. So we can make it great and have a great press conference. Or we can make it uncomfortable. This is weird man. I don't like it. You guys are all trying to get me fined. If you send me 15 grand, I'll do it. That's the end of the game. Yeah. Tim Ryan here with your Bay Area team and Ford. Now get a California Explorer annual day use pass with your purchase or lease of a brand new Bronco or Bronco sport. It's got goat mode like your players driving to the game or off-roading. There's seven available modes. Ford is America's number one for new vehicle quality among mainstream brands. Visit your California Ford dealer today. Proud partner of California State Parks. Name by JD Power 2026 US Initial Quality Study Award. Information visit JDpower.com

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