The Cohn Zohn: Reevaluating the 49ers After Week 1

0:00I might have seriously underestimated the 49ers yet again. Hello and welcome to the cone zone where the cones grant cone, lowle cone, my father. This is presented by prize picks. Usually we go live the day after the game, but that was a Thursday. We've had a few days to digest it and to look at the rest of the league. So we're going to talk big picture at one point, but dad, what do you, what do you make of the 49ers week one win over the Rams? You saw it coming. I picked the Rams, cost me a Brunello, although I think we're going to cancel out the Brunello at this point, since we both hold you. Yeah, I owe you something about the bow. Here's what I think. Iggy, they played a perfect game. Yeah, they did. They played a perfect game.

1:00Kyle, I think it may have been the best game that he called that I've ever seen. He did everything right and it was a pleasure to see and Rahim Morris. I thought he was great. So my excuse me guys, I still got my call, my cough. I'm doing the best I can. I thought it was brilliant. Now, what can we extrapolate from that? That's really the question. I think as currently constituted, they are one of the best teams in the NFC. I don't think there's any question. I think they're better than the Rams. The Rams were unprepared what they did was stupid coming in at the end. They would have beat the Rams anyway. I think the Rams are overrated and Seattle is always underrated. I do. Yeah, I agree. I agree. I think the Niners still have to prove that they can not only beat compete with Seattle, but that's down the line. So I'd say yes, they are among the elite teams in the NFC as currently constituted.

2:05I saw Steve Young on a podcast after the game and he kept referring to if, if, if, if, meaning if they stay healthy, if they stay healthy, this is a serious contender. They be even a super bowl team. And the question is, will they stay healthy? And Niki, I don't know. I'm, I'm, I'm just a guy. I know that they're, they're star players. Many of them are older and that gives me pause. Will they be around in November and December? I have no way of knowing, but the team has currently constituted. I would say can beat anyone except I'm not so sure about Seattle. Otherwise, I think they could beat anyone in the NFC. Yeah, I would have to agree. And they were better than I thought they would be like Mike Evans looked like the guy he was two, three years ago. It looks like they can run their passing game through him now. Will he play 17 games? Probably not. But when he's out there, he's going to be the focal point of their passing game.

3:08Christian McCaffrey looked better than he's looked in years. Really, he hasn't looked like that in two or three years. He both Samuel looked pretty good as like a third option. George Kittle was the one guy who didn't look particularly good as a receiver, but it's week one. You figure he's going to only get better. The defense was, I mean, Nick Bosele looked excellent. Fred Warner looked incredible. Dre Greenlaw looked good and we were wondering about him. Bernardo Green had an interception. Every, like every level of the team had someone stand out and I, and then you like contrast that with the freaking Rams who looked lifeless in every way. And maybe my first reaction was boy, the Rams really let the Niners off the hook. But the more I think about it and the more I watch the other games, I'm thinking like, what other teams looked as prepared and talented as the Niners this off this weekend? They looked the best of all the teams, of all the games I saw. You're right. The Niners looked the most prepared and the most playoff prepared.

4:10This is a hell of a squad. Yeah. Trent Williams had this incredible off season. He looks great. And if Christian McCaffrey can play, and if Kyle, we'll talk about Kyle say like Kyle Shanahan's game plan was incredible. For the first time in years, didn't overuse Christian McCaffrey. He had a second running back. He trusted. He was right to draft this running back in the third round. I thought he was crazy to do it. He was 100% right. They actually can run the ball this year for the first time in a couple of years. That changes everything. And he had McCaffrey fresh in the fourth quarter to put the game away. He's never really done that before. So his use of McCaffrey, I mean, all the praise I want to give Kyle, his use of McCaffrey was refreshing and smart. He did it beautifully. And at the end, McCaffrey was running beautifully and strong. So it was great. Yeah. And the only quarter, he could go ahead. He looked great. He looked the best. I've seen him in a long time.

5:12Maybe once or maybe once a game, he'll throw a pass where you smack your head, but that's most quarterbacks. And he does so much to make up for it. And I think he's making fewer and fewer of those decisions every, well, this year. And he made that throw down the field to DeMarcus Robinson was great. He had five scrambles that were really, really good. He's an extremely dynamic quarterback. And he's not like the kind of guy who's going out there trying to not mess things up. He has a grasp of his confidence as any quarterback in the league. Yeah. As I say, I'm not even sure the team could play better than that. They played beautifully. And after the week one, they're the most impressive team that I've seen in the NFL. They are. And so I have to say that I was on the fence about where they'd be a playoff team. This currently constituted their a hell of a playoff team. And the only issue is how healthy can they stay? And that's fair issue.

6:12And I have no answer for it. Yeah. I have no answer. And it's a tricky topic to discuss because it's like, is it luck? Is it this? Is it that? And sometimes people will bring up the training staff. And I know you get uncomfortable about this. But I think that it's important to bring it up from this past week. And maybe we don't put it on the training. You tell me who this, who's responsible for this. But this really happened. This is a fact. Dejan Stribling hurt his ankle. Turned out it was a deltoid spring. He limps off the field. He's in big pain. He goes over to the blue injury tent so that the people, the medical professionals, the trainers in the physician can check him. They clear him. They say he's good to go back in the game. He goes back in the game. He cuts. He goes down again. This time he can't get off the field and they cart him off. Now they're saying four weeks minimum, not going to have surgery, but he's getting a second opinion. So it seems pretty clear that they cleared him what he shouldn't have been cleared.

7:13And I think we've seen examples of the Niners. And maybe it's not their call, but bringing guys back too quickly, too aggressively. I don't know who's responsible for that, but it's hurting them. I don't like to address that. I'm not a professional when it comes to medical. I'm very clear on this, I have nothing to say about that. There were doctors in there. There were trainers in there. I'm sure they're trained. I'm not trained. I have, now do they bring other players back early, possibly, but this, to me, is not an example of it. It's different. So it's not a topic I like to get into. I'd rather talk about football or how people act, but in terms of medical professionals, I'm a PhD in English literature. I have nothing to say about it. Fair enough. I think that this is a big topic for them. And I think that it's been an issue for them a long time. He mosters come out and talked about how the team puts a lot of pressure on players coming back before they're 100% ready. And I think this was another example. And I don't know. Maybe he would have missed four weeks regardless, but he ended up having to get

8:13carted off the field when he was just limping off the day a few plays before. I think the Niners got to address that. It's hurting them. They're hurting themselves with that. They won the game and we're praising them. So I'd like to move ahead with that. Would you think of the extension that Carl's got? I think it stinks. That okay, I'm going to give you two reasons. One, the minor reason. And this is as a former journalist. Apparently, they made the extension in the summer. But they didn't announce it in the summer. It's possible they didn't announce it because he had the car accident. I don't know. But it seems possible. So they were waiting for the right moment. Now they beat the shit out of the Rams and they're looking good. So they announced it. If they lost, would they have announced it? No way in hell. If they had lost that game, they would have waited until there was a win.

9:14So what I see them doing is manipulating the news and manipulating journalists. We'll give you, we'll leak the news to some national guy when it's, when it's, makes us look good. I don't like to be manipulated as a journalist. So that bothers me a lot the way they handled it. But that's the minor issue. There's a major issue. Kaushan Han is signed through 2027. He makes 14 million a year before this extension. Who the hell knows what he makes. That's a lot of money. It's, he's not the highest paid in the league, but he's up there. And what was the hurry? I always said, Jed was always in the hurry like when he signed single carry after the final game of the season. Jed doesn't seem to have any power anymore. It's all family. The whole family's in a hurry. How about wait till the middle of the season? Wait till the end of the season. He still has another season to go.

10:16You could extend them. I'm not saying don't extend them, but have some more data. I mean, he might lose the next four games in a row. What was the hurry to sign him when you could have more information to extend him? You could have more information a month or two from now. I always feel they act on emotion, not on business and they are in that regard childlike. They're not business like. They're childlike. I don't like it. In addition, they give this guy, this is a third thing. He gets an extension and he has never won a Super Bowl. Bill Walsh won a Super Bowl and they got rid of him. He won a Super Bowl his final season. Now somebody in the comments wrote, he didn't get forced out. He retired bullshit. I know that he got forced out and he used to, when we'd have a drink, he would get a little buzz.

11:16He said more than once they'd me, they stole my fucking team from me. That's what's his line. They stole my fucking team from me. So Eddie got rid of Bill after three Super bowls and after one that he won and this guy keeps getting early extensions and he hasn't done any of that. I think Bill Walsh would have liked to deal like that too. I don't have to win. I just keep getting extensions. What do you think about it, Iggy? Yeah, I just think it reveals what the Niners are about. Back then they pushed out Bill because they felt that although he had led them to three Super Bowls, including one that season, he was not going to be able to do that in the future. They weren't just trying to coast off their past accomplishments and make as much money as possible and stay in the mix. That was not the goal back then. Then the same thing happened with George Seiford who never had a losing season, never won fewer than, he never had a season where he won single digit games. He had a 12 and 4 season, they fired him because it's like, no, I'm sorry, you haven't won a Super Bowl in three years.

12:17We think you can't do it anymore. Now it's like, well Kyle keeps us in the mix and we have so many fans and businesses booming. Why would we change anything? It's not like they gave him an extension because they're like, Kyle learned something and this time if he gets to the Super Bowl, he's going to win it because he's a little different. They're like, we like him just the way he is. He could say this way forever. Yes. So what you're saying is, and I 100% agree, they've lowered their standards. And they're comfortable. Yes, they're comfortable. Used to be Super Bowl or bust or you're out. Super Bowl or you're out. Now it's stay in the mix and we're very happy with you. So they've gone from standards that you call a plus to be. There's a new Cowboys. The Cowboys, when I was a kid, they were like America's team and they'd get the most time on the ESPN shows and it was always strange. Like why? They're not necessarily the best team but they're in the mix. Now I think the Niners have sort of taken over from the Cowboys.

13:20Now they were in this YouTube, new media, social media era and it's not just the country, it's the globe. I think the Niners are the most talked about team, the most with the most fans. And so as long as they're like interesting, they make a ton of money. And I think they love that and don't want to mess with it because just 10 years ago they were bordering on being irrelevant. If you were running the team, would you have the laid extending Kyle a while? Would you have done it when he- I'd like to see him show that he has figured out the Seahawks before giving him an extension. Because just beating the Rams, we've seen him do that. That doesn't mean that they're going to make it any farther this year. They did it last year. I love it and they have the Seahawks fairly early in the season. Yeah, in like four weeks. Yeah, and then again. And if he beats the Seahawks, then you can say, you know what? We'll give him an extension. I could have waited four or five weeks. So we agree on that. We're not saying he doesn't deserve an extension.

14:21We're saying they could have been more prudent and waited a month. They didn't, I mean, I'm guessing they extended them early in the off season. Yeah. I'm guessing they extended them before the accident and they were waiting for something good to happen so they could announce it. So if theoretically they had lost to the Rams, we wouldn't know about it yet. And I mean, if he really are that excited about extending him, you should, you should have a press conference that day, not like do it quietly and do wait for good stuff. They never had a press conference. No, they never had a press conference. No, it's that about it. Yeah, they never had a press conference through an adjust. Because they know it's slightly ridiculous. He hasn't won a Super Bowl. They clearly don't have that type of aspirations. The Super Bowl are bus standard. And so they just want business to keep going on the way it is and people that not really question them about it. Yeah. And again, if I, if we're up to me, I'm in favor of extending him.

15:22If he, if he deserves it and deserve it would be, I'm not even talking Super Bowl. Like what you said, beat, beat Seattle, beat Seattle in your first game. And then we'll give you an extension. What was the goddamn hurry to do it now? And it, I'm going to use an adjective. It was weak. Yeah. Yeah. It was weak. It's kind of like, you know, we're, we lost Parag, Jets gone. We're a little, we're going through some upheaval over here. We need something stable, Kyle. We need you. You're the best thing we've got going. Yes. And he is the best thing they have going. Let's be clear. He's an excellent coach and he always will be a winner. He always will be a winner. And that's wonderful. So was Bill and so was George. They were winners too. And so was Harbaugh. So was Harbaugh. And, and, and Eddie was saying, you know, well, it was, and the, with Harbaugh was Jed and it was personal. But Eddie was saying to those two, it's great to be a winner.

16:25But we want more than a, we want a winner of Super Bowls. Yeah. And you haven't done it. No, Bill had just done it. Yeah. And he was the best. That 1988 year, like they were good and they got hot at the end and won a Super Bowl. And then they pushed Bill out. And then the next year they went like 14 and two. They were objectively better the next year without Bill. And then the year after that, they almost won a, a third Super Bowl in a row. They were full of way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so anyway, I probably a lot of your viewers are pissed because we didn't say the non-er's are going to win the Super Bowl. We say if they stay healthy, which Steve Young said. And we're questioning the time. I'm, excuse me, guys, the timing and the wisdom of this extension right away. So early. But, Iggy, you know what? We're not friends. No. And it's like, he, again, what we're saying, we're not, we're not, we're not, we're not, saying fire Kyle or even trade Kyle.

17:29He did a great job last year. You were just saying he's signed through 2027. You had two more years. He wasn't going anywhere. And you could have not extended him. That could have been motivation. And let's say he goes to the Super Bowl and wins it this year. Then you can extend him and you can, and, and he'll be worth it. And you can give him even more money and be good for both the non-er's and Kyle saying all of a sudden Kyle saying it might be making 20, 25 million dollars a year as of right now without a Super Bowl in his resume. I'm sure he's very highly paid. But I doubt he's getting paid more than John Harbour. He might be better than John Harbour. But Harbour has a freaking Super Bowl and Kyle doesn't. Harbour and Reader, the highest paid at 20 million. Those two. I bet you have no, he was at 14. I don't know where he's at now. But I understand and, and, and Harbour have won Super Bowls and this kid hasn't. Correct. Yeah. The other thing we haven't discussed is, it doesn't seem to be any extension for John Lynch.

18:30Now, I want to have things to say about that. I, I have questions about him as a general manager, managing the draft. Although Ike, I think this draft turned out to be pretty good. Stribbling the poor guy got hurt right away and the running back. Black is very good. So those are two to me very good picks. But I want to say something about Lynch. I don't know if he should get an extension or not. They may be better personnel people. I don't know. But I want to come back to something he said. Somebody asked him in a news conference about Jed. What is his thoughts about what happened with Jed and, you know, with the hookers. Yes. With the sting and his response. It's a paraphrase, but it's pretty close. He didn't discuss Jed. He said the York family has been very good to me. Isn't that pretty much what he said? I might be the right quote. Okay. And what I'm thinking is it means something different to me now than when he said it.

19:31When he said it, I thought he was just avoiding the Jed issue. Now, I think he's maybe saying the Yorks are good to me. And I hope they continue to be good to me and give me an extension. Right. It takes on a further meaning. Would you agree with that? 100%. Like, hey guys, all of you, I love you. Don't you like me too? Don't you think I'm a really important part of this operation? But like, like, I mean, they may have extended him, but they may not have the courage to announce it yet. They might want to wait for Caleb Black to have a hundred yard game or Dave John struggling to come back from his ankle injury or who knows? I see what you think they could have extended him already. Absolutely. In fact, I bet they did that. Why wouldn't they not extending him would sort of indicate that they have some type of standard that's built around winning a Super Bowl? I don't think they do. I don't think they do. I love it. So another meaning when he says the Yorks have been very good to me.

20:31Could mean they already extended me. Good. They absolutely. I love it. I love it. They took care of me. Huh? Yeah, they won't say so. But that's okay. I know that they gave me another extension. That's my best guess as they extended both. I love it. I love it. I give you. There is so much we don't know about this team. They operate in the shadows, right? And it's funny. I mean, this whole thing, I think, is allowing us to reexamine decades of what the 49ers have done. For example, one of the first things Jed ever did was extend Mike Singletary as... Not extend him, but promote him from interim head coach to full blown head coach. You were working at the time. You were there. And you wrote on the spot like this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. What is the freaking rush? And you put it on Jed. And you felt like, okay, here's a young man who's excited. And he's 27. He's running his team.

21:31Now in retrospect, this might just be how that family works, how they do business. I think it's more likely. I don't think Jed had the power. He had to talk to mommy and daddy and they said, hey, this Singletary, he's the man. He's the man. Yeah. Right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And Iggy, he wasn't the man. Wasn't we in the green room one time at sports NBC sports Bay Area and the kicker told us what they thought about Singletary? Oh, man, such a good, such a good story. Joe, you think you're a teller. Tell them what he said. And this was it's the Singletary had been fired. Yeah. So we're in the, we're in the green room. And I'll know how we got on the subject. And he was like, all right, here's, here's when we knew we were fucked. This is it. Nettity, right? Here's when we knew we were fucked. So I guess they had just named him the head coach. He wasn't interim coach anymore. And they come back for a training camp. And there's always like some team meeting to kick off the year.

22:32And so they're all sitting in their seats and Singletary comes out. And I guess he kind of like struts out because he's Mike's freaking Singletary. You know, it was strong. And instead of like saying something or looking at people, he grabs a marker and turns to the dry erase board. It gives his back to all the players and just writes on the board. 16 and oh, and circles it and turns around with his hands across his chest, just like any quits. And they're like, oh, no, we're fucked. This guy has no clue. 16 and his football players are smart. They're smart. And they're looking in this guy's a clown, right? We're not going to be 16 and oh, not even close. In fact, the fact that you think we're going to be 16 and oh, makes me think we're going to be bad is here. This is completely unrealistic. Who are we? And that really happened. And we looked at each other in the green room like, holy shit, right? Holy shit.

23:33We got a nutmeg for a leader. And so we bring that up because it shows that the Yorks don't necessarily have the best judgment. And they're quick to leap to a bad decision. And extremely quickly. And extending Kyle when they did is a bad decision. I'm not saying extending Kyle is a bad decision. I'm talking about timing. Yeah, he wasn't going to request a trade. He wasn't going to walk away from the team. He was going to keep doing his job with smile on his face. And he could have made even more money if he waited six months and showed that he could beat Mike McDaniel. McDonald, I go back to the Super Bowl and win it. I mean, he has the team to win the Super Bowl this year. If he does that, he could be making $20 million. It could have benefited all sides, but the Niners do business this way. Ige currently constituted.

24:34I believe he has the team that can win the Super Bowl. I don't mean they will because there are other good teams. But they have a team capable of winning the Super Bowl if healthy. And this if is big. It's capital letters, both face. It's a big if. It's a niff for every team. But it's I say even the Niners have them. It is a little bit more for the Niners. And again, there's a million factors. Why? But all we know is even though they went to Australia and kicked ass against the team that people thought was the best team in the league. They lost four players for a long time in the process. Two in practice. Two defensive linemen, Alfred Collins and Samuel Kwanow and then two during the game, Dejan Stribling and Jake Tungus. So you can't do that every week, even if you're winning. Because eventually you won't. You know, Ige for one other thing and then they were supposed to have a bad defensive line. They had Stafford under in trouble a lot. That defensive line with no names except for Bosa.

25:36I thought they were really, really good. Did you? They were. They were. And it's like, is that what you're going to do every week or was that what you did against the team that was jet lagged? I'd love to know. Yeah. But that's what they're going to do every week and this team can win the Super Bowl for sure. Yeah. Yeah. So we're going to re evaluate them in a minute. Take some super chats and do some some ads real quick. Shane Cooley says Kyle got concussed and called a great game. Doc Brown invented the flux capacitor after hitting his head on a sink. Maybe Kyle unlocked something. Ige did he hit his head on a sink? I don't remember that. I don't remember that. How many did watch? That movie is so wonderful. But I don't remember hitting him. His head on a sink. That's definitely one of the best movies of all time. Oh, I love it. I love that movie. It smells like foot in here says, Purdy had an interception and through a second that the D line dropped and the O line caught. I see the same Purdy. He'll have three, a three INT game soon enough. It's week one. I think that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. Do it.

26:36Do the 1st. You know, what? Get it, it. You know, Bob тов rolls the display. Until those like you say, you do the R-ongo analog away. Do solving. Right. It's late. Totally late during the day and I get old inyeong and it's pretty tough. So I like to invite everyone else over little by little to have lunch. So what's going on? I like to want to say what you have there, it's really a way to play O and make sure to make it an Indian official kick-off. And then again, what does it matter? I see a lot of kids going to have fun. You're not going to play, so you're going to have to figure out if they missed any beat. Yes. Well, I did expect this. think he get a third shot. And that's a, I'm glad city bird. You brought this up. He screwed up yesterday. And so did Jim Harbaugh. I don't, I think these guys could be in danger than both of them. If they have bad seasons, now if Salah, if his team is just as bad as always been, he could be in a lot of trouble. And that would be it for him. That would be a second chance. And Jim Harbaugh has a good team. And if he produce a strong playoff run with them, I think he's in trouble. I agree. And it was interesting to watch his brother have sort of instant success with that Giants team. And Harbaugh stumbled

27:36out of the gate with the team that most people would consider more talented than the Giants team. Yeah, and lost to the Cardinals. Coriander Seed says Forbes said Niners value jump from 8.6 billion in 2025 to 10.9 billion now. That's over, that's a 20% increase. It'll be funny if Kyle gets a 20% raise. Maybe he did. Maybe he did. Chris Bond 1697 says decision to extend Kyle Shannon only cost money, doesn't impact cap, etc. If team determines there is a better alternative to Shanahan, he could be fired at any time, even after winning just like Bill Wallace. That's true. It's their money. You're right. I'm not talking about money. I'm talking about time. I'm not talking about money. I'm talking about time. By doing this, I think they've committed themselves to Kyle Shannon hand for more seasons. And I'm saying there was no hurry to do that. And of course, he already has a lot of time. I don't care what the hell they pay him. It's not my money. But

28:38they're committed to him and they're going to stick with him longer than maybe they should, depending on how the season plays out. Isaac Baraza says for low, how do you feel journalism is current day? Has it lost a step? Have you been told not to write a story due to a topic being too risky? I'm retired for nine or 10 years. So no one tells me what to write or not to write. I never was told not to write a story because it was too risky. In fact, in my day, they liked you to write risky stories because they like to break news and they like to have readership. We've gone over this before. I think journalism, I'm only speaking about sports journalism now is become very soft. And I think it's because newspapers are failing. And eventually they won't be any newspapers. They'll be online. And I think people are nervous with their jobs. And God love them. I understand that. And I think in a way, the most provocative journalism is happening online and not in

29:41newspapers. I would 100% agree. First go, she'll says, John's job is to smooth things over between ownership, Parag players in the coach. If the Niners are selling extending Kyle makes sense, extending John doesn't. We don't know what's happening. The parox out. Yeah. King Kelly 22 says, Mr. Cone, how would you rather have the duo of Warner and Green Law or Willis and Bowman in today's game and style? Willis and Bowman are better. Yeah, Willis and Bowman were like 1a and 1b and Warner is clearly better than Green Law. Warner was as good as those two Green Laws not. Right. Josh Wyatt says, black got 14 carries for the first time. Theasius is sailing the ship. He has this year from start. I am actually optimistic Kyle is evolving. He sure looked like he was evolving. And if he is God love him. DBZ Warlords says, how long can the

30:42Niners keep Morris if he's good? I think he more as long as they want. He's already been a head coach twice. Yeah, he's not going to be a head coach again. This is it for him. And that's the thing if Saul fails in Tennessee, I don't think he can come back here. No, we can't come back here, but he'll go somewhere. As a Salis, he said for life. And I think Rahim Morris. Based on what he did against the Rams is set for life. But again, he's the other thing, Iggy cliche. It's a long season. Yeah, they're going to play 16 more games and every game is not going to be as easy as that. They're going to be surprises. They're always off for every team. They're going to lose to a team you would never think they would lose to. Yeah, no, beat it. And it doesn't mean there's seasons over that their frauds. This is going to happen. No, it's what happens. And it's never always going to be that easy. Like for example, they're not going to lose to the dolphins. Next week, we'll talk about that coming up. Yeah, Iggy, for example, when I say it's not

31:43going to always be that easy, I'll give an example of what I mean. Yeah, Kyle called the perfect game. He does. He you I looked in and I thought, man, it's such a pleasure to watch what you're doing. Iggy, he won't always call a perfect game. No, no, he doesn't always call a perfect game. No, and Andy read in Super Bowl. Yeah. These are great coaches. You don't always call a perfect game. There's that that's going and pretty won't always have a perfect game. No, it's it's just how it not that they're bad. It's how it is. Yeah. That's true. CityBert says Lowell, talk about when you covered the debar to low bribe, any similarities between that and J. York in terms of leadership and direction reputation. Of course, he's talking about the river boat gambling thing. What Eddie did was stupid, illegal, a felony, and he risked everything that he cared about. It was

32:44one of the most foolish, the self destructive acts I've ever seen. I don't think what Jed did by going to that trailer park is even close to what Eddie did. Yeah. True, which is why Jed has a misdemeanor and Eddie has a felony. Yeah, and lost the team and lost now. Jed may have lost the team too, but he may have lost it before that. I think what he lots of before that. Yes, I think again, I wish I were there. It feels like the family voted amount before. Yes. And it's hard to say why or what the what the precipitating event was. Yeah, we don't know. But it's even possible that going into this sting with the the alleged hooker was a result of getting voted out and his marriage falling apart. Yeah. Because that

33:48was sort of his identity. I run the 49ers. Now you're not running the 49ers anymore. And you're not married to a lovely woman. And you're not married to a lovely woman. It's true. Really, really be hard, Iggy. Yeah, absolutely. Who am I now? Yeah, who am I? Absolutely. Alright, we got some prize picks. We got a game tonight. And we're going to we're going to pick on players, but also pick on the the game line. So how about the spread one and a half for the chiefs at home? Do you like the Broncos and the points or the chiefs minors want one and a half? I like the Broncos in that game. I like them too. I'm not sure that the chiefs are good. Do you think the chiefs are good? I'm not sure. I think they're fading. I think they're fading. I mean, the home is coming off. He's great. But he's coming off a torne C L is he going to be good week one? Andy reads fading Travis Kelsey's fading. I don't know about that team. Yeah, I'm Denver in this. I'm

34:49old Denver. Let's do some players. What about Patrick Maholms 223 and a half passing yards more or less? Fewer fewer. I like that. Bone nicks 227 and a half passing yards more fewer more. Okay. And then let's go to rushing. Kenneth Walker the third. He was with the Seahawks. Now he's with the chiefs 63 and a half rushing yards more fewer more. And receiving yards. How about Travis Kelsey 41 and a half receiving yards more fewer fewer? Okay, I like that. That's our lineup. We got the spread plus four players can't flex it. Got a power play at 20 bucks, submitting the lineup, go to app.pricepix.com or download the price picks app, use promo code HMA new users play five bucks and get 150 in lineups. If you win. And then one more thing. We got we

35:49got over here. We're also sponsored by what not dad. There's an app called what not. And this is it. Spelt spell it for me. W H A T N O T. What? Okay. Yeah. And it's like you know, back in the day when you be late at night watching TV and there'd be like the home shopping network and there'd be someone telling you can call right now. Well, this is kind of like that. But it's on your phone. And there's all kind of different things that you can sort of tune into if you want like sports cards or sneakers and shoes or sporting goods like if you wanted to get a putter or something like that. And you just click into it. And there's someone showing stuff that you can buy. And you can bid on it. You can get whatever you want. It's a lot of fun. It's what I like about it is you can interact with people. They when you're buying cards, they show you they and they break open the packs right in front of you. If you if you're

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37:50team that I mean, obviously staying healthy, but is this potentially a superbulting? Yes. Yeah. I think it's healthy. Yeah, a nine to 10 win team. This could be a 13 maybe a 13 win team. Iggy, I agree. I was golfing with Kevin this morning. He was like, do I think this is a 13 win team? I'm going to be betting on the Niners every week. Yeah. Yeah. Hi, Kevin. Hey, yeah. Yeah. I think it's a 13 win team. I do. I think I want to tell you something. I was watching the game. You were you were in Australia becoming a superstar in Australia. And I was homesick, you know, lying in bed, watching coffin. And I thought, God, I'd love to cover this team. Yeah, it would be a pleasure. It would be a pleasure to cover this team. And you know, all this stuff, Kyle's car accident, Jed with this thing. That's all in the past. It's football now, Iggy. Yeah. You know, even the extension is horseshit as it is. It's in the past. Now it's football. And

38:52this is a great football. I would love to cover them. And I'm envious that you're getting to cover them. Yeah. What a start to the season in Australia. And the way I was thinking about it, too, is like, there's a lot of things about this particular team that makes me feel like things could be different this year. Like, for example, Jed's gone, prog's gone. Like in a lot of ways, they've kind of been the Albatross to use a terrible cliche. But to me, they've been the ones dragging them down. Those guys. And now, oh, it's, it's a theory of mine. Now they're gone. Maybe that's good. Another thing, man, this is kind of weird. But like someone said, Kyle got in that freaky car accident had like a near death experience. He seems locked the fuck in ever since that he is on top of it right now. He seems as focused as I've ever seen him. And when he's locked in, he really is as good as anyone. Yeah. And I understand a near death experience can lock you in. Yeah, it's so bersy, you know, metaphorically,

39:55like all of a sudden, it's like, oh my God. And I think we're seeing the best of Kyle right now. It's so bersy to life. To this absolute. It's so bersy to life. I totally get what just yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yes. So there's that. I mean, the fact that the quarterback looks excellent. The fact that they're they have a running game, the fact that the defensive coordinator looks really good. And then on top of that, who who looks so good yesterday week one, which team looked just you know, the Rams? I mean, the Seahawks look really good, but they got an issue at quarterback. The Cowboys look ridiculous. The Eagles ridiculous. Don't seem that good. Ige the Cowboys, you know how I said the Rams are overrated? Triple that for the Cowboys. I'm the same reason I don't even like the quarterback. I really don't I don't think he's a winner. Yeah, he's going to make a couple plays in the game. You're like, there was a play last night where he was he scrambled. He dropped. He gave ground. He tried to throw the ball away. Didn't get it out of bounds got intercepted. You got intercepted trying to throw the ball away.

40:57How? Dac. I've never seen Brock do something like that. Intercept to try to throw the ball away. Trying to throw the ball away. Okay, can't take you serious. I mean, the Giants looked solid, but yeah, not as good as the Niners. It's one game and hey, maybe the Jets. The Jets won. They beat Sala, but I can't say I believe in the Jets. It makes me not believe in Sala. Yeah, let me just go through the Niners schedule real quick. And we can just I mean, we do this every week, but the dolphins. That's a win. The Cardinals could be interesting, but they should win the Broncos tough, Seahawks tough, commanders, a joke, Falcons, a joke, Raiders a joke, Cowboys a joke, Vikings. I mean, they had an impressive win yesterday, but Carson Wentz are you scared of Carson Wentz? Seahawks tough, Giants tough. Rams. I don't know. Chargers. They looked awful. Chiefs fading Eagles fading. Cardinals.

41:59I don't know. I don't know. They could absolutely win 13 game. This is a 13 win team as currently constructed. Yes, it's a 13 win team. Even if even if Brock misses four games, I think they can win 13 games. Yeah, because the other guys good. Yep. Even if Christian McCaffrey misses four games, I think they can win. I mean, they dominated the Rams without Chris George Kittle really being a contributor. And it's not George's fault. He's coming off. You might be back next week, but he's he's coming back into head schedule. Yeah, he did he did well. And he will improve. He won't get worse. He will. He will improve. Absolutely. Yeah, I got to tell you, I was very impressed with Trent Williams, but it turns out the other guy he was blocking had a broken leg or something, you know, you know, Rams was such a so full of shit that you know, Aaron Donald, but he didn't come. And this guy was there, but he didn't come. You know what? They should have phoned seriously. They should have phoned it in. Yeah, they should have said, look, we're not coming. We lose. We'll just

43:02It's like a walk in baseball. You just have to watch the ball. And that's it. Right. They would have been better off. Yeah. Can you imagine flying that far to just hop in, get your ass kicked and fly right back? God, that must be awful. You're spending a lot of time on a plane. What a way to start your season. It's like, I hate everyone I see around me. I hate this whole team. We see you know, and they're thinking, what was the coach thinking? What was the thing? Like what? Yeah, like he's not stupid. So what made him make a terrible decision? What the hell is going on? Yeah, this was a bad decision. It was a really bad decision. Yeah. Niners made the right decision. Kyle Shanahan didn't even want to go and made the right decision after the game. All the Australian reporters look so we know you were kind of down on this whole thing beforehand, but you won. Like, do you want to come back? And he's like, I don't know vacation. Sure. But not during the season, are you kidding? This was this was so stressful. Yeah.

44:03Yeah. But they'll be fully ready. They'll be ready for Miami. Could we talk about Miami a little now? Let's talk about Miami. So the Niners play the Miami often just got essentially blown out by the Raiders, the Raiders. And here's the thing. Stephen Ross owns them, right? The billionaire. And he has overwrite by the stadium, their state and the Niners stadium high rise. Here's the deal. He could send a spy into the penthouse with a tell us a telescopic lens. And he could film every one of the 49ers practices. And it wouldn't help him. In addition, the 49ers could tell the Miami dolphins what they're going to run on every play in the game. And it's still wouldn't help them. The Niners are going to kill these guys. This might be the worst team in football. Iggy. Yes. They're worse than the jets. They're worse than the Titans who lost to the jets. They're

45:04worse than the Titans. The Titans would beat them. Yes. They scored 13 points. You can't name one water seeber on this team. They gave up 130 rushing yards. They. Yeah. They looked terrible. Yeah. So there will be a game on Sunday over at Levi Stadium. But it. I mean, it'll be a knockout. It if you like to see a team get destroyed. The Niners are going to kill them. They're going to kill them. They're going to be jet lagged. They're going to be unmotivated. They're going to be sleepwalking to a degree. And they're going to kill them. Kill them. And Kyle's going to come out being pissed. He's going to after the game is going to be like, yeah, you know, some binomies will be perfect. A lot we want to clean up. You know what I mean? Like I don't know. We should have won by 50. But yeah, we won. Great. I like that. Hey, I got a quiz around this year.

46:05No, Iggy, I got a quiz for you. You know how the charges really sucked yesterday. Yeah. Who's who's their offensive coordinator? Mike McDaniel. Yeah. Yeah. Can you, I got to tell you right now, Iggy, that marriage between hardborn McDaniel won't last the season. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, won't let the bus. I already feel I already wonder if it's a if it's if it's going to work at all. If it's magic, they won't left this he won't last the season. Harboh's going to get rid of them. I just think it's so funny that people have been pressuring Harboh to get rid of Greg Roman for like 15 years. And he finally did it. And Roman went to John Harboh in the giants. And all of a sudden that team looks competent. And Jim Harboh's teams falling apart like you really needed Greg Roman that bad. Really? And that's also John Harboh had once fired Greg. They both fired him. Yes. It's he's like a ping pong ball. He goes back and forth between the two guys.

47:05Well, how do you account for Mike McDaniel having some success for a couple of years? And then not. And then it all it's it's alluding him. Yeah. Overrated people figured him out. Yep. He had people figured him out. I don't think he's going to lessen the league. I don't. He's got he's got a stick to he. I think people are like kind of tired of his whole like I can't really express myself. I'm searching for the word. Let me answer this in 15 minutes while talking very slowly. I don't think anyone isn't dear to that. Even players. He's going to go back to college, maybe division two. Maybe we'll go to Harvard. Yale. Well, he's from Yale, right? Yeah. He went to Yale. Smart guy. And he was at school and actually utilized screens. Finally, he did everything right. He did everything right. Yeah. Eddie D's Niners says the two greatest in YouTube. Love you guys. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Eddie Sunday living. Don't ace $20.

48:08Thank you. Says defense calls great for one game. We'll see how that plays out. Offensive play calling Kyle did something he has done in five years. He wasn't predictable. He balanced running back carries. I hope this Kyle sat in play calling consists. We want a persist. We want it to persist. Based on one game, these two coordinators were fabulous. It's true. I think it's a fair point with Morris. Morris knows the Rams very well. He knows Stafford. He knows McVeigh. And I didn't expect him to be that good. But maybe that explains why he did such a good job. He still is going to have a lot to prove the rest of the way. He got an interception. Sure did. That's something that I just couldn't get. Didn't get a sack. But he got an interception and he got pressure and he gave up seven freaking points. Yeah. Yeah. This might be the year they went to Super Bowl, dad. No, Jed, no Parach. Where is this? Here LA. So you'd go down there. You'd be a partner. Yeah.

49:09I think I might go down one way or another. We'll see. Yeah. Hey, dad, if I go to Australia this year, would you come with me? I'd consider it. It's fun. Could you go to one, but you haven't been to Adelaide? You haven't gone wine tasting in Australia. You'd like that. Would you come with me? Wine tasting? Yeah. That would be some serious bonding. I am 80 years old. It's true, but you just want to board. Oh, same thing. I killed it. Smashed it. Yeah. I came home with a call loves and bed for a week. I'm better now. Yeah. I was coughing earlier, but I'm better now. Iggy, could we talk a little more about Australia? How much? Why do what was so much fun about Australia for you? Well, it was fun to learn a new country. I mean, it's got, it's, it felt to me like this fun combination of California and the UK in the sense

50:13that like the climate is like California and like stepping off the plane and smelling the air. I felt like I wasn't home, but all the little idiosyncrat, idiosyncrasies feel very British. Like, you know, instead of saying the exit, it's the way out or instead of saying garbage is rubbish or the elevator is the lift. I loved all that stuff. You know what I mean? So I was constantly learning all these commonwealth things that I thought were really cool. And then all of a sudden, I got to learn these different sports. And just by like doing my coverage, you know, the good and the not so good, the instant reaction of a different country. I ended up becoming this like week long sensation in a different country because they'd never seen it before. And I didn't go down there with a game planner. Everything I just was in the right place at the right time doing the things I would normally do. And it ended up being this hilarious thing. And one thing led to another. I'm on this show. I'm on that show. I'm coming back. It was really fun. It was the best time. Tell me about after the game when you went out for dinner to a pub after the game. What happened?

51:13So yeah, after the game ended at like 130, I'm done working at 430. And I wanted to cover more stuff while I was in town. So there was an AFL game and an and an NRL game. Their bull AFL is the Australian rules football NRL's rugby. And they're both playing simultaneously. And I wanted to watch both. So I went to this pub that I'd been to earlier in the week. It's at the crown casino. And I'm thinking, no, I'll just go in there. I'll sit there. I'll watch. I'll take notes. People will leave me alone as soon as I walk in all these you. It's the guy. My wife showed me your videos. I've been watching you all week. You're hilarious. I love what you do with the cup of like. Can I buy you a drink? Can I buy a drink? I'm like, no, I'm locked in. I'm trying to watch this. What you can do is explain to me what's happened in this game because I've never really seen the NRL before. Can you tell me the rules? So I ended up making friends in the pub. But for the whole week, I'd be like coming out of the bus on the way to the game. I got stopped by a police officer and he goes, Hey, you're the guy who was talking

52:17about Marcus Bonson-Pelley. And I was like, no, no, that was my brother. That wasn't me. That was my brother. And he goes, no, no, it was funny. I liked it. It was funny. Hey, nice to meet you. Make it. Can I take a picture? Like, I wish people in America treated me like this. In America. They have a concept in Australia, which I think is very British called taking the piss. Yes. And we don't have this concept in America. Like I think that I am a perpetual piss taker. I think I do it all the time without even trying. It's what I like to do. I think it's what we do. And in America, people, people take it so seriously and call you in a hater. No, in New York, they take the piss all the time. They don't have the phrase, but we're like that. Can you explain to people what it means to take in the piss to mock someone light heartedly? Yes. Yes. You know, I mean, like, okay, I'm making fun of you, but it's not because I hate you. It's because I like you. So that's taking the piss. And in America, it's like, Oh, you're a troll. You're hater.

53:19And people get so upset and offended by all the time in America, especially online in Australia. It seemed like at least at least early on. They have a thing called tall poppy syndrome over in Australia, too. Have you heard of this? No, say it again. It don't like people who get a little too big in Australia and they'll cut you down because they're a big underdog society. So people kept telling me, Hey, Grant, we love you. We love you. But hey, don't get too big because over here we were we are ruthless to people who get too big. So anyway, it's a whole different way. What's the, what's the phrase? Hall poppy syndrome, tall poppy tall poppy syndrome. It's an Australian thing. I love it. I love it. I don't think you're a tall poppy. I'm not, I try not to be. I can take the piss out of myself, whatever that if I said that correctly. You know, I read a lot of British fiction and they're always talking about taking the piss. And I actually sort of didn't know, but I kind of like it because if they don't say joking around, they say taking the piss and it's accepted to say it.

54:20There's another thing they say in Australia, which I don't think it would go over well in America, but people were saying this to me, especially in the pub. I love this cut, this cut right here. Oh, it's a very aggressive word, but in, in Australia, it's a term of an deer. It's calling someone a cut. That's what I got. Are you serious? It's like a quiz. I like this guy. He's a good cut. Sort of got, sort of got. So I mean, what did you forget? Call me? Oh, thank you. I could be that. Are you, are you going to get in trouble? Having said it? I don't know. I wonder if we get it's such a bad word in America. I wonder if YouTube's like, excuse me. No, I said it in Australian. I said it with an Australian accent. It's different over there. Okay. Okay. Geez. That's, I know it's different. You know what mom would say if she were, that's racist. I don't like that. That's it. She would say that, right? She would say that. She would say that. Sexist. She would. She would say that. Yeah. Oh, so you need to apologize.

55:20The seward, you need to apologize for Australia to mom. Yeah. No guns over there. How do you feel about that? I wasn't against it. I mean, I don't have a gun. Only reason I would ever consider getting a gun is because other people have them. You're not like dying to have one. So the fact that no one happened over there. I was like, that sounds pretty cool. But there's a lot of kangaroos and they'll kick your ass dad. You got to watch out kangaroo. Did you see kangaroos? No, but apparently there's more kangaroos than human beings on that continent or in that country. Wow. Yeah. So maybe we'll see some next time. Apparently, like when you're outside of like the big metropolis, metropolis areas, they will be around like deer. Like they'll just kind of cross the road and some of them are kind of small and cute, but some of them are big instant and like aggressive and we'll get in your face and try to fight, which sounds terrible. Terrifying me. But I might have to kick it. Yeah, I could kick it. You could not run it. I'll tell you that. Yeah, fast. Yeah. No, although I'm really fast too.

56:23You were at one time. That's true. I got the jeans from you. Double B student at the start of GoFundMe to take Loll do Australia. No, please don't do that. I could afford it. Lose says the Niners defensive coordinator position is a gateway to head coaching job in a fill. True. It's just hard to get the head coaching job when you've been fired twice. What? I think Pete Carroll did it. I think he got fired by the jets and the patriots and then went, but then he had to go to college and become like one of the greatest college coaches of all time. Joss says first game in SF any pregame food spots in San Francisco. No, they play in Santa Clara yet in an outburger. They have a great one by the stadium. Chick-fil-A. How about in the stadium? You don't know because you don't wonder around the stadium. You were in the press box. I couldn't tell you. Yeah. Get some French fries. Dustin Madson says with J. York gone, who's going to pay for Lamberties YouTube views. That's a good question. I just don't know. I don't even know who this long.

57:27I don't know. Yeah, I mean, neither dad. It's our best show ever. I love it. I think everybody knows that. Everybody knows. Yeah, people are talking about it. I love you, Gigi. It's nice to have you home. I love you, dad. It's nice to be home. Um, thanks for watching, everyone. I'll be back tomorrow. See you.