How Much Trouble are the 49ers IN?!

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00:00Hey, Gu, what's up, baby?

00:03How much trouble do you think the Niners are in at 2-3?

00:0717-game season, a couple tough losses.

00:12I'm right behind the great Richard Sherman, and it's not about the 2-3.

00:16It's what's leading them into the 2-3.

00:20So you ask me a question, I'm going to go Drew Brees.

00:23I'm at a 9. I'm at a 9, Stony.

00:26I am at a 9, and everything is involved in that goulash that gives me to spit out a 9 to you.

00:35It's the injuries. It's the unknown of when the guys are coming back.

00:39Now I don't know. I went in the lab last night, watched the game again under your premise.

00:43Did they win? They lost.

00:45Brock was just doing it. It wasn't bad. He just felt like he was doing too much.

00:49But Baldy joined Bonte and Shaski, and even the National pundits,

00:54I don't know what to think about this team.

00:56Are our guys not getting open?

00:58All of a sudden, Baldy came and joined them.

01:00Stony, I brought him up. He had said the Niners' identity right now is they're slow.

01:05And I'm just like, how the hell did this happen?

01:07And then we got news out of New York this morning that Robert Sala,

01:10who used the Niner defensive coordinator position to parlay that into a head coaching job,

01:16has got fired. We'll get into A-Rod. He's a buster.

01:19But at the end of the day, I don't know what to make of this team.

01:22And if Sala came back, which we know he's not, does he have the horses that he had when he left?

01:29So I'm sitting here like Arizona game was in their hand.

01:32They blew that. And that's two games in a row they've blown.

01:35But I don't know when it's going to get better, Stony, if it's going to get better.

01:39I'm trying to figure out whether this team is really good,

01:43but they just haven't played well, or they're not as good as we thought they were.

01:49One of the things that I always think, Goo, is a sign of a, I don't want to say a bad team,

01:55but a sign of a non-successful team to me is always when it's a different thing every game that gets you beat.

02:03And that's the way I feel like the Niners are right now.

02:07They're just, when their defense is good enough, their offense is not good enough.

02:14When their offense has been good enough, their defense can't get a stop.

02:18The special teams hasn't been great.

02:20And so I feel like every game of those three losses, it's been something else.

02:27And usually, you know, usually this team's a lot more buttoned up than it has been the first five games of the year.

02:35And I'm just looking at some of these names.

02:39Go ahead, Andre Campbell.

02:42I know. Well, no.

02:43Oh, OK.

02:44No.

02:45OK.

02:46No, no, no. I'm looking at the big names.

02:47Purdy, Ayuk, Bosa, Trent, Ward, Warner.

02:52You know, how many of those guys have really delivered this year consistently?

02:57As good as Purdy's been.

03:00He's played five games, and I think we can all say,

03:03well, you know, the Vikings wasn't a great game.

03:06He was OK.

03:08And then Sunday against the Cardinals might have been his worst game of the year.

03:13And the reality of the situation is they might not be good enough to overcome a so-so game from their quarterback.

03:23And in the past, as long as you weren't making mistakes, you were going to be fine.

03:27But they're making mistakes, and they're not buttoned up.

03:31No, I love it, Stony.

03:32And again, it's rather confusing because, again, I'm looking and searching for answers.

03:37And sometimes I can't even believe I'm posing the question.

03:40We talked about this team in the offseason, and I still believe it, but it's yet to be seen that they got weaponry.

03:46They can withstand an injury to their Steph Curry, which is Christian McCaffrey.

03:51But, you know, I don't know what the identity of this team is.

03:55And it seems like now the identity is they're going to let No. 13 Brock Purdy drop back.

04:01And, you know, I don't know if he's got a chip on his shoulder, Stony.

04:06And I talked about this the other day, about the Dinkin' Duncan reputation that he had.

04:11And, you know, that was a myth.

04:13But right now it looks like they have no identity.

04:16And in a game where the weather, you know, was 100 degrees,

04:21and you got a home game against a lesser opponent in the Arizona Cardinals,

04:26and you only give your running back, Jordan Mason, the ball 14 times,

04:30that's not Kyle Shanahan-like to me, and it has me on Tuesday mornings, Stony,

04:35thinking about does Kyle know what the identity is?

04:39Is that at home with Christian McCaffrey?

04:41Because I don't know, and every game is its own entity.

04:45But it seems like each game they're trying to do something different,

04:49and I'm putting it at the doorstep of Kyle.

04:51But those guys you mentioned outside of Fred Warner who was playing on one leg,

04:56you know, Stony, and the arm tackling, I just don't get it.

04:59The Niners, to me, were led by a bone-crushing defense

05:03that would make 60 minutes of hell for an opposing quarterback.

05:08And all of a sudden, hey, I won't even call out as a collective,

05:13this defense has been Swiss cheese.

05:16My favorite's Pepper Jack, but it's been Swiss cheese, Stony.

05:19And if that doesn't improve, oh boy.

05:23Well, that's the question I'm trying to ask myself.

05:26Is it going to improve?

05:28And if so, by how much?

05:30Because it's got to take a big step forward, I think.

05:35That's real.

05:37I'm looking at Brock Purdy, I'm looking at the big names on this team,

05:42and let's throw Warner out.

05:46Okay, quick ride on the table.

05:48Before you go, on the defensive side of the ball you got one other big name,

05:52and that's 97.

05:54Hargrave's gone.

05:56Yeah.

05:57Should we really be surprised?

05:59Because we were sold, guys were going to step up,

06:02and I'm not coming down the road of Lenora Ward,

06:05but they run the secondary, Stony,

06:07and that unit in itself is getting had.

06:11Yeah, again, I'm trying to figure out what's going on here with the Niners.

06:15And I think they are too.

06:17And one of the things I think that's going on,

06:20and it's hard to put into words,

06:23but I do think the last couple years is catching up to them.

06:26Oh, wow.

06:27And I think it's mostly a mental thing,

06:31but I feel like they thought they were one of the best teams in the NFL the last two years.

06:40They didn't get it done.

06:41They came back this year.

06:43They had a training camp where everything was disjointed.

06:46And it's so funny now because when we were watching them at training camp

06:50and paying attention and know that Trent wasn't there

06:54and Ayuk wasn't practicing and McCaffrey wasn't practicing,

06:58it felt like we were all saying, you know what?

07:00They haven't had a great camp.

07:01They might not get off to a great start.

07:04Well, they haven't gotten off to a great start,

07:05but the problem is the schedule's been pretty soft at the beginning of the year,

07:09and now it starts toughening up a little bit.

07:12And I think at this point you figured you'd probably be at least 3-2,

07:16maybe 4-1, so you'd have some wiggle room.

07:19But they don't have any wiggle room right now.

07:21Yeah, Stony.

07:22And again, it's not the Michael Jordan.

07:24It's not the 2-3 record.

07:25It's just not to me.

07:27It's what you just talked about.

07:29You and I are older.

07:30Evan's young, single, ready to mingle, right?

07:33If he goes out five days a week and goes out that sixth day, you know what?

07:39He's going to have a ball.

07:40But guess what he's going to be, Stony?

07:42Tired.

07:43Tired from the five previous days.

07:46And what I think I omitted and forgot and assumed is this Niner team

07:51during that four-year run, four straight trips to the SEC championship game,

07:55one Super Bowl, there's collateral damage in that.

07:59And it started with McCaffrey out of nowhere physically not being ready.

08:05So right then and there, partner, you know,

08:08I'm saying that load that he's carried caught up to him.

08:13So he's not even been available.

08:15Then you talk about produce.

08:17You talk about Trent and Ayuk.

08:20I thought they were going to be fresh because they were not practicing.

08:24So I don't know if Ayuk is not getting open.

08:27I know we got Ross Tucker at 11.

08:29I just want to see, you know, just his thoughts from afar.

08:32But Trent Williams hasn't had his best year.

08:35But, boy, I just don't know what you can tell a Niner fan

08:40to lead them to believe defensively we'll fix it

08:45and then offensively we'll fix or even identify

08:49why we have a red zone problem.

08:52Because that's part of the reason you're getting beat.

08:55You're leaving four points.

08:56They left 20 points on the field just Sunday.

09:00One of six in the red zone.

09:02888-957-9570 is the number.

09:08One of the things I've been talking to Niner fans about

09:11the last couple days after this loss is just,

09:13where do you think this team is?

09:15Have the expectations of this team changed?

09:18You're 2-3 right now.

09:21It's a 17-game schedule.

09:23But if I were to ask 49er fans,

09:25how much trouble do you guys think you're in right now,

09:28what would your answer be at 888-957-9570?

09:33Guru's at a 9.

09:34I think yesterday I said a 4.

09:36Richard Sherman's at a 10 if you care.

09:38Yeah, I'm going to move it to a 5.

09:41And here's the thing.

09:43I wouldn't say that.

09:45I wouldn't say that.

09:46If they're 4-1, I'm probably at a 1 or 2.

09:48But they're 2-3, which to me is about a 5.

09:51But the reason they're at 5 and not at 7

09:54is because I'm looking at the division.

09:58They could still win the division.

10:00They win Thursday night against Seattle.

10:04They're tied for first place.

10:06All they're missing is a couple tiebreakers.

10:08But are they going to turn it around?

10:11And the one thing about this team is

10:13it's something different each week that's gotten a beat.

10:16So what is the biggest issue with this team?

10:18And how much trouble do you think they're in?

10:20Or do you still think it's early enough

10:23that this thing can settle down

10:25and they can start winning games?

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