The news? They traded for Washington Commanders edge rusher,
defensive end Chase Young. He was the 2nd pick in
the draft a few years ago.
He has five sacks this year.
He makes the 49ers defensive line
better. What is your first take of this move?
Yeah, So what?
OK, here's what I mean.
And that was the snotty thing to say.
He makes their defensive. Be careful,
Dad. He makes a defensive line better and that's very
good.
You always want to improve
at whatever part of your team you can.
But from my old thinking,
and I will be 78 years old tomorrow,
that's old style football. Old style football is you
improve your pass rush, you sack the quarterback,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Except in current football that quarterbacks get rid of the
ball so fast.
It's sort of negates a lot of the pass rush
a lot of the time.
Like this guy, Chase Young,
would he have made a big difference against Joe Burrow
on Sunday?
Joe Burrow was getting the IT was electric.
He was getting the ball out so fast.
And Iggy, he had 18 or 19 completions in a
row.
I mean 19, they have some pretty good pass rushes
there,
Hargrave, that you know, number 97.
So I think it's a good move in that it
improves the team,
but it's old fashioned. It's the wrong move.
That's what I think. And it's like when the Niners
are in a crisis moment,
do they address a weakness or add to a strength?
Add to a strength because it's like
it's hard to acknowledge a weakness.
We have things that aren't so strong about us.
I don't like the Niners like going there.
I think they feel like,
no, that's what we wanted from our offensive line.
That's what we wanted from our secondary.
The problem is that our defensive line isn't as great.
It's good, but it isn't as great as it needs
to be because we're really good all over the place.
We've had some bad luck,
but if we get a great D line,
it's like, I'm not sure about that because it looks
like if you look at the advanced numbers,
they're generating pressure. They're just not getting the final step
to get the sack.
Is it because they're slowing down before they get to
the quarterback?
Or is because the quarterback can get the ball out
of his hand so quickly because the coverage is soft?
I think it's that. Yeah.
So what? What I, I,
I feel about the 49ers is
they're not thinking clearly. They're old style thinking and they're
confused in their priorities.
So I give them all the credit in the world
for getting another edge rusher.
He's an edge rusher, Iggy.
He'll be on the other side from Bosa.
So I give them all the credit in the world
for that,
but I don't give them all the credit in the
world for improving their team in the places they needed
to improve it,
which we will address later in the show.
I just want to say one thing,
a personal note. Last time I told everybody that I
had a cold turns that I had COVID.
I had never had it before and I got this
drug my doctor gave me called Paxlovid which really helped
and I finished it Sunday night and I've tested Monday
and Tuesday and I'm negative both days.
But man,
I am so tired. I I I know a lot
of you have probably had COVID and I was telling
Iggy when we're done with our show today I'm taking
a nap. I I seem to have no energy.
I'm old but I wonder if that's how you experience
it as well aside from the illness this incredible fatigue.
So enough about me Iggy.
Did we do that subject or should we beat it
to death?
Should we beat it to death?
No. A good move, but it yeah,
it just was a very 49ers esque move.
Another D lineman. Yeah. Yeah,
as as the great Jon Gruden would say,
I feel the move was Irrelative.
Irrelative say that all the time.
Yeah, he used to say Gruden,
he say it's Irrelative. So I think it's Irrelative.
Yeah. If they had, if they had gotten the cornerback,
I would have changed my mind.
It just feels like it's easy for the Niners to
like they what I wanted to say.
They traded for Randy Gregory a few weeks ago.
He's been good. It's made no difference.
And so they now they're telling themselves now it's Randy's
fault Randy hasn't been good enough.
We're going to get another guy like
maybe try a different position.
Yeah. And I got another question,
which is for Washington. How does Ron Rivera feel about
getting rid of this edge pressure?
Does that mean they're they're they're done.
How does he feel about that?
He doesn't feel he's done.
Was waved the white flag after eight games.
They just went. They just gave Philly everything they could
handle and it's like,
sorry Ron. Yeah, you're going to lose your edge,
right? Yeah, fish and chips,
says Grant. Don't let the trade distract from the team
woes.
We're going to talk about the team woes,
but this the woes. Jermaine just gifted 5 Grant called
memberships.
I'm not sure what that means,
but you guys might want to look into that
hero, Winchester says. Chase is nice,
but I feel like we blew it.
We go all in with our load of picks and
cap space.
We shouldn't have extended Kyle and Lynch.
They work best when under pressure of being fired.
Hold on. To say they shouldn't have extended Jed those
two guys is an understatement.
They certainly work better under stress.
I'm not sure they work better anytime.
Oh, Yep. Scribe mind says we had similar thoughts about
another trade last year.
Another running back. I'll give benefit of the doubt.
OK, fair enough.
We'll see. Oh, he's a good player,
Mark member for 12 months.
Thank you Mark, HP, Nate,
55, says. Glad you're feeling better.
We'll keep up the good work,
guys.