00:00I tell you what, I said about four weeks ago after the Australia thing
00:06that the Rams feel shook to me, and I took some flack for that on social media.
00:12I'm going to say it with my chest a little bit louder right now.
00:14The Rams look shook to me.
00:17So we'll see where this goes.
00:19I know that they've now got some schedule ease up, if you will,
00:23but we might also be 48 hours away from celebrating yet another loss
00:28by an NFC West foe.
00:30Oh, by the way, welcome to a whole new world.
00:33Your new Super Bowl favorite for the 2026-2027 season,
00:40after the Bills defeated the Rams last night, is your San Francisco 49ers.
00:47Courtesy of DraftKings, they have moved to the front of the line.
00:51It took five weeks, and the old, decrepit, about-to-have-the-window-closing-40s
01:0049ers are now the Super Bowl favorites.
01:03At 5-0, which makes sense, and you've got Kansas City coming back off their bye.
01:08Minnesota undefeated, they go into their bye, and so you're the last three remaining undefeateds.
01:13And I think that Minnesota, it feels to me, and this is going to be a wildly dated reference,
01:18but they're kind of the Ross Perot in this race.
01:21And was that the 19, maybe 92?
01:24It was 18, 1863.
01:27It was something.
01:27And he was a third-party candidate.
01:29Grandy, H. Ross Perot, any idea what we're talking about?
01:32If Grandy doesn't know it, we have to move on.
01:34It's a rule.
01:35I recognize the name, but I couldn't tell you anything about him.
01:37He was a presidential candidate, and the last real third-party candidate.
01:41Third-party candidate, and he had pie graphs.
01:43He had pie graphs, and he sounded a little like McVeigh.
01:46And he was adorable.
01:47He was short and bald, but he kept it real.
01:49A little bit like Bernie Sanders, but, yeah, third-party candidate like the Vikings.
01:54Like, right now, they feel like Ross Perot, and we can move on.
01:57No, I get your reference, though.
01:59The reference is impressive, but it can't win.
02:02No.
02:02So Minnesota Vikings.
02:03Right.
02:03Impressive.
02:04Man, they're not going to win.
02:05They're not going to win the whole thing.
02:07And it's the Niners and the Chiefs as far as, like, the last standing undefeated,
02:10and, you know, the Niners are in a spot with an extra day of rest,
02:14and you come back home, and the commanders are coming off of a, wait, what did we do wrong?
02:21Oh, my God.
02:22Like a John Sterling kind of an overtime.
02:24That's almost, I actually don't even love that about the Niners.
02:26And we can talk about this throughout the week and even next Monday when you and I
02:29will be live at Laughing Monk, and we hope you all make your plans to come see us.
02:34If you're coming to the game, you know what to do.
02:37You want nothing to do with traffic before that football game at 4 o'clock.
02:43So come down at 2.
02:46Come down at 2 o'clock.
02:47Go to Laughing Monk.
02:48Sit with us.
02:49Have beers.
02:50Eat great food.
02:52And hang out and get ready for the Niner game.
02:54And then grab the shuttle and go over to the Niner game.
02:57That's the way to do it.
02:58But anyway, we can talk.
02:58I don't love the fact that Washington is coming off of that experience because they are going
03:03to be, you know, focused and pissed and buttoned up and all of those things.
03:09I don't think they're good enough to beat the 49ers, but the Niners lost some more players
03:14again last week.
03:15And there's some big ones who might come back Monday night, Juice and Bosa, but they might
03:19not.
03:20We don't know yet.
03:21Where are you on this wide receiver thing?
03:23I really want to talk this out, and we would love to hear from you.
03:28We were talking about it just now in the crossover.
03:30I know Gu and Bonte did a bit of this on their show today, and it is a fascinating pickle,
03:37if you
03:37ask me.
03:38888-957-9570.
03:40Cindy, do you want the 49ers to get aggressive on the trade market at the wide receiver position?
03:48Where do you sit on this?
03:50I sit in the on-deck circle.
03:52I'm kind of in wait-and-see mode because the actual trade deadline is still, I think, 23
03:58days away.
03:59So you're going to play, you're going to play, you're going to watch, and then that next week
04:04leading into your game off the bye, that's when the deadline is.
04:07So for me, you go ahead and wait and see what's going to happen, and I think you said this
04:11earlier, two games in 25 days, and I guess that starts from now where you've got six more
04:17days, and then it'll be seven, that's 13, then you're off, that's 20, and then you finally
04:22eventually play again.
04:24Exactly.
04:25So like right now, you're in no rush.
04:27And also what you were saying on our thread is kind of what I believe, where can you get
04:31by Washington and Atlanta with what you have, which is a little bit of a battered and beleaguered
04:37core, but Mike Evans is playing through the rib thing, and hopefully he's getting better,
04:42and Brandon Cooks, the pride of Stockton, he was able to get out there and catch a touchdown,
04:47so he's a guy who can actually play football.
04:49He can go make a play for you.
04:51I don't think he's perfect at this age by any stretch, but he can go make a play for you.
04:55I'm just, I'm interested, because I do think the snap react as a fan, and in fact, Rob Statz
05:03Guerrera, who is a Niner coverer on social media, podcasting beyond, we invited him on today,
05:11and he will come on at 4.15, and the reason is, is because I really want to talk this
05:17out
05:17with him.
05:18He was on with Kay Adams recently, and he's striking that tone that I think a lot of fans
05:25do is a very easy thing to do, and it's this, hey, we are all in on this year, Super
05:33Bowl.
05:34I couldn't agree more.
05:36That doesn't mean you should go and just, let's get stupid, and go get Jerry Judy, or go get
05:44Brian Thomas Jr.
05:45I'm not closing the door to any of it.
05:48Hell, the newsbreaker could hit in an hour, and that's what the 49ers are doing.
05:52I do think those players, especially Judy, or even Jawan Jennings, I think they could
05:56be had, and I don't think it would cost a whole lot.
05:59So my first stipulation is, if you're going to go do it, it better be dirt bleeping cheap,
06:06okay?
06:06Like, I don't even want to hear anything in the top five rounds of the draft at all, and
06:12I do not want to hear about any long-term contracts that have money on them for the 49ers.
06:18And I know you're all in on this year, and so am I, but walk me through this.
06:24So you're going to go get an established guy with name value and a resume, and then you're
06:32going to tell him what?
06:34Week 10.
06:35Be good right away.
06:37Like, there's another thing.
06:38So you want to go get someone because you're worried about Monday.
06:41That's six days from now.
06:44Someone's going to be up to speed on the Shanahan system that they don't know is known
06:49to be the most complex one in the sport for wide receivers.
06:53Brandon Cooks has been playing in the league for 48 years, and what'd they do with him the
06:57first week that they brought him in?
06:59Practice squad.
07:00You wait.
07:01We need to see you for two weeks before they activated you.
07:04So there's another thing to add in this conversation.
07:07You're going to grab someone on a Wednesday, and then you're going to bring them to the
07:10game on Monday?
07:12Probably not.
07:13And if you're not going to do that, then you've got to game the following week on a
07:17short week in Atlanta, and then a bye.
07:18And then after the bye, I'm pretty sure Demarcus Robinson will play.
07:22And then a week or two after that, you're probably going to get Debo and Stribling back.
07:26Um, I, I don't, that does not feel like good asset management when you're five and O to
07:34go freak out and get somebody to come in for like a game or two.
07:39And I know that more injuries could happen, but that just, that doesn't feel right to
07:45me.
07:45Especially when you think about like the timeframe of the guys you already have who might come
07:49back.
07:50And you mentioned Stribling.
07:51If Stribling is still seven weeks and if Debo is going to be three to four and Christian
07:56Kirk is a big old maybe, and we don't know, it might be two weeks.
08:00It might be three or four.
08:02You also have guys on the practice squad that have been in your system.
08:05So if you do need to elevate, you've got somebody who's much more plug and play.
08:10And maybe it's because you were sending out earlier about like, who are you giving flowers
08:16to?
08:16And I was thinking about some of the underrated guys from Sunday, including Sebastian Valdez
08:22and Brandon Cooks.
08:23Yeah.
08:24Let's, I mean, it was a great catch.
08:26It was a great catch.
