00:00all right let's talk about the san francisco 49ers go ahead and give me cut number 10
00:05and let's kick it off like this three-man pressure
00:1130 airing it deep looking over the middle jump ball for jordan watkins he's got it
00:18for a 49er touchdown now for the 49ers they welcome back nick bosa last week to marcus
00:26robinson was back this week but i wanted to point out something also you know who's on their staff
00:31matt eberflus oh i've heard of him i will uberflus uberflus because they're playing so well i get
00:37you uberflus he's the current assistant head coach for defense that's a lot obviously he was with
00:44dallas as linebacker coach passing game coordinator and then the very ill-fated return when he was
00:51defensive coordinator but here's something that jumped out to me san francisco 49ers have won
00:59all seven games in which they outscored their opponent and lost the singular game in which
01:06they didn't against atlanta so very anti the denver broncos and then there's this the 49ers are six
01:14and one when they score first and they have scored first in seven of their eight games so san francisco
01:21very much feels like a team that just grounds you down into dust and you're not totally sure how you
01:26ended up losing the game but the game's over and you're like we damn sure did lose and this is
01:31part
01:32of it they score first and have you playing catch up ball pretty much the entire day yeah and if
01:38they
01:38can score in their first 15 plays you know if they can score on that first drive uh that's gonna
01:44be
01:45that's gonna be a struggle for you as well because shanahan knows how to play from it with a lead
01:51sure
01:52you know and he doesn't slow down and kind of milk it he just keeps attacking you and he figures
01:57something out in those first 15 about what he's gonna do you know sometimes kevin uh these first 15
02:04plays are scripted in a certain way where you're just you're gonna you're gonna script a drive that's
02:11going to score sometimes you're scripting a drive so you can get information from them he does both
02:17and he does it and he does it so well and he understands your defense and what your scheme is
02:23and how to attack it he'll write these little dude he was drawing wrinkles in to his offense from last
02:29year in the first game of the season in australia he already had new things uh added into
02:34his offense that were brilliant little designs that use all of his players and so this is where
02:40they're off their offense can really take a torch to you yeah from the 703 this is this is fair
02:48my question in scouting the 49ers why bother i and if i said outscored your opponents i meant out
02:55gained their opponents obviously they should outscore your opponents you will more likely than not i meant
03:02out win the games their opponents and they've scored first in seven of their eight games my
03:10apologies if i uh doubled up on saying outscored right there you know it's interesting to the why
03:16bother point because that point spread only remains at three and a half i personally do not look into
03:23this game and think the cowboys can win this game but the cowboys often defy my expectations for
03:30better or worse not this team sorry man i don't think so i've decided this team will not defy my
03:37expectations um there have been times where you've had a oh my gosh i can't believe they did that
03:42or man they were better and more competitive than i expected them to be this team right now kevin
03:47because of just the the circus that i see whenever that like their carousel you talk about carousels
03:55and baseball and you're just talking about the circus and just like how bad a defense can look
03:59that's what i see with this team and they will not they will not can they will continue to let
04:05me
04:05down in spectacular fashion that being said going into this game i have zero expectations zero and i feel
04:13like george kittle is going to have a career day i feel like christian mccaffrey is going to have a
04:17like three big moments in this game and you're just going to be at halftime going oh my gosh and
04:24that's like george kittle the health of him and what their success is this year perfect examples
04:31of him being healthy and how much they they rely on him at tight end as a receiver as a
04:37leading
04:38receiver too would you like to go into their offense defense or hear me out their special teams which
04:45i think could make the difference for dallas in this game i'm not kidding about that well jerry the
04:51other day just could not he was like look i gotta give so much credit to our special teams they're
04:57doing the best job they've ever done uh they really are yeah he did coverage stand yeah he was like
05:02this
05:02is they're putting us in great position uh as a special team so thanks for that and then he was
05:07like but i will give brandon aubrey the benefit of the doubt on that particular snap when you can't
05:13you know it's a struggle sometimes all right um well we can also talk about the offense and
05:18defense instead tell me where you want to start let's start with the special teams oh baby i'm so
05:24glad that you picked that all three phases san francisco's kick coverage is a mess they are giving
05:30up a league worst 30.3 yards per kick return since week five now just think about that damn it
05:38think about that the reason i say damn it is because goodson was doing very well he was and
05:44now he's out that is true now you juxtapose that with the cowboys who have certainly one of if not
05:51the best kick coverage unit in the entire nfl now if you think san francisco is fundamentally just more
05:57talented and better coach offense defense everything like that and it's not going to matter i hear you
06:02on that but if you're looking for a discernible advantage going into this game it is special
06:08teams so let's go further into that the 49ers have gotten almost no production from their punt return
06:15unit they have 27 punt return yards this season let's go total all right so their kick coverage unit
06:26oh that's not per game no total they average 3.4 yards per game the cowboys 18.8 yards per
06:35game
06:36so coverage units the san francisco 49ers one of the worst kickoff coverage units in the entire nfl
06:42cowboys one of the best punt returning san francisco the worst in the nfl at returning punts dallas they
06:52rank ninth in the league so i'm again i am not foolish enough to ignore the rest of it i
07:00just
07:00wanted to say if you're looking for a discernible advantage in this game there is no question the
07:06cowboys have a massive advantage in special teams and that will win the game for the cowboys is what
07:12kevin is predicting if there is a path to victory it is via that now offense and defense where would
07:19you like to go because this is where it gets a little tougher uh let's go with offense first
07:24because i'm kind of fascinated in some of their yards per attempt rushing and passing and how
07:29elevated those are where those guys stand on this thing okay let's talk about the passing first
07:35rock purdy he is tops in the nfl with a qbr of 81.4 he also rolls into arlington with
07:44a 17 touchdown
07:45to five interception racy ratio he chomped out the raiders he had touchdown drives of 12 plays 13 plays
07:55and 12 plays to open up the game and give them a 21 to 7 lead now i don't know
08:00if you know this or
08:01not cory but the dallas defense they have uh they've been susceptible the long drive name one time it feels
08:08like every game every game does kind of feel that way yeah so they are susceptible to the long drive
08:15now you asked about the yardage of certain things so let's uh of certain things with the offense
08:21passes of 10 plus yards against the raiders rock purdy he did have an interception all right he was
08:27also seven for 11 for 153 yards with a touchdown so when he does decide to put some more air
08:34under
08:35the ball it usually works out for them pretty well and by the way shout out to the person who
08:40goes hold
08:40on does that mean the 49ers are want to know when they score second so they're undefeated so we do
08:46not want to let that happen we need to let them score first okay that is a fascinating take that
08:53is a
08:54fascinating take indeed yards per attempt uh fourth you said uh for the as a team uh pass in terms
09:02of
09:02passing yeah and then so they can air the ball out and per run uh they are like eighth so
09:09that's
09:10concerning considering this defense has given up huge chunks often not in kevin when i say huge chunks
09:17too first down eight yards you know like you give up eight yards on first down that's bad uh let
09:23alone
09:23the 60 yards you'll give up on a run on third down and you do me a favor yeah and
09:29you see if you can find
09:30because i think you told me this the other day the number of rushing plays the cowboys have given
09:34up of 20 or more yards this season okay so number of rushing plays rushing plays yes the cowboys have
09:42given up of 20 or more yards that's going to be 20 plus for the cowboys 11 but i think
09:49they gave up
09:50like 30 something uh passing yards of 20 or more we'll get back to that do you know how many
09:56the 49ers
09:57have given up zero zero they haven't given up a 40 let alone a 20 the longest is 17 yards
10:07zero times
10:08cowboys have given up 11 rushing plays of 20 plus yards 49ers nada their longest their longest is
10:1717 this is according to nfl.com i mean that backs up what i had seen so wow that's a
10:24little uh
10:25that's a little scary all right holy crap all right perhaps more than a little scary
10:34for one cory majors i'm very sad now look up one more thing for me the cowboys have given up
10:4028 20 plus yarders uh in the air can you look at the entirety of plays the cowboys have given
10:49up of
10:4910 or more yards so passing rushing throw it all together how many plays has the cowboys defense
10:56allowed of 10 plus yards this season that's going to take me a little more time give me a second
11:02all
11:03right you work on that we'll bounce back to the offense because i have a feeling that the answer
11:07to this is going to be somewhat sobering as well now we talk about when the 49ers like to air
11:14the ball
11:14out leading the way on those deep passes is jordan watkins jordan watkins caught all four of his
11:21receiving targets against the raiders for 84 yards that was a career high for him also scored his first
11:27touchdown his 17.4 air yards per target were a season high so not just receiving yards but yards in
11:36the air so if you look at some of the deep threats jordan watkins boom might have just announced himself
11:40kevin 37 total explosive plays 10 plus uh yards uh is what i have here that is according to definitely
11:50not right for the defense okay oh that was through their first five games okay because i was gonna say
11:55first five games i'm sorry that would make them the most remarkable defense in the nfl that was the
12:01fourth most in the nfl at the time okay the first five games they had given up that many i
12:06don't have
12:07the rest of that yet all right so for comparison the 49ers defense has given up a total of 63
12:14plays
12:14like that the whole season and they had given up half of that in the first and that is the
12:19fewest
12:19in the nfl so look if you want to just cut to the chase on some of these things there
12:25is that gotcha
12:27all right let's talk about some of those chunk plays and we'll probably talk more about fred warner
12:32tomorrow in the modern passing attack for your offense chunk plays 10 to 20 yards down the field
12:39as well as between the numbers that's going to be the most important part of the field for you yeah
12:43only 6.8 of the pass attempts faced by the 49ers have been thrown into the intermediate middle that's
12:51because who's sitting there fred warner that is easily the lowest rate in the league the only time
12:58it spiked the last four years was when fred warner was out last year so fred warner being out there
13:05in
13:06the middle of the field means teams are afraid to go at them in that area and i don't blame
13:11them
13:12whatsoever for being afraid to go down that avenue they'll also keep an eye out for
13:17drey greenlaw drey greenlaw had eight tackles and a forced fumble this last week against the raiders but
13:23it was an extravaganza for the 49ers defense against the raiders whether or not you think
13:29that helped facilitate the trade of cousins or do you think the minnesota vikings just reflected on
13:34how they played football on monday night either way they busted him up pretty good man yeah no they uh
13:41they definitely did
13:42they did
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