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00:00Want to do Grandy's grades?
00:01Yeah, I would love to let's go let's do it grades.
00:04He's sober.
00:05Ish.
00:06All right, I'm back time for Grandy's grades Niners lose week 524 23 to the Cardinals.
00:24We begin as we always do with the quarterback position Brock Purdy 19 for 35 to 44 one touchdown
00:31to interceptions.
00:33He checks in with me with a C minus good uptick right there.
00:37It is good.
00:38What do you think?
00:39I had him in a straight C, but I'm not mad at the C minus the second pick what you're
00:44getting into desperation mode.
00:45He got hit on the throw.
00:46Yeah, but the first pick was a bad bad.
00:49So that's funny.
00:50I'm much more knocked off by the second pick than the first thing.
00:53Yeah, just because I get where you're coming from on.
00:56I know you've said it was kind of a lazy pass.
00:58Yeah, but I just I look at picks differently when they're tipped balls.
01:03I think I think quarterbacks are throwing through tiny little windows all the time.
01:09And if somebody gets a finger on it and somebody got a finger on it, I mean that ball if not
01:14tipped was going to be a completion to George Kittle.
01:18The second one is a blitz that's coming on your site side.
01:22You can see it.
01:23You've got a hot route and you didn't use it.
01:26You held on to it too long.
01:28It's a lesson you've learned before checks notes in Philadelphia two years ago.
01:32And so to me, that one is a little bit more on Brock than the second one.
01:36Yeah, I'm sorry that the first one.
01:38Sure, sure.
01:39And you know, the fact that we're arguing over which pick was worst speaks to where
01:41the grade should be.
01:43And you had Kittle in a virtual walk in touchdown and you threw that one too high.
01:48And I thought you did a little too much run around.
01:50So I'm not mad at the C minus.
01:52No.
01:53Yeah, it feels I'm with you.
01:55It's probably more like a CC plus.
01:57Definitely not one of his best games by any stretch.
01:59I also didn't think it was a disastrous performance.
02:01I did not think Brock Purdy on my short list of who lost the game for them.
02:08But yeah, not a not one, not one to write home about.
02:11Yeah, we're advanced score a single point, but they move the ball for the most part still
02:14in the second half because they didn't have a kicker, didn't have a kicker, fumbled and
02:19got a tip ball.
02:20Yeah, absolutely.
02:21Up next, skill positions, which is running backs and fullbacks, tight ends and wide receivers.
02:27For that group, I gave them a grade of a B minus for their performance.
02:31What's the thought process?
02:32Give us a little more.
02:33Well, Brandon, you showed up.
02:34Yeah, he was very, very good in this one.
02:38George Kittle was good.
02:39Had another touchdown.
02:40He didn't have one drop of the most part.
02:41He was good.
02:42Jordan Mason, aside from the fumble down the stretch, that was a major, major detractor,
02:47but had a good game.
02:48Other than that, Debo Samuel did not show up.
02:51What?
02:52Twenty yards from scrimmage.
02:53It was nothing.
02:54It was bad.
02:55I thought it was a sluggish.
02:56Yeah.
02:57Like he brings that grade down a lot for me.
02:58He said B minus.
02:59Correct.
03:00I might go more towards C plus just because, yes, Brandon, I uke.
03:04This is probably down more like C minus D plus, if not for Brandon.
03:08Yeah.
03:09I mean, I thought it was fantastic and I don't want to like ruin Jordan Mason's day
03:12because it wasn't a horrible day, but it's a horrible mistake.
03:16Like it's a game changing mistake.
03:18Yep.
03:19And and and you got to you got to wear that and add in how sluggish Debo looked.
03:23Yeah.
03:24I'm more I'm more comfortable with something in the C plus range.
03:26I was thinking B minus the whole time.
03:28So I think we're in lockstep and if it wasn't for the Jordan Mason fumble, it's probably
03:33a B plus or higher.
03:35Even without Debo Samuel, you didn't really need him.
03:38If Mason doesn't fumble and you're able to somehow get three out of that, now Murray
03:43needs a touchdown to beat you.
03:45That fumble, though, for me, brings it down a whole grade at least.
03:47Yeah, that was right.
03:49It's weird because the offense did not score in the second half, but you don't have terrible
03:53grades throughout much of the offense.
03:55I felt I felt weird putting this together.
03:56I got it.
03:57But I get you like I think it's a little, you know, you don't want it to sound like
04:02an excuse, but it's kind of circumstantial.
04:05I think is two different things when you have an offense that just can't move the ball
04:10versus an offense that goes up and down the field and then makes one sort of like just
04:15backbreaking mistake at the end of a drive.
04:17Yeah, I'm with you.
04:19Up next is the offensive line.
04:21I felt strange putting this great out as well.
04:23I mean, the team still average what over six yards per rush on the five point nine.
04:29So almost exactly six yards per rush offensive line.
04:32I gave him a B overall for Sunday's game.
04:35I lean B minus because you look at a lot of the things that Brock Purdy had to do were
04:39again outside the pocket and you had Jordan Mason doing a lot of it with second effort.
04:45And I didn't think especially in the second half when, you know, you needed to protect
04:50Brock Purdy in the biggest of moments, you didn't.
04:53And I know that they blitzed, but that was a breakdown.
04:56And your first possession of the second half was a pick where Brock Purdy again was pressured.
05:01I still think the offensive line has a lot to prove to me.
05:04So I'm I'm a B minus.
05:06Yeah, I like I like the B grade.
05:08I do.
05:09I have a question and it won't be answered until we see more football.
05:14Is this office hours for the teacher?
05:16I mean, I guess you could call it that five to six is a good hour.
05:20I want to know if all of Brock's scrambling is actually offensive line forced or if Brock
05:29is deciding to do that a little bit too much on his own.
05:34That's a good question for Greg Cosell tomorrow.
05:36I'm seeing him being a little too eager to break out of the pocket.
05:40There's times I think when he can hang in there and if that's the case, then that's
05:43not on the line.
05:44Like, I think in our minds, we're like, oh, scrambling again.
05:47There's no room.
05:48It's like, I think sometimes, yes, maybe even most of the time.
05:51But there are times right now where Brock, who's had some success running the ball, starts,
05:56you know, doing the pirouette.
05:58And I don't know if he needs to that quickly.
06:00And on top of that, one of the sacks that the O-line gave up was where Brock tried to
06:04scramble around for 20 seconds and ultimately he got sacked and lost 14 yards or whatever
06:09it was.
06:10And they got the fourth and twenty four and they had to go for it because they were in
06:13field goal range, but they don't have a kicker.
06:15So that sack is less on the offensive line and more on Brock for not throwing the ball
06:19away.
06:20OK, onto the defense front seven, which is the down linemen and the linebackers.
06:24They get my worst group or worst grade so far.
06:26D plus first half on the ground defensively was awesome.
06:30Then James Connor got going.
06:32And as you guys are just talking about the countless missed tackles, you weren't able
06:36to pressure Kyler Murray that often, either a D plus for me that the ground defense the
06:41second half so bad.
06:42I thought I thought that that you're you're spot on.
06:46Number one.
06:47But number two, I think you're giving almost a little bit too much of a pass for the first
06:50half because of the fact that we have now learned from Kyle Shanahan that if you really
06:55want to look at whose responsibility Kyler was on that opening drive, which how many
07:01plays was that to two plays?
07:03OK.
07:04On the second play of the drive, who was Kyler's responsibility if he's going to do the read
07:11option and hold the ball and go around the right end linebackers, linebackers, Devondre
07:16Campbell.
07:18And they misplayed it.
07:19And the Cardinals got a touchdown out of it.
07:21And I know it feels like that one went away because the Niners just rallied back and outscored
07:26them twenty three to three for the rest of the half.
07:29However, that ended up obviously every point mattered in the game.
07:33And so that one has to factor into it, too.
07:35I think it's a fair grade.
07:36I give him a C, maybe C minus because solely of Nick Bosa and a spectacular interception.
07:43And that's a front seven play.
07:45That was a singular play by an unbelievable player who read it and he made the play and
07:51he took that away.
07:52And it ultimately led to the final points they would score in the football game.
07:56So that singular play bumps them up to a C for me.
07:59Yeah, that was an awesome play.
08:01Up next is the secondary.
08:03That group gets a C plus for the most part, did a pretty good job in the passing game.
08:08Marvin Harrison didn't really do anything.
08:09He only hurt you on that fourth and five where they actually got pressure on Kyler Murray.
08:14They brought the blitz and he just backed up and threw a jump ball.
08:17And it was Marv just beating Isaac Yadam for the most part.
08:20They were OK.
08:21They missed some tackles as well.
08:23Hufanga.
08:24Now, Alan, I are again, maybe not the biggest loss because I'm just getting sick and tired
08:29of watching him dive at people's legs and missing tackles over and over and over again.
08:33He's overly aggressive.
08:34He's overly aggressive.
08:35And he quite frankly, always has been.
08:37And you're OK with that if he adds in some big plays that come from that aggressiveness.
08:42But that has not been the case in very limited duty so far this year.
08:46So there's that.
08:48You bring up Yadam, who I thought was a better version of himself for most of the game until
08:53the Harrison play, which is a huge bummer.
08:55And I still don't understand what's going on with Charverius Ward.
08:58And the more we learn, you know, I don't think he's playing at 100 percent.
09:03And so maybe he's trying to grind through some things.
09:06I might lower the grade a little bit.
09:08What'd you say?
09:09You gave him a B minus?
09:10C plus.
09:11C plus.
09:12Yeah.
09:13C plus.
09:14That feels about right.
09:15I got him in a B, solid B.
09:16Really?
09:17Yeah.
09:18I mean, if you look at some of the plays and I'm thinking about the McBride breakup when
09:19he goes for the touchdown in the corner and Mustafa got a hand in there late, the very
09:23next play, Jair Brown with a blitz.
09:26The only big, big glaring plays were the fourth and five conversion.
09:30And you know, having Wufonga fire too early on the Calamari touchdown run.
09:37I got him as a B.
09:38All right.
09:39What are the last two groups?
09:40Special teams in coaching.
09:41Special teams.
09:42B plus.
09:43You scored a touchdown, but you also didn't have a kicker and that changed things up later
09:48on in the game.
09:49And then coaching, coaching gets an F for me in this game.
09:54The rare Randy F.
09:55Please explain.
09:56Second half.
09:57Terrible.
09:58You got out coached again on both sides of the football for it's happened a number of
10:02times.
10:03I thought that this Niners team has been out adjusted and it was something Nick Bosa has
10:07been talking about.
10:08I don't see a change.
10:09I don't see this team.
10:11What they what when they were at their best, what they would do is they would wear teams
10:15down and they would be at their best in second halves.
10:18And they haven't been that way in a while.
10:19And what you guys are talking about, the lack of fire and energy and Fred Warner pleading
10:23with the guys.
10:24Ultimately, that's got to come down on coaching as well.
10:26Not a great day for the coaching.
10:28Still too vanilla on defense and obviously on offense.
10:31If you get a scoreless second half, you got to look at the blown leads.
10:35To me, though, still, the only reason I wouldn't do an F is because that feels to me like you're
10:42saying that very few of the players are accountable for what happened out there.
10:47And if you look at the game breaking plays, whether it be a fumble, whether it be an interception,
10:52all of that stuff, I don't put on any of the coaches.
10:55And so not a good day for the coaches.
10:57But I'd lean more in the sort of like D plus C minus minus for sure.
11:02That's what I would do because an F is putting too much of it on their play.
11:06Play calling was great.
11:07They blitzed more than they had.
11:08I didn't love the end of the first half time management again in special teams.
11:13For me, you get a C or a C minus.
11:15You cannot have your kicker thinking that he's a strong safety and the Trent Taylor
11:20fair catch on a 62 yard punt at his own eight yard line or whatever.
11:25What are we doing, guys?
11:26I'm with you.
11:27They made a big play that should have won the game, but then they made a big play that
11:30lost the game.
11:32And not only does Jake have to know not to play it that way, he's got to be coached not
11:36to play that way.
11:38Don't go in there when there's people behind you.
11:40There's other people who are paid to do that.