RAPID REACT: 49ers Preseason Opener at Tennessee Titans

Intro the San Francisco 49ers fall to the Tennessee Titans 1713 in the preseason opener of the 2024 season but we know the score doesn't matter it's all about the positional battles on the field our takeaways qb2 and game balls from the preseason at Tennessee Titans San Francisco 49ers postgame style coming at you right now you are locked on for 49ers your daily San Francisco 49ers podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day welcome to lockdown 49ers Brian peacock and Eric Crocker at BD peacock at crocky 209 thanks everybody for making us your first listen on the lock on podcast Network your team every day we love our every dayers and we always appreciate when you hit that subscribe button if you're not subscribed up yet do that now whether you're watching on YouTube or wherever you listen to this podcast today's episode of lockdown 49ers is brought to you by LinkedIn jobs LinkedIn jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to you faster post your job for free at linkedin.com lockon NFL that's linkedin.com lockon NFL to post your job for free terms and conditions apply can we talk about the Aesthetics of Kyle Shanahan in 2024 Croc because he dropped a mustache on everybody at Christian McCaffrey's wedding he leaves the wedding shaves his mustache and proceeds to grow what I think look like a mullet sticking out of the back of his baseball cap on the sideline in the pre-season game here cck in this one um is is COC is is you're our you're our our guy right you're the doctor of drip here on the podcast you are um the uh you're the guy we go to for Aesthetics on the football field is is Kyle searching for something this year Croc you know I I can talk about Aesthetics on the football field especially uniforms but he he's in a different tier like this is older kind of middleaged Aging white man I don't have a whole lot of experience with critiquing them but I will say you're trying to say this is my wheelhouse is what you're trying that's this is more your willhouse I I'll give my my opinion I thought it look kind of sweet I think him and Nick soron got something kind of going on there with their look very similar has to do with the hair if I could grow hair even at their age I probably would just to have a little bit you know a little bit longer of a flow but clearly I'm baldheaded I like the look but but this is your thing so what you think about Shanahan's look ah it was a little greasy looking too like it was like the Perma wet look I don't know I don't know if I'm feeling it yet I want to see what it looks like uh postgame interview when he's got it combed uh is a too short on the side because I'm I'm out on the mullet thing and I know mullets have made a Resurgence in sort of a uh um a retro sort of uh ironic way but people have like taken it too far and are act taking it seriously again and I just don't want that Trend to come back so was a trend only with kids like I watched the little baseball players and they have the mullet they have the mullet with the with the eye black with the shades on and I see that with the little kids but I didn't know that that was a thing the adults as well uh I don't know I just it needs to go away no matter what your age is uh it's funny for like two seconds and you're like yeah yeah let's uh let's not go there let's not do that so we'll see QB Battle we're we're we're we'll keep an eye on that throughout the preseason and who knows maybe Kyle will show up week one with a whole new look uh and obviously we're we're having a little fun there because this is preseason football I don't think we can overreact to what we see on the field here Croc but I think the big battle uh in this one for me was quarterback two and Brandon Allen versus Joshua dos Brock py not playing as expected uh Brandon Allen getting the the first crack at it played the first half Josh dos came in and played the second half we saw no Tanner more toai at all it was one half for Allen one half for dos dobs had an opportunity late to come back and win it he had the the fourth quarter whle bird touchdown flying into the end zone using his legs and then missed the potential game winning throw at the very end too so maybe more consistency from Allen I think there's upside with what dos could do with his legs that that Brandon Allen doesn't possess uh what do you think about that and when you base that on what we saw you know with what we've heard from reports from Camp what we saw while we were at Camp it feels like Allen has the lead but I don't know maybe dos starts the next preseason game and then Allen comes in second and it's it's one of those you know back and forth things I don't know I I thought Allen just from the jump had a better grasp on the offense and I think even with his numbers which they might not look amazing I thought they were much better if you're not box box score scouting he was terrific he threw two balls down the field and I'll say this those are throws where I won't almost like I talk about like with the super ball right quarterback making a Play I Won't fault you for not making the play but when you are a guy you figure out a way to make those plays and there were two guys there that instead of being a guy they were just another guy and that was Tay Martin who ended up having a good amount of catches um you know he he did well but he had an opportunity to make the play and he didn't come down with it he had all over him I heard uh Ryan with Ryan's the big guy in the booth Tim Ryan Tim Ryan yeah I heard Tim Ryan say oh he he just dropped it and I'm like ah I wouldn't quite say he just it was just like this flat out drop as if there wasn't a Defender like combating him but it was a play where when you're my guy I expect you to make that play and then sometimes we see why certain guys are where they are and there was another one Ronnie Bell Ronnie Bill had an opportunity again there was good coverage there but you had an opportunity where the quarterback gave you a chance and he threw the ball in the area where hey if you go up there with strong hands boom you catch it it's a big play that's what the big do dogs do if you remember back to Debo Samuels first preseason game I think it was CJ bethard throwing him the ball down the left sideline dbo Samuel jumped up for the ball what' he do he came down with the damn ball like 40 yards down the field big dogs make those plays guys that aren't they don't and Ronnie Bill let one go through his hands and then he hit the ground hard he was kind of banged up again those plays right there they won't be a positive on the box score when it comes to brenon Allen and how he played but for me I definitely love and appreciate him putting the ball in places and giving his guys opportunities and I'm not judging him based off of Allen and uh Tate Martin being out there I mean excuse me Allan um uh number 10 Ronnie Bill Bill R I'm not judging him based on those two guys it's like hey if this is one of your guys right if it's Brandon aou he comes back he signs does he make this play if it's Debo Samuel does he make this play heck you got Aon hand rookie Ricky psaw we're waiting to see him but does he make the play right like that's what I'm judging the more so so for the attempts I give him really A Plus just on the day with how it look certain throws over the middle to the sideline that stuff looked good and I felt like the offense was in a better Rhythm especially if you had some of your key guys there I think he had a good Gras and I was talking to my bro he's like man quarterback kind of look good I'm like you know a lot of people end up looking good in our offense if you just get a grasp of it and I think Kyle shinan will he'll value that over somebody being able to use their legs here and there and I did have that down as a drop for Tay Martin on the on the Deep ball down the left side from uh from Allen I thought it was a great throw and actually I think Brandon Allen's arm less noodly than I remember has he's got pretty nice arm and it look I saw that in practice and that's why I think I thought it was Tanner morai at first wearing 17 because Allen was four of five for was number four last year and then uh so when I saw number 17 he's like oh it must be the new guy morai like oh yeah he's got a little bit to his arm and then watch him in the game like I know maybe he's got more to him than than I than I gave him credit for last off season and obviously that was a different circus last offseason we were doing like a year ago at this time Trey Lance was still a 49er right we were going through darnold Lance pry is he healthy yet it was it was a wild offseason so much different much different scenario going on at quarterback for the 49ers does feel like Brandon Allen has the lead right now quarterback to over Josh dobs although I did like the the toughness and the grit and the want to for Josh dos use his legs and get in the end zone there it would have been a nice that would have been a nice one though if he could have hit that again Tay Martin got open and he was open deep and uh and dos missed him game winner you got to hit that man you know I do think if you say we're gonna keep three quarterbacks you feel very confident in the three guys that at least what I've seen so far right obviously Brock pry you know what you're getting from him on a consistent basis but with Brandon Allen has a backup this is a guy that was a backup for several years in Cincinnati you know a good backup got in the backup spot last year with the 49ers and then you see what he's doing now and it's like okay it's clear to see why a guy like him he's able to hold down that backup spot not a guy that you want to like threaten your starting quarterback but just someone who definitely understands has a grasp for the offense and can he execute to some extent for a game or two if need be and it feels like he's that guy then dos we've seen dos play in games we've seen dobs have to fill in for guys that were hurt and I think he's still trying to get a grassp more of a grass on the 49ers offense but when he does you kind of see some of the things that he brings as well there was a good throw early on to the sideline where I like damn that that was a good throw by dos and then obviously you talked about the grit uh diving into the end zone so I think a combination of those two guys I'm leaning Allen but if if the 49ers were to keep three guys I'd understand why and I like all three each guy was sacked one time seven of 13 for 98 yards no touchdowns no interceptions for Allen dobs did have the pick at the end of the game Hail Mary last play of the game he was 14 of 20 146 yards and no touchdowns so that was uh they both very close rating wise as far as the the box score goes but yeah I think Brandon Allen looked a little better little more consistent and uh he he he went first every when when I was there in practice Allen was first in this game so far Allen first if Allen comes out of the game or comes into the game first next week I think we' start to draw some conclusions about a really uh solid lead for quarterback to for Brandon Allen so we'll see how that continues for the 49ers more on the offense we'll give out some game balls here my first game ball goes to a guy who I've given many game balls to in preseason I want to see him get the ball more in the regular season too that running back and more coming up on this edition of lockdown LinkedIn Ad 49ers today's episode of lockdown 49ers brought to you by LinkedIn jobs when you are hiring for your small business you want quality professionals that are right for the role that's why you have to check out LinkedIn jobs LinkedIn jobs has the tools to help you find the right Professionals for your team faster and for free and if you're not looking on LinkedIn you're looking in the wrong place because LinkedIn isn't just a job board people are already on LinkedIn whether they're actively looking and searching for a new job or not but they might be open to the perfect role your role in a given month over 70% of LinkedIn users don't visit other leading job sites and on LinkedIn 86% of small businesses get a qualified candidate within 24 hours so hire professionals like a professional on LinkedIn post your job for free at linkedin.com lockon NFL that's linkedin.com lockon NFL to post your job for free terms and conditions Jordan Mason apply my first game ball goes to might be my only game ball of the game really is Jordan Mason man I love watching Jordan Mason run he's got Vision he runs angry he's got a little bit of explosion to his game as well and the 49ers look good on that first drive run the football with Jordan Mason he was the 49ers leading rusher 5.7 yards per carry uh on that first series six carries for 34 yards before giving way to Cody shrer Jordan Mason's a dude flat out that that's all I have to say about him I don't know how many times he needs to prove it you know there's a lot of talk about how and we saw it in Camp COC Jordan Mason looked a little bit better um running routes catching the football out of the back field which is obviously something that you you need to add to your repertoire when you're in the NFL so if you have passing game value you can catch the ball run routes you don't have to be mcaffrey you just have to be sufficient at it and you have to be able to pick up you know pass protection dude can run is a natural Runner of the football love Jordan Mason uh I think he's a perfect compliment too because he brings the hammer to someone like Christian mcaffry as well and I know Elijah Mitchell's around but you he's pretty unreliable as far as staying healthy love Jordan Mason uh I'm stock up big time on Jordan Mason for me now we'll see if KY shanan actually uses him this season he describes his running style as angry and I think that's what we saw today really from from the first Carry what you pick up nine yards 10 yards and then a couple carries later same thing picking up yards moving forward moving the pile we saw his touchdown run you know how he pushed the pile into the end zone had a little bit of insistance from Dominique puny I'm pretty sure we'll talk about him but uh Jordan Mason definitely solidifying himself I'd assume as that rb2 in this offense and people have been kind of clamoring for him to be that guy I think watching him right now against the uh with the offensive line that he played with and how he was just able to do certain things get around Corner uh you know the way he was very decisive with the way he ran the ball you probably would like to see him he had a drop early in the game to the sideline you would like to see him clean that up and you talked about how his hands have improved you've seen it in practice you'd like to see him do it in the game but the way he was running the ball I think he did very well I like this from the new in the chat was just happy seeing the 49ers back real football happening on the field that that was fun I always love seeing that um after Jordan Mason it was Cody shider I thought he look you know he looked like he looked in at Camp practice um you know he showed some Vision six yards on five carries you know that it he does you can tell he's not physically like fat big fast but he have six yards oh he had one call back for a running Bell hold because I was like he picked up 12 plus yards on one carry and he wasn't one of the first return guys but he did get that kickoff return in the second half and uh had the best kick return in the 49er can we talk about that for second 49 special teams not looking fantastic does not care about special teams I'm not sure what it is uh I I think he doesn't have a lot of time to work on it and defense and special teams you kind of kind of just get whatever else don't don't worry we'll cover up for you guys dude I have a feeling they might do the thing like let's just kick it out and let the team start on the 30 one thing I've noticed though about the kickoff now seeing a few teams and a few games here in the preseason is it the advantage is really for the coverage team because they they get off the ball Kickoff so much quicker because the offensive team is turned around looking the other way and they're looking back waiting for the returner to catch the ball and so they wait for that and then they turn around the the the the coverage unit's already on top of them so you're kind of behind it's not like an offensive play where you know the C snap count and you can fire off the ball you're you're a half a step behind and the the coverage units are moving way before the the blocking schemes are able to be put together and so I think it's kind of chaotic more chaotic than I thought I thought there' be a little bit more of a planned blocking attack I think it's going to be hard to do that because the coverage teams have a have an advantage of of timing and can get off the ball faster you know I talked about in the XFL because a lot of people thought that oh they're going to this new kickoff return oh my goodness there's going to be so many returns well again I was watching the XFL highlights and it wasn't until week seven where they had the first return for a touchdown and I think you saw some of the struggles there especially with Trent Taylor back there he wasn't getting gaining a lot of ground on the returns I want to say first couple returns were to around the 25 yard line so you weren't really netting anything positive from the old kick out of the end zone but we did see the big return against the 49ers and there also was a big return I want to say of 74 yards for the Jacksonville Jaguars against Kansas City Chiefs so very interesting that two of the best teams in the NFL p on special teams or things going against them on special teams but that was definitely something that stood out I think it's gonna be a lot more difficult to just continue to Spring off these big returns as everybody thought the the first few returns were uh Ronnie Bell with Trent Taylor back Trent Taylor getting it and Ronnie Bell kind of moving in front is almost like a lead blocker I I don't know if that's the first option for the 49ers um because I don't know if Trent Taylor's even to make the roster and then we saw the shraer return that looked a little bit better so maybe more of a running back style player is the player you want to use we'll see if dbo Samuel's back there to start the regular season um yeah I don't know if I love putting a star player back there especially early in the year just in case you want to see if like a lot of injuries start to happen with this return game I don't know it's just a little awkward I can see how injuries happen this stuff happens fast like you know the with it's almost like a lot of things happen in like this very condensed area to where all of a sudden it's just it looks like oh maybe there's one guy I have to beat and then there's like five guys there because it's kind of all in the short like SP spot is there any game balls you want to give out on the offensive side of the ball let's let's finish up the offensive conversation here um Matt breida came in the game after shrer so it was Mason shrer breida as far as you know trying to take any away from potentially what the depth chart is for the 49ers there uh and then it which is good news for the undrafted rookie shider getting in the game before mat breita um Banks and mckivitz were the only offensive like true offensive starters that started this game and played in this game for the 49ers unless you consider Dominick puny a starter and at this point I think there's a good chance he is the starter at right tackle so three- fifths of the starting offensive line out there uh if that is the case then you had zakel at Center and Chris hubard at left tackle because apparently um Jaylen Moore was sick so didn't play in this game and so that probably would have been Jaylen Moore at left tackle and then uh Ed wide receiver you had Conley and Ronnie Bell out there you had you pretty much had Trent Taylor kind of running the slot all game long he was out there in the fourth quarter so he was one of those players that was out on the field a lot for the 49ers Tay Martin came in at wide receiver um I don't there wasn't really a lot of takeaways from the offensive side of the ball besides Jordan Mason looking awesome for me as far as game ball goes I definitely would go with Dominic py right and this again this is a guy who he is a he's he's a rookie so it's not like my expectations are really high but do you look like somebody that could start a game if the 49ers played you know if week one was tomorrow and I would say yeah like you know obviously there's areas I think in the Run game that he wants to clean up but he'll clean those up I thought he moved well I thought he looked very comfortable as a pass protector uh you know throughout the game uh while he was in I thought there were a lot of positive pulling he looked good in space so those are all things for me that you want to continue to build on and whoever was at that Right Guard spot before probably Feliciano maybe Spence berford I think you guys are in trouble I think they're in trouble there's no reason to go back to any of those guys for me Dominic puny won the job he's he's the best Right Guard so so leave him in there he looks good and pass Pro he get out on the move he can block uh he's big he's athletic he drafted him he moved up in third round for him for a reason um so that means you've already spent more res resources on him than either one of um the other combatants there and so but I wouldn't mind seeing Feliciano at Center and kind of there there's a little bit of a there's a battle at Center you got zakel fighting for a roster spot you had the undrafted rookie Drake nent coming in playing some Center in this game I know B was playing some guard he's played center as well um and obviously Feliciano can and you know your returning starter and Jake brindle who's been a little bit banged up in Camp so I I think Center might not be done to me Right Guard is done it's Dominic pun's job that's the way I so I think just based on that right coming to that conclusion based on what we saw in Camp uh some of the reports that's a guy where he like all you know what he did in this game you have to give him a game ball if I had to give one more I would probably say um let's go with Mustafa you know and and he had a key Run Stop on Fourth and short near the Red Zone I thought that was huge that was a really big play that really gave the 49ers an opportunity even late to potentially you know have a go-ahead uh drive for a touchdown uh just watching him and how he flying around I think there were some positive things there there were some things that worried me and I know we'll get more to that but just kind of some of the open field tackling uh just tackling in general some of the Run fits I thought were very poor and I think if you were just to say oh this is just a true second unit so it doesn't matter like okay but I think there were several guys out there that you are potentially counting on whether D winners and I thought he did a good job flying around he had some big hits he made some tackles but they're all some boo boos and watching guys reach them on the second level turning them where they want to and opening up some big Lanes I thought there was poor tackling by Ambry Thomas out there on the edge with an opportunity to get a stop he D4 um there was a opportunity on Third and I want to say five or maybe the first drive uh going to the left side of the offensive line off of him did you say d winners excuse me D winners yeah my apologies D winners but there's some opportunities there and I just thought the tackling was far more poor than I would like to see and we talked recently about oh well the 49ers they fly around and if a guy misses a tackle they're sest stepping the guy then there's another guy coming and you know okay so it doesn't hurt you as much if this guy misses the tackle but in this game it it definitely did hurt them and I thought the Tennessee Titans were able to really continue a lot of drives more so than you would ideally want to see now this was like Tennessee's it looked like their first unit they had guys like Ridley out there um there was no DeAndre Hopkins but you know is your starting quarterback for you know a few different or two to three series they I think they had a lot more of their starters out there than the 49ers uh had on the defensive side of the ball but even then uh if there was anything that kind of hurt the ners it was the poor tackling and poor run fits and and that was something that you would really like to see them fix y it was the Titans ones against the 49ers twos on defense more 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or do they just put him on ir and yeah he has a chance now to get stashed I think it was stacked against him although uh did he start opposite Rocka sin in this game Renardo Green too so yeah weren't expecting to see that I we thought oh it's gonna be green you know he's guy he's gonna be in that kind of first group uh Sho the last practice I was at which was the last training camp practice it was travarius Ward on the outside dador Lenor on the outside and then when they went to Nickel situation Lenor slid inside and it was Ronaldo green on the outside but to start this game I'm looking out there is rocken on the outside Ambry Thomas and then in base situations Ronaldo green came in in the nickel excuse me not base but in nickel situations it was Ronaldo Ronaldo green that came in and played inside so uh not sure exactly what to make of that aside from the 49ers told us that they wanted to see Ronaldo Green in that position in that situation playing more in the nickel I saw a lot of spot dropping for a guy who is a man pressed corner on the outside in college definitely didn't have a lot of opportunities to do that in this game but uh maybe it was just something that they want to see during preseason yeah I'm not loving Renardo green as a nickel to be honest with you I think his skill set and maybe it's because I didn't see enough of his college tape at nickel earlier in his career but I just feel like that's he thrives a little bit more on the outside and uh I think that's where he's more needed too but uh the 49ers do need someone else to to pick up the slack at nickel if deor Lenor was to be hurt but at the same time I'd rather have Renardo green be on the outside if that's the case too because you'll need someone to replace him on the outside as well so I don't know we'll see we'll Contin continue to monitor what that looks like and uh we'll see what the 49ers do with Ambry Thomas because it looks like he's going to at least Miss some time this season in probably some sort of an injury designation there to start the year which might save him from actually being on the roster um one quick note you talked about the tackling and I Defense think so on defense the only true starter that was out there was seconde safety um Jer Brown and he looked good out there and I thought you gave Malik Mustafa the rookie already a game ball and I agree there I think Brown and Mustafa and D winners I think they look different than everybody I think they move different than everybody like if you were watching the games like who are the high who the high draft picks you'd say 43 27 and 53 right out of everybody on the defensive side of the ball uh the second unit on uh on the D lineer GMOs you had Robert Beal in there they they keep talking about how much bigger he is up to 268 I think Tim Ryan said uh those they started at defensive end you had um uh you had Mill inside starting the game next to uh who was who was the other tackle that started the game I don't have it written down but it was um uh dude that's been around for a while anyway uh I saw Barrett get sucked in versus the Ron on that touchdown run for the for the Titans um Shaquelle Brown did have a nice fourth down stops the Niners did have two fourth down stops one from Malik Mustafa Shaquelle Brown holding his own against the run there with a little bit of help from his friends on a on a fourth down stuff which is nice to see but overall on the defensive side of the ball and and you mentioned it it was the ones for the Titans going against the twos for the 49ers so you would expect the Titans ones to win you had their last two first round picks on the on the left side there going up against Jer gr Matos you had JC leam the first round tackle from this year top 10 pick you had scony who a lot of people thought was the best offensive lineman in last year's draft at left guard so you know that they did have their ones out there and they ran through the 49ers defense pretty quickly to get down the field and score and and they got that lead early in the game uh but I wasn't super impressed by anybody on the defensive side of the ball except for Brown Mustafa and D Winters and and they weren't perfect either and they did miss some tackles Winters plays fast as heck D Winters but he's he's gonna be a guy that misses tackles he's like a short he plays short armed he is short armed but he plays that way too and even in that big stop he made with uh was it Levis that was trying to scramble yeah the end zone and he came and hit him like he didn't use he didn't wrap up at all he was you know he he just was a battering ram he's a he's a human missile which I like but he might be a guy that misses some tackles that just might be something that he he you have to deal with with someone like d Winters the way he plays I I see Dan Case in the chat and he says Kia Davis stayed in the backfield and that was a name that we heard several times you know a guy who obviously just come to the forign ISS had an injury and had the basically red shirt at the NFL level and he's been kind of working to get a little bit you know more playing time since but uh to listen to many times they called his name tonight with him in the backfield and making plays it's kind of hard not to notice somebody like that that's playing in the interior and I think Kevin given was was one of the other guys at was the name I was trying to think of yeah uh and K Davis he made some bad plays too which is which which you don't like the name getting called for that but um he's an interesting player I have no idea what to think about him probably a bubble player uh he I I wasn't super overly impressed with kle Davis in this game he was part of that fourth down stop though but it was mostly Shaquelle Brown who really just stood up the offensive lineman in my opinion on that play and look we haven't gone back and looked at the all 22 of this game or anything like that and broken down every single play but just to my ey the guys that were flat ing to me I think those three names on defense really stood out so the point I I meant to get to uh that that I didn't yet Croc um sorry to interrupt you was George KD on the sideline was talking about tackling and how the 49ers don't live tackle this is like the first time they can really go full go and so I think tackling is something that uh they don't practice practice and you think these guys should be better at tackling and we saw tackling dog them in the season last year uh they're gonna have to start practicing tackling or something you know whether it's the preseason games and getting a lot of action there and um and the The Joint practices with the saints that are coming up I think this week right and so um they need to be good at tackling like you you play professional football you guys need to be good at tackling so if they're not going to be good enough at it they need to start practicing it no definitely I mean and sometimes it takes just kind of getting those first few hits back and feeling good and understanding your angles it is a lot different when you're so used to kind of either tagging off on guys running by guys maybe just touching them and then all of a sudden hey you get a hit guys and I think we saw Tennessee Titans early on in the game really relish that moment against the 49ers being able to kind of tea off on Brandon Allen a little bit but uh that is something that I would hope would get progressively better throughout uh preseason Dan asks why Fred Warner didn't travel to the game there's a handful of guys that didn't travel um Brock py did travel but a lot of the players that were maybe have been dinged up a little bit maybe stayed back to do some rehab or you know get a little bit of treatment in uh Christian mcaffrey and you know we knew these guys weren't going to play anyway so there's no reason for them to travel for a game like this and they can go get treatment on these days in between instead uh mcaffrey pearsol Fred Warner uh there was a number of guys like six or seven guys that didn't travel at all but some of the guys that did travel but we're not gonna play in the game got a nice little workout Alan Nashville at uh a big teammate's house George K and obviously for some of you who don't know George KD's main residence is in like Nashville Tennessee and he has his home there and he like and I've seen like videos of this but he turned this huge Barn into like a big gym and then he has like turf field out there and all kind of stuff so a bunch of the guys went and got a real good workout in this morning phenomenal teammate George KD and uh that's got to be nice have your have an entire like you could actually have a big portion of your team come practice at your house you've got a practice field you've got racks for everyone they said they were doing uh squats and then leg Li I don't remember what it was he said they did but got a full workout in with the strength and conditioning coach with juice KD and about 15 guys that's always fun the camaraderie strong on this team Croc still it is and I think you you feel that and uh one one cool thing is when you hear someone of another fan base acknowledge something about the 49ers in uh my brother again big Dow hard Dallas Cowboy fan he's watching the 49ers and I think it was after the the D winners and Odum hit on uh quarterback on will is running near the Red Zone but my brother said man the 49ers they just have this culture about just flying around everybody just flies around and you talk about these guys and kind of this togetherness that they have but it's not just go on the lift with George killow or it's not even just about the Cabo crew it's almost like the entire team kind of Embraces a certain identity uh that kinan has built a guy who you know his first draft picks were Solomon Thomas Ruben Foster this is a guy that wanted his identity to be toughness and although it didn't work with those two guys it has worked with a lot of other guys and they've gotten more and more into instilling that kind of identity they play like that whether it's regular season or preseason as we've seen today you could also tell how much they're chomping in the bit to have like an actual game that matters a little bit even though it's a preseason game the 49ers calling the timeouts and getting the stops and seeing how crazy the sideline went when they got the stop because they're excited to go back and try to win the game you know we all know it doesn't matter was like let's go try to win this game it's a game Let's let's go win it yeah thanks everybody for making us your first listen here on the locked on podcast Network your team every day our first rapid react postgame episode in the books the 2024 season is here a couple more exhibitions to get tuned up for the real thing in the 2024 season of course Croc and I will be with you every step of the way make sure you are 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