there was a lot of confusion surrounding the Christian mcaffrey late in activity uh speculation is circulating that the 49ers misled fans and of course the big part the betters about CMC injury before ruling him out just minutes before kickoff it was really close to 90 minutes before kickoff back up Jordan Mason claimed that he was told Friday he'd start contradicting Kyle Shanahan's statement that CMC would play now fans are left wondering if Shanahan was covering it up or if someone uh else in the organization spilled means so uh Drew what is your take on this I know we're talking about off record before the podcast started about this a little bit uh you are are resident 49ers fan so give us your take on uh what's going on here yeah you know what you're right expert I'm sorry I'm not a fan you're the expert I am not a fanatic we know some we know some Fanatics that is not me um yeah I don't know if it matters obviously it matters for the NFL and the gambling line and everything and if they had if they had put Christian mcaffrey on F Friday as doubtful it would have changed the gambling lines and it would have just cost more people more money because the 49ers came out and stomped that ass um you know if you tell the Jets hey Christian mcaffry is not playing this week they probably game plan more for Brock pie and some offensive explosion passing stuff and we we didn't do that we just went with the Christian McCaffrey game plan ran it down their throat um Brock had an amazing game and you know frankly I think I think this happens a lot in the NFL gaming the um the uh injury list and also you know what the NFL did this year they eliminated the probable designation on the injury report so now you got questionable and you got doubtful yep Kyle Shanahan said today in his in his press conference that um if the game had been important Christian mcaffry would have played and I was like well damn that's a shot at the Jets but I just think for my team you're seeing a more laid-back approach this year I think the 49ers know they're going to be in the playoffs and we need to save you know we we were talking all year last year can we get Jordan Mason into the game can we get Elijah Mitchell into the game can we get Christian mcaffry out of the game we're winning by 17 points and he's touched the ball 36 times can we get him out of the game so I just think you're going to see a more conservative approach with the 49ers this year um obviously just to touch on that game very briefly um you got a uh you got a number one overall pick not well not number one overall I'm sorry our first round pick who was shot in the chest and didn't play um you got our backup running back Elijah Mitchell that's on season ending IR Christian mcaffrey doesn't play um Brandon auk had two catches for 20 yards didn't do anything um hunga doesn't play Dre Greenlaw doesn't play yeah and we kick their ass so I just think think I think you may see this a lot this year I think you might see in games where these players these star players for the 49ers they are older um aren't 100% healthy they're they're just not going to play because we have enough on the team to hopefully win those games and I think maybe it's a little bit of uh miswording or maybe not miswording but it's reading into it a little bit too much uh maybe Jordan Mason was told on Friday that he would start and maybe Kyle shanon hand thought that Christian mcaffrey would play those two things can coexist at the same time it's not out of the RO a possibility that Christian mcaffry could be on a pitch count because he didn't really practice the entire off season so it's not out of the real a possibility that Jordan Mason starts and chrishan mcaffry comes in on passing Downs that's not weird that's not out of the realm of possibility um so I think that obviously the most angry people about this entire thing are one just going to be haters of the 49ers obviously um the media and the media and then two it's going to be the people who bet on these type of games so those are going to be like the two you know sets of angriest people outside of that it's really not that big of a deal again those two things can coexist at the same time I don't think it's really that big of a deal plus you know let I if I'm if I'm the head coach of the 49ers first of all we would be terrible but if I was the 49ers head coach and I have a meeting with all my positional coaches and the medical staff and they say Hey you know Christian mcaffry Achilles is uh you know it's he's got tendonitis it's kind of tight so okay we'll keep an eye on it and then I I turned to our running back's coach you who is Bobby Turner and say hey man you know make sure everybody's ready to go make sure that um our our rookie running back gindo knows that he's probably going to be up on game day you know make sure that you know our third string fourth string running backs are ready to go and make sure Jordan Mason knows if this thing turns South he you know he might be in line for an extended um an extended you know role and so then you you go to Jordan Mason and say hey bro you might be you might have to be ready the one thing that I will say is is Debo Samuel and his media availability said that Kyle Shanahan came to him two hours before game time and told him hey we had to switch up the script and you're gonna have to provide more in the Run game tonight and Debo said let's go so they were not planning the Debo usage I think he had eight or car's had a touchdown rushing touchdown they weren't planning that two days ago so they had not put that into the the the work week you know they hadn't gone with the wide back package as they like to call it Debo found out two hours for the game that he was going to be getting carries so this whole they knew on Thursday or Friday he wasn't playing I don't really believe that but also Bill bich used to list Tom Brady as a a hurt pinky or a hurt thumb or every week of the season for years and years and years just to piss the NFL off so um there's always gamemanship with these kind of things