Attempting Not To LOSE MY MIND Recapping Raiders 49ers.

This is a game that's going to be really difficult to give any sort of like analysis or whatever you're looking for here because let's just get this right off right off the rip. Let's just get this out of the way. 49ers, clearly a better football team than us. Super Bowl aspirations. They're banged up. They're well coached. Kyle Shanahan is awesome. Good home field advantage, although there was plenty of Raider fans. There is maybe 35 to 40% Raider fans. And That's all true, and you're not supposed to win this game, so whatever. But holy ----, are we just giving it away? Are we just taking the ball and going, please, we don't want it? And there are so many moments in this game that I've got written down on my notes. This defense needs to figure out if it's Jekyll or it's Hyde right now, because we cannot afford to play the defense that we played. In the first half of this game, if we want to win another game. And then Kirk Cousins was okay in this game, but I wrote down here, Kirk Cousins is on the field to make, sorry, Kirk Cousins is on the field to not make the exact mistake that he made in this game, which put our backs against the wall. So we're going to talk about it. And like the title says, I'm going to attempt to not lose my ever-loving mind discussing what was an absolute... nightmare of a football game that we could have won just when I thought I was out. The Raiders pull me back in. A 38-point offensive showcase against the New York Jets. Jets aren't a great team, but coming up on the schedule is a great team. Maybe the most exciting game on the schedule because the former Oakland Raiders are headed into San Francisco. It's the Battle of the Bay. Now look. The 49ers are given an 80% chance to win this game on the Kalshi market. If you took the Raiders, you sprinkled 25 on there, you'd win $118.35. But I think the play here, the contract to purchase, is the 49ers not to cover. 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Look, I just want to get this out of the way. Because I'm going to come off like a salty Raider fan here, but it just is what it is. First of all, there's nothing you can do against the peanut punch. If players fumble via the peanut punch, it's just a good play that the defender made. And the offensive player, there's literally nothing you can do. And I don't know if I said it on this channel, but I've had this take for three weeks now because there's a peanut punch epidemic. If people attempt to do the peanut punch and they miss, it should be a five-yard penalty. It shouldn't be an automatic first down, but you should be penalized for punching somebody if you don't force a fumble. Because if I was just walking up to a player and I punched them, That would be a penalty. That would be unnecessary roughness. But if they happen to fumble, nothing matters. Okay, that's fine. I will grant you that you can punch the ball out. And the 49ers did it twice today. And it was perfectly executed. And I'm not complaining about that. It's a great play made by them. But I believe that there's no way to defend against it. So there should be a penalty for it if you don't successfully do it, which maybe will cause people to do it a little bit less because there's literally no way to stop it. I've got a lot of notes here. I'm going to start out with this. This is what I'm just going to read what I wrote verbatim. You cannot coach this team, this team being the Raiders, like it's functioning normally. You cannot run the ball on second and long. You have to score at will to give your defense a chance. And obviously, this game comes down to a lot of bad breaks, some unlucky turnovers. And the defense being horrible in the first half of the game. So I don't want this to come off like I'm slandering Clint Kubiak. I love Clint. He's making these games watchable. It's nice to be frustrated in a game that you had no business winning with the feeling that we could have won this game in San Francisco. But I have to say what's on my mind. And I think sometimes Clint Kubiak wants it so bad that he overthinks it. You can't coach this team. It's got a good defense, and you can ball control the clock with the run game. You have to start the game with your hair on fire like you're down 10. And the fact that the script that we come out with goes three and out. You can't even put it in the hands of your players. You've got to run your best six plays in the beginning of the game to ensure that your defense that's getting worked in the first quarter, the first drive, doesn't immediately go back out there. Because now, blink of an eye, it's 14-0. Because I'm telling you, we can score on any team in the league. And this game proved that. We can move the ball whenever we want. It does not matter if we can run the football. But oh my goodness, the turnovers. And I don't even want to blame this team for a lot of them. They were so unlucky. The Brock Bowers punch out. The Michael Mayer punch out. And then the Kirk Cousins interception at the end. Or the one that he threw to Trey Tucker in the end zone. We were 13 yards away from 21 points. Um... Yeah, I mean, total yards wasn't great. Passing yards was about even. We just chose not to run the ball, which I don't mind. They'd almost doubled our first downs. We were pretty good on third down, over one on fourth down. Um Didn't allow a sack. starting I thought the offensive line was really, really good today. Penalties were fine, but timely. I thought their officiating today was horrific. And this is how you lose the game, time of possession, because we're going down the field at will. The 49ers are methodically moving down the field. to speak And then, I mean, yeah, we all saw the game. now. Bowers gets the ball punched out in the red zone, I believe. So that's potentially seven points. I mean, we were scoring at will. We're going up and down the field at will. And then Michael Mayer. Ball gets punched out at the one-yard line. And then we have the ball at the one. Brock Bowers can't reach the ball over, so we sneak it. We get destroyed. It's an offensive pass interference on Michael Mayer, the next play, and then it's an interception. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Um, I don't know what to do with this defense. I mean, it is easily the worst defense in the league. In the first half of games, and then turns into a top 10 defense in the second half, where we pick off Brock Purdy, incredible play by Trae D. Stooks. I love this kid. He was all over the field today. We get another stop on a fourth down. And I think we got zero points off of those two possessions. Because we pick off Purdy. Well, no, no. Well, yeah, well, we can throw the pick six. Then we pick off Purdy, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong. And then we, yeah, yeah, pick off Purdy. Don't score. Brock Bowers gets punched out. We stop him. Michael Mayer punched out. The only way you can come back from stuff like this is if you're not down 21-10 at half. If you're not down 28-6 at half against the Rams. And clearly Rob Leonard can motivate these guys when their backs are against the wall. But that's like a third of coaching. There were multiple times where players were just completely out of position. Tonka Hemingway is guarding Christian McCaffrey. Or no, it wasn't Christian. Was it Christian McCaffrey? I think so. Christian McCaffrey on an out route. Nicko B. Dean, third and sixth, guarding Christian. Like, this is basic stuff. So the second half bounce backs. Yeah, that's awesome. Awesome, Robbie Leonard, that you're keeping us in it. But dude, figure it out before the game starts. Because some of this stuff is just not working in the slightest. Um... Yeah, I'm looking at the first half stats right now, 240 yards to 75, 20 minutes for the Niners, nine minutes for us. I mean, and all that to say we could have won this game. And again, I don't want this to come off like Clint Kubiak's slander, because it's not. But I think he could be great, and I want him to be great, so I want to point out some tendencies. And again, what I'm about to say isn't why we lost the game, but you got to coach with your hair on fire, and aggressively, and this is not it. It's 21-7. Dylan Laube has an awesome kick return where he advances you into 49er territory. You're passing the ball at will down the field without establishing the run. And here was a sequence of plays. A screen pass to Michael Mayer that gets blown up. A screen pass to Jalen Naylor where no one's blocking or just like a little bubble screen. A run to get the fourth down. Another run to convert it. A screen again. Another run. And then another run. And then a field goal. You can't. That cannot be your sequence of plays when you're down 21-7 in a hostile environment. Screen, screen, run, run, screen, run, run, field goal. When no one can guard Brock or Trey Tucker in this game. There was another instance. Now, I don't know if this is Kubiak or whoever, the special teams coach, but we're down 21-10 after just kicking the field goal with a minute left or so or whatever in the half. Matt Gay kicks the ball out of the end zone. Gives the 49ers a ball at the 35. Well, our special teams was awesome in keeping them to the 20 and shorter. Now we got lucky, we got a sack, come out, doesn't matter. It's 28-17. Now this is where we got a little bit unlucky, because Bowers gets the ball punched. It's 28-17, Stukes picks off Brock Purdy, and Kubiak goes screen, almost picked off, the one that hit Trey Zune in the back. Screen again, fumble. I understand that he wants to establish some of the shorter yardage stuff to open up the longer stuff, but that stuff has not been established, and you've already got 17, and you should have more if Kirk Cousins didn't spot them seven and a half. Just push the ball down the field. Stop with the screen, screen, run, run, screen, run, run. Trayvon Stukes picks off Bowers or Brock. You've got all the momentum. Play action down the field. Aggressive. If you're going to lose, lose over the top. Now, again, in that sequence, it was a little unlucky because Bowers fumbled. He got punched out. But the momentum, the Lowbey thing, screen, screen, run, run, screen, run, run, and then the momentum Stukes, and you go screen, screen. I understand that this isn't going to be the way that Clint Kubiak has to coach the game once Mendoza's starting and once we are a little more competitive than we are right now. And he's working on situational coaching as if we're evenly matched. But if you're really serious about winning these games, throw the conservative stuff out the window. Stretch the ball down the field as much as you can. Because that's the only thing on offense that's working. And it's working nonstop. This is a phenomenal defense in a hostile environment. And if you don't get the ball punched out on these drives, we could have easily had 35 to 38 points in this game. Easily. So again, this is not Clint Kubiak slander. Very unlucky with the fumbles. And it's the defense that needs to figure their stuff out now o'clock. Now, for as unlucky as we got, and for how close we were in this game, and how good Kirk Cousins was all year, and I thought he was, again, good in this game. He made some high-level throws. He's in the game because we don't want a rookie in there to make rookie mistakes. And spotting the Niners. Seven points, instantly. You put us in such a horrible spot to completely abandon the run, which is why Kubiak has to call the screens. I don't know what happened. That was like Derek Carr against the Rams where he just threw a grenade to nobody except the 49ers linebacker that was right there. I don't know if he panicked, if he didn't see him, if he went to throw it away, but it was an instant pick six and our backs were against the wall the whole time. So Kirk, I love you. But that cannot happen under any circumstances at any level of football. We had to fight and claw and will our way back into this game. And even then, there was a real chance that we had. And what's frustrating is people are going to see the score and they're going to go, oh, the Raiders played a good team and got their ass kicked again. That's not what happened. That's not what happened. We had multiple chances to put the ball. I mean, Michael Mayer and Brock Bowers. We're quite literally two yards from this game being what? What's the math on that? 38 to 34? No, 38-31. I just, this game broke my brain. It's just a fine line in this league. And I know that, look, the 49ers are a better team. So when they make mistakes, they can bounce back from it. And we right now don't have the ability to bounce back at a level that these competitive teams do. But, oh, my God, it just seems like we're continuing to move the ball at such a high level, and sometimes Clint Kubiak overthinks it, and sometimes the ball just doesn't bounce your way. I was proud of, you know, the competitive spirit of this game, especially on the defensive side of the ball. But, man, oh, man, like, it's just frustrating. I don't know what else to say. It's very frustrating. Clint's not on the podium yet. I'm looking at my notes here to see what else I didn't say. I mean, we can score on anyone. I'm telling you right now, I think we could beat the Seahawks. What's the Seahawks score? Seahawks. No, that's in Seattle. So I'm imagining that they're beating them pretty. I mean, it's 17-3. They can't function offensively, the Seattle Seahawks. They're an awesome defense, but we just played an awesome defense in a hostile environment. And again, kind of moved the ball up and down the field whenever we wanted to. I really do think that we could beat the Seahawks, but I don't know. And what's also interesting is now the Kirk Cousins trade-up at all, right? The Vikings are playing, is it today? Vikings, that's tomorrow. Okay, so I think depending on, because Kirk Cousins was okay in this game. Again, he had three press conferences, three interceptions. I didn't see the last one. I guess it was at the end of the game. I was getting ready for this. Um... Yeah, I don't know. If the Vikings lose pretty handily, if they can't move the ball, I think there's a real chance that Cousins could be moved to the Vikings, but I don't know what for. A second, they're probably not going to get a first. It's just a tough game, man. I don't know what else to say. It's a tough game. I guess we'll do the QB presser tomorrow. I don't feel like waiting for it. They're talking to Horowitz right now. All right, well, look, that's it for me. Tough game, frustrating. The score doesn't indicate to me how close it was. Maybe I'm wrong. You tell me. Shout out to my $5 and $10 patrons and YouTube members if you want to become one of these beautiful people. Link in the description below or big join button down below. Hit that like button, comment away. Tough one today, but that's all right. Please be sure to subscribe. It's free after all. No charges to you. I love you guys. I'll see you next time.