You know, anytime I'm able to step on the
field, you know, it's a blessing. I
thank God every day for it. Uh, I
got great teammates, great coaches, man, and
today was grimy, uh, but we got out
there and and and got a win, and so
I'm proud of our guys, and now we get
a little time to rest, recover, come back
ready to go. You guys are with all the
injuries, with everything you've had now within a game
of the NFC West, the Rams lost today.
What is this last push of the season look like
for you guys in the fight of this team?
Uh, just keep the urgency, keep the intensity
, take it one day at a time. I
love the character in our locker room and uh I
love the guys we get to go to battle with
every day, man. Thankful for them. So
, uh, you know, it's just, just
continue to grow, continue to get better. All
right, so that was a run through of three
NFC playoff hopefuls who all locked in a spot so
far December 1st. 49ers, Seahawks, Bucks,
Willie, they all got wins, but with the
49ers in that 7th spot in the wild card at
9 and 4, are they at the top of
that group that caught your attention yesterday? Yeah,
and that's because of the Niners defense, man.
You know this defense is banged up. No boasts
and no Fred Warner, but they're flipping the field
. They're forcing turnovers. They're winning with special teams
. CMC is the stabilizer for the offense, but
when you put it together, what's leading spearheading this
team is the Forty-Niners defense, and you got to
give credit to old Bob Salah. He had a
rough turnout here in New York. He had to
reinvent himself back in San Francisco, and he's doing
it with a defense who's really believing in getting after
the football, playing. Playing with structure, force
a game tackle, and they're doing all the little
things you need to do this time of year to
win football games. They had to go into Cleveland
. They had 3 sacks, and you talk about
having no-name guys believe in a system that can help
everybody eat. And when you watch the secondary homie
, you watch this defensive line, flat out be
relentless getting after the quarterback, it's all because of
Robert Salah and how he's constructing a defense that can
stay on the attack and it's complimenting football when you
turn on the 49ers tape. So. The 49ers
defense, credit Robert Salah and credit the fact that
the 49ers right now, man, they're scary.
They're scary. I know. I think the only
thing that's more scary than the 49ers' defense is in
the exact same division is the Seattle Seahawks defense.
I don't, I don't think there's another defense that's
putting up more points. I don't, I,
I, I remember a few weeks ago where I
saw, I saw DeMarcus Lawrence run into the end
zone twice, and that was in the 1st quarter
. Yesterday it didn't change. I mean, Ern
Ernest Jones had a pick 6. They had.
5 turnovers. They sacked Max Brosner 4 times for
a total of and held the Vikings' offense to a
total of 162 yards. Guys, this is a
defense that no matter how, how many questions you
may have about Sam Darnold and you know whether he
gets rattled under pressure or whatever, this defense rattles
a lot of offenses. OK, so when you
have that type of defense that can get after a
quarterback, that can put points on the board,
that is really, really physical. You, you
will not only like stabilize things for your offense,
but you can dominate teams, and that's exactly what
the Seattle Seahawks, uh, defense has, has
done for the majority of the season, KB.
I look at the Bucks who, who are getting
their head dunked underwater and need to get up and
breathe, and they did. So here's the deal
with Tampa. They went into a bye a month
ago and they were 6-2 and everything's coming up.
Baker, MVP this. Coming out of the bye
, they knew it's gonna be Patriots, Bills,
Rams. It's a tough stretch, and you think
, let's win 2 out of 3 of those,
Patriots, Bills, Rams. They lost all three
. It was not great. They lost all three
of them and they're like, oh crap, 6
and 5. They needed this win. Bad.
You can't go to 6 and 6 and lose to
the Arizona Cardinals. They got it, they're alive
. The rest of the schedule, it's like,
it's, it's fine. It's very winnable. I
personally have the Bucks finishing 10 and 7. I
think they're gonna be a 10-7 team. Who knows
if I'm right or wrong, but they're just one
of these, these bubble teams right now, and
there's a lot of them, and they're fighting against
their own division. They're fighting outside the division.
It was a textbook like 2025 Baker Bucks win.
Baker comes off an injury. He didn't put up
huge numbers, who cares? They scored, they're
missing this guy, this guy. They needed to
win. So I think they needed a win yesterday
, maybe worse than any team in the league,
because 4-00-4 in the last month and you're out,
can't have it. They gritty, ugly. You're
not gonna remember, uh, Bucks Cardinals in week
13 ever again. But the fact that they got
it and they survived, very much going to be
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