C. J. Beathard

pick.

And they also got Beathard, the quarterback from Iowa, who played a little bit for them, and he was in the league twice.

for a few years.

But the first round pick, the third pick in the draft, Solomon Thomas.

And if they were a little bit better in 2018, would they have been too good to draft Nick Bosa? So getting Miles Garrett would have cost him both Fred Warner and Nick Bosa? No.

And if the 49ers, you know, a similar butterfly effect, if the 49ers wouldn't have made the terrible draft pick of C.J. Beathard in 2017, they wouldn't have got the comp pick from C.J. Beathard, and that comp pick ended up being number 262, Brock Purdy in the 2022 draft.

So it was like bad decisions, weird things that happened that were not good for the 49ers turned out to be good things for the 49ers in the end.

And it just becomes chaos theory and what ifs everywhere and the butterfly effect that is just one small thing in the NFL, one small win, one ball bounces your way or doesn't.

And then there were several other players who came back.

C.J. Beathard.

So they interviewed Kittle.

They interviewed Beathard.

Ricky Stanzi had some movement to him.

C.J. Beathard had even more.

And yet, we're back to the same song and dance.

I cannot wrap my mind around it.

They were in that game.

I'll go back to Rudolph and Beathard.

If the Kinnick crowd

starts booing Hank Brown, does Kirk Ferens have the testicular fortitude to stay with

him? The one time he stuck with the guy that eventually won the job midseason, it was when Beathard eventually took the job from Jake Rudolph.

The way that that...

The way it changes, Bethard was so different, and it felt so obvious that he gave Iowa a better chance to win, but it wasn't like they handed it to him right away.

Absolutely.

and um what he could do in chicago uh not trade deadline related but i love every time this kyle shanahan trailing by eight or more in the fourth quarter owen 49 comes up and i i looked at it a little deeper this week you know he was he was double the league average as an offensive coordinator teams trailing by eight or more in the fourth quarter win seven percent of the time as an oc he won 13 of the time now he's over as a head coach but Of the 49 games he's coached, down eight or more in the fourth quarter, 28 of them have been with Brian Hoyer, C.J. Beathard, Nick Mullins, Trey Lance, Mac Jones.

So maybe that's a factor.

I've watched every one of these games, Nick.