Sep 24, 2026 · 28 min · 11 segments
We already knew this was going to be an international football week unlike anything we’d ever experienced and the sight of the Ireland football manager accepting the support of the Taoiseach over…
Well, going back to the summer, in fact, we just had Christian McCaffrey on our show today and we were talking about the summer and, you know, it started with their head coach, Kyle Shanahan, who's, you know, commonly regarded as one of the great play callers and head coaches in the game, getting into an accident, a car accident that was not revealed for 11 days.
It was very odd how nobody found out about it.
Nobody reported it.
And And, you know, there was some dispute as to what happened in the car accident.
That led to a very odd cloud over the start of the training camp season.
That eventually sort of got settled after, you know, Kyle kind of healed up physically and talked to the reporters.
a beginning to believe that there was, you know, there was some sort of curse.
And then they just unbelievably just embarrassing story about their owner, Jed York, getting busted soliciting a prostitute for 140 U.S. dollars on a Sunday morning in a mobile home park in Ohio.
You just can't make this stuff up.
I mean, just
stupid.
super embarrassing, red face, just crawl under a rock type of stuff.
And then all sorts of stories about injuries for the 49ers during the summer.
And everybody thought, oh my God, you know, this season is cursed.
Until they went to Australia and dropped a hammer on the team that was just getting unbelievable national accolades all summer long, the Los Angeles Rams, who, you know, granted have a phenomenal team and had gone ahead and traded for the best defensive player in football, Miles Garrett, and then convinced a former three-time defensive player of the year, Aaron Donald, to come out of retirement.
And it was like, you know, I mean, you couldn't make this stuff up.
It was like, you know, it was like Michael Jordan... you know, coming out of retirement and convincing Shaquille O'Neal to come with them.
You know, it was like, what are you kidding me? They got Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald.
That's impossible.
And then there was a huge controversy about whether the Niners overthought it and went eight days too early and that the Rams had outsmarted them by kiting in 24 hours before the game.
Well, going back to the summer, in fact, we just had Christian McCaffrey on our show today and we were talking about the summer and, you know, it started with their head coach, Kyle Shanahan, who's, you know, commonly regarded as one of the great play callers and head coaches in the game, getting into an accident, a car accident that was not revealed for 11 days.
It was very odd how nobody found out about it.
Nobody reported it.
And And, you know, there was some dispute as to what happened in the car accident.
That led to a very odd cloud over the start of the training camp season.
That eventually sort of got settled after, you know, Kyle kind of healed up physically and talked to the reporters.
a beginning to believe that there was, you know, there was some sort of curse.
And then they just unbelievably just embarrassing story about their owner, Jed York, getting busted soliciting a prostitute for 140 U.S. dollars on a Sunday morning in a mobile home park in Ohio.
You just can't make this stuff up.
I mean, just
stupid.
super embarrassing, red face, just crawl under a rock type of stuff.
And then all sorts of stories about injuries for the 49ers during the summer.
And everybody thought, oh my God, you know, this season is cursed.
Until they went to Australia and dropped a hammer on the team that was just getting unbelievable national accolades all summer long, the Los Angeles Rams, who, you know, granted have a phenomenal team and had gone ahead and traded for the best defensive player in football, Miles Garrett, and then convinced a former three-time defensive player of the year, Aaron Donald, to come out of retirement.
And it was like, you know, I mean, you couldn't make this stuff up.
It was like, you know, it was like Michael Jordan... you know, coming out of retirement and convincing Shaquille O'Neal to come with them.
You know, it was like, what are you kidding me? They got Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald.
That's impossible.
And then there was a huge controversy about whether the Niners overthought it and went eight days too early and that the Rams had outsmarted them by kiting in 24 hours before the game.
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