We're joined right now by a calmness for the San Francisco Chronicle.

He is also a partner at Backstage Media.

He is a member of the UC family, which I love, and the author of the new book, The Why Is Everything, a story of football, rivalry and revolution.

It is now available.

He is Mike Silver, Mike.

Always good to get caught up.

What's going on?

How are you?

Go shows and great to be on, man. Good to have you Silver, Mike. Always good to get caught up. What's going on? How are you? Go Cho's and great to be on, man.

Good to have you on, dude.

Go Gauchos.

Go Cal.

Hey, listen, before we talk about the book about the Shanahan coaching tree,

and you and I have talked about this before,

but I want to ask about tonight's game.

The Niners, Mike, take on Seattle. They're two and three. It's early, but it's getting late kind of early in the sense that if they lose that game,

they go 0 and 4 in the conference overall.

Would you consider this a must-win game for San Francisco?

You know, I tend not to throw that term around loosely.

Like World War II was a must-win game.

But Nick Bosa did kind of

blurt that out on Tuesday and I get what he's saying I they blew two games to

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