49ers legend Patrick Willis reflects on his career, shares advice to Fred Warner, Dre Greenlaw

49ers Talk with Matt Maiocco

NBC Sports Bay Area

Nfl, Football, Matt Maiocco, San Francisco 49ers, Sports

4.6 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

New 49ers Hall of Fame inductee Patrick Willis joins 49ers Talk to reflect on his career, why San Francisco was the perfect landing spot in the draft and give words of advice to Fred Warner and Dre Greenlaw.

(2:38) How important is Warner to the 49ers' defense?

(8:20) 49ers announce return of throwback uniforms

(13:18) Willis reflects back on his NFL career

(21:36) Willis shares if he could have made the NFL as a running back

(27:27) When did Willis know he was a great NFL player?

(36:44) Willis shares some advice for Warner, Greenlaw

(43:30) Looking back at the 49ers drafting Willis No. 11 overall

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0:00.0	Welcome to a new episode of 49ers talk on NBC Sports Bay Area.
0:11.8	Introducing your hosts 49ers insider Matt Mayoko and
0:17.2	49ers host Laura Britt. This is 49ers talk brought to you by Bigotires.
0:22.2	Laura I learned something this week.
0:25.0	Oh, that's always good.
0:26.8	Yeah, I mean, in my age, whenever you can learn anything,
0:30.4	it's a good thing.
0:31.4	The unfortunate part about that is I probably forgot three or four or five other things that I'd previously known, but I did learn one thing.
0:40.0	It's probably a net loss, but it's a gain in this sense that you are far more popular with the 49ers fan base as far as your rankings go for most important players than yours truly.
0:53.4	Really?
0:54.3	I would actually not think that.
0:56.4	I did see a couple of comments, people not in favor
0:59.2	of how highly I ranked Javon-Kinn Law,
1:01.2	but you know what?
1:02.3	I don't care.
1:03.4	No, you don't.
1:06.1	Because I love Javon-kin Law and I do think he's important.
1:09.5	So what kind of backlash were you getting about it?
1:12.2	Well, it wasn't much.
1:13.5	I mean, I'm not gonna like run for cover.
1:15.8	We won't have to put up a I survived
1:18.0	the most important player rankings t-shirt
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