49ers' most important defensive players in 2021

49ers Talk with Matt Maiocco

NBC Sports Bay Area

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

4.6 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Matt Maiocco and Laura Britt break down the most important defensive players for the 49ers heading into the 2021 season, including the impact of Fred Warner’s leadership and if there is any pressure on Arik Armstead to live up to his contract. Plus, will Nick Bosa return to his 2019 level?

(2:18) Will Verrett take a step back this season?

(8:20) Is Ford the key to 49ers' defense being elite?

(15:07) Do 49ers have best linebacker duo with Warner and Greenlaw?

(20:06) Will Kinlaw have a better sophomore season?

(29:14) How important is Ward to the success of the defense?

(32:44) Is there pressure on Armstead heading into this season?

(37:50) Breaking down Warner’s value to the 49ers

(41:08) Will Bosa be at his 2019 level?

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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. As the man said this is 40-9ers talk brought to you by Big O-Tires.
0:24.0	Yeah, so I deferred on the last episode of 49ers Talk.
0:27.5	We had a great question on Twitter that really stumped me.
0:30.0	It was a, who do you think is going to take the biggest step forward this season and who do you think is going to take the biggest step back.
0:35.0	My biggest step forward is Javan Ken Law is you and probably all of you listening know, but I had I struggled with the biggest step back.
0:42.0	It's a tough one, right? It actually. I had I struggled with the biggest step back.
0:42.7	It's a tough one, right?
0:44.4	It actually is really, really tough
0:46.7	and even when I was digging into it,
0:48.5	it was still giving me problems.
0:50.8	And my pick was not popular with you it was very unpopular with me and
0:55.5	so I said I said Kewon Williams because of age size potential for injury
1:01.2	everything yeah right all of that.
1:03.0	And this is going to be also a very unpopular opinion and let me just state that I am a, I'm kind of an
1:09.7	eternal optimist and I'm a big believer in people and I love this guy's story.
1:15.0	So I hope more than anything that I am so wrong on this.
1:19.0	I've never wanted to be more wrong about something.
1:22.0	It sounds like it's already unpopular at your
1:24.4	household and you haven't even said again. So yeah they're going to start turning
1:27.3	over tables in my household. Everyone's very upset about this and I completely get it.
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