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Brian Peacock back again on another crossover Wednesday.

My guest, Kevin Ostriker, he's the host of Locked on Ravens. Week 13.

49ers traveling to Baltimore and another huge one.

It's such a big matchup in prime time for both these teams.

Now a quick turnaround and an even bigger matchup.

People talk in Super Bowl preview here with the 49ers and Ravens coming up with three combined losses between the two teams in week 13

which is pretty amazing so I'm looking forward to it's gonna be a lot of fun hopefully

the 49ers can get up for another big-time contest in back-to-back weeks.

Yeah, and it's funny to think where these two teams were kind of ranked in the

preseason. I remember seeing a picture that Adam Rank had rated the 49ers, you know, bottom third NFL. a

bottom third NFL team gave them a three and thirteen record

but here we are ten and one for the forty nineers having the best defense in the

league giving up only 248 yards per game

136.9 passing yards per game. I mean this defense is on a historic pace and I think it's all started with Nick Bosa with Richard

Sherman and all these other role and key pieces that the 49ers have been able to

bring in over the years.

What has changed from last year to this year

in terms of how dominant this defense has become?

Yeah, I think there's three major factors

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