49ers' reasons for concern heading into the 2021 NFL season
49ers Talk with Matt Maiocco
NBC Sports Bay Area
4.6 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On the latest edition of 49ers Talk, Matt Maiocco and Laura Britt discuss the main reasons of concern for the 49ers heading into the 2021 NFL season, including if injuries will play a role for the second straight year, and if DeMeco Ryans will experience some growing pains as the new defensive coordinator. Plus, hear the second part of the interview with NFL historian John Turney, where he reveals his thoughts on Patrick Willis, Joe Staley and the upcoming NFL season.
(1:37) NFL issues new COVID-19 guidelines
(6:35) Will injuries play a factor in the 2021 season?
(9:50) Can the 49ers improve their pass rush?
(15:11) Should the fans worry about Ryans' first season?
(26:40) How concerning is the WR position?
(30:40) Turney on if Patrick Willis should be in Canton
(36:41) Turney reveals his thoughts on Joe Staley’s HOF case
(41:41) Turney examines the 49ers' chances in 2021
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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. on NBC Sports Bay Area.com. |
| 0:12.8 | Introducing your hosts, 49ers Insider Matt Mayoko, |
| 0:16.9 | and 49ers host Laura Britt. |
| 0:19.3 | This is 49ers talk brought to you by Bigo Tires and Laura the next time you and I talk |
| 0:26.7 | we will be talking about a practice because the 49ers a real one because the 49ers open |
| 0:34.0 | open training camp they report on Tuesday and their first practice is actually |
| 0:38.0 | Wednesday shorts and helmets or whatever and then the pads come on at a date later but we are getting really close to football. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm so excited. I know people listening are so excited too. This is we've gotten through what is it two months now of like the dead period a month and a half of where it's just you look forward to this day you look forward to this day and it's finally coming it's finally here and then we'll actually have real stuff to talk about you won't have to listen to our frog leg stories and by ours I mean Matt's frog leg stories |
| 1:10.3 | people liked the frog leg story I actually really liked the frog leg story. I actually really liked the frog legs. Yeah, in fact I still get |
| 1:16.0 | tweets about the frogs or the frog the partially digested frog. The frog is no longer with us. |
| 1:22.4 | The frog is no longer with us. Hey, you know what we hopefully |
| 1:26.8 | COVID-19 will no longer be with us either but the NFL sent a memo out this past week |
| 1:33.4 | and it's pretty interesting how they're, |
| 1:35.6 | you know, they're approaching the season. |
| 1:37.3 | You know, last year, they're moved some games around, |
| 1:41.2 | but there was no games canceled but there was pretty |
| 1:44.8 | legitimate scare a couple times that games would have to be canceled. Well the |
| 1:48.7 | NFL came out this week and just said hey we're gonna try to play every game within that 18 week window we're not gonna stray outside of that window |
| 1:58.4 | but if there's any games canceled because of a spike in COVID resulting from a non vaccinated player or |
| 2:08.4 | staff member, then the team responsible will actually forfeit the game. |
| 2:15.1 | And so it would count it as a loss for them, |
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