This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. You need one first down. You don't have McCaffrey. You don't have Mitchell. You don't have J.P. Mason. It's in Garendo. We like I. Can he do it? Hand off to Garendo off the right side. He runs for a first round, and he's going to score.

He should go down, but he may just score his first touchdown of the NFL.

Grendo 10. Oh!

Pulldown on the one-yard line. Perfect. The game is over.

We've got a new closer, baby.

Isaac Garendo, the closer on Thursday night. Football gets the deal done for the San Francisco 49ers.

What's up, everybody? Welcome to NFL Daily, TNFRECAP edition. Patrick Claibon here in the garage,

looking at a svelte and a much more comfortable-looking Nick shook.

As we had a comfortable and a fun game for a while in Seattle, Nick.

Yeah, it looked like we were cruising toward a blowout, and then the Seahawks decided to wake up right when the Niners, you know, they just went back to what they did the week before, which is led a team back into a game. But fortunately, for Niners fans who have spent all week stressing about how can our team figure out how to close games, they found a way, and they did it in a number of different ways, including going to George Kittle.

And then, as you just heard, leaning on the run game when they needed to bleed clock,

Isaac Arendo coming through in a big spot with Jordan Mason sideline with a shoulder injury.

And the Niners move back to 500 in a big, big way.

A huge way, ultimately, you heard there on the call from KNBR. They lose Jordan Mason in the game. He's got an injured shoulder. He's in and out of the game. There are a couple of times where it's like, all right, Jordan Mason's back. He actually had a nine-yard run. Then he's back to the sideline. A second half where Seattle has so many opportunities, Nick. And that's going to be my big takeaway from the game. Not just the second half, the end of the first half. There were two attempts in the back of the end zone. One where D.K. Metcalfe got Kevin Duranted. Also, Isaiah Likelead, right? Where he's about an inch. You know, that size 14 shoe, if it's a size 12. Yeah, where's a 12? Yeah, you go in and it's a totally different type of situation, not, you know, momentum, that's not important, getting the points, right? It's what's actually important. You get the points going into the half, and then you could come out and you're in a better position. They were just playing from behind after that. Yeah, you know, it was a struggle for them. You know, they go to halftime down 16 to 3. They give up a touchdown to go down 23 to 3. And Lumenfield's pretty quiet. You know, the 12's silence sitting on their hands. And for good reason, their offense had really shown any reason to be excited about this game. It was very lopsided, one-dimensional all night. For the second straight week, the running game was a non-factor. Gino Smith ends up throwing 52 passes, but they find some life by going up tempo, which is really where they're at their best. It's not a really a reliable strategy in the NFL. It's more of a collegiate thing than an NFL thing. But out of desperation, they start speeding up the offense. And before you know it, they're moving the football down the field. And the next thing you know, it's 23 to 10 because Leviska-Shannault responds to a George Kittle touchdown by taking it 97 yards through the dynamic kickoff for a touchdown. Then they come back and score another touchdown on a 13-play 94-yard drive that only took five and a half minutes. That's kind of speaking to the uptempo. And suddenly it's 23 to 17.

And they got a legit shot but the problem was was the same thing that showed up early in the game gino smith when being asked to do so much throws a crucial interception that kills their comeback hopes and from there they're just fighting their way back and they can never catch up and you can could see Geno's frustration on the sideline after the play. And Kirk Herbstrid, you know, who was, Kirk was very critical of DK throughout the game. I think the criticism of DK Metcalfe on that play was a little bit more legit because he's running the dig on the backside. And Renardo Green is clearly behind him. If you look at the angle from behind Gino

Smith, all you see is gigantic D.K. Metcalfe with nothing in between him and Gino, and he

appears to be open, but he's drifting back. And it's this type of thing where you celebrated earlier

in the season, right, where they're making a late read deep in the secondary, the D.K. turns up field and goes for a touchdown. Here he's starting to leak back, and it's the other side of the coin there, where if he's fading away and the defender's still tracing across the field, it winds up being a pass directly to Renardo Green. Yeah, he opens it up. He opens up for the undercut and he makes a great play and picks it off.

And before you know it, you know, the Seahawks have all the momentum, whether it matters or not, it's in their favor. And then next thing you know, they've turned the ball over and the 49ers capitalize. And I have to say this, because this has been a big issue with them this season. And really in Kyle Shanahan's entire coaching career is establishing leads and then failing to figure out how to put games away.

Because of that pick, they then turn... season. And really in Kyle Shanahan's entire coaching career is establishing leads and then failing to

figure out how to put games away. Because of that pick, they then turn that into points. And it goes

from 23 to 17 to 29 to 17. Kittle gets another touchdown pass. His second of the game, his second

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