49ers turn to roster cuts after beating Chargers in preseason finale

49ers Talk: A San Francisco 49ers Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

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

4.6 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

After the 49ers' 30-23 win over the Los Angeles Chargers in Saturday's preseason finale, their attention now turns to the 53-man roster deadline on Tuesday. Matt Maiocco and Jennifer Lee Chan discuss each position group's depth and how Kyle Shanahan, John Lynch and Co. will whittle the roster down. New additions Skyy Moore and Brian Robinson Jr. join the team as roster locks, but which players will be cut? Also, Matt sits down with NBC Sports Washington's JP Finlay to discuss what the Robinson trade brings to the 49ers' locker room.

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0:00.0	The preseason is over, thankfully.
0:07.0	And now the 49ers coaches and front office get together to figure out who will remain with the club into the regular season.
0:14.0	General Manager John Lynch completed two trades in the days leading up to the final game of the exhibition season to land a wide receiver
0:22.1	and a running back. Jennifer Lee Chan and I will discuss how those late ads fit into the grand
0:27.5	scheme of things. And what are the big decisions that face the 49ers at with that deadline
0:33.8	to trend their rosters looming from 90 to 53 players. We'll have all that on much more on
0:39.4	this episode of 49ers talk coming at you right now. Welcome to another episode of 49ers talk
0:45.7	on NBC Sports Bay Area.com. Introducing your hosts, Matt Mayoko and Jennifer Lee Chan.
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1:07.0	Set an appointment online today, Big O Tires, the team you trust. And boy, that guy who read the opening kind of stumbled around a little bit, kind of like the football game on Saturday night. That was the epitome of a preseason football game. It was long. And there was very little production at the beginning of the game. It was three and out, three and out, three and out, three and out, three and out, three and out, three and out.
1:30.3	There was maybe one first down in the first quarter, but I spoke to a couple guys in the locker room and I'm going to let them be anonymous.
1:38.3	But I said, I'm like, that was a really long game.
1:41.3	And they all agreed they're like it was so long only a player who
1:46.4	has been in the NFL and probably was watching from the sidelines the whole game would say that so
1:51.6	I will yeah I don't know who you spoke to but you know for the guys in there and there were some you know
1:57.1	what it was a horrible game to watch but I think there there's a lot to talk about on this episode of 49ers talk.
2:03.6	I mean, we can talk about Tarek Owens, we can talk about Jeff Wilson Jr.,
2:08.6	we can talk about Jake Moody.
2:12.6	I was going to keep it positive before turning to Moody.
2:15.6	Curtis Robinson and of course, Jake Moody. Curtis Robinson and of course Jake Moody.
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