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All right, it's a combo sports fix Thursday with Tommy, and then Cooley will jump on and do his defensive film breakdown from the Pittsburgh game.

I'm going to start with this question to Tommy. Who gets the most credit for the position they're in right now in the

organization, the football team I'm speaking of, of course. Ron Rivera. More than Alex Smith.

Yes. More than Kyle Smith. Yes, because we don't know how much, we don't know if Kyle Smith comes to Ron Rivera and says,

I want to do this and Ron Rivera says, okay.

Or if Ron Rivera goes to Kyle Smith and says, I want these guys go get them.

We don't really know how the personnel flow chart

operates with that organization. We've never really known, although everyone just figured, like, you know, Bruce Allen was, and it was nobody else.

So, you know, we were told this was a coach-centric football organization now at the start of Rivera's tenure.

And I'm going to continue to believe that unless we have proof otherwise.

And, you know, there's a school of thought that Ron Rivera thought Alex Smith would be a starting quarterback at some point this

season all along?

I don't even think it matters if we know whether or not Kyle Smith operates based on Ron Rivera's

reaction or influence or not. I think the answer is your answer. It's Ron Rivera. Ron Rivera is the person most

responsible. By the way, I think it's a question that there are a lot of answers that people could have,

including Alex Smith, is most responsible and should deserve the most credit for the turnaround.

As an aside, I'm actually surprised you answered the questions so quickly rather than

took me to task for, you know, calling it a turnaround because they are five and seven.

But I think it's fair to say that this team is in a completely different position today than

it was a month ago or a month and a half ago.

It's a turnaround.

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