It's great to have back on the show, Josh Dubow, the Associated Press, who just wrapped up his second decade covering the NFL, his 10th decade covering the San Francisco 49.

He's getting ready to cover the Super Bowl between the Seahawks and the Patriots.

And one of the smart, if you follow Josh on X, you know that he knows things that few people know.

If you've heard him on the show before, you know,

he understands the inner workings of the league better than most.

Scheduling, any of that stuff, so we can get into whatever.

But I must say, watching JSN and Puka Nakua do battle.

I think they combined over 300 yards, each had a touchdown.

What were they like 19 catches?

But just looked like true, true, true receiver ones.

I just, you know, it was a reminder of how the 49ers have never,

have not had quite a true number one even iuk even

deba not in the way that those guys no not that those guys you know we hit the iuk debo combo was

obviously it was good you know that was a pretty good combo but it's not neither one was quite

in the core js that yeah Yeah. Those guys are so good.

Yeah.

Yeah. It's definitely a difference watching that than watching, you know, what the Niners were sending out there at the end of the year. I think the debate, not the, not the debate. One of the big topics, fairly so, rightly so. I think the big question you ask after game like that is, okay, what's the gap? you know, the Niners had a chance going into the last week of the season to be the number one team in the nbc and which would have made the number one team

the nfc west uh the season ends they're clearly the number three team in the nfc west but you know

those those those can be those are chairs that can move around what is your perspective on the

question how far

behind the top of the division are they if there's as if there's a way to quantify it but yeah like

i think there's definitely a sizable gap from obviously from this year of what they were compared

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