Danny and Dusty
49ers left Jordan Mason out to dry
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You know, I would be one at training camp. So, you know, just being prepared from there and just, you know, you caught on. There was a lot of people that immediately after that interview went, oh, he's in some trouble. And this is where he was let down. Christian McCaffrey was listed as questionable over the weekend on the scouting report on the injury report. He was ruled out officially yesterday afternoon. When Jordan Mason says he found out Friday, he was going to be the starter. That means San Francisco lied on the injury report, which is a big no, no, because of billions of dollars that are gambled on the NFL every year. And every, I mean, it is, that is one thing. Millions of dollars are bet every single week on the NFL. So, especially a Monday night football game, this is why injuries injury reports exist. It's not just like pulling one over on your opponent. It is to make sure things are on the up and up on the gambling side. Yeah, Vegas knows everything they need to know. So when you play Monday night, is that the same like final injury report deadline as if you played on a Sunday, like it's Friday afternoon, that final deadline, whether you play Sunday or Monday? Yeah, and here's, and that is, but one of the big things is, if he knew he was going to be the starter on Friday, why did they rule him out? Why didn't they rule him out then? Maybe it was after they released. There is going to be some wiggle room here in that, you know, San Francisco is going to be saying, well, we thought we were, we put him in as a starting running back on Friday because, you know, Christian McCaffrey was questionable, you know, he was a 50-50 chance at playing as of, you know, Friday. And so he did run with our ones and they're going to probably get away with it, but they're going to be under the watchful eye. What I felt bad for was that was on the field at least Salters after he went into the post game press conference and it ruined his day. When did you find out that you'd be in the starting lineup? That question right there is why I'm at, that's why I don't like really talking to media because you say one thing wrong and then, you know, I don't know, just skip that question. - No. - Yeah. - Like this is where the team-- - He got put in a bad spot by the team. - Yeah, he did. He did because you got to be, you got to be briefed on it. Like he was on cloud nine after the game and he should have been. And then Kyle Shanahan after the game had to do some damage control. - I'm saying that's amazing. That person must be God because we just found out he wasn't playing today and I have no idea how he's going to feel tomorrow or the next day. I thought he was playing this whole week until today. - And that's not true because your running bag just said that he found out on Friday he was going to be the starter. - Yeah. - And this is where he got caught up. - I think if the question was, did he feel like he was going to be the starter? On Friday, if Christian McCaffrey is limited or not practicing, yeah, probably. - Right. - Right? - Yeah. - He probably felt like he was going to be the starter on that day. And this is why it's going to be really hard for the NFL to prove, but they can still slap a fine on the team. The thing that I hate out of all this, I don't, like I don't care that the Niners knew that Christian McCaffrey wasn't going to be out. - Probably a lot of fantasy owners did. Probably a lot of gamblers did. But what I care about is you didn't brief Jordan Mason that, hey, even though you ran with the ones, Christian McCaffrey is going to be our starter, you got to kind of button that thing up. - Yeah. - And this is a learning experience. It just sucks it ruined his day. - Yeah, well, he's not used to that kind of spotlight on him, you know? He's not used to being that guy up there at the presser or in the scrum. And yeah, so you got to help prepare him a little bit. - Yeah. - How am I to dry? - Yeah, it's just, it's an awful way for, and you hear it, like he was like choking up. - Yeah. - Because I'm sure he got MFed and he was like, oh no, this sucks. You misspeak once? - Yeah. - You say, I felt like if he would have said, I felt like I had a good chance at starting on Friday, and I didn't find out till today, nobody blinks at this. - Right. - But the question was, when did you find out you were starting? And Lisa Salters is going for the, like an hour before a kickoff, just like everybody else. - Right, wrong, yeah. - He goes Friday, and everybody perks up their attention because then you have this whole cloud surrounding the 49ers. - And Shanahan basically went on, I didn't tell him, maybe somebody else made him believe that, but I didn't tell him. - No. - Yeah. - You thought Christian McCaffrey's gonna play all week long, huh? You know, they didn't practice most of last week. - Yeah. - All right. - Good times. - They won 32 to 19. Turns out, didn't need Christian McCaffrey. - Right. - Now all of New York is freaking out because their defensive-minded head coaches' defense got gashed for 180 yards on the ground. - Yeah. - Was it 401 yards of total offense? - See, but I was led to believe that Aaron Rodgers was gonna be the difference between it happened last year and a Super Bowl this year. That's what I heard all off season. - Yeah, probably, probably. Dang. - Yeah. - That one just always baffled me. - Oh man, I feel bad for Jordan Mason. - Yes. - I feel bad for him because that should have been an awesome night for him. He should have gone and just partied his balls off, gotten treated like a king in San Francisco for a night. - Yep. - And as it was, he ended up tearing up on the podium because the team let him down and he misspoke a little bit too. - And instead of going out in party and he probably went home and drank by himself. - I don't think that happened. - No. - I bet they cheered him up. I bet they cheered him up a little bit. - ♪ You spent a long year ♪ - After investing billions to light up our network, T-Mobile is America's largest 5G network. Plus, right now, you can switch, keep your phone, and we'll pay it off up to $800. See how you can save on every plan versus Verizon and AT&T at tmobile.com/keepandswitch. 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