49ers Rolling plus World Cup and Jets Pain with Will & Grace Writer and Soccer Podcaster Kirk Rudell

About this episode

Matt and Paul discuss the 49ers' recent success, the Warriors' struggles, and feature guest Kirk Rudell to talk about soccer.

In this episode, Matt and Paul open with the state of the Bay. The 49ers are suddenly surging heading into the bye week, Jauan Jennings is talking like a WWE wrestler, and Kyle Shanahan looks like a coach who finally grew up and learned how to adapt. The guys also dive into the Warriors, who are stuck with a stagnant offense, no self-creation and the growing sense that the locker room might be tuning out Steve Kerr. Then it is Giants talk, including the surprising news that the team is not pu...

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt Ferrucci, Paul Ruehl

Guest: Kirk Rudell

Topics covered

• NFL
• soccer
• NBA
• sports analysis
• team performance

Keywords

• 49ers
• Warriors
• Giants
• Kirk Rudell
• NFL
• NBA
• soccer
• sports

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: 49ers, Warriors, Giants

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