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JANELLE WANG: We're
ready for some football.

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The NFL season kicks off
one week from tonight

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right here on NBC Bay Area.

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The Lions will face
off against the Super

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Bowl champs, the Chiefs.

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RAJ MATHAI: Oh, a lot
of football in the air.

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In fact, we sat down
with Joe Montana

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today to talk about the current
day 49ers, not his old Chiefs.

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We'll just stick with the 49ers.

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JANELLE WANG: Yes.

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RAJ MATHAI: And his new whiskey.

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Yeah, he has a new whiskey.

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Here's NBC's Ian Cull.

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IAN CULL: Thanks so
much for inviting us

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up here to Gold Bar Distillery.

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What does success look like
for the Niners this year?

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JOE MONTANA: Well, I think
for the 49ers and the players

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they want to go
to the Super Bowl.

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Hopefully that happens for them.

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But I think everybody feels that
the way things ended last year,

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there's a little
chip on the shoulder

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that we want to get back there.

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And the team is pretty much
intact from what it was.

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And I think they got
a fun team to watch,

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both offensively
and defensively.

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And it's going to be an
exciting year to be a 49er fan.

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IAN CULL: Brock Purdy,
sensational last year.

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What makes him so effective?

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JOE MONTANA: Well, I
think one of the things

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is the comfort in the
offense and the understanding

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that he got pretty
quickly of it.

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It's not easy to
come in from college

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and learn a new
offensive system and be

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able to perform the way he did.

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So my hat's off to him for that.

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And I think it's just
predicated of things to come

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for people to watch and see.

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He's got a lot of great
weapons on offense.

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And I think he understands that.

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There's not-- there are
times where you have to force

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something to try to
happen in a game,

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but typically with the guys
that he has you can drop it down

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to McCaffrey or
Deebo and those guys

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can all take it the distance.

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And so he's not
afraid to do that.

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IAN CULL: The position
really has changed.

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How do you think your career
might have been different

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if you were to have
these new rules

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that protect the quarterbacks
who took so many violent hits?

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JOE MONTANA: The
biggest difference

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would be that I wouldn't have
had 27 surgeries as of today.

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So you know, it'd be fun to
play today as a quarterback

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and the rules the way they are.

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And we put Jerry Rice
and John Taylor and Roger

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in these situations, I think
it would be-- we'd have

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a pretty fun offense to watch.

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IAN CULL: Joe,
thank you so much.

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JOE MONTANA: You bet.

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My pleasure.