Over/Under Week 2 - Elijah Mitchell
After scoring his first career TD vs. Detroit, is the 49ers RB ready for another monster game?
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MATT HARMON: Yes, for our first over under here in week two, we've got the waiver wire hottest name of the week, Eli, Eli, Eli? Eli or Elijah Mitchell? I don't know, but I'll tell you what, I am definitely going over the line of 84 and 1/2 total yards here. Love that we've got the total yards here, because maybe catches a couple of swing passes, I don't know, something like that. Billy does have an aggressive front four, pretty good pass rush there, so maybe some dump-offs to the backfield there.
And really honestly, guys, like the only reason that you would go under here is because you're afraid of Kyle Shanahan and you're afraid of his, you know, Shanahanigans or whatever, because I mean, every indicator we've got coming into this week is that Eli Mitchell is the top back on this depth chart and he is going to lead this backfield in touches. So I mean, yeah, I'm going over. So basically I've issued the challenge to you, Andy and Tank after him, do you have faith in Kyle Shanahan? Do you have trust? Where are you going here, Andy?
ANDY BEHRENS: I do not have trust in Kyle Shanahan. If that was supposed to be an impression of me, it was a pretty good one. That is exactly how I feel. I worry about this backfield a lot. I will also say that if you believe he's going to go over this total, I think the rushing prop at BetMGM right now is like 54 and 1/2, so you should definitely bet that. My fear here is what it even looks like when we do have a lead back in a Shanahan offense.
If you go back to like just 2019, when it was peak Raheem Mostert, when he was as good as he has ever been, he was still seeing only about 50% of the backfield touches. And then Tevin Coleman would get 25 and then Matt Breida would get 25, and it's just always a committee. I worry about that now. Jamycal Hasty played plenty last week. He played about 30% of the snaps, so I think we're going to see plenty of him. We're going to see a little bit of Trey Sermon sprinkled in. So I worry that this is only going to end up being like 11 or 12 touches. So I'm going under.
MATT HARMON: Well, no surprise, we got the coward's response from Andy, but I know my man, Tank, Tank, you've got the fortitude here. Tell me, you're obviously going over with me as well.
TANK WILLIAMS: Man, if you already didn't know, the Minty is strong with me, especially on this one. I'm going with the underdog. I'm telling you, because like, I already smell the Shanahanigans in the air, just when we have like the Trey Sermon being active in this game and he wasn't active last game. I understand that Mostert got hurt last game, but this is the thing. Like Eli didn't have any involvement in the pass game last week. He's going up against a Philly defense who looks a lot better.
I was just talking about Matty Ice, like the Eagles defense did that to Matty Ice. And so if you're going to play against the 49ers and you already know that Jimmy G has somebody breathing down his back, what are you going to do? You're going to try your best to stop the run and put all the pressure on Jimmy G to win the game, and more than likely make a mistake. So he smells Trey Lance breathing down his neck. And so that's why I'm going with the under. Because I smell Shanahanigans afoot.
MATT HARMON: Well, I stand alone on the side of clarity in the 49ers backfield, which has never done anybody wrong before, definitely not just last week, so how could this go?
