Speaker 1: First of all, you know on behalf of Kyle, our
Speaker 1: family is our organization. Just wanted to let the folks
Speaker 1: in LA. I'm a Southern California guy. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people down there and people who've been directly
Speaker 1: affected already, and I'm sure there's going to be more.
Speaker 2: So our heart's too.
Speaker 1: We've been sitting and you know what we call our
Speaker 1: mind meetings talking about all our players on a close
Speaker 1: out and your mind keeps strifting because man's that's that's
Speaker 1: rough down there. So our thoughts and prayers do go
Speaker 1: to the folks and people of LA and that things
Speaker 1: calm down. So start with that and then we'll open
Speaker 1: up for questions.
Speaker 3: Can you talk about your decision with Nick and kind
Speaker 3: of what the overall plan is now for the defensive
Speaker 3: coordinator position.
Speaker 4: Yeah, First of all, it's a real tough decision. I
Speaker 4: love Nick as a person and I love him as
Speaker 4: a coach. Still trying to hope to keep them on
Speaker 4: board and another capacity because he's a guy I don't
Speaker 4: want to lose. But just where we're at really as
Speaker 4: a team, where I think we need to go. Uh,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of big decisions ahead for us and
Speaker 4: as hard as it is for me to come to
Speaker 4: this conclusion, but I feel there's some options out there
Speaker 4: that can end up being a better option in the
Speaker 4: situation that we're in for our team. And when really
Speaker 4: it comes down to that, you know, in the position
Speaker 4: I'm in, regardless of anything else, that's always the stuff
Speaker 4: I gotta go with.
Speaker 5: So it was a real.
Speaker 4: Tough decision for me, and I'm still hoping that we
Speaker 4: can keep a neck here, but I do feel there's
Speaker 4: some other avenues that in the long run, will be
Speaker 4: better for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 6: I know candidates for both of those coordinator spots.
Speaker 4: There are candidates, yes, internal one. I'll give Stalei a
Speaker 4: shot just talking to him. You know he's been here.
Speaker 4: There'll be a lot of guys outside the building too.
Speaker 7: Back to back years, you fired your defensive coordinator after
Speaker 7: one year?
Speaker 8: Do you have to go back through the process of
Speaker 8: this house. I know both different situations.
Speaker 7: Were there things that went wrong in the process to
Speaker 7: find these last two guys?
Speaker 5: I don't believe anything went wrong in the process.
Speaker 4: I think I'll tell you what it's It's a I
Speaker 4: think more opportunistic or easier process.
Speaker 5: Talking about her.
Speaker 4: Right now and whatever the date is today, it's a
Speaker 4: little bit harder in February, which on the last two
Speaker 4: are in. Just you know, being the last team to
Speaker 4: finish last year and before that, being the second to
Speaker 4: last team to finish makes it a lot different. So
Speaker 4: there's more opportunities out there and planning and looking into
Speaker 4: all of them.
Speaker 8: We experience being a defensive corner of being important to
Speaker 8: you this time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think some of the stuff that you know,
Speaker 4: just where we're at, you know, some of the decisions
Speaker 4: that we got to make in things like that, I
Speaker 4: think having the experience of going through this before, building
Speaker 4: things before, I think is what is definitely a bonus
Speaker 4: for me.
Speaker 5: It helps me with some stuff. So that's stuff I
Speaker 5: will look into.
Speaker 4: But again, you always, regardless, you don't want to put
Speaker 4: just any handcuffs on your decision. You're gonna always try
Speaker 4: to figure out the best one, and so you've got
Speaker 4: ideas going into that. But just being so early, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna have an opportunity to talk to a number of
Speaker 4: guys too, so we'll see what that leads us to.
Speaker 9: Lily, you've always kind of stuck to this is who
Speaker 9: we want to be defensively. Is that still the scheme
Speaker 9: you want or are you more open to.
Speaker 5: Potential changest I mean, I love the scheme that we've
Speaker 5: had here.
Speaker 4: I mean I think it's one of the hardest things
Speaker 4: to go to when you got the right guys in
Speaker 4: the right spots. But I do think people adjust the schemes,
Speaker 4: and I think you have to adjust too, depending on
Speaker 4: your personnel, and I think that was a tougher thing
Speaker 4: for us this year. Just going into the season was
Speaker 4: a little bit harder than past seasons, and some of
Speaker 4: the injuries we had I think made a really tough
Speaker 4: for Nick, and I thought he got better trying to
Speaker 4: adjust and do different things. But I do think that's
Speaker 4: something that definitely, I'm not saying you got to change schemes,
Speaker 4: but you have to have the ability, the the history
Speaker 4: and the knowledge of how to change some stuff up
Speaker 4: when you're in some certain situations.
Speaker 5: And I think that we do need that more going forward.
Speaker 9: Under consideration for that special teams coordinators.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Nick would be in consideration.
Speaker 8: Yes, he's been let going or hoping to bring him back.
Speaker 4: I just I just told him he's not gonna be
Speaker 4: the defense coordinator. Yeah, So I mean, he's under contract
Speaker 4: still and I'm really hoping that he'll come back, but
Speaker 4: that's got to be something he and his family feel
Speaker 4: good about too. And the exact role that we end
Speaker 4: up carving out for him, which I'll work on here
Speaker 4: over the next few.
Speaker 10: Weeks, challenging is that for him to go from being
Speaker 10: the defensive coordinator to being and I'm not saying just
Speaker 10: another assistant, but I'm going being the defensive coordinator to
Speaker 10: moving back into a different role.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I haven't done it before, so it's
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure it is a challenge. It has
Speaker 4: to do with is that something that you want to do.
Speaker 4: Is this something you're comfortable with. I know our building
Speaker 4: would be comfortable with it. I know our players would
Speaker 4: be comfortable with it. There's you know, this was a
Speaker 4: tough year, but no, Nick didn't lose any respect or
Speaker 4: anything like that for many of our players or our coaches.
Speaker 4: And I think if you talk to anyone, whether it's
Speaker 4: with you guys in the media or it's just one
Speaker 4: on one, he's got a lot of respect for people
Speaker 4: from people here, and everyone does think he's a good coach.
Speaker 4: You know, I spent his last two days having exit interviews.
Speaker 4: That's been you know, to go through these two days
Speaker 4: where all I do is just talk to people and
Speaker 4: you talk to everybody. Lots of good feedback on Nick
Speaker 4: and I think the guys would be real excited it
Speaker 4: if he was here next year.
Speaker 11: Is there any uncertainty about Trent Williams him playing in
Speaker 11: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Uh, Trent, Trent's doing well. He's uh, you know, he's uh.
Speaker 1: He had a bruise in the you know, in the
Speaker 1: ankle joint and it probably took a little longer than
Speaker 1: anyone anticipated, but sometimes that happens.
Speaker 2: And the good news is it's taken a positive turn.
Speaker 1: Trance's Trent's mindset is where where it always is, and
Speaker 1: he's still very interested in and being a great player
Speaker 1: that he is, and I think he's still got a
Speaker 1: lot lot left in the tank. So Trance committed as ever,
Speaker 1: and we love having Trent Williams a part of us.
Speaker 12: Mentions out there for the DC's bought also special teams coordinator.
Speaker 8: What are you looking for for both spots?
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm looking for a guy who I think
Speaker 4: will fit with our team the best. I'd like to
Speaker 4: send and talk to you guys about our personnel. I
Speaker 4: want to obviously talk to someone about their plans schrammatically
Speaker 4: and what they like to do.
Speaker 5: But that's all great. What are you planning to do
Speaker 5: with our team?
Speaker 4: And that's what it involves certain people, I mean in
Speaker 4: terms of when they look at what we have, what
Speaker 4: they think we need going forward, what we got to
Speaker 4: go get And so it's I want someone that kind
Speaker 4: of messes with what I believe in and but I
Speaker 4: also believe in that you got to fit to come
Speaker 4: up with the best thing possible that fits our situation
Speaker 4: right now. So that'll be talking about our personnel, the roster,
Speaker 4: think a lot of things like that, and what their
Speaker 4: plan would be with it.
Speaker 8: Someone running a different scheme from the past seasons.
Speaker 5: Yeah, don't open anything.
Speaker 13: Brock talk the other day about wanting to get an extension.
Speaker 8: Done as soon as possible.
Speaker 13: All right, do you have that same optimism that it
Speaker 13: can get done by mid April when spring praying, spring
Speaker 13: workout start.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, I think what we know about Brock is
Speaker 1: that he's our guy we've got. You know, we have
Speaker 1: interest in Brock being around here for a long long time.
Speaker 1: He's done so much for our organization. He's won big
Speaker 1: games and you know, had a little tougher task as
Speaker 1: we all did this year with some of the things
Speaker 1: that happened throughout the course of the year.
Speaker 2: We just never could string games where we were all together.
Speaker 1: And through that he continued to lead, he continued to
Speaker 1: play at a high level. So we have every interest
Speaker 1: in him being around, you know, the way this thing goes.
Speaker 1: These these press conferences are necessary, but always kind of
Speaker 1: silly because Kyle's coaching. We spend time together all the
Speaker 1: time and there's big issues that affect the team.
Speaker 2: But he's just getting off coaching.
Speaker 1: He's had his door shut for two days doing exit interviews.
Speaker 2: You know, we were just up but we were talking
Speaker 2: about our players.
Speaker 1: We'll have some time here in uh in the coming
Speaker 1: weeks to sit together and put put our whole plan together.
Speaker 1: That's obviously a priority that position, and you know we'll
Speaker 1: give it that attention.
Speaker 8: You guys last sat up there in camp.
Speaker 13: One of the priorities you said was we have to
Speaker 13: have finishers this year.
Speaker 8: And you guys got outscored i think one sixty five
Speaker 8: to eighty eight.
Speaker 2: In the fourth quarter. So what does that tell you
Speaker 2: about this team.
Speaker 13: What went wrong is a physical staminas at mindset? Is
Speaker 13: it the personnel schemes? What what do you put your
Speaker 13: finger to?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I, I you know, you don't want to. You
Speaker 1: don't want to have excuses. A lot of our finishers
Speaker 1: weren't out there, you know. And then on top of it,
Speaker 1: we still had opportunities, We still put ourselves in good
Speaker 1: position and we couldn't get it done. So we have
Speaker 1: to own that as a team. That's why we're six
Speaker 1: and eleven. We have a high standard. We had high expectations.
Speaker 1: We fell short of that, and it's our job to
Speaker 1: fix that. And Uh, I know that Kyle and I
Speaker 1: are are committed as we've ever been to doing just that.
Speaker 2: We don't plan on being in this place. Don't like it.
Speaker 1: It's terrible to sit home and watch something that you
Speaker 1: expect yourself to be in the tournament. And we're going
Speaker 1: to go about the work. Uh, And we're excited about
Speaker 1: the work to do just that. But I do believe
Speaker 1: we have finishers on this team and got to continue
Speaker 1: to add to that.
Speaker 2: We've got to continue infuse youth and good football players
Speaker 2: to this team. And we'll do that.
Speaker 14: A couple of off seasons have had a lot of
Speaker 14: trauma and maybe kel can address this too, and a
Speaker 14: lot of it, you know, there's social media posturing or
Speaker 14: maybe some of.
Speaker 8: It has already begun.
Speaker 14: Just is there any as the organization that you can
Speaker 14: do to kind of mitigate that, calm it down. It
Speaker 14: just seems like it's heated up times in the last
Speaker 14: of couple of seasons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think every team has a certain measure of that.
Speaker 1: I think we've got to We have a lot of
Speaker 1: good players, you know, and one of the things that
Speaker 1: comes with having a lot of good players is it's
Speaker 1: hard to feed everyone, you know, and you've got to
Speaker 1: make tough decisions. And we're certainly at it at a
Speaker 1: point where we've had a five year run with four
Speaker 1: NFC championships, two Super Bowls, and you know, you have
Speaker 1: to go back to the fundamentals of really building a thing.
Speaker 1: The life blood of your organization needs to be strong
Speaker 1: drafts because it gives you young players that you have
Speaker 1: on your contract for and so we I think we
Speaker 1: had multiple I think seven players that were starters off
Speaker 1: that draft class. Whether we expect them to be, they did,
Speaker 1: and they gained really valuable experience. I even had free
Speaker 1: agent guys like Evan Anderson who contributed, you know, a lot,
Speaker 1: and so I think we're really excited about this rookie class.
Speaker 1: In that movement, we've got to continue to add to it.
Speaker 1: We have ten probably right now, nine draft choices. We
Speaker 1: think we'll have ten with a compick. But you know,
Speaker 1: we need to continue to add to it in that way.
Speaker 1: And you know, I hope we continue to have hard
Speaker 1: decisions because we have a lot of great players.
Speaker 3: Here is the first year the special teams have struggled
Speaker 3: here and wildly noted you don't take a real detailed
Speaker 3: interest in special teams.
Speaker 8: Does that need to change?
Speaker 7: Little con Can you get more involved?
Speaker 8: Do you need to get more involved?
Speaker 5: I mean, what do you mean by I don't take
Speaker 5: interest in special teams?
Speaker 7: You know you're not watching the kicker tryouts.
Speaker 2: And that kind of Let me let me help Kyle there,
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 1: I would tell you Kyle spends an ordinate amount of
Speaker 1: time with all phases of our team. Special teams is
Speaker 1: extremely important in the way we construct our rosters. We
Speaker 1: can you know, the time is there now and kicking.
Speaker 1: Neither of us are kicking specialists, So we don't sit
Speaker 1: here and profess to know everything about kicking and things
Speaker 1: of that nature.
Speaker 2: But the time issue.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to interrupt, Kyle, but no, I spend plenty
Speaker 1: of time there.
Speaker 5: I just don't be as you guys. Yeah that's it.
Speaker 4: Well you turn it around on me there, But no,
Speaker 4: I just don't be ask you guys with that stuff.
Speaker 4: But to say, like, I mean, we spent some heavy
Speaker 4: draft picks on special teams players, which I think is investment.
Speaker 4: We spent some salary cap on guys. I mean, bringing
Speaker 4: guys like George otom haven't played againstouls here these last
Speaker 4: couple of years. I mean that's bringing back. Those are
Speaker 4: special teams decisions. Spend a third round pick on a kicker,
Speaker 4: making special teams changes is why special teams is important
Speaker 4: to me, because if we do work at it, but
Speaker 4: it's you know, it wasn't good enough this year.
Speaker 5: I don't put that just on Brian by any means.
Speaker 4: I mean losing your kicker, losing your punter. When injuries
Speaker 4: do affect the roster, especially offense and defensively, what it
Speaker 4: did affect the most was special teams, and I think
Speaker 4: that was unfair to Brian in a tough situation to
Speaker 4: put him in, But I do think it's an avenue
Speaker 4: we can get better in and you can't change the
Speaker 4: whole thing out, And so Brian ends up being the
Speaker 4: fall guy for that, and I really appreciate him, like
Speaker 4: he did have a real good three years here and
Speaker 4: worked his tail off and was very loyal to us,
Speaker 4: and it was a very good coach And he'll bounce
Speaker 4: back on his feet and we'll be going against some soon,
Speaker 4: I'm sure. But no special teams is part of football
Speaker 4: and everything part of football is extremely important to us.
Speaker 15: A couple of years ago that you wanted to find
Speaker 15: something to make when it comes to guys that would
Speaker 15: just period looking forward, you have some hard decision to
Speaker 15: make when it comes to roster changes and coaching changes. Right, So,
Speaker 15: there was some video circulating on the internet from the
Speaker 15: families of a couple of players that would lead some
Speaker 15: people to believe they Drake Greenlaw knows whether or not
Speaker 15: he will be here or not. Have there been any
Speaker 15: conversation where he's been given a dependentive answer of his
Speaker 15: future as.
Speaker 4: At ninety No, we don't even know, guys. This is
Speaker 4: we haven't spent much time together yet. I've had two
Speaker 4: plays with two days with excellent interviews with players and coaches.
Speaker 4: But I mean players don't know either. And that's what's
Speaker 4: hard for players. It's they they're under contracts. They know
Speaker 4: when their contract's going to run up. That's an emotional
Speaker 4: time for players, for their families, for wives, girlfriends, whoever
Speaker 4: it is kids, just like it is for coaches. When
Speaker 4: I can't always tell them exactly what their future is
Speaker 4: going to be the day this season ends.
Speaker 5: It's tied to a lot of other people.
Speaker 4: And I know I've been on that side. I know
Speaker 4: wives are texting you all day asking what the deal
Speaker 4: is and they don't believe that you really don't have
Speaker 4: an answer yet. And I know what they look like
Speaker 4: when you walk home through the door and they're like,
Speaker 4: what are we doing with our lives? And you're like,
Speaker 4: I don't really know. There's a lot of things that
Speaker 4: you want to solve so fast for people. That is
Speaker 4: stressful for people sit in our in our chairs, but
Speaker 4: you can't solve everything at once.
Speaker 5: A lot of things are tied together.
Speaker 4: And when you hear things like that are green law,
Speaker 4: like we're doing everything in the world we can to
Speaker 4: bring green law back and We're not into losing really
Speaker 4: good players who are unbelievable people. So we're going to
Speaker 4: do everything we can to never lose really good players
Speaker 4: or good people. But that's also a very hard challenge,
Speaker 4: very hard, and that's something that you don't just talk
Speaker 4: about in one meeting. There's too many things that connect
Speaker 4: to that draft, free agency, roster years, all that stuff,
Speaker 4: and that takes weeks months to decide.
Speaker 1: And I think the only thing I'd add to that
Speaker 1: the communication with the players what's most important. And I
Speaker 1: know I sat with Dre and always have great discussions
Speaker 1: with Dre.
Speaker 2: I know about his want to be here, and I
Speaker 2: know our want to have him here.
Speaker 1: And like Kyle said, there's realities and there's tough decisions
Speaker 1: and so many factors to all those things.
Speaker 2: But believe me, the desire on both sides is there.
Speaker 8: You mentioned a couple of weeks ago that you wanted
Speaker 8: to gonna go ahead.
Speaker 16: You mentioned that the scheme because of personality, it was
Speaker 16: harder on Nick. When you look at the defensive line,
Speaker 16: I think the wide nine is coming to scrutiny. How
Speaker 16: much do you view, especially in the run game, the
Speaker 16: struggles there being being schematic and how much of it
Speaker 16: is personnel.
Speaker 5: I think it's a little bit of both.
Speaker 4: I mean it's I mean, first of all, like I
Speaker 4: don't regardless of injuries or anything like, this year is
Speaker 4: most disappointed to me because regardless of injuries, I feel
Speaker 4: we should have been a playoff team and then you
Speaker 4: never know what happens in there. But when I go
Speaker 4: back to the hardest thing for me this year was
Speaker 4: those three games I've talked to you guys about first
Speaker 4: one versus Arizona, first one, versus LA first one versus
Speaker 4: Arizona second one verse Seattle. I thought we did I
Speaker 4: thought we should have won those games, and we lost
Speaker 4: them at the end, but I thought our own mistakes,
Speaker 4: which means we would have been eating too going into
Speaker 4: week eleven. And that was the hardest thing because and
Speaker 4: then we hit some real bad injuries, which we're gonna
Speaker 4: be tough, but that's to me what made it steamroll
Speaker 4: where we didn't have a chance to make the playoffs.
Speaker 4: So when I look at that stuff like that's the
Speaker 4: stuff that I feel we've got to mix it fix
Speaker 4: the most. And is that scheme is that personnel? I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's football. You got to adjust I mean, your
Speaker 4: scheme changes when people are getting hurt, when you can't
Speaker 4: do exactly what you want to do.
Speaker 5: It's happens on offense all the time.
Speaker 4: You guys are going to see I hear it from
Speaker 4: you guys, but I mean the offense looks different when
Speaker 4: a different quarterback gets in there, it looks different, when
Speaker 4: Christian McCaffrey gets in there. It looks different all the time.
Speaker 4: And that's how defenses can be too. But you have
Speaker 4: to build it that way so you because it's really
Speaker 4: hard to just change something up and three days of practice.
Speaker 4: You got to have that foundation of how you implement
Speaker 4: it and where you think the season can go. And
Speaker 4: that's what you really truly try to build in the
Speaker 4: off season and then in the training camp. And you know,
Speaker 4: that's something I think will be better at building this offseason,
Speaker 4: having a little bit more time to do it, being
Speaker 4: a little more prepared for it because we saw where
Speaker 4: it went last year. And that starts with getting a
Speaker 4: coordinator in here who can help us map that out.
Speaker 4: And once we do map that out, it goes right
Speaker 4: to free agency and how to make sure we can
Speaker 4: get the best possible situation that we have out of
Speaker 4: the situation that we're in, and then it goes to
Speaker 4: the draft, and when that's over all the guys are
Speaker 4: here and then you get to work the same lines.
Speaker 1: You mentioned a couple of weeks ago that you wanted
Speaker 1: to find the root causes for the down season beyond
Speaker 1: the injuries in your mind, what do you feel those
Speaker 1: root causes work? Yeah, you know, I think my point
Speaker 1: there was you don't just want to say it was injuries,
Speaker 1: you know, because like Kyle just mentioned, how we had
Speaker 1: games within our control in spite of it, Despite those injuries,
Speaker 1: we were in position to win a lot of games.
Speaker 1: So I think you just want to dig deeper and
Speaker 1: you want to look at everything, and that's what we'll do.
Speaker 1: That's part of our process, that will always be part
Speaker 1: of our process. We can go more in depth this year.
Speaker 1: I think you always try to look for the positive
Speaker 1: in situations, and they're and a whole lot of positive,
Speaker 1: not being the playoff run. You have to make it
Speaker 1: a positive because we have this time, how are we
Speaker 1: going to use it? And I think we can focus
Speaker 1: a little bit more on where we want to go,
Speaker 1: where we want to evolve in both personnel, scheme, all
Speaker 1: these things, and that's what we'll do.
Speaker 2: We'll take advantage of the time.
Speaker 1: In a sense, it kind of energizes you to come
Speaker 1: back and have this time to really put our minds
Speaker 1: and our staff's minds together to come out with the
Speaker 1: best to give us the best opportunity to compete going forward.
Speaker 6: You've been doing this for a while now and drafted
Speaker 6: green Law and Jennings and Purdy and guys that are insane,
Speaker 6: insane competitors. Did you know going into the draft those
Speaker 6: guys were insane competitors? And how do you find more
Speaker 6: guys like that?
Speaker 1: I can't say you always know like Juwan Jennings you could,
Speaker 1: We don't. We don't spend a lot of time watching
Speaker 1: like highlight tapes of off the off the Internet, but
Speaker 1: up in the draft, meaning someone said you should watch
Speaker 1: this highlight tape and so we did that.
Speaker 2: With Jawan and it was and say it really was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: So you kind of had an idea of the type
Speaker 1: of competitor. And I smile when I talk about you
Speaker 1: on because I love the way he plays, I love
Speaker 1: the way he competes. You know, you don't know on
Speaker 1: every player, but I think the process and the way
Speaker 1: we include everybody the way we we you know, we
Speaker 1: pair personnel staff with coaches and the thorough process we have.
Speaker 2: It's a good process.
Speaker 1: So you find guys like that, and uh, I think
Speaker 1: we're going to rely on that process and challenge to
Speaker 1: continue to get better. What we know is when we
Speaker 1: have consensus up there, we do really well. And you
Speaker 1: know we've done that and we need to continue to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 9: I want to make any changes to the offensive staff.
Speaker 9: And related to that, I don't clay. You let him
Speaker 9: call plays in the last game. Was how did he
Speaker 9: do there? And and do you expect his role to
Speaker 9: grow or shift within within that structure.
Speaker 5: I thought he did an awesome job.
Speaker 4: And Clay's roles going to be the same as it's been,
Speaker 4: which has been the offensive coordinator. He just hasn't had
Speaker 4: that title yet. I mean, Clay's done as much as
Speaker 4: anyone no offense for these last two years. So this
Speaker 4: was his second year doing that, and he gets better
Speaker 4: and better each year at it just hasn't had the
Speaker 4: official title yet. And now he'll get the official title,
Speaker 4: which he more than deserves. But it's it's more about,
Speaker 4: you know, recognizing what he's already been doing and doing
Speaker 4: at a high level.
Speaker 8: Call plays or where you delegate that sometimes.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, yeah, I'll continue to call plays,
Speaker 4: but it's I mean Clay and I have done everything
Speaker 4: here the last two years together kind of hand in hand,
Speaker 4: and we'll put the game plan in together. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: call it. Only one person can speak to the quarterback,
Speaker 4: but I mean him first or Flurry. Those are the
Speaker 4: guys that rely on through play calling throughout the game.
Speaker 4: It's not like I'm just in silence there calling every play.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm disgusting them with the guys who've prepared
Speaker 4: for within the week, Disgusting what the guys are talking
Speaker 4: with their players and.
Speaker 5: What they see.
Speaker 4: And it's the same thing we all did for Clay
Speaker 4: versu Arizona.
Speaker 12: Ricky went through. How do you both judge the season
Speaker 12: he had?
Speaker 4: I thought Ricky had an unbelievable season. I mean, I
Speaker 4: know the gunshot wound is the biggest obviously, but I
Speaker 4: just I've never had a rookie player miss all of
Speaker 4: OTAs in training camp and have much of a successful
Speaker 4: rookie year. It's tough to do that. For him to
Speaker 4: do that and then get into Week one, which I
Speaker 4: knew he would be way behind because of that situation
Speaker 4: and then get a gunshot wound kind of made me
Speaker 4: think that we were gonna get nothing from him, and
Speaker 4: just in terms of how could we and how hard
Speaker 4: that would be on him, but how quick he came
Speaker 4: back from that, and then when he did, just to
Speaker 4: watch him go through rookie things and alive NFL game
Speaker 4: and stuff and then have them to watch him come
Speaker 4: back from that stuff throughout the year and still hit
Speaker 4: a rookie wall without a foundation of an offseason and
Speaker 4: stuff like that, I thought it was a huge success
Speaker 4: from this year.
Speaker 2: I'd agree.
Speaker 1: You know, you have these exit interviews and you always
Speaker 1: take away impressions and the coolest thing some of these
Speaker 1: rookies are typically they're just done. You think about it,
Speaker 1: long college year, right to combine training, you get drafted,
Speaker 1: you go OTAs all that Ricky one thing. He said
Speaker 1: to me, mister Lynch, I just want to keep playing
Speaker 1: because I feel like I'm just getting my feet underneath me.
Speaker 1: So that's really cool that he has that excitement and
Speaker 1: he's going to use that. I said, Now, the key
Speaker 1: is you use that to motivate you through this offseason,
Speaker 1: and the best players they don't ever take a rest.
Speaker 1: They shut her down, the intensity and things like that,
Speaker 1: but they never rest, and so his mindset, I can
Speaker 1: tell's right.
Speaker 2: He's a really good football player.
Speaker 1: Proud of the way he handled a lot of adversity,
Speaker 1: things that nobody could anticipate and work through it. And
Speaker 1: I think we're going to have a really good football player.
Speaker 8: I would On that note, behind behind the scenes.
Speaker 16: We talked to Mooney Kinna for the first time yesterday
Speaker 16: since what happened in the trend and Chris, Chris Firster
Speaker 16: and Ricky. I mean, you guys had a lot of
Speaker 16: things that are not typical, pretty brutal mind scenes.
Speaker 8: How hard that? How hard was that behind the scenes,
Speaker 8: and how did you both navigate?
Speaker 4: I mean, that's it's that stuff's always tough, and I mean,
Speaker 4: and the football season is so intense for everyone. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's why anyone who's really been my friend over
Speaker 4: the last twenty years realizes these you're not going to
Speaker 4: know anything about them for about seven months because we
Speaker 4: kind of go into a hole and you get caught
Speaker 4: up in the season and all that stuff. But we
Speaker 4: all do have families and stuff out and that it
Speaker 4: does weigh on people, but like you still got to
Speaker 4: come and you got to do your job. But like
Speaker 4: that stuff is hard, and you watch guys go through it,
Speaker 4: and it's you know, I think it. You know, you
Speaker 4: don't like to watch anyone go through some something tragic,
Speaker 4: but you really watch how impressive people can be going
Speaker 4: through that stuff.
Speaker 5: Like it's when you watch.
Speaker 4: People really grieve and things like that, it's you realize
Speaker 4: that's the hardest thing all humans have to deal with.
Speaker 4: But then to watch people who are grieving so badly
Speaker 4: and you still have to come into a room and
Speaker 4: then go perform at a high level, which is a
Speaker 4: whole different type of pressure, and to watch them handle
Speaker 4: it and get through it, you realize how much stronger
Speaker 4: some of this stuff makes those guys and then inspires
Speaker 4: guys around them, and it does make you closer at times.
Speaker 4: But like I think our stuff was pretty documented this year,
Speaker 4: but there's stuff like that every year, maybe not as big,
Speaker 4: quite as big, or as many of them, but a
Speaker 4: lot of teams deal with that stuff and we've been
Speaker 4: through a number over these years. And just what going
Speaker 4: through with Chris Firster and his wife last year, just
Speaker 4: her passing away a week before the Super Bowl and
Speaker 4: things like that, and going through it with Johnny over
Speaker 4: the years, when him battling his cancer and things like that,
Speaker 4: Like it's everyone has those tough moments in life, but
Speaker 4: when you have to do it through this, it's it is.
Speaker 5: It is unique. But when you go through it, I
Speaker 5: think it does make.
Speaker 4: People a little bit closer and a little bit stronger
Speaker 4: for going through some of those moments.
Speaker 1: And that's the you know, this is a you know,
Speaker 1: it's a production based business and we're paid to win games,
Speaker 1: compete for championships. The one thing I will say acknowledging
Speaker 1: that we fell short of that standard. I am proud
Speaker 1: of this team, the way we hung together. Like Kyle said,
Speaker 1: there's always things and there's things behind the scenes that
Speaker 1: no one hears about. Frankly, one of the craziest things
Speaker 1: about this job. As a player, I prided myself with
Speaker 1: really knowing my teammates.
Speaker 2: There's so much stuff I never knew that.
Speaker 1: I'm disappointed that I didn't, because now as I sit
Speaker 1: in this seat, so much comes to you the challenges
Speaker 1: people are going through. But I will say that this
Speaker 1: season I've never had anything like it in terms of
Speaker 1: the amount, the severity, the unique circumstances, and I was
Speaker 1: proud of the way our team stuck together, had each
Speaker 1: other's backs and stayed together. And I do believe we'll
Speaker 1: be stronger for that.
Speaker 9: It's really tough to find instant impact offensive linemen. Does
Speaker 9: Dominic Pooney's success this year help you identify or further
Speaker 9: crystallize the blueprint what you might be looking for.
Speaker 1: I think it shows that our process worked there. And
Speaker 1: you know, but I would say he really exceeded our
Speaker 1: ex spectations. We thought we got a good player. I
Speaker 1: think he showed us a little more than that. And
Speaker 1: we were just talking about it upstairs. Everyone saw the
Speaker 1: real strong play, the consistent play. I think there's more
Speaker 1: in the tank, you know, where he can grow. I
Speaker 1: think the toughness he dealt with some you know, he
Speaker 1: had an ac joint one week and you know, we
Speaker 1: were really questioning whether he could play on Sunday, and
Speaker 1: he practiced on Wednesday. And I've had that same injury.
Speaker 1: I always prided myself on having a high pain tolerance.
Speaker 1: That stuff hurts, and he didn't miss a practice, So
Speaker 1: I think he's got the right mindset to and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got to continue to to find guys like Tom
Speaker 1: because he's gonna be a good player for us.
Speaker 6: How about you guys, assess, how would you assess brocks
Speaker 6: performance this year and how important is it.
Speaker 13: For you to have him back, you know, in time
Speaker 13: for ts just given that he's the quarterback to throw
Speaker 13: that process.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely it's poor to have our whole team back
Speaker 4: for Otas's that's actually it's you know, last year, you
Speaker 4: know our are it was like eight weeks after our
Speaker 4: last game that our guys needed to be back for
Speaker 4: voluntary work and stuff, which I think is real important.
Speaker 5: In the year before that, it was it was like
Speaker 5: nine or ten weeks.
Speaker 4: So these last two and then when we all got back,
Speaker 4: it was like you could tell we all were back,
Speaker 4: but you know, we wish we had a little bit
Speaker 4: more time.
Speaker 5: And when I look at a calendar and now.
Speaker 4: I realize we have fourteen weeks until we need to
Speaker 4: get back.
Speaker 5: Like I expect everyone to be.
Speaker 4: Ready to go, and you know, excited to really get
Speaker 4: this going and play some football, and that starts with Brock.
Speaker 4: Like Brock is the leader of our team. I've loved
Speaker 4: these three years with Brock. I plan on being with
Speaker 4: Brock here the whole time I'm here. So like Brock's
Speaker 4: been a stud. He's a guy got a lot of
Speaker 4: confidence in and just as a human. But it starts
Speaker 4: with what he's down on the field these last two
Speaker 4: and a half years and capable of winning a Super
Speaker 4: Bowl with them. We just almost did. And and I
Speaker 4: know he's capable of getting the Niners Super Bowl in
Speaker 4: the future.
Speaker 8: Five year run for that the champion cips.
Speaker 7: I know he wasn't saying that's it, but do you
Speaker 7: do you think, you know, you need to kind of
Speaker 7: set the stage for another kind of error or another
Speaker 7: refreshing kind of what's been going on, Like what went
Speaker 7: on there was really good and now it shifts a
Speaker 7: little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it shifted in that time. Also, I
Speaker 4: think we went to Super Bowl in nineteen and the
Speaker 4: next time we went, we had you know, we went
Speaker 4: in nineteen, we had a rookie receiver and a veteran receiver,
Speaker 4: you know, and Debot and Emmanuel.
Speaker 5: You know, the next time we went, we had ba.
Speaker 4: You know, first time we had a different quarterback, and
Speaker 4: four years later it's Brock. I think we did have
Speaker 4: different guys on defense, you know, I think we look
Speaker 4: at I don't remember the numbers, but I feel like
Speaker 4: there was like eight guys who played in the nineteen
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. So I think we have already done that,
Speaker 4: and I think you got to do it again without
Speaker 4: a doubt. I think when you do come up short
Speaker 4: like we did on February eleventh last year, I do
Speaker 4: think in the off season, when you know how close
Speaker 4: that could have been and it just comes down to
Speaker 4: a couple of plays, and everything you want to think
Speaker 4: about is how to make that up because you do
Speaker 4: believe this, You do believe you can do that again.
Speaker 4: And I think that's when people talk about windows and
Speaker 4: stuff like that. And I think that's how we did
Speaker 4: spend our off season trying to look at how we
Speaker 4: could come back and make that game up and get
Speaker 4: to that point this.
Speaker 5: Year and pull it off.
Speaker 4: And we took our best shot at that and it
Speaker 4: didn't go right, and now we're going to do it again.
Speaker 4: Does that mean like every thought us to try to
Speaker 4: get to that right now? I think whenever you think
Speaker 4: that way, you're selling your organization short. You got to
Speaker 4: always think right now, but you got to think big
Speaker 4: picture too, which to me, and football is always on
Speaker 4: like a two to three year timeframe, and I think we've.
Speaker 5: Been doing that really since we've been here.
Speaker 4: We've never fully sold out for that year, but we
Speaker 4: always want to be competitive and feel like we have
Speaker 4: a chance to do that, and we felt that way
Speaker 4: about five years in a row, and we've gone to
Speaker 4: it twice and I feel like we had very good
Speaker 4: opportunities to win both of those games. And that's the
Speaker 4: thought process we're going to have every year Florida.
Speaker 12: As a coach at GM, about yourself, about the team,
Speaker 12: with the whole Devandre Campbell episode.
Speaker 5: What did We Want? Was the first thing about.
Speaker 8: Yourself as a coach in the GM.
Speaker 5: What I already knew.
Speaker 4: That's something that we don't roll with and it was
Speaker 4: hard to stomach, and once we saw it, we were
Speaker 4: done with it.
Speaker 6: You guys, he guys been doing this a while together now,
Speaker 6: and you guys know the way football is. You know,
Speaker 6: when you lose, it's it's.
Speaker 8: A brutal game.
Speaker 6: And and yet you need you guys don't point the
Speaker 6: finger at each other. The discussions always do we have
Speaker 6: enough talent? Was it coached well enough? How do you
Speaker 6: resist the urge to fracture? How do you stay united
Speaker 6: through the pressure of this whole thing.
Speaker 4: I think that's that's why I really wanted him to
Speaker 4: be here with me. I mean, John got in this
Speaker 4: for the right intentions. It was to try to put
Speaker 4: together a team to win a Super Bowl, and that's
Speaker 4: what he's committed to. That's really the simplest way that
Speaker 4: everyone says. You know, but like in this business, you
Speaker 4: always go through hard times, but it's it's never just
Speaker 4: coaching and it's never just personnel. It's everything. That's why
Speaker 4: there's never a quick answer. Like on anything of football,
Speaker 4: there's twenty two variables out there every play. There's a
Speaker 4: long season, there's lots of scheme that's involved, there's lots
Speaker 4: of talent that's involved, there's lots of just random stuff
Speaker 4: with injuries, referees, like schedules, weather.
Speaker 5: There's so many things that goes into play.
Speaker 4: And when if you're an organization where people's number one
Speaker 4: concern is surviving, which that doesn't mean they're a bad person.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of people who don't like to move
Speaker 4: their families and there's a lot of pressure on people
Speaker 4: in that way. But when you know you know the
Speaker 4: character of a person and why people get into it,
Speaker 4: like John's not ever going to do something or talking
Speaker 4: away just to survive, and anyone who knows how I am, like,
Speaker 4: I'm not like that either, Like you're not going to
Speaker 4: make a decision just to escape goes someone or just
Speaker 4: to survive. That's it's hard to win this business because
Speaker 4: it's throw business and it's hard to tell your.
Speaker 5: Family to move and things like that.
Speaker 4: But that's to me what that's why John is who
Speaker 4: I wanted to work with because I knew why he
Speaker 4: was getting into it, and those are the things. And
Speaker 4: I also knew what we were gonna have to go
Speaker 4: through for a little bit, especially the first couple of years.
Speaker 4: And anyone who says they're going to be a certain way,
Speaker 4: and when you go through those hard times, it's human nature.
Speaker 4: It's a little bit tougher to be that way. And
Speaker 4: that's why I feel so fortunate, And just the situation
Speaker 4: I am in with someone like John, with someone like Jed,
Speaker 4: with how his parents are, like, it's just I've never
Speaker 4: sat like I've had to. I can always just tell
Speaker 4: what I think from a football standpoint, and I know
Speaker 4: I'm going to get from John what he thinks from
Speaker 4: his football standpoint, it's not always the most fun answer.
Speaker 5: You got admit a lot that you didn't.
Speaker 4: Do right, but that's the truth of it, and that's
Speaker 4: the only way that you can consistently overcome things and
Speaker 4: find a way to consistently be successful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I would just say it's it's respect and
Speaker 1: respect is earned. And you know, we felt a lot
Speaker 1: flignment when we came in here and that's only strengthened
Speaker 1: since we've been here, and that that doesn't always that's
Speaker 1: not always the case, and it's not just blind loyalty
Speaker 1: and blind trust. It's it's earned every year. It's earned
Speaker 1: every But what I know about Kyle, he's a good person.
Speaker 1: I know he gives us I say it all the time.
Speaker 1: He gives us an advantage I think every every year,
Speaker 1: every week, and he's obsessed with always continuing to evolve
Speaker 1: and press the And I think when you have that,
Speaker 1: you have his natural instincts as a coach, you have
Speaker 1: the staff, people want to work with him, people want
Speaker 1: to work with us, and you know, it's you got
Speaker 1: to you got to come to grips with the successes,
Speaker 1: with the failures, but never lose lose what the ultimate
Speaker 1: goal is and I think we've been able to do that.
Speaker 1: And we challenge each other, but we have each other's
Speaker 1: backs and that's a that's a good feeling. And you know,
Speaker 1: we got to keep forging ahead and get done what
Speaker 1: we came to get done here.
Speaker 3: Uh, John with with the contract reworking for Jamon Hargrave
Speaker 3: kind of setting up the post June one, what have
Speaker 3: you expressed him about the plan and what you would
Speaker 3: except from him or whatever the case?
Speaker 1: Maybe, Yeah, just that, Matt, it was a you know,
Speaker 1: we had some some salary cap challenges and and that
Speaker 1: was something that you know allowed for the post one
Speaker 1: you can early designate it. And what I told Javon
Speaker 1: is he's a player we really like, the same reason
Speaker 1: we went out and signed him. That hasn't changed. Uh,
Speaker 1: He's an impactful player. We did we did. We do
Speaker 1: have some challenges and so this doesn't mean we can't
Speaker 1: compete for his services.
Speaker 2: It allows him though, rather than waiting.
Speaker 1: Until post June one and being being soo because free
Speaker 1: agency already happened, it gives him an opportunity to go
Speaker 1: see what is market and that may include us.
Speaker 2: So we'll get into our plans. We know Jayvon who
Speaker 2: he is.
Speaker 1: He's on there, on a good track coming back from
Speaker 1: his injury, and you know, would we be interested in
Speaker 1: having them?
Speaker 2: Of course?
Speaker 1: Is that something we can come to an agreement on
Speaker 1: and is it something that fits in our plans?
Speaker 2: We will see.
Speaker 1: And that's that's the exact conversations I've had with Jamar.
Speaker 3: Started free to see you're free, yes, yes, depots situation.
Speaker 2: Debot's under contract, yeah back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a good player and has done a ton for
Speaker 1: this organization. And uh, you know we're not in the
Speaker 1: business of letting good players out of here.
Speaker 11: So you just took my question. I don't want to
Speaker 11: waste anything. Uh, you had to with Armstead and Juice
Speaker 11: last year. Obviously different results, but you know that was
Speaker 11: something you had to do with the finances.
Speaker 8: Do you expect to have to do more of that
Speaker 8: this offseason?
Speaker 2: You know, we will see, you know you we'll see
Speaker 2: we do we do?
Speaker 1: Uh, there there are realities, there's challenges. Like I said,
Speaker 1: we've got a lot of really good football players. Uh,
Speaker 1: the York family has been really good to letting us
Speaker 1: reward our players, and we've done that in a number
Speaker 1: of instances. That becomes tougher and tougher to continue to
Speaker 1: do so. We'll look at every avenue to become a
Speaker 1: better team, and we'll see where that takes us.
Speaker 2: Appreciate thanks, thank you,