WEBVTT - Kyle Shanahan Evaluates 49ers Offense Heading into #LACvsSF | Press Pass 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.960 Kyle, do you plan on announcing a number two quarterback 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.040 or you're gonna wait till right before the game. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.880 And he's had something that could rotate week to week 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:10.720 throughout the season. 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:11.480 How do you see that? 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:16.280 Yes? Saw that positive. 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.079 I mean I would think probably announced it before we 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.160 played Pittsburgh, but not this game. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:23.960 Do you think you would you could rotate throughout the week? 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:25.920 Definitely, Yeah, definitely. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:28.680 That's on the order you're gonna play the quarterbacks. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:29.960 I haven't decided. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.680 No, today's a big part of that and tomorrow, but 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.640 we'll decide for these two practices have really gotten in 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:37.360 much and. 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.000 Has a practiced a ton? Is there a reason? Is 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:41.600 just to get more renounced with other guys. 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:43.720 There is the reason why he hasn't been playing too much. 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.720 Uh, it's just hard to play for guys. It's a challenge. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.080 We got him a lot earlier in camp knowing that, 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.960 especially when we had more threes. But I mean, we 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.640 don't even do really threes now. Our ones are consistent 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.520 of ones and twos, and our twos are consistent of 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.280 twos and threes. It's just tough to get those of 0:00:59.320 --> 0:00:59.880 This time. 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.400 The procedure will work with the third quarterback role. 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.000 Are you gonna have to designate a guy or is 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:08.280 it just one of your seven inactives can theoretically playing. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.440 No. I believe they sent the memo last night. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.319 I have not read through it all yet, but I 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:14.680 believe we're gonna have to designate him. 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.119 It'll be a specific guy. You can't go back and forth. 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.600 Oh you said, answer was fifteen days ago. Now you 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.080 were not at all stressed about nig posting not being here. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:27.759 How are you feeling today? 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:28.759 Nothing's changed. 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.240 I know John was just saying for himself that you 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:37.240 usually thought he needed three weeks of practices to be 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.399 ready for We went for the means for everybody. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.760 But in your general I know we're insigning three wee 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.200 We're right about three weeks now. He thinks about three weeks, 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.080 two weeks. What does a player generally mean? 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.160 You never know until you put him through that. 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:51.720 So, I mean, I think Bos his first year here, 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:54.760 he got I think it was a high ankle sprain. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:56.600 I think he went like the first week of practice 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.760 and then we didn't see him again ntil Wednesday verse 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.320 Tampa Bay, and he played in that game. So it's 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.160 I mean, it's different for every player I was much 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.279 confidence with Nick. As any player I've ever been around, 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.840 you always wanted to be more time. I wish it 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:10.440 was three weeks. I wish it was five weeks. But 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:13.240 I'm not sure how many weeks it's going to be. 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.000 But you always would like more. 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.200 Kyle, the last couple of weeks, No, I haven't. What 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.080 would you like to see Saturday or Friday that makes 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.239 you feel good about the kicking situation going to the season. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.680 I mean, usually if they make them, I got no 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.000 thoughts after that. When they miss them, then you then 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:34.679 you think about it and you evaluate it. You think 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.760 of why it's not always that. Sometimes it's the snaps, 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.720 sometimes it's the rush, but you look into all of it. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.399 I'm pretty confident with what I see in practice every day. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:45.959 I know we've had two outings, and I wish those 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:50.480 two are a little bit better. But if practice was the. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.120 Same, I think i'd feel a little bit different. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.519 With Christian McCaffrey kind of get through Camp Wick and 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.760 pretty don't good. I mean, how much more meaningful can 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.079 you be with this offense as opposed to it last 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:01.840 year when he kind of. 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.720 Came in on the fly and obviously did pretty darn well. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.079 And I guess how hesitant were you to pull the 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.560 trigger on that trade, to give up so many picks. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.600 I mean, you're always hesitant just because there's risks and everything. 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.320 I mean, it's you know, how good of a player 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.880 he is, and when you have an opportunity to get 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.200 a player like that, you want to look into it 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:24.960 at all, all of it, not just the player, but 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.000 how it fits to the whole contract, of your whole 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.080 salary cap and everything. You got to look at what 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.919 it means by giving up those picks, and you don't 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:35.840 worry at all about it in terms of how good 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.040 he is and stuff and things like that. But there's 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:39.760 also luck to it. You got to stay healthy, things 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.920 got to go. So it's it's always a risk. I mean, 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:44.880 you look back at it last year, it's thank god, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.240 how could you even hesitate on anything. I mean, that's 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.640 a no brainer, but you never know the future of it. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.600 But when you have a chance to get a guy 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.640 like him the way he looks on tape, and we 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.320 didn't know him that well. People act like I knew 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.560 him before, but I I numerous parents and having him 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.760 since then, not just how he's been on the field 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:09.240 and in practice, but understanding the person feels so good 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:10.920 of what we gave up to get him, and knowing 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:11.960 that he's a forty nine er. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.400 You guys have a good track record of you giving 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:21.520 these big deals done warnered uh so forth, Nick is 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.040 an outmire in this case. Is there any frustration that 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:25.640 you know, you guys. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.440 Haven't reached it? Grammar N. 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.240 Now it's going r pretty much exactly how I expected 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:34.480 it to go. That's so now it's kind of just 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:35.160 been exactly what. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.200 I thought you expected it to go this long. 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.200 Yeah, I had a feeling it would. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.000 When do you expect it to end? 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:44.920 Hopefully sooner than later? 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.280 How how different is it to have your DC up 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.120 in the booth? I know you haven't had that previous. 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:52.440 Is it any different for you at all? 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:52.719 No? 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.080 I forgot about it until after the game, cause I don't. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:58.960 I don't need to go talk to many people face 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:00.640 to face unless I want to know one else to hear. 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.360 Since we're all attached through technology, none of that stuff 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.360 matters to me. I mean, you can communicate with everyone 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:10.040 so easily. You know, need to go have one on 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.440 ones with people, and you can do it all through 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.680 your microphone, so it's it's not much difference at all. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:19.640 Sam Donald, the team is established as this point that's 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.960 going into the season. Why play him in the third 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.440 preseason game at all of the starters? I mean, what 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:26.680 what goes into that decision. 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.599 It's all about having guys ready to play a real 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.880 football game, and there's so much that goes into mentally 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.440 being ready, physically being ready. I mean this is you 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.200 can't have any hesitation in this game, and week one starts, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.960 it's people see that, and you can lose games very 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.760 fast just being a little bit off. I've you kind 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.440 of build that with experience over your career, but I've 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.159 had guys that I've sat for a whole preseason games 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.920 and then then fumble their first play that they get 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.280 in and then you kill you kick yourself in the 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:56.800 butt for it. 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:57.719 It's just like wolves I do. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.640 And you've also played guys and they get hurt and 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.080 you're like, what the hell was I thinking? So there's 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.920 zero absolutes in any of it. That's why I don't 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:06.440 sit here and tell you guys what we're doing way 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.080 in advance. I look at each thing day to day. 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.040 I look at our practices, I look at our reps, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.479 I look at the individual, how he is and where 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.359 he's at in his career, how he is just with 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.360 the week, and where he is in terms of being 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.880 ready for week one. All that stuff goes into it 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.240 and you don't really know until it's over what the 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.520 right decision was. So that's why it's not always fun 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.919 to make those decisions. But I also know when you 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.080 just sit at everyone and you don't practice football, you. 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.120 Do, your guys are pretty big disservice. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.000 Where Sam Donald make the biggest. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.800 Improvement is just each day, I mean coming here not 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.640 knowing the offense, not playing an often similar to it, 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.359 just his command getting in and out of the huddle. 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.400 Where he is now compared to day one, he's been 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.200 real consistent in everything that he didn't come in the 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.640 first day just owning it all because you can't when 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:54.960 you haven don't have the experience. But each day that 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:56.880 he's done it, he's gone better and better and he 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.120 just looks more and more comfortable and everything he's doing. 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.080 Much you portray, where do you see him make the 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:02.320 biggest improvement this offseason? 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.400 This offseason was just kind of getting healthy again and 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.719 redefining you know, how he throws, get in his balance. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.640 I think Trey from when he got hurt to where 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.800 he is now completely I think. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:15.960 It helped him. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.080 It always helps to play through things and go through 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:19.920 that stuff, but for him to sit back last year 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.120 and really get to watch some stuff and know what 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.120 he needed to focus on. Because he did get that 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.040 week and a half of plan, he did get the 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.040 whole training camp, the whole preseason. He knew exactly what 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.200 he was in for, and unfortunately he got hurt and 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.320 didn't get to go through it. But I think he 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.600 made a positive out of it because mentally he really 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.880 saw what he had to improve on just watching other 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.760 guys go through it. And it's been pretty well documented, 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:43.600 but I think he did improve on that stuff before 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.720 he came back, and now improving on it before he came. 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.480 Back has allowed him to get a lot better through 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:49.440 all his reps. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.400 Ahead yet about who he'd like to see running the 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.600 scout team and who could benefit from you know, the 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.600 extra reps that that that provides throughout. 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.520 The courts of the season. I mean, yeah, but then again, 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.000 you're this is the NFL, so you don't you think 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:07.760 about how to get your team ready to win that week. 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.600 And most of that has to do with who's best 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.320 for our defense, who gets them the right look and 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:14.960 prepares our team the best way for what they're about 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.600 to face on Sunday, uh and then the and after that. Yeah, 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.200 you try to get everyone reps because you know to 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:21.960 get better with reps. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.520 Alternate week between Sam and. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.640 And Yep, we have three quarterbacks. 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.920 I don't think at all before are you pretty much 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:34.439 committed you're gonna keep at least three. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:38.400 On this fifty three we kept three. I think we 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.120 had CJ and Nick, all three of them. 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.640 After after I think Nick started playing, I think we 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.640 kept all three of them. I mean, you keep three 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.719 when when you have three it's and everyone in the 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.680 NFL it's hard with the fifty three man roster, so 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.440 you'd like to keep You like to keep two so 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:55.959 you can get another position somewhere. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:57.440 You know. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.280 The new rule I don't think is gonna change anyone. 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.800 That's just the bonus. It's not like you get an 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.360 extra fifty fourth. It still takes away from that. You 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.360 just get extra one up on game day. But for 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.880 what happened to us the one time out of ten 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.679 thousand games or whatever, it is you know, I don't 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:13.920 think people are going to change. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.640 Their rosters because of that. But if you do have 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.560 a third one that you don't want. 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.040 To lose because guys are it's hard to have quarterbacks, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.439 it's hard to keep them on practice squad two, then 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:23.200 that's what you got to do. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.440 What you saw? What are the traits you saw in 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.360 Anthony Miller that led you guys to bring him in. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.400 I mean I remember studying them coming out of college. 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.080 We were big fans of them coming out of college. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.959 I remember him what the Bears doing some good things, 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.320 but we had to work out with guys. I didn't 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.000 even go out to it, but they were the most 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.720 impressive with him out of the four people, I think 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.680 we had four, maybe three. But he's a guy I 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:48.200 remember being a big fan of in college. 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.680 You know, your wide receiver corps, you've lost a couple 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.880 of year vertical speed. How important has a play caller 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.360 is it to have that vertical threat? And does it 0:09:58.480 --> 0:09:59.680 change how teams defend you. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.439 If you don't, Yeah, definitely, you know it's extremely important. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.440 You have some people with that Forty times people know 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.800 when you don't, and it changes a lot of stuff. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:08.520 Makes it tighter. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.160 H Kyle, Uh, what do you think of Elijah in 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:14.240 a first practice back? 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.880 And do you anticipate him seeing a decent amount of 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:18.120 playing time on Friday? 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.719 I doubt it, and we got to ease him back 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:21.240 in yesterday. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.680 It was his first day back. I thought he looked awesome. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.160 We'll see how he is today. We'll kind of factor 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.960 that in after two more days of practice. But I mean, 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.079 I'll picture Elijah with just getting these two and a 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.080 half days in being a big thing this week. 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.640 But we'll see. I'll give one more. 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:43.079 Ahead follow up on the UH wide receiver speed question. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.920 Where is Chris Conley in that? I mean, does he 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.360 still have that speed he had coming out? 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.480 And how close is he to replicating what what Danny 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:52.080 Gray can do? 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.000 I mean Chris since he's I mean, I remember we 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.280 worked Chris out in the local trial day when I 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.640 was in Atlanta, and you just look at the cards 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.600 and I didn't know any of the local guys until 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:04.960 I saw a guy with four to three on it 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.640 and that was him, and then he went in the 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:08.040 third round. 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:08.560 I believed. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.200 But you know, Chris has always been a speedster, which 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:12.960 is what you know got him drafted. And helped him 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:14.560 a lot in his career. And he can still run 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.400 without a doubt. I don't know if this is exact same, 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.600 but I know he can still run. But where Chris 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:20.760 has been the best is he's been a true veteran 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.280 receiver for us. You know him an Willie. This guy 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.600 is very reliable. When you throw it to him, he 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.679 catches it. He's in the right spot, and you know 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.480 he's had a grind through camp. He's grinding and try 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.720 to make this team. But usually once those guys get 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.679 past camp and they can get their legs back and stuff, 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.599 Chris is one of our faster guys. 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:40.079 I guess, thanks Dave.