Speaker 1: That's up guys.
Speaker 2: The practice or injury reports for today, George Kittle is limited,
Speaker 2: Armstead was limited, Ambry Thomas was limited, or in Burgs
Speaker 2: was limited, and that was it go ahead.
Speaker 1: What kind of status is Kittle and Armstead? Do you
Speaker 1: have any concerns about them at this point in the week. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It'll be good to go.
Speaker 3: Hello. Coach Christian McCaffrey had done an historic season this year.
Speaker 3: Without any quarterback doing historic season as well, it would
Speaker 3: have been an MVP lock in the nineties early two
Speaker 3: thousand and Today, it seems unlactly that you will be
Speaker 3: MVP during the NFL. W knows. Do you think it's
Speaker 3: impossible in the actual NFL for non quarterback to be
Speaker 3: m VP.
Speaker 2: I think it's possible, but it doesn't seem like they
Speaker 2: do that anymore. I mean, I just think it's hard
Speaker 2: to compare to those positions a little bit. So, I mean,
Speaker 2: if anyone's ever been an MVP that's not a quarterback,
Speaker 2: it's definitely a Christian, But I it does usually.
Speaker 1: Go to a quarterback.
Speaker 2: So hopefully someday they'll be able to balance that out.
Speaker 2: So guys deserve it for both spots. Because they're not
Speaker 2: comparable positions.
Speaker 4: Kyle Ryan Dunleavy, New York post a lot of the
Speaker 4: why do you think so many of successful Super Bowl
Speaker 4: teams have had trick plays? Aggressive plays, Philly Special, Sean
Speaker 4: Payton's on sidekick. Is it the extra week to prepare?
Speaker 4: Why do you think that is?
Speaker 1: And do you.
Speaker 4: Think that's something that Super Bowl winning teams have to do?
Speaker 1: Be more aggressive?
Speaker 2: No, I think you got to do. I think you
Speaker 2: gotta be strategic. I don't think anyone just says let's
Speaker 2: be aggressive. I think that was a good I think
Speaker 2: the Philly Special was a great two point play versus
Speaker 2: man de man coverage, only they're not on that ver
Speaker 2: zone and they had a good man check. They knew
Speaker 2: they played man, so that usually is a really good play.
Speaker 2: And I think Sean Payton, I'm just guessing, knew going
Speaker 2: against Peyton Manning in that offense, he was going to
Speaker 2: do everything he could to steal a possession. Probably saw
Speaker 2: a guy leaving too early on the kickoff team all year,
Speaker 2: and I was probably a risk worth taking knowing who
Speaker 2: they were going against.
Speaker 1: Just one more awards question. Patrick Willis has a chance
Speaker 1: to be in the Hall of Fame this year.
Speaker 2: What's your biggest memory about Patrick Willis on the field, just.
Speaker 1: Him kicking the crap out of us?
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't remember being in Patrick Willis
Speaker 2: too much. Didn't get a play against him a ton.
Speaker 2: I want to say the last time was probably thirty
Speaker 2: one to three game. I think in twenty thirteen when
Speaker 2: he came to Washington. They had a hell of a
Speaker 2: defense and he was the best guy out there.
Speaker 5: Hi, Kyle, can you talk about your observations the level
Speaker 5: of intensity at practice today and also how do you
Speaker 5: balance the messaging with you know, the margin for air
Speaker 5: against a team like the Chiefs, but also wanting guys
Speaker 5: to play fast and free on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Usually super Bowl practices are you know, they're great. Guys,
Speaker 2: got a lot of natural energy. They're all really excited
Speaker 2: for the moment on Sunday, and guys just want they
Speaker 2: want every opportunity to go through that. So they's prepared
Speaker 2: as well as they can be when you get to Sunday.
Speaker 2: Anytime you get into the playoffs, let alone the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl practices, meetings, everything, everyone's just a lot more alert
Speaker 2: and you want them. I mean, once the game starts,
Speaker 2: it's all about cuttings. That's why you go through everything
Speaker 2: throughout the week and you try to be up tight
Speaker 2: about every single detail and cover it all. But when
Speaker 2: that game starts, it's it's not about thinking. It's about
Speaker 2: reacting and playing. And usually if you've had the right preparation,
Speaker 2: then you're you can play that way. If you've got
Speaker 2: to start thinking on Sunday, you're in trouble.
Speaker 1: Coach good after from Mexico.
Speaker 6: Coach bigger Kids for you guys, slowing down for is
Speaker 6: Kelsey or stopping Chris Jones. And a second moan, if
Speaker 6: you let me, if you go, if you win, how
Speaker 6: are you going to to celebrate.
Speaker 1: Your first one? Who's hard to stop Kelsey or Chris Jones?
Speaker 1: Is that what you asked it? Bigger Keys? We gotta
Speaker 1: do both. I can't put one in front of the other.
Speaker 2: Because they are on separate sides of the ball, and
Speaker 2: they're the two biggest challenges in each side. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's what's so different about football. You don't It's not
Speaker 2: basketball where you're playing back and forth. It's one offense
Speaker 2: for Southern defense and vice versus. So it's two separate
Speaker 2: games going out there, and it's how everything ties together.
Speaker 2: That's why quarterbacks are never playing against each other. Chris
Speaker 2: Shones is the toughest guy to deal with on their defense,
Speaker 2: and you know, after Pat, I mean Travis is the toughest,
Speaker 2: one of the toughest players to.
Speaker 1: Deal with in this league.
Speaker 2: So they're both two huge challenges.
Speaker 1: I haven't thought about that yet, but I'll do it
Speaker 1: for a while. It won't just be one.
Speaker 7: Night, Kyle.
Speaker 8: In this day and age where there's a lot of data,
Speaker 8: analytics and film study, how much do you allow your
Speaker 8: gut to take over and make.
Speaker 9: A call for you.
Speaker 2: I mean film study and I mean film study analytics.
Speaker 2: That's what affects your gut. I mean your gut, not
Speaker 2: just gambling under letter or anything. It's you study, you prepare,
Speaker 2: You do that.
Speaker 1: A lot of ways.
Speaker 2: You know your own team, You know the tendencies of
Speaker 2: what you're going against, from watching film, from watching techniques.
Speaker 2: You get tons of analytics reports that sometimes can really help,
Speaker 2: sometimes they're skewed. You got to look into all that
Speaker 2: and match it with what you see, and that's what
Speaker 2: affects your gut. Your gut isn't just hey, I got
Speaker 2: a good guts, you've worked out it all week, and
Speaker 2: which allows you to anticipate and do stuff because every
Speaker 2: decision is based off of that. There's not until we
Speaker 2: get robots doing this. There's not just hey, this equals
Speaker 2: this and you go to this. It's it's all about
Speaker 2: that one play, and there's different variations and it's only
Speaker 2: about that one play.
Speaker 8: Kyle jam Alexander with three Old Talker. Media's quick to
Speaker 8: make narratives sometimes about careers, and there might be one
Speaker 8: if you don't win this game, that you can't win
Speaker 8: the big one. How are you prepared to deal with that?
Speaker 8: If that would be the case, that that might be
Speaker 8: the narrative coming out of this game.
Speaker 1: If you guys don't win, I deal with it the
Speaker 1: same way.
Speaker 2: If we win, I celebrate with our team, I celebrate
Speaker 2: with my families, and I move on with the rest
Speaker 2: of my life, which is being a father, son and
Speaker 2: coaching and working and doing all that.
Speaker 1: I mean, narrative, good or bad is just a narrative.
Speaker 2: And that's my biggest thing with everything, Like when you
Speaker 2: go into these games, what makes you prepare? I just
Speaker 2: don't want to regrets. I just don't want to do
Speaker 2: everything that makes sense to myself, that makes sense for
Speaker 2: our team. And when you do that, that's what I
Speaker 2: have found. No matter how hard something is or good
Speaker 2: something is, you always keep perspective of what it really
Speaker 2: is if you want to. If you want your perspective
Speaker 2: to be someone else's narrative. Good luck being happy in
Speaker 2: life or successful.
Speaker 6: Kyle, I have a pretty important question always, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: Can you discuss the smoke alarm affected you?
Speaker 8: Were you able to get back to sleep?
Speaker 10: How a little affect you?
Speaker 2: On Sunday we were already up so and then getting
Speaker 2: into the coaches and we're in the basement, so we
Speaker 2: didn't actually hear it. But by the time I saw
Speaker 2: the players at seven and asked them how their night was,
Speaker 2: they're all were complaining about the fire alarm and all
Speaker 2: having to go outside and everything. So I didn't realize
Speaker 2: how big of a deal it was till I met
Speaker 2: them and they showed me the video, and so I
Speaker 2: think it was a pain for them. Just no one
Speaker 2: wants to get up at six and have to go
Speaker 2: outside when we don't have meetings till eight.
Speaker 1: But it is what it is.
Speaker 4: Hey, Kyle, how do you reconcile the fact that everything
Speaker 4: you do throughout the season and even through the off season,
Speaker 4: how do you kind of sit with the fact that
Speaker 4: it all boils down to this one moment, these three
Speaker 4: hours on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I think that's how it boils down to it for everybody.
Speaker 2: I think if I look at my whole NFL career,
Speaker 2: like I feel like the only time that you ever
Speaker 2: in the season satisfied without a Super Bowl is maybe
Speaker 2: people's first year as a head coach.
Speaker 1: If you exceed over.
Speaker 2: It, over exceed expectations, if you do that more than
Speaker 2: people think and you're just short of the playoffs, it's
Speaker 2: like the only time that you haven't made the playoffs
Speaker 2: and you're not just feeling like you completely failed after
Speaker 2: that if you don't make the playoffs in this league, like,
Speaker 2: no one's happy. If you make the playoffs and you
Speaker 2: lose your last game in the playoffs, no one's happy
Speaker 2: when you get to the super Bowl. If you lose
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, you're not happy. I got told this
Speaker 2: a long time ago. There's usually only one team that's
Speaker 2: happy at the end of the year. And so whether
Speaker 2: it comes down to the Super Bowl, it's a playoff game,
Speaker 2: it's all the same, Like we're going for the big one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it hurts when you get that close to it because
Speaker 2: it is so hard to get there. But I mean
Speaker 2: there's lots of big games in this league. I'm very
Speaker 2: fortunate our team's been able to get here twice.
Speaker 1: You know, last one was a tough one.
Speaker 2: I felt we had every opportunity to win that, but
Speaker 2: they made those plays that if we did it at
Speaker 2: the end, and I think it's gonna be a real
Speaker 2: tight game this week. We got two really good teams
Speaker 2: and we'll see how it unfolds.
Speaker 1: But I like our chances.
Speaker 7: Coach Ablo Martine Ridmo. Yesterday, Troy Vincent at an Amazon presentation,
Speaker 7: talked about the impact of.
Speaker 1: AI and data on head coaching.
Speaker 7: He said some of the younger coaches would love to
Speaker 7: have that as help because they're not as experienced.
Speaker 1: The older coaches.
Speaker 7: Don't want that anywhere near the younger coaches because it
Speaker 7: made even even the field. You've been a young coach,
Speaker 7: you're not a young coach anymore. Do you ever foresee
Speaker 7: having a booth next to you so you can consult
Speaker 7: very quickly or at this point what you know is
Speaker 7: good enough and the machine won't help you.
Speaker 2: No, I mean what anybody knows isn't good enough. Everything
Speaker 2: evolves every day, so I don't care if you're young
Speaker 2: or old, or it's this week or next week. Like
Speaker 2: if you don't stop, if you stop learning, you're it's
Speaker 2: not for long. So I mean, I don't that's pretty
Speaker 2: broad on what AI does and everything, but if it
Speaker 2: can help, I mean we'll use anything that helps. But again, football,
Speaker 2: like percentages and everything can help people have a clue
Speaker 2: what happens over a long period of time.
Speaker 1: That's why I always related to blackjack.
Speaker 2: If you follow the rules exactly, you should win fifty
Speaker 2: one percent of the time if you no one sits
Speaker 2: next to you who doesn't know the rules. But football
Speaker 2: is not that way. You didn't you don't get to
Speaker 2: run that third and one one hundred times and end
Speaker 2: up if you do it the exact way someone next
Speaker 2: to you, you'll be fifty one percent. So I mean
Speaker 2: sometimes you get a lot of numbers, but people don't realize, well,
Speaker 2: yeah they're a good run team.
Speaker 1: Well that was pretty bad.
Speaker 2: Did you see that one guy busts and let's get
Speaker 2: that seventy yarder all of a sudden, But everyone else
Speaker 2: is going to talk to you about how they're real
Speaker 2: good run teams. So like all that stuff, and sometimes
Speaker 2: it's really good. That's why you got to take.
Speaker 1: It all in.
Speaker 2: But don't just read a sheet and think it's the
Speaker 2: cliff notes and it'll help you pass the tests. Better
Speaker 2: go verify it in a lot of different ways, because
Speaker 2: it's one decision.
Speaker 10: Kyle, what do you remember about what your dad told
Speaker 10: you after the last Super Bowl? And then what kind
Speaker 10: of conversations have you had leading up to this one?
Speaker 2: I mean last super Will did say he was proud
Speaker 2: of me, hurt from me. Those they're tough. That's why
Speaker 2: it happens right away, like probably any dad would do
Speaker 2: as it goes by you. I can talk more football
Speaker 2: with my dad than most people can, but not much
Speaker 2: different than any other game. You know, so nothing magical
Speaker 2: to give you guess, Kyle, would.
Speaker 9: You agree that you know, maybe you guys haven't played
Speaker 9: your A game yet in the two playoff games, and
Speaker 9: how have you gone about challenging your team and preparing
Speaker 9: them so that this game is a more complete game
Speaker 9: from start to finish.
Speaker 2: I mean that's I don't think we've necessarily played our
Speaker 2: A game all year. I mean I think just in
Speaker 2: all three phases. I thought probably in all three phases
Speaker 2: it was maybe Dallas we got there. I think in
Speaker 2: the second half of the Philly game didn't start out
Speaker 2: that right that way. We've been able to win a
Speaker 2: lot of games, and win a lot of them not
Speaker 2: very that weren't very close, But I mean we don't everything.
Speaker 1: We never have acted.
Speaker 2: I mean, those two games in the playoffs definitely weren't
Speaker 2: our best all around in all three phases. But you're
Speaker 2: also going to get some better teams too. It always
Speaker 2: does get harder. But our team, we haven't sat here
Speaker 2: and said, what do we got to do these last
Speaker 2: two weeks. This is what we do every single game,
Speaker 2: even games that people think we're doing real good, and
Speaker 2: we don't always look at it that way. So we're
Speaker 2: pretty hard on each other. We there's nothing new that
Speaker 2: we're seeing, like, oh, we got to fix it every
Speaker 2: single play, whether it's practice, whether it's walk through, whether
Speaker 2: it's the game, it's it's always accounted for.
Speaker 1: So we got guys that like football, they.
Speaker 2: Don't mind getting corrected, and we just keep working at it,
Speaker 2: always trying to have that perfect game, which probably never
Speaker 2: will have but hopefully we can have as good of
Speaker 2: a one this week, and that'd be our last one
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 1: You're right, last one, Kyle.
Speaker 10: You when you first took over as the head coach
Speaker 10: of the Niners, your offense was known for a lot
Speaker 10: of under center play action. That was kind of the
Speaker 10: new big thing. Over the last five six years, you've
Speaker 10: been running it less and less and less, but more
Speaker 10: shotgun flash and more undercentered straight drop back. What's been
Speaker 10: the impetus behind that? Change?
Speaker 1: Lots of things? How defense play?
Speaker 2: You it to a certain passes you want to do
Speaker 2: out of the shotgun, and then once you do more
Speaker 2: stuff out of the gun, how you I mean regards
Speaker 2: to whether it's in gun or under center. We're still
Speaker 2: trying to be balanced on first and that can down.
Speaker 2: So you come up with new runs out of the shotgun,
Speaker 2: which leads to new play actions out of the shotgun.
Speaker 2: Whatever you do a lot of you usually get stuff
Speaker 2: off of that, and I don't know, if you get
Speaker 2: quarterbacks that are more comfortable with it, you start to
Speaker 2: do a different play Things just evolve and you just
Speaker 2: keep learning.
Speaker 1: You build inventory,