Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the forty nine Ers First and
Speaker 1: ten Podcast, ten minutes of the most up to date
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers news first thing in the morning. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Brionna McDonald, and I'm joined by a forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers team reporter, Lindsay Polaris. The forty nine Ers
Speaker 1: are officially in their wild card bye week, but that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean the work has stopped. We received some team
Speaker 1: updates from head coach Kyle Shanahan and his conference call yesterday,
Speaker 1: and he gave some insight on the team's practice schedule
Speaker 1: this week. So, lindsay, what's it going to be like
Speaker 1: to not have a game this weekend but still stay
Speaker 1: the course of training, working out and keeping their momentum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brie, not so dissimilarly from what we saw in
Speaker 2: week eighteen. The forty nine Ers are NAVI getting this
Speaker 2: line of trying to get healthy, conserve energy, get ready
Speaker 2: for the playoffs, but still remain mentally sharp in football shape.
Speaker 2: And I do think that the practice schedule very much
Speaker 2: reflects that a Wednesday is going to be kind of
Speaker 2: like a free workout day. Guys will be in the building,
Speaker 2: but it's not going to be a formal practice from point.
Speaker 2: Head coach Kyle Shanahan said, it's kind of like skill
Speaker 2: positions can go out and run.
Speaker 3: Some individual drills on the field.
Speaker 2: They'll be lifting, you know, light work Wednesday, and then
Speaker 2: full go practices on Thursday and Friday. He said that
Speaker 2: last week the forty nine ers had just one full
Speaker 2: go practice. They're trying to up that to two during
Speaker 2: the bye week, and then of course they're going to
Speaker 2: have the weekend off just because this is going to
Speaker 2: be really the last time to get a couple days
Speaker 2: off before what they hope is an extended playoff run.
Speaker 2: At least one of the two full go workouts are
Speaker 2: going to be padded practices of what you expect from
Speaker 2: this wild card week for everyone else bye week for
Speaker 2: the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: The head coach shared that there's a fine line in
Speaker 1: resting and being ready and how the team is trying
Speaker 1: to stay sharp and continue improving. So here's what Kashanahan
Speaker 1: had to say about navigating the bye week.
Speaker 4: We are in this time to sit and rest a
Speaker 4: little bit and try to get ourselves in the best
Speaker 4: position for next week. But resting doesn't always help you.
Speaker 4: I mean, you've got to be ready, and the way
Speaker 4: you get ready is you don't just sit around and
Speaker 4: wait for the moment. You got to work for that moment.
Speaker 4: So there's a very fine line and all that. We're
Speaker 4: trying to balance it out as a team. From my standpoint,
Speaker 4: just guys who can get healthy trying to help them
Speaker 4: do that. I think we started that last week. Guys
Speaker 4: who can just get better, get smarter in certain areas,
Speaker 4: like if we can find any of those spots, that's
Speaker 4: what we're trying to really focus on. And everybody just says,
Speaker 4: an individual's got to make sure they kind of sharpen
Speaker 4: their sword and keep trying to get it to the
Speaker 4: best spot for really almost two weeks from now. And
Speaker 4: that's something that you know, yeah, I'll do it here
Speaker 4: and there, but it's there's no magical speech that just
Speaker 4: truly motivates people. It's trying to make sense that people
Speaker 4: understand what they need to do to perform. And sometimes
Speaker 4: when I don't reach guys on in ways like that,
Speaker 4: hopefully there's a guy who works next to him who
Speaker 4: knows them in a different way who can reach him
Speaker 4: that way. And that's why we have lots of people
Speaker 4: in this building who are leaders and really try to
Speaker 4: help each other because it never can come from one person.
Speaker 1: And this hard earned bye week is going to serve
Speaker 1: a lot of players well, especially those who are dealing
Speaker 1: with injuries. And it was quite a list of updates,
Speaker 1: twelve guys who are working through injuries coming out of
Speaker 1: the regular season. So, lindsay, could you break it down
Speaker 1: for us who are some players that we could see
Speaker 1: back out at practice this week and which guys are
Speaker 1: sitting out this week?
Speaker 2: Yes, Brie, like you mentioned, the forty nine ers injury
Speaker 2: list is in double digits, but I don't want that
Speaker 2: to be a huge alarm to the forty nine ers faithful,
Speaker 2: just anyone interested in this team, because head coach Kyle
Speaker 2: Shanahan actually said he feels good about this injury list
Speaker 2: because the forty nine ers do have the luxury of
Speaker 2: time with the bye week. They're not going to be
Speaker 2: playing on wild card weekend, and then they've still got
Speaker 2: a full week separating them from the divisional round game
Speaker 2: that's gonna happen at some point the weekend of January twentieth.
Speaker 2: So I think some notable updates. There's twelve names on
Speaker 2: this list, but running back Christian McCaffrey. He's gonna be
Speaker 2: sitting out for a second straight week with that calf strain,
Speaker 2: but they feel very confident that he'll be back at
Speaker 2: practice next week. Ambry Thomas, who we heard had hand
Speaker 2: surgery last week, should be back at practice this week.
Speaker 2: He wasn't expected to miss significant time and it's kind
Speaker 2: of working out in that way. Defensive lineman Eric Armstead,
Speaker 2: who's been dealing with foot and knee injuries. He has
Speaker 2: not played since Week thirteen. He closed out that Eagles
Speaker 2: game and has not had playing time since. He's actually
Speaker 2: expected to be back at practice this week. I think
Speaker 2: the plan, the working plan, is to have him practice
Speaker 2: on Thursday, see how it goes, and possibly have him
Speaker 2: in on Friday as well. Wide receiver Juwan Jennings, who
Speaker 2: spent some significant time in the league's concussion protocol, has cleared,
Speaker 2: so we should see him at practice as well. Defensive
Speaker 2: lineman Cleland Ferrell, who actually made an early exit to
Speaker 2: that regular season finale and was really the only significant
Speaker 2: injury coming out of that Rams game. He is actually
Speaker 2: expected to miss a few weeks, but the hope is
Speaker 2: that he will return at some point in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: and I think the wording that Shanahan said was likely
Speaker 2: missed at least one game. Safety Taylor Hawkins, who made
Speaker 2: his NFL debut against the Rams, actually suffered a risk
Speaker 2: injury that he will need surgery on. And then we
Speaker 2: remember tight end George Kittle had some backspasm's pre game
Speaker 2: ended up not playing against the Rams.
Speaker 3: He's doing much better. Drake Greenlaw also ended up being
Speaker 3: a scratch from that Rams game and the team is
Speaker 3: going to be smart with him during the bye. John
Speaker 3: Fulciano day to day to Sean Gibson Senior, he had
Speaker 3: a quad injury, was held out out of the regular
Speaker 3: season finale, going to be back at practice. And then
Speaker 3: safety George Odom who suffered a biceps tear earlier in
Speaker 3: the season and was placed on injured reserve. He's going
Speaker 3: to have his twenty one day practice window opened this week,
Speaker 3: so also expect to see him back at workouts.
Speaker 1: All right, quite a list, but it's looking bright. So
Speaker 1: thank you Lindsay for those updates. And yesterday's call was
Speaker 1: also the first time we heard from the head coach
Speaker 1: following Sunday's Rams game, So what was his evaluation on
Speaker 1: the team's backup and rotational players, and where is his
Speaker 1: confidence in this team's depths.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think specifically he was speaking to the defense,
Speaker 2: but more generally, he said he was happy that the
Speaker 2: rotational players, the newcomers to the team, the younger players,
Speaker 2: were really able to get those significant snap counts just
Speaker 2: in a live action game. There really is nothing that
Speaker 2: can replace those reps. They're really good experience. He was
Speaker 2: also happy to see Sam Darnold get those very significant
Speaker 2: reps get the start because you never know what happens
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, and you know injuries they're unfortunate, but
Speaker 2: they do happen. As you can see by the current
Speaker 2: injury list for the forty nine ers, there has been
Speaker 2: a number of injuries at several key positions. So you
Speaker 2: want to make sure that your players are ready to
Speaker 2: go at a moment's notice, because you never know when
Speaker 2: you're going to need that next man up. But that
Speaker 2: being said, he did mention that the forty nine ers
Speaker 2: at various position groups really do have a heavy rotation going.
Speaker 2: You can see that specifically on the defensive line at
Speaker 2: the nickelback position, players are rotating in and out in
Speaker 2: order to keep them fresh. Keep them ready as the
Speaker 2: game is going on. So rotational players are getting those
Speaker 2: significant reps, but to have the large majority of them
Speaker 2: in that regular season finale, he was really happy that
Speaker 2: that was something they were able to do.
Speaker 1: Now that the twenty twenty three regular season has come
Speaker 1: to a close, now is the time that the awards
Speaker 1: start rolling in and we have some exciting wins to announce.
Speaker 1: The NFL Players Association released its list for the second
Speaker 1: annual Players All Pro Team. And what's cool about this
Speaker 1: award is that it's voted on exclusively by active NFL players,
Speaker 1: and this honor is different from the AP All Pro
Speaker 1: list that is soon to come. But it looks like
Speaker 1: four forty nine Ers players received NFLPA All Pro honors. Lindsay,
Speaker 1: would you like to share who made the team?
Speaker 2: Yes, congratulations are in order for Trent Williams, Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 2: Kyle Check, and Fred Warner. For Williams, Warner and you Sheck,
Speaker 2: this is actually their second time being voted onto the
Speaker 2: Players All Pro Team. And like you mentioned, Brie, this
Speaker 2: is a little bit different than when you see a
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl vote or just the AP All Pro Team
Speaker 2: because this is one hundred percent voted on by the players.
Speaker 2: They're the only ones voicing their votes in this and
Speaker 2: they count for one hundred percent of the outcome, so
Speaker 2: it's a it's a very cool distinction to know that
Speaker 2: your colleagues across the league are the ones that voted
Speaker 2: you onto this list. So huge congratulations to those four
Speaker 2: forty nine ers players. And you know, like you mentioned,
Speaker 2: awards season is just ramping up, so we'll be very
Speaker 2: excited to see what else the forty nine Ers bring home.
Speaker 1: Great, well, that will do it for this episode. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, Lindsay for joining me in this update.
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