WEBVTT - Foerster Previews 49ers Preseason, Evaluates Rookie Players | Press Pass 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:03.480 Told us the other day that probably not a lot 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:07.080 of starters are going to be playing in this upcoming game. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.479 But what about somebody like Poony that's been working with 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:12.920 the first string but who needs experience. 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:14.800 Yeah, we haven't gone through the final I know, I've 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:16.640 made my suggestions. I think most of the guys will 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.720 play up front for a little bit anyway, and I'm 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.760 not sure what we'll do. There's a couple of spots 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:24.560 maybe that won't but we'll look at it and see. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:26.759 And obviously Poony's going to play. I think he's play 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.600 some extended time. In my opinion, he should. But we'll 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:31.480 make that evaluation as a staff and make sure. I'll 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:33.920 make my recommendations which I think he should play. I 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:36.440 don't know how much that's gonna end up being, but 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.959 we'll take a good look at it and see. But 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:40.400 he needs some playing time. I mean, it'd be good 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:42.599 him go against other people and it'll be great for him. 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:43.960 All the guys really good. 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.440 Of course, you got three rookies here. You've watched some 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.720 practice now for a few weeks. What traits stand out 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.360 about Kingston, Pooney. 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.440 And Nuchen, you know everything. It's really really good. This year. 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.200 I was talking with one of our scouts this morning 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.400 and we're just discussing that these guys have all they've 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:02.959 kind of played out the way we've thought I mean, 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:07.280 Poony obviously maybe a little bit better from the fact 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.200 that how much he's mentally picked up and able to 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.440 step into this role right now and has done a 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.160 good job. Although we saw that in potential in him obviously, 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.119 the other two guys about what we thought very you know, Kingston, 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.520 very athletic, quick has the potential to move inside and 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.320 play guards center for us, and has done that. It's 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.920 got to learn to anchor some things. And then all 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:26.679 that has shown up has showed up on his college tape. 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.000 It's not a surprise it showed up here today. Same 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.840 thing with a nugent I mean, tough, tenacious, hard nose, 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.000 good guy, more of a center than a guard. But 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:36.360 he's filled and done a good job. So all the 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.200 guys have kind of checked all the boxes that we 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:39.840 kind of thought they had, and it's kind of cool 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.200 to see that that we didn't miss. As far as 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.319 that goes what their potentials and all that will do, 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.000 it's still yet to be seen. But as far as 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.480 the traits and things they had. We like all of them. 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.920 What do you what do you want to see Saturday 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:52.840 night that you haven't been able to see up to 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:54.400 now against each other? 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.280 Well, what's a good good thing is our defense does 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.120 present different things, but we were familiar with our defense. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.720 So now you get a new defense, new set of challenges. 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.640 You want to see how guys adjust on game day. 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.360 You want to see if you can make some game 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.560 you know on sideline adjustments, See if they can go 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.040 out and adjust and do it. See how they play 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.880 against different people, different techniques. Well, we won't be able 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:14.400 to give them as much prep time. That's just a 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.680 disappointing thing. You're trying to evaluate these guys and you 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:19.160 don't give them the same prep time that you do 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.200 during the season. You can't spend the whole week on 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.760 Tennessee and you don't even know who's going to be 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.200 playing for them. So the guys have to be able 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.120 to go out there and adjust two different techniques, different fundamentals, 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.880 and then you see how they do that, especially for 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:33.960 the rookies, does it feel like they're kind of itching 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.320 to get to go against some other people. I haven't. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.440 I haven't felt that way. I mean the young guys. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.639 I'm sure the older guys. Well, the older guys don't 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.520 love preseason games, but they do love the chance to 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.160 go against other guys. It does get a little bit 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.520 old going against the same guys all the time. I 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.800 really think that the young guys just looking for whatever 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:51.360 we ask them to do. They've been good, and I 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:52.919 think it will be cool to see another journey. I 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.480 remember my first preseason game when I was coaching and 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.680 I wasn't playing, but I was coaching in Minnesota, and 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.640 we played against the Cowboys in Dallas Stadium and and 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.520 to me, it felt like it was the Super Bowl. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.480 I mean, I couldn't believe it was an NFL stadium, 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.160 and I quickly realized it was just a preseason game. 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.480 But there's that initial moment where they're going to see 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.440 another team and another uniform, a helmet they've seen on 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.959 television on Madden or wherever forever, and uh, and it's 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.639 been like, wow, this is this is pretty cool. And 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.799 then it'll it'll soon settle down to be a good game, 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.079 but it'll be exciting for me. It's that first preseason game. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.480 How much value do you think the preseason still has 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.320 I know, like the kind of down from four to three. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.000 There's talk of cutting it down to two or getting 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.200 rid of it completely. How much value do you think 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.400 the preseason still still has these guys. 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.320 I've always thought it has value. I mean again, I 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.960 don't say old school, but I do think it has 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.400 value obviously. And you know the risk reward playing starters 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.200 that that you know, you risk injury in a game 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.000 that doesn't that doesn't count. But as far as development 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.440 of a player going against other players, competing against other players, 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.520 having the opportunity to show what you can do against 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.840 somebody you know else and you kind of get into 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:58.400 a routine with guys. You kind of get to know 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.520 the guy against you, and that's that's important, and that 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.720 familiarity things. Sometimes you see it happening within the course 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.040 of a game. A guy becomes familiar with the player, 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:06.640 and so how we may start a game and how 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.000 you end a game. When you get used to a 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.400 guy or he gets used to you can challenge you. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.560 And that's what's good for these guys is to get 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.560 different opponents, different looks, different things like that. It totally 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.359 changes the just the atmosphere of a game. It helps 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.680 for the younger players. It gives them game rep experience 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:23.279 that they wouldn't get. It's now, it's not the same. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.040 You notice a tick up from preseason to season, obviously 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.359 a big jump this season to the postseason, and then 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.960 every week of the postseason that intensity level goes up 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.040 even more. The pressure of the stakes and all those 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.320 things get bigger. But this is different than being out here. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.000 Even though the crowd at four nine four nine is 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.680 pretty intense, it's not going to be quite like it 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.080 is in Tennessee. Two of your more experienced guys are 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.640 Chris Hubbard and Brandon Parker. What have you seen out 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.320 of them in camp and what do you need to 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.200 see out of them in the preseason. You know, we've 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.040 seen what we need I think in camp. Obviously in 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:52.480 the preseason will be nice to see him go out 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.279 and play in our system because they haven't played in 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.960 our system before, so seeing that transition will be good 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:00.960 to see. But I think we've seen what they will 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.080 be there there Obviously could be a jump, maybe positive 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.240 or negative ways, but I don't think there will be. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.159 I think these guys are pretty tried and true vets 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.080 we brought there. They're fulfilling the role we brought him 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.520 in for. They're kind of there. It's you know, to 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.760 steady things. If there would be something go wrong, you 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.880 have some some some stable veteran backup type players there 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.560 that are competing and doing a good job. Hopefully they'll 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:21.800 be able to just keep doing the same. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.760 Hubard also more versatile. 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:26.600 I guess maybe, like could you move them inside of 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.040 Maybe it could, it could. I don't see him doing 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.040 that for us though, I think he's primarily a tackle. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:32.960 Just just after being with the guy for a little 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:34.480 while here, I think he's primarily a tackle. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:35.320 Uh. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.080 Trent continues to hold out. We know what kind of 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:42.000 player he is. Does it concern you? And at what 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.640 point what does he need to get ready for week 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.200 one in the Jets? And when in this process? Would 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:49.520 you be concerned if he's not here? 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.680 Yeah, you know, it's every guy's different. I mean, I 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.600 don't know. I'd have to talk to our strength conditioning 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.400 people know the exact ramp up time that a guy 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.920 needs to be ready to play in the regular season game. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.159 I mean, is it is hard that those sixties something 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.479 plays you play that first week? I've stated that's the 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.720 most tired of ever seen NFL players is when they 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.080 come to the sideline, if the first drive of the 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.760 first game. I mean they no matter how hard they've conditioned, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.520 no matter how hard they've trained, they've never competed, you know, 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.120 full speed competition, which goes back to the question about 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.080 a preseason game that is more full speed competition than 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.400 once you get out here. There's that snap to whistle, 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.480 all the way through the whistle, all the way from 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.960 the snap to it's never quite you know, and we 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.400 always pull off. There's not tackling. There's that little bit 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.440 left in practice that you don't go the full speed 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.599 and there's not that one hundred percent strain. They're strained, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:36.720 but each guy lets off a little bit to protect 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.120 the team and everything else. So that getting a guy 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.400 ready for that, there's a level that has to be 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:42.880 You have to go through practices and I don't know 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.680 what the exact number is for any any player, it 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.200 doesn't matter what's Trent or any other player. You have 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.480 to prepare properly. We found that when in twenty nineteen 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:54.000 we came back. Mclinche and Staley came back from injuries 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.760 the same week against Seattle, and we've played a long 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.000 games and an overtime game against Seattle here and boy really 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.200 found out with offensive lineman it's different than than receivers, Like, 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:04.920 for example, you can get a receiver and say, hey, 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.159 we're gonna run so many you know yards over the 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.360 course of your rehab time to get their strength and 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.560 conditioning back. But it's really hard to get that drive 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.760 on a player, you know, that hit and that total 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.560 strain that you get as alignment that how do you 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.720 measure that getting them ready to play in a game. 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.800 And so after thirty forty plays, Joe, both Joe and 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.360 Mike were gassed. I mean, it was unbelievable to see 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.720 how fast that you hit the wall and then fell off. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.920 So it became really imperative that we figured out how 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.960 to train guys properly to come off injury and experience 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.560 that that that push, pull and strain without risking them. 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:44.040 It happened to Trent might have been the COVID year 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.520 we played in LA and he was coming off of 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.480 an injury and man we played it was we were 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.320 in the last drive. I think Robbie kicked the field 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.440 goal to win the game, and he said, I mean, 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.440 he said, I don't know if he said I barely 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.360 made it through the dry you know, about the beginning 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.560 of the second half he said I was done. You know, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.960 there's that level of and he'd come off injury where 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.160 you know, I think he practiced a little bit that week, 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:06.600 We say, oh, yeah, he'll be fine for the games. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.760 He practiced on Friday. Well, there's more to it than 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.400 that long answer here. I don't have the exact thing, 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.960 but there's something to that strain that pushed that pull. 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.080 No matter how many games you played in that you 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:17.840 have to prep for it because even when you've done 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.320 the full process, opening days. 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:25.000 Hard, how long after opening day do you see them 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.040 kind of hit their stride. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.360 It doesn't take long. It's amazing that by the next 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.360 week it's pretty good. If they've played a game, they 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.240 kind of know what to expect. They're in great shape. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.520 It's just I guess it's that last little you know, 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.000 over to get over the hump, to try to finish it. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:39.440 It's not like you see it week two or it's 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.560 just it's always amazed me that that first series, that 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.959 first game is if you have any plays obviously three 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.040 and out they're not retired, but if you play well, 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:48.640 you can you can get. 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.480 Some How often does a guy in a preseason game 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.440 surprise you completely? Is that something that that happens. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.320 All it can happen, you know, I tell you it happens. 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.840 It happened with Banks, you know, not in a preseason. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.120 In the regular season, he just was okay, he was 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:03.800 doing well in camp. But and then all of a 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.040 sudden we started playing, and then Chicago that year and 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.840 then on after that, and he just the energy played with, 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.240 the finish he played with, the consistency was just different 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.720 than in practice. I think that you know, the grind 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.320 of period period period after you know, you don't come 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.280 to sideline and arrest. You just going and going and 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.040 going and going. And sometimes some guys don't whether that 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.000 as well as in any game, you've got the energy 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.160 of the stadium. You go, plays, you come over, your 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.200 defense plays, there's just the whole feeling of a game. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.240 And so that can happen preseason games. It has too. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.200 It's I can't remember offhand guys, but there's always that 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.199 that guy that when you get in the competition, he 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.480 just lights up. It's different. He can go full speed, 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.199 he can dive over piles, and things like that, so 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.559 it's kind of fun to watch thank you guys.