Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Injuries from the night Zaane Goazalez, Peter's right calf and
Speaker 2: pregame warm ups, never was able to participate. Chris Conley shoulder,
Speaker 2: he had to leave. Aj Parker pulled his hamstring. Taylor
Speaker 2: Hawkins we think broke his hand, and that was it
Speaker 2: from today.
Speaker 3: Can you talk about the just the logic of getting
Speaker 3: rid of trade for a fourth round pick, like why
Speaker 3: was that a good.
Speaker 1: Move for the organization. Well, we decided our two were
Speaker 1: gonna be that we were going with.
Speaker 2: We'll see our fifty three works out to see if
Speaker 2: we're gonna keep three or not. And when we told Trey,
Speaker 2: when we told him that he wasn't the two, I said,
Speaker 2: we'd like to keep him here as the three, but
Speaker 2: we also want to do what's good for him too,
Speaker 2: and we'll see how this plays out.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: When we looked at other teams and he told us
Speaker 2: that he would like another opportunity to go somewhereere we
Speaker 2: had a chance to be the two. We thought we
Speaker 2: got some good deals for him. There's a number of
Speaker 2: teams involved. To end up getting in the fourth was
Speaker 2: a little better than we anticipated and clears up a
Speaker 2: lot of money and allows a better situation for him too.
Speaker 3: Did he request the trade and was it a situation
Speaker 3: where it was unrepairable to the point where if he
Speaker 3: wasn't traded you would have had to release him.
Speaker 2: No, No, it was it was never unprepared on what
Speaker 2: you just call it.
Speaker 1: We could always fit. I mean we were good and
Speaker 1: like trading it.
Speaker 2: Actually had a great conversation with them today, had a
Speaker 2: tough conversation when I told him he didn't win the
Speaker 2: second job. Today was much easier just going through it
Speaker 2: for the last couple of days with them. But no,
Speaker 2: there was nothing to fix it was.
Speaker 1: It was what it was.
Speaker 2: And I told him when we told him that he
Speaker 2: was going to be the three, if he could find
Speaker 2: another other opportunity that was good.
Speaker 1: We'd allow him to do that.
Speaker 2: And he did, and we feel he'll be better for
Speaker 2: it and think we will too. Why do you end
Speaker 2: the quarterback competition after before the third season?
Speaker 1: Because I knew it. I thought it would take longer.
Speaker 2: I wanted to go through this game, but I knew it,
Speaker 2: and I think a lot of guys knew it.
Speaker 1: And I think he had an idea.
Speaker 2: It was more about my relationship with Trey that you know,
Speaker 2: I'm in meetings with him every day and stuff, I'm
Speaker 2: on the field with them every day, and I could
Speaker 2: get a sense that he was starting to feel that
Speaker 2: we felt that way, and it was the truth, and
Speaker 2: I don't want to be sham so once I thought
Speaker 2: that he once we knew, and once I could tell
Speaker 2: he knew that we knew. I remember the night before
Speaker 2: I realized, you know, I'm gonna come in the morning
Speaker 2: and tell him. I don't want that between us. So
Speaker 2: I did. Didn't expect it to get out right away,
Speaker 2: but it did. But that was something I thought I
Speaker 2: owed to Trey, and I told Trey right before a
Speaker 2: team meeting that we had I didn't get a chance
Speaker 2: to even tell Sam or anyone else on the team.
Speaker 2: That was just a personal thing between Trey and I,
Speaker 2: and it obviously got output.
Speaker 1: That's why I thought it was important to tell him.
Speaker 4: You on Wednesday, you didn't tell us that you want
Speaker 4: to tell the players first?
Speaker 1: What was your reason to mean?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: My reasoning was, yeah, I would love to tell the
Speaker 2: players first. I'd love to tell Sam first. We were
Speaker 2: hoping that Tray was gonna come to prac to still
Speaker 2: and I totally understood why he didn't.
Speaker 1: He asked if he could have it off because.
Speaker 2: You know, it was a little emotional and stuff. Didn't
Speaker 2: want to be around the players like that. And totally
Speaker 2: understood that, but we're still hoping he would come. And
Speaker 2: then by the time he did it, I wasn't have
Speaker 2: a meeting on the field to tell the players who
Speaker 2: he announced as a second string guy, and I had
Speaker 2: not to mention. Practice ended up one forty three, and
Speaker 2: I had a radio show at one forty five, and
Speaker 2: so I got on a radio show and I talked
Speaker 2: about it for twenty minutes there, and that's what I
Speaker 2: felt good with because I thought if I talked about
Speaker 2: it there, you guys would get that information. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 2: found out that that radio show is delayed because of
Speaker 2: a baseball game they win its extra ending, so you
Speaker 2: guys didn't find out till four thirty. So if I
Speaker 2: would have had it over, I would have told you
Speaker 2: guys right away. But usually when I do a radio show,
Speaker 2: you guys get that stuff pretty fast. So I thought
Speaker 2: you guys had it, and I realized that you didn't
Speaker 2: until about four thirty.
Speaker 3: Today find darnold, did you tell Trey this could be
Speaker 3: the backup.
Speaker 1: Was it clear to him? And if it was, what
Speaker 1: was his reaction?
Speaker 2: Even like that, I told Trey the same thing I
Speaker 2: told you guys. It brought since day one. So I mean,
Speaker 2: it's been everything we've told you guys.
Speaker 1: We've told him.
Speaker 2: We said, if Brock was healthy, it was gonna be
Speaker 2: hard for anyone to beat him out with what he
Speaker 2: put on tape last year. If he's not healthy, Sam
Speaker 2: and Trey were competing for the one spot. If he was,
Speaker 2: we thought they'd be competing for the two. And so
Speaker 2: we said before they got here. So they said when
Speaker 2: they got here, O TAS and training camp, And that's
Speaker 2: the way it worked out.
Speaker 1: They had OTAs together, they had all these.
Speaker 2: Practices and Sam won that competition.
Speaker 4: Let Sam show you during the practice and during during
Speaker 4: camp to make you and the staff feel that he
Speaker 4: was the better choice.
Speaker 1: Just everything, the whole body of work. He got better
Speaker 1: as it went.
Speaker 2: I thought it was tight for a little bit, and
Speaker 2: just over the last couple of weeks and stuff started
Speaker 2: to separate himself each day, and just the more comfortable
Speaker 2: he got, the more consistent he got. I think it
Speaker 2: was pretty apparent for all of us clarified.
Speaker 4: Did he request the trade. Which day did that happen?
Speaker 4: And how's that compete?
Speaker 2: When Trey and I talked, we talked about all the
Speaker 2: situations going forward, and I told him how much I'd
Speaker 2: still want him here, to be the three and things
Speaker 2: like that. I also told him that what I think
Speaker 2: is best for Trey. I do think Trey needs an
Speaker 2: opportunity to play more the opportunities he's had here. When
Speaker 2: he has had those two opportunities, he's gotten hurt in
Speaker 2: both of them and kind of missed that window a
Speaker 2: little bit. Gave an opportunity for someone else to do it,
Speaker 2: and that person did it and stayed healthy for those
Speaker 2: seven games and showed us something that we're confident in
Speaker 2: and Trey kind of needs that again and he didn't
Speaker 2: get that here, And so I told him that's what
Speaker 2: I think is best for him. If he can find
Speaker 2: a good opportunity. If he doesn't and he wants to
Speaker 2: be here, well we want him here. And Trey took
Speaker 2: a little bit of time to think about it, but
Speaker 2: he came back and said he'd like to find another
Speaker 2: spot if we can, and that's when we started looking
Speaker 2: into it.
Speaker 1: His agent us, and that came to fruition today.
Speaker 4: First conversation was Wednesday, and Thursday he came back and.
Speaker 1: Said, I'd rather now. The first conversation was Wednesday.
Speaker 2: About an hour and a half later he came and
Speaker 2: told me that he would like that. He'd also like
Speaker 2: to not have to go out to practice and stuff,
Speaker 2: just to get his stuff together and think about it.
Speaker 1: And that's what he did.
Speaker 2: And the next day he came in and was at
Speaker 2: our walkthrough, was at our meetings last night. We didn't
Speaker 2: know if something would happen today. Him and I were
Speaker 2: communicating about it yesterday. The possibilities of it told him
Speaker 2: a possible some teams that were interested, So I was
Speaker 2: talking about those options last night. What I thought was
Speaker 2: best what he did, and then today some other teams
Speaker 2: became interested. And if they wanted of he would have
Speaker 2: been out at that game and stuff, and we would
Speaker 2: have tried to go with him as our three. But
Speaker 2: some good stuff did come up, and some stuff that
Speaker 2: I think he's really excited about, especially tell him to day.
Speaker 1: I could tell he was, and some things we are too.
Speaker 3: Did give up a lot for him.
Speaker 4: He's still young.
Speaker 3: Was this a failure of evaluation? A failure of circumstance,
Speaker 3: how would you characterize this move.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously we took our shot and it didn't
Speaker 2: work out, So I mean that's on us for that.
Speaker 2: But I'm not going to say anything as in failure
Speaker 2: to I mean, that'd be too much of a negative
Speaker 2: towards Trey. I get our deal. We took a shot
Speaker 2: to go for that. We were hoping that he could
Speaker 2: be our guy and that didn't work out. So I
Speaker 2: understand that from our standpoint. But I still do believe
Speaker 2: in Trey. And you know, about three years ago, you know,
Speaker 2: we had the twelfth pick in the draft, you know,
Speaker 2: after that COVID year, but we thought we had a
Speaker 2: really good team and we didn't think we'd have a
Speaker 2: chance again to get close to that top area to
Speaker 2: take a quarterback in the top ten. And when you
Speaker 2: have the twelfth pick in the draft, we went into
Speaker 2: a realizing it was a risk. But we thought we
Speaker 2: weren't going to pick that high again for a couple
Speaker 2: of years and we would never have a chance to
Speaker 2: move from twelve to three. We tried to move up
Speaker 2: to a number of spots before that, but three was
Speaker 2: the first one that would do it. You know, we
Speaker 2: looked in everything between twelve and three, and we got
Speaker 2: that and we took our shots something we believed in
Speaker 2: in a person we believed in. I was hoping he
Speaker 2: could play more's first year. We knew we wouldn't come
Speaker 2: in and just take it over from Jimmy, but we
Speaker 2: were hoping to fix it in and kind of give
Speaker 2: him some experience. But once he broke the finger and stuff,
Speaker 2: it just got tough for him. As time went. We
Speaker 2: knew we'd commit to him the next year, which we did.
Speaker 1: We knew he wasn't.
Speaker 2: Fully ready in every aspect, but we knew we had
Speaker 2: a skill set that we could put some stuff together
Speaker 2: to give him the chance to compete and grow with
Speaker 2: the good team as he developed as a full quarterback.
Speaker 2: And he got hurt in the first quarter of the
Speaker 2: second game, which kind of set that back. And now
Speaker 2: we're here in the third year, and you know, we
Speaker 2: still got a good team and we thought it would
Speaker 2: be Trey. I think we got pretty fortunate falling into
Speaker 2: still having a rookie quarterback in our third year that
Speaker 2: happened to be the seventh round pick. And we also
Speaker 2: looked back at it is we didn't think with having
Speaker 2: the twenty ninth pick, which you know, those two first
Speaker 2: round picks were ended up being the twenty ninth pick
Speaker 2: in the draft, in the draft, which we're expecting it
Speaker 2: to be late, and we were hoping it would be
Speaker 2: thirty two or something like that. But we knew, we know,
Speaker 2: with two first round picks that are both at twenty nine,
Speaker 2: you can never even consider to move up to something
Speaker 2: like that, And so we had to act then and
Speaker 2: we did. Didn't work out, which can be a huge challenge,
Speaker 2: but so I feel pretty fortunate what we fell into.
Speaker 4: Was able to go over the options with you this
Speaker 4: morning before you accepted the trade, and then how did
Speaker 4: you convey that.
Speaker 1: To the team.
Speaker 2: I just told the team that to just I told
Speaker 2: them after the deal, just you know, anytime you trade
Speaker 2: a quarterback and things like that, I mean, all those
Speaker 2: guys are going through some similar stuff. I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: a lot of tough conversations with a lot of guys
Speaker 2: over these next few days. But I always told them
Speaker 2: the circumstances are different when it's under this magnitude someone
Speaker 2: a quarterback position, someone who was drafted like him. So
Speaker 2: I just told them that's that's not a that's that's
Speaker 2: up for John and I decide. I hope they trust
Speaker 2: us with what's best for the team, but they just
Speaker 2: got to be prepared for those questions and stuff, which
Speaker 2: they're not going to know much about.
Speaker 3: With the status of Jay and Moody.
Speaker 2: And how long that's week to week right now, or
Speaker 2: we're hoping that he can have a chance for week one.
Speaker 2: He ended up straining his squad last week in practice
Speaker 2: and we'll see how his body reacts to it.
Speaker 1: Danegre does that mean you have to.
Speaker 2: Look at we most likely got to and we definitely
Speaker 2: got to have a plan B for week one? You know,
Speaker 2: Zane could have been that, but you know he's probably
Speaker 2: not gonna be ready for week one too, looking at
Speaker 2: what happened to him today.
Speaker 3: You say it ten days ago, it kind of went
Speaker 3: it really clarified. You go back ten days from that
Speaker 3: that was a Raider game.
Speaker 5: Was that kind of defining moment for this decision?
Speaker 2: No? I didn't mean it that way. I mean I
Speaker 2: didn't I just throughout ten days today, I just said
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks. You know, it's you know,
Speaker 2: never you never make a decision off one day. You
Speaker 2: never make it off a one preseason game or anything
Speaker 2: like that. It's accumulation of work. Though it was a
Speaker 2: lot tighter earlier on in camp. I thought the more
Speaker 2: Sam got comfortable, the more reps he got, the more
Speaker 2: he started to separate himself.
Speaker 1: And I think that's been over the last few week, couple.
Speaker 2: Of weeks that you wish you had done differently.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I mean it's I mean, I've I always feel like
Speaker 2: I let trade down. I mean, I wanted him to
Speaker 2: come here. I believe in Trey. I believed in him
Speaker 2: before we took him. When I'm responsible for that. I
Speaker 2: didn't want to throw him into the heat of battle
Speaker 2: right away, but I thought he needed to play, so
Speaker 2: we tried to figure out every way to do that.
Speaker 2: I mean, if I can look back in hindsight, he
Speaker 2: broke that finger on a helmet on that fourth preseason
Speaker 2: game versus the Raiders.
Speaker 1: I wish I didn't put him in.
Speaker 2: A play that had him break his finger, because I
Speaker 2: think that really hurt him in his first year. And
Speaker 2: not only did it hurt him not getting able to
Speaker 2: mix in much, but it hurt him in the practice
Speaker 2: time because he had to adjust how he threw and
Speaker 2: things like that, which I think set him back for
Speaker 2: a second year. We went into the second year, we
Speaker 2: gave him every chance to do it. We were going
Speaker 2: to make an offense that to me gave him the
Speaker 2: best chance to be successful at that time, which we
Speaker 2: did do. And when you do that, you hope a
Speaker 2: guy can stay healthy so he can stay out there
Speaker 2: long enough. But that didn't last long first game and
Speaker 2: after that, I mean, I always felt for him, and
Speaker 2: we continue to work with them, but sometimes things don't
Speaker 2: just don't work out.
Speaker 3: Was there an internal struggle about when he's still a
Speaker 3: young guy, he's three years old, he still has he's
Speaker 3: only halfway through his rookie contract. Did you consider like
Speaker 3: just keeping him here to just to give him a
Speaker 3: chance to eventually be the guy that you thought you
Speaker 3: were getting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do consider that.
Speaker 2: I just think that was hard for us to do
Speaker 2: that with where we're at as a team, how much
Speaker 2: time we have given them, and the situation here where
Speaker 2: we gave him every chance to beat out Sam and
Speaker 2: it just didn't happen. And when you look at it,
Speaker 2: in that case, there's not much opportunities you can do
Speaker 2: on that practice field. There isn't a there's not a
Speaker 2: developmental league. There's not a whole field on the side
Speaker 2: where we can get our players just a practice to
Speaker 2: give him reps. You got to get the one ready
Speaker 2: to go, and when you're not, it's hard enough to
Speaker 2: get the two ready to go. The three as usually
Speaker 2: a guy who never gets a rep till he randomly
Speaker 2: gets out there. And that wasn't what I felt was
Speaker 2: right for Trey and with how much we had done
Speaker 2: so far, and that was gonna be what was right
Speaker 2: for our team either. I thought it was time to
Speaker 2: move on for him and for us. And I'm well
Speaker 2: aware of everything that happened, and unfortunately it did happen.
Speaker 2: But I like where our team's at to right now,
Speaker 2: and I feel very good about that. And I also
Speaker 2: feel very good that despite all that, just you know,
Speaker 2: you'd love to keep a third guy to develop, especially
Speaker 2: a guy that you really really love and believe that
Speaker 2: he could do it someday. But to do that for
Speaker 2: seven million dollars over two years with places where we
Speaker 2: are in the cap, when you can't provide those reps
Speaker 2: and stuff for people, and you got other things with
Speaker 2: our team where we're doing that, to me, doesn't make
Speaker 2: much sense for the Niners.
Speaker 1: I wish it would, because.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, we'd love to just keep them until eventually
Speaker 2: it works out. But that clock ran out, and that's
Speaker 2: why we had to make a real tough decision when
Speaker 2: we didn't enjoy doing one we didn't want to do,
Speaker 2: but we try to do what we think is best,
Speaker 2: and this is what we thinks best.
Speaker 4: Came down to the fact that where you guys were
Speaker 4: as a team didn't align with what Trey needed to
Speaker 4: get where he.
Speaker 2: Was trying to go very much. So I mean, I
Speaker 2: do think there was a chance. We thought we were
Speaker 2: aligned as a team to win right away when we
Speaker 2: did it with him.
Speaker 1: We knew it would take him time.
Speaker 2: But we also had to make a decision where we're
Speaker 2: going to go with our team over to year window,
Speaker 2: and we felt that our We felt if we could
Speaker 2: get a rookie quarterback or a guy and a rookie
Speaker 2: deal who could help us win Man, we could put
Speaker 2: a good team around him, and we took a shot
Speaker 2: with Trey because we believed he could. We knew it
Speaker 2: would take some time, but in the meantime, we're gonna
Speaker 2: have a pretty good team. And the time that we
Speaker 2: did give him. When he had his ops, he miss
Speaker 2: us and those weren't his fault, they weren't our fault.
Speaker 2: They were just those are just what happens in football.
Speaker 2: And when you take a risk on someone who does
Speaker 2: need to develop and does need some of that time
Speaker 2: and then he misses that time and we are where
Speaker 2: we're at right now. It is kind of what it is,
Speaker 2: and I think we are very fortunate that we did
Speaker 2: find a guy. We still are on We still have
Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback or a guy and a rookie deal
Speaker 2: that has helped us put together a good team. We
Speaker 2: do have a guy that we believe can win with
Speaker 2: on that deal, and we also feel we have a
Speaker 2: very strong backup, and that's where we're at.
Speaker 1: It's good possibility.
Speaker 2: I'm sure everyone's everyone's a possibility, but that's stuff we
Speaker 2: haven't discussed yet.
Speaker 5: Thanks right, Well, My question was last week when uh
Speaker 5: Trey had a game winning opportunity, you had him down
Speaker 5: the ball and hid the field goal. Do you think
Speaker 5: that was a missed opportunity? What's that last week when
Speaker 5: Trey was on that last drive and then you had
Speaker 5: him down the ball and the field goal stead of
Speaker 5: him going in for the touchdown. You think that was
Speaker 5: a missed opportunity.
Speaker 1: Miss opportunity for what we evaluate?
Speaker 5: What do you can do in that situation?
Speaker 1: No, we evaluate him every day. I should have done
Speaker 1: that for you, but no. But we are.
Speaker 5: Good, alright, I guess.
Speaker 1: Thanks