Kyle Shanahan Sounds Off about the 49ers’ Win Over the Cleveland Browns

Kyle Shanahan Sounds Off about the 49ers’ Win Over the Cleveland Browns

All right, guys. I’m injuries from the game. Uh, Nick Martin had a concussion, never returned. Ben Barge left with a foot, didn’t return. And Juice left with ribs, did not return. Go ahead. Any idea the severity of Juj? Um, no. Um, they didn’t show anything broken here, but um, check again tomorrow. What What do you think this game seemed to turn maybe on that fourth down stop where they the snap? Uh, yeah. I mean, we knew it’d be a This is actually how we kind of expected today to go. Uh, we were really hoping we could get some turnovers, not turn it over on offense. We’re hoping from some big plays from special teams, which we got the huge one with Sky on the return, got a huge one on the turnover. Um, I looked at it as almost our D. Got three turnovers. I think we got them off on three, fourth downs. Um, when you play that way, just eventually you’re going to get the points and we did. So, I was real proud of the guys for not turning over um and get into some situations. probably for several players you have, you know, Broc, you know, pretty almost kind of pre-injjury form. Has he talked to you or do you sense that he’s just further along since he’s returned with that injury? No, the week he came back that he was 100% and we haven’t been worried about it since with any movements or anything like that. You said he was going to be healthy until the offse, right? Okay. Is that not true? No, we’re allow He can do boots and he does those fine. So, anytime he runs, he’s doing all right. So, on the broadcast, they said that he had been wearing a steel plate in his cleat, but he isn’t anymore. Is that correct? Those are questions I don’t ask him, so I’m not even sure. Okay. Did you happen to catch his touchdowns? I did. Yeah. Uh, I thought it was pretty good. He told us he was going to do that if he scored. Told the team. Um, so we had pressure on him to to do it. So, kind of let them down. So, it was nice. Was that the first time you ever called his own read for him? Uh, I don’t think so. Called a few. Kyler, after his score, at the end of the first half there. How important was it to for KD to make that catch and get down there and get that was huge. Um we were almost not going to go for it um just going into the wind like that with 30 something seconds left. Um the odds of with our pass rush making something bad happen seemed a little bit higher than going and scoring. But Ricky made that big third down got us down there. Um throwing that go route in the wind like that just going into that way. That’s That was a big time play by Brock and a huge catch by George. Jordan Malik getting in on that fourth down stop in the first. How’ that set the tone for your defense? Um I mean I thought the D was setting the tone all day really. I mean they they got that one score with that the double move. I think they ran it felt like nine plays in the in a row. Set it up and got that score and every drive after that. And I thought I thought our D was real good. Made some adjustments at halftime. did better in the run game I thought in the second half, but um fourth down was a big um as good as turnovers when you saw him on fourth down. Anything you can specific you could share about what you adjusted especially in the run game? Um just I think going to more fiveman fronts than nickel. How impressed are you with Cle coming in here? He’s got four sacks in four games. He’s done a hell of a job. I mean, we loved having Cle here a couple years ago when we had him since his first day here. He’s been the same guy. Um he’s given us a lot of juice when we’ve been down. When you’re facing Miles Garrett, obviously got trend there, but it seemed like Brock was able to defensive get away from pressure a couple times. How did you guys do against um he’s a challenge. I mean, he’s someone you’re thinking about every single play. You think about him throughout the week when you’re trying to game plan. Uh he moved around a lot more than usual today, which made it a little bit tougher. Um you know, we weren’t perfect against him, but I was proud of the guys how we handled them. The latest body you could possibly have going through, but to be nine and four at this point, what what is just kind of your assessment of where you guys are going to? I love where we’re at right now. I believe we’d be in the playoffs today if it started and we got four more games left to make sure we continue that. Uh this is a it’s been a long wait for a by-week. You know, I’ve never had one this late. I don’t know anyone on our team who h who has. Uh it’s finally here um mentally and physically. It’ll be awesome to rest and and be able to come back from that with four games to play. Um for a chance to get in the playoffs is everything you could ask for. What do you what do you give to give him a whole week or uh No, we’ll come in for a couple days. Um we’ll do a day after game tomorrow. I’ll probably do a little bit workout on Tuesday and you know decide from there. First half it looked like Sanders had a couple multiplications and putting a touchdown and second half just a matter of turning up the pressure on um not really. I just um we got them off we stopped their run better in the second half. Um you know we had them backed up on that one long drive but I think they ran it I’m just guessing like 10 times in a row. Um and they had that they had a double move set up and we didn’t come off in a certain coverage and left the guy wide open. Um, after that though, I thought we came we put them in some worse situations, had them in some third and longs, and when it’s third and long, it’s tough to get guys past the chains, and that’s when our guys stepped it up and got some sacks. What do you think of Sky last? I I think Skye’s been awesome. Um, you know, we keep saying he’s just you can feel him for a while now. Um, getting better and better. Every time he gets the ball, we feel like he’s got a chance to go. And, um, you know, our goal this week was to score in special teams, which he got real close again. But as long as you end up scoring an offense at a big one, then it doesn’t matter. So we told him thanks for giving allowing the offense to get those points. Um but that was huge in this game. Luke Gford said this. You feel like the special teams they’ve talked about feeling like they can be a weapon now, not just you know kind of a placeholder. Do you feel like they are taking a step in that direction? Yeah, definitely. I think they they have been a weapon um you know probably at least this last month. I mean um both both returns you know whether it’s a kick return or it was a palm return. We made some big plays in that and we made it some we made some big plays at some important times too. The biggest challenge today we were saying with the special teams was we’re hoping to get some big plays but also not u make any dumb plays with penalties and things like that and um we had one which ended up giving them a two-point conversion uh which was disappointing. Um but besides that one I think we were pretty clean the rest of the day. Anything else? All right.

Grant Cohn films Kyle Shanahan sounding off about the San Francisco 49ers’ win over the Cleveland Browns.