Tight end George Kittle returned to practice this week after sitting out one game with an ankle injury. Nickel back Upton Stout was back on the practice field as he advances through the NFL\u2019s concussion protocol. Also, wide receiver Ricky Pearsall is expected to play despite being listed as questionable.\u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cIt needs to be possible based off the doctors,\u201d Shanahan said, \u201cand then it\u2019s got to be more on what Trent tells me. I definitely don\u2019t want to lose any players for the following week knowing we\u2019re in the playoffs. But I also look at when you\u2019re playing to play one less playoff game, then you can look at that as a playoff game. I know the season\u2019s not over if we lose, but you still got to go play a game the next week on the road if you lose, and we can completely avoid that by winning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Purdy\u2019s position coach for his first three seasons, Brian Griese, a former NFL QB, regretted how he often studied his playbook at the team facility in the early stages of his 11-year career and sacrificed time to bond with teammates. Purdy spoke Wednesday about how being a \u201cbro\u201d in the locker room was a \u201cmeaningful thing to a lot of guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been a pretty serious kind of guy, doing my job and everything,\u201d Purdy said. \u201cBut now I\u2019m in year four, so I feel like guys really do feed off of an authentic leader and authentic quarterback, a guy in the locker room and someone that\u2019s real. So (I\u2019m) obviously trying to do my job really well at a high level and then from that you can have some fun with it and be yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jones is just very loose and funny. Most NFL quarterbacks take on a CEO\u2019s persona \u2014 it\u2019s always business, they don\u2019t stray from the company line, they\u2019re a bit starchy and boring. Jones is a different cat. He\u2019s more self-effacing, he dances with the wideouts at practice, he wears funky suits \u2014 and ankle-less socks! \u2014 to games. It\u2019s clear his teammates like him and his style. He has \u201cstarter\u201d and \u201cleader\u201d written all over him, which is why he should get another shot at that role in another NFL city\u2026..Alex Moore\u2019s group leads the league \u2014 by a wide margin \u2014 in flags thrown this season. Niners fans should be rooting for games with Brad Allen, Land Clark or Alan Eck.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tight end George Kittle returned to practice this week after sitting out one game with an ankle injury.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,52307,7,6,1161,252,1137,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-647826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-49ers-links","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115824997614257869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}