December 31, 2024 • 7 mins
San Francisco 49ers TE George Kittle talked to the media following the team’s Week 17 matchup against the Detroit Lions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Howdy.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Let me turn off on a positive note.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
You are half your fourth season of over a thousand
yards and you hit it tonight.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Outosite a few.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Uh feels good. Getting in a thousand yards is tough.
It's hard. You have to play a whole season for it.
Besides that, not much else to say about it.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
After yes, it is definite.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You and the teammates about Brock's health and his elbow again,
what did he say tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Not concerned? Then?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh, I'll be concerned tomorrow if I need to be,
but right now not worried about it.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Josh looked good though. That was fun. She was in
to see Ricky go out there and at the game
again as well. How many yards did you have? That's awesome?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
No, I mean that's like those are the games that
I've always expected him to have, just like watching them
practice and OTAs like every day he would offer one
hundred plus yards and just to you know, get that
game under his belt. I think we'll just can like
raise his confidence a ton like because it's hard to
go out there and just get you know, not a
lot of catches, not open a lot, you know, sometimes
(01:15):
it's the ball in the game, just doesn't go your way.
And for him to go out there and do that
and just stack up a bunch of catches, run effect like,
run really efficiently, get downhill. It did all the things
that we needed him to do. I think that's just
gonna raise his confidence a bunch and just a great
step forward in his early young career. Expect that true
against this team just because of again, sorry, is that
(01:38):
especially true against the the Lions, just given all the
press coverage that they that they play. Uh yeah, I
mean they played us a man a ton and you know,
Ricky was a very reliable receiver tonight for Brock and
that was awesome to see. You know, I love press
man coverage. It's one of my favorites. So I had
a you know, fun time running out tonight, and I
(01:58):
know Ricky did as well.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
The expectation as a receiver here is to walk watching
Juwan what he does on some of those plays.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
What's it like?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You know, I it was really fun. I thought Juwan
just brought completely different energy tonight and it was violent
and angry, and you know that's the Juwan that you know,
we need to be successful. So seeing that tonight, it
was awesome and he does that, catches the ball, makes
you know, punish his defenders when he gets the ball.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
That was really fun to see.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Pull him away from there.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You know, I just don't eat unnecessary penalty sometimes, and like,
all I want is Joan to stay on the football
field with us and nothing else happening. I didn't really
see much it besides Juwan getting pushed, and so I
was like, he could respond to that. So I'm just
gonna do my best to not let him respond to it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Here why it is so important to kind of put
your arm around Jake when he's not.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
In his.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
H You know, I'm a huge fan of Jake. I'm
a huge hand of them in the locker room, off
the field. He's made some big kicks for us when
we needed him. You know, tonight was a really tough
night for him, and I feel horrible for him. I
know his expectations of himself are higher than that. And
you know, all I said is, hey man, you got
(03:17):
great kicks ahead of you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Just keep going, just keep believing in yourself, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And it's one of those games that's like, all right,
this is just it's gonna be one of two ways
you're gonna let it define you. You're gonna, you know,
say no, I'm not gonna let that define me. I'm
gonna go back out there. I'm gonna make a ton
of kicks. So you know, he's got the leg for it,
and we just gotta get his his confidence in himself conversations.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Is he mentioning that his injury has hit any kind
of domino to his kicking?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
No, not, you know, not tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He didn't say anything to me about that, So you know,
I appreciate him not trying to have an excuse for that.
I didn't get a chance to talk to him after
the game. You guys kind of beat me to that.
So but I'll definitely have a conversation with him, just
you know, see how he's doing.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
It's on the team. Is there a certain level of
play or certain something that you want to see from
your team this week, next week to finish out of
the year.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Now, I think over my eight years here, we've established
tried to establish a standard of you know, how we play,
run around, hit people, be violent, you know, punch someone
in the mouth legally, and you know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And then execute when we need to execute.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And know we did that at times tonight and then
we did it at times tonight. So we have to
continually get better because we're not playing at the stand
that we need to play at. You know, we had
opportunities tonight, but when you have two turnovers and they
don't have any turnovers and it's a shootout, it's hard
to win when they get extra opts.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Does this game mean anything for the future, what this
team could be for the future, knowing that you're playing
the team that right now you could be the number
one seed in the.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Playoffs this year? Say it one more time.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Did this game mean anything for the future? Just what
you can do in the future knowing that the team
you're facing tonight or face tonight is in line could
be the number one seed in the NFC.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Uh, I mean yes and no.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
For the way the seedon is gone, sure, but like
I mean, the way that we've played the last couple
of years, like those are kind of my expectations is
you know, I go into every game expecting to win.
You know, I expected to win the night regardless of
our record and what their record is. They're a great
football team, They're really well coached football team. Took advantage
of their opportunities. They won the game. But like I
winted this game fully expecting to win, full expecting our
offense to go out there and you know, they're banged
(05:26):
up defense, I thought we could take advantage. And obviously
we have we're banged up too, But like I thought,
we were moving the ball really efficiently and you know,
turnover they were tough to overcome. But no, it was
And I want to go out there and play good
football every single week.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That's what I want to do. That's what I want
my team to do.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And you know we struggled with doing that all season,
and you know that's why we're six and ten.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Wolf House.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
In September early September and you guys.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Will be six and ten. Yep.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I just would have disagreed with them probably. I mean,
that's football. It's the highs and lows of it. If
you know football, you have to put in all the work.
Bass a bounce your way, guys got to stay healthy,
you gotta get a little bit lucky, and uh, you know,
we haven't really gotten into those things to go our way,
and you know, not playing at a high level, not
executing well, even guys open on third fourth down, being
(06:21):
downfield on a pass play. Like there's just a lot
of things out there that are you know, we're hurting
ourselves and then just not giving ourselves a chance to win.
And you know it's not like I feel like, you know,
Coach Hanahan, our coaches, I think they do a fantastic
job of coaching us and like, hey, giving us, explaining things,
giving us the rules, the things that we have to do.
You know, as players, it's the NFL, it's your job.
(06:42):
So like we need to know how to execute, we
need to know what to do, and we just haven't
been able to do that a lot this year. And
you know, I don't have an answer. I can't put
my finger on it. But it's something to look at,
you know, whether you watch the tape or whether this
off season to look at it's like, hey, we have
to go back to being able to do all the
little things right before we can try to doing to
the cool big things.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well, thanks guys,
Howdy.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Let me turn off on a positive note.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
You are half your fourth season of over a thousand
yards and you hit it tonight.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Outosite a few.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Uh feels good. Getting in a thousand yards is tough.
It's hard. You have to play a whole season for it.
Besides that, not much else to say about it.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
After yes, it is definite.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You and the teammates about Brock's health and his elbow again,
what did he say tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Not concerned? Then?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh, I'll be concerned tomorrow if I need to be,
but right now not worried about it.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Josh looked good though. That was fun. She was in
to see Ricky go out there and at the game
again as well. How many yards did you have? That's awesome?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
No, I mean that's like those are the games that
I've always expected him to have, just like watching them
practice and OTAs like every day he would offer one
hundred plus yards and just to you know, get that
game under his belt. I think we'll just can like
raise his confidence a ton like because it's hard to
go out there and just get you know, not a
lot of catches, not open a lot, you know, sometimes
(01:15):
it's the ball in the game, just doesn't go your way.
And for him to go out there and do that
and just stack up a bunch of catches, run effect like,
run really efficiently, get downhill. It did all the things
that we needed him to do. I think that's just
gonna raise his confidence a bunch and just a great
step forward in his early young career. Expect that true
against this team just because of again, sorry, is that
(01:38):
especially true against the the Lions, just given all the
press coverage that they that they play. Uh yeah, I
mean they played us a man a ton and you know,
Ricky was a very reliable receiver tonight for Brock and
that was awesome to see. You know, I love press
man coverage. It's one of my favorites. So I had
a you know, fun time running out tonight, and I
(01:58):
know Ricky did as well.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
The expectation as a receiver here is to walk watching
Juwan what he does on some of those plays.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
What's it like?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You know, I it was really fun. I thought Juwan
just brought completely different energy tonight and it was violent
and angry, and you know that's the Juwan that you know,
we need to be successful. So seeing that tonight, it
was awesome and he does that, catches the ball, makes
you know, punish his defenders when he gets the ball.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
That was really fun to see.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Pull him away from there.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You know, I just don't eat unnecessary penalty sometimes, and like,
all I want is Joan to stay on the football
field with us and nothing else happening. I didn't really
see much it besides Juwan getting pushed, and so I
was like, he could respond to that. So I'm just
gonna do my best to not let him respond to it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Here why it is so important to kind of put
your arm around Jake when he's not.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
In his.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
H You know, I'm a huge fan of Jake. I'm
a huge hand of them in the locker room, off
the field. He's made some big kicks for us when
we needed him. You know, tonight was a really tough
night for him, and I feel horrible for him. I
know his expectations of himself are higher than that. And
you know, all I said is, hey man, you got
(03:17):
great kicks ahead of you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Just keep going, just keep believing in yourself, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And it's one of those games that's like, all right,
this is just it's gonna be one of two ways
you're gonna let it define you. You're gonna, you know,
say no, I'm not gonna let that define me. I'm
gonna go back out there. I'm gonna make a ton
of kicks. So you know, he's got the leg for it,
and we just gotta get his his confidence in himself conversations.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Is he mentioning that his injury has hit any kind
of domino to his kicking?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
No, not, you know, not tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He didn't say anything to me about that, So you know,
I appreciate him not trying to have an excuse for that.
I didn't get a chance to talk to him after
the game. You guys kind of beat me to that.
So but I'll definitely have a conversation with him, just
you know, see how he's doing.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
It's on the team. Is there a certain level of
play or certain something that you want to see from
your team this week, next week to finish out of
the year.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Now, I think over my eight years here, we've established
tried to establish a standard of you know, how we play,
run around, hit people, be violent, you know, punch someone
in the mouth legally, and you know.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And then execute when we need to execute.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And know we did that at times tonight and then
we did it at times tonight. So we have to
continually get better because we're not playing at the stand
that we need to play at. You know, we had
opportunities tonight, but when you have two turnovers and they
don't have any turnovers and it's a shootout, it's hard
to win when they get extra opts.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Does this game mean anything for the future, what this
team could be for the future, knowing that you're playing
the team that right now you could be the number
one seed in the.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Playoffs this year? Say it one more time.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Did this game mean anything for the future? Just what
you can do in the future knowing that the team
you're facing tonight or face tonight is in line could
be the number one seed in the NFC.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Uh, I mean yes and no.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
For the way the seedon is gone, sure, but like
I mean, the way that we've played the last couple
of years, like those are kind of my expectations is
you know, I go into every game expecting to win.
You know, I expected to win the night regardless of
our record and what their record is. They're a great
football team, They're really well coached football team. Took advantage
of their opportunities. They won the game. But like I
winted this game fully expecting to win, full expecting our
offense to go out there and you know, they're banged
(05:26):
up defense, I thought we could take advantage. And obviously
we have we're banged up too, But like I thought,
we were moving the ball really efficiently and you know,
turnover they were tough to overcome. But no, it was
And I want to go out there and play good
football every single week.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That's what I want to do. That's what I want
my team to do.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And you know we struggled with doing that all season,
and you know that's why we're six and ten.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Wolf House.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
In September early September and you guys.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Will be six and ten. Yep.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I just would have disagreed with them probably. I mean,
that's football. It's the highs and lows of it. If
you know football, you have to put in all the work.
Bass a bounce your way, guys got to stay healthy,
you gotta get a little bit lucky, and uh, you know,
we haven't really gotten into those things to go our way,
and you know, not playing at a high level, not
executing well, even guys open on third fourth down, being
(06:21):
downfield on a pass play. Like there's just a lot
of things out there that are you know, we're hurting
ourselves and then just not giving ourselves a chance to win.
And you know it's not like I feel like, you know,
Coach Hanahan, our coaches, I think they do a fantastic
job of coaching us and like, hey, giving us, explaining things,
giving us the rules, the things that we have to do.
You know, as players, it's the NFL, it's your job.
(06:42):
So like we need to know how to execute, we
need to know what to do, and we just haven't
been able to do that a lot this year. And
you know, I don't have an answer. I can't put
my finger on it. But it's something to look at,
you know, whether you watch the tape or whether this
off season to look at it's like, hey, we have
to go back to being able to do all the
little things right before we can try to doing to
the cool big things.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well, thanks guys,
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