Kyle Shanahan: ‘Finish the Year Strong’ | Press Pass

San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan shared the final injury report on QB Brock Purdy, TE George Kittle and others before the team’s Week 18 matchup against the Cardinals and shared his vision for the 49ers 2025 offseason preparations.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Injuries for the game. Spencer Burford will be out, Deebo
Samuel out, Demo Leonor out, Rock Party out, Robert Beale out,
Flannagan Fowls doubtful, Jy R. Brown questionable, Cold mckivitz questionable,
Isaac Gidam questionable, Kittle questionable. Go ahead, it's Kittle new

(00:22):
edition now he's been on there. I mean, just they
can remember everything.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
To make some roster moves as far.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
As I r And yeah, most likely, Yeah, get the
right group up here from the game and that would
be all right, and just never came back.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
And some of these guys keep going under different circumstances.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I think, so, I mean, I mean, guys would be
pushing real hard to play and you we'd probably let him.
In this case, they're pushing hard to play and we're
not gonna let him.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
So yeah, yeah, you go in that camp, Kyle. And
and just how is his health kind of waiver throughout
the season and his production?

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Uh, I mean, it's it's been up and down throughout
the year. You know, even when he's good, he's still
battling stuff through the season, and especially the way he
plays and running with the ball and the physicality and
everything doing the kick returns. But he's hurting right now,
but he'll be all right. A few weeks after the season,
would would.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Rocks injury have led into you know, a following.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Game that they were I don't think so. I think
we'd be working him out really hard to day to
see if he had a chance for tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
He finished.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
We have one more interception?

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Is he year than he had last year in in
one of your game? How do you sort of reconcile
that is.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
He had a lot of obstacles as well. Did you
look at that at a a bad statistic or how
do you come down on that?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I mean, I really just look as it's statistic that
I can watch it all together, you know that's I mean.
I have strong opinions right after games. Sometimes those strong
opinions change the next morning. Sometimes it takes till next
Friday for it to change.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
That's why I kind of don't go too hard with
anything until I can sit down and watch the whole season.
You know, we break it up, watch the cut ups.
Takes a couple of weeks to do. We'll get started
on that a lot earlier this year than we have
in the past four years, So that'll be good. But
questions like that, you're just guessed until you kind of
put it all together.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, John said that, uh he he senses excitement from
you with the opportunity to have a full off season
to kind of have troubleshoot and you kind of set
forth the direction of the franchise. Is that accurate? Are
you excited about what this offseason holds for you? Guys?

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah? I am. I mean I'd be much more excited
that to not have one and to go all over
to February again, you know, but it's that does that
is tough. You know, when you go that that long,
everyone needs to get away and by the time you
come back as usually right when free agency is starting
and you're not totally quite there yet. So it's gonna
be our first time since I think COVID being off

(03:29):
in January, and it gives you more time to figure
things out. It gives you times to go through the
things like the cutups and stuff. You can finish that
most of that stuff all before the Super Bowl and
then you're ready to go to other stuff like the
draft and and free agency and all that as soon
as the super Bowl ends. So just being a lot
more ahead of that is real exciting and I'm ready

(03:52):
to get to it. You know, we've been knowing more
out of the playoffs here for a little bit, and
everything's about finishing this year up the right way and
not cutting anything short, finishing your job. But I also
have been able to look to when I can start
improving next year and making sure we're not in this
position again. And uh, I know that starts Monday.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
You I mean, you haven't. Have you looked ahead too much?
Because John said that you guys have you know you're
well through the process or you go through the process now,
but you know you want to make sure you finish
the season. But have you started that process too, like
kind of looking ahead?

Speaker 1 (04:26):
No, I mean not as much as John Wood and stuff.
You know, I got an idea of stuff like what
I you know, I map out my January end, have
to answer my wife's questions and kids and stuff. Who
might think I'm off, but I'm not, you know, so
things like that, But you know, as far as fully
putting my mind into it and everything, that won't start
till really the plane ride back.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Have any players told you that this might be their
final game?

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Either?

Speaker 3 (04:50):
For you guys, or maybe if they might retire anything
like that.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
No, I haven't heard that.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, you've been here for ever years is every is
your contribution in the off season as far as personnel
been the same every years? A change? And would you
like to be more involved or less involved or the
same going forward?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
No, it's always been the same. I mean, it's always
been the same, So I don't and I still want
it to be the same.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
There's a play for dogs to go wire to wire
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Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, it's a plan. Mhm's it? I guess.