December 29, 2024 • 10 mins
Head coach Kyle Shanahan shared injury updates on OL Spencer Burford, OL Colton McKivitz and others and looked ahead to the team's Week 17 matchup against the Detroit Lions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right. Injuries for the game.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Spencer Burford will be out, green Law will be out,
Aaron Banks out, Robert Beale out, Tryer Brown questionable, cold,
mckivitt's questionable, Tatum but Thune questionable, charvarious, Award questionable.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
But yes, any good news?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Uh, yeah, stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I can't totally share if I haven't talked to him
about it, so keep it personal.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
But nothing bad happened. Do you expect Banks and green
Law to be at I R before the game starts?
Banks will, Yeah. What's the biggest challenge the Lion's posed
to your team?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
M hm?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
About their team?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Gotcha? Just how good they are in all phases.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Uh, you know, their offense, everyone's aware of, well aware
of how good they've been these last couple of years.
Anytime you have an old line as good as them,
the running back as good as them, you can control
the ball, which takes a lot of pressure off the
quarterback and pass protections. And then when you have a
quarterback as good as him, with how accurate he is
with that old line and those receivers, I mean they're
pretty lethal there. And then the defense, you know, I
(01:14):
know they battle through a lot of injuries, but their secondaries.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
As good as areas.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You know, they've been always stay healthy there. They've lost
one big one, but they have some depth there and
what they can create with their pressures and things like
that because of their man coverage makes them very tough
to be consistent with. They put a lot of pressure
on you where they know how to stop their run
with their scheme, and then you're never gonna get really
many freebies. You gotta be man coverage. You got to
(01:39):
be pressures, which is gonna always be hit or miss.
But when you do that with an offense that's so automatic,
it puts pressure on both sides of the ball and
I'll let them lap you.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
So you got to be consistent, got to get turnal overs.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Anything you can point to for the dearth of takeaways
over the last several games, Uh yeah, I mean, you know,
usually when you're flying around, you're eventually gonna get some
more takeaways than we have.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I think one thing that's been bad is we've you know,
we've dropped some that have been given to us.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So we've missed a couple opportunities.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You know, in games when you don't stop the run
very well and you don't make guys throw the ball
a lot. You know, eighty percent of turnovers in the
sleeve come on past place, so you need to stop
the run and get guys to throw the ball a
lot more and then you'll get more opportunities at that.
And so I think when we have had our opportunities,
we've missed them. And anytime teams can stay balanced versus
you're gonna get less those opportunities.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
How did he kind of get through the weekend. Yeah,
it was good to have him back.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You know, we had a full speed practice yesterday and
he looked good, So no holdbacks.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
He's good to go.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
That's your biggest challenge when putting together this offensive line
with all the new pieces.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
In there, just that you know, having three guys up
who were on other team's practice squads last week, you know,
the connunity is obviously not there, and you know, just
them not being in the building with very bitch.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And things like that. It's a big challenge.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
They've done a good job of working, you know, getting
in here the day before Christmas, working on Christmas, trying
to catch up and do that stuff. And they've had
a solid week of practice, so still got more time
to the game and those guys will be working as
much mentally to get ready. But anytime you're new and
you haven't been out there much, it's always a challenge.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's your biggest turnover and offensive line that you've.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Dealt with care Uh, probably big one. I can remember
that fall.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
On the Jake or rock to kind of help these
guys line up, I guess the good thing is if
all I'm the mess up lining up, then we have
issues because they don't move at least till the snap starts,
you know. But now, I mean that's helping communicates a
(03:48):
big deal. But sometimes you communicate and that language does
doesn't always come right away, so you know, you try
to keep it simple form, try to categorize stuff in groups,
and the guys next to them just they try to
community kid as much as possible, and you try to
help him out.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Charlie Hack having worked with Bobby Slud, does that help
you a bit? Was that Charlie Hack working with Bobby Slud?
Does that help you a bit?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Uh? Yeah, you know, I mean he has the most
familiarity with some terminology, So anytime there's some crossover, I
mean different old line coaches, you go different places. You
change your words and stuff, but a lot when it
comes from the same foundation, you have some familiarity and
so it's not.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Completely starting a new language. That always helps.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I don't know him, but you know, I really respect
what he's done here the last few years. You know,
I know people have worked with him. I know Chris Fleury,
those guys worked with him down in Miami. You talke
about him as a dude, which seems like an awesome guy.
But I really love how he's ran the ball and
the stuff he's done off of it and really taken
advantage of his personnel really well. You were watching replays
in the NFC Championship game this week where they're feel
(04:50):
good vibes or where their mixed feelings that you wish
you had those players now, I mean it was when
you watch a game like that, I mean it was
feel good vibes to a degree. You watch the first
half and you get frustrated, but you know how it's
gonna end, so you don't get too frustrated. So there's
good things to coach off of. I mean, you can
see some mistakes, big mistakes there in the first half,
and it's cool to show guys overcome them and how.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
You do it. So there's a lot of really good
drives in that game.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
There's some big plays in the game, but just kind
of the toughness that we played with in the second half.
I'm really showing guys truly what it takes to win
when it's not just a guy making out. You know,
there was some really unbelievable plays like BA on the
tip down the field and stuff like that. But besides that,
you know, some big scrambles by Brock, But it was
some real hard nose football that got us back in
that game and doing it the old fashioned way.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And it's cool to watch that.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
We watched a lot of it yesterday, just talking about
run game and things like that. CNBA around here a
little bit. How is he doing everything on progress? And yeah,
he's plugging along with that. You know, the rehab guys
I don't see too much of. They come in early
in the morning and they're usually out of here before
we get off the practice field. But he went to
LA for surgery, did the rehab there for a while.
But he's been back here like the last month or so,
(06:01):
going through his process.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Working hard is the long process. But he's on track.
Talked a lot about.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Kittle has had But you're like this and you have
so many young guys playing. How important is it to
have someone who is kind of consistently maintaining the standard
to show those guys what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Even if the season isn't where you went.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I think it's always important. I mean, you don't just
say a standard. Takes a while to to to be
that standard, and that's from work we've put in here
over the years and having the right guys who have
done that, and guys who have battled throughout this year
they get to see every day, especially when you go
through a long season like this, seeing guys like Kittle,
Fred Bolsa getting back and Debo like those guys working
(06:41):
through all this, still practicing hard and doing everything they can.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That's extremely important.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Guys, all you are is your life experiences, and this
is a lot of people's first year and you need
to see things done the right way no matter how
your season's going. Hard Goff improves his days with the
Rams or is he the same quarterback in a good situation?
I mean, I think it's hard for any quarterback to
be successful if they're not in a good situation. But
I think Goff was unbelievable with the Rams, you know,
(07:07):
I think, you know, he was their super Bowl year.
I thought he was a borderline MVP player, you know.
I know, not every year was like that for him,
you know, just statistically and stuff. I think the following
years weren't quite as good. But when his team's real
good around him, he as good.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
As any quarterback in this league.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
So you know, he was a real hard guy to
beat in LA and the way he's been playing with Detroit,
I almost want to say better, but that's.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
How good he was earlier too.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So it was a hell of a rebound for him,
and I'm happy to see him doing it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Didn't make the cut to fifteen in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You were around the team in ninety four. What do
you remember about him specifically? About what impressed you about.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Him, How good he was out of the backfield in
the past game.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean, I was only in middle school, so.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I can't act like I really knew strategically what was
going on.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
But he was a really cool player.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I loved talking to him and hanging out with him
up in Rockland at training camp. I think when I
got here, he hadn't played yet, so I didn't know
who he was. Just only knew guys who had played
and stuff as a sixth grader, But I remember always
asking who the hell is this guy?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
He's cool.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
And he seems really good on the practice field, and
then he became the start of that year and had
a hell of a year and ended up having a
hell of a career.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Reast season is not done, but year overall assessment with Sorenson.
Obviously there have been challenges and his personality he has
to work with, but just kind of his first year,
do you think he's fair?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I mean, no different than how I've answered that last
few weeks, And I think Nick has done a good
job as a coach.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
No one's happy with our results by any means.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I think he's been thrown in a number of situations
that I think will make him better going forward. I've
watched him adjust to a bunch of different situations, kind
of being a couple of situations on a couple of
games when there wasn't much of an answer and he
still had to try to find one. So I think
this year was good for him, and I know he's
gonna be a good coach and better for it going forward.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Alliance, they've had ninety guys on aserve. Similar to the
injury level year, how they've been able to kind of
stay up to the standards of winning games.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean, just me going off these five days of
watching them. You know, I know all the injuries, you
see it on the reports, and especially losing their pass
rushers and their d linemen.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
But I think the biggest thing is, you know, it's.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Hit them the most in certain areas on defense, But
when you play as much man coverage as they do
and blitz as much, that's gonna be predicated on your
secondary and I think they improved that a ton this
year with their draft picks, with some free agents they
brought in, maybe their draft picks from two years ago.
They're safety getting healthy also, so the areas that they
(09:44):
excel in, they've been able to maintain the top of
their talent there and it does give us a weaknesses
other places. But uh, that combined with their offensive horsepower
and things like that, it's made a lot of teams
hard to expose exp It's made it hard for a
lot of teams.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
To expose it.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And they've done oh job with it, so huge credit
to them for it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Thank alright, I guess
All right. Injuries for the game.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Spencer Burford will be out, green Law will be out,
Aaron Banks out, Robert Beale out, Tryer Brown questionable, cold,
mckivitt's questionable, Tatum but Thune questionable, charvarious, Award questionable.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
But yes, any good news?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Uh, yeah, stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I can't totally share if I haven't talked to him
about it, so keep it personal.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
But nothing bad happened. Do you expect Banks and green
Law to be at I R before the game starts?
Banks will, Yeah. What's the biggest challenge the Lion's posed
to your team?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
M hm?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
About their team?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Gotcha? Just how good they are in all phases.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Uh, you know, their offense, everyone's aware of, well aware
of how good they've been these last couple of years.
Anytime you have an old line as good as them,
the running back as good as them, you can control
the ball, which takes a lot of pressure off the
quarterback and pass protections. And then when you have a
quarterback as good as him, with how accurate he is
with that old line and those receivers, I mean they're
pretty lethal there. And then the defense, you know, I
(01:14):
know they battle through a lot of injuries, but their secondaries.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
As good as areas.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You know, they've been always stay healthy there. They've lost
one big one, but they have some depth there and
what they can create with their pressures and things like
that because of their man coverage makes them very tough
to be consistent with. They put a lot of pressure
on you where they know how to stop their run
with their scheme, and then you're never gonna get really
many freebies. You gotta be man coverage. You got to
(01:39):
be pressures, which is gonna always be hit or miss.
But when you do that with an offense that's so automatic,
it puts pressure on both sides of the ball and
I'll let them lap you.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
So you got to be consistent, got to get turnal overs.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Anything you can point to for the dearth of takeaways
over the last several games, Uh yeah, I mean, you know,
usually when you're flying around, you're eventually gonna get some
more takeaways than we have.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I think one thing that's been bad is we've you know,
we've dropped some that have been given to us.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So we've missed a couple opportunities.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You know, in games when you don't stop the run
very well and you don't make guys throw the ball
a lot. You know, eighty percent of turnovers in the
sleeve come on past place, so you need to stop
the run and get guys to throw the ball a
lot more and then you'll get more opportunities at that.
And so I think when we have had our opportunities,
we've missed them. And anytime teams can stay balanced versus
you're gonna get less those opportunities.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
How did he kind of get through the weekend. Yeah,
it was good to have him back.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You know, we had a full speed practice yesterday and
he looked good, So no holdbacks.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
He's good to go.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
That's your biggest challenge when putting together this offensive line
with all the new pieces.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
In there, just that you know, having three guys up
who were on other team's practice squads last week, you know,
the connunity is obviously not there, and you know, just
them not being in the building with very bitch.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And things like that. It's a big challenge.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
They've done a good job of working, you know, getting
in here the day before Christmas, working on Christmas, trying
to catch up and do that stuff. And they've had
a solid week of practice, so still got more time
to the game and those guys will be working as
much mentally to get ready. But anytime you're new and
you haven't been out there much, it's always a challenge.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's your biggest turnover and offensive line that you've.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Dealt with care Uh, probably big one. I can remember
that fall.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
On the Jake or rock to kind of help these
guys line up, I guess the good thing is if
all I'm the mess up lining up, then we have
issues because they don't move at least till the snap starts,
you know. But now, I mean that's helping communicates a
(03:48):
big deal. But sometimes you communicate and that language does
doesn't always come right away, so you know, you try
to keep it simple form, try to categorize stuff in groups,
and the guys next to them just they try to
community kid as much as possible, and you try to
help him out.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Charlie Hack having worked with Bobby Slud, does that help
you a bit? Was that Charlie Hack working with Bobby Slud?
Does that help you a bit?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Uh? Yeah, you know, I mean he has the most
familiarity with some terminology, So anytime there's some crossover, I
mean different old line coaches, you go different places. You
change your words and stuff, but a lot when it
comes from the same foundation, you have some familiarity and
so it's not.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Completely starting a new language. That always helps.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I don't know him, but you know, I really respect
what he's done here the last few years. You know,
I know people have worked with him. I know Chris Fleury,
those guys worked with him down in Miami. You talke
about him as a dude, which seems like an awesome guy.
But I really love how he's ran the ball and
the stuff he's done off of it and really taken
advantage of his personnel really well. You were watching replays
in the NFC Championship game this week where they're feel
(04:50):
good vibes or where their mixed feelings that you wish
you had those players now, I mean it was when
you watch a game like that, I mean it was
feel good vibes to a degree. You watch the first
half and you get frustrated, but you know how it's
gonna end, so you don't get too frustrated. So there's
good things to coach off of. I mean, you can
see some mistakes, big mistakes there in the first half,
and it's cool to show guys overcome them and how.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
You do it. So there's a lot of really good
drives in that game.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
There's some big plays in the game, but just kind
of the toughness that we played with in the second half.
I'm really showing guys truly what it takes to win
when it's not just a guy making out. You know,
there was some really unbelievable plays like BA on the
tip down the field and stuff like that. But besides that,
you know, some big scrambles by Brock, But it was
some real hard nose football that got us back in
that game and doing it the old fashioned way.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And it's cool to watch that.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
We watched a lot of it yesterday, just talking about
run game and things like that. CNBA around here a
little bit. How is he doing everything on progress? And yeah,
he's plugging along with that. You know, the rehab guys
I don't see too much of. They come in early
in the morning and they're usually out of here before
we get off the practice field. But he went to
LA for surgery, did the rehab there for a while.
But he's been back here like the last month or so,
(06:01):
going through his process.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Working hard is the long process. But he's on track.
Talked a lot about.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Kittle has had But you're like this and you have
so many young guys playing. How important is it to
have someone who is kind of consistently maintaining the standard
to show those guys what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Even if the season isn't where you went.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I think it's always important. I mean, you don't just
say a standard. Takes a while to to to be
that standard, and that's from work we've put in here
over the years and having the right guys who have
done that, and guys who have battled throughout this year
they get to see every day, especially when you go
through a long season like this, seeing guys like Kittle,
Fred Bolsa getting back and Debo like those guys working
(06:41):
through all this, still practicing hard and doing everything they can.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That's extremely important.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Guys, all you are is your life experiences, and this
is a lot of people's first year and you need
to see things done the right way no matter how
your season's going. Hard Goff improves his days with the
Rams or is he the same quarterback in a good situation?
I mean, I think it's hard for any quarterback to
be successful if they're not in a good situation. But
I think Goff was unbelievable with the Rams, you know,
(07:07):
I think, you know, he was their super Bowl year.
I thought he was a borderline MVP player, you know.
I know, not every year was like that for him,
you know, just statistically and stuff. I think the following
years weren't quite as good. But when his team's real
good around him, he as good.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
As any quarterback in this league.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
So you know, he was a real hard guy to
beat in LA and the way he's been playing with Detroit,
I almost want to say better, but that's.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
How good he was earlier too.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So it was a hell of a rebound for him,
and I'm happy to see him doing it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Didn't make the cut to fifteen in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You were around the team in ninety four. What do
you remember about him specifically? About what impressed you about.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Him, How good he was out of the backfield in
the past game.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean, I was only in middle school, so.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I can't act like I really knew strategically what was
going on.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
But he was a really cool player.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I loved talking to him and hanging out with him
up in Rockland at training camp. I think when I
got here, he hadn't played yet, so I didn't know
who he was. Just only knew guys who had played
and stuff as a sixth grader, But I remember always
asking who the hell is this guy?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
He's cool.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
And he seems really good on the practice field, and
then he became the start of that year and had
a hell of a year and ended up having a
hell of a career.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Reast season is not done, but year overall assessment with Sorenson.
Obviously there have been challenges and his personality he has
to work with, but just kind of his first year,
do you think he's fair?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I mean, no different than how I've answered that last
few weeks, And I think Nick has done a good
job as a coach.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
No one's happy with our results by any means.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I think he's been thrown in a number of situations
that I think will make him better going forward. I've
watched him adjust to a bunch of different situations, kind
of being a couple of situations on a couple of
games when there wasn't much of an answer and he
still had to try to find one. So I think
this year was good for him, and I know he's
gonna be a good coach and better for it going forward.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Alliance, they've had ninety guys on aserve. Similar to the
injury level year, how they've been able to kind of
stay up to the standards of winning games.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean, just me going off these five days of
watching them. You know, I know all the injuries, you
see it on the reports, and especially losing their pass
rushers and their d linemen.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
But I think the biggest thing is, you know, it's.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Hit them the most in certain areas on defense, But
when you play as much man coverage as they do
and blitz as much, that's gonna be predicated on your
secondary and I think they improved that a ton this
year with their draft picks, with some free agents they
brought in, maybe their draft picks from two years ago.
They're safety getting healthy also, so the areas that they
(09:44):
excel in, they've been able to maintain the top of
their talent there and it does give us a weaknesses
other places. But uh, that combined with their offensive horsepower
and things like that, it's made a lot of teams
hard to expose exp It's made it hard for a
lot of teams.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
To expose it.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And they've done oh job with it, so huge credit
to them for it.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Thank alright, I guess
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