Nick Bosa Outlines the Team’s Performance on ‘MNF’ | Press Pass

San Francisco 49ers DL Nick Bosa talked to the media following the team’s Week 17 matchup against the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I could seem like really kind of led the way
tonight as far as the intensity, How would you value
got digged early on? How would you evaluate your game tonight? Yeah,
my goal was just to come out play as hard
as I could. It was a little weird last week
for the first time in my career playing a game
that doesn't necessarily mean anything in terms of playoff contention.

(00:23):
And I kind of had to check myself and and
this week come in with a mindset of every game matters,
and and we need to put the best product out
there that we can and and that's what I tried
to do. Later announced it was a cushion or you

(00:43):
looked at they were looking into you pork cushion, but
you returned. You did seem taken up right after. You
kind of just talked about what happened. Yes, Sam just
tried to get in on it and uh caught me.
It was more of like a stinger type thing. But
the ref wanted me to go to the tent, so
I had to go answer some questions. It was like

(01:04):
jammed yeah, and neck your helmet. I know that you've
got a sort of a different helmet helped you. And yeah,
maybe when it hits the top like that, it's not
as good. But I like these guys eleven months ago
kind of crushed their dreams. Do you get the sense
they're kind of a different team or and also that

(01:25):
they this was a very important game for them to win.
I don't think they're that different. I think they've had
a ton of injuries on defense, which hurts them. But
the mentality of the head coach, you could see it
throughout everybody. It's really a cool team. I could just
see from Afar that it's probably a fun team to

(01:46):
play for. And they they come out and they play
to win every game, and I respect that. I've put
so much emphasis on the ball, all meetings and takeaways,
and I think you got twos supply week. Is there
any accounting for that? I mean, is there's so many
different things that go into eternal and take away. It

(02:09):
goes into every level of the defense. When you have
your opportunity. I know we had two against Stafford that
could have made I mean if maybe if we get those,
it sparks a bunch of other ones. So you just
have to make your make your plays when they're there,

(02:29):
and then just being be in the right spots and
I don't think we've done a great job of that
this year. All bro, did you want that matchup? Would you?
Would you think about that matchup? It's good. He's a
really good player, and yeah, I wanted to see where
I'm at against him. Have you ever seen anything like

(02:52):
the Jamison Williams touchdown or just pop back to him
and you've seen something like that. I was in the tent,
so I had no idea that happened. There was a
play in this game. I'm kind of a misdirection sprinted
all the way across the field to make the play.
Did you see the play? And do you think it was? It?

(03:13):
The one Gibbs cut back. Yeah, I had like a
ten yard cushion and he ran by me like I
was didn't exist, and I tried to sprint and I
was just like I don't have this, and thankfully Mustafa
is a heat seeking missile and when he made the play.

(03:37):
So mindset was what was your mindset against Miami? I
mean indicated, I mean I think we came in with
the right mindset as a team. Just myself, it felt
a little like dead energy wise, but yeah, it was
a learning a moment for me to look and make

(04:01):
sure that I come in with the right mindset every
single week. It seems like there's there's a lot of
plays where you guys get to the pills, pass breakups,
and it'll be like a couple of plays in a
row and then there was an explosive allowed. What can
you put your far on about the Yeah, I mean
we did. We did get them to second third lungs

(04:24):
and then yeah, they would make a big play and
you definitely want to capitalize when you when you back
them up like that, and we didn't do that tonight.
And that's why they scored forty points. I'm sure, Yeah,
I'm sure.