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September 21, 2025 • 10 mins
Head coach Kyle Shanahan recapped the 49ers Week 3 victory over the Arizona Cardinals, addressed injuries to DL Nick Bosa and others, and highlighted standout performances from QB Mac Jones, RB Christian McCaffrey, and WR Ricky Pearsall.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, guys. Injuries from the game.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Nick Bosa had a knee, didn't return, Michael Williams wrist,
he did return. Ronaldo Green had a head evaluation, he returned.
Mac Jones had a knee, he returned.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
CJ. West had a thumb, didn't return.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Anything out with the Knicks injury.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
We can'trow anything out. I mean they checked for ACL
and stuff there. It was good with that, but we're
still not sure. So we got to check with more
thorough things here tonight.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
And the more we're losing Bosa just you're out of curiosity.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
How do you think this.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Game would have gone if mikeel Williams wasn't there on
the other side of the defensive fun making plays down
the streetch It's a big hypothetical.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
It would have been harder without him.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Anytime you don't have your players, if just gets harder
and harder. He made some big plays in that game,
and thought our whole defense did. I thought they afforded
to the resiliency that throughout the whole game or whole team.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I thought it was really impressive.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
We didn't Mac hurt his need.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
How do you think you on the drive?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
He heard it in the red zone when the one
we went for it on fourth and goal from the
two and didn't get it. I thought he did some
really good things. I know there's a couple that he'd
love to take back, have back. I thought his pick
was just.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
A bad play.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Love for Ricky to be able to break that up,
but I thought there was a bad call. The way
he came back in the end on that last drive,
he was unbelievable, even scrambling around when his knee was
on bothering him, but he was.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
He was real good today.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
Wots the breakup there, it was unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
I mean they had him beat on the play. I
mean they just he had some separation. The south kind
of Upton has been with everything, just never quits, never stopped.
Eat up the cushion. I didn't geld of see, but
it looked like he raked out the ball when the
guy was bringing it down in transition. A huge game
when I when I've been able to win it without
that play.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
You have a goal line yardage in mind for to
set up for Panero, and what was the commonest level
to hit him on that last kick?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
And it was confident?

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I mean, you know, we don't have a lot of
life experiences together, so I don't you know, but yeah,
so I was. I was feeling good with it, and
he definitely kept that going. Uh we were gonna kick along.
We were in field goal range earlier before that. I
loved the screen that Christian did. The guy's block rate
for him, got it in there, made it easier, and
then we centered it and I hit the game winner.

Speaker 5 (02:17):
A lot of faces obviously coming this season, been a
lot of shuffling with injuries. What is it about the
fabric of his team or does it say about it
that the guys have been able to eke out these
three kind of grimey wins.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
I've just been so proud of the guys in all
three games. All three of those games are games that
could have gone either way. We've had to overcome a
lot in those games going into them with some injuries
and some people we've lost during the games, and all
three I think, you know, those were some of the
games that I think we struggled to win last year.
And to have three like that and to win all three,
can't say enough about the guys in there.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
Do you remember the play call on fourth and two
on the thirty four yard or pears.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
What'd you think of it? Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, trips right three Jeff Florida. I thought it was awesome.
I got an option to hit KB on the out
route or throw Ricky on the go. He had a
good look for both of them. Uh, and he chose
the right one. It was a big time play.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Even hesitated to go for it. There, did you have
that play ready to go? It had that been set up?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
It wasn't really the play ready to go, but I knew.
I knew based off what we did the down before
that that we were gonna give him two tries and
I was hoping we could run it. We had a
chance to came up just short. And then those guys
were big time on that that.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
That doesn't seem like an easy throw. Max on the
opposite hash thrown across the field, Is that a throw
that he's good at? I mean, is are you confident
in him making that.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Thro I mean, the NFL go routes to the field,
you don't worry about. They better have a strong enough
arm to throw the field. But it's Max been good
at throwing goes all the time. Whether he hits him
in stride or whether he hits him with the back shoulder.
That's really based off of the separation that Ricky gets
on it. That Ricky got the separation and Matt drop
dropped Mac dropped it in there. They were telling me

(03:53):
it was dicey towards the sidelines. So that's why we
hurried up and ran a play. I never got to
see the replay or anything, but it was a big
time throw, a big time catch.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
There was so much concern about Christian going into the
season and him standing up to you know, get hit
all the time, and he got hit a ton today
and he wound up still making that big screen play
at the end was like, I mean, how tough was
he today to get through this.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Game and how tough as he always is.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Christian is never not liked that he battled did a
lot of good things in the run game in the
past game. But that's how Christian is to me every
day of his life. So very grateful to have him.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
And Ricky had like twenty six targets like that on
the last drive, though mackid kind of spread around sky
more Ton just all those guys. Was it was there
any you know, conscious effort on your part to say
he like maybe they're sitting on some things. Let's try
to get other guys at old or is that just.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Kind of happened.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
There's more there's no huddle too minutes.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
I mean you have plays, and you know, you design
most of your stuff for your guys and then coverage
will cover them and then you go to the next guy.
So I Christian sometimes gets a lot more targets because
you get some when you end with the checkdown. Also,
not to mention, we target him as number one a bunch,
but when you get in two minute situation, you're just
going no huddle plays and stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
It really doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
So the ball went there and those guys stepped up
big and made some big, big time plays on that drive.
Kendrick was awesome. Kendrick was seemed pretty good every time
we went to him. Thought there was one low one.
I would have loved him to catch him one third down,
I believe. But KB just in these two weeks, every
time we've gone and he's made some big plays. Love
how he steps back to the ball and love how
he finishes after. And it was awesome with Sky too

(05:23):
showing up there about.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Ricky and how he's played, especially this game, he expand
on what you thought from watching him. I mean, it
seemed like he kept a lot of drives alive late
and then you didn't have Juwan Jennings, which everybody calls
third at Juwe what was it like to have Ricky
Pears out out there today?

Speaker 1 (05:39):
I mean, this is how Ricky's been for a while.
We you know, we felt it towards end of last year.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
He's been this way all through training camp and it's
one of the reasons we wanted to draft him here
and hasn't disappointed us at all. So he stepped it
up big and and you got to do that even
more when you have guys out like JJ and guys
like George, you guys.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Team after this game, what did you just have to
say to him?

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Just proud of them?

Speaker 2 (06:00):
I was with just I mean I said it to
him using big words for myself, but fortitude, resilience, the character.
People had to help me with those, But I was
just I mean to me, felt it throughout the whole game.
You know, you could tell it wasn't going exactly how
we would like them. You know, the time of possession,
stuff like that. You know, it's really struggling on third down,

(06:21):
and I think we had our seventh play on offense,
I want to say, like was seven minutes into the
second quarter, so they were controlling the ball and we
weren't moving the ball on third down, so that it
made it real tough. But the guy's never wavered, but
the need to stop him at the at the end
and then us to get a safety and then the
stout to come back and make their play to give
the offense another chance.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
So it was just it was a hell of a
job by everybody.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
After the game, we know his parents went to the
locker room to check on him, like, what were his spirits, Gona.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
I haven't seen Dick yet. I'm sure he's concerned and
just knowing how he would be, and hopefully we'll have
some good news tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Clarify, they rolled out an a CEO.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Rolled it out. No, we're not sure.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
I mean, there is concern because of how he feels,
and you know, you know they do the tests and
stuff on the sideline when usually they say whether he
definitely did or not, and they didn't say that. But
we are concerned with that and keeping our fingers crossed
for the the MRI or.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Whatever he does.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
A three to zero store for two to zero in
the division and two close wins in division. What does
that say so far by your season?

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Well, that's big.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
I mean they all count, but you like to say
towards the end the division division games count a little
bit more. So these are three wins that could have
gone either way, especially having two on the road, and
especially two in our own division. So really good start
for us, and it's gotta make sure to keep it up.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Do you think he bounced back on both sides of
the ball after not getting the fourth and one of
the goal line, And would you like that call back
or did you like to call he didn't execute it?

Speaker 1 (07:52):
No, I'd like it back.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
I mean anytime it doesn't work, I'd like it back.
I wanted to go a different directions, so I hesitated
a little bit, almost called a time out. Actually wanted
to call the play that we scored on the next
time down there on the boot leg to Juice, but
I was worried about it. I was watching Macalimp a
little and stuff, so we don't want to do a
rollout with them.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Felt good when it snapped, but they ended up.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Doing a blitz and they had our hot throat cover,
so it just didn't work out.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
So yeah, I was disappointed with it.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Defense held him pretty good and we got it back,
but actually they held him to what I thought was
the safety, so then I felt really good about it.
But you know, the ball was out of the end zone,
so it wasn't a safety, and then I thought we
were gonna going to score, and that was our next
drive was a pick. So a lot happened right there,
and just glad we were able to finish with the ball.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Last was a pretty confident guy.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
I know you don't talk to kickers that much, but
have you gotten that sense from him that he's kind
of an extra confident kicker.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
It seems like it carries himself that way. He was
cool breaking down the team there at the end.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
But we've enjoyed him here in these two weeks.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
And liked how he's handled himself. And you definitely like
guys even more when they make kicks.

Speaker 5 (08:55):
They called against your offense.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
It looked like that. It looked like Dom got beat.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
We're trying to get rid of it quick and hit
Ricky right there hooking up.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
It felt like the backer was driving on him.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
I don't know if Matt could have hit him or not,
but he had a shuffle because of the quick win.
I think it was Kalais.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
It was shocker.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
I was hoping we didn't hold him, and I saw
him the scoreboard. It looked like he didn't totally grab him.
But you know, it's it's.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Tough, tough part about being backed up like that. It's
not fair catch that one. From where I was looking
at it looks like that. I mean, when you have.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
A fair catch of the sixth, that's usually not where
we want it. So I was I kind of tell
where that last one landed at the end, but it
looked like the right thing. I thought he was in
the same situation and let it go and it's much
easier having a touch back there.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
The line after went down.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
I just saw him step it up.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
I mean, as I saw a number of guys make plays,
I thought they contained Kyler pretty good, which is a
huge challenge. I mean, the whole goal is to keep
him in that pocket, and it is extremely hard with
how fast he is and how quick he is. I
thought we played the run game very well. They didn't
give any big ones, and I was real proud of
the whole defense. But especially the D line.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
Losing a guy like boasts of mid game due to
the Enclode unit, and how did you see them just respond?

Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean, it didn't seem like they wavered.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
I mean anytime you lose your best player, I mean
it always guys are disappointed and stuff. But you can't
sit there and feel sorry for yourself. And it's tough
enough to play in this league and you gotta be ready.
And I did instance anything from the guys at all.
You can't hear anyone's talking, and guys had to step
it up, and it looks like the guys did all right.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Thanks guys,
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