Shanahan Provides Injury Updates, Talks Team Morale Ahead of Jaguars | Press Pass

San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan shared injury updates on WR Ricky Pearsall, DL Nick Bosa, and others, offered insight on QBs Brock Purdy and Mac Jones’ practice reps, and emphasized the team’s mindset heading into Week 4 versus Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Okay, somebody's all right guys.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Injuries for today, Jordan Watkins CAF he'll be out, Rookie
Purcell knee, he'll be out, Juwan Jennings ankle's shoulder out.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
C J.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
West thumb out, Trent Williams VET day, Christian McCaffrey VET day.
You Tour knee out, Nick Bosa knee out, Brock perty
left shoulder and toe limited, Mac Jones knee limited, Ronaldo
Green neck limited, Connor Colby growing limited, demo illness limited,
go ahead, good?

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Uh, Piercell, he came up and will get be after
that big port and two catch? Was that where he
was injured? And is that a serious injury you think?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm not sure which play was on, but yeah, you
can't go today, so hopefully'll get better later in the week.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
Well it put Perdy and Jones are limited practice Today's
that meaned that Adrian Martinez takes all the first team reps.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
No, Brock will still get the actually still gets them,
but they're not going to get the full amount, so
he'll get he'll get a little more.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
Adrian is one of them farther ahead than the other
in terms of health.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
No, I don't think so I think they're both limited.
That was Brock progressing at this time.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
He's better today than he was on Sunday, and hopefully
I'll keep continuing.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
How you get to Marcus Robinson back this week?

Speaker 4 (01:29):
What'd you think of him this summer and can he
do you think he can provide.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Some explosives for you guys? Yeah? I love getting d
brought back. He was great for us this summer.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
He's been around the building last couple of weeks, so
it's been good to have him in here and excited
to seem out of practice today. I know he's been
working while on his own way he's been away, and
excited to get him back involved.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Did you have to address but the team just makes
absence here? That's upcoming. You've had injuries, but this one
the season ender, So do you do you address that
with the team and kind of keep morale up?

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah? I did.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Everyone knows about it. I mean it's you know, making
more than it is. I think everyone knows. I'm not
gonna stare and say something and make it better. Everyone
knows the deal, and so we got to focus on
what we got to get done.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
What have you seen from gross battle especially so he
has practiced much this year.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I see a guy who's battle to get out there,
especially if he went through this whole offseason. It's been
good so far, just being able to get him out
there on Thursdays and being able to get him to
play on Sundays. And he's been able to do that routine.
And hopefully it gets better not worse as the season goes.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
But it's something we'll keep evaluating he does.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
I mean, is that probably the plan for him throughout
the season given his d situation.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, the plan until it would show us that it
didn't have to be the plan.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
So I would say, you know, it has to do
with the strength of schedule. But when it comes to
the morale of the team, it seems like even though
you guys have taken a big injury each game, it's
still kind of a high morale on the team already. Yeah.
I don't know if Big Boss you changed it, but
from your perspective, what have you seen out of the
guys with kind of rolling with the punches.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
And the injuries.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I'm just kind of we've tried to set the tone
since we got here in o thas. Guys haven't been
thinking about expectations good or bad. Guys haven't been thinking
about playoffs or anything like that. They've just been taking
it one day at a time and enjoined football and
going as hard as they can. And it's been that
way since O Tia. It's been that way through training camp,
and it's been that way through three weeks. So Andrey
shouldn't affect your mindset on that stuff away.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
As Juwan Jennings from being able to participate.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Hopefully can this week. You know, he was similar to
last week he had he was close to getting in.
Everybody's able to make it and it would be the
same this week.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
He wasn't gonna probably not gonna fall to you regardless.
But did you play around on your mind a little
bit with Travis Hunter and how you would use him
on both sides of the ball And what kind of
challenge do you think that is to do that?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
I mean it's a challenge, definitely.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Not many people have done it, but he definitely, based
off of film, was the guy you want to deal with.
I mean, he was that good of a corner and
that good of a receiver. So to see that, it's
I think anybody would try that. Have you seen from
the Jaguars defense on table, real good defense. They're talented,
they've got a real good scheme, got a lot of
respect for Anthony. They're playing extremely hard. They know how

(04:18):
to get after the quarterback. They have very sound coverages
and when they're ahead of the change, they put the
pressure on the quarterback and have been very opportunistic with
turnerovers in that way.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
What have you seen from Armstead in the film?

Speaker 1 (04:30):
The air looks good, looks fresh, looks healthy.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
He's playing really good right now in all three of
these games, run and pass, and he's tough to deal with.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
So many of you pop.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's not credit. It both so with helping him a lot.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Since he's been here. What's your expectation rehab, but just
your expectation for him to be around and how important
is it to have him kind of continue in that room.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
It always helps, especially a guy like Nick just he's
got a lot more wisdom than people realize. And they
call him like the audiobook because that's how he sounds
and he talks, but he plans on being around to
get away and do a surgery and stuff, and usually
when you do that, you stay down. I think in
La for a couple of weeks, but plans are coming
back here after that and hopefully's around more.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Playing on the edge. So far this season he's do
a good job.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
I mean we put him mainly inside for past rous situations,
but doesn't mean he can't do it outside, and he's
done a real good job there.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
The surgery on his right when he was in high
school in twenty fifteen, does that add another layer of
complexity to this one?

Speaker 6 (05:27):
I mean, is there any.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Worry that it'll take longer for him to come back
from this than maybe the previous two.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
No, I think there's zero worrior correlation between the three.
And I think I mean, this one, from what they say,
was as clean as of anyone you can do. I mean,
just pure acl nothing else. The other ones they've all
been five years apart. I mean, I had a buddy
who tore one in high school, tour two in college,
and then played eight years in NFL without one, and

(05:57):
I think Frank orson a number of times. So it's
all about it, how it heals, what type of tear
it is, and when it's clean and you go through
the rehab and stuff, it's usually brand new after that.

Speaker 6 (06:08):
Sunday come out of the blue.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Tangent was walking around and you did some high knees
and stuff like that.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
Was he doing that because at.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
That point nobody thought it was an AHL.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
I think it's the process of when you however, they
check it with their hands on the sideline. There's a
test that they can do that can show whether it
definitely is or not, and it didn't show that.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
But Nick was adamant that it was.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
So that's why when I was told it, Hey, then
his ACL tested out clean. But next Pretty Company has one,
so we're pretty worried. I think that's the case. It's
all of the player and he's doing some high knees
just to make sure. But he confirmed it didn't feel right,
and they did say when you do have had it before,
sometimes it doesn't tear as clean, so the hand test

(06:55):
doesn't work and you gotta wait.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
For them or I.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
And it's pretty much exactly what happened in this situation.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
What you shut out.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
About Max Jones on the rewatch When you watch it again,
that's how competitive he was, hanging in the pocket, competing
throughout that game, getting rid of the ball real fast.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
I loved him, especially on that last drive.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Just not hesitating, letting it rip and being aggressive and
everything he did he comes to U folks.

Speaker 6 (07:20):
So you said he was adamant that he knew that
it was his aco even though the trainers were trying
to work through and they didn't think. So was that
a conversation?

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Okay, I keep getting mistold on that. It's that the
hand test and a conferment, and that's what I was hoping.

Speaker 6 (07:33):
Okay, Well, my question was like, did he have that
conversation with you with the trainers?

Speaker 5 (07:37):
What was he saying.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
Was he just like, you know, he just knew that
he didn't feel right and this is my a cl Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, I was in the middle of the game. But
that's what they said in the blue tent.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
So Brice huped to become a bigger leader on the
defensive line.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Bigger leader, I mean, I don't I don't expect anybody
ever to be a leader and do something just different
saying I have to be more of a leader today.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
I think Bryce Soth has been a leader since he's
been here.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
This guy works every day, doesn't talk a lot, but
when he does, people listen. I loved how he's been here,
how he does practice how he plays in games, and
I expect that to continue.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, thank you.