October 8, 2025 • 10 mins
Head coach Kyle Shanahan provided updates on QB Brock Purdy and other key injuries and reflected on the resilience and leadership shaping the 49ers 4-1 start.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
That's so guys for today, Ricky Purcell knee will be out,
Watkins calf out, Robert Reveal ankle out, Brock perty toe out,
Juwan Jennings ankle slash rib out al for Collins knee out,
You Tour knee hamstring out, Trent Williams ved Day, McCaffrey
ved Day, c J West thumb limited, Stout ankle limited,
(00:24):
mac Jones knee slash, obleak limited, Kevin Gibbons peck limited,
Cleia Davis hand limited.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
To assist some Brock's progress, and is there any thought
at all put him one an injured.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Reserve hasn't been on thatt On I R. And he's progressive.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Reason that Brock didn't travel to Los Angeles, uh.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
With where he was.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
We thought when you traveled the first time, he was
a little sore after it. So we just wanted to
fly and everything for that reason, and with all the
other injured if they don't.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Do it because we think it helps them leave them behind.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
You've always said try to get to be fifty to
fifty run pass. I know four and one is by
far the most important dat but you're fifty nine percent
pass right now? Are you a little uncomfortable with that,
or it's just the way, Like, did you approach these games.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Thinking most of the time we're gonna have to throw
all them more than usual?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
No, I think that's more how I feel during the games.
I don't approach games that way much. Always every game
I've ever been and I understand it can go either way,
one sided or the other, so you're always ready for
that for how game goes. But no, that's why these
games have played out, and it seems like it's been
important for it to play out that way.
Speaker 7 (01:41):
I've just got the number one run d outside of
Vita Vea. What what stands out when you watch them
on film.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Todd's scheme, I mean, regardless of who they've ever had,
he's always a.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Good run defense.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
When they want to take away the run, they know
exactly how to do it from the calls he makes,
how they play with their three to four front. Then
when you have people like Vita is as good as
it gets in that area. But schematically they know how
to make you one dimensional, and that's why you got
to be able to win doing both.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
Reports are out about you know, the trade deadline and
the possibility if you guys wanted to kind of help
out with they both void.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Are you guys like talking about that?
Speaker 8 (02:17):
How are you guys feeling about the possibility of bring
someone else in in to.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Help out with the age?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
It was always I mean, those guys talk every day
all the way up to the deadline. Though, let us
know if anything ever has a possibility. But with both sales,
there's no difference than usual, so the same and.
Speaker 9 (02:36):
Givens that that means his window is open to what's
the plane for him and stuff?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Is there a chance those.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
No guarantees they'll be ready for Sunday, But we'll kind
of start basing that off how they look today a
little bit, how they look leading up to this point.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But we'll see how they go.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
And you give us a couple of updates on some
of the other guys that are on IR, like Kettle
and March.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Are they progressing, Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Yeah, they're all progressing. Hopefully we will have a chance to
kill next week, just a chance. I don't think barches
off next week though.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
How back to the trades, I think John said on
the radio that you can not to see how the
season's going to to assess what the situation is four
and one as as a guy coaching this, does that
increase your interest in maybe making a trade or two.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Really, what increases my interest is who's the guy that
can absolutely help us get better this year without hurting
us next year.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And you balance both of those out.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
But there's a guy out to be a guy available,
and sometimes there's two different things. Sometimes there's one guy
who can only help this year. Sometimes there isn't a
guy available who's like that. So we'll see what comes up.
Sometimes things come up, But I don't see any different
right now than how I felt going into the year.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
The Manuel Sanders trade was like, really, you said it,
we're maybe one piece.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Way do you feel that all similar? I know it's
a little ways away to that time.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
No, I don't. I don't feel at all like that,
you know. I think at that time, we had a
a Super Bowl defense that was as good as anyone
in the league, and it probably had been for like
ten years, and it was pretty obvious. And I thought,
you know, some of at the time, some of the
receivers we were depending on weren't weren't there, and we
(04:17):
were playing some young rookies and we thought we had
we needed to add another guy, But yeah, I don't
totally see it the same situations right now.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Is an epidemic in the league right now, players dropping
the ball right before they crossed the goal line.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Have you talked about this one of your players.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Have you ever thought about what how you would react
if one of your players did that?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
No, I don't think much about how i'd react. I'd
always react pretty much the same as upset as I
could possibly be with trying to internalize it all. But yeah,
we show stuff, guys, and everyone does, and stuff happens
around the league. Most people do that. We didn't last week.
We had a short week. We do around the league
on Fridays. We didn't get a Friday. But yeah, you
(04:54):
would think you don't need to show that. You would
think to Shawn covered that like twenty years ago. Surprisingly,
you need to cover it because it keeps happening. And
I have a pretty good feeling people did see it
last two weeks ago, So I have a feeling sometimes
you cover things and it still happens. I'm still curious
if that guy let it go before the goal line
or not. Look pretty damn close to me.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
What were you saying as far as progress and then
the run game.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
What am I seeing? Well, last week you didn't see
much statistically at all. Kind of had an idea going
into the game how big of a challenge I was
going to be. I was pretty I wasn't proud of
the production in terms of yards and everything, but it
was extremely proud of how our team got over thirty carries.
When you can do that and you're only averaging, when
you're averaging under three, that means you're doing a lot
(05:40):
of good things. You're staying out there, you're executing, you're
doing good on third down. But it's you know, we
missed some opportunities earlier in this year, got a little
harder versus Rams. It's going to get harder this week
first Tampa Bay. But we just got to keep pressing
away the Rams game.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
That you've been impressed with your team's character for.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
A while now, When when did that first kind of
strike you that.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
That exchanged that this was a team that had great
that had character.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I mean, it's it's nothing against the old I think
our old teams have had great and character. It's just
more it was a different deal this year, just knowing
how much turnover we had as and how many more
younger guys were dependent on going into the season in
comparison to the three years prior, and when you had
a team for like the three or four years prior that,
you know, everything was about, Hey, we got to get
back to the super Bowl, we got to win a
(06:27):
MC Championship game, you got to do all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
It's just a little bit different mindset.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I knew it wasn't like that with all the young guys,
So I was, you know, when you break the team
down and OTAs and everything for a few years about
getting back to the super Bowl and things like that, like,
it's not going to be that way with this group,
and it was a totally different deal. So I wanted
to just see how guys attacked practice and football every
single day, thinking we'd have to really work to get
to that because it hadn't been that way for a while.
(06:53):
But that's what I was so excited about in OTAs
because just talking with the guys in Phase one and
two about it and just watching how they reacted and
how the practice is went, that wasn't very hard for me.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
The guys were totally bought into it.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
We had the right guys and they haven't worried about
really anything except being as good as they can be
in practice and that caring over to games. And I
think that's how it's been in these five games. Just
as easily you can lose all five and be on five,
and we found a way to be four and one,
and regardless of any of the games either one we lost.
I've just been proud of how they've been going about it.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Cocking up on that.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
I know you don't want to get too high or
too low throughout the season, but like you said, it's
been a really good start to the season. And I
asked earlier this season about the road games, being that
there's so many heavy roll games on the front end
of the schedule. How encouraged are you to see how
their good see wins toward the end of these games
on the road have turned out to go in you guys's.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Favor I love finding ways to win games that you
can easily lose. I don't really look into the road
or away or when you do it, it's it really
doesn't matter. I've been five to zero and not made
the playoff, been oning four and have made the playoffs,
So like you don't, you don't look into.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Really any of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
It's just all matters what your record is when you
add up seventeen, not the order of how you do it.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Well, what's the status of Rick? Are you expecting him
to practice tomorrow? Is this a multi week rest thing
that he needs?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Last week that would probably be able to get in
this week. He wasn't able to Monday, he's not able
to today. So we'll see if there's a turn here
on Thursday or Friday. But not counting on it right now.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Almost put in Adrian Martinez the last game, and then
you looked out and you saw Mac out there.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
How much would you be able to do.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
With him at this point You've had him for a
little while now, but he's also been running the scout team.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
We would have had to find out, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I mean, obviously a guy who hasn't been in your
system very long and hasn't gotten a lot of NFL
experience very long. You want to be as careful as
you can. But when you're in a twenty to twenty
game or whatever it was at the time, and someone's
taken over, you're you're going to do what you gotta do.
So you get in certain situations and you got to
find out.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
One of the things I stood out on the film
was that Bourne dropped the pass and immediately Shones ran
over to him kind of I don't know, gave him
a pep talk, helped him up. What do you think
of max ability to serve leadership as the number two guy?
And how do you evaluate that?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I think he's been I think guys need to be
themselves and be consistent, and I think Ma's been that way.
And when your self and you're consistent, as long as
you prepare the right way, play the right way, then
you're then to me, you're a leader and guys respect that.
And I mean, I don't know him patting him on
the shoulders, why didn't drop the next one?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
But sure definitely doesn't hurt more if I'm mad.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Two part in your own question, I.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Guess now sorry threw me off.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I guess the.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
First part is that why he's historically good, Like you know,
his field goal percentage is third I think all time. Now,
why do you think he went inside on why he
was available in week two?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And also like when he screams.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
Like after you know I did posing sideline or whatever,
just his reactions like exude confidence and like he's got
something to him.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Does that give you more confidence?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
It's in him, no making It gives me a lot
of confidence. I don't really care how you act before
or after. If it goes in, I'm good. However you
want to act, as long as you don't hurt her
team get a penalty. Be yourself, but don't hurt her
team get a penalty. And I'm not sure why it
was available. You know, the percentages look real good, but
I'm glad he was available.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
So when it comes to you, Robert Sila, why do
you think you guys works so well together.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I mean, we have experienced together.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
We've been through a lot together, just even those first
three years or first four years, just where we started.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And known each other for a while. He knows a
lot of football. We can communicate on a lot of
different things.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
And whether we're talking often Steven Sore, special teams or
just philosophy and stuff. So Sol as a thinker and
I enjoy talking to on that stuff, all right,
That's so guys for today, Ricky Purcell knee will be out,
Watkins calf out, Robert Reveal ankle out, Brock perty toe out,
Juwan Jennings ankle slash rib out al for Collins knee out,
You Tour knee hamstring out, Trent Williams ved Day, McCaffrey
ved Day, c J West thumb limited, Stout ankle limited,
(00:24):
mac Jones knee slash, obleak limited, Kevin Gibbons peck limited,
Cleia Davis hand limited.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
To assist some Brock's progress, and is there any thought
at all put him one an injured.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Reserve hasn't been on thatt On I R. And he's progressive.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Reason that Brock didn't travel to Los Angeles, uh.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
With where he was.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
We thought when you traveled the first time, he was
a little sore after it. So we just wanted to
fly and everything for that reason, and with all the
other injured if they don't.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Do it because we think it helps them leave them behind.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
You've always said try to get to be fifty to
fifty run pass. I know four and one is by
far the most important dat but you're fifty nine percent
pass right now? Are you a little uncomfortable with that,
or it's just the way, Like, did you approach these games.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Thinking most of the time we're gonna have to throw
all them more than usual?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
No, I think that's more how I feel during the games.
I don't approach games that way much. Always every game
I've ever been and I understand it can go either way,
one sided or the other, so you're always ready for
that for how game goes. But no, that's why these
games have played out, and it seems like it's been
important for it to play out that way.
Speaker 7 (01:41):
I've just got the number one run d outside of
Vita Vea. What what stands out when you watch them
on film.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Todd's scheme, I mean, regardless of who they've ever had,
he's always a.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Good run defense.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
When they want to take away the run, they know
exactly how to do it from the calls he makes,
how they play with their three to four front. Then
when you have people like Vita is as good as
it gets in that area. But schematically they know how
to make you one dimensional, and that's why you got
to be able to win doing both.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
Reports are out about you know, the trade deadline and
the possibility if you guys wanted to kind of help
out with they both void.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Are you guys like talking about that?
Speaker 8 (02:17):
How are you guys feeling about the possibility of bring
someone else in in to.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Help out with the age?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
It was always I mean, those guys talk every day
all the way up to the deadline. Though, let us
know if anything ever has a possibility. But with both sales,
there's no difference than usual, so the same and.
Speaker 9 (02:36):
Givens that that means his window is open to what's
the plane for him and stuff?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Is there a chance those.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
No guarantees they'll be ready for Sunday, But we'll kind
of start basing that off how they look today a
little bit, how they look leading up to this point.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But we'll see how they go.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
And you give us a couple of updates on some
of the other guys that are on IR, like Kettle
and March.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Are they progressing, Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Yeah, they're all progressing. Hopefully we will have a chance to
kill next week, just a chance. I don't think barches
off next week though.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
How back to the trades, I think John said on
the radio that you can not to see how the
season's going to to assess what the situation is four
and one as as a guy coaching this, does that
increase your interest in maybe making a trade or two.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Really, what increases my interest is who's the guy that
can absolutely help us get better this year without hurting
us next year.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And you balance both of those out.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
But there's a guy out to be a guy available,
and sometimes there's two different things. Sometimes there's one guy
who can only help this year. Sometimes there isn't a
guy available who's like that. So we'll see what comes up.
Sometimes things come up, But I don't see any different
right now than how I felt going into the year.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
The Manuel Sanders trade was like, really, you said it,
we're maybe one piece.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Way do you feel that all similar? I know it's
a little ways away to that time.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
No, I don't. I don't feel at all like that,
you know. I think at that time, we had a
a Super Bowl defense that was as good as anyone
in the league, and it probably had been for like
ten years, and it was pretty obvious. And I thought,
you know, some of at the time, some of the
receivers we were depending on weren't weren't there, and we
(04:17):
were playing some young rookies and we thought we had
we needed to add another guy, But yeah, I don't
totally see it the same situations right now.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Is an epidemic in the league right now, players dropping
the ball right before they crossed the goal line.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Have you talked about this one of your players.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Have you ever thought about what how you would react
if one of your players did that?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
No, I don't think much about how i'd react. I'd
always react pretty much the same as upset as I
could possibly be with trying to internalize it all. But yeah,
we show stuff, guys, and everyone does, and stuff happens
around the league. Most people do that. We didn't last week.
We had a short week. We do around the league
on Fridays. We didn't get a Friday. But yeah, you
(04:54):
would think you don't need to show that. You would
think to Shawn covered that like twenty years ago. Surprisingly,
you need to cover it because it keeps happening. And
I have a pretty good feeling people did see it
last two weeks ago, So I have a feeling sometimes
you cover things and it still happens. I'm still curious
if that guy let it go before the goal line
or not. Look pretty damn close to me.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
What were you saying as far as progress and then
the run game.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
What am I seeing? Well, last week you didn't see
much statistically at all. Kind of had an idea going
into the game how big of a challenge I was
going to be. I was pretty I wasn't proud of
the production in terms of yards and everything, but it
was extremely proud of how our team got over thirty carries.
When you can do that and you're only averaging, when
you're averaging under three, that means you're doing a lot
(05:40):
of good things. You're staying out there, you're executing, you're
doing good on third down. But it's you know, we
missed some opportunities earlier in this year, got a little
harder versus Rams. It's going to get harder this week
first Tampa Bay. But we just got to keep pressing
away the Rams game.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
That you've been impressed with your team's character for.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
A while now, When when did that first kind of
strike you that.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
That exchanged that this was a team that had great
that had character.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I mean, it's it's nothing against the old I think
our old teams have had great and character. It's just
more it was a different deal this year, just knowing
how much turnover we had as and how many more
younger guys were dependent on going into the season in
comparison to the three years prior, and when you had
a team for like the three or four years prior that,
you know, everything was about, Hey, we got to get
back to the super Bowl, we got to win a
(06:27):
MC Championship game, you got to do all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
It's just a little bit different mindset.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I knew it wasn't like that with all the young guys,
So I was, you know, when you break the team
down and OTAs and everything for a few years about
getting back to the super Bowl and things like that, like,
it's not going to be that way with this group,
and it was a totally different deal. So I wanted
to just see how guys attacked practice and football every
single day, thinking we'd have to really work to get
to that because it hadn't been that way for a while.
(06:53):
But that's what I was so excited about in OTAs
because just talking with the guys in Phase one and
two about it and just watching how they reacted and
how the practice is went, that wasn't very hard for me.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
The guys were totally bought into it.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
We had the right guys and they haven't worried about
really anything except being as good as they can be
in practice and that caring over to games. And I
think that's how it's been in these five games. Just
as easily you can lose all five and be on five,
and we found a way to be four and one,
and regardless of any of the games either one we lost.
I've just been proud of how they've been going about it.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Cocking up on that.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
I know you don't want to get too high or
too low throughout the season, but like you said, it's
been a really good start to the season. And I
asked earlier this season about the road games, being that
there's so many heavy roll games on the front end
of the schedule. How encouraged are you to see how
their good see wins toward the end of these games
on the road have turned out to go in you guys's.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Favor I love finding ways to win games that you
can easily lose. I don't really look into the road
or away or when you do it, it's it really
doesn't matter. I've been five to zero and not made
the playoff, been oning four and have made the playoffs,
So like you don't, you don't look into.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Really any of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
It's just all matters what your record is when you
add up seventeen, not the order of how you do it.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Well, what's the status of Rick? Are you expecting him
to practice tomorrow? Is this a multi week rest thing
that he needs?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Last week that would probably be able to get in
this week. He wasn't able to Monday, he's not able
to today. So we'll see if there's a turn here
on Thursday or Friday. But not counting on it right now.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Almost put in Adrian Martinez the last game, and then
you looked out and you saw Mac out there.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
How much would you be able to do.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
With him at this point You've had him for a
little while now, but he's also been running the scout team.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
We would have had to find out, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I mean, obviously a guy who hasn't been in your
system very long and hasn't gotten a lot of NFL
experience very long. You want to be as careful as
you can. But when you're in a twenty to twenty
game or whatever it was at the time, and someone's
taken over, you're you're going to do what you gotta do.
So you get in certain situations and you got to
find out.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
One of the things I stood out on the film
was that Bourne dropped the pass and immediately Shones ran
over to him kind of I don't know, gave him
a pep talk, helped him up. What do you think
of max ability to serve leadership as the number two guy?
And how do you evaluate that?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I think he's been I think guys need to be
themselves and be consistent, and I think Ma's been that way.
And when your self and you're consistent, as long as
you prepare the right way, play the right way, then
you're then to me, you're a leader and guys respect that.
And I mean, I don't know him patting him on
the shoulders, why didn't drop the next one?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
But sure definitely doesn't hurt more if I'm mad.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Two part in your own question, I.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Guess now sorry threw me off.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I guess the.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
First part is that why he's historically good, Like you know,
his field goal percentage is third I think all time. Now,
why do you think he went inside on why he
was available in week two?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
And also like when he screams.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
Like after you know I did posing sideline or whatever,
just his reactions like exude confidence and like he's got
something to him.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Does that give you more confidence?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
It's in him, no making It gives me a lot
of confidence. I don't really care how you act before
or after. If it goes in, I'm good. However you
want to act, as long as you don't hurt her
team get a penalty. Be yourself, but don't hurt her
team get a penalty. And I'm not sure why it
was available. You know, the percentages look real good, but
I'm glad he was available.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
So when it comes to you, Robert Sila, why do
you think you guys works so well together.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I mean, we have experienced together.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
We've been through a lot together, just even those first
three years or first four years, just where we started.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And known each other for a while. He knows a
lot of football. We can communicate on a lot of
different things.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
And whether we're talking often Steven Sore, special teams or
just philosophy and stuff. So Sol as a thinker and
I enjoy talking to on that stuff, all right,
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