Kyle Shanahan Conference Call: CMC Injury, Brock Purdy, Defense, and More

all right guys um really nothing new to add from yesterday Aaron Banks cap contusion he'll be dayto day this week and Joan Jennings ankle he'll also be dayto day go ahead k i I realized that uh you know you've seen a lot in Trent Williams through the years and look like he had a pretty clean pass block sheet yesterday just are you even surprised by how he's able to step in and play his Ro as he did without any training camp um I mean yes I mean it's really tough to do that it it helped watching him for poor practices you know it just you never know how someone's going to come back when you haven't seen him in that long but just watching them at that mondy practice and how he was by the wind save practice um gave us a good sign that he was going to be all right in the game we just we didn't know how his wind was going to be we knew it was in shape but football shape's a totally different deal and and I know we went on some long drives so that got a challenge that became a challenge for him as we got closer to the end but I also think being able to run the ball that much um also helps too how you last week that um ch's injury was similar to the one he suffered in week 17 last year obviously he didn't play week 18 but it was on the injury report support for the Packers playoff game um play Play well you still think that they're similar and the reason um he didn't play Yesterday simply because you know it's an early season game versus a playoff game back in January uh well yes I believe they're similar I know it was a c then and it's a cap now you guys could ask Christian more on that um definitely I believe if it was a playoff game you would have played um you know but when you it's you know it's not just the cal It's the killes and you know the ailles is tendonitis and that stuff comes and goes and when when it is acting up something you got to be very careful about Christ's very diligent about that stuff and if it was a uh playoff game you know he made it very clear to me that he believed he could go but when you hear that type of stuff and it's not a playoff game and it's week one and especially when you're dealing with the lower extremities like that um it it was aough decision but hearing all the words and stuff in the long run it made it easy Kyle after looking at the film how did you feel like your defensive line before last night especially M Collins Middle versus run um I was really happy with the D line overall um Malik I thought showed up a ton I was really pumped with him um he just he flashed a ton got off blocks played with a ton of energy made a number of plays and that was a hell of a first game for him as a ner pressure yeah they did a great job um you know we kept them into some good um third downs and I thought both of those fed off each other very well um they played you know their conditioning was very good they were able to go on the first play or the last play the same way they did on the first play love how those two pair up and um expect them to get better and better as year goes Kyle with with Jake moody in the position that he's in that's obviously a high pressure position how is there a difference going into year two not being a rookie who was a high draft pick and now just being the kicker here too how does that change your confidence um I mean I think just being able to get through his rookie year you know being a draft pick and everything having to replace a guy like Robbie you know all eyes are on him to start you know going from his first misses in the preseason to through you know the Miss vers Cleveland like those are so such a big deal when you haven't done it before um but every time that you know he got more eyes on him and people are waiting for him to fail he always rebounded and got through that and when you do that you build true confidence and you get stronger through adversity and I feel like he went through a ton in his first year and coming into his second year I I forget that he's only a second year player um he you don't he handles himself very well and um carries himself like a true veteran now Ty what what jumped out of you with Brock Cy and how he diagnosed to Jets defense drive after Drive um just was didn't make any mistakes and made some a number of plays with the ball um when they did have some pressure and stuff he was able to get rid of it when he when guys weren't real open he still made some really good tight throws um really only had one ball that he was aggressive on that got close to the defense where I thought they had a chance to pick it um ultimately probably wasn't a great decision but I could totally see why he did it and I love that he didn't hesitate and kind of let a rip and there kind of how he played the whole game and only one got close to him so uh he he played aggressive enough he played aggressive and um played very controlled with a chance for us to win and um they not make mistakes the way that game went and you know you get in the second half and truly felt the only way they could get back into it is if we had a bad turnover and Brock was um very trusting with the football while still make a play was your impression of Dominic last night I thought it was really good first game for him U by no means was it perfect but um it's how he's been every every day since he's been here so far so you know talked about him a bunch here and he's been this way in practice he's been this way in preseason and it looked the same in week one so um seems pretty consistent pretty real about the guy and that was his first game he's got to recover here in six days and we'll be playing on the road next week where it'll be much louder and stuff there'll be some new challenges but hopefully he just continues to play the way he is and you keep doing that he'll also get better with more experience this is a sense among you know a lot of people and players that is even better than expected at least at early stage of care is there anything that you didn't know I mean there's a reason you dra them obviously but I mean is there you didn't know that you know a couple months with um nothing that's gonna be real exciting for your question but it's um it's always tough when you evaluate College because you know they always run a different scheme um just the the way people run blocking stuff is is usually way different than how we're going to ask them to do you you evaluate them at tackle and we plan on you know we know we could play all the positions but we plan we drafted them to come in and be a guard U so all those things you're just you're making assumptions on um educated guesses on so you never truly know especially with line until you get them here and so you try to you try to get as much information about the guy as a as a person you know how they are in the games whether it's too big for them how much they love football we evalue as much as we can um but there's really not a ton of clips that translate all the time so there's always a lot of unknown with linan um so right when we got here just and he got thrown in right away just to see him kind of do what we hadn't seen I guess it was the best thing right away we you know we always work with people and people get better but it was cool to see how naturally was a a lot of things that you didn't see in college too going back a couple of years how how much do you know about Jordan Mason before he got into the building and then what did you see initially in him either just makeup wise or skill wise that helps push him toward the the top of the line ahead of a couple of third round draft picks um I mean once once backs get here we we really don't care we we watch them run and practice and where they were drafted or the name on their Jersey really doesn't matter us we We've ran we've been committed to running the ball for a while there's lots of styles that can be successful running the ball um but you better be able to do it a certain way and not mess around with us and um as soon as he got here he hit the hole every single time he you know a lot of times he when he first got here he was so used to getting so downhill every play that he missed a number of runs to get outside and to be able to coach him and him actually get better and not worse was really cool too because sometimes when you got to coach running backs too much you know with the remote in your hand it kind of takes away their Natural Instincts and um JP just to be such a downhill Runner but when the defense gives him the look to go outside he doesn't really hesitate with it he takes it and so that's been really cool with him and you know we didn't I didn't see much of him in college you know he wasn't a guy that we had real high as a draftable guy um all our coaches and Scouts looked through some of the guys who are going to be possible free agents and he was at the top of our list and I remember when I heard about him hearing that he was the backup at at his college and I was I remember asking I was like guys I know we like this guy but how was you how you how was he a backup there at a smaller school and then then I come to find out that the guy that I wase of him as the guy who went in the top 15 picks to Detroit the two years later after he transferred Alabama so uh I thought that was a pretty good reason to be a backup um but and I know before that JP I believe was a three-year starter before his senior year so he did have a hell of a college career his style is always been like this and um you guys know when he's got the preseason he's been our number two back a bunch because you know Elijah's um struggled with injuries and every time KP has been like that uh he's done a hell of a job you remember that big run he had versus Seattle um I remember a huge one he came in and went to the house versus Dallas last year too and this is the first time he got a number of carries and it's tough to get those in her offense when you got guys like Christian and guys like dvo and stuff but this was his opportunity and everyone saw how he did and that's why it was much easier to just keep feet in the Rock take two more guys a couple of iny updates um where in t this week Huff got in Huff got a practice a lot last week um we'll continue to work him into that and um you know he has a chance for this week but you know that we won't make that decision till later in the week so hopefully he has another good week um Christian's day today with his cath Achilles e tour and D winners um they got a big day today I'm just seeing how they go there's a chance they can get P back into practice this week but really not sure till they till they do the rehab this afternoon all right guys apprciate it all right guys see you tomorrow thank you