Kyle Shanahan Discusses Preparations for Super Bowl LVIII | Press Pass

It's up, guys, am I calling them people.

Go ahead, Kyle, how's the practice fields? Where the conditions?

Okay?

That you could have a normal practice without any adjusting. Yeah, we had a normal practice and we didn't practice there the rest of the week.

Oh yeah, we're not going to change our whole schedule. We'd have to go too early in the morning, mess everything up.

So this is the best choice we got.

Are you satisfied with that choice?

We're here, we're practicing on it. I mean, everyone has their preferences and wish things were better, but we'll deal with the.

Field how it is.

Hi Kyowa aj Ross with CBS Sports, can you talk about, you know, just the game planning you already started last week, the opening script, how that communication flow has been with Brock, what he's liking, and how that continues into this week.

Oh yeah, we put in a lot last week.

Today was really the official time we make it official. I mean, we cruckt some things from last week. Something we didn't like. We took out a few things we didn't have in last week that we had more time to look at.

We put in and now we'll run it back. Today was Wednesday.

We'll do two more days of it, and then we work on the openers Friday night and Saturday morning, and one saw the Saturday night.

Hey Kyle, you were around the forty nine ers organization when you were a young man a young boy. How much did you absorb of the mentality of those players of the Super Bowl or bust mentality that was always with that team during the dynastic years.

I don't know.

I mean, I'd like to say it was from hanging around the team, but it probably wasn't.

I was just a ball boy.

Who got that in training camp for a little bit, But just being around my dad my whole life, I think definitely helped you understand the urgency of everything.

I remember going to.

Three Super Bowls before sixth grade when we were in the AFC and he was a coordinator, and I think the closest one of those they lost by I want to say nineteen, which are seven first one versus Giants and then last fifty five to ten versus nine Ers in the last one. So I kind of got used to that growing up just being over in the AFC, and then went to the Niners and waned and that's

Perform after them.

All that stuff, you just you get the even though you don't realize you're learning it. But those are your life experiences. You got a very good idea of how it works. And I've been fortunate enough to be in a few of these on my own and not much different than how they were.

And I remember growing.

Up Hello Coach Vittordia, from touchdown back to before the season, there was question about how injury could affect your team and finally you will arrive at the Super Bowl with a very scy team. Did you change anything in the physical preparation this year compared to previous years?

You said, with injuries.

And we always tweak stuff, and then we got group of guys who they look into the science and everything as well as anyone. I don't think there was anything drastic this year. We've been doing that pretty consistent for the last five years. But it's a week to week thing. Depends how your players feel after a Sunday game. It's what they tell me on Monday, it's what they tell

Kyle, your offense has been the most copied in the league each year.

You continue to shrink the field.

No team has run more condensed formations than the forty nine ers this year. At what point in your career did you start to realize the game would be played like in between the numbers and maybe even in between the hashes, and can you recall a play that made you think, like, Yeah, the game's going towards this way.

I just remember when I started and went to Tampa Bay has a quality control and I was drawing everything in books and stuff, and everything was.

Drawn out from wide splits. Nothing was from tight splits.

And then I always looked at everything when I first started through a receiver standpoint. That's what I played most of my life growing up, and it was so cool to watch how it helped people get open. How it'd look one way out here, look totally different in here.

Some people wouldn't even bump you back then.

It's like they only could bump outside the numbers, you could get the bump off every time you could get leveraged with people change stuff up.

And I think it.

Started that way just from seeing how you could help people get open, and then you start to learn the run game, You start to learn how safeties fit, how leverage is different, and things like that, and then it just evolves to a lot more. Kyle, what are some of the challenges that play calling head coaches face in game management and how have you evolved in handling both

I mean play callers.

Just being a coordinator, you know, being ale call plays for the nine years before becoming a head coach, I think gave me a lot of experience. I mean, you never call a play without having an idea of what's on the clock, on the down, and distance, the score, all of that stuff. So it's always in your mind every time you watch football, every time you do anything. And I do think though, once becoming a head coach,

Hey, coach, In the Lions game and throughout the regular season, Brock would throw over his body over into the middle of the field. Do you ever get nervous when he does this? And do you ever tell him to stop?

Yeah, when he makes a bad decision, do it doing it?

I do.

And if he did that a bunch, then then it'd be something that we had to put a stop to. But usually when goes across his body, I think he usually makes the right play, and quarterbacks do.

Make that here and there.

But if that's something you're just doing a bunch and make mistakes, you got to end that pretty fast. You gotta have a reason to go back there, not just hoping you're getting lucky.

Hey, Kyle, you know you and several of the players have suffered through, you know, heartbreaking losses like we've talked about over the years. How do you think those callouses that were developed helped in the last couple of games with you making those second half comebacks.

Not much at all.

I mean had a lot of comebacks before those callouses too. It's I mean, I think just the more you coach football, the more you go through, the more you don't You don't try to make any absolute answers or philosophies in anything. You understand there's so many variables, there's so many different situations, and it comes down to one game. So you don't just sit there and be like, man, I learned this last game. I'm not going to do that the next game. Well,

That's why you're never done.

You're always continuing to work and continue to try to come up with whatever the decision is that gives you the best chance to win. But I promise you there's no consistent automatic answer.

The often coach, how do you manage your players pressure, mainly those players who played four years ago against the Chiefs. Do you practice any special execute, any special dynamics for these players.

The guys who played in the super Bowl last No, we're just getting ready for this game. I don't think last super Bowl has anything to do with this game, just like last week doesn't have anything to do with this game. What's good about guys who have been here before, especially the younger guys who came here, You know, they can talk to the younger guys are coming now and kind of tell them how they felt at that time and then how you feel after. I mean, it's a

To listen more. That is the truth. That's how it goes.

And all this stuff's fun and neat, but you forget all this stuff.

It all passes what you remembers. Who want to loss that?

Hi coach over here, Hi Kyle. Only two head coaches for this great franchise have had more wins than you and the Super Bowl era, You've had what many would consider great success in recent years, with four NFC Championship of Game appearances in the last half decade.

You have your own coaching tree.

Do you think about your legacy to the NFL and in particular this organization, and if you haven't, what would you like that legacy to be?

Sorry, I could never find you not trying to not look you in the eye.

But I never thought about the word legacy. When I think of legacy, I think of my dad. I still even though it doesn't look like that when I FaceTime anymore, but I still feel like I'm somewhat young and it just doesn't really work that way with me. I don't think that works that way with a lot of people are just in it. You're just trying to win that game, and that game is always the next one, and you're finally we're in a game where this is the last one.

Of the year and these are the ones that count.

So yeah, you understand that, you're aware of that, but that's stuff that you don't really have time to spend thinking about.

It's nice.

Hopefully when a game's over, you can sit back and think about that stuff and enjoy it.

And that's what you usually do. At the end of the year. You think about a lot of stuff and you go through that. That's why we all need to get away a little bit usually when the season ends.

That's why I'm very glad I don't have to go on a recruiting trail or anything like that. And whether it's good or bad either way, you got to take about a month to do that, and when you come back, you get ready for that next year.

When it's all said and done. Then I guess people can talk about legacy a couple.

More and coach at peedback off what you were saying about. Obviously the players that could talk to the players who played in the Game of twenty nineteen. But obviously the Super Bowl is an event, but having two weeks between it when you're winning and going on Kasissey. Would you rather have the game be one week after the championship games or do you like the two weeks in between the games.

No, I couldn't imagine it being one week. I mean just the pressure that's on everybody once you win that NFC championship that, I mean everyone. You don't realize how many family members you have, so you have to count up super Bowl tickets and then you never realized that you had as many people like you until that Monday when you have five hundred texts saying they've never been to a super Bowl and can you hook them up?

And then you realize that.

You there's only so many people in that stadium, and how hard it is, so like that's the most stressful thing to me is watching players go through that who have no idea and you have to say no to your uncle who was always with you. Well, they don't know how much that costs, and they don't know how much it gets. And I think that's the biggest thing to have just a few days to set all that stuff aside, because that is important. It is a big deal to all these players as families and everyone who

Is who's taken care of it.

But when you can get that down before you come here and now you're here and now you kind of have a normal week.

Besides all the media stuff.

Coach George Kittle i Com said they both back up practice this week after missing last week.

What's that again?

George Kittle and i Com said they both back at normal practice routine.

Oh yeah, they were limited today.

George and Eric are limited.

They got out there, got some good work in and hopefully it'll be full go tomorrow.

How a lot of your players have talked about how they approached mentally the twenty nineteen Super Bowl and how it's different for them this year. Do you have the same experience. Do you feel like your emotional state this year is much to than twenty nineteen.

I don't think it's that much different. I mean, I mean the beginning of the week, it's always fun stuff to get out here and everything, But I mean I've always been pretty well aware, even before I got into coaching, what the super Bowl was, and you're so locked in and ready for that moment, I think, I mean, I've learned it going to them before, but I do think the players the biggest thing is for them to realize, because I mean, yeah, you don't I don't take as