Um Garoppolo won't practice, Christian McCaffrey won't practice, Calf Elijah won't practice, growing Trent Williams will be full. Um devot limited ankle, Charles limited oblique, Ambery limited ankle. There's a team that you look at, Eagles in terms of the way that they were built. I mean you mentioned that you know Sirianni a little, but not that much. I don't know how close to John and how we are, but I think you've got the same amount of draft picks that are on your team. You've go both gone
out and made key trades. Are they built similar to you and Wayne that you see in terms of the things they espouse and want to do? Um, I don't know. I've never I haven't really thought about it. I think I don't think we're real similar. I think we look at things a little bit different. But UM, I like
to say most teams built it that way. UM in the league with the Garoppolo, did he have a setback and the X ray reveals something where he's not going to be on the field this Weeker, No, It's just it's just been an outside chance the whole time, and that was an outside chance. So concerned now about Cafrey Mitch Will not being able to practice. May are you still same concerns add yesterday? You know, the most kind
of rock kind of guy. But you know you have developed a culture here that's in love for a lot of success. Aside from the talent that you guys have on the roster, kind of what else has been a key for that foundation and success here? Um, I mean getting good players, Um, I think holding everyone accountable. UM, just focusing on as simple as putting people together that do as good as they can, know what they're talking about,
and always try to just do what's right. Um, not worry about outside perception, not try to worry about draft status, and not try to worry about anything but just what makes sense from a football decision. And UM, I'm in as good of a building as I've ever been in that allows everyone to focus on that in all areas. Decision is that an organizational decision? I mean the ownership and get involved. Yes, everything starts with them on decisions
like that difficult. Um, I mean you can ass that, but yeah, we have to talk about all that stuff hard. You like to obviously look at the opposing defense. It kind of figure out where the areas to attack them are. But is it more difficult with a team like the Eagles that have good players at every level of that defense? Well, what's the what's the challenge that that you face in the coaching staff faces and putting together a game plan
to beat them? Anytime you play a team with good players in a good scheme, Um, it's just sound defense. And when you play sound defenses, there's not a lot of holes schematically. Um, you just so you try to put guys in position to beat their players. And um, they got pretty good players too. And on top of it, when you have a real good pass rush with good back end with all seven of those guys, that just combines for making everything more difficult. DN. Um, that's usually
what you see this time of year. I think that's exactly how our defense is. And um, they'll come after you, they'll do what it's needed to keep you off. But anytime you have a team that doesn't have to do that because they can cover with good players, have seven guys verse four guys, keep people into help protection. Then you have um seven guys verse three guys. Um, all that stuff becomes a factor and just makes lows teams to be more sound, which makes it a lot harder
to get big explosives. We really have time to ease Brock into anything, just because of the nature of how he first came into the starting role. Um, now that you've worked with him for a while now, like, how would you assess his ability to handle just the multitude of your offense and everything that you've been able to throw at him. So far? He's been great. I mean he um, he just tries to soak it in throughout
the week. I mean it's always harder on Wednesdays when you get so much and you're not gonna get it right then. And he doesn't seem to overpanic about it. He takes each rep walk through the meetings. Every clip we show you can just tell he has locked in and just building up information all the time. And um, that's what you want players and coaches to do. It's never a final product on Wednesday, but um, you work your butt off throughout the week and usually by Saturday
night is pretty clear. And that's what he's shown. He's been able to handle the pressure throughout the week, because sometimes it's you want to go out there and look great for all your teammates, but you don't always know that on Wednesday and Thursday, and you just keep reviewing the tape, keep going through the looks, and you make sure you're there Saturday night so you can sleep comfortably and wake up extremely confident. You're watching film the regular season,
how many games do you typically go back? And do you watch more games when you for postseason power? UM? I mean I do the same every week, UM, and you know, just game orders and stuff when you go from play one to the last play. I mean you probably pick like six or seven games and UM. But then whatever they have on the year or into all of our cutoffs, So we watch everything UM at some time and how it's cut up, whether it's just formationally
or personnel wise. And if we don't have any games, you know, about halfway through the year, we start stop using the year before. UM. So we try to get as much tape as we can. Every team ever talked about the importance of turnovers, and you guys are fifteen and oh and you either win or tie the turnovertal oh and four. When you know, how how have you been able to be so consistent in that regard? UM? And I think we're a good team and turnovers is
the number one thing that helps any team win. Um, So I think when you're a good team and we've been that way as good as we have with getting turnovers and not turning it over. Um, it's I think you should it should expect that. Have you ever in a game seem him frazzled about anything, anything You've ever needed to calm him down? Or as he's unflappable. Um, I mean he's a he's a human. So I mean there's I mean, we have you misses something, he's frustrated, Um,
but he's not. He It's always temporary. I mean, just like i'd like to think we all are. We can all have quick reactions and stuff. But um, if that clock is ticking, that that reaction ends pretty fast. Um, it's by the next play. Sometimes if it's the last play of the series, it lasts a little bit longer. But by the time you go out there, it's always
feel the same guy. Is there anything? Was there anything behind the scenes that he did that gave you more confidence that all his practice success would translate to the game environment if he ever got a shot, which you know obviously proved out to be. But I mean you watch just how people carry themselves and um, so you have guesses on how they're going to be in stuff, but now you never know until they get in those games. There was a lot of handwringing about Aaron Banks before
this season just because of his workie year. Did you I mean, what level of confidence did you have? And I don't know where is he as far as the recent past expectations? But hasn't we didn't play his rookie here? Did he have five snaffs? You guys don't like those five staffs people? So how come he's not starting? Right? I mean that's you guys shouldn't have wrote that. People were like, something must be wrong with the guy. He's not starting. He's a guard, you know, second round pick
and so did you hear him? No, we had a we had Lake and Thomason last year was contract and aganting I think like a fourteen million dollar deal from the Jets, and we had a starting right guard and Dan bron Skill who he played with three years in a row, and he thought he was doing pretty good, and we thought we'd give Banks a little bit more time. Um,
I think it goes back to the beginning. I answered a question of it's really nice to be in a place that just worries about their best football decision and not oh my god, they're gonna think we had a bad draft pick because you're not playing them right away. Um. Sometimes that ruins people. Someone who got hurt, we would have been pumped to play him right away. We had
thought we had a pretty good guard. But it's really hard to come in as a first round pick, second round pick and just beat out solid NFL players who have been doing it for a while. And if you don't have to do that, and you gotta watch some guys and not get thrown into the fire and struggle for a few games, and maybe everyone could and you could get your confidence killed. I think that could be a benefit to a lot of people. But not everyone
has that luxury. And I'm glad that we had the talent to do that, and I'm very happy I'm in a building that allows us to think that way. I think he's doing a good job. You stay over a course of a career, you know, I'm not just weekend a week out. He has send faster than than you thought he would to the NFL game. Um, I mean we thought he had the right mentality and we know we had the size and stuff. Um. Old ligne is so different because it's you can look and have the ability.
But old line is about consistency and almost how many times you don't mess up. Um, it's cool to have all the highlight tapes and stuff. And you know, if you have a couple of bad looks, um, that might be all over social media and everything, and he might that might be embarrassing for you. But bad looks are bad looks. It's about how you play over a course of seventy plays and um, you never really know that
till a guy gets in there. And sometimes they gotta get their butts kicked before you even find out if they are a real player, because you are going to get that in this league. Get every position, especially at a line. First the d linemen you go against and no one's gonna notice you really until you get your butt kicked. Um, and then it's how you respond, and that's what's you know, we felt like we really believe
in the person and believed in the talent. But you still, just like I said about Brock, you gotta put him out there and watch how they do. And um, you know I think it was cool to watch him. Even in the preseason, he had a couple of games where it wasn't great, and but once Week one started, I thought he was better and we too better, And I
think it's improved that way throughout the whole year. It was recently on the radio, Steve Kerr mentioned that you guys play some golf this summer, and the other day before a game, you staid forty niners fever. I wonder about that golf session. When you meet with another coach at a high level, do you guys talk about winning or different mentalities, like what do you gain from a relationship with Steve as far as maybe professionally that you
can apply to your football team. Um, I mean we we weren't in the same forsom, so I didn't get that whole four hours, but we all hung out after for an hour and a half, and UM, I think it's it's just fun to hang out with cool people who um are in similar situations as you are. I mean, you just know the stakes that he goes through, and you know some of the players and stuff that he deals with, and just all that type of things, and
so just to have those conversations are fun. Um but I mean there was a group of fifteen of us and um, but you can tell each drink we had, the more we realize that we're gonna get in trouble because our wives expected us back two hours ago. So UM, I would love to have more opportunities like that. All right, Thanks Guts,