Kyle Shanahan Talks 49ers 'Playoff Mentality' Heading into Super Wild Card Weekend | Press Pass

full today. Um, Thomas had irritated the ankle yesterday? Was that recently or was that last week which led to him being out for he had done it some time ago, but then re irritated it in practice last week and your first offensive play jack over the middle? Um? Second? Sorry, Um, so you shift to mccamperd shift and I took it for But I mean, was that exactly how you would have I guess trying it up in the middle. Yeah,

busts of coverages are awesome. But yeah, we weren't expecting to get him totally alone, but they just brought too many and we have scattered everybody out and so he just had to get rid of it because they had more than one you could block, but we got more out than they could cover. Le Tremon, who's makes left tackle looks so easy. You can go an entire game

almost without noticing him As a late person. I know this is a tough ask, but for a late person who's not understanding of the nuances of offensive line, what makes him so good? What makes him one of the best to do it in recent memory? Um, I mean, he's the most talented I've ever seen, and so that definitely helps UM. But he's one of the smarter players I've been around. UM, and he's been playing a long time, and he likes football. So he I mean he watches

it with UM, not just to get through it. He enjoys watching it. He studies rushers, he studies who he's going against, he studies other people. Uh, he understands what we're trying to do and just his assignment. But the big picture of it, so UM, when you have aware players with experience who are more talented than everyone usually that's a good combination. Also, set after the game that he talked to you earlier in the week, much you know that, you know, winning the league sack title is

more important than franchise. How would you described as his whole outlook on this season in terms of that picture now? Is it's just the ultimate getting of the Super Bowl and winning it. Very business like kind of everything he does. I mean, he thinks about whether he wants to go out to dinner and how much inflammation that will cause to walking there and how that will affect his explosion on clip sixty two in the game. Um, that guy obsesses over every little detail. And that's why he's as

prepared as anyone I've been around. And to me, I've I've said a lot. I feel like he's been preparing for what his job in life has to do since he was three years old. So it's, Um, it's a combination of all those things that makes him one of

the best. At this point, with Rock having played six games and going into the postseason, is there anything different that you do with him, just in the preparation standpoint to get ready for a playoff game and with what you would do for a veteran and you know, a guy like Jimmy who's been there before. No, I mean, we do the same thing for the playoff game that we do for every other game. You know, it's seven days prepare for a team, sometimes six, Um, and it's

just one game. So I mean that you don't the rules change a little this year if you get to overtime? Um, But besides that, there's absolutely nothing different. So, um, you know compared maybe other sports where I think maybe a seven game series and stuff could be a little bit different how you go about that, But it all comes down to one game, three and a half hours, and each team has the same amount of time to prepare and you do. It's your same schedule, same routine. Nothing

is different than any other game. My question would be more just from a temperament standpoint, or managing his emotions or just kind of gauging how he's feeling having not been in this kind of a show before. Is there anything that you kind of keep an eye on just to make sure that yeah, that he keeps Yeah. Keep not making it more like those questions and stuff. It's still the same thing I just said. Um, I know, if we lose the games, our season is over. I

mean that's the only difference. But um, you feel like that almost every week in an NFL game. I think that's what's so cool about the NFL, because all seventeen games usually do matter. I mean I feel like that every week, and I look back to our last loss, and you know, going back to versus Kansas City, and I feel like that cost us home field advantage. But at the time you feel like that's that's gonna be the game that keeps you out of the playoffs, and

then the next week it's It's always like that. So I feel like we've our mentality. We've been playing playoff games for a long time and the pressure is always on, and I think Brock takes it into every game and this game. If you want to sit and think about all the outside stuff, I'm sure you could psych yourself out out. But that's the only thing I would say through experience of it is once you get on the field,

there's absolutely nothing different. So whether it's a playoff, whether it's a super Bowl, and all you can do is control the athletic sporting event that you're involved in. Don't make it more than that. What if anything has evolved or changed about the way the Seahawks are playing now versus first time he placed from this season, UM, I mean just you know, we we faced him a month ago and UM, you know their defense over the last month. You know that I think there's seventh ring defense over

the last four games. Um, so they've been keeping people out of the end zone. And I think they're six on third down, so if they've been getting off the field too. Um, their offense, UM has been running the ball better here in this last month. You know. I think they're ranked six and running the ball over four games, this four game stretch, So they're playing pretty good right now, as good as they have been all year. And UM, turning on the tape, they're they're better team than they

were four weeks ago. And UM, it's not surprised me that they're in this position. People say it's hard to be the same time team at three times in a row. Is there anything to that or is that just kind of one of those phrases that is meaningless. Um, I mean maybe we had to do it three days in a row, but I look, as we won, we have to beat him once because there's no more in a row.

Everything behind us doesn't matter. And it's a one game season right now, So we gotta beat him this week one time, and then I allow to move them next week. Described by his teammates is when he first got here so quiet it was almost hard to hear him, and I can you just kind of talk a little bit about how he's grown since he's got here and been such a vital part of what you're doing, especially when Depot was out. Um, very leads league of mumbles, so

sometimes you gotta get him to not mumble. UM. But now Ray Ray has been great. You know, he's he's he's been awesome for our team. Um the way he plays just so fearlessly, and UM, the way he has fun out there. I mean that's how he is in person. He's you never know what you're gonna get. He's an interesting dude, UM that everyone enjoys. But football is so important to him. He goes about it his way, which he's going to get there, maybe a different way than um,

you're used to. But by the time his assignments come by the same time the game comes, he's a dude that you can out on because it's important to him. He doesn't want to let anyone down. And UM been really pumped that he's on our team this year. Examples him how he gets they're a different way than what

you're used to. UM. I mean he carries his own ball out there that I didn't realize his own ball until he threw it to me and It almost pulled my arms off because the way he's like thirty pounds, so he tricked me with that ties things to his hamstrings all the time. I still can't figure out what they are. Um. He's just he's got his own little routine um that he does and now that we've been around him, it works for him, and I just know we can count on him when we eventually get there.

The other the other night, after the game, boast I was saying that he pretty quickly turned the page to the playoffs. It's like getting the second second wind. I guess after a long season. Do you sense that in the team that they quickly kind of turned the page, especially the guys that have been through it? Yeah, I do. I mean this was the first time that I had been in this position, and our team, UM, I think

most of the people. UM. But just to clinch the division as early as we did was just just know when you're going to be in the playoffs, which just different. Um. You know, your goals allay is to get there and then you deal with whatever and once you do get there, you try to make it the best you can. But to know we won the division that long ago, it's been a challenge, and every week you got to get up because you know you're still UM. You've got a

lot to play for, and we've been able to do that. UM. Last week was the biggest challenge because we knew how important that game was to win. We were expecting Philly to win and stuff, but we knew if we lost that game, we were expecting Minnesota win too, So we felt we had a lot to lose UM if we lost it. UM and also the risk of guys getting injured. Two, because guys want to get to the playoffs so bad

and do their best there. But it's it's not like you're just guaranteed to get in there and have all these ops. You're guaranteed to have one OP. UM, So you gotta make sure that opts the best. And we've been working on that the last month. And I could tell right win, we could tell the game was out of hand versus Arizona. I think everybody was like that, We're like, all right, finally we made it. We took care of business. UM, we did as good as we can in the situation we had, and UM for the

most part, we stayed pretty healthy doing it. So I think once we got to that fourth quarter. Everyone was thinking about it. We got home as fast as we can and UM just started waiting and find out who we'd play. And very quickly we found out and realized we had lost today because we're playing Saturday and we're ready to go. Let you have so many weapons on offense that it's almost a challenge to get um. Yeah, it's I mean it's definitely a you can't get everyone involved.

I mean, you got to see how the game plays out, UM, but you try to balance it out that way. And UM, when you can balance it out that way and you have solid people and better than solid people at every single position, usually it takes care of itself. And you got to see how the game goes. If you end up getting one dimensional, or you don't move the chains on third down and you can't stay out there, then things can get skewed. But if you're playing the right way,

you're moving the chains, UM and the defense usually adjust. UM. Then I feel usually balances out and everyone has an impact. As far as playing a team three times in a season, do you remember from last year that third game against the RAM to day, you know, bringing something a lot different to that game than if we get two meetings and you have to kind of strike a balance with this game, and you don't want to anticipate to too big of a difference. But there might be some differences

between the two previous seahawk. There's always a little. But once you know each other, that well usually just gets UM. The game becomes more simpler. UM. Each thing, you don't trick each other. After that, you just and usually teams are playing at a higher level by that third time. UM. So it's very sound both ways, and it becomes a much more physical game. UM. Usually it's based off of turnovers. UM. But each team gets better at playing each other, and

that's why it gets harder. George is what he's doing on Special Teams what you envisioned or I mean it's what we it's what we envisioned, and now being around it in person, I'd say it's better. I mean, we were trying to get a Pro Bowl Special Teams player. I believe we did. He's another guy left out who I think God um didn't have the right voting for him. UM, but he was a Pro Bowl player. But I think

before he got here we're expecting to get one. He's played like that to me all year, I think he's leading the league in tackles. Um, he is the same every single day. Um. I'm so happy when he doesn't hurt someone out there because he only knows one way and he's always walking that fine line and practice. But he's so intense and he works so hard um at everything that it's so obvious why it carries over to special teams in this type of player, he is go ahead.

Ever had or another coach talk to him about its practice? Yeah? Yeah, I talked to a lot of guys about that. Um. But he's a he's a repeat offender. Kalia Davis from from practice. If you don't activate him as that when the only three weeks long, yes, yeah he'll be he'll be shut down to day. Mike Clark made the catch. I'm wondering if there's a play that sticks out to you in your childhood that's you remember where you were when that happened. There's a lot of manor fans know

exactly where they were. I was too young to remember that, I mean and where I was. Um, what were your eighty one eighty two? All right? I was your child that you remember? Oh? Um, I remember my mom giving me so much crap that I didn't remember that. When we moved here in sixth grade, I was like, Mom, it was two years and one month. UM, it's your guy's fault for not showing me. UM. But now the place from my life I remember. I mean Elway helicopter in the Super Bowl. UM, that one was as good

as it gets. UM. I remember Eric Davis returning that pick six and the opening drive of UM the NFC Championship game or the Niners finally beat the Dallas UM and the third the third try. UM. I remember James Harrison's pick six in the Super Bowl, which I thought was such a cool play. UM, same place, Antonio Holmes, in the back of the end zone, and I think it was one of the best plays. UM. I got a lot, but those are the first ones that come. Alright, guess thanks