All right.
Injuries from the night Zaane Goazalez, Peter's right calf and pregame warm ups, never was able to participate. Chris Conley shoulder, he had to leave. Aj Parker pulled his hamstring. Taylor Hawkins we think broke his hand, and that was it from today.
Can you talk about the just the logic of getting rid of trade for a fourth round pick, like why was that a good.
Move for the organization. Well, we decided our two were gonna be that we were going with.
We'll see our fifty three works out to see if we're gonna keep three or not. And when we told Trey, when we told him that he wasn't the two, I said, we'd like to keep him here as the three, but we also want to do what's good for him too, and we'll see how this plays out.
Now.
When we looked at other teams and he told us that he would like another opportunity to go somewhereere we had a chance to be the two. We thought we got some good deals for him. There's a number of teams involved. To end up getting in the fourth was a little better than we anticipated and clears up a lot of money and allows a better situation for him too.
Did he request the trade and was it a situation where it was unrepairable to the point where if he wasn't traded you would have had to release him.
No, No, it was it was never unprepared on what you just call it.
We could always fit. I mean we were good and like trading it.
Actually had a great conversation with them today, had a tough conversation when I told him he didn't win the second job. Today was much easier just going through it for the last couple of days with them. But no, there was nothing to fix it was.
It was what it was.
And I told him when we told him that he was going to be the three, if he could find another other opportunity that was good.
We'd allow him to do that.
And he did, and we feel he'll be better for it and think we will too. Why do you end the quarterback competition after before the third season?
Because I knew it. I thought it would take longer.
I wanted to go through this game, but I knew it, and I think a lot of guys knew it.
And I think he had an idea.
It was more about my relationship with Trey that you know, I'm in meetings with him every day and stuff, I'm on the field with them every day, and I could get a sense that he was starting to feel that we felt that way, and it was the truth, and I don't want to be sham so once I thought that he once we knew, and once I could tell he knew that we knew. I remember the night before I realized, you know, I'm gonna come in the morning and tell him. I don't want that between us. So
I did. Didn't expect it to get out right away, but it did. But that was something I thought I owed to Trey, and I told Trey right before a team meeting that we had I didn't get a chance to even tell Sam or anyone else on the team. That was just a personal thing between Trey and I, and it obviously got output.
That's why I thought it was important to tell him.
You on Wednesday, you didn't tell us that you want to tell the players first?
What was your reason to mean?
No?
My reasoning was, yeah, I would love to tell the players first. I'd love to tell Sam first. We were hoping that Tray was gonna come to prac to still and I totally understood why he didn't.
He asked if he could have it off because.
You know, it was a little emotional and stuff. Didn't want to be around the players like that. And totally understood that, but we're still hoping he would come. And then by the time he did it, I wasn't have a meeting on the field to tell the players who he announced as a second string guy, and I had
not to mention. Practice ended up one forty three, and I had a radio show at one forty five, and so I got on a radio show and I talked about it for twenty minutes there, and that's what I felt good with because I thought if I talked about it there, you guys would get that information. Unfortunately, I found out that that radio show is delayed because of a baseball game they win its extra ending, so you guys didn't find out till four thirty. So if I would have had it over, I would have told you
guys right away. But usually when I do a radio show, you guys get that stuff pretty fast. So I thought you guys had it, and I realized that you didn't until about four thirty.
Today find darnold, did you tell Trey this could be the backup.
Was it clear to him? And if it was, what was his reaction?
Even like that, I told Trey the same thing I told you guys. It brought since day one. So I mean, it's been everything we've told you guys.
We've told him.
We said, if Brock was healthy, it was gonna be hard for anyone to beat him out with what he put on tape last year. If he's not healthy, Sam and Trey were competing for the one spot. If he was, we thought they'd be competing for the two. And so we said before they got here. So they said when they got here, O TAS and training camp, And that's the way it worked out.
They had OTAs together, they had all these.
Practices and Sam won that competition.
Let Sam show you during the practice and during during camp to make you and the staff feel that he was the better choice.
Just everything, the whole body of work. He got better as it went.
I thought it was tight for a little bit, and just over the last couple of weeks and stuff started to separate himself each day, and just the more comfortable he got, the more consistent he got. I think it was pretty apparent for all of us clarified.
Did he request the trade. Which day did that happen? And how's that compete?
When Trey and I talked, we talked about all the situations going forward, and I told him how much I'd still want him here, to be the three and things like that. I also told him that what I think is best for Trey. I do think Trey needs an opportunity to play more the opportunities he's had here. When he has had those two opportunities, he's gotten hurt in both of them and kind of missed that window a
little bit. Gave an opportunity for someone else to do it, and that person did it and stayed healthy for those seven games and showed us something that we're confident in and Trey kind of needs that again and he didn't get that here, And so I told him that's what I think is best for him. If he can find a good opportunity. If he doesn't and he wants to
be here, well we want him here. And Trey took a little bit of time to think about it, but he came back and said he'd like to find another spot if we can, and that's when we started looking into it.
His agent us, and that came to fruition today.
First conversation was Wednesday, and Thursday he came back and.
Said, I'd rather now. The first conversation was Wednesday.
About an hour and a half later he came and told me that he would like that. He'd also like to not have to go out to practice and stuff, just to get his stuff together and think about it.
And that's what he did.
And the next day he came in and was at our walkthrough, was at our meetings last night. We didn't know if something would happen today. Him and I were communicating about it yesterday. The possibilities of it told him a possible some teams that were interested, So I was talking about those options last night. What I thought was best what he did, and then today some other teams became interested. And if they wanted of he would have been out at that game and stuff, and we would
have tried to go with him as our three. But some good stuff did come up, and some stuff that I think he's really excited about, especially tell him to day.
I could tell he was, and some things we are too.
Did give up a lot for him.
He's still young.
Was this a failure of evaluation? A failure of circumstance, how would you characterize this move.
I mean, obviously we took our shot and it didn't work out, So I mean that's on us for that. But I'm not going to say anything as in failure to I mean, that'd be too much of a negative towards Trey. I get our deal. We took a shot to go for that. We were hoping that he could be our guy and that didn't work out. So I understand that from our standpoint. But I still do believe
in Trey. And you know, about three years ago, you know, we had the twelfth pick in the draft, you know, after that COVID year, but we thought we had a really good team and we didn't think we'd have a chance again to get close to that top area to take a quarterback in the top ten. And when you have the twelfth pick in the draft, we went into a realizing it was a risk. But we thought we weren't going to pick that high again for a couple of years and we would never have a chance to
move from twelve to three. We tried to move up to a number of spots before that, but three was the first one that would do it. You know, we looked in everything between twelve and three, and we got that and we took our shots something we believed in in a person we believed in. I was hoping he could play more's first year. We knew we wouldn't come in and just take it over from Jimmy, but we were hoping to fix it in and kind of give him some experience. But once he broke the finger and stuff,
it just got tough for him. As time went. We knew we'd commit to him the next year, which we did.
We knew he wasn't.
Fully ready in every aspect, but we knew we had a skill set that we could put some stuff together to give him the chance to compete and grow with the good team as he developed as a full quarterback. And he got hurt in the first quarter of the second game, which kind of set that back. And now we're here in the third year, and you know, we still got a good team and we thought it would be Trey. I think we got pretty fortunate falling into still having a rookie quarterback in our third year that
happened to be the seventh round pick. And we also looked back at it is we didn't think with having the twenty ninth pick, which you know, those two first round picks were ended up being the twenty ninth pick in the draft, in the draft, which we're expecting it to be late, and we were hoping it would be
thirty two or something like that. But we knew, we know, with two first round picks that are both at twenty nine, you can never even consider to move up to something like that, And so we had to act then and we did. Didn't work out, which can be a huge challenge, but so I feel pretty fortunate what we fell into.
Was able to go over the options with you this morning before you accepted the trade, and then how did you convey that.
To the team.
I just told the team that to just I told them after the deal, just you know, anytime you trade a quarterback and things like that, I mean, all those guys are going through some similar stuff. I'm gonna have a lot of tough conversations with a lot of guys over these next few days. But I always told them the circumstances are different when it's under this magnitude someone a quarterback position, someone who was drafted like him. So I just told them that's that's not a that's that's
up for John and I decide. I hope they trust us with what's best for the team, but they just got to be prepared for those questions and stuff, which they're not going to know much about.
With the status of Jay and Moody.
And how long that's week to week right now, or we're hoping that he can have a chance for week one. He ended up straining his squad last week in practice and we'll see how his body reacts to it.
Danegre does that mean you have to.
Look at we most likely got to and we definitely got to have a plan B for week one? You know, Zane could have been that, but you know he's probably not gonna be ready for week one too, looking at what happened to him today.
You say it ten days ago, it kind of went it really clarified. You go back ten days from that that was a Raider game.
Was that kind of defining moment for this decision?
No? I didn't mean it that way. I mean I didn't I just throughout ten days today, I just said the last couple of weeks. You know, it's you know, never you never make a decision off one day. You never make it off a one preseason game or anything like that. It's accumulation of work. Though it was a lot tighter earlier on in camp. I thought the more Sam got comfortable, the more reps he got, the more he started to separate himself.
And I think that's been over the last few week, couple.
Of weeks that you wish you had done differently.
You know.
I mean it's I mean, I've I always feel like I let trade down. I mean, I wanted him to come here. I believe in Trey. I believed in him before we took him. When I'm responsible for that. I didn't want to throw him into the heat of battle right away, but I thought he needed to play, so we tried to figure out every way to do that. I mean, if I can look back in hindsight, he broke that finger on a helmet on that fourth preseason game versus the Raiders.
I wish I didn't put him in.
A play that had him break his finger, because I think that really hurt him in his first year. And not only did it hurt him not getting able to mix in much, but it hurt him in the practice time because he had to adjust how he threw and things like that, which I think set him back for a second year. We went into the second year, we gave him every chance to do it. We were going to make an offense that to me gave him the best chance to be successful at that time, which we
did do. And when you do that, you hope a guy can stay healthy so he can stay out there long enough. But that didn't last long first game and after that, I mean, I always felt for him, and we continue to work with them, but sometimes things don't just don't work out.
Was there an internal struggle about when he's still a young guy, he's three years old, he still has he's only halfway through his rookie contract. Did you consider like just keeping him here to just to give him a chance to eventually be the guy that you thought you were getting.
Yeah, we do consider that.
I just think that was hard for us to do that with where we're at as a team, how much time we have given them, and the situation here where we gave him every chance to beat out Sam and it just didn't happen. And when you look at it, in that case, there's not much opportunities you can do on that practice field. There isn't a there's not a developmental league. There's not a whole field on the side where we can get our players just a practice to
give him reps. You got to get the one ready to go, and when you're not, it's hard enough to get the two ready to go. The three as usually a guy who never gets a rep till he randomly gets out there. And that wasn't what I felt was right for Trey and with how much we had done so far, and that was gonna be what was right for our team either. I thought it was time to move on for him and for us. And I'm well aware of everything that happened, and unfortunately it did happen.
But I like where our team's at to right now, and I feel very good about that. And I also feel very good that despite all that, just you know, you'd love to keep a third guy to develop, especially a guy that you really really love and believe that
he could do it someday. But to do that for seven million dollars over two years with places where we are in the cap, when you can't provide those reps and stuff for people, and you got other things with our team where we're doing that, to me, doesn't make much sense for the Niners.
I wish it would, because.
Hell yeah, we'd love to just keep them until eventually it works out. But that clock ran out, and that's why we had to make a real tough decision when we didn't enjoy doing one we didn't want to do, but we try to do what we think is best, and this is what we thinks best.
Came down to the fact that where you guys were as a team didn't align with what Trey needed to get where he.
Was trying to go very much. So I mean, I do think there was a chance. We thought we were aligned as a team to win right away when we did it with him.
We knew it would take him time.
But we also had to make a decision where we're going to go with our team over to year window, and we felt that our We felt if we could get a rookie quarterback or a guy and a rookie deal who could help us win Man, we could put a good team around him, and we took a shot with Trey because we believed he could. We knew it would take some time, but in the meantime, we're gonna have a pretty good team. And the time that we
did give him. When he had his ops, he miss us and those weren't his fault, they weren't our fault. They were just those are just what happens in football. And when you take a risk on someone who does need to develop and does need some of that time and then he misses that time and we are where we're at right now. It is kind of what it is, and I think we are very fortunate that we did find a guy. We still are on We still have a rookie quarterback or a guy and a rookie deal
that has helped us put together a good team. We do have a guy that we believe can win with on that deal, and we also feel we have a very strong backup, and that's where we're at.
It's good possibility.
I'm sure everyone's everyone's a possibility, but that's stuff we haven't discussed yet.
Thanks right, Well, My question was last week when uh Trey had a game winning opportunity, you had him down the ball and hid the field goal. Do you think that was a missed opportunity? What's that last week when Trey was on that last drive and then you had him down the ball and the field goal stead of him going in for the touchdown. You think that was a missed opportunity.
Miss opportunity for what we evaluate?
What do you can do in that situation?
No, we evaluate him every day. I should have done that for you, but no. But we are.
Good, alright, I guess.
Thanks