Press Pass: Chip Kelly

and that's onself for that. I thought real will talks a good team. I thought such. You know again, he's played really really well. He did the same thing against the Patriots last week. In terms. He spends a lot of time in the other team's backfield. Um, and I think maybe sometimes the only thing they can do is try to hold him from getting in there. So um, you know, he's been a very very disruptive force for us, and we think he's playing outstanding right now. Sam played

and what was your bandage? I thought Sam played outstanding. Um, he really put the ball on guys today. There weren't any real errand throws. Um, we had a couple of drops that we if we if we caught those, I mean, I think he's he did a great job on the sack. I just haven't had a chance to talk to him about I don't know if he knew how much time was left, the punt would have run off him the amount of time to two minute. But I think he

was just trying to be a little bit cautious. Um. But I haven't had a chance to discuss the last that last one with him. What did you see taking some shots down the field of force? When Colson starts down to some modis what did you say that? Well, they play a lot of zero coverage, you know, and those safeties are down in tight so when they do that, Um, you know, you can't allow people to do that. You need to take some shots down the field. So we

hit Nellie, We missed two on one. We threw the ball over the top on the first play to coup, just didn't come down with it. But I think if people are going to play that style of defense, then you have to be able to go over the top on him, and um, you know, we hit a couple of them and it was uh, it was big for us. President very well, President, Yeah, I mean, I just think our our team is playing together as a team. I

think all three phases are playing well we can. Obviously, there's still things we always have to clean up, and there's those things we can get better at. But I think, um, we're playing really good team football. I think on the defensive side, we're tackling well right now, um, and we're getting a lot of contributions from our special teams. Um. We got some big plays out of the offense today. I thought it was huge, And that's a really good point.

I thought he he punted it outstanding today. And I think that you know, really we talked about trying to flip the field and punt and he really did there. Some of those it was just wow. I mean he was hitting some bombs out there. So I don't know what his final stats were, what he came up with, but um, I think that and combined with the guys covering on the outside, I thought our gunners did a

really good job. Um. You know the big play by Jalen there obviously, Um, but I think when we can cover when he's putting that, well, uh, it's really going to help us here. Yeah. Pretty even the DeMarco got some some short yardage. It's not for you to look like I think he got everything, whether it's first down, second out, third down. I think again TuS was just rolling those guys. They all merit playing time, and they're all getting playing time after Sammy Walking said that, you know,

big touchdown earlier. What do you think of the job you guys getting this. I thought our guys did a really good job defensively. You know, we we knew we were going to be challenged, and we knew we had to tackle well. We knew we had a quarterback that was mobile, um and you got to be aware of him. But we got to stay in coverage, you know, we gotta allow the rush to get home against him. Um.

But I thought, overall, I thought our defense played well. Yeah, McCoy had like sixty three yeards in the ground the first half, not much after that was something that was done differently. No, I think nothing changed I think from first half to second half. But again I think our overall, I thought, I thought our guys tackle droll well on the defense side of the ball. Last play, what is Reynolds responsibility us look at the play, catch the ball?

Did it so he get to check? I mean, he was a deep safety and they tried to go over to top and um, he's got to give the corner support on that m and just made a great play, made a great range on the ball and then made a real good decision. If we don't want we practice that. But you know, sometimes you get excited and start to try to run it back. We don't need him to run it back. We can run the clock out. I thought he made a real smart decision just to get

down right there. And when he gets down, then we just put our offense on the field to line up and take an ee. So you guys yelling for him to get down, We were just cheering him on one of the big catches. That hurts that. What you see they were in press coverage in Um it was hulf help was trying to run a slant and the guy had just had him wrapped up and he couldn't get through the whole thing. And I think the guy covering arts ran into that whole pile up. I know, the

corner huff and the safety went flying about. You know, helf was trying to get off the line of scrimmage. They want to let him get off the line of scrimmage and Zach not only made a great catch, but just a great run after the catch, and that was obviously a huge play for us at that point in time. Mixed results on drive before and the half of what went right on this one that the guy need to feel, you know, I think our guys know what we want to do. We had coverage that we could get the

ball out of bounds on the sideline. Um you know, we had an interesting scenario there when they said his knee was down and then they told us there was a ten second runoff, so we had to use our time out at that point in time. You know, we would have liked to have saved it if he's out of bounds and we have an extra time out more in good shape. But then our guys have to learn and we practice it all the time on how to

operate without a time out. I thought they did a really good job and we got that last one to coop to get us into a better field goal range, and then you know, that was huge for us. You know, when you defer, you're trying to score points at the end of the first half and then trying to score at the beginning of the second half. So you know you're trying to get in that dual situation there, So that was good for us. Where's Nelson compared to where

you'd like to see him at this point. We're expecting him to be hit a big touchdown catch but still had a couple of drops. Where's Nelson He's in locker room taking a shower. I mean he's a good spot. I mean, I think you want him to Obviously he'd like everybody to make every catch and do everything. But I thought he made a really big play for us. He missed a really good portion in there. With that high ankle sprain. That's difficult for a skill player to

come back from. It's a little bit easier for our offense of our defensive linement to come back from that injury. But because of how those guys have to change and move direction, I think he's still getting the feet underneath them. But thank goodness he was there. That was a heck of a heck of a catch on the post. Shout for a touchdown team, Well, yeah, I mean I think

they're they're playing better in all three phases. There's still a lot of things we have to correct and we have to clean up, but um, you know against two good opponents, you know, to come out with two w's here. You know you're in December and you're two and ow in December. But um, as I told usaid guys the same thing in locker room. We gotta get some sleep and get ready to go because we got a really good Arizona team coming back in here on next Sunday.

So sorry, Jane, how much of that do you think it's attribute attributed to Sam coming back? I think it's everybody. I mean, every single guy on our team. Practice last week we had nobody limited. Uh, nobody was you know, everybody was up. Nobody DMP. You know when you get to this point in time of the season when you get not only the ten on your practice card, but the fifty three act of guys. We have everybody practicing

right now, that means everybody in really good health. We're not we don't have to say, hey, let's try to get this guy to the game on Sunday. Um, we can really train, and I think our strength and conditioning staff has done a really good job with our training stuff on that. So I think it's all those guys. Having them all back I think is really helpful to get and Ryan Matthews back was big for us, I think, and obviously I said earlier, I think Sam's playing really

really well. Right now, what were you were you guys? That's what was it? Point that we were going to play all for and the deuce was going to rotate them all right, Matthews and all just because we just knew we had four healthy backs and we're gonna try to use thembody. We didn't think we were going to have to run anybody, you know, into the ground today,

just because we have depth at that position. So there were a lot of affection on the throw to sell it inside the five and look the replays look like the follow it a ground. Did you get any explanation, further explanation popular or anybody on that play. Yeah, I just got that they couldn't couldn't overrule it. They didn't. They don't really give you an explanation. They just tell you that they couldn't overrule it. So we spent a lot of this past week answering questions the best stuff

they're really not related to on the field. Did you feel like at any point you became a distraction from the team, And how do you think if so, they responded, Now, I mean just a lot of it to me is tabloid journalism, that they're just trying to stir us things up, but it doesn't affect us. I mean, we were playing the Buffalo Bills, and really well coached team by Ret Ryan that hasn't really a lot of really good players.

But when people want to make up false stories about people calling me calling someone during the week and I'm hanging up on me, I just think I mean people trying to get Twitter hits or things like that and make themselves significant when ship doesn't happen. No, I never called McCoy this week, but the thing was the inquirers are you thanks guys,