Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Wednesday, January 1st, 2025
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“Bosa took all but 10 snaps from the left side of the defensive line, which matched him against one of the NFL’s top tackles in Detroit’s Penei Sewell. That wasn’t a coincidence.
“He’s a really good player and, yeah, I wanted to see where I’m at against him,” said Bosa, who is as healthy as he’s been in the last two months.
He got five quarterback pressures and one sack working against Sewell. The other sack came when he beat left tackle Taylor Decker.”
Kyle Shanahan reflects on 49ers’ Week 17 loss vs. Lions, provides Brock Purdy injury update
“San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke with reporters during a conference call on Tuesday, the day after the team’s 40-34 loss to the Detroit Lions. Here’s everything he said.”
Jake Moody update: No kicker change planned for 49ers’ finale against Cardinals
“Still needs to make it, but that was the one that wasn’t a clean holding and snap, which made that one a lot tougher,” Shanahan explained.”
“There is a track record there that gives you cause for concern,” Baldinger said. “It just does. When you can line up and play 17 [games] every year, that concern never crosses your mind. [Lions QB] Jared Goff can do that. He has done that.
“But it is a cause for concern. I would be more concerned about the injury history right now than I would be about late-game mistakes.”
Baldinger acknowledged that quarterbacks like Goff may be exceptions when it comes to durability. Injuries are becoming increasingly common among quarterbacks. He cited examples such as Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals, Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys, and Matthew Stafford of the Los Angeles Rams.
“It’s the nature of the position right now,” Baldinger explained. “It would be good if, on that play that [Lions S] Brian Branch hit him on, that they would have known that the safety was blitzing. Now, I saw it. He’s up in the line of scrimmage. What else is Brian Branch doing there? You would think that you’d have a little bit of awareness that he’s there, and they didn’t, and he got hit.
“But it’s the nature of the position. These guys are getting hit by monsters and getting crushed. I honestly don’t know how some of them survive a season with some of the hits that they take.”
“Jed is very easy to talk to. We’ve known each other here for, now eight years, and we feel very fortunate for how he is through the good and the bad. And the communication really never changes, regardless of what’s going on.”
What people fail to understand about the reality of front office dynamics is that they are entirely dependent on the owner, and their relationship with the head coach and general manager.
It is abundantly clear in talking to York, and the way he has operated in relation to Shanahan and Lynch, that he has heaps of faith in Shanahan, a coach who would be hired tomorrow if let out the door.
York is also scarred, understandably, from pushing Jim Harbaugh out and letting Chip Kelly and Jim Tomsula in. He knows the asset he has in Shanahan and will not move on from him unless there are clear, repeated signs over multiple years that the 49ers aren’t competitive.