SANTA CLARA — Here’s the transcript of Jim Harbaugh’s Monday press conference, courtesy of the 49ers. How are you guys treating the extra day this week? Another game planning day for the Rams? “Yes. Players will be in today lifting and getting treatment. Coaches (are) game planning. We’ll view the Ravens game and preview the Rams.” The fact that you can clinch on Sunday, does that affect the way you…
SANTA CLARA – Here’s what Braylon Edwards said at his locker this morning. Q: Are you healthy? EDWARDS: I’m playing through a football season. No one is ever going to be fully healthy, but just fighting every day. Q: Do you have a shoulder injury as well? EDWARDS: Injury means you can’t play, but I do have a shoulder ailment, I’ll say. Little bit of AC joint. Nothing super serious,…
SANTA CLARA — Here’s what Alex Smith said at his locker this morning. Q: How close was your offense to making big plays on Thursday? ALEX SMITH: I think when I turned on the film, there were some opportunities I think to push the ball down the field a few times. Get those one-on-one matchups down the field and try to take advantage of them. I think that’s definitely what…
Here’s the transcript of Jim Harbaugh’s Friday conference call. Q: After watching the film, what was your general impression of the breakdowns and why they occurred and what you can do to get it all fixed? HARBAUGH: First of all as I said last night it was a competitive game. Thought it was very evenly matched. The game turned on every play of the game, but there was also some…
Here are my Week 12 grades for the 9-2 Niners. Alex Smith: D. His primary job on this team is to not turn the ball over, and he failed at that assignment tonight. With eighteen seconds left in the first half Smith was supposed to throw a pass to Braylon Edwards’ back shoulder in the end zone, but instead he threw the ball short and towards the middle of the…
Here’s the transcript of NFL Films analyst Greg Cosell’s interview from this morning on KNBR’s The Murph and Mac show. Q: Do the Harbaugh brothers coach in similar ways? Do their teams show similar tendencies? COSELL: There’s a toughness, a physical and mental toughness that is instilled in both teams, and that comes from the brothers. That would be the similarity. I think the difference is John Harbaugh is not…
SAN FRANCISCO – Here’s the transcript of Alex Smith’s postgame press conference, courtesy of the 49ers. What was the message in the locker room at halftime? “I think looking forward, it’s cliché, but really coming out and looking to put that first drive together and get back on track, kind of back to basics. I think we all realized, especially on offense, how much we left out there. But we…
SAN FRANCISCO – Here’s the transcript of Jim Harbaugh’s postgame press conference, courtesy of the 49ers. What does it feel like to be the first 49ers head coach to lead this team to a winning record since 2002? “First of all, congratulations to our players on this win. They’re the ones who are leading it; I just want to make that perfectly clear. We’ve had success on the field. We’ve…
SANTA CLARA – Here’s the transcript of Greg Roman’s Thursday press conference, courtesy of the 49ers. Opening Statement: “We’re working hard on this Arizona defense. They had a coordinator change this year. Their defense is a Pittsburgh Steelers scheme. They brought in their defensive coordinator who had been with the Steelers for quite awhile. They play extremely hard. They’re getting much better, playing with much more confidence and expertise within…
Here’s the transcript of Greg Cosell’s Thursday morning interview on KNBR’s Murph and Mac Show. Enjoy. Q: What did the eye in the sky say about Alex Smith? COSELL: I think what they did was they came out a little more aggressively and they threw on first down early in the game – which, by the way, is always the best down to throw, because normally you’re throwing at base…
Here’s the transcript of Wednesday afternoon’s Steve Young show with the Razor and Mr. T on KNBR. Enjoy. Q: Here’s Steve Young, who’s convinced us over the years that playing quarterback is an art. YOUNG: Did you see Tom Brady in the third quarter? I want to say at the end of the third quarter they were up sixteen to nine I want to say, and he drove 82 yards…
SANTA CLARA – Here’s the transcript of Alex Smith’s Wednesday press conference, courtesy of the 49ers. The NFL game plan vary sometimes widely week to week, is this year more so than previous years, or are you finding that you’re having to do a lot more before the game than you have in the past? “I don’t know if it’s necessarily new stuff. These are all things that we’ve done…
SANTA CLARA – Here’s the transcript of Jim Harbaugh’s Wednesday press conference, courtesy of the 49ers. Week 10 with your second division opponent, how familiar are you with the Cardinals? “Getting more familiar with them every day.” How much time in the offseason during the lockout did you really study what they do? “Quite a bit, defensively, because we were familiarizing ourselves with our defense which is similar to Pittsburgh’s,…
SANTA CLARA – Here’s a serious question: What can’t Alex Smith do? People used to say he couldn’t do a lot of things, like throw accurately or read defenses or win games. Now, all of a sudden, he’s better at those things than Andrew Luck is. So what can’t Alex Smith do? How about this: Can he throw deep? If there’s a knock on the guy, that’s it. He can’t…
SANTA CLARA – Here’s the transcript of Jim Harbaugh’s Monday afternoon press conference, courtesy of the 49ers. As you reflect on that game last night, what was the thing that stood out to you that you guys did particularly well? “The thing that stood out to me the most was why you love football. It was competitive, it was two really good teams with really good players that were playing…
SANTA CLARA – Here’s what Parys Haralson said today at his locker. Q: Was that the most complete win this season by the defense? HARALSON: When you’re playing a guy like Eli Manning, that’s a smart quarterback and I think he is one of these elite quarterbacks in this league with quite a few other guys. It was taking care of what we had to do, everybody being on the…
SANTA CLARA – Here’s what Carlos Rogers said this morning at his locker. You should know that he was wearing an Adidas track suit, a diamond necklace, and a watch with a diamond bezel. Q: Your first pick – did the Giants run the same play as they had run the play before? ROGERS: (Laughs) The same one. The play before I played off and he kind of gave me…
SAN FRANCISCO – Here are Alex Smith’s postgame quotes, courtesy of the 49ers. Alex, at what point did you know that you guys would be opening the game so pass happy? “All week we kind of talked about it, and then obviously as we just got closer to the game, we knew that’s what it was going to be like. No shock to me. The way we’ve been running it…
SAN FRANCISCO – Here are Greg Roman’s postgame quotes, courtesy of the 49ers. Did you guys come in knowing that you were going to throw as much as you did? “Yes. We really feel like the table was set. I mentioned to [head coach] Jim [Harbaugh] earlier in the week it reminded me of two years ago when we were getting ready to play Oregon, we had kind of went…
SAN FRANCISCO – Here are Jim Harbaugh’s postgame quotes, courtesy of the 49ers. What was happening on the last play of the game. It seemed to be helter skelter: “We made a late substitution to get into nickel. I was watching it, I would have called timeout if we didn’t get lined up but then we got lined. Glad we didn’t call timeout.” Second game of the year where DT…
