Shanahan Discusses Week 1 Preparation, Announces Captains | Press Pass

0:00What's up guys? Go ahead. Welcome. How's the week? How's the week? It's been cool. I mean, it took a couple days to adjust, but feeling real good today. You know, most of the city I've seen out in my window, I got to go on one walk. It's a little different for coaches. We're in the season, so we're not out much, but players had it yesterday off, so I know they got out a little bit, and they've spoken very highly of everything. I'm going to go to the George and folks that go full-go today, and what are the other guys that are coming back from the trees? Um, because we're technically in the future. Um, from where we're from, and the Rams are in their present. I don't have to talk about injuries till tomorrow. So I'm not talking about it. I know what Ramella Heights and Creek was, because it was an ankle injury, wasn't it? I was an ankle injury. Just a spring. I don't ask more questions than that. I was an ankle. You think what about Samoa? What was the major of his school? He had a plate in his foot a while ago, and on our bonus practice the day we came, just

1:02stepped on it and broke. So he's going to have to get surgery, his bad injury. Hopefully we can get him back later in the year, but I was a real tough loss. I heard for Samoa or for our team, but hopefully we can take care of business and you can come back later in the year. I thought you were feeling pretty good. How long did it take you to feel good? And what if the players give you anything back, or just that, how they felt after the flight? Yeah, each guy is different. I mean, some guys feel good and feel great. And then you talk to them five hours later. They're like, never mind that left. Some guys started off bad and feel good later. For me, I feel my most normal today. So many every days, I think it's the third day. But I'm doing good. I think most of the guys are doing real good too. Hey, Kyle, welcome to Australia. Thank you, man. We're really back, back, back what it happened to you. The message to the players of the weekend is that mostly just about exercising, recovering or the gym courage and to get out to see the city and forget the rest of the city. No, I don't encourage that much. Nothing against the city.

2:03It's looked awesome. The people I've been around seem really cool. Definitely makes me want to think about coming back and visiting with my family, but just we get 17 games. That's all that's allowed to us. We play once a week. So we're really all about business right now. The players get an off day. So I think it was cool for them to get a walk around. I think a number of them went out to dinner and stuff like that. So they've been a little joyed a little bit. But it's just a little bit harder the way we do stuff in a work week and a little jealous. So just watching people out the window, I wish I could get out more. I know they did too, but my message is them. Let's enjoy your one day. Everything has been getting hydrated. Again, use the time difference. And now I feel like we've finally done that and we're ready for real good practice today. Thank you, Kyle. Thank you, man. I feel the point of my two-day program is running on. What do you make of sports that far from seeing it this way? I didn't see it at all. I was a try to my hardest to make it up to that time. And it's really hard to be awake after eight. So I fell asleep. But the guy said it was real cool.

3:04I got to see pictures of some film from the stadium and looked like an awesome atmosphere. I didn't get to see much of the game, but the coolest part is how they do scores, how they do like this. So like that. That's cooler. Looks like a sick shooter. So what should we do that? And it looks like pads are already full tonight. I think it looks cool. I mean, it's each is different. There might not be as many hitting opportunities, but it's fun to watch. You guys put it out pads. I mean, you got to do it a little bit differently. Sometimes it could be more painful. Sometimes it could be less because of the impact of helmets and things like that. But we've been playing tackle football with out pads, growing up our whole life. I recess and stuff. So we have an idea of that stuff, but it's definitely different. Come on, people, come to the fight. Are you glad you came out a week in advance to both of the rounds who are doing it just 24 hours? Is there any time to go through it now? I mean, not comparing us to them, but yeah, I was glad. I mean, I felt the last couple today. So it's a little different for a coach, you know, toughened through how you use your mind for three and a half hours, a little bit different than your body.

4:07But yeah, I'm glad that we've been out here because we feel real good today. So you're still shuffling around for those 14 extra long seats in the third day? Sorry, what's that? They're a little shuffling around for 14 extra long. Oh, yeah, definitely. It was tough. That's why I hate having to make that decision. So I just went with the biggest guys, the starters and the line and D line. And there was a few remainder, so I gave it to the seniority. But no one came in, complained about it to me. So hopefully I succeeded as well as I could. Kyle, what's the initially guy to announce for you to work, Shive, about how you found the line? You got on that point. Like how did you kind of feel about this whole process? I mean, when I said, I mean, that was nothing against Australia or anything. That's just about competition and how important our 17 games are. And it's cool for us just, we always have an advantage of getting, having one, I see it as one home game of year in LA, just the way our fans are and take over that stadium. So it was disappointing to let them off the hook. And I'll get them out of that. But I have a feeling, knowing how our fans roll, I have a feeling they won't be much different here.

5:07I expect to have a good show. And I want to say it hit me right on the plane. But after being here for a couple of days, this is the right time to be here, it's the right place to be and it's the right team to go against. There aren't many people you can ask about. It's like coming to Australia for a game. Your dad actually did it for a preseason game. Did you tap into that experience at all? Ask him if they can. A little. It made me jealous. I mean, when you have five preseason games back in the day and you get to go to Australia for a week and it's one of five games, I wanted to say that it's the hardest work week. Like it is a week one of the seasons. So I mean, that would be a perfect time to come over here and be able to see the city and joy stuff play a little football. But there's a very huge difference between week one and the preseason. How about your captains for this? Same last year. Same last year. Did they get those seats in the front? No, they didn't. Some of them did, but not all of them. Did you pick up on any of the girls that's more excellent just from talking to people who were from here? I haven't picked up on it. I struggle with accents, not that good at hearing it, but it's actually close.

6:11I went to France earlier this off season and I really struggle with English and French accent. I do it better with English and Australian accents. I've understood people much better, but I haven't been out about enough. How is the level of support for the game and for the 49ers themselves? I mean, I got a feeling it's good. I haven't been out that much, but from what I've seen, what I've heard, it sounds pretty cool. We get pretty good support around the world. Everywhere that we go, when we travel in the US, our fans travel better to me than any other team. This is a little bit farther for them, so I still have a feeling a lot of guys are traveling out here from the bay and just driving on the bus and stuff. I've seen a lot more than nine in our jersey. During my other season, how do you give the guys the game plan? Were you able to do that earlier this time so that they could maybe study? That's also a sector down time. No, just because we used it too. We did our totally normal routine. I'm not sure because we're a little confused.

7:12When I look at my clock and it says the time, and then I try to see my family's time, and this says the time, but it says yesterday. I don't even get how that's possible. I feel like I'm in the future. Also, when we play on our Friday, which I think is the Thursday in the US, we're such creatures of habits. I call it the day Tuesday. No, wait, sorry, I call it today Wednesday, which is the first day we put in a game plan. But I think it's Monday, however though it's Sunday and the present. So I'm going to mess that up all week if you guys asked me. But today is just our first day of the game plan, which is a Wednesday. We'll put in some on a Thursday. Friday is the final part of the game plan. Saturday, we walk through when we play on Sunday, which is a Friday in Australia and a Thursday in the US. So don't ever make me do that again. Carl, who Carl Hexart and I, you, for speaking about the future, the place like Mark Evans and Striblin to come and join your team and talk to the impact that they might have for the season. Yeah, I'm real excited to get this going. I mean, I really love our team. You know, we got a month together here in the preseason to kind of work at it.

8:12You know, a lot of guys were being up. We missed a lot of guys throughout the preseason, but I feel we got most of our guys back this week. And I'm ready to get this started. You know, it's a fun first game. I love all the new additions. I'm excited to see how we play. I expect us to play a certain way and I expect to build on this team throughout the year. I haven't been over to the main stadium yet. So I just saw it on some videos because the guys went for the, the, not rugby, the footy game. Is that right? Yeah. All right. The footy game and it looked, it looked big. I think it'll be different. The field's so much bigger. Some curious. I know if it's 100,000, I'm curious how different it'll be because the football field's smaller. So how far the fans will be from us. That's more for them than us, but I'm excited to play in a stadium that can fit 100,000. Coach, is there any sort of problem with, I guess that presents with, you know, playing obviously it's a rectangular field. You play on the, you're playing on an oval section of the Czech stadium. As long as hopefully they have chalkier and they put the white lines for us. As long as that white line is rectangle, we should be all right. Can't there be a lot of people cheating to be game and some do don't know the nine

9:17as quiet as well? In 2026, what do you want your own random football to represent in the real time? I always talk about, you know, when we watch football as, you know, the people are in it, we never get to watch it with announcers and everything. We turn on a very much more boring tape that has, it's dead silent. And I always talk about, I want to be able to see who the game means more, who plays with higher character on the silent tape. You don't hear anything, you don't hear talking, you don't hear the hits, but you can see it. And I want us to play a certain way. That's the way that I've expected us to play for the last 10 years. And I expect it to be even stronger on Friday. Kyle, Brock said that he sat on the plane directly behind his set up. Is there any thoughts maintaining that cubic centric ever-street that long flight over if that was a bit of done walking? No, they were doing snaps for 17 straight hours. No, that was just luck. Hey, Kyle, I was going to ask you about what Australia's fans should expect from a matchup like this. I feel like you guys have both been being punch-and-date into the playoffs of football.

10:20It's a plan that we get a showpiece rivalry matchup that we've been melding in the question. Yeah, I mean, it's week one. So you never know what happens in a season. I mean, each year, everything changes, but I mean, I think it's two organizations, two teams, two player-wise, coach-in-wise, front-office-wise. I mean, I have a ton of respect for the Rams, and I believe they have the same for us. It's always a battle when we go against them. It's not a lot of love for each other because of how much we have to compete for each other, but it's two first-class organizations who will put on a good show. Kyle, Aaron Donald practiced today. I'm sure there's an emotion of relief when I got to like that with tires. What was the emotion when you learned that was coming back? The opposite. Remember when you retired? I didn't see the alerts and stuff. I heard people yelling down the hallway cheering. It's like, what the hell's going on? And then I got it on my phone. And it was probably the most we've celebrated in the off-season ever. And then it was the exact opposite this year. So I mean, I know people have been, I wasn't like crushed on the Sunday that he decided

11:21because I decided a month ago is happening. I'm so I prepared for that the right way. And it is what it is. He's in his hell of a player and we'll have a work cut out for him. Do you expect any play in week one? Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah. Was it difficult to get a clean, clean, over here? I mean, I believe so. Those are things that I definitely don't focus on. But those are the huge challenges of this stuff. I don't probably should ask someone else more. So I don't mess up the details. But getting his passport, getting it from his family, or I think the Falcons may have had it. Because I think they're going somewhere later. So it was tough to get that and get them all set up. But we got a good logistics team, RIS and Slapper, the best. And they figured it out because he's here. Is there something about Australia that surprised you the most so far? I'm pretty late when it comes to this stuff because I really haven't been outside the building for more than like probably the 30-minute walk. Yeah, that I don't see kangaroos and crocodiles everywhere.

12:21That was expected to see that. And it looks like a very normal cool city. Do you feel like the energy level on your players is excitement or is it like that gender? I think they're excited. I think they're ready to go. I mean, just today was our first team meeting for our game plan week and just feeling the energy in there. It's always hard when you think about the travel and all the stuff that goes into it. But once you get there, you get your feet on the ground and you get used to where we're at. We love being the only game on this pose of being on the Sunday where there's a lot of games playing. And it's really cool to be out here. And I think our guys are pretty jacked now.