The 49ers picked up their first highway win of the season and took the NFC West division lead with a 37-15 win over the Panthers in Charlotte on Sunday.
The spotlight play of the day got here when Emmanuel Moseley gave the 49ers their second recreation in a row with a pick-six, intercepting a Baker Mayfield go and working it again 41 yards for a landing.
However the story of the early night was the litany of accidents suffered on the Financial institution of America Stadium turf. Star defensive finish Nick Bosa didn’t play within the second half with a groin harm, security Jimmie Ward left after one play with a left hand harm, and each kicker Robbie Gould and cornerback Emmanuel Moseley picked up knee accidents — and Shanahan stated that the 49ers worry Moseley’s could also be a major one.
The 49ers offense had a virtually excellent stability between passes and rushes, with Jimmy Garoppolo finishing 18-of-30 passes for 253 yards and two touchdowns by way of the air. On the bottom, Jeff Wilson Jr. led the way in which with 17 carries for 120 yards and a landing, and Tevin Coleman added a dashing and receiving landing.
And with the Seahawks, Rams and Cardinals all dropping on Sunday, the 49ers lead the NFC West at 3-2.
Right here’s what the 49ers needed to say after the win:
KYLE SHANAHAN
On Bosa’s groin harm and if he might have gone again in:
“It was simply tight … It was a bit tight all day. On the finish of the second quarter although, you may see him coming off the sector and we regarded into it at halftime and didn’t really feel like he might go.”
On Gould’s left knee harm:
“Probably only a contusion.”
On Moseley’s left knee harm:
“We’re doing all of the stuff now. We’re anxious about an ACL, however we will’t affirm that. … On the market, it [wasn’t good]. We’ll see once we get the MRI.”
On Tevin Coleman’s two touchdowns:
“Tevin’s superior. It’s nice to have him again right here. These two touchdowns had been superior. I can’t consider the play he made on that third down, the go route versus a nook, going up for that ball. That was large, preserving us on the sector. It was superior for him to step up.”
On Coleman being a much bigger issue within the passing recreation than previously:
“He had 4 catches for 130 versus the Broncos in 2016. We wished to get him on a go route, that was deliberate. All the things else was screens and he did a superb job on the check-downs.”
On Samuel’s large drive to go up by two scores once more:
“It was wanted. I believed we did some actually good issues within the first half. Got here up brief on the sector objective, had a turnover. I feel we punted as soon as within the first half, however wished much more factors than 10. It was superior that the protection obtained that rating to get us to 17. Once they got here out they usually scored on their opening drive, it was large to reply. I believed that was large time, after which I consider we did it the subsequent drive too. And the protection stored enjoying robust.”
On Jennings’ day:
“These had been two actually large third downs. There have been a lot of issues we missed on offense at the moment, however I believed the performs that the fellows made, whether or not it was Jauan there, Tevin on one other third down, George [Kittle] on I consider the primary third down of the sport, a lot of throws Jimmy made on third down. I believed the fellows made a ton of performs and that’s why it ended up trying good.”
On balancing the emotions beginning a protracted highway journey with a win however choosing up a number of accidents:
“It’s the identical. It was robust there on the finish. It was a bizarre feeling there, watching E-Man. Numerous guys obtained harm within the recreation, but it surely didn’t look good. That undoubtedly took away from a bit bit of pleasure on the finish. However we all know the deal, it’s a part of this league and everyone goes by way of it. That was a troublesome one at the moment. I like how we get to go to the Greenbrier, I like how our guys get to remain collectively — it’s loads simpler to focus once we try this. Hopefully we’ll get some higher information on a few of these guys.”
On if Verrett might play subsequent week:
“He might. It’s loads to ask from him, simply the harm he’s coming again [from]. We solely actually obtained one full-speed apply final week that he might take a look at it on. It was simpler for Jimmie, simply having coaching camp. We’ll see how these three practices go this week. We’d like to have that possibility, however we gained’t change it primarily based off of what occurred to E-Man. Simply must see if he’s prepared.”
On 49ers followers exhibiting up in droves:
“Our followers are superior all over the place we go. It’s so cool there on the finish, listening to them chant our guys’ names. I didn’t know that till I obtained right here, however our followers journey pretty much as good as any staff I’ve been on.”
On if it felt extra balanced between offense and protection:
“I believed all three phases did a superb job. We clearly missed a pair on particular groups — I believed these two large returns put the protection in a tough scenario. We at the least held them to a area objective. However simply total, actually pleased with the staff.”
On if Bosa harm modifications offensive playcalling:
“No. Shedding a participant on protection doesn’t have an effect on playcalling on offense. Simply how the sport goes impacts that stuff. Simply since you’re lacking a participant doesn’t imply issues will go completely different, you simply watch and modify and attempt to get a really feel for the sport.”
On opening the sport with a landing:
“I believed it was large as a result of we made some large third downs on that drive, particularly the third play of the sport to George. To make these large performs, to maintain us on the market and I consider we obtained a future from Jeff to get down there and end it. I want we might do that each time. That’s all the time the objective.”
On Wilson’s day:
“We all know Jeff very nicely, he’s been right here for some time. No matter position we ask Jeff to do, he’s prepared. I’ve obtained as a lot respect for Jeff as anybody I’ve coached. He’s a troublesome dude, went by way of loads on this recreation and stored going. It was good to get another guys in there and get some reps, I believed our working again group stepped up.”
On Garoppolo’s play:
“I believed he performed very well at the moment. I believed he made some large performs, some large throws. He didn’t flip the ball over, which was large. That’s an enormous factor, it’s all the time an enormous factor, but it surely was a extremely large emphasis coming into this recreation. I used to be actually pleased with Jimmy.”
JIMMY GAROPPOLO
On getting the offense rolling:
“Some drives. I feel we’ve nonetheless obtained room for enchancment. There have been some drives the place we simply killed ourselves. Easy issues we will repair. However at the moment was a superb day. We had been rolling fairly good.”
On the drive that obtained momentum again:
“That was large. That entire drive, I feel it was 15 performs or one thing. To cap it off like that, with Deebo developing with a fantastic catch by him. Guys had been making performs at the moment. O-line performed nice, clear pockets. That’s the place it begins.”
On he he handles seeing accidents:
“It’s robust. It's soccer so that you’ve obtained to take it with a grain of salt, however everybody in there, it’s a good locker room. It sucks every time we lose a man like. I do know we misplaced E, Jimmie, there was some random stuff at the moment. But it surely’s soccer, we’ve obtained to maintain going. The prepare ain’t stopping.”
On Coleman and his landing go to him:
“I’ve been with Tev previously. He’s Mr. Dependable, he actually is. He’s a type of guys, you recognize the place he’s going to be, you recognize he’s going to do the appropriate factor. Every time you've got a man like that as a quarterback, you possibly can put that ball up and belief him and it’s enjoyable. I didn’t even see the play however I heard it was superior.”
“Mr. Dependable, man. He’s simply all the time in the appropriate spot. He’s very calm. However he brings that power. Among the cuts he made at the moment, you don’t see that fairly often from working backs. Him and Jeff, throughout the board we had been enjoying nicely offensively. We’ve obtained a methods to go, but it surely was enjoyable.”
On Coleman’s catch on the sideline:
“It was blitz zero, so I did produce other choices. These choices weren’t nice. I knew Tev was one-on-one. Simply wished to provide him a shot. I imply, you attempt to make the appropriate play each time but it surely’s not all the time going to go excellent.”
On Wilson being again to the place he was pre-meniscus harm final yr:
“You possibly can really feel it. You possibly can really feel it in apply. You possibly can really feel it on recreation day. It’s good having a man like that. He sort of leads that room and units the tone for them, particularly in apply. You want a man like that and we’re going to depend on him much more going ahead.”
On the offensive line efficiency:
“It’s robust, every time these guys are mixing and matching like that, I believed Jake (Brendel) did a fantastic job. Throughout the board these guys performed nice. That’s a superb protection. They had been giving us some robust appears with strain and I believed they dealt with it nice.”
On if Jauan Jennings might be a large again:
“He’s harmful when he will get the ball in his arms. I used to be telling a few of the guys, we’ve simply obtained to get the ball in his arms. Doesn’t even matter how we do it. He’s sort of our third-down specialist, makes these large performs they usually simply can’t sort out him. He’s an enormous physique on the market and he runs with objective, that’s for certain.”
“The one coming from left to proper, he virtually scored on it, you may simply see half our offense was celebrating with him prefer it’s a landing. We needed to get within the huddle and determine all of it out, however that’s the power we would like. I can keep in mind on the finish of final yr he was bringing that stuff and sort of jogged my memory about it at the moment. Simply must maintain that going.”
DEEBO SAMUEL
On not getting any catches or runs early within the recreation:
“It simply comes with the playcalling, with Kyle having the belief in our potential. We simply wished to run the ball first. That’s what we do, being a bodily group. We simply let all the things else fall in place.”
On if the play for his landing catch was the plan:
“Not essentially the No. 1 learn, however I crossed the security’s face into Jimmy’s imaginative and prescient and he threw a dart.”
On if Jauan Jennings might be a wide-back:
“I feel so, despite the fact that I obtained on him about when he caught the ball going throughout the center and he was working down the sideline, like he was able to get tackled and get pushed out of bounds. I feel he had a bit additional in him and he might’ve scored. … I feel he made the appropriate resolution, however as soon as he obtained to the sideline, he ran out of gasoline a bit bit.”
On seeing Kittle get extra touches:
“It was nice. Not even when he obtained the ball, however if you activate the tape and watch how he blocks, he’s only a high-energy man, actual bodily. That’s simply one thing we take delight in and we feed off of it.”
On if this was finest offensive circulate of the season:
“I feel so. Like Kyle talked about within the locker room, we made loads of errors on offense, however we was clicking and changing on third down, which is one thing we’ve been harping on for the previous two weeks.”
On what these errors had been:
“Simply penalties on the whole, missed assignments on routes. Easy stuff.”
On how he felt the offensive line did:
“I feel we ran the ball nicely. Meaning the offensive line performed very well as nicely, so I feel they performed very well.”
CHARVARIUS WARD
On accidents:
“It’s bittersweet. E-man was making some nice performs. It’s tragic it occurred on the finish of the sport. I pray he’s doing good and never out too lengthy.”
On protection hiccup:
“It’s the NFL. They receives a commission, too. They’re millionaires, too, so that they’ll make performs from time to time. We solely gave up, what, one landing the previous three weeks? We may be higher however groups finally will make performs towards us.”
On Moseley:
“He made a pick-six at the moment. He did his factor. He got here again house, caught a pick-six, placed on for the staff and made some performs. Sadly (the harm) occurred.”
On end-zone go break-up:
“Yeah, that play had me hyped, feeling good. I simply hope they maintain concentrating on me so I can begin choosing a few of these balls off.
On protection:
“We sort of shock the opposite staff once we make performs. If we’re on our stuff, with good eyes and good strategies, it’ll be arduous to attain on us.”
GEORGE KITTLE
On Financial institution of America’s turf area:
“The factor that simply confuses me, for those who’re not going to mandate grass, then why aren’t all turf fields the very same, so guys get used to enjoying on the identical turf all over the place. Each area has a special turf. NBA guys don’t play on completely different wooden. What are we doing? Hockey gamers don’t play on completely different ice on a regular basis. … I simply want we had been enjoying on a floor that was related week in and week out, so your physique wouldn’t be coping with crappy turf.”
“Turf is turf. I’d a lot quite play on grass. That’s why I like Jed York. We have now the nicest grass within the NFL. Week in and week out, our apply fields have the nicest grass and we've got the nicest recreation area.”
On catch first play and an emphasis to get you going?
“Sure and no. Kyle offers us the primary 20 performs the evening earlier than each recreation. It’s all the time enjoyable after I get the ball early, particularly like that the place I get a 3-yard go and get to go hit any person.”
On Garoppolo:
“Jimmy was nice. Bought us out and in of the huddle, obtained us lined up proper, lot of excellent change of path for the play calls primarily based on their protection. We had been clear.”
On offensive stability:
“It seems like the brand new 49ers’ offense. It's completely different. We have now loads of new guys on the market. Guys are getting comfy enjoying ball. We have now younger gamers at necessary positions they usually’re getting constantly higher and getting used to the velocity of the sport. It’s slowing down for them. We simply put a bit extra weight on their shoulders they usually’re doing a superb job.”
On his fumble:
“I’m upset about it, clearly. You by no means wish to fumble the ball. It sucks. You’ll be the man that’s identified on the tape on a regular basis. Ball safety is all the time an additional emphasis for our staff. I hate to be on that tape and I’ll undoubtedly be identified as a man for our subsequent opponent. It’s as much as me to carry onto the soccer, which I plan on doing. 4 profession fumbles on 300-plus catches, so I’m not too anxious about it, however I’ll proceed to work on my ball safety.”
On Coleman:
“Once we signed him again, I used to be excited. I understand how he's within the locker room and on the sector. You possibly can depend on him day by day. My favourite factor about TeCo is he’s been on this offense and is excellent about urgent the block on the surface earlier than chopping up area. It’s a type of issues it takes guys a very long time to study — rookies, particularly.”
“When you've got the velocity that Tevin has and the mindset to push blocks earlier than you chop, it makes blocking a lot simpler for us blocking on the perimeters. It will get them to hop outdoors and he cuts off your block and it normally ends in a pancake.”
“I feel I’m a extremely good run-blocking tight finish. Tevin makes my job simpler.”
“Nice mindset. He brings that veteran presence to the working again room. Now you possibly can present the youthful guys that is the way you’re speculated to run the ball in outdoors zone.”
FRED WARNER
On if an harm like Moseley’s modifications the celebration:
“Yeah, completely. It’s simply loopy, you hate to see it. Hopefully we get first rate information on that tomorrow, however you hate it for him. That’s my brother, in order that hurts. You simply hate to see that.”
On if the turf made an influence:
“I don’t know. I imply, we maintain circling round it, going again to 2020 once we had been at Metlife and people accidents occurring and clearly at the moment. I don’t know. I don’t know what to say. I simply present up and play.”
On Bosa’s harm and enjoying the second half with out him:
“Yeah, I didn’t know that he had been harm. Type of came upon on the sideline, noticed that he had a wrap on it. So hopefully he’ll be good to go for subsequent week. The McCaffrey landing, we’ve simply obtained to discover a option to get him down so we will get one other set of 4 downs and maintain them to 3 factors.”
On stopping Carolina’s two-point try:
“I didn’t know … they had been going for 2, so we had been going to have to face up. Fortunately, we had a fantastic play name on that one, we obtained the line of defense shifting and we made a play within the backfield. Anytime we get a cease down there, that’s going to be large for momentum.”
On cornerbacks making tackles:
“All of our corners, actually. I feel all of them, we purposely get corners who're nice tacklers and prepared. That’s one thing that you simply’re not going to be on the sector until you're. We have now a few of the finest within the league — if not the perfect — at placing their nostril in there and making these sort of performs. That’s large for our protection.”
On mentality of stepping up for guys within the wake of accidents:
“We want that that clearly wasn’t the case — you don’t wish to be aware of coping with large losses. However we perceive the sport that we play, violent recreation. As a lot because it’s straightforward to say, ‘Subsequent man up,’ it’s not like we’re not excited about these guys and lacking them. However we’re going to discover a option to get by way of and proceed to play at a excessive stage.”
On spending per week on the Greenbrier:
“Yearly, I feel that that’s one of many positives to being there, is being with the fellows and spending time collectively on the market apply. And clearly in our off time, being round one another. That needs to be a optimistic, for certain.”
TEVIN COLEMAN
On the landing catch:
“Jimmy really didn’t throw it to me in apply when he was speculated to. So he was like, ‘Within the recreation, we’re gonna get it. Within the recreation, we’re gonna get it.’ So I used to be simply prepared for that play and I knew he was going to throw it.”
“And there was a DB on me, so he wasn’t speculated to throw it. However he undoubtedly trusts me. If a linebacker come out on me, then yeah, but when a DB come on the market on me, then he wasn’t speculated to throw it. However he trusts me, in order that was good.”
On if he doubted Garoppolo would throw it:
“Oh no. I already knew I used to be getting that ball, for certain.”
On his timeline earlier than becoming a member of the 49ers:
“It was good. I used to be with the Jets this summer season and all the things was good, however they launched me. So I used to be simply actually stunned and blissful to return again right here, see the acquainted faces and the vibe that was right here, it was superb. All people loves me coming again. It was only a nice really feel for me.”
On what he was doing after being launched by the Jets:
“I used to be at house, spending time with my household and getting household time in. After which San Fran referred to as me and it was little doubt, I used to be similar to, ‘Yup, I’m going.'”
TALANOA HUFANGA
On the harm to Moseley:
“For me personally, simply because E-Man is such a particular human being to me. He’s been a frontrunner to me as I got here in as a rookie. He all the time had that juice to him, power and infectious smile and that simply flows all through the locker room. To see E-Man go down, it virtually felt like Trey Lance, too. These are each of my guys. For me, I simply wished to ensure he was okay. Clearly, I don’t know the standing on him as nicely however sending prayers to him as a result of he's a person of nice character, for certain.”
On the plaudits being given to the protection:
“We’ve simply obtained to go week-by-week, one recreation at a time. Once they reward us, we’ve obtained to remain humble, we’ve obtained to proceed to maintain the humility as a result of it’ll construct energy throughout the locker room. So long as we proceed to do our jobs each day. We’re simply attempting to create a legacy that we’re destined for greatness. We have now a confidence in that however you need to proceed to work on that each day.”
On how the protection performed after Bosa was out:
“Effectively, the landing was on me. I’ve simply obtained to make an open area sort out and I missed the sort out. I feel I had 4 missed tackles at the moment. Protection might have been approach higher with me doing my job. All people was in place, I’ve simply obtained to make my performs. Whatever the man that goes down, like Bosa, we've got guys who can step up at each spot. As you have a look at every spot on the depth chart, there’s all the time somebody that’s able to go in. That’s what we delight ourselves on, is constructing a depth chart that’s not simply one-deep, however two-deep, three. We’ve simply obtained to proceed to play our recreation. When it comes to my recreation, I simply obtained to assist do a greater job for the fellows to make the performs. I undoubtedly take all that blame on these runs.”
ROBBIE GOULD
On getting hit on kickoff returns:
“I’ll be alright. It occurs. I attempt to put him towards the sideline or reduce him again. For some causes, returns wish to run me over. I assume I’m a simple goal. They need one thing for Instagram I assume. However they didn’t rating a landing.”
A bruise?
“We’ll see. I’ve obtained an MRI tomorrow. It’s fairly swollen proper now.”