There’s been a lot of talk in the news lately about AI. According to the experts on the topic, one of the existential risks is that AI becomes so smart that it reaches “superintelligence”. By that point, AI would be as much smarter than humans as humans are smarter than a chicken or a bug or a Raiders fan.
That must be what Kyle Shanahan feels like when he talks football with mere mortals like us. Trent Williams spoke on an interview the other day about Kyle Shanahan’s football smarts. He said that he “came here a 10-year vet. I learned more just in that 30-minute team meeting we had with Kyle breaking down the next opponent, I learned more football in that time than I did the previous 10 years. The way he breaks it down is literally like something you’ve never seen. Down to the quarterback, where his weight is.”
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If a Hall-of-Fame left tackle feels like that, imagine how vast the gap is between him and non-NFL players or coaches like us? I’ve been enjoying all the tape breakdowns of the Rams game this past week. Analysts much smarter than me are pointing to all these motions and shifts and dashes and banana and it’s enough to make my head swirl. Kyle is far from a perfect coach, but we’re pretty damn lucky to have him. If only our luck with injuries could match that too….
49ers’ De’Zhaun Stribling has surgery, to miss about 10 weeks
“He sought multiple opinions to potentially rest the ankle and come back to play but ultimately decided on surgery.”
49ers coach Kyle Shanahan shares injury updates ahead of Dolphins game
“Defenses play different calls based off of whether you’re in shotgun or gun. Sometimes you only do drop-back plays in shotgun and never under center and that changes entirely what a defense does. So, you just try to balance things out so you can have a threat of every type of play call and any type of look so the defense can’t eliminate certain things. And sometimes it helps with the quarterback’s rhythm a little bit more to get a smooth seven-step drop instead of a short one from shotgun.”
49ers rookie De’Zhaun Stribling to miss 10 weeks; Jake Tonges out for season
“Tonges could not make it off the field under his own power. Afterward, Shanahan said Tonges’ injury was to his medial collateral ligament, along with some other “issues.”
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49ers Notebook: Fred Warner reflects on ‘dream’ reunion, Jaden Dugger’s debut; Christian McCaffrey misses party
“I was so excited for the flight, and then I passed out for like 13 hours,” McCaffrey shared. “So, when I woke up, there was like an hour and a half left, and I was like, ‘Damn, I think I missed the fun part.’ But it was good.”
Bosa was also among the players who fell asleep pretty quickly after takeoff. But before boarding, he and his teammates had time to reflect on the win.
“We all were talking a big game that we were going to hang out and enjoy it for a few hours,” Bosa said. “But we had to wait for the Rams to board [their plane], so we hung out at the airport. Some guys had some beers, maybe. And then we dozed off pretty quick. I slept the majority of it, so it was nice.”
The 5 biggest surprises from the 49ers in Week 1
“Morris leaned into coverage in this game, blitzing Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford only 10.3% of the time. The 49ers were middle-of-the-pack in both 1-high and 2-high coverages. They only ran man coverage 18% of the time. Re-watching the game, it felt like Stafford had a hard time distinguishing the coverage, thanks to the safeties rotating post-snap.
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The 49ers rotated their safeties nearly 45% of the time last Thursday, which was the fourth-highest in Week 1…I’d argue Bosa was the 49ers’ best defensive tackle in Week 1. A couple of Bosa’s run stops came when he reduced down to a tackle in Morris’s different fronts. That allowed a guard to block him, and Bosa isn’t going to lose that battle.”
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