The 49ers dominated the third quarter Sunday night time in opposition to the Cowboys and received 30-24.
They outscored the Cowboys 21-0 within the third, then Dallas confirmed indicators of life within the fourth quarter earlier than the 49ers lastly closed the door with a turnover on downs within the recreation’s remaining minutes.
They’re now tied with the Seahawks and Cardinals atop the NFC West at 4-4 as they enter their bye week.
Right here’s what they stated after the win:
Kyle Shanahan
On his halftime message:
Cease having penalties. There was no message, it was simply we gotta cease hurting ourselves. We had seven and a half yards per play within the first half and had a bunch of penalties that basically damage us.
On the win:
You’re not precisely the place you wish to be, however going into this recreation, we knew this was an enormous one. We didn’t wish to be 3-5 going into the bye week having your backs in opposition to the wall like that.
On Kittle:
Kittle’s the person, particularly on his vacation, he often does higher. However there’s a pair issues within the first half and similar to Brock he missed a pair he would like to have again. He got here again within the second half and simply performed pretty much as good as you possibly can.
On the rookies:
After we went into this 12 months, we thought it’d be actual laborious for lots of the rookies to earn beginning positions, simply the place our workforce was at, however we believed that they had been going to provide some actually good depth, and also you hope to have some great things and never must get to that. However we haven’t in all areas and fortuitously plenty of these guys are gamers. They confirmed it in preseason and when their quantity’s been referred to as, they’ve all are available in and completed their job and so they proceed to get higher.
On Guerendo’s slide:
Yeah, we advised him on this one. However he listened not less than. It’s laborious to show that down whenever you’re operating in and I’m glad he did it for the second time.
On Samuel’s return from pneumonia:
Whenever you hear that stuff in the beginning of the week, pneumonia and issues like that, in my thoughts it’s type of dominated out. However you recognize, once they began working him out on Tuesday and stated he had an opportunity and that he obtained by way of follow to a level on Thursday and by the point Saturday got here, he stated he was feeling nice. We nonetheless rotated him rather a lot and stuff, however we wish to get the ball in his palms.
Fred Warner
On the top of the sport:
We made it a recreation when it didn’t must be, particularly defensively, freebies, or they didn’t must earn it, you recognize — (CeeDee Lamb) broad open, their finest participant. Can’t let that occur. We put ourselves in that state of affairs so we needed to get ourselves out.
On the bye:
The bye will certainly assist me tremendously. You realize, each week banging it up and discovering a technique to get well adequate to play the subsequent week, and that’s simply how the NFL is.
On the rookies:
That’s a heck of a rookie class proper there … I don’t assume you possibly can speak about it sufficient. It’s so laborious to play as a rookie within the NFL and all these guys taking part in at such a excessive stage proper now. It’s been superb to see, and so they’ve all are available in with the best mindset, following all people’s lead. We’re going to wish them in an enormous means within the second half of the season.
Nick Bosa
On the sport:
We began scorching and I believe we performed nicely as a protection. It’s type of been the story this 12 months, although, letting them again within the recreation. In order that’s an enormous focus that we have to have as a result of taking part in in opposition to good groups right here, you bought to place them away.
On Warner’s halftime message:
I don’t wish to give it away however he had an amazing message for us within the locker room and we felt just like the superior workforce and we simply wanted to type of execute a bit of higher.
On displaying his ‘Make America Great Again’ hat whereas teammates interviewed with NBC:
I’m not going to speak an excessive amount of about it, however I believe it’s an necessary time.
Brock Purdy
On Kittle’s large recreation:
Simply doing his job, creating some separation. Man, you get the ball of their palms 5, six yards and so they make one man miss, it may very well be an enormous acquire and that’s what he did.
On his mindset out of halftime:
Maintain it easy but in addition play aggressive and simply attempt to do what coach referred to as and hit guys once they had been open and maintain it easy, transfer the ball, not attempt to damage ourselves. First half, man, that was the principle factor. We had loads of alternatives however we simply stored hurting ourselves.
On the bye:
It’s an amazing week for all of us to simply relaxation up and heal up and simply be laborious on ourselves on the movie and the place we will get higher as a result of the second half of the season is all the things.
On his scrambling:
There’s groups which have a spy on me and stuff. I really feel like Kansas Metropolis did that, truthfully, and the Cowboys did it as nicely, so there’s ways in which they’ll scheme that up however then I believe it takes away one other move rusher, so I’ve a bit of bit extra time.
George Kittle
On Guerendo:
I believe he obtained extra comfy the extra reps he obtained, every rep and he’s simply gonna maintain getting higher with all of the reps that he will get.
On turning across the season:
Small, constant steps in the best route result in nice outcomes, and this is only one step.
On Nationwide Tight Ends Day:
We had 4 energetic tight ends for the primary time this 12 months, so I used to be actually enthusiastic about that, getting Brayden Willis up, you recognize it’s a vacation, so that you’re attempting to have fun all tight ends.
On his five hundredth catch with the 49ers, becoming a member of Jerry Rice, Terrell Owens, Roger Craig and Dwight Clark:
An honor. You realize, grateful that I obtained to be part of a company with a really excessive customary of how they play soccer. Grateful that they’ve stored me round for a very long time and simply each single day striving to be higher than I used to be the day earlier than and regularly show that I must be on the San Francisco 49ers roster. To be on a listing with any of these names. Any record that you simply’re on with Jerry Rice is an efficient factor.
