Q. Shane, how did you feel that Jalen did on third down? There were a few, I guess, where he was pressured but, you know, with third and short where the ball probably needs to come out quick.
SHANE STEICHEN: Yeah, I thought he did a good job. I did. There's always things he can improve on. It starts with us as coaches helping him. But overall I thought he did a good job.
Q. Hey, Shane. Early on in the game on Sunday, your receivers were really involved and then not so much as the game went on. Do you guys keep track throughout a game, Okay, we got to get DeVonta a target, we have to get the receivers involved? And is that something you talk to Nick about if you notice it's been a while since a receiver's had a target?
SHANE STEICHEN: Yeah, those are conversations we've had throughout the week leading into a game plan. And then on the sidelines that stuff comes up and we talk through it.
And, obviously, we want to get everyone involved, right? There's one football. We want to get everyone catches as much as we can and, obviously, the coverage dictates where the ball is thrown. So we want to get everyone involved every week.
Q. Hi, Shane. I want to ask you a Dallas question. Micah Parsons, the rookie linebacker played some defensive end. You know, what have you seen from him and does it present a different kind of challenge when he's able to float through those different positions?
SHANE STEICHEN: Yeah, that's a great question. He's a heck of a player. He had a lot of pressures last week against the Chargers.
He's got a lot of speed and he comes off the ball. You can see it on film. Good on the edge. He's good inside, too, as well.
So he's going to be a heck of a challenge for us. We got to know where he's at on the field, be ready for these guys. We're ready.
Q. Hey, Shane. On Jalen, sort of his pass charts for the first couple weeks, there's been not a lot of throws towards the middle of the field, a lot outside the hash marks. Is that sort of a game plan thing? Is that coverage dictating it? What have you seen that and do you guys help scout that as you look forward?
SHANE STEICHEN: Yeah, that's exactly what you said. It's really what the defense is giving us, right? If we think we have our route combinations right, then we go into a game plan.
And if they're giving stuff outside the numbers, that's where we take it. And if they gave give us stuff over the middle, that's where the ball is going to go.
So, really, coverage based on those, as we're looking through a game plan, what they're playing defensively and where we think the ball is going to go.
Q. Hey, Shane. I guess kind of along those lines, we haven't seen a ton of production from the tight ends in the first two games. Why has that been and do you still think these tight ends can be a really big part of the offense?
SHANE STEICHEN: Yeah, absolutely. The tight ends are definitely a big part of the offense. You know, we're in week two right now. We got a lot of football to play. We want to get everyone involved, like I said.
And sometimes, right, we have schemed up routes to the tight ends and sometimes the coverage dictates where the ball goes. But, obviously, we want to get those guys involved just like everybody, absolutely.
Q. Hey, Shane. When you look at DeVonta Smith's game, in particular, Sunday, you know, he had the two receptions on seven targets. Were the 49ers doing anything specifically to kind of take him away and what kind of things can you guys do to adjust to that going forward?
SHANE STEICHEN: Yeah, no, I thought he did -- I thought he played all right. Obviously, there's certain things we can all get better from.
Obviously, as coaches, we got to get better, myself included. We all got to get better. We had some 50-50 balls to him that were, you know, up in the air. And, obviously, we can do some other little things with him going forward just like we can with everybody else.
Q. Shane, you know, the decision to go for two down 14 or down eight, rather, after you scored late in the game, is that something that you have done in your past or is that something that's relatively new to you?
SHANE STEICHEN: That's something we talked about throughout the week. Obviously, right there, we scored there with the two-point conversion.
And then, obviously, if we go get the ball back and score again, we kick the field goal and win the game. So I like the decision there by Coach to do that. It was a good decision.
Q. Hey, Shane. I'm just wondering: Just philosophically, throughout your career as an offensive mind, is it more important for you when you come up with a game plan to have a play sheet of things that you do well or specifically what your opponent does not do well? Because those two things don't always, you know, go hand and hand. So how do you differentiate?
SHANE STEICHEN: Right. No, that's a good question. I think a lot of it is what do we do well offensively, what we think, and does that fit with the defensive scheme.
I think that's the biggest thing. You put the preparation in throughout the week, We do this really well, does this fit this week? And I think you have that kind of mindset and that mentality going in each week when you're preparing for opponents.
Q. Hey, Shane. I'm sure this is something you experienced last year. When you have a young quarterback who the league hasn't seen much, especially in your offense, has games go on, as the season goes on and more film, what needs to happen with the quarterback? What needs to happen with the offense as defenses adjust to him?
SHANE STEICHEN: Yeah, I think you need to, obviously, be able to adapt. I mean, when teams are doing certain things, take certain things away, obviously, you got to through that with your weekly preparation when you're game planning.
You got to be able to adapt week in and week out to have success on Sundays offensively. Because you know teams are going to do certain things to take things away like you said. So we got to do a great job, as a coaching staff, putting our guys in positions to make great plays.
Q. Hey, Shane. You guys lost Brandon Brooks last week due to that pec strain. Does losing a guy like Brandon Brooks change the way that you guys game plan, especially to the run game? And where do you see Landon Dickerson's development right now as a right guard?
SHANE STEICHEN: Yeah, I think any time you lose a guy like Brandon Brooks -- he's been a heck of a player, he's been a heck of player for a long time. Still is a heck of player. So any time you lose a guy like that, it hurts.
But, you know, obviously it's the next man up. Right? And so Landon stepped up and I thought he did a good job. Obviously, there's things he can improve on. It was his first time playing. But excited about Landon going forward.
Q. Hey, Shane what stood out by Mailata's performance on Sunday? How did he grade out and what kind of performance can that do for him moving forward?
SHANE STEICHEN: No, I thought he had a heck of a game. Obviously, to be one-on-one with Bosa over there and do what he did against him was very impressive.
So we just need to continue to stack those on top of each other and keep doing what he's doing, keep performing, and keep getting better.
Q. Hey, Shane. We haven't seen Boston Scott the first two games on offense. Is there a chance we'll see him? Does he have a role? Is that dependent on what you guys are planning for the week? Where does he stand right now?
SHANE STEICHEN: Yeah, exactly. What it is -- he has a role, right? And if we need to use him in the games, we will, right?
Just like all those guys. Everyone has a role and when it's time to step up and make plays, I know he'll be ready to go.
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