San Francisco 49ers - 34, Jacksonville Jaguars - 3
Q. Why do you think the team wasn't ready today in anything you can put your finger on?
DOUG PEDERSON: I thought the team was ready. We failed to execute on the opening drive defensively and we failed to execute on the opening drive offensively. That's the part that is disappointing. Because these guys were ready to go. To have the lack of execution like we did early in the football game, just kind of snowballed from there.
Q. Last year against Detroit, this year against Houston you guys had similar games. Bounced back played your best football both seasons. Why were you able to do that and do you think that's in 'em to do this now?
DOUG PEDERSON: You know, I don't know. We obviously got to look at ourselves in the MRI or and figure some things out. Especially here at home. Three of four games not very good. I guess the beauty of everything is we still sit in the driver's seat. We're 6-3 and still a lot football ahead and great opportunity. This was definitely a humbling experience today.
Q. Offensively, do you think it was a matter of Trevor rushing things, the protection not being there, was there anything you could really pinpoint as to why it never got into that flow on offense?
DOUG PEDERSON: Yeah, possibly just maybe speeding some things up in his mind. Obviously when we failed to execute even around him, right, there's problems there on plays that we should know. We run 'em all the time. You can't put yourself in the third downs like we did and/or turn the ball over like we did and expect to do anything with it. You put the defense in a bind, you put special teams in a bind, and that's, again, that's the disappointing part.
Q. Then just a quick health update if I could just on Agnew and then Tyson?
DOUG PEDERSON: Yeah, I talked to Ferg, we're going to get further testing in the morning and see where they're at. So hopefully we have a better answer for you tomorrow.
Q. You touched on San Francisco being ready out of the box. How much of that do you discount in terms of your performance in terms of they had lost three in a row, they had been itching to get back on the field and show that they were the Super Bowl contenders, blah, blah, blah?
DOUG PEDERSON: Yeah, I mean, there's probably something to that. Obviously we had some momentum as well and it was disappointing to play like we did. But I'm sure for them I'm sure the message was pretty simple: We have to play better, on their side, I'm assuming. And they did. They played an outstanding football and they got after us today and we got to look at this film and make corrections.
Q. If the word was right, that that was a desperate football team, do you want your team to react with a sense of desperation this week and do you think that helps a team get sharp for a game like that?
DOUG PEDERSON: I'm not -- I don't think they're a desperate football team, don't get me wrong, they're not. That's a good football team. So I don't think it's desperation. They know what they're doing, right, and they did it well today. For us, we're still trying to get there. I told the team again, we haven't done anything here. We're trying to be like that. We're trying to have that consistency and to me this will be in some ways good for our players. A little bit of a wake up call, quite honestly. Myself included, coaches, players, we all have to, what are we willing to give up these next eight games so we don't do this again, right. I think our players will rebound, they always have. Look forward to next week.
Q. Some of the stuff you talked about today red zone turnovers and some other issues have sort of been around all year. Is there a feeling of why can't we get this fixed it should be fixed by this point?
DOUG PEDERSON: You know, yeah, it's obviously turnovers can't happen, they just flat out can't happen. And we gave 'em what, three of 'em today. You just can't.
Q. Four.
DOUG PEDERSON: Was it four?
Q. Two interceptions.
DOUG PEDERSON: That's right. Two interceptions. You can't do that. You just can't do that. It's a matter of whoever has the football, take care of the football. That's your job. Bring it back to the huddle, let us play another down. We continue to stress it, our players continue to stress it. Until we, you know, until we figure that out, it's going to be, it's long, you just can't do that. Again, if you want to be a playoff team, you got to take care of the football.
Q. You kind of alluded to it a little bit there both with that answer and of the home game situation. You had two real statement games as far as the national perspective goes at home here against Kansas City and today. You haven't scored a touchdown in either of them. Is the offense maybe sort of gripping the club a little bit too tight, trying to swing too hard, trying too hard to make a play instead of taking what's there? I look at Christian Kirk fighting for that extra yard. Trevor firing a fast ball to Frank?
DOUG PEDERSON: I don't think he was fighting. I think he was held up and the ball got punched out. I don't think it was him fighting for extra yards. But those are plays that, yeah, we want to hang on to the football.
You know, sometimes you're asking questions that are really hard to answer because the team's ready to go, they have a good week of preparation, why we go out like that. I mean, nobody wants to go out and coach that way, nobody want to go out and play that way, nobody wants to go out and lose that way. We have way too much pride. These are great opportunities for me to coach this football team and to lead this football team and to instruct this football team. Until -- and we've got some young guys that are learning this for the first time. Kind of going through a little adversity. Again, we're trying to put ourselves in positions to be a better football team in the AFC and sometimes it looks brilliant and then there's days like today not so good. Those are the things that each person has to look at themselves and say, what am I, am I studying enough. As coaches, are we putting our players in better positions to be successful. Are the players doing what they need to do, coaches doing what they need to do. So it's a group effort. There's enough stuff to go around. I don't want to call it blame, but, you know, it's everybody doing their job. I know this football team and I know they will come back Wednesday when we get ready for Tennessee and they will be focused and ready to go.
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