Sourdough Sam
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Kyle Shanahan on the 4th down play call on the 49ers drive:
“I’m just trying to call the right play, when you go through a game like that, that was as cool a game as I had been a part of, a lot of emotion. I thought I was going to have to call a number of more plays to get into field goal range, but George Kittle took care of it.”
Shanahan on Jimmy Garoppolo's performance:
"He's unbelievable. No matter what happens," Shanahan said of his quarterback. "He's had a lot of good games this year. He has made some times where he’s made some mistakes. But he's the same guy every day. Just to be able to deal with that crowd noise and to deal with adversity that went in and out throughout the game, to be able to deal with me, he's the same and a lot of fun to coach."
Shanahan on George Kittle's mentality:
“When one of your best players has the mentality he has that is everything. O-linemen don’t have a choice, they have to be tough, but the mentality of your team and toughness of your offense has to do with your skill positions and I think our skill guys like Deebo Samuel, play physical. There isn’t a more physical tight end in this league on the run plays and pass plays. It’s a pretty tough mentality here.”
Shanahan on how the 49ers handled the crowd noise at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome:
“I thought we handled the noise great. It wasn’t perfect. I thought we were able to overcome it.”
QB Jimmy Garoppolo on the 4th down conversion:
“Everyone was calm. I thought we were in a good state of mind when we went out there. We just executed that’s really what it comes down to in those situations. Once he caught it and turned around and squared the guy up, I didn’t know what he was going to do. I knew the guy was in a bad situation on the other side. George (Kittle) is a beast with the ball in his hands. It’s just about getting him the ball in space and letting him go to work.”
Garoppolo on the win over the Saints:
“It’s good for our team. We win different ways every week. That’s what a good football team does. They find a way to win tough games like this, whatever it may be. I think our guys are built for anything, handling the environment; it was pretty loud out there. I thought we did well with it.”
CB Richard Sherman on Kittle's performance:
“It starts with him. He’s the best tight end in football. He’s the most physical. He’s not just catching the ball for a good play; he’s playing the game to be rude and to bully people. That play he was getting his face mask pulled. Most people would go down and complain about the face mask. Regardless of the face mask pull, he was like, ‘I’m going to bully you all the way to the end zone or until you stop me.' That’s his mindset. We’re thankful to have him because we don’t win the game without that play. Jimmy Garoppolo was clutch down the stretch. This is a big time game and he played big time. He played like the best quarterback in football today. He beat a legend… This credit goes to everybody.”
Sherman on how the 49ers handled playing in a hostile environment:
“I think everybody was poised. Everybody played well. We could have played better on defense. Offensively, they deal with the hostility more than we do. So, when you score 50 points in the (Mercedes-Benz Superdome) Dome you deserve a lot of credit.”
TE George Kittle on the 4th down conversion:
It was a choice route. It was man zone. I had a choice to go in or out, Emmanuel Sanders and Kendrick Bourne had go-routes which cleared it out for me. He was sitting inside, so it was a pretty easy decision for me to break out. Jimmy gave me the ball and just let me run with it.”
WR Emmanuel Sanders on Garoppolo's Week 14 performance:
“Jimmy is a baller. You can look at him and see what kind of player he is. He works hard. When you’ve got somebody like Jimmy with the personality that he has, in the clutch moments he’s not going to fold because of all the hard work that he’s put in.”
Sanders on his touchdown pass:
“We ran it like five times (in practice). The last time we ran it I actually threw a duck. I was like, ‘man, don’t throw a duck in the game because that will be on 'ESPN Not Top 10.' I was able to execute today. I know (Coach Kyle Shanahan) was like, ‘please do not throw a duck again.’ It felt good. It was one of those plays coming into the game that we wanted to be a touchdown. So, it feels good being up here.”