“Injuries for the game. [DL] James Thompson [Jr.] will be out. [DL Nick] Bosa, out. [FB Kyle Juszczyk] Juice will be out. [S Marques] Sigle, out. [CB Upton] Stout, questionable. [DL] Mykel Williams, questionable. Go ahead.”

“No, he didn’t.”

“No.”

“Yes.”

“Yeah, lost weight in a good way. I don’t know if he lost weight, but he’s leaner. He’s had a good two weeks. He was good last week and this week’s been even better. Ready to get him back out there on the field.”

“When he’s out there, he’ll be full-go. We rotate our guys and we understand it’s his first game, but we’ve got to see how it goes.”

“I feel really good. I think the guys worked hard all week. I think we’ve had a good week in all three phases. I like to get better each day and I feel like we have. We’ll enjoy our Friday afternoon and do a little walk-through tomorrow morning and then get to Seattle.”

“It’s just as bad as it gets. It’s as loud of a place as you can go. Always a huge challenge when you get there. Doing it Wednesday, it was a reminder. It was the first time doing it in 300 days or something. We’ve only been on the road once and Australia didn’t count for that, for noise and stuff like that. So, it was a challenge. Worked on it all week and it gets better as the week goes. Thought it was really good today and expect it to be even better on Sunday.”

“Because just how rules go. When you have 11 guys out there, just how people block, receivers are usually going to have to dig out corners and safeties when they’re coming down in an eight-man front. Your O-Line and tight ends are accounting for linebackers and defensive linemen and how they play. Not having to point out 11 guys and who blocks who. It’s just how you target things. When you’re not ready for it and all of a sudden a DB is a linebacker and then all of a sudden a DB is a D-End, you can get a lot of guys in the wrong hats. It’s not an issue when you know they do it all because you prepare for it and you know how to target it all, but it definitely makes you work at it.”

“I think it’s getting there. I don’t think it’s the best we can be yet. I think it started out really well. I think the guys’ effort has been great. I think it’s always harder when you’re missing some of our bigger guys, even like as far as [WR] Mike [Evans] having to play with broken ribs and things like that so you always can’t be like at quite your best. But, the effort’s been there, which I think has made us do it really well. And if we keep it like that, I think we’ll get really good as this year goes.”

“I do sometimes. I think it’s a big analytics thing that says you should do it, which I understand why, but like all analytics, I don’t think anything in football is absolute. Only in blackjack when you play over a long period of time. But, it makes sense. You can go for two so you have a chance at the end of the game to kick a field goal and win it. If you don’t get the two, then you’ve got to go for it at two to tie it at the end. So, I do understand why analytics says to do it. I just don’t think it’s an absolute. You better feel really good about how you’re playing at the time. Two-point conversions aren’t easy, even if you get two tries at them. You can get both just as easily as you cannot get either and lose the game. So, you better feel good about the plays, the call you have, the defense you’re going against and just the flow of the game.”

“I think the adjustments are more about just where you go in your game plan. I think we put in a pretty big game plan. That’s why we don’t run all the plays. They’re in there so you have contingencies and things like that. As you talk throughout the week, ‘Hey, we really like this. If it plays out this way, what happens? If they do this, oh, we better have these few plays in there.’ We might not rep a ton of them in the week because we don’t think they’re going to do it, but at least we know if they’re a part of the game plan, the players are reviewing them and it’s in their minds so you just don’t have to draw it up on the sidelines or at halftime. Every once in a while you’ll do a new thing if you’ve seen something that’s just totally different and you can make an adjustment on the fly, but the goal is to have all the ammo in your game plan so you never run out of bullets and you can always keep adjusting with what you see.”

“We were going to Pro Days looking at quarterbacks and we were down there looking at [Kansas City Chiefs QB Justin] Fields. I just remember that it was a long workout and there was a freshman running all over the place. I just ended up asking [general manager and president of football operations] John [Lynch] halfway through the end, I was just like, ‘Who the hell is that kid?’ And they’re like, ‘Oh, it’s some freshman.’ Then we got his name and I had forgot the name at the time, like I usually do. But then a few years later, when we were getting ready to watch him in the draft, John was like, ‘That was that kid that you were asking about who was catching balls for Fields all day.’ He was just running around everywhere, catching everything and that was extremely impressive.”