Will the San Francisco 49ers exact revenge on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 58?
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00:00 organization when you were a young man, a young boy. How much did you absorb of the mentality of
00:09 those players, of the Super Bowl or bust mentality that was always with that team during that
00:14 the dynastic years? I don't know, I mean I'd like to say it was from hanging around the team but it
00:21 probably wasn't. I was just a ball boy who got that in training camp for a little bit but just
00:27 being around my dad my whole life I think definitely helped you understand the urgency of everything.
00:31 I remember going to three Super Bowls before sixth grade when we were in the AFC and he was
00:36 a coordinator and I think the closest one of those they lost by I want to say 19 or 17, first one
00:42 versus the Giants and they lost 55 to 10 versus the Niners in the last one. So I kind of got used
00:46 to that growing up just being over in the AFC and then I went to the Niners and won it and that's
00:50 what was so cool going back to Denver and then winning it that my senior year in high school
00:54 versus Green Bay. I think the first time in 13 years that the AFC had won. So just going through
01:00 that and knowing how your dad is before him, after him, all that stuff you just you get the even
01:04 though you don't realize you're learning it but those are your life experiences. You got a very
01:08 good idea of how it works and I've been fortunate enough to be in a few of these in my own and
01:12 not much different than how they were and how I remember growing up.
01:15 Hello coach, Victor Olier from Touchdown Mike 2. Before the season there was question about
01:23 how injury could affect your team and finally you will arrive at the Super Bowl with a very
01:29 healthy team. Did you change anything in the physical preparation this year compared to
01:35 previous years? You said with injuries? Yeah. We always tweak stuff. We've got a group of guys who
01:42 they look into the science and everything as well as anyone. I don't think there's anything drastic
01:46 this year. We've been doing that pretty consistent for the last five years but it's a week to week
01:51 thing. Depends how your players feel after a Sunday game. That's what they tell me on Monday,
01:55 it's what they tell me Wednesday before practice. Not every player is in the same situation too so
02:01 you adjust it for individuals but not too much different. Connor Walton has been the most
02:10 confident in the league. Each year you continue to shrink the field. No team has run more condensed
02:14 formations than the 49ers this year. At what point in your career did you start to realize the game
02:18 would be played in between the numbers and maybe even in between the hashes? Can you recall a play
02:24 that made you think the game is going towards this way? I just remember when I started and went to
02:30 Tampa Bay as a quality control and I was drawing everything in books and stuff and everything was
02:35 drawn out from wide splits, nothing was from tight splits. I always looked at everything when I first
02:40 started from a receiver standpoint just because that's what I played most of my life growing up.
02:44 It was so cool to watch how it helped people get open. How it looked one way out here,
02:49 it looked totally different in here. Some people wouldn't even bump you back then. It was like they
02:53 only could bump outside the numbers. You could get the bump off every time. You could get leverage
02:56 with people, change stuff up. I think it started that way just from seeing how you could help
03:01 people get open. Then you start to learn the run game, you start to learn how safeties fit,
03:04 how leverage is different and things like that. Then it just evolves to a lot more.
03:11 Kyle, what are some of the challenges that play calling head coaches face in game management and
03:17 how have you evolved in handling both since you became a head coach? I think since I became a head
03:24 coach, I think offensive coaches are always thinking about the time and stuff. I mean,
03:28 play callers, just being a coordinator, being able to call plays for the nine years before becoming
03:33 a head coach, I think gave me a lot of experience. You never call a play without having an idea of
03:38 what's on the clock, the down and distance, the score, all of that stuff. It's always in your
03:44 mind every time you watch football, every time you do anything. I do think though once becoming a
03:48 head coach, from game management and stuff, I mean always the clock issues are usually the same, but
03:55 how to win the game becomes a little bit different. I think when you're calling plays and paying that
03:59 sort of attention as a coordinator, it's more about how do you score? How do you get points?
04:03 How do you outscore the other team? Because you don't watch the other team's offense, you don't
04:07 have a good feel of your defense. You're not watching the game as it goes. You're just getting
04:10 ready for your series. I think becoming a head coach, you realize how to call plays, how to use
04:16 the time and stuff, not just to get points, but really just try to help you win the game.