The practice reports for both the San Francisco 49ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are out. There are no big surprises on either report. We reported on Tuesday that both Joe Staley and Joe Nedney would be out, actually it's interesting that Nedney is not listed as out but I am sure he will make it there by the end of the week. The 49ers signed Shane Andrus to fill in for Nedney this week. Andrus, was with the 49ers at the end of last year and all the way through the preseason before being cut.
The transcripts for both Mike Johnson and Greg Manusky are after the jump. Johnson talked today about how the offensive game plan is designed and who is involved. It appears that all of the offensive assistants have a different role and are an intrical part of the plan. One name that was not mentioned was head coach Mike Singletary and that is certainly good to hear that he is not involved in the game plan on the offensive side of the ball. Let's just hope that what Johnson said was true.
On how much he leans on the offensive position coaches to formulate his game plan:“We all work together, and yes, I do lean on those guys a lot. We have different areas that we have strengths in and I utilize those guys in the areas where they’re strong and allow them to bring things to the table that help our offense. You look at [offensive line coach] Mike Solari, he’s great with run game protections. You ask [running backs coach] Tom Rathman, Tom Rathman is a blitz guru. He’s a guy that is going to know every blitz that the opposing team is going to do that week. And you have [tight ends coach] Pete Hoener, whose a short-yardage goal line guru. So then you use [wide receivers/special assistant coach] Jerry Sullivan in coverages and different things in the secondary, and then we use [quarterbacks coach] Jason Michael in the red zone. So we have all areas that we work in individually and then when we come together on those certain days, we put the entire thing together and then I make the final decision as to how we want to implement it.”
On whether having multiple inputs is why the game plan looks more diverse than before:“I don’t know that, but I know how I want to do it, and I’m not going to sit here and say how we did it before or say that was wrong. But I always knew if I ever became a coordinator that I wanted to have input from everybody because a lot of times when you do it that way you get some things that you haven’t thought about. And you don’t always have to agree with everything that is brought up, but you definitely want to encourage the staff to bring those things to the table because every week there’s four or five things that the other coaches bring that we add to the game plan that makes a lot of sense.”
Tampa Bay
Did Not Participate: LB Quincy Black (ankle), DE Kyle Moore (shoulder)
Limited Participation: DT Ryan Sims (knee)
Full Participation: TE Kellen Winslow (knee), WR Sammie Stroughter (foot), RB Earnest Graham (hamstring), T Jeremy Trueblood (knee)
San Francisco
Out: T Joe Staley (fibula)
Did Not Participate: K Joe Nedney (knee)
Limited Participation: CB William James (concussion)
Full Participation: CB Nate Clements (quad), RB Frank Gore (foot), G Adam Snyder (shoulder)
