49ers’ Kyle Shanahan Upset by Santa Clara’s Handling of COVID-19 Restrictions
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Santa Clara County, house to the San Francisco 49ers and Levi’s Stadium, launched at a press conference Saturday while the Niners maintain been traveling to Los Angeles to play the Rams that it used to be suspending all contact sports actions for the next three weeks, per Slash Wagoner of ESPN.
That left the 49ers with out a house for that time length. Head coach Kyle Shanahan knowledgeable newshounds Sunday that he used to be extremely sad with how the county handled the announcement:
Chris Alvarez @CAlvarezABC7
#49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan addressed the subject of Santa Clara County banning sports actions over the next few weeks. At this point, no answer on what’s next for the crew, nonetheless he’s glad with his crew for how they’ve handled wretchedness. #ABC7Now #FTTB https://t.co/ZO29aHt3JB
“For us to be heading out here the previous day and the relationship now we maintain with them and for our gamers and coaches and every person on that plane and our wives to web that out while we’re getting on a plane and no person to point out us, it used to be lawful extremely disappointing…
“I catch it: They made that call, and now we maintain got to tackle it, nonetheless to web that out by a tweet or a press conference, where I truly maintain a full plane developing to me, I truly maintain all wives, every person’s girlfriends, every person’s family, kids, asserting they heard we is liable to be long gone for the total month of December? Are we going to be quarantined for 14 days after we catch abet? That’s all we could possibly well well focus on for the closing 18 hours because we got no answers from them. I used to be lawful very upset.”
Matt Barrows @mattbarrows
For clarification:
The 49ers maintain had a prolonged-simmering pork w/ the City of Santa Clara.
The County of Santa Clara, alternatively, complications the COVID directives. The 49ers maintain a first price relationship w/ the county.
Scratch that: The 49ers *hada first price relationship w/ the county. https://t.co/qDFt1QuTc1
Matt Maiocco @MaioccoNBCS
The #49ers truly feel as in the event that they worked with Santa Clara Cty in ideal faith and they’ve been committed to going above and past NFL COVID-19 protocols, Kyle Shanahan mentioned. They truly feel blindsided. Also, they’re leaving their routines here in Bay Dwelling and going someplace with recent dangers.
Despite the unexpected distraction, the Niners beat the Rams on Sunday, 23-20, transferring to 5-6 on the season.
The Niners maintain scheduled house games on Dec. 7 vs. the Buffalo Payments, Dec. 13 vs. the Washington Football Crew and Jan. 3 vs. the Seattle Seahawks. It’s unclear where the games against the Payments and Washington will be performed.
Wagoner successfully-known that “the crew and the NFL had been working by doable contingencies as a ways abet because the preseason” and that “two of the alternatives discussed then—Texas and Arizona—live stable candidates to host Niners ‘house’ games, as neither the Dallas Cowboys nor the Cardinals maintain day-of-game time desk conflicts with the 49ers’ last contests.”
So the Niners maintain backup alternatives in place. But Shanahan and the Niners clearly felt blindsided by the personality of Santa Clara’s announcement and decrease than enthused about potentially spending the next three weeks, as a minimal, in a brand recent place.