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San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan says he’s this training camp extra secret with the media.
Shanahan said he had not bothered in recent years to give reporters information about the 49ers’ staff or schedule if that information were to be disclosed in precision games at all. With no preseason this year, Shanahan wants to keep a tighter lid on the information coming from 49ers camp.
“That’s what all other coaches always try to study,” Shanahan told NBCSportsBayArea.com. ‘That’s why I’m usually more open with that game, because they would find out in the case [preseason] play anyways. That’s something we realize now – it’s a big difference, because we start thinking about the teams we play when you do not have depth maps that you can see for yourself. That everyone cares so much about media reports. I might not be as open as I have been in the past training camps. ‘
Shanahan expresses a sentiment similar to that of Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst, who justifies a more restrictive media policy by saying that the Packers want to limit without precision what comes out of their training camp. NFL teams become extra secret in the hope that opposition teams know nothing of what they are doing until they see it on the field in Week One.
