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Leonard Floyd Explains Why He Signed with the 49ers

"Coach Staley, that's my guy. I've known Coach Staley since my second year in the league."

Grant Cohn

Leonard Floyd Explains Why He Signed with the 49ers
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Leonard Floyd had his first press conference as a member of the 49ers today. Here's what he said.

ME: The 49ers recently hired Brandon Staley as their assistant head coach. How well do you know him and what does he bring to the team?

FLOYD: "Coach Staley, that's my guy. I've known Coach Staley since my second year in the league. It has been a long time of knowing him. He knows what type of player I am and what I bring to the table."

Q: What about him do you like?

FLOYD: "He's one of those guys, you don't even have to pay him, he'll still show up and do his job for the game. He loves the game to death. He's a die hard guy. He rides for his players on the field, and he's all about getting you better. Anything to get you better, he'll buy into it and help you out with that."

Q: Do you prefer standing up or having your hand in the dirt, and how do you think you fit in schematically with some of the Wide 9 stuff the 49ers do?

FLOYD: "It really doesn't matter to me, as long as we sack the quarterback. Scheme-wise, I'm an athlete, so I fit any scheme. All I need from my coach is to teach me what to do and where to go, and I'll go 100 percent."

Q: How much did your past experience going up against the 49ers lead you in this direction?

FLOYD: "It led a lot, because going against cats like George Kittle, that offense is a physical bunch. I feel like if I come and get that in practice every day, I get to go against Kittle every day, it will mold for a great season this year."

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GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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