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The 49ers Reveal the Secret to Defending Detroit Lions QB Jared Goff

Here's what Kyle Shanahan and Nick Bosa said about Goff on Wednesday.

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SANTA CLARA -- The 49ers know Jared Goff quite well.

They used to face him twice a season when he was the starting quarterback for the L.A. Rams. Now they'll face him this Sunday when they take on the Detroit Lions in the NFC Championship.

Here's what Kyle Shanahan and Nick Bosa said about Goff on Wednesday.

SHANAHAN: "I think he's showing some of the stuff that he did in Los Angeles. With Jared, from 2017 to 2018 he played at an MVP-type level. When they give him a good scheme, when he has good people around him, Jared is going to always find the spot, he's as accurate as any quarterback I've seen, he can play at a top level. If you sit and make things easy for him, he will gash you. I've seen it over and over whether it was with the Rams or with Detroit. That's why he's a challenge. You better be on your stuff or he can embarrass you fast."

BOSA: "He is the same guy. He played great in L.A. and he has played great in Detroit. But the key is obviously getting pressure on him. He has a really good offensive line, so it makes it tough, but you cover up his first couple reads and you get after him and hit him a few times and that changed things a little bit."

TRANSLATION: Goff is really good when he has time and space to throw, but he doesn't want to get hit, which means he's soft. And if you get to him a few times, he'll fold.

All the 49ers have to do is hit him.

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Grant Cohn
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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