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Why 49ers HC Kyle Shanahan Still has Confidence in Jake Moody

Moody missed three field goals this past Sunday during the 49ers' 23-20 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Grant Cohn

Nov 10, 2024; Tampa, Florida, USA; San Francisco 49ers place kicker Jake Moody (4) reacts after he misses a field goal against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the second half at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images
Nov 10, 2024; Tampa, Florida, USA; San Francisco 49ers place kicker Jake Moody (4) reacts after he misses a field goal against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the second half at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images / Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images
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SANTA CLARA -- Kyle Shanahan still believes in Jake Moody.

Moody missed three field goals this past Sunday during the 49ers' 23-20 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He nearly cost the 49ers the game. But on the final play of the game, despite missing three field goals in a row, he made the game-winner. Which means technically, he was the hero.

"No one has a perfect game, ever, that I've seen," said 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan. "I mean kickers, I guess, can because you're just judged on your attempts. But I mean just most football players, there are so many highs and lows that go in a game. Sometimes it could be in front of everybody, which usually is a quarterback or a missed tackle, a corner getting beat on something, a receiver dropping a ball, a penalty. But all that stuff's going to happen. It's about wiping it out and going to the next play, good or bad. I've had so many guys have such a good, I've been around guys who, it's the opposite too. You’re unbelievable for three quarters, you do all this good stuff, you're feeling good, great about yourself and then you don't look the ball in and then you drop it on a crucial play in the fourth. And that's all anyone remembers and that's all the team remembers, because that's one that looks like it costs the game. So everything is about not being too high or too low and just staying even keel and worrying about whatever happened once you get in the locker room and watch the tape.”

Despite having the worst game of his life, Moody managed to find the confidence and focus to make the kick that mattered.

Of course, if he keeps missing kicks, the 49ers will have no choice but to replace him. But for now, his story has a happy ending.

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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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