凯尔·沙纳汉、约翰·林奇讨论 49 人队的特雷·兰斯时间表

Win, lose or draw, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch will face the same question every week: When will Trey Lance start?

The 49ers selected Lance with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft with the belief that the North Dakota State product was the type of rare talent who could elevate the franchise once he developed.

Lance saw action in three of the 49ers' first four games and got a start in Week 5 when Jimmy Garoppolo was out with a calf injury. Lance suffered a knee sprain in that Week 5 game and was inactive in Week 7 as he recovered. The rookie has been active for each of the 49ers' past two games, but the rookie did not see a live snap in either contest.

So, with the 49ers at 3-5 and coming off an embarrassing loss to the Colt McCoy-led Arizona Cardinals, are we approaching the beginning of the Lance era? Not quite.

“It depends how our season goes," Shanahan said Thursday when asked if Lance would play more in the second half. "I've said the same answers with that since the beginning. So, I don't know how many different ways I can say.”

Shanahan noted that he will continue to have packages for Lance in each game, but the rookie likely won't take over as the starter until dirt has been poured on the 2021 49ers' playoff hopes.

“Because I thought his question was, ‘Is he ever going to become the guy?'" Shanahan said. "And that's how I have to see how the season goes. When he's ready, when our team's ready. Obviously, there's nothing to play for, you make that decision for a lot of guys trying to prepare guys for the next year and stuff like that."

With rookie quarterbacks Mac Jones and Justin Fields, both of whom the 49ers passed on to take Lance, playing well, Shanahan and Lynch have started to take some heat for their decision to be patient with Lance and the choice to select the quarterback who was seen as the least NFL-ready out of the five first-round prospects.

49ers legend Joe Montana said recently that he would have taken Jones. Lynch, however, has not wavered in his belief that the 49ers made the right pick with Lance and knows the 49ers have to construct the proper timeline for the Lance era to begin.

"Look, we had a plan with Trey," Lynch said on KNBR's "Tolbert, Krueger & Brooks" on Thursday. "And I can tell you this -- I've said it over and over. I'll continue to say it because it's what I believe. I'm as convicted that Trey Lance is the right guy [as ever]. It's the guy we should have taken. It's the guy we had the conviction with. And I'm even more convicted now. I just think [the in-game experience] has got to be at the right time."I think Jimmy's played pretty well here the last couple of weeks, and we're still very much in [the playoff picture], albeit from the outside looking in. We still feel like we can claw our way back, and if Trey can be a part of that, great. But you're also gauging when's the best time for him."We fully know that, at some point, you've got to throw him out there and just play him because that's how you get better. But we want it to be the right time for him, for our team. So, we're working hard to try to come up with that."

While all the focus is on the 49ers' QB situation, San Francisco has much bigger issues to worry about than the quarterback position at the moment. The defense has not played up to expectations as a patchwork secondary has struggled to cover and tackle and has been heavily penalized.

A recent report by Bally Sports' Mike Silver also suggested that Lance, who was impressive in training camp and the preseason, has regressed of late. When asked about the report, Shanahan didn't shoot it down.

“Yeah, he's gone up, he's gone down just like every player in here," Shanahan said of Lance on Thursday. "So when someone has a report that he had a really good first week of training camp, he did have a really good first week of training camp. He also had a good fourth week, a good third week. I can't remember exactly how it goes, so there's probably some accuracy to that report, which I think would be accurate with every player on our team."

At 3-5, the 49ers still are in the thick of the playoff conversation in the NFC. But the Niners haven't looked like a playoff team over the past month and need to clean a lot of things up in order to warrant being included in the postseason conversation.

But if the 49ers do turn things around this season, it appears, at least for the moment, that Lance won't be a contributing factor to what Shanahan and Lynch hope is a second-half playoff push.

凯尔·沙纳汉、约翰·林奇讨论 49 人队的特雷·兰斯时间表

无论输赢还是平局，49人队主教练凯尔·沙纳汉和总经理约翰·林奇每周都会面临同样的问题：特雷·兰斯什么时候开始？

49 人队在 2021 年 NFL 选秀中以第 3 顺位选中了兰斯，因为他们相信北达科他州立大学的产品是一种稀有的人才，一旦他发展起来，就能提升球队的实力。

兰斯参加了 49 人队前四场比赛中的三场比赛，并在第 5 周开始上场，当时吉米·加洛波罗因小腿受伤缺阵。兰斯在第 5 周的比赛中膝盖扭伤，并在第 7 周恢复后没有参加比赛。这位新秀在过去两场 49 人队的每一场比赛中都很活跃，但这位新秀在两场比赛中都没有看到现场快照。

那么，随着 49 人队以 3-5 的比分输给柯尔特·麦考伊领导的亚利桑那红雀队，我们是否正在接近兰斯时代的开始？不完全的。

“这取决于我们赛季的进展情况，”沙纳汉周四在被问及兰斯是否会在下半场打得更多时说。“我从一开始就给出了相同的答案。所以，我不知道我能说多少种不同的方式。”

沙纳汉指出，他将在每场比赛中继续为兰斯提供包裹，但在 2021 年 49 人队的季后赛希望落空之前，这位新秀可能不会接任首发。

“因为我认为他的问题是，‘他会成为那个人吗？'”沙纳汉说。“这就是我必须看看赛季如何进行的。当他准备好时，当我们的团队准备好时。显然，没有什么可玩的，你为很多试图为明年做准备的人做出了这个决定，诸如此类。”

新秀四分卫麦克琼斯和贾斯汀菲尔兹，两人都被 49 人队接替兰斯，他们打得很好，沙纳汉和林奇已经开始为他们决定对兰斯保持耐心以及选择四分卫的选择而感到紧张。作为五个首轮前景中最不适合 NFL 的人。

49人队传奇人物乔蒙大拿最近表示，他会选择琼斯。然而，林奇并没有动摇他的信念，即 49 人队与兰斯一起做出了正确的选择，并且知道 49 人队必须为兰斯时代的开始构建适当的时间表。

“看，我们和特雷有一个计划，”林奇周四在 KNBR 的“托尔伯特、克鲁格和布鲁克斯”节目中说道。 “而且我可以告诉你这一点——我已经说过一遍又一遍。我会继续说下去，因为这是我的信念。我坚信特雷·兰斯是正确的人[和以往一样]。这是“我们应该接受这个人。他是我们曾经有过信念的人。现在我更加有罪了。我只是认为[游戏中的体验]必须在正确的时间。“我认为吉米打得很好在过去的几周里，我们仍然在 [季后赛的画面] 中，尽管从外面看。我们仍然觉得我们可以挽回，如果特雷可以成为其中的一部分，那就太好了.但你也在衡量什么时候是他的最佳时机。”我们完全知道，在某个时候，你必须把他扔出去，让他踢球，因为那样你会变得更好。但我们希望它成为对他来说，对我们的团队来说是正确的时间。所以，我们正在努力努力想出这个。”

虽然所有的注意力都集中在 49 人队的四分卫情况上，但旧金山目前需要担心的问题比四分卫位置要大得多。防守没有达到预期，因为拼凑的二线一直在努力掩护和铲球，并受到了严厉的惩罚。

Bally Sports 的迈克·西尔弗 (Mike Silver) 最近的一份报告还表明，在训练营和季前赛中表现出色的兰斯 (Lance) 近来出现了倒退。当被问及这份报告时，沙纳汉没有否认。

“是的，他上升了，就像这里的每个球员一样，他下降了，”沙纳汉周四谈到兰斯时说。“所以当有人报告说他在训练营的第一周过得非常好时训练营的第一周。他也有一个不错的第四周，一个不错的第三周。我不记得具体是怎么回事了，所以那个报告可能有一定的准确性，我认为这对我们球队的每个球员都是准确的。”

在 3-5 时，49 人队仍然处于 NFC 的季后赛对话中。但是在过去的一个月里，Niners 看起来并不像一支季后赛球队，需要清理很多东西才能保证被包括在季后赛的谈话中。

但如果 49 人队本赛季真的扭转了局面，那么至少目前看来，兰斯不会成为沙纳汉和林奇希望下半场季后赛推进的一个因素。