San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said Saturday he is nearly fully recovered from the car crash that has limited him this summer and is ready to coach the team's first exhibition game on Thursday night. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.
Shanahan has been working his way back to full speed since the car crash on July 14 that left him with a concussion, broken ribs, a broken nose, a broken hand and more than 40 stitches to close a cut over his eye. In his first news conference of training camp, he said he has just a few remaining symptoms from the concussion.
"I'm doing real good," he said. "My body feels good. Just got to get this annoying cast off. My ribs feel good, except when I sneeze, and my head feels so much better. Concussions do linger a little bit. The only things I really deal with now is just headaches and fatigue. That's why I'm not always exactly on the same routine, but pretty damn close."
Shanahan has been at practice every day this summer and said that the loud music that bothered him at the beginning of camp is no longer an issue. He has only addressed the full team at meetings a few times and didn't feel ready to hold a news conference until after practice on Saturday.
But he said he has been doing the most important parts of his job and that he will be on the sideline for the exhibition opener against Tennessee.
"One thing I haven't missed anything of is film," he said. "I watched everything."