Allen suffered a sprained left knee

San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh spoke with reporters after practice on Thursday as the team prepares to play the Los Angeles Rams. Here is everything he had to say. Transcript provided by the San Francisco 49ers Communications staff. As far as CB Brian Allen against the Dolphins, given his lack of experience, was there a way to give him more help in hindsight? Were there things that you could have done with the safeties to possibly prevent some of those early, deeper passes against him? "Obviously, with every situation, you learn a lot. Absolutely, there could have been more. I know that we had a certain game plan going in throughout the entire course of the week and we still thought we, after that

Steve Young dished out words of praise about San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan's game plan on Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams. The 49ers won the game 24-16, but it was the play-calling early in the first quarter that left the Hall of Fame quarterback turned ESPN analyst in awe. "I was in awe of Kyle through the first quarter," Young said on the Tolbert, Krueger & Brooks show. "Is there anyone better — no one better today — but maybe like all-time that can roll into a game, even a big game, and you know that first drive is something that …" Young stopped his thought there and went into a story of visiting the 49ers locker room last season during another big game, also against the Rams, and watching Shanahan run his