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Shanahan: We’ve got two safeties back there as good as anyone doing it

The 49ers battled an up-and-coming Eagles team that was exceptionally competitive Sunday. Philadelphia head coach Nick Sirianni targeted the secondary deep several times.

Head coach Kyle Shanahan responded to the play of the secondary below.

What were your impressions of the secondary and just your takeaways from their ability to stop some of those deep passes that the Eagles were trying?

“I thought they did a real good job, especially our safeties down the field. We were playing a lot of two-shell defense, trying to deal with some of the stuff with the threat of their running quarterback.