Deebo Samuel swipes at 49ers lengthy snapper’s throat after Jake Moody missed FG

Whereas San Francisco 49ers followers had been getting exasperated with kicker Jake Moody after his third missed discipline purpose towards the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, Niners vast receiver Deebo Samuel took his frustrations out on lengthy snapper Taybor Pepper, lunging at his teammate’s throat after appearing to say something to Moody.

The confrontation passed off with simply over three minutes to play within the fourth quarter after Moody missed vast proper. After being shoved, Pepper adopted Samuel down the sidelines, barking on the vast receiver and needing to be restrained by teammates.

Following Moody’s missed discipline purpose, the Bucs drove down the sector to hit their very own discipline purpose, tying the sport at 20-20 with lower than a minute to play. Nonetheless, Moody redeemed himself from the earlier misses by hitting a 44-yarder as time expired to provide San Francisco the win.

Following the win, Pepper informed reporters Samuel was merely telling Moody to “lock in.”

“He was telling him to lock in, and we all know what our job is,” Pepper mentioned. “We obtained us. It’s onerous being a specialist, generally it’s feast or famine. As a younger creating specialist like Jake is … I don’t know the way significantly better it will get than lacking three straight and having to step up and hitting an nearly 50-yard game-winner. I’m tremendous pleased with Jake.”

Samuel echoed that following the sport, telling reporters he obtained out of character within the warmth of battle and clarified that he wasn’t saying something to Pepper, however the lengthy snapper simply wished to come back over and shield Moody as a “large bro.”

“I’ll speak to Moody, and we’ll get previous it.”

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“I’ll speak to Moody and we’ll get previous it,” Samuel mentioned, later including Moody “had slightly canine in him” to go hit the game-winner.

“I wasn’t saying something like loopy to him, I used to be kinda annoyed on the time however he went on the market and gained the sport for us. He wasn’t bothered by it, so we transfer previous it,” Samuel mentioned.

Linebacker Fred Warner, a staff chief, mentioned the incident was a sign of “the fiery spirit of the staff” and it merely confirmed how badly each participant needs to win.

Niners coach Kyle Shanahan mentioned he didn’t see the shove, however declined to look too far into it, merely stating, “Brothers scuffle slightly bit,” and including that if the difficulty wasn’t addressed already, it’ll get mounted on the aircraft journey residence.

After the sport, Moody mentioned Samuel doesn’t owe him an apology and mentioned he moved previous the incident shortly.

“It’s an emotional recreation and stuff like that occurs on a regular basis. You simply transfer previous it and we gained, in order that’s all that issues,” Moody mentioned.

Moody added, “There doesn’t should be (an apology). Like I mentioned, warmth of the second. It occurs. I do obtained to make these kicks on the finish of the day, that’s all I’m centered on. I’m not apprehensive about something like that.”

Shanahan himself confirmed seen frustration on the sideline after an earlier Moody miss, however mentioned he didn’t say something to the kicker earlier than the ultimate, game-winning drive. Relating to the altercation with Samuel, Shanahan mentioned he didn’t assume the shove added any further strain on Moody.

“I don’t assume the strain of individuals getting shoved with a helmet on or one thing is way of it,” Shanahan mentioned. “You’re solely pretty much as good as your final kick, you’re solely pretty much as good as your final throw, you’re solely pretty much as good as your final recreation. It was nice observe for himself to place himself in a scenario like that and to come back via. I believe that does add confidence to guys in order that they’ve been there earlier than. However I’m pleased with how he made that on the finish.”

Moody completed the sport with three makes on six makes an attempt, whereas Samuel tallied 62 yards on 5 catches. Moody entered the sport with 13 discipline objectives on 14 makes an attempt.

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