



The Deebo Samuel sideline scuffle has been put to bed.
“I talked to a number of guys on the team, we squashed it and now we’re good,” 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said Monday, the day after Samuel had some words for placekicker Jake Moody after his third missed field goal and ended up taking a swipe at long snapper Taybor Pepper.
The incident occurred after Samuel said something to Moody, with Pepper stepping in to defend his kicker. Samuel ended up taking a small swing at Pepper and all parties appeared to have put the incident behind them following a 23-20 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The 49ers won when Moody connected on a 44-yard field goal at the gun after the three previous misses.
In the postgame press conference, Shanahan hadn’t seen the exchange and didn’t discuss it with the team on site. That changed once the 49ers got home.
“After the game I didn’t think it was too big of a deal,” Shanahan said. “But after getting home and seeing it on SportsCenter and all that I wanted to make sure I did talk to the guys about it.”
Shanahan said he didn’t think the incident rose to the level of an in-house fine.
“I fine people for breaking rules,” Shanahan said. “This is just people being football players and dealing with stuff on the sidelines and I didn’t really chalk that up to a big deal at all.”
Shanahan’s version of the events corroborated Samuel’s postgame assertion that he “hadn’t said anything crazy.” Samuel said he was urging Moody to “lock in” after his third missed field goal.