After the Niners escaped with a 34-31 win against the Lions, the defensive film review offered a few examples of how they fell behind by 17 points in the first place. The stunning reality was that, on multiple occasions, the 49ers defense didn't have all 11 players giving maximum effort.
'That's something that never needs to be coached,' safety Tashaun Gipson said. 'That's something that never needs to be addressed... Obviously, everybody on that film can at some point on one of those plays point themselves out and said, 'Man, I could have played with better effort on that.' ... That film was hard. You had to see that and you had to hear some choice words because that's not our brand of football. We are a lot better football team than that. It's nothing I'm worried about moving forward.'
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