{"id":577665,"date":"2026-04-11T09:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577665\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:23:11","slug":"nfls-roger-goodell-hits-back-at-49ers-head-coach-over-australia-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577665\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL’s Roger Goodell hits back at 49ers head coach over Australia trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the complaints that 49ers<\/a> head coach Kyle Shanahan made about playing in Australia during a media conference on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Niners are scheduled to\u00a0take on the Rams in Melbourne for a Week 1 matchup this season, and Shanahan has not been shy about how he feels about this season opener in the land down under. During the owners meetings late last month, he told reporters<\/a> about the international matchup:\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t see any pro. It\u2019s cool for the league to play globally. I think that\u2019s awesome. But as far as the team doing it, no, there\u2019s not much benefit to it.\u201d On a TV show appearance a day later, he said it was \u201ca fact<\/a>\u201d that the Rams lobbied for that game to avoid San Francisco fans taking over SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said it yesterday: Coaches have a focus on winning,\u201d Goodell said, after beginning with a laugh. \u201cThat\u2019s their No. 1 job. Coach Shanahan is enthusiastic and a great football coach but also someone who truly understands the importance of expanding our game globally. But his job is to win. His job is to play. I always say coaches like to play at 1 o\u2019clock, and 4 o\u2019clock, and don\u2019t get in the way of that. So we\u2019re going to make it a great experience for the team. That\u2019s one of the things we focus on \u2014 everybody here, and so many others have focused on \u2014 make it a great experience for everyone, the team included.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they go back, they gotta make sure that they\u2019re able to continue their competitiveness because this game is real. This counts. And they\u2019ll go on to Week 2 as soon as they leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

When another reporter asked if the commissioner had any advice for the\u00a0Niners coach on how to beat the jet lag, Goodell quipped that he\u2019s got an app he uses to help him. \u201cI have not felt any jet lag at all,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been here since Tuesday morning, and I thought it was a relatively easy trip.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putting aside the fact that calling a flight of at least 15 hours \u201ceasy\u201d is quite the take \u2014 perhaps aided by the travel accommodations his job pays for \u2014 it\u2019s hard to imagine this will do anything to assuage Shanahan\u2019s concerns about his first matchup of the season. But who knows, maybe the app will help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the complaints that 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan made about playing in Australia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,13472,99],"class_list":["post-577665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sfgsports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}