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Brian Griese is More Enthuastic About Brandon Allen than Joshua Dobbs

This might surprise you.

Grant Cohn

September 18, 2022; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterbacks coach Brian Griese before the game against the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
September 18, 2022; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterbacks coach Brian Griese before the game against the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports / Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
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SANTA CLARA -- Brian Griese was asked this week to assess the 49ers two backup quarterbacks -- Joshua Dobbs and Brandon Allen. Here's what Griese said. His answers might suprise you.

Q: What does Joshua Dobbs bring to this team?

GRIESE: "Josh has played a lot of football. And he has been in some really unique situations in the last couple years where he was put under duress both physicall and mentally. He was able to go out and play winning football for those organizations. And so that piques your interest to know there's a guy like that who can handle it mentally, that physically can play the position and is able to garner support quickly from the locker room and gain their respect and go win games in a short amount of time like that. A veteran guy that we know can play who has come in and fit in well."

Q: What do you see from Brandon Allen now that you've coached him for a year?

GRIESE: "Brandon is a vet that we think very highly of. He has the experience of being in the league and being in that role as a backup for Joe Burrow for a number of years. I thnk Brandon is a smart vet who understands our offense, who is a great counsel for Brock -- those two get along very well -- and I think that Brandon has a lot of talent to throw the football. Knows our offense, can anticipate, get guys lined up in the right spots and make those throws. We're excited about Brandon."

Q: Do you view that as a competition between him and Dobbs?

GRIESE: "I hope everybody thinks of it as a competition."

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Grant Cohn

GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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