Q: When you had that confrontation with Vernon Davis, can you talk a little bit about what that was?
Nolan: "I have not spoken with Vernon since yesterday and I'd look for him to-"
Q: Did you talk to him on the sideline?
Nolan: "I did not talk to him on the sideline with the game going on. He's very emotional. He was excited at the time. I really don't know what transpired at the time, but he was right there in front of me and was really excited about whatever was going on so I pulled him aside. Because any player that's in that kind of mode, I don't think is best to stay on the field. At that time, I just called him off. Obviously I grabbed him. I said, 'Look, sit down. Sit down and calm down.' I turned my attention back to the game because we were on the field. But I have not had words with him since. But I will."
Q: Do you plan to?
Nolan: "Oh yeah. But I haven't gotten-I just want to see what-To be honest with you, I don't understand why he was so excited at the time. He just caught the ball. He had gotten up. I don't know if it was a play prior to that one, but I just know that he had a lot of emotion going on. He is an emotional player. I know that Pete Hoener has always spoken with him. Mike Martz spoke with him on the sideline. Like I said, it was more emotion than anything else."
Q: Did he get back in the game?
Nolan: "Yeah, he got back in the game. He did, but he didn't do anything. At the time I pulled him, it was about emotion, it wasn't about, he had said something or done something. Why I grabbed him, he was emotional."
Q: Do you sense a growing level of frustration with him?
Nolan: "I don't know if I'd call it frustration. He's a very emotional player. When he gets the ball, obviously every time he gets up, whether it's the first quarter or the fourth quarter, he's very excited and shows himself, but when you are losing I think anybody gets frustrated. When the game is like it was, I don't care what position you play. It was a little bit of frustration because you want to have leverage in a game. We didn't have leverage."
Q: How was his blocking, Vernon's blocking?
Nolan: "His pass protection was good. His run blocking a couple times, they slipped him. So is the case."
Q: Did you have to keep him in at some point because of the protection problems
Nolan: "Like I said, we mix up our protections quite a bit. So whether it's a six man protection or seven man protection without getting real technical with that, he's stays in on some of those and some of those he's out. It's just a matter of mixing up protections for the play. If you have a play-action pass, a lot of times you don't have a lot of receivers out on a play-action pass. Again, it's just a matter of mixing."
Q: So you're not contemplating any changes?
Nolan: "We've talked about some different things, but kind of what you said, we're kind of limited in what you can."