Everyone likely knows the story that surrounded San Francisco 49ers receiver Marquise Goodwin over the weekend. His family suffering from great loss, Goodwin managed to play well despite that and aid Kyle Shanahan and company to the team's first win of the season.
Marquise Goodwin facing such adversity isn't lost on head coach Kyle Shanahan.
“I know Marquise was hurting bad, real bad, and he will for a while and I know his wife will, too,” Shanahan said, via Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com. “I don’t know how sure he was right away. I think he was up alone throughout the night and then he got here.
“By the time I was able to talk to Marquise he was hurting but he was adamant he wanted to play, and that’s something as a coach you respect. You don’t want someone just to tell that to you because that’s what you want to hear as a coach. You want someone to tell it to you because they mean it. And you could tell ‘Quise meant it.”
“For a guy to go through that, to have those emotions, to go the whole night before not sleeping very much and then to come out there and have some very pivotal plays in that game and make a huge difference, it says a lot about the guy,” Shanahan said. “And regardless of whether he played good or bad, the fact that he was out there and tried his hardest and tried to help us was the most important [thing].”
Does someone have a tissue? This is just too much in the emotion department.
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