“Personally I was very disappointed with how I handled the ball in my first catch”, Hayne said.
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Boomers and Utah Jazz basketballer Joe Ingles tweeted he was pumped to watch Hayne and the 49ers in action.
Hayne had some issues, but he is going to continue getting playing time and it comes as Carlos Hyde could be a fantasy sleeper moving forward for Colin Kaepernick along with starters Torrey Smith, Reggie Bush, Anquan Boldin and Vernon Davis.
“You make a decision like this, you need to be wanting to do more than play a bit of football”, Hayne said. McGaughey made a point to mention how Hayne didn’t even lead the team in punt returns during an impressive preseason.
Hayne, who was drafted this year by the 49ers, formerly played rugby in Australia and eared honors at All Star, state and worldwide levels throughout his rugby career. “It’s something that’s really hard to describe because it’s such a unique situation. Him coming over and being able to pick up football and the schemes and what we’ve asked him to do in such a short period of time, it’s really been wonderful “, Kaepernick said.
Tomsula said that Hayne was eventually pulled from the game to ensure health on the roster, as the team did not want to “risk losing another back” after Bush was injured.
“It’s something I prepared for, and I was devastated with the outcome”.
“He came to the sideline and it wasn’t like everybody was harping on it. We know that’s something it’s not just because he’s a rookie, in certain instances you see veterans drop balls sometimes”, cornerback Kenneth Acker said Tuesday. I’d dictate to people about the way they line up and I’d have to read their body language with the plays we’d run as well.
Despite Hayne bouncing back and producing a solid performance with 13 rushing and seven receiving yards, with Locke’s kick causing such trouble from the outset for the 27-year-old, he will undoubtedly be wary not to make the same mistake this weekend in the 49ers first away game of the season against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday (AEST). “But I’m nowhere near ideal “.
“I think it’s going to be a real blessing in disguise”.
Of course, every step of Hayne’s American football journey is being chronicled back home.
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“We stayed up until about 1 a.m. two nights ago just talking about everything, what we’ve been through, the ups and downs, the journey”, he added. “He was executing and being himself and we didn’t back off of anything on the call sheet simply because it was Jarryd out there”.
