On preparing for the game against the 49ers: "Today has been spent grading the film. I've spent the

On preparing for the game against the 49ers: "Today has been spent grading the film. I've spent the morning with the coaching staffs watching the Denver game and grading that film and I'm preparing for a team meeting and then we're going to watch the film with the players and get on the field and correct some mistakes and move around a little bit. Tonight I'll begin my personal preparation for San Francisco. We've had assistant coaches breaking down their film obviously, that's the normal routine, but I haven't begun to do that yet. (Not) until tonight."
On how his emotions are going back to San Francisco: "We're going to have to wait and see until I get there because I don't know. This will be my first time visiting back there. We'll leave on Friday and practice in the stadium on Saturday. It's our first trip going on a Friday. Back in San Francisco, many of your trips are Fridays where you take off and practice in the stadium the next day because of the distance of travel, but this is our first time doing that. I anticipate a heck of a week of practice in preparation and I anticipate us improving and taking another step. I thought we took a couple of steps forward against Denver and we need to do the same this week."
On whether he has seen San Francisco play at all: "I've seen highlights. I've seen their clips here and there. I saw some of the game this past weekend, it was on the television before we played. As far as film study, I haven't done that quite yet."
On if he will help out his defensive coaches by knowing the San Francisco offense so well: "Sure, if there is anything that I can add that helps them in their preparation in terms of personnel and scheme certainly, I'll do that. I will do that for this game and other offenses that I am familiar with on occasion but certainly in this game I will do that."
On not expressing too much emotion going back to San Francisco: "It's a little early in the week because we are still wrapping up the Denver game. I think it goes without saying that this is a big game for us. We know that the Niners are better than a 1-3 team. They are a couple of plays away from being 3-1, we all know that. They are a talented team and so we know what kind of game it is going to be. You've heard the old clich & eacute;, don't peak too soon, and so we have to take care of business. We have to finish this game off and there is a lot to learn from the Denver game and so that's the first order of business today. I have to keep that in mind and then later, starting tonight, we will get very busy and as the game nears we will get very ready and up for it. It's an important game for us because we need to find a way to win on the road. It's an NFC opponent. We have a bye the next week so really this is all we need to think about and lay it on the line and leave it on the field and then we can take a little bit of a deep breathe and then have our bye week. This will be an all out play-your-best type game and we are looking forward to it.
"This is like a reunion weekend. We have Mike Holmgren going back to Green Bay, Tony Dungy going back to Tampa Bay, Emmitt Smith playing the Cowboys. You have all this mix and match and really when you think about it this is the sign of the times. We, as coaches and players, to stay with one team for fifteen years and retire is a dinosaur. That's not going to happen very often. People are going to be changing teams for whatever reasons and so on every team you have coaches that have been elsewhere and players who have been elsewhere and these sorts of reunion games are going to occur constantly. This just happens to be all in one weekend, I guess."
On if it's like a player going back to his previous team: "It sure is, absolutely. Drew Bledsoe or Jerry Rice playing against their old teams - it just happens now much more often than it used to and it's always a neat story. It's very common that teams will have players, coaches and front office people coming back. It's going to be very commonplace."
On if he is keeping his emotions bottled up about returning to San Francisco: "I haven't gone through this before so we will see. We will take it one day at a time. Today, this is it. Tommorow I avoid all of you guys and then Wednesday we practice. I am going to keep things in perspective. We have a game to prepare for. This is not necessarily about me. This is about our football team going back there and playing a big game against their football team and that's how I am going to approach this thing."
"T.O. and I had a meeting today. It was private, we visited. He understands where I'm coming from," Erickson said. "I wasn't happy about what happened...It will not be tolerated any longer."
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49ers Coach Dennis Erickson called Terrell Owens into his office Monday and warned him against any more sideline outbursts.
``It will no longer be tolerated, basically,'' Erickson said at his weekly news conference.
Erickson said no disciplinary action was planned. However, the coach added that Owens should consider this a warning.
``He understands where I'm coming from,'' Erickson said.
As it turns out, Owens' anger was misdirected. Erickson said he -- not Knapp -- made the call to run the ball.
``We'd done it before and had been successful,'' Erickson said. ``It was a play we had practiced. They were in a short-yardage defense. Yeah, he was one-on-one, but we were going to run the football.''
The coach added that quarterback Jeff Garcia was forbidden from changing the call at the line of scrimmage because the din of the Metrodome raised the risk of a miscommunication.
In the sit-down Monday, Erickson said he also addressed some of Owens' postgame remarks in which he had been critical of teammates. But he said any other details of his conversation with Owens were private.
Owens ripped the play of the 49ers' banged-up offensive line the previous weekend after a loss to Cleveland, and declared the team had ``no heart'' after the drubbing by the Vikings.
He's a young coach who lost his temper,'' Coach Dennis Erickson said after he met with Maxie to discuss the matter. ``It's part of life. It happens. He knows he made a mistake, and I don't think you'll see that happen again.''
Rumph said Maxie was upset with him for misplaying a zone coverage, which allowed the Vikings to complete a pass to running back Moe Williams in the flat. Rumph, in his second season, also was beaten for a touchdown by Nate Burleson at the end of the drive.