Kyle Shanahan has been the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers for the last 4 seasons. Shanahan almost scrapped an interview with the team while he was getting multiple requests while the offensive organizer of the Atlanta Falcons in the lead up to their Super Bowl look at the end of the 2016 season.
In an interview with Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay and Peter Schrager of the NFL Network on the Flying Coach podcast, Shanahan said he was close to canceling his scheduled interview with the 49ers.
” And I nearly canceled one even if I was so tired, and I practically canceled San Francisco,” Shanahan stated, by means of David Bonilla of 49ersWebZone. com. “The reason being– it had nothing to do with San Francisco– it was simply my whole objective in life was to be a head coach and remain a head coach. It wasnt just to turn into one and state I arrived.”
Shanahan took a look at the circumstance with the 49ers that had no clear path ahead at quarterback and a group that ranked at the bottom of the league on both sides of the ball in 2016.
” So when I took a look at San Francisco, I fidgeted since they didnt have that setup, and they had actually changed coaches three years in a row,” Shanahan said. “Their offense was ranked 31st. Their defensed was ranked 32nd. It wasnt the finest circumstance.”
Shanahan kept the interview and found arrangement from owner Jed York and president Paraag Marathe on the problems the group faced and the way they meant to resolve those shortcomings.
” My wife asked me which [team] I liked the most,” Shanahan said. “Im like, Actually, the Niners is the just one I actually feel good about, and it stunned her due to the fact that she knew how I talked the early morning prior to.”
It likewise assisted that the 49ers gave Shanahan all the conditions he wished to accept a task, that included state on who the general manager would be and contract length.

” And I practically canceled one simply since I was so tired, and I nearly canceled San Francisco,” Shanahan stated, through David Bonilla of 49ersWebZone.” So when I looked at San Francisco, I was worried because they didnt have that setup, and they had actually changed coaches three years in a row,” Shanahan stated. I liked the most,” Shanahan said.

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