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Taking Stock of the 49ers Coaching Staff

Is it getting better or worse?
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Taking Stock of the 49ers Coaching Staff
Taking Stock of the 49ers Coaching Staff

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Is the 49ers coaching staff getting better or worse?

Let's take stock?

Kyle Shanahan

If the 49ers had won the Super Bowl this season, lots of people would have said that they were one of the best teams of all time and that Shanahan is one of the greatest coaches ever. Halfway through the season, people already were comparing the team to the 1994 49ers that won the Super Bowl and asking whether the 2023 49ers were even better. Then they lost the Super Bowl after leading by 10 points. Which begs the question, if Shanahan can't win a Super Bowl with a team that could have been in the running for the greatest team ever, will he ever win a Super Bowl? Or is he incapable of winning the biggest game. Right now, he seems incapable.

Stock down.

Defensive Coordinator

It's Sunday, Feb. 25, and the 49ers still don't have one, which is kind of amazing. There's lots of speculation that the 49ers will promote someone internally, in which case, why the wait? It's hard to imagine the next defensive coordinator will be better than Wilks, but maybe the players will buy in and play hard, which would be a big change from last season.

Stock up?

Brian Schneider

He's the special teams coordinator, and the special teams were awful in the Super Bowl. First, Jake Moody missed another kick under pressure, this time a critical extra point. Remember, Schneider said he worked out Moody before the draft and determined the young kicker is outstanding under pressure. Whoops. Next, Schneider apparently didn't emphasize strongly enough to punt returner Ray Ray McCloud that he should fall on a loose ball rather than try to scoop it and run with it, and this error cost the 49ers seven points in the Super Bowl. The 49ers need a new special teams coordinator.

Stock down.

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Grant Cohn
GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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