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The Cons of what the 49ers Have Done to their Coaching Staff

There are a few cons.
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The Cons of what the 49ers Have Done to their Coaching Staff
The Cons of what the 49ers Have Done to their Coaching Staff

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The 49ers have made some big changes to their coaching staff this offseason. Here are the cons of what they've done so far.

1. Sorensen probably isn't a better play caller than Steve Wilks.

If the 49ers really felt Sorensen was an upgrade over Wilks as a player caller, they wouldn't have hired Brandon Staley to help him. Plus they could have made Sorensen the play caller before last season or even during last season at the Bye week when Wilks was initially under fire. But they didn't. They stuck with Wilks through the Super Bowl. Are we to believe the 49ers regret that decision and wish they had made Sorensen call the plays against the Chiefs? I doubt it.

2. If you have two defensive coordinators, you have none.

The 49ers hired Sorensen AND Staley because they didn't have complete confidence in either of them to do the job alone. That's an awkward marriage. Always better to hire one person to do one job if possible. And the 49ers did try to hire Steve Spagnuolo, who would have been a home-run hire. So the Sorensen-Staley combo wasn't the first choice.

3. Staley isn't even a good defensive coach.

He had lots of talent on the Chargers defense and still gave up 63 points to the Raiders and got fired after the game. He's a failure. He had one good season as the Rams defensive coordinator, and they could have hired him this offseason -- they needed a defensive coordinator, too. But they passed, which tells you something.

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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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