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Two 49ers Assistant Coaches Interview for Saints Vacant OC Job

It's obvious why they're in demand -- they work under Kyle Shanahan.
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Two 49ers Assistant Coaches Interview for Saints Vacant OC Job
Two 49ers Assistant Coaches Interview for Saints Vacant OC Job

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The 49ers could lose more assistants from their coaching staff this offseason.

Both quarterbacks coach Brian Griese and passing game coordinator Klint Kubiak have interviewed for the New Orleans Saints' vacant offensive coordinator position, according to Nick Underhill. Which means the 49ers won't lose both, but one of them could be gone soon.

Griese has been the 49ers' quarterbacks coach since 2022 and has been instrumental in the development of Brock Purdy. Kubiak is in his first season as the 49ers' passing game coordinator, but he previously coached for the Broncos and the Vikings. Neither coach ever has called plays.

Still, it's obvious why they're in demand -- they work under Kyle Shanahan. And with the exception of Mike LaFleur, all of Kyle Shanahan's disciples have gone on to have success without him. We're talking Sean McVay, Matt LaFleur, Mike McDaniel and Bobby Slowik. Griese or Kubiak could be the next successful offensive coordinator Shanahan has produced.

If a team would hire 49ers defensive coordinator Steve Wilks to be head coach this offseason, I'd imagine he'd take Griese or Kubiak with him to be his offensive coordinator, but it doesn't seem Wilks will land a head coaching job despite interviewing with the Chargers and the Falcons.

Griese and Kubiak have to decide how much job security Saints head coach Dennis Allen has. Because if they join his staff and he gets fired in a year, they'll all be out of jobs.

I'm guessing the 49ers will keep Griese and Kubiak for one more year.

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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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