Report: 49ers will offer head coaching job to Kyle Shanahan

Posted by Zac Jackson on January 17, 2017, 6:00 PM EST
AP

The 49ers will offer Falcons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan their head coaching job as soon as they’re allowed to, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported

The Falcons host the Packers in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday. Shanahan interviewed with the 49ers earlier this month in the window such interviews with coaches from playoff teams are allowed.

Schefter’s report said the 49ers are “willing to wait” for Shanahan. Theirs is the only head coaching job that remains unfilled, and when Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels removed his name from consideration for the job Monday, Shanahan became the presumptive favorite

By rule, the 49ers can meet with Shanahan next week even if the Falcons win Sunday and advance to the Super Bowl. Both Albert Breer of MMQB.com and Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reported that the 49ers will have Shanahan meet with potential general manager candidates at that time. The 49ers fired both GM Trent Baalke and head coach Chip Kelly at the end of the 2016 season.

Shanahan is in his second year as offensive coordinator with the Falcons. He previously held the same role in Washington, Houston and Cleveland.

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  5. Don’t do it!
    Compare the front offices Between them and Atlanta. Compare the rosters.

    Wait another year for a better vacancy

  6. Hope it goes well Shanahan. I wouldn’t buy any hard to sell property there though, you probably only have 3 years considering SF ownership.

  8. “By Rule”…. Why not make the rule that no team can hire a new head coach until after the Superbowl? We’d have the same thing as free agency but at least the best coaches will not be disadvantaged by being in the playoffs. This is just a silly, antiquated “rule” that needs to be revoked or reworked.

  9. good move for once for the 29ers.they finally figured out what so many of us already knew…the “chipsters” offense will NOT work in the nfl!!!!!

  11. craven245 says:
    Jan 17, 2017 6:10 PM

    Hope it goes well Shanahan. I wouldn’t buy any hard to sell property there though, you probably only have 3 years considering SF ownership.
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    3 years? That long?

  13. So they are going to offer the job to one of the few left that haven’t declined it. I’m shocked

  15. This guy will be fired in 2-3 years. It boggles my mind when people take jobs like this. Are certain people really that power hungry? Jeez, wait another year and see if a good opportunity opens up where the person running the team isnt a total nut job.

  16. He made the Texans into an offensive machine – with Matt Schaub at the trigger. Watching Schaub roll out on a naked bootleg was painful, but it was often effective as well.
    Best thing that could happen for Kaepernick.

  17. Are you sure? Have they even had time to interview all the dozens of candidates eager to work for Jed?

    Well, KH might do ok, but how sad that a once great franchise doesn’t even have more than one plausible candidate who even wants it.

  21. Good luck to Kyle and the 49er’s! However I’d not consider the job unless I got to choose the GM. The owner has to know the organization is in a total rebuilding process from the ground up. This process is going to take many years. That’s reality.

    I rather like the idea of his Dad being GM. He’s experienced and feisty enough to shake up that organization. They need someone feisty!

  22. deneb1973 says:
    Jan 17, 2017 6:11 PM
    “By Rule”…. Why not make the rule that no team can hire a new head coach until after the Superbowl? We’d have the same thing as free agency but at least the best coaches will not be disadvantaged by being in the playoffs. This is just a silly, antiquated “rule” that needs to be revoked or reworked.
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    But they aren’t really disadvantaged because they can interview in either the bye week or the week before the Super Bowl. HOWEVER, their current playoff teams ARE disadvantaged, because their guy might be distracted. But, by letting the non-playoff teams headhunt the talent first, it helps parity, whereas by placing an embargo both good and bad teams’ vacancies all become available at the same time and any good team’s few vacancies would always bag the best candidates.

  23. He’s an excellent play caller. His offense had the browns rolling in the 1st half of the 14 seaosn with hoyer at qb. But can he coach? We shall see.

  24. Alright Kyle, listen, here’s what you’re gonna do: tell Matt Ryan you’re gonna take him to Disneyland to celebrate a great season. Then, tell him there’s a layover in San Francisco…

  27. He would be wise not to take the Santa Clara job. Wait for a better opportunity next year with another team. Take this job and you will be the fall guy. They have no GM, a terrible front office, No QB, and are lacking talent everywhere. However-If he’s looking for a fast money grab, this is the one. They will have to overpay him to get get him to take the job a quick 1 or 2 years and a guaranteed 20 million? See Jim Tomsula and Chip Kelly

  30. Why take this job over the potential and likely openings in Indy and Houston next year? At least in both of those places you have some franchise players to work with and owners that have proven to be stubborn in NOT firing their coaches.

  31. Why take this job over the potential and likely openings in Indy and Houston next year? At least in both of those places you have some franchise players to work with and owners that have proven to be stubborn in NOT firing their coaches.

  33. i thunk any pro coach with the ladt name of Shanahan is desperate to: 1) have their name out in discussion (hence, leaking rumor and insinuating their name on potential jobs, especially to “schefty” reporters with questionable ethics; and 2) get ANY pro HC gig.

    There is no GM in SF. Which means nothing will change there respute if they hire a flackey stupid enough to take the job when they cannot hire the HC.

    Besides, for all we know, the Houston or Indianapolis HC jobs might open up soon.

    Kyle Shanahan would be stupid to take the SF job in the current dynamics. In fact, Daddy Shanny would be stupid to take the job, too.

    No one taking the job is the only way to convince Jed’s parents that they need to change the organizational dynamics from the top there.

  34. Son of Shanny is used to being fired. He laughs in your face. 49ers will be his fifth team already, what’s one more?

    I don’t see why he wouldn’t take the job though. He’ll get to sort-of-choose his GM from at least two decent candidates. He’ll join a team with tons of cap room and high draft picks. He can pretty much name his price. And he’ll get to live in beautiful northern California. Just wish he could bring that Atlanta roster with him.

  39. this just in…..Shanahan thank Jed York, and the 49er organization, but has puled his name out of the job

  41. pittsburghdamned says:
    Jan 17, 2017 6:07 PM
    Good job Kyle.

    That amazing work with the Jets is really paying off.
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    Mixing up Shanahan’s kid with Schottenheimer’s?

  42. This means they are going with T. McDonough from AZ for GM. Good hire. Hurt the Cards and get a talented GM at the same time!!

  44. Only way it makes sense is if it’s a package deal ie son as coach and father as GM. Pappa wants back into the NFL. Son may or may not want to be under Pappa’s shadow but if ever there is a time when he would benefit from the obvious buffer, this would be it.
    Only fly in the ointment is that Florio has already certified that the DeBartollo offspring will not hire Shanahan the Sr under any condition. And as Florio is never wrong and if the handshake rumors are true, then maybe Shanahan the Jr is assuming much more credit for the Falcon success than most people are willing to acknowledge.
    Stranger things have happened. Who would have thought the Pegulas would have hired not just one but two of the Ryan twins. Go figure.

  45. Raiders & Chickens fans wishing Kyle would reconsider shows how scared you are of a re-relevant 49ers. Get ready ..Kyle shall bring us our 6th.

  47. I’ve always wondered why teams aren’t willing to wait for playoff teams to finish to grab a coach from their roster.

    The 49ers could win the head coaching lottery by being the only team that was willing to wait for Shanahan.

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