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San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said Monday that New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick reached out to talk after the Pats overcame a 28-3 deficit in Super Bowl LI to defeat the Atlanta Falcons, for whom Shanahan was serving as an offensive coordinator at the time.
Scott Bair of NBC Sports Bay Area provided the complete comments from Shanahan, who noted Belichick is different behind the scenes than his typically irritable public persona might suggest:
"It was really cool that he reached out to me after the Super Bowl just to talk.