49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan didn’t love that he had to answer questions about the viability of his defensive coordinator, Robert Saleh, throughout 2018. After all, it meant that the defense was struggling and people were looking for someone to blame.
To leave no gray area, Shanahan was asked at his end-of-season press conference if Saleh would be returning in 2019 for a third year after San Francisco finished with the NFL’s 28th-ranked scoring defense.
“Yes,” Shanahan said. “... I’m with him every day. So I know how good of a coach he is. I know how he is schematically.