Head coach Kyle Shanahan of the San Francisco 49ers (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
For years, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan hasn’t had much success in the red zone despite prolific offenses, but recent trends suggest an improvement.
As big as an offensive genius many claim him to be, San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan has had one area in which his teams have historically struggled.
Inside the red zone.
None of this occurs in a vacuum, so it’s not necessarily fair to put any of the Niners’ red-zone issues — or any of Shanahan’s previous offenses, for that matter — squarely on the head coach and nothing else.