Could you imagine Bill Belichick on the San Francisco 49ers coaching staff? Perhaps that was Kyle Shanahan’s original choice for an associate head coach or defensive coordinator before hiring Nick Sorensen and Brandon Staley.
Shanahan joined The Athletic’s Tim Kawakami’s “The TK Show,” where he said the surefire Hall of Fame coach politely declined the opportunity to join his staff:
“I did, I threw it out to him. He loves football so much that you never know what he—I can’t believe he’s not a head coach of a team right now.