After a dominant performance on Monday Night Football, questions arose about whether this year’s secondary is the best Kyle Shanahan has had in his 5+ year tenure in San Francisco. Yesterday, those questions reached Shanahan himself.
“Yeah, I believe it has the opportunity to be. I think, at this time, with just how well we’re covering on the outside. How nice our safeties have played together, having the depth of getting Jimmie back, hopefully getting Jason Verrett in there and [Deommodore Lenoir] here these last couple weeks has really stepped it up too, so I’m not going to say we’re there yet, but I do believe that we have that opportunity to be in.