We will talk a lot about the San Francisco 49ers coordinators on both sides of the ball. It feels inevitable that Robert Saleh will be a head coach again. But Klay Kubiak is garnering more and more interest.<\/p>\n
During the weekend, NFL Network\u2019s Tom Pelissero said, \u201cThere are some wild cards, like Klay Kubiak, the 49ers\u2019 offensive coordinator. Kyle Shanahan absolutely loves him. He is the other Kubiak in this cycle because Klint Kubiak did a whole bunch of interviews during Seattle\u2019s bye week, but don\u2019t overlook the possibility of Klay Kubiak potentially emerging if these Steelers, for the first time in all those years, are willing to go with a coach with an offensive background rather than defense.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Steelers aren\u2019t the only team interested in Kubiak\u2019s services. The Las Vegas Raiders also requested permission to interview Kubiak for their head coaching job.<\/p>\n
If Kubiak is to leave the 49ers, it won\u2019t be for a lateral position. During his postgame press conference, head coach Kyle Shanahan was asked how he\u2019d handle if another team requested Kubiak to be their offensive coordinator, and whether he\u2019d block that move: \u201cHe\u2019s our offensive coordinator, so I don\u2019t know why would you let him be somebody else\u2019s offensive coordinator.\u201d Shanahan added that Kubiak \u201ccalls a lot of plays here.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no doubt Shanahan thinks highly of his coordinators. He told reporters, \u201cThey\u2019ve been unbelievable. I love both those guys. Two as good of coaches as I\u2019ve been around. I know both of them will be head coaches, whether it\u2019s in a week or so, or whether it\u2019s over the next two years.\u201d<\/p>\n
The offense was excellent all season despite injuries, while the defense was injury-plagued. Despite that, they were stingy in key areas, like giving up big plays and in the red zone. We will find out soon enough, from a timetable perspective, whether it\u2019s the former or the latter: when the 49ers will lose their coordinators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We will talk a lot about the San Francisco 49ers coordinators on both sides of the ball. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,6,1161,252,87419,1137,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-689466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-coaching-staff","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115923588692848282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}