{"id":854246,"date":"2026-04-05T00:33:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/854246\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:33:51","slug":"49ers-hc-kyle-shanahan-sounds-off-on-robert-saleh-joining-the-titans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/854246\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers HC Kyle Shanahan Sounds Off on Robert Saleh Joining the Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s never easy for a team to watch an incredible coach leave. But it was something the San Francisco 49ers knew was going to happen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/49ers\/onsi\/news\/robert-saleh-believes-49ers-coach-coordinator-soon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with Robert Saleh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before they reunited with him last year to become the defensive coordinator, he was trying to become a head coach for a team. His dream of being a head coach again was strong.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why when the Tennessee Titans came knocking, Saleh took his chance. It hurt the 49ers to see him go, but they knew it was inevitable when they hired him back.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably, no one is more distraught over Saleh&#8217;s departure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/49ers\/onsi\/news\/kyle-shanahan-reveals-why-49ers-brought-back-dre-greenlaw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">than Kyle Shanahan<\/a>. He&#8217;s close to Saleh and loves his coaching ability. However, he&#8217;s even more ecstatic that Saleh gets another crack at being a head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Shanahan sounds off on Saleh joining Tennessee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s never easy for a team to watch an incredible coach leave. But it was something the San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,6,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-854246","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-sanfrancisco","14":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116349295862505029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854246","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=854246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}