49ers Head Coach Kyle Shanahan Thread

Originally posted by ComeOnDeberg:

Originally posted by Brucey72:

Originally posted by Heroism:

Originally posted by Young2Owens:
The quality of the discussion on this forum is dogcrap. It's always the same old people parroting the same banal crap about firing everyone, cutting everyone, without providing coherent arguments justifying why we should do something as asinine as firing Kyle, for example.

And everyone gets bogged down arguing with these trolls leaving no room for more nuanced discussion.

Just throwing in my 2 cents, not like anyone cares because I'm not a loud and attention seeking user in here.

I wish the WZ had a upvote/downvote feature. It's kind of crazy they're still using a forum layout from almost 30 years ago lol.

I agree firing Kyle is stupid... Lynch on the other hand is a different story. The Niners need a real GM bc whatever drafting process they have is not working. You can't rely on drafts pre 2021, trades you made years ago, and lucking into Purdy forever.

Yes, Lynch is a major problem. We do need a good General Manager which is not Lynch to say. His track record is awful. It's time to move on.

It's not a defense of Lynch but let's not pretend that Kyle's fingerprints aren't all over the draft. So getting rid of Lynch isn't going to solve anything unless they bring in a GM that has more sway in the decision-making than what currently Lynch does.

Originally posted by Sask49erFan:
This offensive genius coached his team to 9 points in the 2 most important games of the year vs Seattle. 9 freaking points. And guys still defend him like he's the 2nd coming.

McVay's team just scored 27.

As of early 2026, Kyle Shanahanholds a regular season record of 82-67 and a 9-4 playoff record as Head Coach of the San Francisco 49ers, bringing his overall career record to 91-72 through nine seasons (2017-2025) with two Super Bowl appearances. He has significantly turned the franchise around, leading them to multiple NFC Championship games and establishing a dominant second half of the season trend in recent years, despite close Super Bowl losses.

Originally posted by ComeOnDeberg:
Yes, Lynch is a major problem. We do need a good General Manager which is not Lynch to say. His track record is awful. It's time to move on.

As of early 2026, Kyle Shanahan (and John Lynch) holds a regular season record of 82-67 and a 9-4 playoff record as Head Coach of the San Francisco 49ers, bringing his overall career record to 91-72 through nine seasons (2017-2025) with two Super Bowl appearances. He has significantly turned the franchise around, leading them to multiple NFC Championship games and establishing a dominant second half of the season trend in recent years, despite close Super Bowl losses.

This is why they won't be fired and will be here another ten years. They have a track record of success not failure

Originally posted by Pillbusta:
As of early 2026, Kyle Shanahan (and John Lynch) holds a regular season record of 82-67 and a 9-4 playoff record as Head Coach of the San Francisco 49ers, bringing his overall career record to 91-72 through nine seasons (2017-2025) with two Super Bowl appearances. He has significantly turned the franchise around, leading them to multiple NFC Championship games and establishing a dominant second half of the season trend in recent years, despite close Super Bowl losses.

You could have used your own brain instead of asking chat GTP to write it for you.

And again, how many Super Bowls has he won? You guys are so content with 2nd place it's ridiculous

Originally posted by Sask49erFan:

Originally posted by Pillbusta:
As of early 2026, Kyle Shanahan (and John Lynch) holds a regular season record of 82-67 and a 9-4 playoff record as Head Coach of the San Francisco 49ers, bringing his overall career record to 91-72 through nine seasons (2017-2025) with two Super Bowl appearances. He has significantly turned the franchise around, leading them to multiple NFC Championship games and establishing a dominant second half of the season trend in recent years, despite close Super Bowl losses.

You could have used your own brain instead of asking chat GTP to write it for you.

And again, how many Super Bowls has he won? You guys are so content with 2nd place it's ridiculous

The underlined is all I got from that google search…

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:

So if Seattle wins, the Rams and Seahawks have rings on Shanahan and Lynch's watch. One using your old backup QB in YOUR stadium. Not ideal pic.twitter.com/EUlgIPLpRl

— Jessie🎙 (@JNay_LSS) January 26, 2026

just thinking about this makes me want to punch a wall.

I'm sure all this buzzing must get to Kyle in some way or form. He gone in two years. Good riddance !

Originally posted by Pillbusta:
This is why they won't be fired and will be here another ten years. They have a track record of success not failure

Your right. Shanny isnt going anywhere. He also isnt getting a ring here. Isn't happening. He couldn't win it with the most stacked team in the NFL so what makes you think he's gonna have some epiphany and change his stripes and start playing capable rookies? Spread the ball around and not overuse his workhorses? Give up some GM power because he knows he sucks at drafting? Mike Macdonald owns Kyle the way Carroll owned harbaugh. It'll be interesting to see how long Jed York is able to tolerate this.

We'll all see how many more rings the rams and Seahawks stack in the meantime.

Originally posted by Young2Owens:
The quality of the discussion on this forum is dogcrap. It's always the same old people parroting the same banal crap about firing everyone, cutting everyone, without providing coherent arguments justifying why we should do something as asinine as firing Kyle, for example.

And everyone gets bogged down arguing with these trolls leaving no room for more nuanced discussion.

Just throwing in my 2 cents, not like anyone cares because I'm not a loud and attention seeking user in here.

To be fair, you don't have to post here. There are what, 500-1000 active posters on here at the most? There are millions of fans, the vast
majority of which generally stay off the internet for the most part. This site in no way represents the consensus opinion of this fanbase. The 49ers subreddit is a little better but it's still a very small portion of the fanbase and can still be extremely toxic during and just after games. The biggest portion of the fanbase you would likely find on Twitter/X but that's mostly a cesspool where the posts are probably even worse than this site.

I'm considering taking a break from this place myself. It's very clear the ~10 or so trolls on this site aren't really worth that much of your time or effort.

Originally posted by Patton:

Originally posted by Sask49erFan:

Originally posted by Method:
Move on already man. Can't believe we've had this guy for a decade. Ugh

Agreed. Unless we want another decade long rebuild just to fall short again

We are on the verge of seeing 2 division coaches winning the Super Bowl in less time than Kyle, one of which is less than 2 years into a complete rebuild lol.

Something has to change.

I'm sorry but this is why the fanbase gets the "whiners" moniker.

What McVay and MacDonald do has nothing to do with what happens here. This team hasn't won a SB in 30+ years. If you think simply changing the coaching/front office guarantees anything clearly you haven't been paying attention.

Also I'm sorry but "less than 2 years into a complete rebuild" lol indeed...just totally making up things to feed an already absurd take.

What rebuild? If you're talking Seattle the majority of their impact players were on the roster before MacDonald took over. If you're talking about the Rams they're well into year 3 and go as far as their elite QB will take them. The one year they didn't have him most of the season they went 5-12.

This need to change things just for changes sake has absolutely no logic reason behind it. No amount of reasoning seems to help. It's just constant b***hing and wild overreactions anytime things don't go the 49ers way.

The most critical thing the 49ers have to deal with is their injury issues. Both the Rams and Seattle were incredibly healthy this year.

Know who Seattle was missing for the game last night? Their rookie FB and their backup RB. How could they possibly overcome those massive injuries? The Rams were missing Witherspoon and their starting RT.

And to remind people...by most accounts from the "get rid of Shanahan" crowd we went into this season in a rebuild capacity. So maybe save the outrage.

For all the praise and love McVay and MacDonald have gotten neither of them took over a roster as bad as what Kyle took over here and got them to the SB in 3 seasons. We'll see in 2 weeks if MacDonald can close it out, certainly his opponent is going to be a lot easier to handle.

Originally posted by Young2Owens:
The quality of the discussion on this forum is dogcrap. It's always the same old people parroting the same banal crap about firing everyone, cutting everyone, without providing coherent arguments justifying why we should do something as asinine as firing Kyle, for example.

And everyone gets bogged down arguing with these trolls leaving no room for more nuanced discussion.

Just throwing in my 2 cents, not like anyone cares because I'm not a loud and attention seeking user in here.

No you're 100% right. I'm going to bring this up to my fellow mods. I have no issue with people having valid criticisms but what's happening here is ridiculous and doesn't do a darn thing to having proper conversations about the 49ers.

What the Rams and Seattle did last night has nothing to do with the 49ers. Some of the same people talking the loudest about firing Kyle are the same ones who heading into this season claimed this was going to be a rebuild year and we should basically just get rid of all our good players and start over.

Now that we didn't win the SB this year it's fire Shanahan because the Rams and Seattle played a close game and now Seattle is in line to win a SB at our stadium...because location makes it so much worse?

Few bad agents who recycle the same narratives and avoid any nuanced conversations and round and round we go.

Originally posted by Sask49erFan:

Originally posted by Pillbusta:
As of early 2026, Kyle Shanahan (and John Lynch) holds a regular season record of 82-67 and a 9-4 playoff record as Head Coach of the San Francisco 49ers, bringing his overall career record to 91-72 through nine seasons (2017-2025) with two Super Bowl appearances. He has significantly turned the franchise around, leading them to multiple NFC Championship games and establishing a dominant second half of the season trend in recent years, despite close Super Bowl losses.

You could have used your own brain instead of asking chat GTP to write it for you.

And again, how many Super Bowls has he won? You guys are so content with 2nd place it's ridiculous

With you guys, the grass is always greener on the other side. "A foolish person tears down his own house brick by hrick."

Originally posted by Patton:

Originally posted by 9ers4eva:

Originally posted by Patton:
Complete coaching staff change, brand new QB? Loss of veteran players? How is that not a rebuild?

Had Geno last year. Wasn't a brand new qb. They moved on from a couple veteran receivers but signed Kupp.

Not a rebuild at all. Rebuilds are starting from scratch.

Bigger rebuild than Kyle and John have ever had to go through…..went from no coaching staff to Super Bowl in 2 seasons…..They will undoubtedly dog walk NE and come back next season as the odds on favorite again.

Where we gonna be? Still watching our high draft picks ride the bench, or worse…..on IR?

Big changes need to be made, hopefully the right decisions are made.

Are you serious right now?

Took over a 9-8 team with some of his best players today on it already - JSN, Walker/Charbonnet, both starting OTs, Leonard Williams, Devon Witherspoon, Mafe/Hall/Nwosu, Jaran Reed, Coby Bryant, Julian Love, Woolen, Okada.

Also had Geno Smith and DK Metcalf who they were able to trade for good value picks. Lucked into getting Byron Murphy falling to them after the first half of that first round went offense. Got lucky in Ernest Jones being available for peanuts.

The team Shanahan and Lynch took over was dog sh*t. Armstead, Buckner, Jimmie Ward and Joe Staley(who was done after 2019) were really the only guys worth anything from that 2016 roster. Only guys even on the 2019 SB team were Tartt, Celek(who didn't even play most of the year), Ronnie Blair(who was injured for the SB) and Mostert who was nothing but a special teamer in 2016.

Are you trolling or simply hoping nobody checks your ridiculous take?

Originally posted by genus49:

Originally posted by Patton:

Originally posted by 9ers4eva:

Originally posted by Patton:
Complete coaching staff change, brand new QB? Loss of veteran players? How is that not a rebuild?

Had Geno last year. Wasn't a brand new qb. They moved on from a couple veteran receivers but signed Kupp.

Not a rebuild at all. Rebuilds are starting from scratch.

Bigger rebuild than Kyle and John have ever had to go through…..went from no coaching staff to Super Bowl in 2 seasons…..They will undoubtedly dog walk NE and come back next season as the odds on favorite again.

Where we gonna be? Still watching our high draft picks ride the bench, or worse…..on IR?

Big changes need to be made, hopefully the right decisions are made.

Are you serious right now?

Took over a 9-8 team with some of his best players today on it already - JSN, Walker/Charbonnet, both starting OTs, Leonard Williams, Devon Witherspoon, Mafe/Hall/Nwosu, Jaran Reed, Coby Bryant, Julian Love, Woolen, Okada.

Also had Geno Smith and DK Metcalf who they were able to trade for good value picks. Lucked into getting Byron Murphy falling to them after the first half of that first round went offense. Got lucky in Ernest Jones being available for peanuts.

The team Shanahan and Lynch took over was dog sh*t. Armstead, Buckner, Jimmie Ward and Joe Staley(who was done after 2019) were really the only guys worth anything from that 2016 roster. Only guys even on the 2019 SB team were Tartt, Celek(who didn't even play most of the year), Ronnie Blair(who was injured for the SB) and Mostert who was nothing but a special teamer in 2016.

Are you trolling or simply hoping nobody checks your ridiculous take?

I'd love for you to call up 95.7 this morning with your takes. Cmon, do it.

Originally posted by DrEll:

Originally posted by Young2Owens:
The quality of the discussion on this forum is dogcrap. It's always the same old people parroting the same banal crap about firing everyone, cutting everyone, without providing coherent arguments justifying why we should do something as asinine as firing Kyle, for example.

And everyone gets bogged down arguing with these trolls leaving no room for more nuanced discussion.

Just throwing in my 2 cents, not like anyone cares because I'm not a loud and attention seeking user in here.

Nuanced discussion ? You mean discussing the same excuses for the past 9 seasons ? Let me summarize it fo you…

1) Hoyer's fault
2) Beathard's fault
3) JimmyG's / Vinovich's fault
4) COVID and injuries fault
5) Tarrt's fault
6) injuries fault
7) Wilks fault
8) injuries fault
9) injuries fault

bad drafts ? Lynch's fault
bad stadium / electric substation ? Jed's fault

am I missing anything in these nuanced discussions you guys been having for the last decade ?

That's rich considering you're one of the few here who can't get over the past when discussing the present.

If you had the same energy across the board you'd be able to make a stance like this. Yet you're in here constantly making up different rules for other teams that don't apply for Shanahan or the 49ers.

So yes, if you don't understand the intricacies of the game and refuse to acknowledge what actually happens on the field and just revert to "he lost!" then yes you can't discuss these things in a nuanced way.

When someone provides logic and reason and you close your ears and basically scream "I'm not listening, excuses excuses! Kyle lost the SB" then you really have nothing of substance to offer.