49ers Head Coach Kyle Shanahan Thread

Originally posted by pdc20:
The whole interview is great. Alex Smith is such a nice guy.
He's so humble. He's not insecure at all. Hearing him talking about his first 6 years with the Niners, then his first meeting with Jim, his relationship with Kaep, Andy Reid, Mahomes and obviously his big injury with Washington, I mean this guy is a great person.
He's a big fan of Purdy and Shanahan.

Alex could have had a much better career if the 49ers hadn't been such a train wreck for much of his time there. Different HCs and head coaches nearly every season. Constantly having to learn a new system.

Any guy that went through the surgeries and rehab he did to show he could do it can play for me any day.

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:

Originally posted by pdc20:
The whole interview is great. Alex Smith is such a nice guy.
He's so humble. He's not insecure at all. Hearing him talking about his first 6 years with the Niners, then his first meeting with Jim, his relationship with Kaep, Andy Reid, Mahomes and obviously his big injury with Washington, I mean this guy is a great person.
He's a big fan of Purdy and Shanahan.

Alex could have had a much better career if the 49ers hadn't been such a train wreck for much of his time there. Different HCs and head coaches nearly every season. Constantly having to learn a new system.

Any guy that went through the surgeries and rehab he did to show he could do it can play for me any day.

Smith Maxed out in KC and was nothing more than an above average QB there in the top 20...Reid had to replace him after a few seasons though with someone who could run his offense the way he wanted. Mahomes nearly doubled Smiths Passing TD's the season he took over.

Originally posted by jcs:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:

Originally posted by pdc20:
The whole interview is great. Alex Smith is such a nice guy.
He's so humble. He's not insecure at all. Hearing him talking about his first 6 years with the Niners, then his first meeting with Jim, his relationship with Kaep, Andy Reid, Mahomes and obviously his big injury with Washington, I mean this guy is a great person.
He's a big fan of Purdy and Shanahan.

Alex could have had a much better career if the 49ers hadn't been such a train wreck for much of his time there. Different HCs and head coaches nearly every season. Constantly having to learn a new system.

Any guy that went through the surgeries and rehab he did to show he could do it can play for me any day.

Smith Maxed out in KC and was nothing more than an above average QB there in the top 20...Reid had to replace him after a few seasons though with someone who could run his offense the way he wanted. Mahomes nearly doubled Smiths Passing TD's the season he took over.

I'm not an Alex Smith lover, al though I do think he's a really good person with very high character. I don't think he would of ever been an "elite" qb but he was capable of being a top 8-12 caliber kind of guy. the way he played drove me crazy, super conservative and no risk. which is why he sucked so much on third down.

Overall, the niners were a s**t show for a majority of his time here and we held him back big time. if we were what we are today, he would be a very capable and competent starting qb. Most likely never the elite guy that we always crave, but respectable.

I'll be honest - I stopped wanting Alex as our qb when he publically said "I hate it when people say "go make a play", what does that even mean?" - that told me a lot about how he sees and plays the game. Not the kind of QB i care to have but a great high character dude.

Originally posted by jcs:
Smith Maxed out in KC and was nothing more than an above average QB there in the top 20...Reid had to replace him after a few seasons though with someone who could run his offense the way he wanted. Mahomes nearly doubled Smiths Passing TD's the season he took over.

his development slowed down because of his time here we f**ked up his shoulder which took a lot of his throwing velocity.

I think he could've been a great top 5 to top 10 qb if we didnt screw up his development the fact that he was able to survive and put out a pretty good career after the s**t he went through actually shows a lot especially to the competitor and natural talent he has

Originally posted by ritz126:
his development slowed down because of his time here we f**ked up his shoulder which took a lot of his throwing velocity.

I think he could've been a great top 5 to top 10 qb if we didnt screw up his development the fact that he was able to survive and put out a pretty good career after the s**t he went through actually shows a lot especially to the competitor and natural talent he has

Didn't have a single coach in SF who truly knew how to coach up a QB properly outside of Norv and sorta Mike Johnson. Makes a difference on a career.

Originally posted by 9ers4eva:

Originally posted by ritz126:
his development slowed down because of his time here we f**ked up his shoulder which took a lot of his throwing velocity.

I think he could've been a great top 5 to top 10 qb if we didnt screw up his development the fact that he was able to survive and put out a pretty good career after the s**t he went through actually shows a lot especially to the competitor and natural talent he has

Didn't have a single coach in SF who truly knew how to coach up a QB properly outside of Norv and sorta Mike Johnson. Makes a difference on a career.

Kap didn't have a great QB coach and I don't hear these type of excuses for him.

Originally posted by glorydayz:

Originally posted by 9ers4eva:

Originally posted by ritz126:
his development slowed down because of his time here we f**ked up his shoulder which took a lot of his throwing velocity.

I think he could've been a great top 5 to top 10 qb if we didnt screw up his development the fact that he was able to survive and put out a pretty good career after the s**t he went through actually shows a lot especially to the competitor and natural talent he has

Didn't have a single coach in SF who truly knew how to coach up a QB properly outside of Norv and sorta Mike Johnson. Makes a difference on a career.

Kap didn't have a great QB coach and I don't hear these type of excuses for him.

Harbaugh is a good QB coach. Kap had all the physical tools he lacked some of the fundamentals

Uh-oh, here it comes - 20 more pages of the Smith vs Kap debate. I think I'll sit this one out. Go Brock!!

Originally posted by glorydayz:

Originally posted by 9ers4eva:

Originally posted by ritz126:
his development slowed down because of his time here we f**ked up his shoulder which took a lot of his throwing velocity.

I think he could've been a great top 5 to top 10 qb if we didnt screw up his development the fact that he was able to survive and put out a pretty good career after the s**t he went through actually shows a lot especially to the competitor and natural talent he has

Didn't have a single coach in SF who truly knew how to coach up a QB properly outside of Norv and sorta Mike Johnson. Makes a difference on a career.

Kap didn't have a great QB coach and I don't hear these type of excuses for him.

He played on better teams with Harbaugh as HC. I don't know how good Smith could have been because he got off to a poor start with a terrible coaching staff that was changing every year for his first few seasons. Would he have been a great player? Probably not but with the right personnel he could have won. He was big and mobile. His arm wasnt great but it was good enough. We saw how tough he was when he went through that rehab after that terrible leg injury.

My favorite Alex Smith story is Coach Nolan telling him to watch film but not what he was supposed to look for.
I just watched the crazy 2011 Divisional playoff game against the Saints. Alex (running and perfect passes) and Vernon Davis went off early and late.

Originally posted by Paul_Hofer:
My favorite Alex Smith story is Coach Nolan telling him to watch film but not what he was supposed to look for.
I just watched the crazy 2011 Divisional playoff game against the Saints. Alex (running and perfect passes) and Vernon Davis went off early and late.

I never heard that about Nolan. Smith had 5 OCs in 5 years with Nolan as HC. They weren't all bad but having to adjust every year isn't easy.

One of the things I've heard from QBs that played for Kyle is the way he explains things. He doesn't just say do this or that he explains the strategy behind it and why it's important. Darnold said he learned a lot in his short time here. Mac Jones said the same.

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by All22:

Originally posted by genus49:

Originally posted by maltz88:

Originally posted by 49ersRing:
They've won 2 in a row. I don't see that as consistently winning, especially considering how banged up we were by those final two games.

My only point was in regard to referencing the 1st 3 games in a series refuting another team "figuring the other" out. More of a logic, or statistics point.

I don't personally believe Seattle has SF figured out, and don't put any one of SF, SEA, or LAR over the other.

Which was why I said what I did. Clearly Mike Macdonald had a terrific game plan against us in those last 2 games but we also didn't make it very hard for them either. Weak IOL. No real threat at the receiver position and a running game that was struggling to get chunk plays all year long.

Purdy's numbers look ugly in those 2 games but I felt like he battled his ass off in them. Just kept trying to find ways to get something going and there wasn't a lot of help in those games.

But if we look back to that week 1 game not sure how much we can really take from that one either. We had our share of injuries but Seattle also lost some guys within that game including Emanworri and obviously they were somewhat new to their scheme.

We can argue who had it worse in that game from ingame injuries but I would argue it was us given all the WR injuries in camp as we went into that game without Bourne, obviously no Aiyuk. Jennings missed most of training camp and ended up going out in that game in the 4th quarter I believe.

We had Pearsall, MVS, Russell Gage as our top 3 WRs. No Kittle. Oh and Purdy playing on a busted toe. As a matter of fact when you compare Purdy in that game prior to his injury to after. It was a tale of two halves basically. He barely missed before the injury. After the injury came the turnovers and some misses. Still all that and we got it done in the end.

Not exactly a heavy offensive output but when you have 2 interceptions thrown and 2 missed FGs...I wouldn't say it was a Macdonald figured them out situation.

It will be very interesting how they match up this year though. I'm certain Shanahan's priority this offseason will be to counter what Seattle has been doing on defense. The Rams pose their own risk but one thing Kyle has shown is his ability to find ways to get through their defense. Cuz even going back to their #1 D in 2020 in what was our big injury down year we managed to sweep them and move the ball on them(even with Nick Mullens and no Kittle or Aiyuk)

Kyle certainly thinks MacDonald figured him out. One touchdown in 3 games is probably the worst I've seen from Kyle, not to mention what the Ravens did to us that time MacDonald was leading that defense.

I'm sure Kyle's in the lab cooking up some new stuff though.

Why not count Mickey Ds games against Kyle in 2024?

Seattle had to load the fk up in 2025 to compete with us

Seriously...somehow counting the Ravens game is ok but ignoring the 4 TD game the one time we weren't completely decimated by injury in 2024 is funny.

Also week 1 we had 2 TDs.

I'm pretty sure Kyle understands that going up against that Seattle D with limited threats in the passing game is going to make things schematically much easier for Seattle.

We'll see how each coach approaches this season.

Guys...let's keep this to Kyle Shanahan. We definitely don't need Alex vs Kap debates in 2026.