Kyle Shanahan explains decision to not remove key players late in blowout win

The 49ers easily beat the Steelers on Sunday, 30-7. The margin did not stop coach Kyle Shanahan from keeping key players on the field when the game seemed to be decided.During a Wednesday press conference, Shanahan was asked about the decision to let linebacker Fred Warner play every snap, to give running back Christian McCaffrey three carries with a 20-point lead midway through the fourth quarter, and to have defensive end Nick Bosa on the field for at least one snap with three minutes to play."You pull guys when you think the game's over and you do that off of experience and we didn't think the game was over when it's at that point," Shanahan said. "Now, sometime in that drive because it took so long, we debated whether to take them out before that drive or not. We'd been in that situation before, we decided not to."Once such situation happened for the 49ers in Detroit two years ago, when a 24-point lead nearly disappeared."That's huge," Shanahan said regarding the experience from Week 1 of the 2021 season. "That happened to us personally. It was I think 41 to 17 with a 1:58 left. And they had the ball with 17 seconds, 20 yards away, down seven points. . . . That's a personal...