Coach Kyle Shanahan met Saturday with his staff in a hotel room in Jersey City to finalize a list of 12 run plays and 12 pass plays to be called early in Sunday’s game against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium.It is a process that plays out the morning before every 49ers game, as Shanahan puts together the 24 plays he scripts as his “openers.”Shanahan begins the process Friday night. Before going to bed, he pulls out certain plays he likes from the team’s vast game plan. Then, he compares it the next morning to the ideas compiled by his assistant coaches, including offensive coordinator Klay Kubiak.“I come in Saturday and I have what I’ve done,” Shanahan told NBC Sports Bay Area on the latest episode of “49ers Game Plan.” “I look at everything that they’ve done, and then Klay and I sit together and we put together a new one of 24. Then, we go out and walk through it with the team.”The list of plays serves as a rough outline for how Shanahan wants the first portion of the game to play out. It does not include third-down calls, second-and-long situations, red zone or plays backed up in bad field position....
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