Originally posted by Sickaa:
Originally posted by 49ersRing:
Shanahan isn't perfect. Some of his decisions, especially being overly conservative 4th downs, have been frustrating as hell. That said, his flaws pale in comparison to what he brings to the table and I can't imagine wanting to move on. We were a joke of a franchise with almost no talent on either side of the ball when Kyle got here. Now, Kyle and Lynch have built us into one of the best teams on and off the field.
Losing the Super Bowl and the NFCC sucked hard (the SB especially, I never expected to be in the NFCC), but we were only a few plays away from winning either game. It's silly to act like Kyle can't win a SB when the randomness of the game could easily have swung those games in our favor.
No doubt, and that's why It's Important for us to hold on to Shanny for as long as possible. Like you mentioned, he has some flaws ( can Improve on ) I'd rather have a coach like Kyle, flaws and all, than go back to being In the basement, like we was under, Tomsula, Chip Kelly, ect. It feels good to be relevant again and always In the mix come end of the season. After all, It's much better to be competing for super bowls than It was competing for the number 1 draft pick every year. Only time will tell If Kyle has what It takes to win a super bow of not. That's what separates the good coaches from the great ones.
I think two moves illustrate that he's not sitting on his laurels and is ambitious enough to make it to the top tier of coaches. First his ballsy decision to trade three number one picks for Trey Lance. That is BALLSY! I don't see either Fat Andy or Bellicheat doing that. Second decision - not really ballsy, but a recognition that his OLine isn't up to snuff - two straight years two draft picks devoted to the OLine, and they were high draft picks too. Banks was a number 2 pick, and Burford a number 4 pick (in a very deep Offensive Line draft). I think there was something to the idea that Kyle only liked strong armed pocket passers, and some of his past statements about mobile QB's sounded like he tried to avoid them. But the fact that he went all in on Trey Lance shows me he's not afraid to self scout and change. Walsh did something similar after the '81 super bowl. Walsh thought he could get away with mediocre running backs with his offensive system, but after having a horrible '82 season - he saw the error of his ways and traded for Wendell, a fantastic tier one running back.
Walsh's best clutch runner in '82 was his quarterback, Joe Montana, but all too often Montana was running for his life. His play-run fakes didn't fool anyone; he had to keep the ball himself because he didn't have a running back to hand off to. Worse still, the 49ers' offense became so predictable—opponents concentrated on Wide Receiver Dwight Clark, gang-tackled Montana and forgot about everyone else—that people no longer were calling Walsh a genius.
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Walsh gave the Los Angeles Rams a No. 2 and a No. 4 pick in the 1983 draft in exchange for Tyler, Defensive End Cody Jones and a No. 3 draft choice. To listen to Walsh, the acquisition of Tyler alone was a stroke of, well, sheer genius. "If I had my choice of any available back," he says, "or perhaps any back, period, I would have taken Wendell Tyler."
https://vault.si.com/vault/1983/09/05/its-the-end-zoneor-bust
