49ers QB Coach Brian Griese Thread

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
We really talking about his experience? How about winning a national championship and winning a Super Bowl and having spent like 20+ years actually playing the position. At the highest level dude was an NFL QB with 83 starts went toe to toe with John Lynch as a player, Ray Lewis, you name it. He's coaching QBs here something he's spent his life doing his credentials check out. This is a home run hire.

This is closer to how I feel

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by brodiebluebanaszak:
like jc said it doesnt make sense since before he gave up the eagles gig, he had about 22 years of continuous coaching experience.

Griese has had zero.

so there is precedent for tv work going to coaching....with a 20 year (highly successful) history of coaching behind that.

Griese had a decade of playing experience. Considering that most NFL QB coaches never played the position in the pros and had very few years of coaching under their belts when they attained that position, Griese is better qualified to work with a young QB than most.

I hear what you are saying.But it seems weird that there isn't an industry of guys who do this for a living every day at the college level we can pick from. The pros, maybe it's just too small an business (in terms of numbers) to have a big selection of professionals. (Only 32 teams, 100 possible clients, etc) so you don't find a lot of people who can walk in the door with a compete 2 or 3 year mesocycle all sketched out. We are prioritizing playing experience over the experience of bringing guys along and observing how they develop. Maybe we can have a dedicated staff room for QB since literally treys performance this year or next year is the franchise.

While I have reserved expectations, Griese was (A) a QB with some track record of success, (B) still deeply involved in the game covering both NCAAF and NFL, (C) grew up around the game with a SB winning QB father, and (D) deep connections and understanding to the Shanahan playbook.

The key question is…can he coach? Shanahan has been working long enough to know if Griese has the chops for it. And he will have plenty of mentors with Lynn on staff if needed.

He was drafted and developed under Mike Shanahan. I think he'll be good for Lance trying to get a handle on Kyle's offense.

Originally posted by brodiebluebanaszak:
I hear what you are saying.But it seems weird that there isn't an industry of guys who do this for a living every day at the college level we can pick from. The pros, maybe it's just too small an business (in terms of numbers) to have a big selection of professionals. (Only 32 teams, 100 possible clients, etc) so you don't find a lot of people who can walk in the door with a compete 2 or 3 year mesocycle all sketched out. We are prioritizing playing experience over the experience of bringing guys along and observing how they develop. Maybe we can have a dedicated staff room for QB since literally treys performance this year or next year is the franchise.

There are doubtless a whole bunch of college guys no question. This move is called thinking outside the box w/ a man who has family ties to Shanny and the philosophy and decades of actually playing the position and winning at every level college and pro.

As to having an entire room of QB coaches, let's get real you don't want 8 QB coaches all coming around to tell Lance the same stuff 8 times during the same day that's Office Space Mgmt tactics.

KS knows what the eff he is doing look at Saleh, Ryans, McDaniel, essentially every hire the guy has made he already has a track record and his own dang coaching tree. Griese if Lance produces I'll bet he can move quick up the ranks if that's what he wants to do.

Originally posted by 91til:

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
We really talking about his experience? How about winning a national championship and winning a Super Bowl and having spent like 20+ years actually playing the position. At the highest level dude was an NFL QB with 83 starts went toe to toe with John Lynch as a player, Ray Lewis, you name it. He's coaching QBs here something he's spent his life doing his credentials check out. This is a home run hire.

This is closer to how I feel

I feel the same. He's taking a paycut as opposed to being a broadcaster or somewhere in TV. So he's gonna give it his all, especially if he wants to move up in the coaching ladder.

Originally posted by gold49digger:

Originally posted by 91til:

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
We really talking about his experience? How about winning a national championship and winning a Super Bowl and having spent like 20+ years actually playing the position. At the highest level dude was an NFL QB with 83 starts went toe to toe with John Lynch as a player, Ray Lewis, you name it. He's coaching QBs here something he's spent his life doing his credentials check out. This is a home run hire.

This is closer to how I feel

I feel the same. He's taking a paycut as opposed to being a broadcaster or somewhere in TV. So he's gonna give it his all, especially if he wants to move up in the coaching ladder.

Personally, I enjoyed Griese as an announcer, and I wouldn't mind him as a GM figurehead - - should John Lynch depart for Amazon in the future. Having said that, if John departs, I would still like a defensive minded GM to step in - in the future to offset Kyle's offensive brilliance.

As for the QB aspect of it, when your Dad is a super bowl champion on the only team in the NFL to have a perfect season, that would definitely earn a bit of respect and admiration, even from a guy like Colin Kaepernick, maybe even to inspire a personality his to study his X's and O's. Add in Trey's known intangibles (at least to me) as very much like Jimmy G (take control, and be a master of the playbook), that will turbocharge Trey's already sizable confidence that - I think - has been preserved and just bolstered by his rookie season. .500 win percentage and on top of that, some eye popping rookie statistics. He's going to be going into the 2022 with a ton of confidence (not arrogance) that might be the difference between guys like Trey and the Treveor Laurences' of last year who's confidences have been battered by all their losses.

If there's 1 thing to just trust shanny on, it's coaches. He's basically been bringing in great coach after great coach...

Originally posted by mtl_49er:
If there's 1 thing to just trust shanny on, it's coaches. He's basically been bringing in great coach after great coach...

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Originally posted by Waterbear:

Originally posted by mtl_49er:
If there's 1 thing to just trust shanny on, it's coaches. He's basically been bringing in great coach after great coach...

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Originally posted by NYniner85:

Kyle Shanahan wouldn't say who his starter would be if both Trey Lance and Jimmy Garoppolo are on the roster, but listen to his answer on Brian Griese as QB coach and it's pretty clear #49ers pic.twitter.com/uyPrYVuqsS

— Tracy Sandler (@49ersfangirl) March 29, 2022

Listening to Kyle praise Brian as a veteran player kind of reminds me of Jimmy, and how Jimmy kind of mentored Trey as a veteran QB. So to your point about who's the starter, clearly bringing in Brian is the kind of veteran QB that you would want Trey to be mentored and coached by. Jimmy would be an unneeded extra arm, in this case, with regards to mentoring Trey - hence clearly a sign that Jimmy is not going to be a 49er past training camp/before week 1 in my opinion.

Brian coaching up Trey. Just a shout out to Brian for all of Trey's QB improvements. Hope it continues.

Originally posted by Giedi:
Brian coaching up Trey. Just a shout out to Brian for all of Trey's QB improvements. Hope it continues.

Originally posted by tohara3:

Originally posted by Giedi:
Brian coaching up Trey. Just a shout out to Brian for all of Trey's QB improvements. Hope it continues.

good to see some video action!