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Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by Kolohe:
C'mon Shanahan can you frickin fire this dude already!!!!! Show some respect let this guy latch on to team early….that's probably the only nice thing I'll say about Sorensen while he's still a 9er.
i wouldn't fire the guy until there is a chance to hire someone with more experience.. we can't afford to go with another newbie
Ask Madden would make a better DC than Sorensen you couldn't do worse no risk in firing him.
you can always get worse.. this is football
It would have to be intentional to do worse than Sorensen.
firing him without a replacement would be intentional lol
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Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by Kolohe:
C'mon Shanahan can you frickin fire this dude already!!!!! Show some respect let this guy latch on to team early….that's probably the only nice thing I'll say about Sorensen while he's still a 9er.
i wouldn't fire the guy until there is a chance to hire someone with more experience.. we can't afford to go with another newbie

Right now there's a lot of veteran DC's to choose from. In the end we could always revert back to Jeff Ulbrich or try to go all in and ask Jim Schwartz if he wants the job.
Sorensen has no experience as a DC. Yet Shanahan, hired him. Steve Wilks was not Xs and Os DC. He was more successful as Secondary coach. He inherited the Panthers defense for McDermott for one season. He only had a couple of other single season DC stints, of which one was in college. He is not even a DC now, just a volunteer assistant at a college. Not a good resume to be hired by a Superbowl contending team. Demeco and Saleh did not have any DC experience when Shanahan made them DC. We need a good DC with experienced play calling who can also fire up the players. Sorensen does not fit the bill. Personality-wise he seems really laid back and easy going.
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by Kolohe:
C'mon Shanahan can you frickin fire this dude already!!!!! Show some respect let this guy latch on to team early….that's probably the only nice thing I'll say about Sorensen while he's still a 9er.
i wouldn't fire the guy until there is a chance to hire someone with more experience.. we can't afford to go with another newbie
Ask Madden would make a better DC than Sorensen you couldn't do worse no risk in firing him.
you can always get worse.. this is football
It would have to be intentional to do worse than Sorensen.
firing him without a replacement would be intentional lol
If Shannahan can't do better than Sorensen that's sad.
Its starting to look like:

Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by Kolohe:
C'mon Shanahan can you frickin fire this dude already!!!!! Show some respect let this guy latch on to team early….that's probably the only nice thing I'll say about Sorensen while he's still a 9er.
i wouldn't fire the guy until there is a chance to hire someone with more experience.. we can't afford to go with another newbie
Ask Madden would make a better DC than Sorensen you couldn't do worse no risk in firing him.
you can always get worse.. this is football
It would have to be intentional to do worse than Sorensen.
firing him without a replacement would be intentional lol
If Shannahan can't do better than Sorensen that's sad.
would be sad.. But Saleh looked bad and meco went through a rough patch. Wilks faked it (but those DCs had our full gauntlet on D)

Who ever the DC is, we need to add better guys to support our stars
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by Kolohe:
C'mon Shanahan can you frickin fire this dude already!!!!! Show some respect let this guy latch on to team early….that's probably the only nice thing I'll say about Sorensen while he's still a 9er.
i wouldn't fire the guy until there is a chance to hire someone with more experience.. we can't afford to go with another newbie
Ask Madden would make a better DC than Sorensen you couldn't do worse no risk in firing him.
you can always get worse.. this is football
It would have to be intentional to do worse than Sorensen.
firing him without a replacement would be intentional lol
If Shannahan can't do better than Sorensen that's sad.
would be sad.. But Saleh looked bad and meco went through a rough patch. Wilks faked it (but those DCs had our full gauntlet on D)

Who ever the DC is, we need to add better guys to support our stars
There's multiple experienced DCs available if Sorensen stays it's sad, Sorensen wouldn't be a candidate for any other team in this league or any other league.
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by Kolohe:
C'mon Shanahan can you frickin fire this dude already!!!!! Show some respect let this guy latch on to team early….that's probably the only nice thing I'll say about Sorensen while he's still a 9er.
i wouldn't fire the guy until there is a chance to hire someone with more experience.. we can't afford to go with another newbie
Ask Madden would make a better DC than Sorensen you couldn't do worse no risk in firing him.
you can always get worse.. this is football
It would have to be intentional to do worse than Sorensen.
firing him without a replacement would be intentional lol
If Shannahan can't do better than Sorensen that's sad.
would be sad.. But Saleh looked bad and meco went through a rough patch. Wilks faked it (but those DCs had our full gauntlet on D)

Who ever the DC is, we need to add better guys to support our stars

Saleh never looked that bad early on to me. Our roster was horrific and while his play calls weren't perfect year one, for the most part our guys actually played a little better than expected even with vastly inferior talent.

Total opposite with Sorensen. Team massively under achieved.
I'll never I understand the mentality of not trying someone new because they could end up being worse.
Originally posted by OnTheClock:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by Kolohe:
C'mon Shanahan can you frickin fire this dude already!!!!! Show some respect let this guy latch on to team early….that's probably the only nice thing I'll say about Sorensen while he's still a 9er.
i wouldn't fire the guy until there is a chance to hire someone with more experience.. we can't afford to go with another newbie
Ask Madden would make a better DC than Sorensen you couldn't do worse no risk in firing him.
you can always get worse.. this is football
It would have to be intentional to do worse than Sorensen.
firing him without a replacement would be intentional lol
If Shannahan can't do better than Sorensen that's sad.
would be sad.. But Saleh looked bad and meco went through a rough patch. Wilks faked it (but those DCs had our full gauntlet on D)

Who ever the DC is, we need to add better guys to support our stars

Saleh never looked that bad early on to me. Our roster was horrific and while his play calls weren't perfect year one, for the most part our guys actually played a little better than expected even with vastly inferior talent.

Total opposite with Sorensen. Team massively under achieved.
Exactly Saleh overachieved with that roster

Sorensen was a bottom of the barrel hire nothing justifies keeping him.
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by Kolohe:
C'mon Shanahan can you frickin fire this dude already!!!!! Show some respect let this guy latch on to team early….that's probably the only nice thing I'll say about Sorensen while he's still a 9er.
i wouldn't fire the guy until there is a chance to hire someone with more experience.. we can't afford to go with another newbie
Ask Madden would make a better DC than Sorensen you couldn't do worse no risk in firing him.
you can always get worse.. this is football
It would have to be intentional to do worse than Sorensen.
firing him without a replacement would be intentional lol
If Shannahan can't do better than Sorensen that's sad.
would be sad.. But Saleh looked bad and meco went through a rough patch. Wilks faked it (but those DCs had our full gauntlet on D)

Who ever the DC is, we need to add better guys to support our stars
There's multiple experienced DCs available if Sorensen stays it's sad, Sorensen wouldn't be a candidate for any other team in this league or any other league.
nobody was beating down our door for Saleh also
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Exactly Saleh overachieved with that roster

Sorensen was a bottom of the barrel hire nothing justifies keeping him.
overachieved? I would rather take that defense over what we had to play this year
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Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Exactly Saleh overachieved with that roster

Sorensen was a bottom of the barrel hire nothing justifies keeping him.
overachieved? I would rather take that defense over what we had to play this year

No wouldn't. Look what he's had to work with, keep in mind these players already knew the defense.

Nick Bosa
Fred Warner
Charvarius Ward
Demo Lenoir
Maliek Collins
Renardo Green
Malik Mustapha

Can't believe people are actually defending Sorensen here.
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How about Antonio Pierce. Seems like players responded to his coaching style. I know the defense gave 💯 for him. The overall team talent just wasn't there.
Originally posted by Kolohe:
Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
Originally posted by DaleGribble:
Exactly Saleh overachieved with that roster

Sorensen was a bottom of the barrel hire nothing justifies keeping him.
overachieved? I would rather take that defense over what we had to play this year

No wouldn't. Look what he's had to work with, keep in mind these players already knew the defense.

Nick Bosa
Fred Warner
Charvarius Ward
Demo Lenoir
Maliek Collins
Renardo Green
Malik Mustapha

Can't believe people are actually defending Sorensen here.
who defending sorensen.. I'm speaking on Defense

that 2017 defense played a lot harder than the worst defense the 49ers had in 8 years. Granted our stars were injured and missed a lot of games
[ Edited by 49AllTheTime on Jan 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM ]
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