Lynch shares hilarious one-liner on 49ers’ Saleh courtship

INDIANAPOLIS — Robert Saleh was announced as the 49ers' defensive coordinator on Jan. 24, but through the process there were a few times when general manager John Lynch thought he may have to call on the organization's backup plan. "I remember talking to him, 'I feel like sloppy eighths,'" Lynch said with a laugh to local Bay Area media while at the NFL Scouting Combine. "But he had to let the landscape fall out. Robert makes no bones about it. He has aspirations to be a head coach again. So he was right, but it did leave us — you're hanging on and people start coming off the board." Prior to agreeing to return to the Bay Area, Saleh interviewed for head coaching positions with the Dallas Cowboys, Las Vegas Raiders and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Lynch believes the silver lining of the process was the exposure to people they might not have met without the uncertainty of Saleh's future."We didn't sit back and panic, we prepared," Lynch said. "We had plan A, B, C, D. Through the process you get to see there's a lot of talented people out there. Some of these we interviewed from the college ranks this year, really enjoyable to get to know the talent that's out there." There is...