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San Francisco 49ers Offseason Review
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The 49ers coaching staff lost a few key pieces in former DC DeMeco Ryans and former Director of Player Personnel Ran Carthon, who both moved to higher roles, becoming Houston’s head coach and Tennessee’s GM respectively. Both will be missed as they were outstanding during their time with the 49ers. As well, offensive passing game coordinator Bobby Slowik left to become Ryans’ OC in Houston.
To replace Ryans and Slowik, the 49ers turned to Steve Wilks and Klint Kubiak for the roles. They also added Jacob Webster and Cameron Brown as Defensive Quality coaches.
Steve Wilks
Previously, as Shanahan’s head coaching tree grew, the 49ers preferred to hire new coordinators from within to keep the same scheme. That makes sense, since the 49ers defense has consistently been excellent, and why mess with what’s working? However, they instead went outside the organization to hire experienced DC and former head coach Steve Wilks. Wilks took a Panthers team that was going nowhere fast and nearly got them to the playoffs, and his players seemed to really like him.
I’ll talk more about the likely changes Wilks will bring to the 49ers defense below. In short, I think Wilks will likely add some new ideas to the 49ers defense while keeping the majority of what made it so good. Combined with his experience in leading a locker room, and I think this is a very solid hire and as good an outside candidate as the 49ers could have hoped for. Grade: A
Klint Kubiak
Klint joins his brother, Klay, a defensive quality control coach for the Niners and the second most popular Klay in the Bay Area. Klint has experience at this role, but it isn’t necessarily the best experience - he was QBs coach in Denver when they developed… Paxton Lynch and Brock Osweilier. Then he was briefly OC in Minnesota before returning to Denver under… Nathaniel Hackett. At least the offense improved somewhat when he took over playcalling duties. Still, experience is always nice, and Klint will be learning from the master that is Kyle Shanahan, so honestly, this doesn’t seem like a bad hire to me. Grade: B
Jacob Webster and Cameron Brown
I honestly don’t really know what to think of these hires. Both have no NFL experience and come from the college ranks, but they don’t exactly have critical roles - they seem to be the coaching equivalents of future prospects. So, we’ll see? Grade: B
Free Agency
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