2025 OFFSEASON

Jikkle · Post #181 » by **Jikkle** » Fri Jan 24, 2025 12:25 am

arich35 wrote:

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Called it yesterday.

Kahn probably got by both Johnson and Coen that Baalke was the issue so he canned Baalke immediately and called Coen back to see if he was interested now.

About time this saga ends (knock on wood) so hopefully that means Saleh is hired by this weekend and we can move on from this drama to the next off-season drama with Purdy's contract.

arich35 · Post #182 » by **arich35** » Fri Jan 24, 2025 12:45 am

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Barrows retweeted him

clyde21 · Post #183 » by **clyde21** » Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:01 am

Florio essentially saying it's all but done as well, I guess they're just waiting for the Dallas/Las Vegas HC jobs to fill officially

clyde21 · Post #184 » by **clyde21** » Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:05 am

athletic reporting its a done deal

Post #185 » by **Harry Palmer** » Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:52 am

Jerry Jones might want to spike our cannon and hire Saleh as HC if he’s ~ in the mix.

Pattersonca65 · Post #186 » by **Pattersonca65** » Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:01 am

Sounds like they want to hire Brian Shottenhire. The Baalke firing really changed the trajectory of the Saleh/49er renunion

49er4life1979 · Post #187 » by **49er4life1979** » Fri Jan 24, 2025 10:17 am

Brian Schottenheimer is the frontrunner for Cowboys gig and Carroll or Monken fir Raiders. Looks like Saleh will be back.

thesack12 · Post #188 » by **thesack12** » Fri Jan 24, 2025 12:16 pm

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That last sentence is more good news.

Seems like Kyle may have had time to digest tape/data of Sorenson's Jacksonville special teams, and said nah that guy ain't him.

That or Sorenson was never a serious candidate for the ST coordinator role. Although it was strange they apparently planned on re-assigning him in the organization after stripping him of the DC job.

I don't know, but in any event Sorenson going bye bye is a good thing. He sure didn't seem like an asset in any capacity, at least not from an on the field perspective.

clyde21 · Post #189 » by **clyde21** » Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:00 pm

Carroll to Raiders,

looks like it's just down to Dallas

Pattersonca65 · Post #190 » by **Pattersonca65** » Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:02 pm

Jikkle wrote:
arich35 wrote:

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Called it yesterday.

Kahn probably got by both Johnson and Coen that Baalke was the issue so he canned Baalke immediately and called Coen back to see if he was interested now.

About time this saga ends (knock on wood) so hopefully that means Saleh is hired by this weekend and we can move on from this drama to the next off-season drama with Purdy's contract.

Not sure what HC jobs are still.available for Saleh after Raiders hire Carroll

Jikkle · Post #191 » by **Jikkle** » Fri Jan 24, 2025 8:42 pm

Bobby Slowik got fired from the Texans.

Wouldn't be surprised if Klint Kubiak gets his promotion to offensive coordinator and Slowik gets his old job back as passing specialist.

That is if he doesn't get another coordinator job somewhere.

clyde21 · Post #192 » by **clyde21** » Fri Jan 24, 2025 9:22 pm

Coen to Jags confirmed, looks like it really was all about Baalke

Pattersonca65 · Post #193 » by **Pattersonca65** » Sat Jan 25, 2025 2:21 am

clyde21 wrote:Coen to Jags confirmed, looks like it really was all about Baalke

When is Saleh hiring going to be finalized? This is dragging on too long

49er4life1979 · Post #194 » by **49er4life1979** » Sat Jan 25, 2025 2:45 am

Not sure what the hold up is, but some in the organization have a slight fear that Carroll could poach him to his staff or even the Cowboys. Nonetheless, Barrows still expects Saleh back with the 49ers.

Samurai · Post #195 » by **Samurai** » Sat Jan 25, 2025 4:09 am

Pattersonca65 wrote:
clyde21 wrote:Coen to Jags confirmed, looks like it really was all about Baalke

When is Saleh hiring going to be finalized? This is dragging on too long

Niners Nation is stating that according to a report by Tom Pelissero, Saleh is now officially our new DC. Hopefully he can come up with a way to shore up our porous run defense and create a more consistent pass rush.

clyde21 · Post #196 » by **clyde21** » Sat Jan 25, 2025 4:16 am

official now

welcome back, Robert!

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Pattersonca65 · Post #197 » by **Pattersonca65** » Sat Jan 25, 2025 4:26 am

clyde21 wrote:official now

welcome back, Robert!

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Great news

Jikkle · Post #198 » by **Jikkle** » Sat Jan 25, 2025 7:53 am

Not doing backflips over the Saleh hire but I've already stated why many times but there are definite pros in his hiring.

For one it's a seamless transition. He's familiar with the area, most of the coaches, and while the roster is almost all new to him it's the same exact scheme so it's not like he has to teach the basics and expectations of the scheme and can focus on the adjustments.

Another one is that he can be the head coach of the defense, which has sorely been lacking since Ryan left to be the Texans HC. Kyle can trust him with the defensive side while Kyle focuses on the offensive side of things.

The defense feeds off his energy so I think that will provide a boost to the morale and get guys more amped to play well.

More importantly he'll clean up a lot of the fundamentals and a lot of the execution issues that plagued this team last season. Maybe I'm misremembering things but I do remember our defenses being strong tacklers and executing well under his tenure.

He'll also be counted on to make adjustments and while I don't love the scheme we shouldn't see anymore of the crap where offenses motioning to a bunch formation completely breaks our coverage. I fully expect him to have the ability to adjust to that.

And if he does get hired as a HC well at least we'll get comp picks from it.

Jikkle · Post #199 » by **Jikkle** » Sat Jan 25, 2025 8:12 am

I know tweaks and adjustments are made after every season but I do firmly believe we need adjustments on both sides of the ball beyond what you typically do in an offseason.

It's not just Shanahan but look across the league and the teams that run that Shanahan style offense generally all had down years and struggled compared to the previous season. So it's clear that defenses around the league last offseason made it an emphasis to figure out how to defeat it.

So I do think a significant autopsy of the offense is needed this offseason to get a bead on what defenses figured out and how to counter the counter. That's why I'm kinda hopeful that Shanahan replaces Klint's passing game specialist spot with someone with some fresh ideas. Because for the most part I think the running game is fine we just need better linemen to execute it but the passing attack leaves a lot to be desired with its design.

Defensively we're obviously not going to flip a switch and throw blitzes out there like crazy but I do think we need to crank the dial up a bit and we really got to work on execution and being creative when we do blitz because last season when we did blitz is was horrid. The timing of the blitzers was terrible and all they pretty much did was run straight into a guy that blocked them. It was clear blitzing was something we barely practiced.

Also would like to see them run more man and less zone. I know our pass rush wasn't amazing but I do think a large problem was the QB having no problems knowing exactly where to go with the ball and despite having 7 in coverage easily finding the wide open guy in a second for an easy 1st down conversion. It's not that there weren't times coverage was tight but for the amount of times we dropped 7 in coverage we did not see the QB sit in the pocket and pat the ball nearly enough.

thesack12 · Post #200 » by **thesack12** » Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:58 pm

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Unlike the last 2 offseasons, I'm pretty stoked about the DC hire this time around.

Of course, there is no guarantee that SF's defense will return to upper echelon form under Saleh. However, he has obviously proven that he can be a very high level DC in this league. I also think we will see a very hungry Robert Saleh.

I also never really got the logic behind people saying they shouldn't go after Saleh because he might leave for another HC gig in a year or 2. Well in order for that to happen, SF's defense will have returned to being top notch unit next year, year after, etc....

Ummmmm, isn't that what we all want to see?