I’m not close to a “FIRE SHANAHAN” yet, but I’d be lying hard if I didn’t say a lot of his shine is wearing off pretty quickly. Yeah, a lot of it has to do with the whole QB situation but there’s been some flags ever since THE TRADE that just seem a little off. Kind of getting Harbaugh last year vibes with a stubborn coach.
To be fair, that last Harbaugh season really went off the rails because Harbaugh, Greg Roman, Vic Fangio, and Trent Baalke all hated each other and the only dude in the coaching staff that any of the players seemed to like by the end of the year was Jim Tomsula.
Kyle and Lynch still seem to like each other and the current coordinators are first year dudes (might be part of what's been leading to the Niners struggles) so I don't anticipate this year's team crashing and burning and leading to four years of calamity like that one did, especially since all of the good players on this current squad are much younger than that year's guys were (by the end of the year, Bowman was still out after that terrible knee injury, Willis suffered a toe injury that would make him retire, Aldon was ten bottles deep, Justin Smith was pretty much done, Anquon Boldin was like 37 years old, and Frank Gore was getting shoved out the door).
And, while I still have issues with the way Kyle's called games this year, this offense is still much more enjoyable to watch than the boring ugly offense Harbaugh and Roman insisted on running in any game aside from the ones against the Packers for some reason.
