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Originally Posted by staylor26
And Shanahan already confirmed that he won't be back, so he's as good as gone.
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This is probably his last, best shot to grab a bag one more time.
And man, if you're Grapes and you see Shanahan
continue to expose his top guys to these shots, why would you go back there?
I gotta believe that by mid-season next year we'll finally start to hear reporters start to question the brilliant Shanahan and say "Hey, has anyone considered the possibility that this isn't bad luck? Maybe he's not a boy genius who's come up with some novel approach to offense. Maybe everyone else out there COULD be doing stuff like this but isn't because they don't want to get their key offensive players killed?"
Shanahan got Purdy hurt. Shanahan got Lance hurt. Grapes got hurt on a simple zone blitz where the 49ers had 3 guys off the line and 2 RBs in the backfield who both ran out in the pattern leaving him completely exposed off the edge.
Shanahan has that Martz sort of 'damn the torpedoes' approach to protecting his guys and it took about 3 years of Martz getting guys killed for folks to finally wise up and say "hey, maybe
he's the problem?"