The search for the next San Francisco 49ers GM and head coach has started. All the names you would expect to hear for head coach are being mentioned. Josh McDaniels, Kyle Shanahan, Vance Joseph, and Anthony Lynn are expected to be interviewed shortly. It’s interesting that head coaches are being interviewed before a GM has been hired. The allure of the 49ers GM job is the ability to choose the head coach. If the 49ers hire the coach first, the GM position could be potentially harder to fill.
Josh McDaniels and Kyle Shanahan are the hot names for head coach and for very good reasons. Josh runs New England’s offense and Tom Brady has mentioned that he owes a lot of his success to Josh’s coaching. Kyle Shanahan helped Matt Ryan have a career and possibly MVP season while making the Falcons the top scoring offense in the NFL. His connection to the 49ers makes him that more attractive for the position.
The 49ers will be interviewing ESPN’s Louis Riddick, Vikings’ George Paton, and Indy’s Jimmy Raye III for their GM position. It will be very important that Jed York get the GM pick right because the roster is bare of talent and the next GM will be crucial to lure a good head coach to the Bay Area. The GM will have to start from the bottom and rebuild a roster that can compete in the next few years. They have a golden opportunity to start with the #2 pick in the draft waiting for whoever becomes the GM.
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Looking at the opportunities | OC Chip Kelly (Smith)
Top 2 candidate | Kyle Shanahan To Interview This Weekend (Alper)
More Power (Maiocco)
Could be a good fit | Louis Riddick (Alper)
WIth the ability to choose a head coach, it’s enticing | Most Appealing GM Job? (Jones)
ESPN Analyst To Interview (Maiocco)
Of course he did | Baalke Undermined Chip (Biderman)
Buckner And Armstead (Jones)
He has talked about it in a good way | Riddick And The GM Job (Branch)
Riddick (Barrows)
Louis Likes The 49ers Job (Biderman)
Interview Scheduled For Next Week (Lancaster)
QB Coach Gone (Brzezinski)
More to come I’m sure | Confirmed Candidates (Maiocco)
Or OC job | Possible Return To College For Chip (Biderman)
Anthony Lynn The 1st To Be Interviewed (Inman)
Hopefully he gets an opportunity | Kap And The Open Market (Steele)
QB At #2 (Biderman)
Will Jed ever learn? | 4 Lessons For Jed (Ratto)
The Search (Williams)
Visiting Fans At Levi’s (Branch)
Candidate Tracker (Cohn)
Vance Joseph (Branch)
No Meeting Set With Vance (Maiocco)
Vance Will Interview For HC (Jones)
He sounds like a good communicator, which Trent was not | From Analyst To GM? (Edholm)
Dual Searches Begin (Kawakami)
Sean McVay (Alper)
Washington OC To Interview (Maiocco)
2 OCs To Be Interviewed (Biderman)
#2 Overall Pick (Fann)
NFL’s Youngest Coordinator (Branch)
49ers Notes (Barrows)
Don’t think a Colts executive is very attractive | Jimmy Raye III In For GM Interview (Maiocco)
1st Day Of Offseason Spent Giving Back (Biderman)
Vikings executive is not attractive either | Viking Executive Scheduled To Interview (Maiocco)
Did Chip Over-React? (Barrows)
Riddick Wants 49ers GM Job (Branch)
Owens Named Finalist For HOF (Maiocco)
He should get in | Will TO Make The HOF? (Biderman)
Thinking this is 100% true | Dilfer Doesn’t Think Kap Is Back On 49ers In 2017 (Jones)
Interviewing Colts Executive (Jackson)
No win situation | Never Had A Shot (Robinson)
Interviewing Paton On Friday (Crabtree)
This guy has too much power. Jed’s right hand man | Paarag’s Power (BASG)
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