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49ers DC Nick Sorensen Discusses his Matchup with Chiefs HC Andy Reid

No pressure. Nick.

Grant Cohn

Jul 25, 2024; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Nick Sorensen answers questions at a press conference following Day 3 of training camp at SAP Performance Facility. Mandatory Credit: D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images
Jul 25, 2024; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Nick Sorensen answers questions at a press conference following Day 3 of training camp at SAP Performance Facility. Mandatory Credit: D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images / D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images
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The Chiefs have a slight coaching advantage over the 49ers this week.

In one corner, we have 49ers rookie defensive coordinator Nick Sorensen who has called for six games. In the other corner, we have Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid who has called plays since 1999 and is the best head coach in NFL history coming off a Bye week. He's 21-4 when he has an extra week to prepare in the regular season.

No pressure. Nick.

This week, I asked Sorensen about his upcoming matchup with Reid.

"What makes Reid so difficult to face, particularly off of a Bye Week?" I asked. "Is he presenting things that he hasn't shown on film yet or does he get a feel for what you're doing?

"I think whenever you have more time, it's always a race every week, and I think when you have more time, you can look at more stuff," Sorensen said. "Sometimes that can hurt people. I think he's really good about deciphering how he wants to utilize this extra time and the information that he gets. Plus he's been around the league so long, I think he knows how to do that and he knows how to attack schemes and he is one of the best ever."

To be fair, we've never seen Sorensen call a game coming off a Bye week. He might be even better than Reid with an extra week to prepare.

I guess we'll find out on Sunday.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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