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49ers QB Coach Brian Griese to Interview to be the Jets Head Coach

I'm guessing Griese isn't going anywhere.

Grant Cohn

Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterbacks coach Brian Griese watches the action from the sideline in the third quarter against the New York Jets at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn Images
Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterbacks coach Brian Griese watches the action from the sideline in the third quarter against the New York Jets at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn Images / David Gonzales-Imagn Images
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The 49ers could lose their quarterbacks coach this offseason.

Brian Griese reportedly will interview with the New York Jets to potentially become their head coach next season. The Jets fired their head coach Robert Saleh a few months ago during the season. Saleh also came from the 49ers and is a terrific defensive coach. Perhaps now the Jets are looking for an offensive coach.

Bad franchises never seem to know what they want.

If they're looking for the next Kevin O'Connell, the Vikings young head coach who's having lots of success, perhaps they feel Griese is similar to him. Like O'Connell, Griese was a quarterback in the NFL, so he understands the position. In addition, Griese has been the 49ers' quarterbacks coach since 2022 and has helped mold Brock Purdy.

But Griese's resume still is relatively thin. O'Connell was an offensive coordinator for two different teams before he became Minnesota's head coach. Griese hasn't been an offensive coordinator or even a passing coordinator yet -- he has been a coach for merely three seasons. He's still green.

And it's unclear how good of a quarterback developer he truly is. Purdy came to the 49ers largely a finished product after starting four seasons at Iowa State. In his first 22 starts, the 49ers won 18 games and his quarterback rating was 114.9.

But in Purdy's past 20 starts, the 49ers have won just nine games and his quarterback rating is 92.7 -- the league average in 2024 was 92.3. Which means Purdy has regressed from an outstanding quarterback to an average one.

I'm guessing Griese isn't going anywhere.

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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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