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Emmanuel Acho Rips 49ers HC Kyle Shanahan

People are beginning to lose confidence in Kyle Shanahan.

Grant Cohn

Nov 24, 2024; Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan calls out during the second quarter against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images
Nov 24, 2024; Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan calls out during the second quarter against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images / Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images
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People are beginning to lose confidence in Kyle Shanahan.

The latest person to take him to task is former NFL player and current ESPN analyst Emmanuel Acho. Throughout the years, Acho has been mostly complimentary of Shanahan and the 49ers. But this year has been different.

"It's the most disappointing season of the Kyle Shanahan Era," Acho said. "Kyle Shanahan looks like he has mismanaged the staff, he mas mismanaged the roster and he has mismanaged the offense. I'll first start with the staff. You fired Steve Wilks because there was a lack of a personality and personnel fit. But he had the no. 3 defense in football, and now Nick Sorensen has the (20th) best defense in football. On Sunday, the Niners allowed 38 points in a regular season game for the first time in 37 games since the Kansas City Chiefs did so on Oct. 23 of 2022. So you mismanaged the staff. Now, let's talk about the players. You and Brandon Aiyuk, y'all had this tension, so much so that we saw him taking off his shorts at practice because they were the wrong color, he wants to get paid, he doesn't get paid, Deebo Samuel is choking long snappers during a game and nothing is spoken about it. You mismanaged the staff and you mismanaged the roster. Now lastly, the offense. In a world where the Detroit Lions are running up scoreboards and running a ton of trick plays, in a world where offenses are changing protections, in a world where quarterbacks and players are being protected, this offense looks stagnant. This is the most disappointing season considering expectations of the Kyle Shanahan Era, and I don't believe it's close."

Acho is 100 percent correct. And I would add some things to what he said.

Shanahan mismanaged the salary cap when he gave Christian McCaffrey and Brandon Aiyuk mega extensions. And Shanahan has mismanaged McCaffrey's playing time to the detriment of the team since he returned from bilateral Achilles tendonitis.

I'm sure there's more. Shanahan is having a very bad year.

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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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