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Nick Bosa: "Not My Decision" whether 49ers Should Keep Nick Sorensen

In the last three games of the season, the 49ers defense gave up a whopping 116 points even though it had Nick Bosa on the field. Kind of hard to fathom.

Grant Cohn

Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa (97) looks on during the fourth quarter against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa (97) looks on during the fourth quarter against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images / Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
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In the last three games of the season, the 49ers defense gave up a whopping 116 points even though it had Nick Bosa on the field. Kind of hard to fathom.

Just a few weeks ago, the 49ers defense held the Rams to a mere 12 points in a do-or-die game which San Francisco lost because the offense scored just six points. Which means defensive coordinator Nick Sorensen outperformed head coach Kyle Shanahan with the season on the line. Then the 49ers were eliminated from the playoffs, and the defense simply fell apart.

After the 49ers' season finale, a 47-24 loss to the Cardinals, Bosa was asked about Sorensen and the 49ers defense. Here's what Bosa said.

"It's hard to look the guys in their faces as a leader on the team when that's the product we kept putting out game after game. It's pretty embarrassing."

Q: How do you move forward from that?

BOSA: "Going to take some time off and then start from Square 1. We know how to play good and we obviously know how to play bad. We've got to figure it out."

Q: Do you have any idea why it has continued to be so embarrassing? You've been trying to rectify this since Week 3.

BOSA: "Say what?"

Q: Since early in the season you've been trying to get back on track. Why do you think the embarrassment continued?

BOSA: "If I had the answers, it might have changed."

Q: Do you feel like it's personnel or scheme?

BOSA: "Probably a mixture of everything."

Q: What are your thoughts on Nick Sorensen?

BOSA: "I think he's a good coach, but it's not my decision."

MY TAKE: Bosa implied that the defense does indeed have scheme issues and he did not lobby for the 49ers to keep Sorensen. In fact, it sounds like Bosa thinks Sorensen will be a goner.

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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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