Steve Wilks Fired As 49ers Defensive Coordinator After Lost Super Bowl? | Pat McAfee Reacts

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Have some news around the NFL uh defensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers Steve wils has been fired as uh I’m sorry what from the San Francisco 49ers a change of San Francisco see Steve wols is out as the 49ers defensive coordinator now this is a surprise this literally just broke

Within a matter of moments here uh we don’t even have a take did not expect this to take place now I guess the only thing would be is we didn’t win Super Bowl we didn’t get over the hump something’s got to change KY Shanahan’s head coach we’re not going to fire the

Head coach he’s the offens coordinator Patrick Mahomes game tying drive whatever they need it game winning drive whatever they need just March right down the field Patrick Mahomes has done this to other teams in the past we thought Steve wilss defense was phenomenal all year long I think that’s a conversation

Piece so bit of a shocker here especially this time in the coaching cycle but that’s not the ners fault I guess because they make it to the Super Bowl but this is uh this is a shocker here AJ this is this is certainly a shocker if Steve wols is out do you

Think there there’s going to be a chance we hear that this is is somewhat of a mutual situation because if they won that Super Bowl if they made one more play and they win the Super Bowl I’m guessing Steve wils is still around yeah third and four they pick up that first

Down at the end of the game and Jake and I think what we’re going to learn from in the trenches is they send offensive line left George KD picks up right then they have McDuffy picked up they pick up that third and four first down they

Drain the clock they kick the field goal they win the Super Bowl is Steve wols fired probably not that’s why football is wild that’s why the NFL is insane but then also if you hold them to a field goal instead of a touchdown and overtime we’re still playing for the third

Possession we go kick a field goal we win this game what the offense is able to do but they’re in the Super Bowl yeah chuck chuck was kind of talking about a couple weeks ago how wols had to call the defense out you know as far as like

Some effort and you know he did come from the booth though yeah and then we talked a few weeks ago me and AQ about you know how different the defense have been since they lost huanga and obviously you know what the defense was last year under demo Ryan and even prior

To that with with uh Salah so um didn’t expect this this this firing to happen I’m with AJ though I hope it comes out there was some mutual parting of ways because we were on a run we thought last year he should have been hired as the the Carolina Panthers head

Coach after the job he did as an interim and then had a great year you know pretty good year this year and being in the Super Bowl 19 points in regulation against Patrick Mahomes obviously go go on and lose it but uh this is definitely surprising there’s a comment coming from

Kyle Shanahan Shanahan says it was a tough decision and he didn’t mention it yesterday because he wasn’t sure at that point which direction he’d go says wil system didn’t align with what the 49ers had run previously ads it just ended up not being the right fit so without the

Right fit a deco coordinator they make this Super Bowl that’s a wild thing uh I don’t know if it’s is it he said scheme there right so he didn’t say personality it wasn’t a personality fit or whatever the case is and he said he could have went a multiple of different directions

As of yesterday so either last night or this morning he just woke up and had to make that incredibly difficult decision there you I guess he could potentially also be a part of a victim of same thing that I guess py was going through they have so much talent on the defensive

Side of the ball so as KY Shanahan think like you know we can Salah had success um D too had success wols had success we could bring in anybody yeah really and run is that a mind not saying that that’s how the case or diminishing anything in Steve ws’ brain is or does

But is that what kle shanan thinks like hey we have so much talent invested on that defensive side of the ball all of our defense coordinators have done well like that is that is how we need to find the group that can win us the Super Bowl

Because they get a stop after we kick that field goal we witnessed it is is that the ultimate reason why I I do I genuinely wonder that well like with those two guys oh my bad AJ go ahead no I just I think that obviously there’s been issues behind the scenes all year

If they’re firing him now this isn’t the first they’re they’re thinking like hey we need to change that or this system isn’t working the way like the system doesn’t fit our players the way we want to what would the system be I I don’t think I fully understand CU they’re

Running the San Francisco 49ers defense is that just what happens uh I mean every every coordinator is going to come and have their own wrinkles you know it’s they’ve been a 4-3 you know down lineman down DNS but they’re going is it more quarters they want to be man more

Man based more fire zones different things so how you call the game is definitely some things uh in the game is going to be on everything DB uh I think matchup wise they could have and should have done differently I think when it comes to handling Travis Kelce and then

The teams throughout this playoff running if you look at NFC side you know the Lions uh the Packers what they’ll be um but the teams like they had some success especially in the Run game and you know playoff time it’s going to start with hey stopping the Run game if

You look at the Personnel in San Fran hardgrave Bosa young kenlaw and then the second level linebackers of greenw obviously he got hurt Fred Warner like you would expect that they should be you know one of the top teams in the league in the Run game so didn’t have a ton of

Success in the postseason and uh they’re they’re in Championship mode so it’s just like the same players like if we need to change a wrinkle here uh even though we were this close maybe that’s what we need to change what did Bill coward say he say I’ll fire a coach just

Fire a coach just to let people know they need a little bit of different energy I’m not saying that’s what Kyle Shanahan did but like that is right they are in Championship mode we need to we need to figure this out how we go Steve WS will get another job we assume but

It’s late here now yeah there’s no DC’s open now but he definitely get another job who knows too if after the season like if any of the players came up and nothing against Steve wils but if they were like hey look the things that we did obviously we had our base that the

San Francisco defense has that we’ve had the past couple years but the little things that got changed they didn’t help us like what we were changing last year and those little things that Deo was doing that was a much more better suited for our defense but luckily enough for

The San Francisco 49ers there is a highly motivated analyst on ESPN that would love to be a defensive coordinator again in the NFL that would be pretty Electric in San Francisco a guy who was potentially for the Dallas Cowboys job yeah I think so who really really really

Wanted the cowboy job because he wants to be on that stage and the Jesus commercial people say he loved that’s right the one where they’re washing feet mm now are they a 4-3 and Rex is a 3 four guy is that does that I have no idea all those intricacies I got no

[ __ ] clue but I do know Rex Ry needs to be back in the NFL damn it there was definitely an interesting point in that game right where where you saw Shanahan call a timeout remember that oh yeah and then he he kind of overwrote you saw

They were he was about to bring cover zero they already ran zero like a zero type thing got burnt earlier cuz Mahomes did I think rice on a Crossing pattern that went for like 40 yep and then he calls the timeout and he’s like do not run cover zero again like so against

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