Shanahan describes giving up 49ers’ preseason play-calls as ‘weird’

Shanahan describes giving up 49ers’ preseason play-calls as ‘weird’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

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Kyle Shanahan was a fish out of water during the 49ers’ preseason-opening loss to the Tennessee Titans last Saturday.

The 49ers coach gave up offensive play-calling for the first time, turning over duties to offensive passing game specialist Klay Kubiak.

The one-time switch was a different feeling for Shanahan.

“It was a little weird,” Shanahan told Tom Tolbert and Adam Copeland on KNBR 680 on Thursday night. “I was excited about it because Klay’s done a hell of a job and I wanted him to be able to do it and I’ll tell you … I was much more personable to people. I actually could carry conversations with people who came up to me. I could talk to the refs a lot more when they came over even though you’re not really talking about anything, but you’re not trying to carry 1,000 thoughts in your head while pretending to be social to somebody. So that was kind of nice.

“But it definitely isn’t quite as fun. You’re just sitting there and you don’t want to sit there and talk about plays all the time because a guy wants to get in the rhythm and it’s not just about what play-call you make, it’s how you kind of set up the whole game and it’s always different in preseason too to where I told Klay before it.”

While Kubiak has experience calling plays at lower levels of football, Shanahan still had to give his assistant advice ahead of the game in Nashville, Tenn.

“I’m like, ‘Hey, I know you’re calling plays and obviously you want to do a good job, but the preseason just remember, it’s not about calling plays,’ ” Shanahan told Tolbert and Copeland. “It’s more about, ‘Hey, we want to see this guy here, we want to see that guy there. All right, we need to get out of…

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Publish date : 2024-08-16 15:59:34

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