San Francisco 49ers Urged To Fire Kyle Shanahan By

San Francisco 49ers Urged To Fire Kyle Shanahan By

The San Francisco 49ers are a surprising 2-3 entering Week 6 of the regular season. Injuries to key players like Christian McCaffrey aren’t helping the team, but head coach Kyle Shanahan’s team has blown to double-digit fourth-quarter leads in three weeks.

The 49ers allowed the Los Angeles Rams to earn a 27-24 comeback win in Week 3. On Sunday, the Arizona Cardinals put 11 points in the fourth quarter to steal a 24-23 win at Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco. The loss tied Shanahan with Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh for choking the most double-digit fourth-quarter leads in the regular season or postseason since 2017. Both coaches have done so six times.

49ers beat writer for Sports Illustrated, Grant Cohn, is tired of the repeat circus show of watching Shanahan lose games San Francisco should put away. He suggested the 49ers should fire the defending NFC Champion head coach in a video posted to X.

“Stop me if you’ve heard this one before,” Cohn said. “This is how Kyle Shanahan always blows 10-point fourth-quarter leads. He stops running the ball. He’s more concerned with having an explosive offense than actually winning.

“That’s why he’s a fraud. (Shanahan) has been blowing fourth-quarter leads since 2017, when he was the offensive coordinator for the Falcons. Blowing fourth-quarter leads is his specialty, his destiny. It’s time to trade this choke artist before he coughs away another win to an inferior team. No coach does less with more than Shanahan. That’s his legacy. Get him out of here.”