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One day after the Atlanta Falcons were defeated in a historic comeback to the New England Patriots, Kyle Shanahan has a new job. He has officially been hired as the San Francisco 49ers head coach.
He was the Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator for the past two seasons under head coach Dan Quinn. But his last game with the team will be the most criticized during his tenure there — and possibly his entire coaching career.
The Falcons led the Patriots 28-3 in the third quarter at Super Bowl LI at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. Since 8:31 in the quarter, New England scored 25 unanswered points to send the game into overtime.
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James White then scored the game-winning touchdown. That ended Atlanta’s magical season, as they fell to 0-2 in their Super Bowl appearances, as a franchise.
Shanahan gets his first head coaching job. He replaces Chip Kelly, who went 2-14 during the 2016 season — and both wins were against the Los Angeles Rams.
The 49ers have not had a head coach since Jim Harbaugh to serve multiple seasons. Jim Tomsula also served a season as a head coach — and he should have never been the head coach in the first-place — before he was canned and Kelly was hired to lead the team.
The reigning Assistant Coach of the Year, along with his hand-picked general manager John Lynch, will try to rebuild the once storied franchise to their glory days. Both Shanahan and Lynch have received six-year deals from the team.
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The 37-year-old had been an offensive coordinator in the National Football League since the 2008 season when he was first put in the role by Shanahan’s close family friend Gary Kubiak. Besides the Falcons, he was also an offensive coordinator with the Cleveland Browns, the Washington Redskins and the Houston Texans.
He is the son of long-time NFL head coach Mike Shanahan. He had a 178-144 record with the Los Angeles Raiders, the Denver Broncos and the Redskins.
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