White said when asked about Shanahan<\/a> winning a ring during his career on The Up And Adams Show. \u201cThey start like this every year. That team starts very fast every year. The only time they haven\u2019t started fast is when they had everybody hurt. And this year they\u2019re still managing to get people hurt, but they\u2019re off to a good start. I think, me personally, that he\u2019s a great offensive mind, right?<\/p>\n\u201cBut in tough situations, in pressure situations, the over-aggressive play calls always get him in trouble. And I think that\u2019s just his mentality. He doesn\u2019t play situational football well. That\u2019s the only thing that I think that\u2019s really like a knock on his game. And the thing that he does, he doesn\u2019t play like situational football well. And that gets his team in trouble when you play against great quarterbacks. And when you make it to a Super Bowl, you\u2019re gonna be playing against a great quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n
The four-time Pro Bowl receiver for the Atlanta Falcons believes Shanahan has yet to learn game management and handling those situations in playoff games.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour ability to understand the flow of the game and the things like that is going to help you win those games,\u201d White continued. \u201cAnd I think especially if you have to play Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl. That guy has learned from Tom Brady, just playing him each and every year, playing him in Super Bowls. He knows what it takes. He can read what\u2019s going on. He knows how to handle those situations, and he always comes out as a winner because he doesn\u2019t give himself an opportunity to lose the game. And I think that Kyle always thinks about I have to win the game. I have to win the game instead of putting his players in the best position to win the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a great play caller, like great play caller. The play call sheet is deep. I will say that. But he seems to have a guy that can handle it. Being a part of that and just doing everything when Matt [Ryan] was there and going through everything. I mean, man, we\u2019ll be on the sideline, and he\u2019ll see something, boom, boom, boom. He\u2019d be like, hey, man, I know we didn\u2019t work this in practice, but it\u2019s gonna work. Hey, this is what I want you to do. Boom, go out there, extra eye, execute the play, works. Boom, explosive play. So he\u2019s very, very smart. I just think the aggressive play calling when not needed in pressure situations always gets the best of him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shanahan\u2019s game management, especially in go-for situations, had been one of the more scrutinized parts of him as a head coach earlier in his career. He had generally been too conservative in those situations and often went against analytics with his decisions. That has changed over the past few years, but White believes he\u2019s gotten too aggressive as a play-caller.<\/p>\n
So far this season, he\u2019s been having a great year after arguably the best coaching season of his career in 2025 with a battered 49ers team. We\u2019ll see if that can translate to postseason success, but the 49ers are putting themselves in a great spot to be successful in January with their start to the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers are at the top of the NFL right now, sitting at 6-0 after their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,8376,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-505327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}