{"id":698759,"date":"2026-06-12T01:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/698759\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:05:10","slug":"george-kittle-anybody-who-has-kyle-shanahan-on-the-hot-seat-is-not-the-smartest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/698759\/","title":{"rendered":"George Kittle: Anybody who has Kyle Shanahan on the hot seat is &#8220;not the smartest&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Shanahan is one of a handful of NFL coaches who would immediately be hired elsewhere if his team ever moved on. In nine seasons with the 49ers, Shanahan has made five playoff appearances, with a 9-5 postseason record and two Super Bowl appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing he hasn\u2019t done is win a ring.<\/p>\n<p>49ers tight end George Kittle was asked whether Shanahan could find himself on the hot seat if the 49ers remain ringless after this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody that says Kyle Shanahan is on the hot seat, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/49ers\/2026\/06\/11\/george-kittle-kyle-shanahan-mac-jones-49ers\/90504349007\/?utm_source=49ersWebZone&amp;utm_medium=dt&amp;utm_campaign=affref\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">you guys are not the smartest<\/a>,\u201d Kittle told Nick Brinkerhoff of USA Today. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make any sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shanahan finished fifth in Coach of the Year voting in 2025 after the 49ers qualified for the playoffs despite an injury-plagued season. Kittle, Nick Bosa, Fred Warner and Brock Purdy were among the players who missed time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that we were able to go to the playoffs, win a road game, and make it to the second round is pretty incredible to me,\u201d Kittle said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Shanahan is one of a handful of NFL coaches who would immediately be hired elsewhere if his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-698759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}