{"id":702161,"date":"2026-06-13T18:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/702161\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T18:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:44:10","slug":"49ers-shanahan-hot-seat-2026-kittle-sherman-shut-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/702161\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers Shanahan Hot Seat 2026: Kittle, Sherman shut it down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">If it weren\u2019t for Brandon Aiyuk, a topic of discussion might be whether San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan is on the hot seat. Again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">We usually have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninersnation.com\/2021\/10\/15\/22728470\/49ers-kyle-shanahan-hot-seat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this discussion<\/a> during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninersnation.com\/2024\/11\/27\/24307430\/should-san-francisco-49ers-head-coach-kyle-shanahan-be-on-the-hot-seat-after-struggles-in-2024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the season<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninersnation.com\/2024\/11\/25\/24305133\/49ers-packers-kyle-shanahan-john-lynch-jim-harbaugh-job-nfl-coaching-search\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some point<\/a>, but this year, 2026, it\u2019s the offseason, with speculation about how warm Shanahan\u2019s seat is. It\u2019s pretty simple\u2014there is none.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Why think otherwise? One could guess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cAnybody that says Kyle Shanahan is on the hot seat, you guys are not the smartest,\u201d Kittle said, via <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnfl%2F49ers%2F2026%2F06%2F11%2Fgeorge-kittle-kyle-shanahan-mac-jones-49ers%2F90504349007%2F%3Futm_source%3D49ersWebZone%26utm_medium%3Ddt%26utm_campaign%3Daffref\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today\u2019s Nick Brinkerhoff<\/a>. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make any sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Well, it doesn\u2019t make sense to a lot of people. It never has. There\u2019s, of course, a vocal (minority?) thinking that since the 49ers lost two Super Bowls and they are \u201cjust\u201d in contention every year, they should look for someone better. Some of the 49ers\u2019 draft whiffs also seem to throw\u2014well, whatever is needed to argue the 49ers should move on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kittle wasn\u2019t the only person over the last few weeks to shoot down the notion (if it ever existed). Former 49ers cornerback <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RShermanPodcast\/status\/2059726267415765365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2059726267415765365%7Ctwgr%5E7b229fbbfe1ae09c6a67cb208b64ea4fa56352ed%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fninerswire.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnfl%2Fniners%2F2026%2F05%2F28%2Frichard-sherman-says-20-teams-would-hire-kyle-shanahan%2F90291526007%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\">Richard Sherman said even if the 49ers missed<\/a> the playoffs in 2026, their head coach would be on an iceberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIf he somehow was on the hot seat,\u201d Sherman elaborated. \u201cThere would be 20 seats in the NFL getting hotter as it got hotter. Because if he ever got fired, so would they.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Meaning, 20 teams would be trying to hire Shanahan in a heartbeat if he became available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The simple response to \u201cfire Kyle Shanahan\u201d is \u201cgive an alternative.\u201d See above: 20 other teams would fire their coach because their alternative could be Kyle Shanahan. Many of you might remember how the 49ers mutually parted ways with Jim Harbaugh following a disappointing 2014 season, where they posted a crowd-pleasing 8-8 record. They thought they had an alternative\u2014his name was Jim Tomsula, and his result was one of the worst offenses in team history. The 49ers knew they could do better, so they went with Chip Kelly the next year. 2-14 isn\u2019t exactly an improvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The current 49ers under Shanahan are criticized as well \u2014most of it is relevant\u2014but it\u2019s usually about how they perform in the Super Bowl or the playoffs\u2014the endings to seasons that were not possible under the two coaches who preceded Shanahan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">And if the 49ers did get rid of Shanahan, there\u2019s still that substation \u201ctheory\u201d. If you looked at how the 49ers did in 2026, list a coach that could have done what Shanahan did with that decimated roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Yes, sub-.500 seasons, front office dysfunction, rotating door of head coaches\u2014let\u2019s not go back to that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If it weren\u2019t for Brandon Aiyuk, a topic of discussion might be whether San Francisco 49ers head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,2745,99],"class_list":["post-702161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702161","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=702161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}