Analyzing why the San Francisco 49ers still haven't hired a defensive coordinator and which players they could target at the NFL Combine.
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00:00 The 49ers have interviewed two defensive coordinator candidates and they're not Bill Belichick.
00:08 It's Brandon Staley, the former Chargers head coach who got fired recently, and Nick Sorensen,
00:16 who was the 49ers past game coordinator on defense.
00:19 He's been here a couple of years.
00:23 Does this move you?
00:24 Well, let me say first, reportedly interviewed.
00:28 Reportedly.
00:29 According to Matt Maioca.
00:31 Yeah, we don't have sources.
00:34 Reportedly interviewed too.
00:35 So let me start off by saying there's a lot of people who said they would hire from within
00:40 the organization.
00:41 Well, they're interviewing within.
00:44 Some said they hire from without the organization.
00:47 They might hire from without.
00:49 Sites say everybody's right.
00:51 It's wonderful when everybody's right.
00:52 And I just think that's the greatest thing for journalism.
00:56 If you throw enough, you'll hit the wall.
00:59 Anyway, Staley, I have one word to say about him.
01:04 Loser, loser.
01:06 I have never seen a man so befuddled on a sideline.
01:12 So except for Mike McCarthy, he's pretty much like that too.
01:15 But this Brandon Staley, you look at him, he was have this look in his eyes like, what
01:21 in the world am I supposed to do now?
01:24 So is he an upgrade over Steve Wilks?
01:27 I don't think so.
01:30 What do you think, Grant?
01:31 I agree with what you said.
01:33 He was an abysmal failure with the Chargers.
01:36 And I think part of the reason he was such a disappointment is because his defense was
01:41 awful.
01:42 The team was awful, but he was supposed to be some defensive guru because he was a defensive
01:47 coordinator for one year with the Rams.
01:51 His ascension was incredible.
01:52 He was at John Carroll University doing nothing.
01:56 But Vic Fangio discovered him, made him a linebackers coach with the Bears.
02:01 He did that for three years, became a defensive coordinator for one year with the Rams, became
02:04 a head coach and was just awful, as I guess should have been predicted because he had
02:11 no resume.
02:12 Iggy, he got fired during the season, not after the story.
02:18 That's how bad he is.
02:19 So if that's the outside guy, I'd like to know who's the inside guy.
02:25 Yeah, didn't his team give up like 60 points in a game this year?
02:30 Yeah, to the writers, freaking 63 points, they gave up.
02:37 That's the guy you're going to bring in to fix Steve Wilks's problem.
02:40 I don't think so.
02:41 I don't like it.
02:42 I don't like it.
02:43 I don't like it at all.
02:44 So OK, Brandon Staley put him to the side.
02:47 Nick Sorensen.
02:48 So if and when they promote Nick Sorensen, who no one's ever heard of, to defensive coordinator,
02:53 they can say, well, we, you know, left no stone unturned.
02:57 We looked at all the best candidates and Sorensen would just happen to be the best candidate.
03:01 Would you believe that?
03:03 Well let's say this.
03:05 Since I don't know anything about Nick Sorensen, he may be phenomenal.
03:10 OK, what was his role on the Niners?
03:15 Best game coordinator of the defense.
03:17 So the coverages and I guess the pressures.
03:22 Were the pressures good?
03:24 No, no, no, no.
03:28 So what I could say is I don't know nothing about I don't know.
03:33 No, I don't know nothing.
03:34 No, I don't know nothing about Sorensen.
03:36 He might be good, but I mean, that's it.
03:39 Those two guys.
03:40 Yeah.
03:41 I mean, they had Robert Sala and they had this D'Amico Ryans and then they had the other
03:47 guy who was a head coach.
03:48 At least he looked good.
03:50 Now they got these two non entities.
03:53 So I want to say go Niners.
03:56 I have an outside the box idea.
03:59 A coordinator they could get who's been a head coach and has some gravitas.
04:07 Steve Wilks.
04:08 Oh, I think he'd be good.
04:11 Yeah, I think he's available.
04:12 He'd be so good.
04:13 Yeah.
04:14 Now the problem with Wilks, he runs a different system, right?
04:17 Of course.
04:18 So you'd have to eventually.
04:20 But I'm sure he won't micromanage Steve Wilks.
04:23 Why would you break me an outsider and tell him what to do?
04:25 It doesn't make any sense.
04:28 You're breaking up a little audio.
04:32 Talk a little.
04:33 That's all.
04:34 Well, let me close some.
04:37 Can you hear me now?
04:44 I can.
04:45 I think I had.
04:46 I think what happens.
04:47 I wanted to show some film later, some some football film when I think it overloads my
04:52 computer.
04:53 It's just too.
04:54 Don't do that.
04:55 So it's out.
04:56 It's too sensitive.
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04:58 I'm too sensitive.
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05:00 I'm too sensitive.
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