Since becoming the HC in San Francisco in 2017 Shanahan's overall record is 76-65 (54% win percentage)
This is very deceiving
Shanahan took over by far the worst roster in football and going 6-10 year one was nothing short of miraculous. Once they traded for Jimmy G, they actually won some games with a semi-competent QB.
Going into 2018, expectations were over the top IMO. Then Jimmy tears his ACL in game 3 and the season goes to crap. You can't count those seasons against him. It was pretty much a complete rebuild from what he took over.
Third year in he takes them to the super bowl and almost pulls it off despite having Jimmy at QB while the other side had Mahomes. I still think they beat KC in 2023 if Greenlaw doesn't tear his Achilles as he is starting to run onto the field after change of possession. At that point, Kelce had 1 yard receiving. Ended up with almost 100 in the 2nd half.
Kyle is a great coach. This year is testament to that. 6-3 and 3-0 in the division rolling with backups at key positions. Great job.
I really thought I was clear that I wasn't calling Shanahan a bad coach.
Well, you implied that while he wasn't a fraud, you were going to call him one anyway and that his success is mainly due to CMC. He almost won the super bowl with Mostert/Coleman and Jimmy at QB. Hardly game changers. He had a lot of success prior to CMC.
He's an elite coach IMO. If the 49ers were stupid enough to part ways with him, his cell phone would be blowing up with coaching offers. As much as I like John Lynch, if he was as good of a GM as Kyle is a coach, they would have had even more success. A lot of blown draft picks along the way. Not sure how much Kyle contributed to those bad draft decisions, but in the end, it's Lynch's call. The last couple years have been better, so maybe it was just a long learning process.
But that said, yes CMC is perfect for his offense and obviously makes it much better