Zac Taylor on How San Francisco 49ers Evolution Helped Cincinnati Bengals

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00:00 It kind of brings up an interesting point.

00:01 I was in LA in 2017 when Shanahan got to the 49ers.

00:07 And so you got a chance to see their evolution

00:10 of their systems.

00:11 And the first year, I know they had quarterback injuries

00:16 and stuff the first two years.

00:17 And then the third year, they went to the Super Bowl.

00:19 And so I remember showing our guys in 2020

00:24 kind of the evolution of San Francisco.

00:26 The first year, they were just-- they were learning the system.

00:29 And you could tell at times guys were learning.

00:32 And some of the crispness maybe wasn't there.

00:35 The second year, it really ramped up.

00:36 And then I showed clips of their Super Bowl game

00:38 against Kansas City of just why they were in the Super Bowl.

00:42 Just the attention to detail, everything was so good.

00:46 And just, hey, this is part of our process.

00:48 Our first year, we weren't very good.

00:50 Our attention to detail wasn't great.

00:52 Our level of coaching a lot of times wasn't great.

00:54 2020, we made some progress.

00:57 And then here's the step we got to make in 2021.

00:59 And there's a path here.

01:00 There's a pathway that San Francisco

01:02 has kind of shown people how it can occur.

01:04 And sure enough, maybe somebody out there

01:06 was showing clips of our Super Bowl game in year three.

01:10 So I've always looked at San Francisco

01:12 as a good template of how you can build

01:15 and you can continue to evolve and get

01:17 to where you want to be and then maintain

01:19 that level of consistency.

01:20 And they've really been the standard of that.

01:21 They've maintained that level of consistency

01:23 now since 2019 all the way through.

01:26 They've played in Super Bowls and championship games.

01:28 And really, really done a really good job there with John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan.