Jed York: Kyle Shanahan Didn't Want to Trade for Christian McCaffrey

Jed York recently said that San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan didn't want to trade for Christian McCaffrey.

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00:00 What do you remember from the conversations when he brought up the Christian McCaffrey

00:03 trade and what it would take to bring Christian here? What do you remember? He debuted against

00:07 the Chief and now looking back on that, when you see how the team is and how he is now,

00:11 what do you recall? Yeah, he thought it was a lot to give up for a running back and I think

00:18 John and I thought it was just the right amount to give up for Christian. And I remember that

00:27 very vividly where it's like, look, it's not a pass rusher, it's not a quarterback, but

00:31 you know, it's a good player, but like, do we want to give up that much? And like collectively,

00:36 it was, do you want him to go to LA? Like, did you want like, you know, this is where we are,

00:42 right? And, and I mean, as somebody that plays poker a little bit, like, you don't, you don't

00:48 go all in on like, you know, six jack offsuit, right? When you have a pair of jacks or ace king,

00:56 like you might not win the hand, but like, that's the time that you want to push your chips into

01:01 the middle. And I feel like that's where we were with Christian and we did give up a lot,

01:05 but I think we have one of the best, if not the best player in the national football league on

01:10 our team. And, you know, for Kyle, because he cares so much about the overall organization

01:16 and you, you look at us when we draft, when we do things in free agency, it's generally

01:22 on the defensive side of the ball. Like we generally do not draft offensive players super

01:27 high. We're not doing a ton of stuff in free agency for offensive players. It is more that

01:32 he's focused on the defense because he knows he's going to spend more time on the offense.

01:37 And I think it was just making sure that he felt comfortable knowing that like, it might not work,

01:41 but it's, it's a bet that we're all willing to make.