Analyzing whether the San Francisco 49ers have improved their defensive coaching staff this offseason.
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00:00 Steve Wilkes out Nick Sorensen promoted from past game court in a defensive coordinator
00:06 Brandon Staley added just in case as assistant head coach presumably and now KJ right in
00:13 The building as defensive quality control assistant has a defensive coaching staff improved. I
00:19 Don't think so when you look at it Nick Sorensen same situation as
00:25 Steve Wilkes essentially now the only difference is he does know the defense because he's been here for a little while
00:30 But essentially you have a defensive coordinator who has never called plays and that's why they brought Brandon Staley and they brought him in to
00:36 Be hey, you're not calling the right stuff. Let's call cloud coverage to disguise looks, you know, so
00:42 Okay, I said but no but I think essentially it's a weird
00:50 It's a weird situation to be in for the 49ers because essentially I see it as another one-year opportunity for Nick Sorensen to prove himself
00:56 Steve Wilkes essentially would have been a better
00:58 Keep in the sense of he now understands defense understands what how to call things what to fix
01:05 And I thought the Niners ditch did him
01:07 Wrong in a sense because now we're in a similar situation
01:10 I don't think they got better Brandon Staley if you look at what he's done
01:14 Good defensive coordinator when he was with the Rams his defensive charge defense with the Chargers was absolutely terrible
01:20 Now that the Rams also had a defensive coordinator vacancy. They decided not to go back to Brandon Staley
01:27 Right is that that's a great point. That's where I'm like if we're gonna hire a defensive coordinator. I
01:33 Get going Nick Sorensen because it's an in-house hire
01:37 But for me, I felt like there was other defensive coordinator opportunities that you had interviewed merit from the spagnola tree
01:45 I thought that would have been a much better hire
01:47 Similar situation. He's been around good defenses
01:49 With the New York Giants. He took down Brady
01:53 Beat the Niners a few times. So for me, I definitely would have gone another route. I don't think they got better
01:58 I think that around the same if not a little bit worse
02:01 Here's my question if Nick Sorensen is a better play caller than Steve Wilkes
02:08 Then why didn't they make that change with season?
02:10 Why didn't they make it last last season?
02:13 Yeah, like you had Sorensen you could have made him the president the first quarter last year and you were clearly unhappy with Steve Wilkes
02:20 At the bye week Sorensen was there you could have made the change
02:24 So now we're supposed to think that this is an upgrade Sorensen's a better play caller now, but not a month ago
02:31 And so I don't see what's changed there. So like the real
02:35 Addition here that makes this a clincher is stately
02:39 Brandon stately and is he really a better coach than Steve Wilkes? I don't know
02:44 Well, I do know that Nick Nick Bosa's brother
02:47 Joey Bosa was kind of frustrated with that scheme to start right like he came out and made public comments about
02:54 The Brandon's daily defense and he explained how it's frustrating because he just wants to get after the quarterback
02:59 He didn't really want to have to drop and he had him dropping
03:02 So that was kind of interesting for me like when I did see a lot of people wanting staley
03:06 It's just if Nick Bosa your best defensive player does his brother didn't care for that system at the start
03:13 What makes me think Nick Bosa is gonna care for him coming in and wanting to add?
03:17 His form of this his defense to the Niners even to me. It just doesn't make much sense
03:22 I do think Nick Sorensen probably should change things up go away from the cover three go away from the wide nine
03:28 It's not great against the run teams are starting to run the ball against the Niners defense and to me it's more so
03:35 Not necessarily personnel in terms of defensive coaching. I think it's the scheme the scheme isn't that great anymore? I
03:41 Completely agree. So you go to wide nine and you're pretty much saying we'll sacrifice a little run defense because it's a passing league
03:50 But we're gonna supercharge our pass rush pass rush wasn't even that good last year
03:54 So what advantage is the wide nine even giving you anymore? You could say it's a personnel issue
04:00 Maybe it is maybe they need another defensive end, but still it seems like
04:03 Teams know exactly how to attack the wide nine these days. Nothing's changed with this defense in like five years
04:08 Well, if you look at the Niners in 2019 when they won when they went to the Super Bowl
04:12 They had guys like the forest Buckner DJ Jones was on the team
04:16 Like so you could you could go with the wide nine because you got big bodies who could stop the run inside
04:21 You know when you don't have those guys you have Hargrave who has never been a good run defender
04:26 You have arm said who's not on the field half the time trees. So it's like you don't have the personnel to do it
04:32 Yeah, the NFL is going away from the big-body defense alignment to an athletic passing game
04:39 Because that's what the NFL is
04:41 You got to adapt to what the NFL does and I think the Niners defense is not adapting to what the NFL wants to do
04:46 When you mentioned the last segment that it's possible the Niners aren't really committed
04:53 long term to this arrangement of Brandon Staley and Nick Sorensen, which is
04:58 Clumsy and kind of awkward and unlike things we see around the the league. We just saw them fire Steve looks after one year
05:04 We know Robert Sala could be could be available next year
05:07 Do you think that this was sort of like a plan B C D arrangement and they have I?
05:12 somewhere else already I
05:15 Do can you so if you look at normally defensive coordinators assistant coaches?
05:20 They get a four-year deal normally. They don't get the full whatever the head coaches like I know Robert Sala signed a five-year deal
05:26 But I think he's in his last year. He's in the hot seat
05:29 And then I think it's burning because if they don't do something with Rogers, I think he's gone
05:33 Yeah, how many coaches get to miss the playoffs their first four years of their tenure and keep their job?
05:39 I don't think very many if any even if he even if he makes the playoffs and they don't make a big run like you
05:45 Treat you traded a lot for Rogers you put your entire
05:48 Investment into Rogers instead of going getting a young quarterback and that's why they've been rumored around a young quarterback
05:53 They've been rumored around JJ McCarthy. So that kind of tells me that the New York brass is thinking
05:58 You know what? Maybe this may be Robert Sala's last year. We could move forward with the younger coach with the young quarterback
06:04 so for me
06:05 I think it's definitely a one-year deal for the Niners defensive coaching staff because if Robert Sala or Jeff Ulbricht is out there
06:11 Those are two of Kyle's number ones for the defense. I think Kyle would go hire them out and
06:18 Replace Nick Sorensen even if Sorensen has a good year
06:22 I think he just feels a lot more confident going with a Robert Sala or a Jeff Ulbricht
06:27 And I think Ulbricht wants to come back you the former Niner played the linebacker with the Niner. So
06:31 Yeah, I seem like that like Kyle Shanahan the Niner just created the precedent that they could fire Nick Sorensen no matter what I mean
06:37 They just finished third and points allowed. They just gave up seventeen and a half points per game and Wilkes got fired. So
06:45 If he gives up seventeen point six points per game, he could get fired. Apparently that's not good enough around here
06:51 Especially if someone else is available, so Nick good luck. You better have the best defense in the league this year
06:57 or take the ball away as many times as you can because I know he had Nick Sorensen was a Nick Sorensen who had a
07:03 Daring I don't know if I could be a different player person
07:07 But apparently he had like meetings with the defense and they would take the ball away meetings kind of thing
07:13 I don't care. That's what I heard. He's got the the magic touch. He knows where the balls going before it goes. They're great. Yeah, wonderful
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