The San Francisco 49ers needed a new defensive coordinator this past offseason, and head coach Kyle Shanahan threw a Hail Mary to try to add an all-time great to his staff.
Shanahan recently said he offered Bill Belichick the 49ers’ DC job earlier this year, but the legendary coach “politely” declined it.
“I threw it out to him,” Shanahan said on “The TK Show.” “He loves football so much that you never know. I mean, I can’t believe that he’s not a head coach of a team right now. I know what I would do if I was an owner, so that shocks me. And the last thing you want to do is insult someone like Bill Belichick, but I know he just loves ball in the simplest form. So I threw it all out to him. Whatever he’d want to do.
“I was like, ‘Would you be interested (in the defensive coordinator job)?’ He was very nice and appreciative, but he politely turned me down.”
