![]() ![]() Shanahan said he really believes the 49ers could’ve won Super Bowl 54 but blew that fourth-quarter lead against the Chiefs. Shanahan was devastated after that game, which was the 49ers’ second consecutive NFC title-game loss and third time in three playoff trips they made it at least to that round but failed to bring home the Lombardi Trophy. ![]() A few years ago, he joked to me that sometimes he thinks he looks like “a skater kid” in public and that’s always stuck with me, mostly because sometimes it’s still true.Īnd what gets Shanahan bouncing and energized these days? He feels great about the roster he and John Lynch have assembled, he loves that the team has remained near the top of the NFL the last few years while rotating through three different starting quarterbacks, and he is particularly happy that Brock Purdy’s elbow has healed and he has been cleared fully for practice a little bit ahead of schedule and just in time for camp (though Purdy, sticking to his throwing schedule, won’t practice Wednesday because he threw the previous two days).Īgain, this is just six months since the NFC Championship Game, when Purdy got hurt in the first quarter, backup Josh Johnson got hurt a little bit later and Jimmy Garoppolo and Trey Lance were unavailable, hand-delivering the Eagles a trip to the Super Bowl and the 49ers another offseason of angst. He bounces around in his chair, he kicks his legs up and down, his eyes widen and his voice booms when he’s making an emphatic point and his energy level is decidedly not in danger of depletion. But when you’re next to him for, oh, 45 minutes or so, Shanahan doesn’t seem anything like a sour, old guy. ![]()
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