Led by CEO Jed York and executive vice president of football operations Paraag Marathe, the 49ers have reached out to 11 candidates this offseason in their quest to find a general manager. While the Niners are seemingly down to two finalists for the position – Cardinals vice president of player personnel Terry McDonough and Vikings assistant GM George Paton – the saga isn’t necessarily nearing a conclusion. On the contrary, it’s “by no means” certain the 49ers will hire McDonough or Paton, and passing on each would cause them to reopen their search, according to Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports (Twitter).
La Canfora’s report jibes with what a source told Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com earlier this week – that “it’s not a lock” either McDonough or Paton will land the GM role in San Francisco. If the 49ers don’t tab one of those two, it’ll likely be the result of neither being able to sync with soon-to-be head coach Kyle Shanahan. The current Falcons offensive coordinator will take a break from Super Bowl LI preparation this weekend to meet with McDonough and Paton, who’s reportedly willing to take the Colts’ GM job.
Should one of McDonough or Paton hit it off with Shanahan in the coming days, the 49ers could have their next GM in place as early as Saturday, writes Cam Inman of the Mercury News. Otherwise, they’ll be back at square one and set to drag their GM search into a second month.
Both longtime head coach Mike Shanahan, Kyle’s father, and ex-Buccaneers GM Mark Dominik have come up as possibilities to take front office jobs with the 49ers. They might be worth keeping an eye on, then, and the same goes for Falcons director of football operations Nick Polk, Jaguars director of player personnel Chris Polian, former Browns executive Morocco Brown and Redskins exec Alex Santos.
Bring in old Mike.
You screwed this up too Jed Dork, although I think Kyle will be fine as the HC, but he has the 9ers by their nuts, he could hire his grandma to become DC, you put all your marbles in one basket, again way to go Jed Clampett.
I just hope he doesn’t tell Shanahan he can have the job as long as he hires Tomsula as his DC…pretty sure we have seen how that goes
According to Gase that’s not what happened they just picked Tomsula
Why would the 49ers want anyone from the Browns, Jags or even the Vikings FO’s, who have all been losing teams in recent years? Are there still good assistant and position coaches left? Hope the 9ers aren’t left out in the cold again at the end, without any good coaches, etc, left to choose from, or choosing the worst of all them as their prime choice. It’d be nice if York would stay out of it this time, since he obviously doesn’t have much of a clue of what he’s doing!
Well Belichick was fired by the Browns and I sure would take him…
Seems the good coaches have teams still playing??