Marvin49":egwn1meh said:
Case can be made that Gase didn't want to be the OC because he wanted to follow Fox and felt jilted over not getting SF coaching job.
Case can be made that Chud didn't want to screw up his golden parachute from the Browns by becoming a coordinator.
Case can be made that Shanahan was never an option.
Case can be made the Eagles WR coach didn't think he was ready.
.....but ALL of them? Seriously? Not likely.
Rather than thinking about all of them I think you need to dummy check each of them.
For Gase I think it would be really weird if he accepted the 9ers OC job given all the factors. Doing so would be strange.
So too for Chud if he accepted the 9ers or Rams job. Doing so would be strange.
Same story with Shannan, if he was ever offered (which we don't know).
The huge, brightly shining red flag though is Bicknell. It is very strange that he made the decision he did. That could have something to do with the 9ers and it could have something to do with Bicknell, but that's the thing that stands out in all of this.
For my money I still think the problem is Tomsula, which is far from putting a positive spin on things, as it was a wholly predictable problem which in retrospect Jed and Baalke seem to have been dumb enough to have been blindsided by.