49ers Are Anticipated to Recruit Someone From Within at Defensive Coordinator
49ers Are Anticipated to Recruit Someone From Within at Defensive Coordinator
It would be ill-advised for the 49ers to make the same error again by signing an outsider and making him into someone he isn’t.
The 49ers are looking far and wide for their next defensive coordinator, and once they find one, they’ll probably promote a current member of their staff.
Michael Silver reports that the 49ers plan to appoint an internal candidate to the position of defensive coordinator, which makes sense given the outcome of the previous campaign. The 49ers hired Steve Wilks, urged him to learn their defensive strategy, forbade him from bringing any of his own assistant coaches with him, and sacked him at the end of the season because they didn’t want to change their defensive plan and they also didn’t want to promote a coach from their staff.
It would be ill-advised for the 49ers to make the same error again by signing an outsider and making him into someone he isn’t. Furthermore, it would be ill-advised for an outsider to emulate Wilks and end up the 49ers’ next scapegoat.
Since the 49ers need the players to buy in, and they didn’t buy into Wilks because they didn’t know him, they nearly had to elevate a defensive coordinator from within their staff. Daniel Bullocks, the 49ers’ defensive backs coach, has a good rapport with the players, and if he is promoted to defensive coordinator, the players should give him their all. Many have known him since 2017.
However, you would have to question why the 49ers didn’t promote Bullocks to defensive coordinator the previous season if they do so now. He has eight years of staff experience. Why is he ready this year if he wasn’t prepared to take up the position last year? What altered?
If the 49ers announce the hiring of a new defensive coordinator in the coming days, don’t be shocked.
