Report: 49ers to hire Mike Shanahan or Chip Kelly

The San Francisco 49ers are choosing between Mike Shanahan and Chip Kelly as their next head coach. 

If you thought things were bad in San Francisco before, they might be about to get a lot worse. That really depends n perspective, as the Niners have reportedly narrowed down their head coaching search to two absolute wild card candidates.

According to Adam Schefter, the 49ers will be hiring either Chip Kelly or Mike Shanahan in the next 24 hours.

This isn’t all that surprising, as Kelly and Shanahan have been closely linked to the Niners gig since it was vacated at the end of the regular season. But while they are candidates for the job, are they really the right ones.

Kelly was a disaster in Philadelphia, as he gutted the team and couldn’t find a way to make his Frankenstein monster come to life. That doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have worked but at the same time he wasn’t really allowed to see his project through. If — and this is a massive if — the 49ers give him a five-year plan to work with then we might have a different opinion of Kelly come the year 2020.

As for Shaman, he was a spectacular failure in Washington and not all of the blame can be placed on Daniel Snyder. Shanahan is touted for winning back-to-back Super Bowls in he 90s with John Elway, which somehow made him a quarterback guru. We quickly saw in Washington that he was not a guru as he traded for Donovan McNabb, drafted both Kirk Cousins and Robert Griffin III and failed with all three in a pretty big way.

That’s not the credentials you want in your top two — strike that, only two — candidates for the job but this is San Francisco so you’re pretty much starting from the bottom anyways.