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49ers' Shanahan thinks spying on players, assistant coaches is totally normal

Related Topics: Kyle Shanahan, Mike Shanahan

Apparently, if you’re inside the walls of a San Francisco 49ers position group meeting room, it’s considered totally normal that the head coach might be watching from afar.

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A big feature from The Athletic’s Kalyn Kahler dropped Wednesday, diving deep into Kyle Shanahan and his father Mike’s “surveillance state” system when it comes to coaching. It’s something that apparently that has roots all the way back to a different 49ers head coach, Bill Walsh.

As the story goes, Walsh used to film his own teaching sessions to help speed up the learning process for new coaches and players.