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SANTA CLARA – Kyle Shanahan is on stage, calmly sitting before an audience of diehard, rowdy fans. Their incumbent coach – the 49ers’ first since Jim Harbaugh — is asked about this season’s goal. One fan after another shouts: “Super Bowl!”
“Without me saying it, and everyone else said it, you know what our goal is every year,” Shanahan responds.
That was two months ago, when the 49ers held a raucous State-of-the-Franchise event at downtown San Jose’s California Theater.