Kyle Shanahan’s coordinators are intact for a fourth straight season, and that makes ideal continuity for a 49ers coaching staff plotting another Super Bowl run.
A year from now, those assistants could land promotions elsewhere, and Shanahan will have to adapt to the NFL’s hiring practices that got revised Tuesday.
The NFL’s quest to diversify coaching staffs and front offices led to these changes:
— Teams can not block an assistant from interviewing elsewhere for a coordinator role, something Shanahan did last year with Mike LaFleur and Mike McDaniel, his pass-game and run-game coordinators, neither of whom expressed a desire to indeed leave his staff.