During the Kyle Shanahan era, the San Francisco 49ers have had two one-and-done defensive coordinators.
Robert Saleh is grateful he’s not one of those defensive coordinators.
The 49ers' defensive coordinator is grateful he didn’t suffer the same fate as Steve Wilks and Nick Sorensen: the 49ers ran out of patience. And there were times you thought they might. During his press conference Thursday, Saleh said he was indebted to the organization sticking behind him in those more difficult years:
“And during the first two years, if you think about those first two years as D-Coordinator in ‘17 and ‘18, it wasn’t easy.