The 49ers raised a few eyebrows when they announced Brian Griese as their new quarterback coach.
Griese had worked as a broadcaster since joining ESPN in 2009 and has never been a coach at any level.
Let’s look at the case for this move making sense.
Griese is a football lifer. His father Bob was a Hall of Fame quarterback, leading the Miami Dolphins to back-to-back Super Bowl titles in the early 1970s.
He knows the 49ers system. Griese played for Kyle Shanahan’s father Mike and sat behind John Elway during his rookie season with the Denver Broncos.