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Kyle Shanahan Gets Another Six-Year Deal, Player COVID-19 Cases Shouldn't Be Surprises

Here we go with Monday's afternoon notes …

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• Six-year contracts are rare for NFL coaches, and now Kyle Shanahan has gotten two of them—one upon his hire in 2017, and sources confirmed he got another today (as first reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter). And it’s fair to say that he’s worth every penny. I don’t think, reasonably, there are a half dozen coaches you’d take over Shanahan in the league right now, he’s only 40 and that organization is really humming.