The 49ers' Super Bowl window may have just closed for a while. In retrospect, it's incredible how close the 49ers came to winning those Super Bowls they lost. If only they had made one more move to put themselves over the top.

San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan won’t get in the habit of giving Klay Kubiak offensive play-calling duties, but he will be giving his assistant a promotion. On Wednesday, three days after he allowed Kubiak to serve as the play-caller in a no-stakes 47-24 loss at Arizona in the regular-season finale,

The 49ers are promoting Klay Kubiak to offensive coordinator, per NBC Sports’ Matt Maiocco, though head coach Kyle Shanahan said that he will retain play-calling duties.

Special teams have been a debacle for the San Francisco 49ers ever since Kyle Shanahan became the head coach. It has never mattered who the coordinator is. In 2021, Richard Hightower was viewed as a mediocre coach,