California St. Clara-In order to find some urgent stability in the defensive coordinator, the 49th San Francisco 49 people are turning to familiar faces.

After 16 days of search, Niners announced on Friday that they had hired Robert Saleh as a defensive coordinator. Saleh coordinated San Francisco's defense between 2017 and 2020. It will return to San Francisco in San Francisco in the New York Jets Head Coach.

Saleh's recruitment was after Niners continued to reunite with him from the previous coordinator Nick Sorensen. Niners coach Kyle Shanahan confirmed that Sorureon was a defensive coordinator on January 8 (although the team hopes to keep him on different roles).

At the press conference that ended at that season, Shanahan said he wanted to find an experienced job candidate. Although he was willing to change the change of the plan, he was more focused on finding a person who could solve the problem in the matter. land.

Shanahan said on January 8: "I hope someone is integrated with what I believe, but I also believe that you must adapt to the best thing that is now suitable for our situation." Therefore, this will be talking about our personnel, this will be talking about our personnel, The lineup, many similar things and what their plans will bring. "

One day after that press conference, 49 people announced that they had completed Salich's interview, and the latter took the consultation role for the Green Bay Packaging Working Team last season. From there, Salich still accepted an interview with the head coach of the Las Vegasa, the Dallas denim and the Jacksonville American tiger, which made Nels waiting for the answer.

Although Saleh did not pay much attention to assaulters or cowboy work, he worked part -time in Jaguar's work. When he was waiting for the results, he stayed around 49ers facilities. When Tampa Bay pirate offensive coordinator Liam Coen reappeared as a top candidate on Thursday, everything once again pointed to Saleh-Niners reunion.

Although Saleh has been far from 49 people in the past four years, there are many evidence that he and Shanahan can not only work together, but also succeed. During the campaign of NINERS coordinators, Salich's defense became some of the early ICs and became one of the best and most productive units in the league.

When Shanahan took over in 2017, he hired Saleh as his first defensive coordinator, and Saleh never worked before that. In total in 2019 and 2020, NINERS's permitted scores ranked tenth (21.9), the third defensive efficiency (63.15) and the defensive expectations (73.52), the second place (4.9) per game, and 47 with 47 Put the 97th point.

After Saleh set off to the jet fleet, NINARS quickly rotated to defender coach Demeco Ryans because of Saleh's chief coach candidate qualification won efforts They have been modifying this job.

Like Saleh, Ryans has achieved great success in Niners's defense from 2021-2022, but San Francisco's defense has been in Steve in the past two seasons in the past two seasons. Under the leadership of Steve Wilks and Sorensen, this prosperity cannot be recaptured in the past two seasons.

Shanahan started from two coaches after only one season, but pointed out in early January that some reasons are difficult to replace Ryans. This is the fact that NINers participated in the NFC championship and super bowls respectively, ending 2022 and 2023, respectively. The season.

Those late ending restricted the candidate Chi. After Nunas fell to 6-11 with the defensive rate, Shanahan did not face this year. The 31st in the red area is 68.4 % (allowed to perform 31st).

However, even if you have enough time to evaluate and interview multiple candidates (Lion's defensive passing coordinator Deshea Townsend and Niners assistant head coach Brandon Staley also accepted an interview), Shanahan soon became in the coaches and alliance he knew. Among anyone, Salich returned to the place where he returned to the NFL coach map.

Saleh said in March, "He is a teacher, he will give you his thoughts, but his beauty is that he is not afraid of those fierce dialogues to try to solve everything he tries to explore. "But, respect your room and make the best decision for what you think you need to do.