{"id":478310,"date":"2024-02-15T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478310"},"modified":"2024-02-15T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T13:19:14","slug":"san-francisco-dismisses-defensive-coordinator-wilks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/san-francisco-dismisses-defensive-coordinator-wilks\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco dismisses defensive coordinator Wilks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After just 1 year as the San Francisco 49ers&#8217; defensive coordinator, Steve Wilks is fired.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, I relieved Steve Wilks of his duties,&#8221; the 49ers manager Kyle Shanahan shared in a conference call today that was scheduled just moments before it happened. &#8220;We want to make a change here at defensive coordinator. It&#8217;s not an easy decision because [it] really says nothing about Wilks as a man or as a football coach. Steve is exactly what we think as a man, and he is also an elite football coach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Steve Wilks is the scapegoat for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/49ers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#49ers<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Niners defense played very well in the Super Bowl. Held Patrick Mahomes and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Chiefs<\/a> to under 20 points heading into OT. It wasn\u2019t the defense\u2019s fault that a punt was muffed, that CMC fumbled, and that the Niners couldn\u2019t\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ERhfIWKu4m\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ERhfIWKu4m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasrifootball\/status\/1757918516186099982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But our strategy for the franchise&#8217;s future from a scheme standpoint and things like that, we decided after analyzing in the past few days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco&#8217;s head coach refused to answer yesterday if Steve would keep his job as defensive coordinator for a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> campaign. Only 24 hours later, Shanahan made the decision to make a change in his staff for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After just 1 year as the San Francisco 49ers&#8217; defensive coordinator, Steve Wilks is fired. &#8220;Today, I relieved Steve Wilks of his duties,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478311,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324,16825],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[17873,18583,22662],"acf":{"announce":"The 49ers fired the defensive coordinator, Steve, after 1 campaign.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478314,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478310\/revisions\/478314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478310"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478310"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}