Seeming to sense Shanahan wasn’t amused, general manager John Lynch, sitting to Shanahan’s right, interjected and provided an 81-word response. “Let me help Kyle there,” Lynch said.

San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan faced a wave of criticism and calls for him to be fired after the team went 6-11 this year and failed to make it back to the playoffs, but it sounds ...

SANTA CLARA — Maybe, just maybe, this is the next evolution of Kyle Shanahan. Perhaps this is the form the ninth-year and now beleaguered 49ers head coach — who sat at the dais at Levi’s ...