{"id":26026,"date":"2025-01-14T01:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T01:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=26026"},"modified":"2025-01-14T01:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T01:19:51","slug":"cowboys-just-gifted-49ers-a-potential-coordinator-by-dismissing-mike-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=26026","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys just gifted 49ers a potential coordinator by dismissing Mike McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\"><em><strong>The 49ers are in the market for a new special teams coordinator, and the Cowboys might have just gifted the Niners a potential name.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\">On Monday, the Dallas Cowboys officially announced they were heading in a different direction at head coach, formerly not inking a new contract with Mike McCarthy, allowing him to become a coaching &#8220;free agent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\">The ramifications of that decision by owner Jerry Jones will spread far and wide, potentially even including a run at NFL legend and current Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\">But, there&#8217;s another name that should pop up in conversations regarding the offseason coaching carousel.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\">The Niners have no interest in a new head coach, not as long as Kyle Shanahan is at the helm. But they do have needs for a new defensive coordinator and special teams coordinator after parting ways with Nick Sorensen and Brian Schneider.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">San Francisco&#8217;s special teams was an outright disaster in 2024, and that might be putting things nicely, prompting a need for a massive overhaul.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\">Turns out, someone on McCarthy&#8217;s old Dallas staff should be on Shanahan&#8217;s radar.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-8\">49ers should go after John Fassel with immediate urgency<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\">John Fassel served under McCarthy at AT&amp;T Stadium when the two joined the Cowboys in 2020. Since that point, Fassel&#8217;s special teams units have largely performed well beyond expectations, and most NFL circles view him as one of the top assistants for this vital-but-overlooked third phase of the game.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\">For much of 2024, Dallas boasted the No. 1 special teams unit, according to DVOA, while the 49ers were hovering toward the bottom:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Warning for 49ers fans for Sunday: The Cowboys are No. 1 in special teams DVOA. It&#8217;s the one place they are strong this year. The 49ers are 31st ahead of only Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Schatz \ud83c\udfc8 (@ASchatzNFL) October 23, 2024<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\">Fassel has plenty of experience working within the NFC West, too, serving with the St. Louis\/Los Angeles Rams from 2012 through 2019, and he has worked with special teams at the NFL level from 2005 when he was with the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\">While the Niners have already circled a few names on their list of potential coordinators, Fassel&#8217;s sudden availability should prompt them to put his name at the very top of candidates who could finally resolve the many woes special teams endured last season.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"inline-text-14\">Read more from Niner Noise<\/h3>\n<figure><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers are in the market for a new special teams coordinator, and the Cowboys might have just gifted the Niners a potential name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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