Kyle Shanahan on Super Bowl Regrets, Trading Up for Lance, Taking the SF Job, and Coaching With His Dad

Flying Coach With Sean McVay and Peter Schrager

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4.6 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of Sunday's NFC championship game between the Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers, we revisit last summer's wide-ranging conversation between the head coaches of those teams, Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan. They discuss their long-standing friendship and their time coaching in Washington together. Kyle opens up about growing up with an NFL head coach as a father; why he chose to take the 49ers head coaching job; the Stafford trade and playing against the Rams each year; why the 49ers chose Trey Lance; his most regrettable play calls, including moments from the 2016 Super Bowl, and more. We finish the show with some listener emails and voicemails. Hosts: Sean McVay and Peter Schrager Guest: Kyle Shanahan Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Derek Thompson, the host of the podcast Plain English. We tackle technology,
0:07.6	politics, culture, history, everything that's happening in the world and why it
0:12.0	matters.
0:13.0	New episodes of Plain English drop every Tuesday and Friday on Spotify or wherever you get your
0:18.0	podcasts. What's up everybody? Welcome back to Flying Coach. My name is Peter Shrager. I'm the host of Good Morning Football on the NFL network. I also work on Fox NFL kickoff, the pregame show on Sundays.
0:43.0	And let's just say that the NFC Championship game,
0:47.0	as inexplicable as it might have seemed a couple weeks ago,
0:50.0	between the Rams and the 49ers is a flying coach special.
0:55.0	If you're new to the podcast, Los Angeles Rams coach, Sean McVeigh and I
0:59.3	hosted a 10-part series this off season. And we interviewed all the other head coaches in the league
1:05.4	that we wanted to get our hands out.
1:06.7	We talked to Mike Tomlin.
1:08.4	We talked to Arthur Smith.
1:09.5	We talked to this guy Zach Taylor who, I don't know, was entering year three,
1:12.6	and there were some questions
1:13.6	whether he was the right guy for the Bangles.
1:15.8	But the most viewed, most listened to, most buzzed about episode
1:20.7	was the one between Sean McVeigh and Kyle Shanahan.
1:25.0	So that was July of 2021.
1:28.0	We went really deep on everything,
1:30.0	went deep on philosophy,
1:31.0	went deep on history, went deep on shared history,
	...

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