Emergency podcast: 49ers reportedly promote Nick Sorensen to defensive coordinator, hire Brandon Staley as assistant head coach
49ers Talk with Matt Maiocco
NBC Sports Bay Area
4.6 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Matt Maiocco discusses the 49ers' reported promotion of Nick Sorensen to defensive coordinator and hiring of Brandon Staley as the assistant head coach and what immediate impact the moves will have on the organization. Then, Jennifer Lee Chan is joined by Bucky Brooks to break down the 49ers' biggest positional needs, Chase Young’s future and the importance of keeping Brandon Aiyuk around for the long haul.
(1:46) Sorensen promoted to DC as Staley joins 49ers’ staff
(8:50) What will Staley’s role entail?
(16:08) Brooks on the 49ers’ biggest positional needs
(21:04) Brooks shares why he could see Young returning next season
(25:03) Brooks on Aiyuk’s impact
(30:30) Possible secondary targets in the draft
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| 0:00.0 | After 17 days without a defensive coordinator, the 49ers did something about it with a promotion and a hiring. |
| 0:07.0 | Nick Sorensen and Brandon Staley, the first two coaches to interview for the 49ers vacancy, |
| 0:12.0 | both impressed |
| 0:13.2 | coach Kyle Shanahan enough to become huge factors for the team's |
| 0:16.4 | defense and the organization as a whole for the 2024 season. |
| 0:21.1 | Sorenson is set to take over as defensive coordinator. |
| 0:24.5 | His emphasis has been on coaching up the team's nickelbacks the past two seasons |
| 0:29.2 | and that lines up with an obvious shortcoming for the 49ers as they look to address it in the |
| 0:34.4 | off season. NFL analyst Bucky Brooks joins us to look at how the 49ers can |
| 0:39.6 | fill that need in the upcoming draft. Jennifer Lee Chan and I are in route back home from Indianapolis side of the NFL |
| 0:47.3 | scouting combine where we got the chance to speak with many of the top draft prospects |
| 0:52.0 | at 49ers positions of need. |
| 0:54.5 | So we got all that and much more on this episode of 49ers talk coming at you right now. |
| 1:00.6 | Welcome to another edition of 49ers Talk on NBC Sports Bay Area.com. |
| 1:06.0 | Introducing your host, Matt Mayoko. |
| 1:09.0 | All right, this is 49ers Talk brought to you by Big O'Tires and this is a 49er's talk brought to you by Big O tires and this is a special emergency |
| 1:15.0 | I wish you could say breaking news podcast presented by Toyota back home from |
| 1:20.7 | Indianapolis site of the NFL scouting combine and Jennifer Lee Chan is |
| 1:24.8 | wrapping things up there as she's talking to all kinds of offensive Lyman, another position |
| 1:30.9 | in need for the 49ers before she heads back home as well. |
| 1:35.4 | So everybody woke up on Saturday morning to the news of some coaching updates that first reported |
| 1:42.0 | by ESPN. And this is basically how I summed it up as I wrote about it on |
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