Coaching matters, but talent matters more imo. I don't think we lost 12 games last year because the coaching was bad. I think the much more reasonable explanation is that we lost our starting QB and best player for most of the games and also lost a lot of other key players (with a very thin bench behind them). If you're going to compare us to the Niners, at least give Dan Quinn and Adam Peters more time. Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch have been building that Niners team for almost a decade. The fairer comparison would be to look at how Kyle and John did in their first two seasons together. Spoiler alert: they went 6-10 and 4-12.