San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan will bring the Navy SEALS program he experienced during his time with the Atlanta Falcons to Santa Clara after the 49ers report to camp on April 16.
Shanahan, who admitted he was skeptical about the training Falcons coach Dan Quinn brought to Atlanta in the 2016 offseason, told the San Francisco Chronicle he sees the benefit of the program two years later.
While the offensive coordinator for the Falcons,
Shanahan said he thought it was stressful to use an entire week of offseason training to work with the retired Navy SEALS. He pondered implementing the program last offseason, but as a first-year head coach, he decided to use the time to assure his staff was on the same page headed into the regular season.
“Going into our second year, I think our team is much more ready for this... People don’t get how much a team changes,” Shanahan said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “Yeah, we’re going to go in and hopefully take off where we finished. But the team is going to look so different. You want to rekindle that because there are a lot of guys that know what they went through — but you do start over to a degree.”
The 49ers will participate in “classroom training and team-building exercises designed to promote brotherhood and foster tenacity and mental toughness,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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