> “Didn’t know all about the organization before, knew more about Kyle, knew more about \[president of football operations and general manager John\] Lynch. Obviously those are guys that I’ve been really close to just throughout the whole process of everything, right?
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> Having the ability to coach Lynch when I was a very young football coach being around that culture and what it meant, and then having a chance to be a coach with Kyle and being a coach with Kyle in multiple spots and then have an opportunity to come out here.
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> And then you get out here and you see what everything is like, what they’ve done together, how they built this thing to be able to run the draft, be able to run the process, be able to run the standard of play, being around these guys. And then really competing against these guys, you get this healthy respect of, you love to be a part of that.
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> When you get a chance to go be a part of teams like that, which I’ve been fortunate enough to do in the past, it certainly made it an easy choice for me. With all due respect to the people that I talked to. Because everybody that I talked to that actually called me, I have so much respect for those people. But, Kyle was a great opportunity to come work here at the 49ers.”