NFC team offered job to Bill Belichick

There’s an alternate reality wherein Bill Belichick joined forces with Kyle Shanahan on the San Francisco 49ers to make a coaching tandem for the ages. Shanahan apparently tried to make that happen in this universe.

Shanahan appeared on Tuesday’s episode of “The TK Show” hosted by The Athletic’s Tim Kawakami. The Bay Area reporter asked the 49ers head coach if he had spoken to Belichick this offseason. Shanahan admitted that he tried his luck to recruit the coaching free agent but got turned down.

“I did. I threw it out to him,” Shanahan said when asked about Belichick. “He loves football so much that you never know. … I threw it all out to him, like whatever he’d want to do. I was like, would you be interested? He was very nice and appreciative, but he politely turned me down. … I’m sure he’s going to be back in the league next year. I could be going against him, it could be in the NFC West. … I mean he’s the best, and I just like talking to him.”