Kurtenbach: Comfort over competence — hiring Gus Bradley would be a lazy choice for the 49ers

SANTA CLARA — Kyle Shanahan didn’t exactly try to hide it.

When asked on Wednesday about the search for the San Francisco 49ers‘ next defensive coordinator — the fifth man to hold the job in five years — Shanahan was asked if he planned to cast a “wide net.”

“I’m going to say it’s a real wide net, but Gus [Bradley] is the obvious one to everyone and is to us, too,” Shanahan said.

It was a rare moment of transparency in an otherwise dreary end-of-season press conference, but it confirmed the worst fears of the faithful...