by David Zizmor

SF 49ers update: Head coach Jim Tomsula has worked on the offensive side of the ball although he was a defensive coach previously. He’s been the 49ers line coach for quite sometime. It’s yet to be seen how much coaching contact that Tomsula will have with 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Given how the 49ers defensive line has done in recent years you’d figure he’s pretty good.

Given his reputation and given that he’s the man for the 49ers head coaching position is his people skills he’s a guy that everybody just loves. All the players enjoyed working with Tomsula. Tomsula is a guy whose very good interacting with his players. You just figure the quarterback is the guy whose the head of your offense and he is the perceived team leader.

You got figure that Tomsula has been working on that relationship and Tomsula is a player’s coach and that’s what the players say. It’s too early now to tell you what his relationship is with Kaepernick. The assumption is he’s working on it, you just have to give it time and your not going to know about it until you see it. Tomsula is like a players coach, the players like him and get along with him and given his background he’s traveled around and found his way into such a great position.

Oakland Raiders update: The relationship between Raiders head coach Jack Del Rio and quarterback Derek Carr is not known yet. At least with the 49ers Colin Kaepernick and head coach Jim Tomsula they know each other because Tomsula was an assistant coach at the 49ers all these years so maybe they’ve had some contact with each other.

Del Rio and Carr it’s an unknown right now, Del Rio was an assistant coach with the Denver Broncos so he definitely wasn’t in any contact with Carr prior to being named head coach. The other thing is Del Rio is a defensive side of the ball guy and Carr is a quarterback. So they got to work on it and they may not be necessarily on top of each other in every single meeting.

That said Del Rio has been a head coach before and he’s been a fairly moderate one at that he knows how to interact with different players especially when the team leader is the quarterback. Del Rio is going to go into this season and he knows he has to develop a relationship with Carr.

Del Rio knows he has to get more production out of him as he grows in his second year, so it’s incumbent on Del Rio to develop that relationship to grow it and make sure that these guys are on the same page and to know how the offense and defense are going to interact and how their going to support each other.

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