Why the 49ers Replaced Jed York with Al Guido at CEO

I think this Jed York scandal has revealed a significant power shift inside the 49ers, and I think this shift really started in February when they named Al Guido the CEO of the team. At the time it didn't seem like a big story because he still reports to Jed York, who's the principal owner, but you've got to realize that the principal owner, the owner doesn't really do anything. It's the CEO who runs the day-to-day operations around the facility, who's showing his face and going to league meetings and talking to the media, and that's what Jed York did for 15 years. It's what Al Guido's been doing all off-season, but really for 15 years Jed York was the face of this team, he was the voice of this team, and if you think of the team CEO as sort of like the president, the guy who's doing all the work, then Parag Murate was kind of like his vice president or his co-president because some would say he was sort of the brains of the operation. Jed trusted him with everything to make lots of decisions, so if Jed was a CEO then Parag kind of was too, and I think it's interesting that once Jed no longer was the CEO in February, Al Guido becomes the CEO, then just a few months later Parag Murate is no longer with the 49ers. Now he's focusing 100% on soccer, Leeds United, Rangers, FC. My interpretation is Al Guido doesn't need Parag Murate to think for him. Al Guido can handle it on his own, or at least he thinks he can. And so Parag Murate bailed to go actually have something to do, and now the 49ers are being run by Guido on the business side, and Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch. The question is why make the switch from York to Guido at CEO considering York is in the family and Guido is not. Well I think we're starting to see why they made the switch. I mean one, York is going through a divorce. Two, he recently was removed as the chairman of the Silicon Valley leadership group. And three, he just got caught in a human trafficking sting. So he may not be fit to run the team. He may need to work on himself, and he may need to just leave Guido, Shanahan, and Lynch alone. Who knows, maybe this could end up being a good thing for the 49ers.