Bill Belichick isn’t coaching in the NFL this season, but its not because he didn’t get an offer.

49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said on “Audacy’s The TK Show” on Monday that he offered the former New England Patriots head coach a spot on his staff, but he was turned down.

“I did, I threw it out to him,” Shanahan told host Tim Kawakami. “He loves football so much that you never know what he … I can’t believe that he’s not a head coach of a team right now.”

“I know what I would do if I was an owner, so that shocks me, and the last thing you want to do is insult someone like Bill Belichick. But I know he just loves ball in its simplest form, so I threw it all out to him, whatever he wanted to do.”

That presumably included the team’s defensive coordinator position after Steve Wilks was fired in February. Nick Sorensen was ultimately promoted to the role.

Shanahan said Belichick, an eight-time Super Bowl champion, was nice and appreciative for the offer, but he politely turned him down.

He also interviewed with the Falcons for their head-coaching vacancy, but that job went to Raheem Morris.

Belichick will instead spend the 2024 season as an analyst on the CW’s “Inside the NFL” alongside Ryan Clark, Chad Johnson and Chris Long

Belichick and the Patriots parted ways after the 2023 season, ending a 24-year run with the franchise. He left New England with 333 career victories (including playoffs), ranking second all-time behind Don Shula and his 347.

Belichick, George Halas and Curly Lambeau are the only NFL coaches with six championships since the NFL began postseason play in 1933.

Shanahan did say he believes Belichick will be back coaching in the NFL in 2025.

“I’m sure he’s going to be back in the league next year, and I could be going against him,” Shanahan said. “He could be in the NFC West. It would have sucked if he came here, and then he was going against us, so that’s the stuff you have to be careful about. But he’s the best, and I just like talking to him.”