San Francisco 49ers News

We must chill. No one is trading Kyle Shanahan to the Chicago Bears, the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago White Sox or the Chicago Bulls. Even the Chicago Sky is out of luck. No Shanahan in a trucker hat roaming the hardwood. Nor is anyone firing Kyle Shanahan as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. […]

If you’ve been reading along for the last few weeks, you’ll know I’ve been hesitant to declare a time of death on the 2024 49ers. Call it false optimism, call it a wounded desire to hang on to the once annual championship hopes of an aging nucleus that might never get it done. Whatever the […]

The 49ers look physically and emotionally tired. It’s OK to say it, and it’s OK to understand it. You can’t win ‘em all, kids.

If you were a part of the cynical minority of 49ers fans that was shouting doom in August, it’s time to take your victory lap. The Super Bowl hangover unfortunately seems to be very real for the 5-5 Niners. An avalanche of issues have snowballed into a dystopian triplet of the disastrous 2014 and 2020 […]

San Francisco sports fans are used to hearing cryptic rhetoric regarding the trade deadline. It’s not just football, they heard it all summer when now former Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said that the Giants primary “deadline moves” would be getting healthier and adding already rostered talent to their active platoon.  49ers general […]

Our long national nightmare is over. Or international, if you include what looks like a successful trip to Germany. Christian McCaffrey is back, officially. After missing the first eight games of the 2024 season with a mysterious, worrisome case of bilateral Achilles tendinitis, the reigning NFL Offensive player of the year returned to the practice […]

Even though the 49ers head into their week nine bye with a win over the Cowboys, they still welcome the break after a tumultuous first half of the season. The red and gold limp, quite literally, into the break at 4-4. A 4-4 that is a lot less palatable than a .500 mark other clubs […]

The 49ers, man. It’s exhausting, right? Sunday night’s win over the Cowboys, while welcome as hell, was the season of frustration in miniature: — No TDs in the first half as Brock Purdy misfired on a couple of key passes, including a critical fourth-down to Deebo Samuel. — Injuries, a constant in 2024, rearing their […]

As previous generations of 49ers fans can tell you, nausea is part of the deal. 

Chiefs week. It seems crazy, silly almost, that the 49ers and their fans have assigned a name to a week leading up to a matchup with an AFC foe. But when you’ve lost two Super Bowls to an ever-ascending dynasty, and take the field as two of the best teams in the NFL each time […]