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Dec 1, 2024; Orchard Park, New York, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan on the field before a game against the Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark Konezny-Imagn Images49ers Bulletin: The 2024 season has an official time of death
In just two short weeks, almost unbelievably, the 49ers will conduct exit interviews following the 18th week of what has been the season from hell. The pre-season tumult that Niners fans hoped and prayed would melt away once games got underway stuck around in the worst way possible. The season from hell trudged on Sunday…
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Murph gives the 2025 prognoses for the Bay Area’s ailing Big Three
Final Jock Blog of 2024 and I’ve got bad news for you, Bay Area: No championships this year, kids. (With apologies to Stanford women’s sailing, of course. The canvas can do miracles. Just you wait and see.) The 49ers huffed and puffed and couldn’t blow the Super Bowl house down in February in Las Vegas.…
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Dec 1, 2024; Orchard Park, New York, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan on the field before a game against the Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark Konezny-Imagn Images
49ers Bulletin: Sifting through the rubble
By now you’ve heard every take under the sun when it comes to DeVondre Campbell’s cowardly exit from a forgettable 49ers tenure that didn’t even last a full season. The outrage on Friday morning at least partially overshadowed the latest chapter of a hellish 2024 49ers campaign. Tim Ryan weighed in on Monday morning after…
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Dec 12, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr (1) before the game against the Los Angeles Rams at Levi’s Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn ImagesJock Blog: Good riddance, 2024 season
The mercy kill for a lost season finally arrived in the holiday rain of a Great America parking lot, on a Thursday night in December. Rams 12, 49ers 6. It was worse than it sounds. Thank the football gods. It was never going to happen this year, as I was just saying to my pal…
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Dec 8, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) reacts after rushing for a touchdown against the Chicago Bears in the second quarter at Levi’s Stadium. The play was later called back for offensive holding. Mandatory Credit: Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images49ers Bulletin: Back? Or just bullying the Bears
Few host NFL teams were happier to be back home in week 14 than the San Francisco 49ers. Back to back road games sandwiching Thanksgiving, and back to back throttling of a short handed and on life support Niners squad, definitely made the red and gold and its fans homesick. The homecoming, albeit still in…
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Nov 17, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan on the sideline against the Seattle Seahawks in the second quarter at Levi’s Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn ImagesJock Blog: We must chill. The 49ers are not firing and should not fire Kyle Shanahan
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.…
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Dec 1, 2024; Orchard Park, New York, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) after the game against the Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images49ers bulletin: The season from hell
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…
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Jock Blog: About that 49ers Toast …
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.
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Nov 17, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan on the sideline against the Seattle Seahawks in the second quarter at Levi’s Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn Images
49ers Bulletin: Is it over for the 2024 49ers?
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…
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Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey (23) watches from the sideline due to injury during the second quarter against the New York Jets at Levi’s Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn Images49ers Bulletin: Quiet deadline highlights confidence in returning weapons
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…
