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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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49ers 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…
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49ers Bulletin: Ready or not, here he comes
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…
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49ers Bulletin: Bye week, trade deadline, John Lynch in the morning
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…
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Jock Blog: Catch Your Breath, Bye comes at perfect time for Niners, fans.
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…
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The Chiefs come to town as the latest in a long line of historical nemeses
As previous generations of 49ers fans can tell you, nausea is part of the deal.
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49ers Bulletin: Chiefs week and all it brings
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…
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49ers Bulletin: Won the must win
Breathe in, Niners fans. Hold it. Gather yourself. Now breathe out slowly. Feel that relaxation? That peace? That’s the panic leaving your body. Just four days after a second catastrophic loss in three weeks on Sunday, the 49ers reminded the football world that they can still be the bullies on the block in the NFC.…
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Jock Blog: I’m looking at you, Brock Purdy
It’s on him. After all, he’s an NFL starting quarterback. It’s the most powerful position in Western Civilization. Sure, we spent the week on the show listing all the good reasons the 49ers are a rather disappointing 2-3 thus far, with two blown fourth-quarter leads at the Rams and at home against the Cardinals. Among…
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49ers Bulletin: The good, bad, ugly, and uglier from another crushing loss
Two weeks ago, the 49ers traveled north from Los Angeles in a stunned daze after coughing up what had looked like a sure win against the Rams. San Francisco said all the right things in the days following. Coaches and players assured fans that they’d learn from it, and that while these things happen, they…