KNBR Podcasts

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Mark your territory much? Wow. I write this on a Thursday, almost 48 hours removed from the ‘Slay Klay’ storm that Wardell Stephen Curry II unleashed on the NBA, Chase Center, the Dallas Mavericks and his old Splash Brother, Klay Thompson. Not in that order.  In fact, the primary victim of the explosion was the […]

The Buster Posey Executive Era is finally putting some miles on its odometer — a general manager hire, a trip to his first-ever GM meetings, a 45-minute closed-door chat with Scott Boras, some signature quotes — and now we can start to take stock a little bit. The verdict: Not bad, Buster.  What are you, […]

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 […]

The catastrophic inevitable has finally happened for Giants fans. As the sun rises on the morning of Halloween, the Dodgers are World Series Champions. Real world series champions. There’s no angle, no quick retort, nothing Giants fans can say about a shortened season with empty stadiums. This one’s legit. On Friday morning, there will be […]

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 […]