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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 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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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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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 12, 2024; San Francisco, California, USA; Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) reacts after making a layup against the Dallas Mavericks in the fourth quarter at the Chase Center. Mandatory Credit: Cary Edmondson-Imagn ImagesJock Blog: On Klay’s night, Steph turns former splash brother into nothing more than his latest dejected foe
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…
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Oct 1, 2024; San Francisco, CA, USA; San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey addresses the media during an introductory press conference at Oracle Park. Mandatory Credit: Robert Edwards-Imagn ImagesJock Blog: Early returns on Buster Posey the executive
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,…
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Oct 1, 2024; San Francisco, CA, USA; San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey addresses the media during an introductory press conference at Oracle Park. Mandatory Credit: Robert Edwards-Imagn Images
Dodgers championship raises already high stakes for Buster Posey and the Giants
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…
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Oct 20, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan reacts after the Kansas City Chiefs picked up a first down in the fourth quarter at Levi’s Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Cary Edmondson-Imagn ImagesJock 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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In which we meet the post-Klay Warriors …
As those legendary poets The Bee Gees might ask, if they were hanging around Thrive City: How deep are the Dubs? Welcome to the post-Klay Thompson Warriors, and with a robust one out of 82 precincts reporting, the early returns are . . . encouraging? I couldn’t couch that previous sentence with more asterisks. I…
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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.
