San Francisco 49ers Facing Pressure to Duplicate 2011 Success

If the San Francisco 49ers are going to duplicate the kind of success they had last season, they’ll need to again capture lightning in a bottle.

The Niners have a top-tier defense and hope to use that stifling unit to improve upon a 13-3 season that ended in the NFC Championship game. The only way to have a more successful season is to get to the Super Bowl.

But it won’t be easy against a schedule that is more difficult than last year and with the other teams in the NFC West improving.

San Francisco opens the regular season at Green Bay against a Packers team that always ...

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