Want to coach for the San Francisco 49ers? Well, it's not easy. It involves a lot of game planning and film study. You have to know every facet of how an NFL team is built and what exactly is required to ... (Continue reading)
If Nate Clements held onto that interception against the Atlanta Falcons, the 49ers would have celebrated a close victory. But in the NFL, you don't “Win to just win it.” An NFL team wins football games for one single reason: to ... (Continue reading)
Late last season, when the 49ers were discovering a revitalized Alex Smith and a new identity, I wrote several articles about the benefits of the spread offense. The 49ers had demonstrated that year that they started games abysmally poor, only ... (Continue reading)
The San Francisco 49ers are new at this. They are uncomfortable in this type of unfamiliar territory. Although they played a home game against the New Orleans Saints, the 49ers were in a far away land. A ... (Continue reading)
Over the course of a 16-game NFL schedule, lots of strange things can occur.Every team has one game where everything goes right. Every team also has one game where everything goes wrong.The 49ers hope that last week, they already experienced ... (Continue reading)
The show was ugly, bizarre, and downright embarrassing. There was no large cane to pull the players off the stage. There was no gong to bong, to cut short the farce and save some face. That's because the players ... (Continue reading)
The Jeff Garcia era had ended just as quickly as it had begun. Garcia's play was declining, just as his contract was expiring. The 49ers, rightly or wrongly, decided that they needed to once and for all, purge their roster and ... (Continue reading)
Since the 49ers lost to the Seattle Seahawks on the road, they have been on a mission. They have made a commitment to build back what they have wanted all along; and what they want is not centered ... (Continue reading)
The 49ers were coming off one of their best, most complete games in years, after their victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 11. They came into Seattle with a new identity and a new attitude. It was ... (Continue reading)
In the 11th month of the year, during the 11th game of the 2009 NFL season, something important happened for the San Francisco 49ers. Bill Walsh's ghost has stopped rolling around. He can sleep easy, because the 49ers overcame the one ... (Continue reading)