The 49ers drafted Carlos Hyde with the 57th overall pick due to his abilities as a runner, but his rushing style is more power than pure speed. So watching him take handoffs during OTAs and minicamp won’t tell you much, other than that he knows the plays and won’t fumble away a handoff for no […]
Greg Roman said this shaped up to be the most competitive training camp the 49ers have had since he joined the team before the 2011 season, and that’s not just hyperbole. Besides quarterback, every position on the offensive side is going to go down to the wire. That includes running back, where Frank Gore is […]
The 2013 NFL season is finally over. The 49ers failed to win the Super Bowl (AGAIN). Some other jerks won it and they got totally lucky. It was a stupid season. Let us never speak of it again. Wait. Okay, maaaaybe we can speak of it again, just for a few more days. Now that […]
The 49ers’ 2013 season ended in the worst possible way on Sunday. A lot of questions face this team as the players clean out their lockers and the front office prepares for the upcoming draft rather than the Super Bowl. Will they lose Greg Roman, Vic Fangio or Jim Tomsula? Is the Frank Gore era […]
The environment in Seattle is so hostile that one imagines the 49ers (or any other team that travels there) in a reactionary position. Just weather the storm, whether it comes in the form of rain, snow, hail or decibel levels that cause permanent hearing damage. Yesterday the 49ers practiced while some of the loudest music […]
The newest addition to our team, Nick “Bay Area Intern” Schebetta, had an idea to bring back the predictions we did last year. No problem, I said. As long as we aren’t predicting a ton of games at the same time, which made the predictions posts a formatting nightmare last year, I’m cool with it. […]
Greg Roman is a lot of things — mad scientist, extremely creative, pretty vague during press conferences (more on that later). He’s also a chess player, as we heard in his response today to a question about one of the hottest issues in Niners Nation (or Empire, if you prefer): timeouts. “Ideally you’d like to keep […]
There may be no more significant love-hate relationship than the one that 49ers fans have with offensive coordinator Greg Roman. On one hand, he’s the mastermind behind an offense that has carried this San Francisco team to three straight playoff runs, back-to-back NFC Championship Games and a 2012 Super Bowl berth. On the other, he […]
Anyone who writes about the 49ers is in a different predicament than usual. Before, it was a race to assign blame. Now,...