Jul 28, 2021; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan (left) and normal supervisor John Lynch throughout coaching camp on the SAP Efficiency Facility. Necessary Credit score: Stan Szeto-Imagn Photos Seven losses in a season is unfamiliar territory for the San Francisco 49ers.
With two Tremendous Bowl appearances in 5 seasons, normal supervisor John Lynch brazenly admits the 49ers have not earned the correct to be referred to as “pretty much as good” because the 2023 NFC championship group.
San Francisco is 5-7 however solely two video games behind NFC West-leading Seattle with 5 video games remaining because the Chicago Bears (4-8) arrive Sunday.
“I’ve discovered the entire dialogue on Kyle somewhat comical,” Lynch mentioned in an interview Friday with KNBR in San Francisco. “We’ve gained 4 of the final 5 division championships. We have been to 2 Tremendous Bowls. The usual right here is to win championships, and we have fallen in need of that, I perceive.
“However we now have a wonderful head coach, and the truth that persons are speaking about stuff like that, I do discover it comical. We’re one hundred pc behind Kyle and what he brings to our group. Like I mentioned, our focus is absolutely on the Bears and doing every part we are able to. That is the place Kyle’s focus is, and that is the place all our focus is.”
San Francisco misplaced 35-10 within the snow at Buffalo final Sunday evening and the 49ers positioned their prime two operating backs on injured reserve on account of accidents in that sport. Christian McCaffrey (knee) and Jordan Mason (ankle) may return for Week 18 at Arizona if the 49ers are nonetheless preventing for a playoff spot.
In a top-down rating of NFC groups by document and playoff place, the 49ers are No. 11 coming into Week 14.
“You’re what your document says you’re on this league, and that is not excellent. So I believe we have been by means of so much as a crew, this present crew with a number of stuff that has occurred to members of our group. Accidents, tragic circumstances, in the end these are simply excuses. One factor I can inform you is I am pleased with how this group has caught collectively, had one another’s again. The opposite factor I can inform you is the story’s not written but. We’re nonetheless grinding, and we’re nonetheless enjoying.”
The 49ers final missed the postseason in 2020 with a document of 6-10 that adopted an look within the Tremendous Bowl — San Francisco’s first title sport lack of two to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
San Francisco’s upcoming schedule after Sunday features a quick week earlier than enjoying the division rival Rams on Thursday, at Miami (Dec. 22), a Monday evening matchup with the Detroit Lions on Dec. 30 and the finale in opposition to the Cardinals.
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