[Mick]

On the pro scene….

With Celebrini making his debut in San Jose tonight and Buster Posey trying to make the Giants relevant again, there isn’t much room for a 49er team that can’t figure out how to close out games.

I predict that in three years, the Sharks will be the best professional team in the SF Bay Area.

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Wow, surprised this thread had dropped so far, but I guess that is what you get when you are a disappointing 2-3.  Two quick Niners related items of note I saw:

Robert Saleh, former DC under Shanahan for 2018 - 2020, was fired from the New York Jets after 3+ seasons, finishing with a 20-36 record and two fourth place finishes in the AFC East (and 3rd place last year).

Secondly, the following piece by Neil Paine (previously at 538) analyzes the Niners chances going forward.

https://neilpaine.substack.com/p/footbal...s-are-fine

According to the analysis, 2-3 teams have only made the playoff 38% of the time since the league expanded to 17 games.  But, the deeper analytics are that the Niners are not that bad.

BC

Well, the Niners won tonight, and the odds of a 3-3 team making the playoffs are 42%, per this link (dated 2021). I'm not as sanguine...the Niners play a record number of teams with the rest "advantage" over the Niners as of the day of that game (7 or 8 games, I forget which).

What record will be good enough to make this year’s NFL playoffs? | NFL Football Operations

[Mick]

On the pro scene….

With Celebrini making his debut in San Jose tonight and Buster Posey trying to make the Giants relevant again, there isn’t much room for a 49er team that can’t figure out how to close out games.

I predict that in three years, the Sharks will be the best professional team in the SF Bay Area.

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Wow, surprised this thread had dropped so far, but I guess that is what you get when you are a disappointing 2-3.  Two quick Niners related items of note I saw:

Robert Saleh, former DC under Shanahan for 2018 - 2020, was fired from the New York Jets after 3+ seasons, finishing with a 20-36 record and two fourth place finishes in the AFC East (and 3rd place last year).

Secondly, the following piece by Neil Paine (previously at 538) analyzes the Niners chances going forward.

https://neilpaine.substack.com/p/footbal...s-are-fine

According to the analysis, 2-3 teams have only made the playoff 38% of the time since the league expanded to 17 games.  But, the deeper analytics are that the Niners are not that bad.

BC

Well, the Niners won tonight, and the odds of a 3-3 team making the playoffs are 42%, per this link (dated 2021). I'm not as sanguine...the Niners play a record number of teams with the rest "advantage" over the Niners as of the day of that game (7 or 8 games, I forget which).

What record will be good enough to make this year’s NFL playoffs? | NFL Football Operations