{"id":13073,"date":"2024-12-01T01:50:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T01:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=13073"},"modified":"2024-12-01T01:50:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T01:50:56","slug":"why-the-49ers-playoff-hopes-are-still-alive-after-packers-blowout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=13073","title":{"rendered":"Why the 49ers\u2019 Playoff Hopes Are Still Alive After Packers Blowout!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no two ways about it: the\u00a0San Francisco 49ers are having a brutal season.<\/p>\n

Taking the field in Week 1 with sky-high expectations, what with eight-year head coach\u00a0Kyle Shanahan\u00a0having just taken his team to the Super Bowl last year, the 49ers lost games they should have won, lost key players at seemingly every turn, and suddenly sit at 5-6 as longshots to win the division?<\/p>\n

Disappointing? For fans in Niners Nation, you bet; Shanahan\u2019s team had seemingly pulled away from the rest of the division in the two seasons preceding. Losing the Super Bowl was supposed to be a step on the way to grander things, a much-needed lump on the road to an NFC West dynasty with the least-likely starting quarterback in the NFL, \u201cMr. Irrelevant\u201d\u00a0Brock Purdy, running the show. But instead, this 49ers campaign looks a lot closer to 2020, when seemingly nothing went right, and John Lynch took a big swing on an FCS quarterback who crashed and burned in a disastrous way.<\/p>\n

Are the 49ers on the way to another Trey Lance-level disaster? Or could they still pull a rabbit out of their hat, return to the playoffs, and maybe make something out of nothing on the way to more years of the Shanahan regime?<\/p>\n

Now granted, the NFC West might just be out of reach, as the Arizona Cardinals are up two games over the 49ers and have a much easier schedule left on the books than their western rivals, but that isn\u2019t the only way a team can get into the playoffs. No, with three teams now afforded wildcard berths each year, the 49ers still have a chance to get where they want to be, even if the path isn\u2019t going to be easy. Fortunately, Shanahan has enough going for him to earn the benefit of the doubt, as the 49ers won\u2019t truly be out of contention until they are officially eliminated in the eyes of most NFL fans.<\/p>\n

\"Why<\/p>\n

1. Kyle Shanahan knows what\u2019s wrong<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When the 49ers left the field in Week 12, there weren\u2019t too many happy faces on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

Backup quarterback Brandon Allen struggled to get much going through the air, completing just 17 of his 29 passes for 199 yards, a touchdown, and an interception. The defense was even worse, allowing Green Bay to score on six of their ten drives. And worst of all, the rushing game, Shanahan\u2019s usual bread and butter, was a borderline non-factor, amassing just 44 rushing yards on 16 carries when Allen desperately needed some support on the ground.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, while discussing the 49ers\u2019 issues on Wednesday, Shanahan acknowledged that his team has been inflicting much of their issues onto themselves, with those issues needing to\u00a0be tightened up in order to get back on track.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not much secret to it. We\u2019ve got to tackle better, and we can\u2019t turn it over three times and three drives in a row,\u201d Shanahan told reporters. \u201cThe penalties that we can change, a couple of pre-snap penalties, one 12-on-the-field, one bad holding that we had, those are the ones that we\u2019ve got to fix.\u201d<\/p>\n

On one hand, telling fans that a team will simply fix their self-inflicted issues is easier said than done, as if the 49ers could tackle better, they likely would have over the past few days. Still, some things they can fix, like running the ball an equal number of times versus passing attempts, and regardless of who is starting at quarterback, that has to be part of the strategic turnaround, even if\u00a0Shanahan doesn\u2019t want to run a three-running back platoon\u00a0like some other teams.<\/p>\n

\"Why
<\/figcaption>2. The 49ers have four winnable games left in 2024<\/strong><\/figure>\n

For the 49ers to actually get into the playoffs, they need to *spoiler alert* win games. At 5-6, they are currently in\u00a0last place in the NFC West, and with just six games left to play, the margin of error will certainly grow tighter with each passing week should the Ls continue to stack up. Factor in a\u00a0Week 13 showdown against the Bills in Buffalo, where the West Coast team could have to play in the snow for the first time this year, and the 49ers may find themselves with a 5-7 record by the end of the first day of December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no two ways about it: the\u00a0San Francisco 49ers are having a brutal season. 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