Head Coach King Santi's 3rd Season

by kingsanti | 6 years ago | 0 Comments

As much as the 49er fans have enjoyed these past couple of seasons, the 2020 season is starting to look like a derailing trainwreck in the making. This season is only the 3rd in young head coach Santi's career and midway through the team is seeming to be falling of the rails as the season goes further. The team as a whole is a well put together with a nice mix of young talent and veteran leadership, but the team schemes and a key position changes seem to have a hand in the short comings of this years team. First lets talk about HC Santi's first season, he took over the niners after a 5+ years of lossing seasons and takes almost the same personnel to a 11-5 record and a trip to the NFC Championship game where they fell to a rising Redskins team with ROTY Derrius Guice who had a good game against the 49ers. The next season was just as good record wise with the team finishing 12-3-1, but that record ended up giving them a top seed and a easy trip to getting back to the NFC Championship game just to fall short to the Lions at home in a close loss. Both of those seasons while considered successful leaves the question of why they keep missing  the chance of making it to a Super Bowl and some believe that the blame largely falls on veteran quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo shoulders and his decision making in games where he would get consistently hit/pressured. Now those type of games can doom any passer in this league, but thats where you find out who is good and who is great, and great quarterbacks will always find the will to overcome such trials while not making costly mistakes that can ruin a whole teams confidence and collapse games that this team is more then capable of winning. In the two seasons he started for the niners Jimmy G has tossed 40+ INTs and for a Qb who just got a fresh 100M+ deal after a nice half season, it looks like the previous coaching regime overpayed and left the bill for the organization to pick up. Thats more then likely why HC Santi had decided to pick up two Qbs in this last draft class to try an maybe find his future signal caller, while still having the same level of successs as the past two seasons? Will have to wait an see, but as it stands now this team is 4-4 and looking at possibly missing the playoffs for the first time in two years. Although judging by the success of coach Santi's, we can be sure that he and his staff are taking full advantage of this bye week to come up with a plan of attack for the second half of the season where they face a brutal schedule which includes playing the Eagles, Redskins, and even their 90s rival the Dallas Cowboys so buckle up Niners fans as this could be either the end of their playoff hopes or the beginning of a really wild ride. To be continued.........