Remember those days of past when the San Francisco 49ers were in the Super Bowl and Colin Kaepernick was on pace to possibly become, as Ron Jaworski put it, “one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time”?
Shockingly, that was only three years ago.
As their Bay Area counterparts, the Warriors and Giants, have flaunted championship success over recent years, the Niners instead sunk to 5-11, missing the playoffs for the second consecutive season, and leading to the ousting of first-year head coach Jim Tomsula, himself trying to replace the successful Jim Harbaugh, who had been tossed out despite back-to-back NFC title game appearances and wound up coaching college.