With the San Francisco 49ers at 2-5 heading into their Week 8 matchup agains the St. Louis Rams, the 49ers hopes and dreams for a playoff birth in this 2015 NFL season have been all but dashed. The time has come for the 49ers to begin looking past this season to the 2016 version.
With media stories — true or not does not matter, the fact that they have been written says enough — describing alleged internal frustration inside the 49ers locker room, it is appearing more and more clear that the 49ers are not a cohesive unit.