Week 4 felt like the final tune-up of the last preseason game for the San Francisco 49ers as they step into the meat and potatoes of the schedule coming up.
The next month will be critical, and the Niners have an opportunity to set themselves up to make a run in the second half of the season. Kyle Shanahan and the company did exactly what they were supposed to do against a New England Patriots team that was hardly competitive.
But that’s what the upper-echelon teams do. They step on the throats of incompetent teams.