Silver: Can Kyle Shanahan, John Lynch find fixes for faltering 49ers at trade deadline? (paywall)
“As one person who witnessed the somber scene told me afterward, “That was the quietest locker room I’ve heard in years. You could’ve heard a pin drop.”
49ers grasping to regain complementary identity as losing streak hits 3 games (paywall)
“That was a core part of the 49ers’ problem when McCaffrey joined the team via trade a year ago. Their inability to run consistently hurt their ability to control game flow. It’s far from the only problem now — there’s also a chicken-and-egg component at play because defensive failures lead to deficits and deficits make it harder to run the ball — but it does mark one of the many focus points the 49ers will have to address coming out of the bye.