PHOENIX – Jed York “mutually parted ways” with Jim Harbaugh after the 2014 season to begin a string of three consecutive years in which the 49ers fired their head coach.
He canned Jim Tomsula after the 2015 season, during which the 49ers won five games.
York went back to work just 12 months later. He pulled the plug on Chip Kelly’s tenure with the 49ers after a 2-14 season as part of an organizational overhaul that included the firing of general manager Trent Baalke.
Yet, things are a lot different after two losing seasons with coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch in charge.