Ultimately, the NFL is a bottom-line business. There are two ways to look at this, too: strictly from a wins-and-losses standpoint, or the 31 other non-Super Bowl-winning teams are failures, essentially.
Either way, the San Francisco 49ers have yet to deliver in either the aforementioned criterion. With two full years under the current regime of head coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch, the Niners have a combined 10 wins despite a slew of roster changes and shake-ups from 2016.
Granted, 2017 can get a pass. That was a “tear down the old” year, for sure, and the addition of quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo midway through the season created unwarranted hype leading into 2018, which ended up being highlighted more by a swarm of injuries, including Garoppolo’s ACL tear, than by anything else.