Barrows: 49ers mailbag: Is Kyle Shanahan losing the locker room? Is the window closing? (paywall)
“All of the leaders on the team – Trent Williams, George Kittle, Kyle Juszczyk, etc. – are Kyle Shanahan devotees. Actually, that sentence might not be strong enough, so how about this: Those guys worship at the altar of Kyle.
Which is to say, it’s hard to believe he’s lost faith in the locker room.
The problems that you note – and I’ll add ‘lack of a killer instinct’ to that pile – might also be symptoms of fatigue, too.