Jim Tomsula was put into an impossible situation when Jed York and Trent Baalke named him successor to Jim Harbaugh — you remember him, just the most successful 49ers head coach since George Seifert — nearly one year ago, and San Francisco’s many failings in 2015 do not lie exclusively with him. But is he equipped to pull the 49ers out of the NFL dungeon in 2016 and beyond?
Before we can attempt to answer that question (and I’m sure many of you already have), we need to understand the depths to which the 49ers have fallen. Tomsula’s squad secured their 10th defeat of the season this past Sunday in a mostly empty Levi’s Stadium at the hands of an A.