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The Deets: The 49ers have two big advantages going into a strange 2020 season

The Deets is a morning dose of commentary from sports columnist Dieter Kurtenbach that wraps up everything important in the world of sports and looks forward to another crazy day ahead.

The 2020 NFL season is going to happen, pandemic or no pandemic, which means that teams have less than one month and no preseason games to prepare for their Week 1.

That’s an exceptional — hopefully, in the true sense of the word — challenge.

But the 49ers — the defending NFC Champions — are unquestionably an outstanding team. And they have two marked advantages over the vast majority of the league before we head into what we all hope is a one-off season.