49ers overreactions: Has Shanahan’s Super Bowl window closed?

49ers overreactions: Has Shanahan’s Super Bowl window closed? originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

This was not the 49ers’ season.

Sometimes it’s just that simple.

The vibes were not there. It was a bizarre training camp with a couple of their key players embroiled in contract disputes. Other key players were injured. Their first-round draft pick got lucky when he survived a shooting incident.

Then, the 2024 NFL season started and the 49ers uncharacteristically let some big leads to NFC West opponents get away.

The 49ers never looked like a playoff team.

Now, they look like one of the worst teams — if not the worst team — in the entire NFL.

Coming off the team’s 35-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night, we asked the good folks on Bluesky for their reactions to the current state of the team.

Oh, yeah, there might’ve been an overreaction sprinkled in there, too.

Running CMC 90% of the snaps and underutilizing Mason directly led to his knee injury— @dkny.bsky.social

Overreaction? Yes.

When Christian McCaffrey went down Sunday night with an injury, the initial fear was that something bad happened to either of the Achilles tendons that plagued him from the offseason through the first eight weeks of the season.

Instead, it was an injury to the posterior cruciate ligament of his right knee.

This was not a wear-and-tear injury. It was more or less a freak injury, and it was another stroke of bad luck in a season that has gone horribly wrong for the 49ers in every imaginable way.

McCaffrey does not require surgery on his knee, so that’s some good news. But he will go on injured reserve, and his season is over.

Up to that point in the game, McCaffrey looked much like the player who won the NFL Offensive Player of the Year last season. He had six carries for 58 yards. He looked crisp and explosive.

But the way he was tripped up at the end of a long run or the way he landed caused the injury.

Jordan Mason did a fine job as the 49ers’ starter while McCaffrey…

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Publish date : 2024-12-03 17:20:00

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