A never too soon look at our 2025 schedule…

The season's over but for two meaningless game.
Here's a quick look at next year schedule :

Home
Arizona Cardinals
Los Angeles Rams
Seattle Seahawks
Atlanta Falcons
Carolina Panthers
Jacksonville Jaguars
Tennessee Titans
Chicago Bears (NFC North last place)

Road
Arizona Cardinals
Los Angeles Rams
Seattle Seahawks
New Orleans Saints
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Houston Texans
Indianapolis Colts
New York Giants (NFC East last place)
Cleveland Browns (AFC North last place)

So we play three of the four divisions that will only send one team to the playoffs this year and have the lesser total wins : ours, NFC South and AFC South (the other one is AFC East). Overall, those South divisions have not been good for a bunch of years.
If we finish last we'll have the luxury of playing 3 other last places teams.
This is clearly the year to rebound with what seems RIGHT NOW a soft schedule.
If we make the upgrades needed during the offseason (other topic) and we are focus starting day 1 of the offseason program, we are clearly in contention if not favorites for the #1 seed.

SUPERBOWL!!! 🏆

It's actually a good thing our division is competitive, because that schedule might actually make it difficult to stay sharp. Steel sharpens steel, etc. (Or in this season's case steel cuts us to shreds over and over again 😅).

Dam I see a rebound season, that schedule super soft, we get healthy and I see 15-2 there

Consolation prize I suppose

Originally posted by 49Fever:
The season's over but for two meaningless game.
Here's a quick look at next year schedule :

Home
Arizona Cardinals
Los Angeles Rams
Seattle Seahawks
Atlanta Falcons
Carolina Panthers
Jacksonville Jaguars
Tennessee Titans
Chicago Bears (NFC North last place)

Road
Arizona Cardinals
Los Angeles Rams
Seattle Seahawks
New Orleans Saints
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Houston Texans
Indianapolis Colts
New York Giants (NFC East last place)
Cleveland Browns (AFC North last place)

So we play three of the four divisions that will only send one team to the playoffs this year and have the lesser total wins : ours, NFC South and AFC South (the other one is AFC East). Overall, those South divisions have not been good for a bunch of years.
If we finish last we'll have the luxury of playing 3 other last places teams.
This is clearly the year to rebound with what seems RIGHT NOW a soft schedule.
If we make the upgrades needed during the offseason (other topic) and we are focus starting day 1 of the offseason program, we are clearly in contention if not favorites for the #1 seed.

Look at the above (however, disagree with the "two meaningless games" comment to start it off - no games are meaningless for this team & it's young guys still developing, the built-up winning culture, etc....realize what you mean, though).

Rebuild this OL and DL (all starts with winning in the trenches)

Get more quality talent at DE/pass rush, LB and in the secondary

Maybe get a new K

Get playmakers healthy (CMC, etc.) and re-sign some key guys (such as Greenlaw - if healthy/if makes sense financially given his health)

Get the best ST coach you can hire - start consistently winning or breaking even in this key 3rd Phase of the game

Hopefully hire some new, better coaches (ST as mentioned, maybe DC - not sold on Sorensen, OL coach, WR)

Shanahan makes some adjustments as necessary (he's a smart football guy & am confident he can rebound and do what's needed in whatever areas...scheme, in-game situational management, etc.)

All of the above may sound like a lot but it's really not. This team, though some of its talent is getting a little older (T. Williams A LOT older - we'll see if he's back), has some of the best & most playoff battle-tested talent in the league. That includes the QB, who has helped guide them to four playoff wins & a SB appearance in only 2 1/2 seasons.

This team will get healthy. Playing in so many additional games in the playoffs over the last five seasons can and will catch up with players re: injuries.

Get healthy along with hopefully some of the above getting done and I'm already looking forward to next year and seeing this team take on any team - I'll very much like their chances in each game.

The schedule for next year looks good if: The Niners draft well, and sign great FA's (not these has beens and never beens) filling holes on the OL and DL. Get WR's who can get SEPARATION AND NEVER GIVE UP ON THE BALL. We need good coaches who can get linemen to stop the run and pressure the opposing passer as well as make him eat the ball. And our HC needs to grow a pair and get macho in believing he is a superior coach and can't be beat. Come to think of it, our QB needs to play the same way. Just make the adjustments at the line of scrimmage

I was thinking the same thing, earlier I was telling my fellow Niner fans that next year we'll get the bye week as long as we are slightly healthy. Not only that we are just like Philadelphia last year. Missing the playoffs with a new defensive coordinator, except they didn't have the injuries we had. Next year is our year to "win the whole f**king thing" as Jake Taylor said in Major league

Originally posted by 49Fever:
The season's over but for two meaningless game.
Here's a quick look at next year schedule :

Home
Arizona Cardinals
Los Angeles Rams
Seattle Seahawks
Atlanta Falcons
Carolina Panthers
Jacksonville Jaguars
Tennessee Titans
Chicago Bears (NFC North last place)

Road
Arizona Cardinals
Los Angeles Rams
Seattle Seahawks
New Orleans Saints
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Houston Texans
Indianapolis Colts
New York Giants (NFC East last place)
Cleveland Browns (AFC North last place)

So we play three of the four divisions that will only send one team to the playoffs this year and have the lesser total wins : ours, NFC South and AFC South (the other one is AFC East). Overall, those South divisions have not been good for a bunch of years.
If we finish last we'll have the luxury of playing 3 other last places teams.
This is clearly the year to rebound with what seems RIGHT NOW a soft schedule.
If we make the upgrades needed during the offseason (other topic) and we are focus starting day 1 of the offseason program, we are clearly in contention if not favorites for the #1 seed.

They will all be Cinderella next year and we get our ass kicked

Originally posted by elguapo:
I was thinking the same thing, earlier I was telling my fellow Niner fans that next year we'll get the bye week as long as we are slightly healthy. Not only that we are just like Philadelphia last year. Missing the playoffs with a new defensive coordinator, except they didn't have the injuries we had. Next year is our year to "win the whole f**king thing" as Jake Taylor said in Major league

We win the whole f-ing thing in Santa Clara

This is the way, Brock will give it his damn all to make that happen

Get our team healthy, get some good picks, get rid of the bums and don't shoot thyselves in thy foots.

Get the damn trophy already Shanny

On paper a fourth-place schedule is a good thing for us, but I have to see what kind of changes this organization makes in the off season before I can gauge my expectations for 2025. As we speak, expectations are not high given the holes on our roster, without substantive changes we hope to be mediocre again. I feel like we're at least two great drafts away from competing in the NFC. We have our franchise QB and our franchise TE, we need to build both lines with young top end impact talent, add quality depth there and everywhere else because the cupboards on this roster are bare.

Lemme get this out off the way already, 17-0.

Originally posted by PRIMETIME21:
Dam I see a rebound season, that schedule super soft, we get healthy and I see 15-2 there

Soft schedule means nothing when the team is bad.

assuming we lose to the lions, and the cardinals lose to the rams this week, and we end up beating Arizona week 18, who ends up last place in the division?

Nothing's guaranteed...players might not be around, Shanny isn't even certain that he could be alive on a Sunday