Are 49ers on Verge of a Dynasty?

Getting to the Super Bowl
even once for a team is  hard. Going back
again and again – as the New England Patriots have done nine times since
February of 2002 – is incredibly difficult.

So the 49ers are no lock to
return to the Super Bowl in the 2020 season after going 13-3 and winning the
NFC championship and then losing to Kansas City in LIV to finish the 2019
season.

Injuries, luck and the parity
of the league can torpedo teams that appear set for a long run of success. Just
look at the Rams of 2018, who went 13-3 and looked like an offensive juggernaut
only to stumble in 2019 and miss the postseason at 9-7. As
analyst Gary Davenport of Bleacher Report recently wrote, a team’s window for a Super Bowl “can close as
quickly as it opens.”

But Davenport believes the
Niners are better positioned for a long run of success than the Rams. He ranks
San Francisco No. 3, behind only Kansas City and Baltimore, as set up for many
winning years to come.

Especially, he writes,
because Kyle Shanahan’s team is built on defense with the likes of good young
talent such as Nick Bosa, Javon Kinlaw, Arik Armstead, Fred Warner and Dre
Greenlaw.

“Defense is king for the
49ers,” he wrote.

But the offense also is
capable of being even better than it was a year ago, he says, built around
quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, tight end George Kittle, a deep group of versatile
ball carriers led by Raheem Mostert and an emerging corps of wideouts with Deebo
Samuel and rookie first-round pick Brandon Aiyuk.

The fact they went so far in
2019 after being just 4-12 in 2018 speaks to their potential.

Wrote Davenport: “Part of
being set up for success in the future is showing you can win in the present.”

Source: NBC Bay Area