The 49ers have to cram six days of preparation into a four day bag this week for Thursday Night Football, and to help with that it appears that Kyle Shanahan is taking a page out of Benjamin Franklin’s playbook. Franklin famously said, “Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” In yesterday’s conference call, Shanahan explained how he’s changing the schedule to give the team as much sleep as possible.
“What my experience, what I’ve been told, I think the best thing for recovery is sleep. So that’s why, I think we pushed back all the schedules later so they can sleep in more.