As the old saying goes, victory has a thousand fathers, while failure is an orphan. Unfortunately, when it came to the 49ers’ offense last year, there’s one area where there’s plenty of blame: three-and-outs. On today’s Gold Diggers podcast, Michelle Magdziuk jumped into the lab and pinpointed where things went wrong last season.
The 49ers’ offense did not exactly come out swinging early in games. In the first half last year, the Niners went three-and-out 21.8% of the time - 18th best in the league. Not surprisingly, San Francisco didn’t light up the scoreboard in the first half of a lot of games.