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The players and coaches won’t want to, but there’s an argument the SF 49ers would be better off tanking over their final six games in 2020.
Any win the SF 49ers manage to engineer over the rest of 2020 is going to be proverbial “fools gold.”
Yes, tanking is dumb. Players understand their reputations and future contracts are on the line. Coaches hate seeing extra losses associated with their overall records. It drives away fans and relegates a team to the backwaters of prime-time contests the following season.