The San Francisco 49ers came up well short of the playoffs this year, but their five-game win streak to close the season has most of us feeling pretty optimistic about the future. The 49ers have what appears to be an answer at the quarterback position in Jimmy Garoppolo, a head coach and front office that did great work in year one, and several important building blocks.
Non-playoff teams regularly take the leap the next year to the playoffs, and once you make the playoffs, it’s a crapshoot. And so, it is fitting with the Super Bowl approaching that NFL.