SANTA CLARA – A loss Sunday to the Dallas Cowboys would dump the 49ers record to 0-7, matching their franchise-worst start in 1979 under first-year coach Bill Walsh. Can Kyle Shanahan, in his first year, follow Walsh’s lead and still trigger a franchise turnaround?
One expert who thinks so is Tony Dungy, a cornerback on the 1979 team before becoming a Super Bowl-winning coach himself and now a NBC Sports analyst.
“They realize they are hanging in there and it’s about to turn,” Dungy said this week in a phone interview.
