Super Bowl 50 Security: Sharp shooters atop Levi’s Stadium?

When San Francisco 49ers players are finally able to enter the team's facilities, things will be a lot different compared to when they left. Aside from being required to wear face masks — apart from when they are alone in a room — they'll notice a lot of things missing. Gone are all of the seats and tables in the team's cafeteria. Players can no longer dine there. They will need to grab their pre-packaged food and go, eating it outside or in the offices. Most of the seating in the main auditorium where full-team meetings are typically held will now have caution tape draped over them, preventing players — or anyone — from sitting too close to another person. Of course, none of this will happen until players report to training

Football Outsiders' creator, Aaron Schatz, joined Good Morning Football on NFL Network today and predicted that fans would see the New Orleans Saints facing the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV. Of course, this may be one of the most challenging seasons to predict, given the NFL's efforts to play football amidst a pandemic. Who knows what could happen or if the season will even begin? Assuming it does, and COVID-19 doesn't drastically impact rosters, why did Schatz pick the Saints over the San Francisco 49ers to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl? He discussed head coach Kyle Shanahan's squad after being asked to identify this offseason's "all-hype" team, about which Football Outsiders is a little worried. "We're actually a little worried about the

In June, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk created a stink over some offseason comments by Kyle Shanahan. The San Francisco 49ers head coach commented during the team's State of the Franchise event about his desire to get back to that fourth quarter in the Super Bowl and finish the job. Florio felt the comments dismissed the work it takes to get to that point and set unrealistic expectations. Except, Shanahan did note that he was well aware that the journey would not be easy, and that this season will be harder than ever. "That's why all of our guys have got to take this challenge, and we've got to take advantage of this offseason," Shanahan said in June.