Originally posted by maximusdecimus:
I'm not miserable. Ive experienced this team when they were unstoppable. I know what it feels like when my team wins a Super Bowl. I feel sorry for all you younguns who won't experience it any time soon.
Unstoppable huh...
People need stop comparing s**t to the 80s, that era, where a few teams dominated the sport due to their owner's willingness to outspend every other team is gone and is never coming back. The days of the 49ers having better backups then a lot of teams starters due to Eddie D willing to pay out the ass, those days are never coming back and even during those days, there were some really bad losses that had the Lowell Cohn's of the world calling for Walsh to get canned and the team to get blown up...etc.
As much as fans want to try to make everything like its based on some secret formula of skill, a lot of it just comes down to dumb luck. Get the right bounce of the ball, get the right opponents, get the right reffing crew.....etc. All you can ever do is try to be in position of that luck when it lands on your side. If you want to win SB's then you need to be in the playoffs, if you're not a consistently winning team then your odds are extremely slim.
With Shanahan I feel like the 49ers will be consistently in the running to get to and win a SB. There's few other coaches around the NFL that I can say the same about. There's a reason why his assistants are getting snapped up left and right and why his system is spreading around the league. He's a really good coach, he might even turn out to be a great coach but I don't see a situation where the 49ers move on from Shanahan and somehow improve their odds of winning long term.