1 reason every NFL team can win the Super Bowl
By Andrew Garda
San Francisco 49ers
Well, they said goodbye to Jim Harbaugh and rolled the dice that the success they have had the last few years was more about the team and less about the coach. That Jim Tomsula can step in and replicate the results of a guy who took his team to the conference championships and the playoffs all but one year he was head coach.
Tomsula takes over a team which isn’t quite as strong as it was even as recently as last year. Ten players left in free agency, and that doesn’t even include the retirement of Patrick Willis and Chris Borland (who was supposed to replace Willis at some point). The defense is in need of a reboot and badly. Did Tomsula get enough talent in free agency and the draft?
The offense also looks a bit different with Frank Gore and Michael Crabtree gone. Can Tomsula help Colin Kaepernick take his game to the next level, a process Harbaugh was still in the midst of? Does he try to convert Kaepernick into more of a pocket passer, or will he embrace the mobility Kaepernick has and adapt his offense to it?
This is a team with a lot riding on the results. The division is one of the most competitive in the NFL, the team has seen many veterans leave and the new coach doesn’t have much of a track record. There is still plenty of talent in San Francisco though, and Tomsula has the tools at his disposal.
Whether he can use them well is the question, and one that a lot of Niner fans will be judging.
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