49ers' 2025 season in review: Questions linger after bittersweet success

49ers Talk: A San Francisco 49ers Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Football, Nfl, San Francisco 49ers, Sports, Matt Maiocco

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In a season marked by setbacks and adversity, the 49ers rose to the occasion in spectacular fashion. President of football operations/general manager John Lynch and coach Kyle Shanahan echoed those sentiments in their end-of-season press conference Wednesday, touching on player health, offseason roster construction and the team's season-long resilience. On this episode of "49ers Talk," co-hosts Matt Maiocco and Jennifer Lee Chan look back San Francisco's unexpected run and break down some of the most memorable moments, including their picks for the 49ers' best game, most outstanding play and team MVP. Later, the duo look ahead to its promising young roster, how the 49ers' brass will add to it this offseason and how some of the team's injured stars recovery timetables shape up for next season.

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0:20.1	The 49er season has come to an end.
0:23.4	It lasted longer than a lot of people thought it might, but it ended short of providing the team with full satisfaction.
0:30.9	Now the offseason begins, and there are already a lot of happenings with the organization.
0:37.1	The number one priority is to find a new defensive coordinator to replace Robert Sala.
0:42.1	On this episode of 49ers talk, Jennifer Lee Chan and I will look back on the season that was
0:47.4	and look ahead to what is in store for the offseason.
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0:55.0	you right now. Welcome to another episode of 49ers talk on NBC Sports Bay Area.com. Introducing your hosts,
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1:29.3	season ending loss to the Seattle Seahawks. And you could kind of get the sense all the way
1:35.3	through that it was a bittersweet season because they did a lot of good things. They made it to the
1:42.3	playoffs with 12 wins in the regular season,
1:44.9	but just the way it ended certainly left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths here with the 49ers.
1:51.1	You know, the thing about them winning and having a 12 and 5 season is that it gives everybody
1:56.3	this hope that they can make it to the Super Bowl. And they, you know, I think a lot of us thought that
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