I am so proud of our year and proud of the guys and I think you know we've been

close a few times here but you know this was definitely the one that felt the

best you know I thought we were some of the things we overcame early how we

persevered you know was going 98 straight days without a loss was a different

feeling that I hadn't been a part of I know we're gonna have coming back so we

gotta take our time a little, grieve this a little bit and but yeah I'm pumped for

next year.

Kyle Shanahan glass half full on the season that was because ultimately it ended

with a loss in the NFC championship a loss that felt like they never really had

a chance because of a fluke injury to their starting quarterback their

third string quarterback who had gone undefeated in seven or eight games came

in for one that didn't count as a start but the Miami game was how it all got

started for Brock Birdie and they had a great run and it always hurts when it

ends but this is a team that feels like I should have won a super bowl by now

yeah Chris and yeah the reality is they they are still trying and trying and

trying and it just gets frustrating the longer and harder that you try and you

don't get there you start to feel like it's never gonna happen and at least

he's got optimism in the immediate aftermath of what occurred on Sunday yeah

definitely I mean again there's a lot of positive things like he was saying

about what they're doing right now right I mean we talk about it almost on a

weekly basis the last six or seven weeks just the physicality the way the 49ers

fly around the football field of course they got scheme and X's and O's and

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