The 49ers' Super Bowl window may have just closed for a while. They were one of the most dominant teams in the NFL from 2019 to 2023. But now they're old.

Meanwhile, the 49ers have lost two Super Bowl games and a pair of conference title clashes under Shanahan since February 2020. More recently, San Francisco could not overcome a noteworthy injury crisis during this past regular season, and the club finished with a record of 6-11.

San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan faced a wave of criticism and calls for him to be fired after the team went 6-11 this year and failed to make

If you throw rocks at Kyle Shanahan and want him fired, he’s going to have a job in 30 seconds." The coach continued, "Reid, it was that he couldn’t win the big one, and now he’s on the verge of winning three in a row.