49ers fire coach Jim Tomsula

Shortly before the announcement Tomsula was asked if he thought he deserved to keep his job. The personnel turnover with both players and coaches during the offseason would make it hard for any coach to find success.

“I’m not going to make any decisions on players”, York told reporters on Monday at the 49ers’ Santa Clara headquarters, south of San Francisco. Statements such as “I’d rather take a swing like we did on Jimmy T, and if you miss, the nice thing about the National Football League is they reward you for missing”, only further this notion.

York said he learned from his uncle, popular former 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo, how to attack after down times. St. Louis marched to the 49ers 30-yard line, but cornerback Dontae Johnson blocked Greg Zuerlein’s 48-yard field goal.

When it became painfully obvious that a divorce between Jim Harbaugh and the San Francisco 49ers was going to happen, fingers started being pointed and rumors started swirling.

The win, however, came at the expense of the franchise’s first-round draft order.

Free safety Eric Reid said it was important for the 49ers to end the season with a victory. “You’re not playing for anything else”. “We can’t win games that we’ve already played”.

Translated, that means you’re a good guy when you’re winning and a nobody when you’re not.

Harris had eight catches for 86 yards and Boldin five for 71. That’s been our problem the whole year. “And now we’re going to have that taste in our mouth the rest of the (year)”.

Rams head coach Jeff Fisher called the game “very disappointing”. He averaged 4.8 yards per carry.

But the trickiest question for Baalke to answer was whether he might seek out a coach with an offensive system that fits the 49ers roster, or seek out a coach and then construct (or reconstruct) the roster to fit that coach’s system.

San Francisco reached the Super Bowl in the 2012 season, and the NFC Championship the next year, before conflict between Harbaugh and the front office along with player turnover sent them into a downward spiral. “There’s a lot of bright spots”, Rams coach Jeff Fisher said. He said that he has been humbled and needs to not take things so personally. Major injuries hurt, too, specifically to running backs Reggie Bush, Carlos Hyde and then Shaun Draughn.

He added, “We’ve got to get this one right”.

Bill Walsh was 2-14 in his first go-round. The Rams scored only 280 points, fewer than all but three teams, and need an upgrade behind center. In fact, the 49ers gave up only 591 total return yards in 16 games, a remarkably low number when you consider how often they punted. He had a passer rating of 77.6.

Bill Parcell’s went 3-12-1. He completed 76 of 125 passes for 828 yards and four touchdowns with one interception.

Boldin knocked down cornerback Janoris Jenkins on his TD catch 8 seconds into the second quarter.