Eric Ting

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Will the 49ers fall into the same NFL Draft trap a third time?

2 months ago | sfgate.com | Eric Ting

But Kocurek is not Jesus, and hasn’t been able to save everybody. I write this because there’s a common thread that connects the two most high-profile instances where he failed — Javon Kinlaw and Drake Jackson — as well as some of the options in the 2025 NFL draft. In short, those players were freakish athletes in serious need of technical refinement and were selected with the belief that Kocurek could coach them up.
It's time for the 49ers to tank

Nov 25, 2024 | sfgate.com | Eric Ting

Even in a year the NFC West is a cesspool of mediocrity, the San Francisco 49ers are going nowhere. All they needed to do was tread water until the return of Christian McCaffrey and their usual November and December surge. But, thanks to even more injuries, as well as some issues that are not getting fixed in 2024 (more on that later), this team is a loss to the Buffalo Bills away from being all but eliminated from the playoffs.
The reassuring truth about this 49ers season

Oct 14, 2024 | sfgate.com | Eric Ting

If you told any San Francisco 49ers fan going into the 2024 season that the team would start 3-3, they would probably panic. Hell, there are likely many 49ers fans who, even after Thursday’s win over the Seattle Seahawks, still want to freak out faster than DK Metcalf freaks out over the slightest inconvenience. I am here to tell anyone with itchy panic button fingers to abstain, because context is everything.
Why even the Chiefs game doesn't matter for the 49ers right now

Oct 14, 2024 | sfgate.com | Eric Ting

If you told any San Francisco 49ers fan going into the 2024 season that the team would start 3-3, they would probably panic. Hell, there are likely many 49ers fans who, even after Thursday’s win over the Seattle Seahawks, still want to freak out faster than DK Metcalf freaks out over the slightest inconvenience. I am here to tell anyone with itchy panic button fingers to abstain, because context is everything.
The GOP says San Francisco is a mess. Kamala Harris should agree.

Aug 8, 2024 | sfgate.com | Eric Ting

Kamala Harris is going to turn America into San Francisco. As in: a dystopian land of homelessness, open-air drug markets and business exodus. That’s according to the Republicans who are now scrambling to campaign against Harris, the vice president who has reenergized the Democratic Party after President Joe Biden bowed out of the 2024 presidential race. The San Francisco attacks will be potent.
The 49ers drafting Ricky Pearsall is indefensible

Apr 26, 2024 | sfgate.com | Eric Ting

There is no plausible defense for the San Francisco 49ers’ selection of Florida wide receiver Ricky Pearsall at pick No. 31 in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft. Harsh? Yes. An overreaction? Most certainly not. Pearsall is a “reach” by any objective measure; you need to scour the internet to find any mock drafts that had Pearsall going in the first round, and the lead draft experts for ESPN and NFL Network had Pearsall as Day 2 picks on their big boards.
The one thing the 49ers must do in the first round of the NFL Draft

Apr 22, 2024 | sfgate.com | Eric Ting

The San Francisco 49ers realistically have just one more chance to win a Super Bowl with this core. It sounds dramatic, but it’s the truth. After the 2024 season, Brock Purdy will need to get paid, and the ensuing roster reshuffle will lead to a bleeding of top-tier talent as San Francisco seeks to become salary cap compliant in 2025 and beyond. Trent Williams, Christian McCaffrey and George Kittle aren’t getting any younger, either. All of the chips must be in for 2024.
Calif. Republican primary voters are walking into an embarrassing trap

Mar 4, 2024 | sfgate.com | Eric Ting

California Republican voters absolutely despise Adam Schiff. They may be about to hand him a Senate seat. Late last week, a new poll from the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies showed Schiff and former Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Steve Garvey as the favorites to advance out of Tuesday’s primary to November’s general election.
The Comeuppance | Almeida Theatre

Mar 4, 2024 | almeida.co.uk | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins |Eric Ting |Marc Brenner

★★★★“Clever, funny and compelling”Financial Times★★★★“A magical, original piece of theatre”WhatsOnStageI guess this is just that age. The Age of Shit Showing Up.The Age of Bad Choices Seeking Their Consequences. Autumn 2022. A group of friends gather hours before their high school reunion. 20 years have passed since graduation: some have had children; some have moved to the other side of the world; some have been to war. But there’s another presence in their midst.
Kyle Shanahan is a better 49ers coach than Jim Harbaugh ever was

Feb 9, 2024 | sfgate.com | Eric Ting

It has come in many forms over the past two weeks. The declaration, in some way or another, that “Kyle Shanahan’s legacy is at stake in Super Bowl LVIII.”I’m here to tell you that it really isn’t. The 49ers’ coach has already cemented his legacy among his NFL contemporaries and in 49ers team lore. Unless he goes full Greg Roman (how is that man back leading an NFL offense?) with his play-calling Sunday, Shanahan is already the second-best coach in 49ers history.