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Top 10 Biggest Mistakes the 49ers Have Made Since 2015

By Peter Panacy

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The San Francisco 49ers have gone from perennial Super Bowl contenders to a laughingstock in a very short amount of time. This means mistakes were made, and Niner Noise looks at the 10 biggest dating back to the beginning of 2015.

Dec 28, 2014; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers chief executive officer Jed York (left) shakes hands with head coach Jim Harbaugh (right) before the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ed Szczepanski-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 28, 2014; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers chief executive officer Jed York (left) shakes hands with head coach Jim Harbaugh (right) before the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi’s Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ed Szczepanski-USA TODAY Sports /

The 1-7 San Francisco 49ers of 2016 are a bad, bad team. Everyone knows this, and it’s no secret.

But how exactly did San Francisco get here? How did all of this come to be not long after the Niners were considered perennial Super Bowl contenders earlier in the decade.

Simply put, mistakes were made. A lot of them. And while there is no perfect way to run any given NFL franchise, it’s clear the decisions this organization has made in recent years have gone a long way in plummeting the 49ers from the league’s elite to laughingstock.

Finger-pointing is a popular thing. There’s plenty of blame to go around in Santa Clara. Much of it falls on general manager Trent Baalke. A good deal falls on CEO Jed York. And the rest of the San Francisco top brass also earns negative critiques.

So let’s look at some of those mistakes and try to identify the top-10 reasons why the 49ers are bad right now.

Hopefully, but learning from its own mistakes, the team can go about rectifying what went wrong and working towards a future rebuild down the road.