49ers Have Internal Strife Just Two Days After Losing the Super Bowl

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The 49ers' minds are so blown that they lost the Super Bowl, not even 48 hours later they have strife.
First, Brandon Aiyuk went on social media and indicated that he might not return to the 49ers next season -- he might request a trade if they don't offer him the contract extension he has in mind. Then his brother and girlfriend went on social media and echoed Aiyuk's sentiment.
So Aiyuk is upset, and he has every right to be, because he was excellent in the Super Bowl, and yet he received just six targets, which is a slap in his face. He'll never get as many targets as he deserves as long as he plays for Kyle Shanahan. If Aiyuk played for Andy Reid, you can bet he'd get the ball much more often.
Next, Jon Feliciano threw fellow offensive lineman Spencer Burford under the bus to defend Colton McKivitz's honor on Twitter. You see, some random person tweeted that McKivitz was responsible for the pressure that blew up the 49ers' final offensive play. Feliciano took it upon himself to respond to the tweet and make sure everyone knows the culprit was Spencer Burford, not McKivitz. Feliciano later apologized to Burford, who didn't deserve that public treatment from a teammate. If Feliciano had something to say, he should have said to Burford's face or kept his mouth shut.
Teams are supposed to hang together after crushing losses. Losers don't hang together. Losers blame each other. And until the 49ers actually win a Super Bowl, they'll be high-level losers.

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.
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