Who knows, it could work out. He may very well lead them to their first victory since Week #5 back on October 8th.
This is the NFL and there are no excuses...
...but something I've taken note of. As west coast teams the Niners and Seahawks both have a disadvantage when playing East Coast games at 10AM. We've seen it impact our teams performance.
What I've noticed over the past few weeks is the added fun of playing the Browns in that window when the Browns were coming off a bye and last week, tho it was at home, the Niners got the Bengals off a bye when Niners had just played on Monday night...IE 6 days rest vs 14 days rest.
To make it worse...the 49ers finally got their bye...and they get to play another team coming off the bye...in the 10AM window. They don't even get to realize the advantage that they've been up against twice in 3 weeks. That's also 3 teams in 4 weeks given 2 weeks to prepare.
All told...the 49ers will have a net -20 days of rest this year on their schedule (NFL worst).
Its no excuse. Gotta win those games...but schedule makers weren't kind in that regard. No wonder they looked so damn tired compared to the Bengals.