San Francisco 49ers: 2014 Offensive Report Card

The San Francisco 49ers 2014 season is over, and its time to pass out their season-ending grades.We did this exercise once at midseasona progress report, as it were. This was back at the 49ers bye week, with the team sitting at 4-3 in the thick of the playoff race. Since then, the team has had widely divergent runstheyve put together a three-game winning streak in November and a four-game losing streak to end the year.One thing to keep in mind here is that were grading the 49ers by the standards of the NFLand not their own recent success. Obviously, an 8-8 season is profoundly disappointing for a team that made three straight NFC Championship games and was a play or two away from multiple Super Bowl titles.At the same time, however, realize how great an 8-8 year would seem to, say, the St. Louis Rams, who havent reached that point since 2006. Its good to keep the year in perspective overall.Bleacher Reports national writer Michael Schottey has already given season-ending grades for every team, giving the 49ers a C, but were going to go a bit more in-depth, going position by position. Its not right to say the 49ers were average across the boardthey were average in the same way that a man with one hand on fire and the other hand in a block of ice is, on average, comfortable.My training before becoming a sportswriter actually was as a teacher, so I know the importance of giving feedback, rather than just a straight letter grade. Ill try to highlight something each unit did well, as well as what it'll need to improve on to bounce back into the playoffs in 2015.Were focusing on the disappointing offensive side of the ball here; well handle the more promising defensive side of the ball in the next slideshow.Begin Slideshow
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