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ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Rams figured former safety Craig Dahl would share strategy secrets with his new team, the San Francisco 49ers. Some thought Dahl crossed a line Wednesday by publicly suggesting the Rams had figured out run-pass tendencie...

San Francisco 49ers safety Craig Dahl says his former team, the St. Louis Rams, played the 49ers tough last season in part because they sniffed out run-pass tendencies through personnel giveaways. 2012 49ers Offensive EPA by Opponent Rank...

The trade sending Gabe Carimi from the Chicago Bears to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers shines light on the 2011 draft for offensive linemen. 2011 First-Round Offensive Linemen Pk. OL Tm. Starts 17 Nate Solder NE 32 15 ...

Good morning, NFC West. Three items around the division caught my attention over the weekend. We take a quick run through them to kick off a new week: Around the NFC West: June 10, 2013 Arizona Cardinals Boivin: Mathieu on t...

With Jim Harbaugh at the helm, one former 49er sees greatness for the coach and the franchise, Ashley Fox writes.

When St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford was good on third down last season, he was really, really good. Take a Week 10 game at San Francisco, for instance. Bradford completed 8 of 12 passes for 102 yards on third down, helping the Rams force ...

Harry How/Getty ImagesWith Crabtree out for six months due to injury, Colin Kaepernick will be without his favorite target.The San Francisco 49ers and New York Giants both have high expectations for the 2013 season. However, both teams will face a di...

Eric Mangini is back in the NFL -- and back to his coaching roots.

METAIRIE, La. -- The New Orleans Saints just finished the first practice session of their minicamp. Let's take a quick run through some notes, highlights and observations: Cornerback Keenan Lewis was not at practice. Coach Sean Payton said Lew...

The Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers, among others, tried to maneuver in the 1983 NFL draft for a shot at selecting John Elway. So did the Los Angeles Raiders. Now, former Raiders coach Hue Jackson says via Peter King that the team also...

We have previously discussed how close San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick was to becoming an Oakland Raider. Monday, Sports Illustrated revisited the possibility with former Oakland coach Hue Jackson and Kaepernick. Imagine how different thin...

Passing along: the link to our regularly scheduled NFC West chat, set to begin Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. Michael Crabtree's injury was the No. 1 subject from the chat last week. Not much has changed in the intervening days. NFC West rosters are prett...

Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton said Wednesday he has lost 12 points since the end of last season, bringing his weight down to 243 from 255.

Anquan Boldin had encouraging words for the injured Michael Crabtree and looked comfortable catching passes from Colin Kaepernick on Tuesday, the first one open to reporters that he has participated in since coming to the 49ers in a trade with Baltimore i

We spent some time Saturday looking at receiver Michael Crabtree's value to quarterback Colin Kaepernick when the San Francisco 49ers faced third down last season. The idea was pretty simple. We took the number of times the 49ers targeted Crabtree...

A reach into the NFC West mailbag on this Memorial Day weekend brings us back to the No. 1 topic around here for the past week: receiver Michael Crabtree's recently torn Achilles' tendon and its impact on the San Francisco 49ers' offense. "One thi...