2005 San Francisco 49ers season

2005 San Francisco 49ers season
OwnerDenise DeBartolo York and John York
General managerMike Nolan
PresidentJohn York
Head coachMike Nolan
Offensive coordinatorMike McCarthy
Defensive coordinatorBilly Davis
Home fieldMonster Park
Results
Record4–12
Division place4th NFC West
Playoff finishDid not qualify
Pro BowlersNone

The 2005 San Francisco 49ers season was the 60th year for the team overall, and their 56th season in the National Football League (NFL). They improved their two-win 2004 season by two games.

Former head coach Dennis Erickson had been fired just after the end of the 2004 season, and Mike Nolan (son of former 49ers head coach Dick Nolan) took the helm.

Despite having a better record than the 2–14 Texans and 3–13 Saints, statistics site Football Outsiders calculated that the 49ers were actually, play-for-play, not only the worst team in the NFL in 2005,[1] but the worst team they have ever tracked.[2] According to the site, the 49ers offense in 2005 is the third-worst they had ever tracked.[3][2][note 1] The 49ers 3,587 total offensive yards were the fewest of any team in 2005, and their 239 points scored were third-worst in the NFL.[4] Despite finishing with the worst record in 2004, the 49ers ended up playing the second-toughest schedule in the NFL in 2005 as they played eight games against eventual playoff teams, including games against the top seeds in both conferences, the Seattle Seahawks and the Indianapolis Colts, and games against the Chicago Bears and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The 49ers played the Bears and Buccaneers because those teams, like the 49ers, had finished last in their NFC divisions in 2004, but unlike the 49ers both teams improved enough to win their divisions in 2005.[5]

San Francisco's 1,898 team passing yards in 2005 were the lowest such total in the decade of the 2000s.[6]

  1. ^ Football Outsiders: 1992 DVOA Ratings and Commentary
  2. ^ a b Football Outsiders – DVOA 7.0: Worst Teams Ever, Minus-55.5 DVOA, worst rating calculated from 1991 through 2011 seasons
  3. ^ Football Outsiders: 1992 DVOA Ratings and Commentary" The Seahawks' −45.9% offensive DVOA sets a new FO record, surpassing the 2005 San Francisco 49ers (−42.0%) as the worst offense we've ever tracked."
  4. ^ Pro-Football-Reference: 2005 NFL Standings, Team & Offensive Statistics
  5. ^ Conn, Adam (January 15, 2006). "Current 2006 NFL Draft Order". ContractBud.com. Archived from the original on June 3, 2006. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  6. ^ Pro-Football-Reference.com: In a single season, from 2000 to 2011, in the regular season, sorted by ascending Passing Yds


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