{"id":8820,"date":"2025-07-14T10:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8820\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T10:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:09:03","slug":"jerry-rice-thinks-the-49ers-changed-too-much-this-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8820\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Rice thinks the 49ers changed too much this offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest 49ers of all time thinks the 2025 version of the team may struggle with a roster that was overhauled too much.<\/p>\n<p>Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice says he sees a team in flux when he looks at what the 49ers have ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just feel like <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/07\/11\/49ers-legend-jerry-rice-concerned-with-aiyuk-comeback-defenses-youth-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">we added on too many pieces<\/a>. The reason why I say that is these guys are young guys,\u201d Rice told Cam Inman of the San Jose Mercury News. \u201cSuper Bowl 60 is going to be here in San Francisco [at Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara]. I would have preferred to sort of leave everything like last year, add on to that, and have a chance for this coming year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rice thinks the 49ers may be relying on too much youth.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cA lot of young guys. Now, can Kyle Shanahan pull it together and can these guys jell? We have to wait and see,\u201d Rice said. \u201cBut there\u2019s this big question mark if it\u2019s going to work.\u201cI\u2019m always going to go Niners no matter what. But we\u2019re bringing in so many young players. It\u2019s going to take a while for that team to jell. If it doesn\u2019t happen this year, then maybe the next couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the greatest 49ers of all time thinks the 2025 version of the team may struggle with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-8820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}