{"id":895698,"date":"2026-10-26T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895698\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:32:10","slug":"49ers-could-be-looking-for-an-eddy-piniero-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895698\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers could be looking for an Eddy Pi\u00f1iero replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 49ers enter the bye week, they could be thinking about saying farewell to kicker Eddy Pi\u00f1iero.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran kicker missed another extra point in Sunday\u2019s loss to the Falcons. Through seven games, he has missed four extra points and three field goals.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, coach Kyle Shanahan was asked whether the 49ers will work out kickers during the bye week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OurSf49ers\/status\/2114455781521383723?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I don\u2019t know<\/a>,\u201d he said, \u201cI haven\u2019t talked to anybody about that, we\u2019ll probably discuss on the plane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Shanahan was asked whether he has spoken to Pi\u00f1iero about the missed kicks. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Shanahan said. \u201cNot much to discuss. I can make stuff up, but he knows he\u2019s got to make kicks, and we all do. I\u2019m not going to try to teach him how to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a team with high aspirations, one missed kick can spell doom. Sunday\u2019s failed extra point left the deficit at 26-20 with 5:05 to play. Which allowed the Falcons to make it a two-score game with a field goal. Which made it virtually impossible for the 49ers to close the gap when they got the ball down nine points with 1:50 to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the 49ers enter the bye week, they could be thinking about saying farewell to kicker Eddy Pi\u00f1iero.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-895698","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\/895698","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=895698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}