The 49ers’ build-up to the 2025 season has never truly been about the 2025 season.

No, it’s about 2026 and beyond.

Then again, if something good happens in 2025, they’ll take it.

Sunday’s game against the Seahawks in Seattle (1:05 p.m., Fox) is the first step across this bridge year for the Niners. It’s their first trial in this bizarre experiment they’ve been preparing for the last nine months.

For the 49ers to be successful this season — think making the playoffs and winning a game or two there — San Francisco will have to find a way to get two polar-opposite groups of players to play their best at the same time.

But first, let’s backtrack and re-establish what has brought us to this point:

After a disastrous 2024 season that netted only six wins, despite preseason Super Bowl expec

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