Apparently, we have to do this again.

So, let me try a different tactic.

After the Niners’ last preseason game, I used this very space to publicly excoriate John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan for keeping kicker Jake Moody on the roster.

Clearly, it didn’t land. They went into the season with Moody.

How’d that work out?

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I, like so many of you, foresaw what was going to happen if the Niners stayed on course. And it looked an awful lot like Sunday’s season debut.

No, San Francisco didn’t lose the opener to the Seahawks in Seattle. But Moody’s missed chip-shot field goal changed the entire tenor of the game.

You pair that with the bad kickoffs and the generally woeful special teams play, and the decision is a no-brainer: the Niners need to make a change at kicker.

Because i

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