It never was going to be easy, but the 49ers made the road a lot more difficult on themselves. “This team's been through a lot this year,” 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said after his team failed Saturday night in their bid to earn the NFC's No. 1 playoff seed. Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are WATCH HERE “Now we’ve got to do it the hard way, and we'll embrace the s--t out of doing it the hard way, and look forward to it.” The 49ers open the playoffs on Sunday in Philadelphia against last season’s Super Bowl champs. More than likely, it will require the 49ers to win three consecutive games on the road to make it back to Levi’s Stadium on Feb. 8 for Super Bowl LX. There was...
