Barry Tompkins: 49ers set for key stretch of season

I am currently zooming along in a train bound for Lisbon at about 200 miles an hour. Or, roughly one-tenth of the speed that my brain is operating on after sitting up all night watching the election results pour in on CNN International.

Undaunted, I forge on, trying desperately to care more about the Warriors or Niners, Giants, Sharks, Bears or Cardinal, than I do what kind of world my grandchildren may inherit.

But, I am a professional. So, HOW ‘BOUT THEM NINERS?

There is...