Your host goes solo this week to handle listener mailbag questions as football season approaches. Topics include reasons for optimism, what it’ll take to have a cohesive offensive game plan, how the Washington outcome will impact the team’s outlook, the record it’ll take to be comfortable with Jim Harbaugh returning in 2022, and more.

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