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Fans are thinking playoffs"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections 49ers Salary CapLevi’s Stadium Events49ers Transactions49ers Injury News49ers Press Conferences & Conference CallsSB Nation FanPulseSan Francisco 49ers NewsNFL Free AgencyFanPulse: 49ers are optimistic about the 2019 season after free agencyNew Womens Roger Craig Jersey ,217commentsFans are thinking playoffsPDTShareTweetShareShareFanPulse: 49ers are optimistic about the 2019 season after free agencyJohn David Mercer-USA TODAY SportsWelcome to SB Nation FanPulse — a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the offseason, we send 32 polls to plugged in fans from each team. 49ers fans, sign up HERE to join FanPulse.For this version of FanPulse, we survey fans to see where their confidence with the San Francisco 49ers were. We asked three questions—and let me tell you—the morale of the team has skyrocketed since the last time we did this. The questions were how many wins the Niners would have Ronnie Lott Jersey , if you like the direction of the team, and if the team got better after free agency.To no surprise, fans picked the over on the win total. We set the over/under of 8.5 wins. 84.21 of you picked the over. Hovering right around nine wins, the 49ers will be in a prime spot to compete for a wildcard. Winning nine games doesn’t guarantee you get in. It certainly puts you in the mix Y.A. Tittle Jersey , though. Going from four to nine wins might seem like a stretch for a lot of outsiders. When you take into account how many injuries the team suffered—especially at the most important position—it’s not not too far-fetched to believe a healthy 49ers team can get over eight wins. Then you factor in the free agent moves the team made, including the trade for Dee Ford. 95% of fans like the direction that the 49ers are headed. A whopping 98% felt like the team improved after free agency.We will do another FanPulse before and after the draft. Perhaps the Niners add another veteran player. It could also be a divisional rival added a free agent and that may worry you. We shall see. After playing wide receiver Dante Pettis into the fourth quarter of the team’s third preseason game, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said the 2018 second-round pick needed to “earn a role” on the team.If that comment gave rise to any thoughts that Pettis would be losing his job this week, they can be cast aside. Shanahan followed up to say Pettis is “not in jeopardy of not making our team or anything” while adding that the team is still figuring out just how he fits into their plans.Shanahan said Pettis can be “our No. 1 receiver http://www.49erslockerroom.com/authentic-jerry-rice-jersey , our No. 2 receiver, our slot receiver, or just a role receiver” and that he could even be the best player on the team, but he hasn’t been consistent enough to let coaches know where he belongs.“I have been hard on Dante http://www.49erslockerroom.com/authentic-colin-kaepernick-jersey ,” Shanahan said, via the . “But if anyone knows me, I am the hardest on people that I believe in. And I do believe in him a lot. And I’m always going to be probably a little disappointed because I think he can be very good. And it’s important to our team that he is.”Pettis has been dealing with a groin injury this week, but the feeling is he’ll be ready to go for Week One and the chance to show how Shanahan’s approach to pushing the wideout works out.