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The question currently being debated in 49erville is entirely the wrong question. Of course, quarterback Steve Young shouldn’t play Sunday. On a field of green concrete, behind that offensive line, against a defense that can smell blood? That’s not a question; that’s a concussion–which Young could add to his collection of three in a year. The right question, the real question, the only question for Young now is whether he should play any more at all, ever. . . . First-year coach Steve Mariucci must feel like the king who found his throne was actually a seat in a carnival dunk-tank, with two medicine balls, marked Rice and Young, being heaved from short distance at a can’t-miss target. The NFL’s most glamorous job, eh coach?