SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Although the NFL's collective bargaining agreement only requires that players get a minimum of four consecutive days off for the bye week, the San Francisco 49ers already have parted ways for this week's down time. And coach Chip Kelly's team won't reconvene for practice until next Tuesday.

For most teams, extra time off often is a reward for on-field success. For the Niners, that's clearly not the case as they take a six-game losing streak into the bye week. Instead, Kelly said his plan to allow his players the extra time off is a result of long-established thinking as well as his ailing team's need for rest and recovery.

“That’s what we’ve always done wherever I’ve been in the league," Kelly said. "I think we’ve played seven games. They’ve been at it since July 31st. They haven’t had more than one day off in a row. So I think at this point in time that’s what our whole M.O. has always been. We’re going to bring them in on Monday. We’re going to watch the game. We’re going to put the game to bed. They’ll meet with our strength and conditioning coaches. They have their lifting programs in terms of what they can do and what they have to do.

"And I think at this point in time we need to heal up. We’ve got two guys as I talked about in Aaron (Lynch) and Rashard (Robinson) that we’re not sure about long term. There are some other guys that have played through a lot of issues so far and have continued to play and stay in games, but I think it’s a good break for them to do what they need to do. That’s the way I’ve always done it and our teams have been fresh coming out of the bye week.”

Indeed, the Niners have no shortage of players needing time to bounce back. Kelly said Robinson (sprained MCL) and Lynch (high ankle sprain) were the team's biggest injury concerns coming out of the loss to Tampa Bay, but they are far from the only ones with bumps and bruises. Running back Carlos Hyde (shoulder), defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey (knee), defensive tackle Arik Armstead (shoulder) and receiver Torrey Smith (back) are among the other key players dealing with injury issues of varying degrees.

While the players already have departed for the week, Kelly said he and the coaching staff will stick around until Friday doing what all staffs do during the bye: take a long look in the mirror.

“We’ve got a lot of self-scout that we have set aside," Kelly said. "We’ve already talked about it, had it planned in the summertime of what our schedule would be. So we’ll be in here all week kind of looking at what we’ve done in the first seven games, what have our opponents done to us in the first seven games relative to what we thought going into the game based on the breakdowns.

“Did they change? If they were 60 percent pressure going into our game and they were only 30 percent pressure in our game, trying to delve into how people are defending us. How are we, people are attacking us from an offensive standpoint in terms of attacking our defense and what their tendencies were going into the game and then what actually transpired in the game. So we’ve got a lot of film work and a lot of studying to do here during this week.”