This would be an enormously good time for Jed York and Trent Baalke to add a little clarity and stability to this plummeting 49ers season.

This would be a decent moment for the 49ers’ CEO and general manager to at least pretend that they’re accountable to something, somebody, somehow.

This would be the perfect time — 2-5 record, coach sputtering, reports and rumors flying — for York and Baalke to act like leaders and stand up for themselves and their team.

Which is why we know York and Baalke almost certainly won’t do any of that, not soon, maybe not for months and months.

And now is when it would actually matter.

York and Baalke will probably do what they always do in chaotic times: Stay deep, deep in the shadows.

It’s unhealthy for this franchise, of course, to repeatedly go through these convulsions tied to unenviable losses and unnamed sources.

Last season, all the unnamed sources lined up to undermine Jim Harbaugh, the best coach this team has had in decades.

This season, the murmuring is about quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who by now knows how this franchise works.

This week, I asked Kaepernick if somebody in the 49ers organization might be trying to make him a scapegoat for this season.

“I really hope not,” Kaepernick said.

Which is a far thing from the quarterback saying he knows York, Baalke or someone else in management wouldn’t do something like that.

We can suspect 49ers management of every secret thing because they won’t put their names on anything.

Instead of letting all this fester, York and Baalke could come forward and tell the world that Kaepernick is their quarterback now and into the future and that they would never plot against him.

But they’re letting it fester.

They could stand at a podium and say that Jim Tomsula is doing exactly what they believed he would do when they picked him to succeed Harbaugh, and that nobody should speculate about Tomsula’s future because he’s going nowhere.

But York and Baalke are not saying that.

And, as we learned from all the Harbaugh whispers last season, when York and Baalke stay silent about rumors, they are either the likely sources of them or they agree with them.

Compare this with the Warriors management team, if you dare.

Remember, CEO Joe Lacob was booed off the Oracle Arena court early in his tenure.

Not only did Lacob keep showing up and keep answering questions; he answered questions later that night.

That didn’t directly lead to the Warriors winning the championship last June, not necessarily.

But Lacob’s openness, self-confidence and eagerness to add smart lieutenants (who talk to the media all the time) were clear signs that larger accomplishments were possible for the Warriors.

If the same event happened to Jed York — booed mercilessly by his own fans — we wouldn’t see or hear from him for decades.

As it is, York took questions at the news conferences when the 49ers announced Harbaugh’s departure and when they hired Tomsula, then York got crushed in a radio interview on KNBR.

Since then, York has taken questions from national outlets and one or two here or there at random events, but nothing formal.

Baalke talked to the beat reporters a few times during training camp, but hasn’t done anything public since then and nothing in front of local cameras or columnists since the spring.

Instead, Tomsula has to answer the questions about the latest drama; Kaepernick and his teammates have to answer the questions about the latest reports.

There are always more reports: Comcast SportsNet Bay Area and the Bay Area Sports Guy website both reported that there was a confrontation between Joe Staley and Vernon Davis during a recent clear-the-air team meeting.

There are always issues: Kaepernick is an issue, losing is an issue, and I would imagine that the level of coaching is an issue.

Who should answer for all these things? Who could possibly explain what York and Baalke were thinking when they set it up this way and how they believe they can fix it?

It pretty much has to be either York or Baalke, who aren’t talking.

By the way, York and Baalke actually once had it set up beautifully for themselves. The team was good, they rarely had to speak in public and it didn’t really matter if they spoke.

Not long ago, the 49ers had a successful team and a coach who had credibility speaking for the franchise on most matters.

But York and Baalke decided they couldn’t stand Jim Harbaugh, didn’t want him speaking for the team and convinced themselves they could do better, and now they’re 2-5.

Baalke and York will explain the whole thing to us, I’m sure, by 2020 at the latest. Until then, as always, the rumors reign in 49ersland.

Read Tim Kawakami’s Talking Points blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami. Contact him at tkawakami@mercurynews.com or 408-920-5442. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/timkawakami.