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Predicting the Final Score of the 49ers' Week 6 Game vs. the Seahawks

The 49ers have to play a clean, turnover-free football (looking at you, Brock Purdy).

Grant Cohn

Nov 23, 2023; Seattle, Washington, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan stands on the sideline during the third quarter against the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images
Nov 23, 2023; Seattle, Washington, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan stands on the sideline during the third quarter against the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images / Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images
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SEATTLE -- The 49ers essentially have to win this game.

If they lose, they'll be in free fall because their next two games will be against the Chiefs and the Cowboys. So if the 49ers can't beat the banged -up Seahawks, who can they beat and how many games will they actually win? Five?

Meanwhile, the Seahawks definitely don't have to win this game. They're 3-2, so if they lose, they'll be .500 which is right where they should be. They have a first-year head coach. They have zero expectations. For them, tonight is an intriguing opportunity to put the 49ers' season and the Kyle Shanahan Era on life support, but not much more.

So the 49ers should play extremely hard. Which should see the best version of themselves. But even when they're at their best, they struggle in the red zone this season. Which means they probably won't blow out the Seahawks.

As long as the 49ers kick field goals when they're in the red zone, they'll let inferior teams hang around. And when they've let teams hang around recently, they've lost.

The Seahawks aren't a great team, but they're better than the Cardinals and the Rams. Seattle has three good wide receivers, two good running backs and a quarterback who's underrated. They probably won't beat themselves.

Which means the 49ers have to play a clean, turnover-free football (looking at you, Brock Purdy) and make their field goals with backup kicker Matthew Wright.

I'm picking the 49ers to win a field-goal fest.

Final score prediction: 49ers 23, Seahawks 20.

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GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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