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49ers WR Deebo Samuel Says Winning a Super Bowl Isn't Easy

The 49ers have changed their tune since last year.

Grant Cohn

Feb 11, 2024; Paradise, Nevada, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel (19) reacts against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 11, 2024; Paradise, Nevada, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel (19) reacts against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports / Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
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The 49ers have changed their tune since last year.

When the 49ers lost to Philadelphia in the NFC Championship Game, they said the only reason they didn't win the Super Bowl is because their quarterback, Brock Purdy, was injured. When he's healthy, they're the best team in the NFL. That's what the 49ers believed.

Then Purdy stayed healthy all of last season, and the 49ers still didn't win the Super Bowl. So now their stars are talking so tough anymore. Instead, they're pleading for empathy and understanding.

Deebo Samuel recently went on social media to share his thoughts on losing the Super Bowl.

To be fair, no one ever said winning a Super Bowl is easy. People have said however that the 49ers missed a great opportunity to win one and that the task only will be more difficult in the future as they age and other contenders improve.

It's understandable that Samuel would be sensitive about losing the Super Bowl considering the 49ers gave him every opportunity to win it for them. He was targeted a whopping 11 times against the Chiefs and managed to catch just three passes. Had he played better, or if the 49ers had featured Brandon Aiyuk instead of him, they might have won.

It's got to be embarrassing that after all the trash the 49ers talked last season, they managed to score just 19 points in regulation of the Super Bowl. When they had Jimmy Garoppolo, they scored 20 points in the Super Bowl. So no matter how talented the 49ers are on offense, they just can't figure out how to close the deal.

It's tough.

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Grant Cohn

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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