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A Long List of Bad Omens Currently Hang Over the 49ers

They're 1-2 and they just lost to one of the worst teams in the NFL, which means they're currently one of the worst teams in the NFL. Of course, it's early and they're banged up. It's possible they'll get healthy, go on a run and win the Super Bowl. They've started out 1-2 before.

Grant Cohn

Sep 22, 2024; Inglewood, California, USA; Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVey and San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan meet on the field following the game at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images
Sep 22, 2024; Inglewood, California, USA; Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVey and San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan meet on the field following the game at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images / Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images
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Maybe this just isn't the 49ers' year.

They're 1-2 and they just lost to one of the worst teams in the NFL, which means they're currently one of the worst teams in the NFL. Of course, it's early and they're banged up. It's possible they'll get healthy, go on a run and win the Super Bowl. They've started out 1-2 before.

But this year feels different. There's something ominous about it.

Christian McCaffrey has an Achilles injury that isn't healing on his own, so he flew to Germany to receive a treatment that presumably isn't legal in America. That's how desperate he is.

Bad omen.

The 49ers gave Christian McCaffrey a contract extension with guaranteed money this year and next year that makes him the highest-paid running back in the league even though he had this Achilles' injury and they knew about it and he might not play at all this year.

Bad omen.

Trent Williams and Brandon Aiyuk skipped the offseason, signed right before Week 1 and neither is currently in peak condition, particularly Aiyuk.

Bad omen.

Ricky Pearsall got shot in the chest.

Bad omen.

Deebo Samuel is out for a few weeks with what the 49ers are calling a calf strain. But remember, they initially called McCaffrey's Achilles' injury a calf strain.

Bad omen.

Javon Hargrave is out for the year with a torn tricep.

Bad omen.

George Kittle is out for who knows how long with a hamstring injury.

Bad omen.

Brock Purdy had an MRI this week on his back and is day-to-day.

Bad omen.

Other than all those things, the 49ers are doing just fine.

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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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