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Deebo Samuel Says the 49ers are Better than their 5-6 Record

Deebo Samuel probably is the most disappointing player on the most disappointing team in the NFL through 12 weeks.

Grant Cohn

Nov 24, 2024; Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) prior to the game against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images
Nov 24, 2024; Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) prior to the game against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images / Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images
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SANTA CLARA -- Deebo Samuel probably is the most disappointing player on the most disappointing team in the NFL through 12 weeks.

Despite their injuries, the 49ers still have far too much talent to be under .500. And Samuel in particular has too much talent to have just 42 yards from scrimmage in the past two games, both losses.

Here's what Samuel said about the team's performance and his performance Wednesday in the locker room.

SAMUEL: "We don't pay attention to what's going on outside the locker room. The energy is where it needs to be. Our backs are against the wall, but at the end of the day they're kind of not. We still can win our division. We just take it day by day and need to get these wins under our belt. Got to change things around for sure."

Q: Your stats the past two games haven't been up to your standard. Are you happy with the way you're playing?

SAMUEL: "I'm not going to speak on that."

Q: With how close the division is, does that take away the feeling of having your back against the wall because you're just a game out of first?

SAMUEL: "We still look at is as our backs against the wall because at the end of the day we're 5-6 right now and we're better than what the record shows, for sure. Yeah our backs our against the wall, but at the end of the day we're one game away from winning our division. So we keep that in our heads, but at the end of the day you still want to stack wins."

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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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