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Deebo Samuel: the 49ers have "been the Best Team in the League for a while"

Deebo Samuel's debut as a podcaster didn't go so well.

Grant Cohn

Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) is introduced before the game against the New York Jets at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) is introduced before the game against the New York Jets at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images / Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
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Deebo Samuel's debut as a podcaster didn't go so well.

He and his guest Brandon Aiyuk barely spoke, and when they did speak, Samuel in particular put his foot in his mouth. Check out this exchange between him and the host.

Q: What is it going to take to get you guys over the hump and finally hold that Lombardi Trophy?

SAMUEL: "Be your best self. As long as you know you left it all out there, win lose or draw, as long as you know you gave it everything, you ain't got no regrets at all."

Q: So it sounds like you guys are pretty convinced that as long as everybody shows up, there's no doubt that you guys feel like it can be your year.

SAMUEL: "In my eyes, we've been the best team in the league for a while."

TRANSLATION: The 49ers don't have to do anything different to get over the hump because they're already over the hump. In fact, they got over the hump years ago. Now they merely must maintain their status as the NFL's best team.

Hilarious.

Forget the fact that the 49ers haven't won a Super Bowl since 1995 and the Chiefs have won three since 2020. Let's look at regular season records since 2022. In that period, the 49ers are 26-10. So are the Philadelphia Eagles. Meanwhile, the Chiefs are 27-9 and the Bills are 26-9. So technically, the 49ers aren't even the second-best team in the NFL during the past three seasons. That team would be Buffalo.

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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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