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NFL Network Analyst Predicts 49ers Will Defeat Bills in Super Bowl

You've got to respect it.

Grant Cohn

Oct 27, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk (44) raises his helmet as he leaves the field after the game against the Dallas Cowboys at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images
Oct 27, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk (44) raises his helmet as he leaves the field after the game against the Dallas Cowboys at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images / Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images
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All aboard the 49ers bandwagon.

Just a few weeks ago, their record was 3-4 and things looked bleak. Now, their record is 4-4 and Christian McCaffrey seems poised to make his season debut this Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And suddenly, people are becoming more optimistic about the 49ers' chances to win the Super Bowl this season.

NFL Network analyst Michelle Magdziuk recently picked the 49ers to beat the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl this season.

"The Niners overcome an injury-riddled season to bring home their first Lombardi trophy in more than 30 years," Magdziuk writes.

Short and sweet. You've got to respect it.

I wonder if the 49ers feel the same way, though. If they truly thought they were positioned to win a Super Bowl this season, wouldn't they have made a big splash at the trade deadline? They desperately need an edge rusher and they didn't get one. Meanwhile, the Lions traded a fifth-round pick and a sixth-round pick for Za'Darius Smith and a seventh-round pick because they're legitimate Super Bowl contenders. Why didn't the 49ers try to trade for Smith? He was cheap.

It's certainly possible that McCaffrey will return to form after missing eight games with bilateral Achilles' tendonitis, but the 49ers weren't good enough to win the Super Bowl last season when he was 100 percent healthy. And they're objectively worse this season. And the NFC is much more competitive.

Until something changes, I'm picking the Chiefs to win every Super Bowl. Can you blame me?

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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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