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Ranking the Teams in the NFC West After Week 2

We're two weeks into the 2024 regular season. Let's rank the teams in the NFC West in ascending order.

Grant Cohn

Sep 15, 2024; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) and wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk (11) react after a touchdown by Kittle during the second quarter against the Minnesota Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images
Sep 15, 2024; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) and wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk (11) react after a touchdown by Kittle during the second quarter against the Minnesota Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images / Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images
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We're two weeks into the 2024 regular season. Let's rank the teams in the NFC West in ascending order.

4. The Los Angeles Rams

Half of their team is injured, they have the worst defense in the league and they're already 0-2, which means their odds of making it to the playoffs are low. They seem like an extremely fragile team that could get hot in the second half of the season if they get healthy -- that's what they did last year. For now, they're awful.

3. The Seattle Seahawks

Technically, they're in first place with two wins and no losses. But they squeaked out those wins against the Broncos and Patriots, who aren't particularly good. Seattle definitely has a good defense, excellent receivers and a quality running back tandem. But their quarterback is Geno Smith, and their offensive coordinator is Ryan Grubb, who's in his first NFL season. Which means they still don't scare anyone.

2. The Arizona Cardinals

They're 1-1, they lost a close game to the Bills who are terrific, then they blew out the Rams who are beat up. Kyler Murray is playing the best football of his career now that he has a real offensive coordinator as opposed to Kliff Kingsbury, plus the addition of Marvin Harrison Jr. seems to have opened up their offense. Arizona still has major questions on defense, though.

1. The San Francisco 49ers

They're clearly the best team in the division when they're healthy, but they're not healthy, and it's unclear if we'll ever see last year's version of Christian McCaffrey again. Now Deebo Samuel is out with a calf injury as well which means Brandon Aiyuk, Brock Purdy and Kyle Shanahan are under tremendous pressure to step up. Fortunately for them, they get to face the Rams next.

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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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