Something is Wrong with the 49ers

Bad loss.
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Just a couple weeks ago, people thought the 49ers might go undefeated.

Now, they've lost two games in a row to teams that had losing records when the 49ers faced them. That's embarrassing and that's a trend.

After the loss to the Browns last week, certain players on the 49ers acted as though the loss was beneficial to them. Talanoa Hufanga said it almost was a good loss. Kyle Juszczyk said the 49ers had gotten too used to winning and needed a loss to refocus on the task at hand.

Sure. And then they lost to the Vikings.

Bad loss.

The 49ers act like they're head and shoulders better than the rest of the league, and they were in September. But it's a long season, and the 49ers appear to have peaked early. Now they're taking weak opponents lightly and losing to them.

The 49ers need to humble themselves fast. They think they're a great team that simply needs a wake up call to play its best. But that's not the case. The past two weeks tell us the 49ers are not a great team, not nearly as good as they think they are. Nothing about them has been dominant since they beat Dallas -- not the defense, not the kicker, not the running game, not the quarterback, Brock Purdy. Not the defensive coordinator, Steve Wilks. And not the head coach, Kyle Shanahan. They're all in a slump.

Now, you look at the 49ers schedule and wonder who else can beat them. Cincinnati? Seattle? Baltimore? Jacksonville. Philadelphia? The 49ers could lose to any of them.

This season just got extremely interesting.


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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.