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The 49ers Fall to No. 18 in NFL.com's Week 13 Power Rankings

The 2024 49ers simply aren't good.

Grant Cohn

Green Bay Packers wide receiver Romeo Doubs (87) signals for a first down to San Francisco 49ers cornerback Deommodore Lenoir (2) after making a catch on Sunday, November 24, 2024, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The Packers won the game, 38-10. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Romeo Doubs (87) signals for a first down to San Francisco 49ers cornerback Deommodore Lenoir (2) after making a catch on Sunday, November 24, 2024, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. The Packers won the game, 38-10. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin / Tork Mason / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
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The 2024 49ers simply aren't good.

That's what we've learned about them through 12 weeks. They're 5-6 and they probably will finish the season with a losing record unless they turn things around quickly and find a gear they haven't had all year.

That's why they've fallen to 18th in NFL.com's Week 13 power rankings. This is the 49ers' lowest ranking of the season.

"On the one hand, the Niners are 5-6, haven't won more than one game in a row this season and have a road trip to Buffalo staring them in the face," writes NFL.com analyst Eric Edholm. "On the other hand, San Fran remains in the playoff race because of the sardine-tin-packed nature of the NFC West, with one game separating all four teams -- although the Niners' 1-3 division mark puts them at the bottom for now. Things are certainly grim, and San Francisco has not looked like a playoff team for most of the season, if we’re being honest. Injuries have sunk their teeth into every aspect of the roster, starting with the offensive stars and trickling down elsewhere. This is feeling more and more like the 2020 season, when things went off track for the Niners early and never really got back on. Brandon Allen replaced Brock Purdy and played fairly ably. Really, the performances by the backup QB's teammates -- and not the backup QB -- were the biggest reason that the Packers ran roughshod over them in the second half Sunday."

It's hard to blame the 49ers' poor season on injuries considering they've gotten worse since Christian McCaffrey has returned. The 49ers still have lots of talent, they're just not using all of it (see: Jordan Mason, Isaac Guerendo and Ricky Pearsall). And even if they do find a way to win the NFC, they'll lose in the first round of the playoffs. They're going nowhere and they know it.

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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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