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The 49ers Fall to No. 20 in NFL.com's Week 14 Power Rankings

The 49ers have lost three games in a row, but their season isn't dead yet.

Grant Cohn

49ers quarterback Brock Purdy warms up before their game against the Bills in Orchard Park on Dec. 1, 2024.
49ers quarterback Brock Purdy warms up before their game against the Bills in Orchard Park on Dec. 1, 2024. / Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Democrat and Chronicle / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
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The 49ers have lost three games in a row, but their season isn't dead yet.

Sure, they're in last place in the NFC West, but they're also only two games out of first place and they have four winnable games remaining on their schedule.

Still, the 49ers have been awful the past three weeks, and that's why they've fallen to 20th in NFL.com's Week 13 power rankings.

"The Niners remain nominally in the race, especially with no one pulling away in the NFC West," writes NFL.com analyst Eric Edholm. "But we can tell what time it is. The season felt all but over prior to Sunday’s loss at Buffalo, and the loss plus the PCL injury to Christian McCaffrey cemented that feeling. It’s really hard to see this team going 4-1 or 5-0 down the stretch with the shape it's in. November and December typically are when Kyle Shanahan’s teams thrive, but the 49ers are now 1-3 since the bye, scoring 17 points or fewer in three straight games and allowing 73 over their past two. The 49ers lost three fumbles Sunday night and were run over by the Bills to the tune of 220 yards on the ground. It wasn’t pretty. It’s feeling more like the go-nowhere 2020 season with each passing week."

While Edholm is correct that the 49ers probably won't win four of their next five games, it's worth pointing out that four of those games will be against the Bears (23rd in the power rankings), the Rams (16th), the Dolphins (18th) and the Cardinals (15th). The 49ers certainly could win all four.

They also could lose all four.

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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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