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What the 49ers Have to be Proud of

The 49ers didn't fold. They did what really good teams do -- they reinvestigated themselves, came back and showed they're the best team in the NFC.

Grant Cohn

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The 49ers may or may not win the Super Bowl, and the outcome of that game will determine how they feel about this season when it's over.

But up to now, this has been a season the 49ers can be extremely proud of for lots of reasons. 

First, the 49ers had a three-game losing streak. No one remembers it anymore, but it happened, and it's hard to say why. Maybe it's because Trent Williams was out. Regardless, lots of teams, such as the Eagles, would have folded in the 49ers' position.

The 49ers didn't fold. They did what really good teams do -- they reinvestigated themselves, came back and showed they're the best team in the NFC. They can be proud of that.

The 49ers also can be proud that even though they didn't play their best in the previous two playoff games, they came from behind to win both of them, something critics had questioned if they could do.

The 49ers also can be proud of Brock Purdy. He's their franchise quarterback. Going into the season, they knew he was their starting quarterback, but they didn't know anything more than that. Now they know they've found their guy, and they can be proud that they've kept him healthy all year -- something the 49ers have struggled to do with their quarterbacks throughout the years.

Going into this season, lots of people predicted that Purdy would get hurt and missed games because that's their pattern. But he's quick enough on his feet to keep himself healthy, which he can be proud of.

Now go win the freaking Super Bowl.

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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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