What the Jaguars Game Means to the 49ers

"We're going to go out there, do our best and I believe that we'll win."
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SANTA CLARA -- The 49ers are coming off a bye week and are in the midst of a three-game losing streak. On Thursday, I asked several 49ers what the upcoming game against the Jaguars means to them. Here's what they said:

GEORGE KITTLE: "Every game means about the same to me. I go into every game trying to win it. I believe in this team that we're going to win it. Losing three games in a row is not good. It definitely puts you at a disadvantage for the end of the season and your goals, but we're still in a position where we can win a lot of games and be right where we want to be. So we're going to go out there, do our best and I believe that we'll win."

CHRISTIAN McCAFFREY: "For us, you want to treat each week one week at a time, but having a tough opponent on the road -- every game is a statement game, but this one for sure. We've got to win this one. We have to go out there and execute the way we know how, and just play good football and show good things on tape the way we know how to."

BROCK PURDY: "We just need a win. We need to have that feeling again of winning, and then get on a streak and roll. The second half of the season is huge. The first half is the first half. We all got rested up over the bye week, and this is going to be a stretch that we all know is going to take what it takes. This game is going to be huge for us in terms of getting started for the second half of the season."

STEVE WILKS: "Dwelling on the past three weeks isn't going to change what we're trying to get done. Our focus is just one at a time. Let's go refocus ourselves, do what we've got to do and get this game. I think we know in the previous games we were there, we played hard. We've got to execute. We've got to make plays when given the opportunity. I've got to do a better job putting them in better positions, which will help them execute. But third down has been hurting us. We've got to get off the field. Those are things that we have to correct."

CHRIS FOERSTER: "You want to stack wins. No matter how you're playing, you just want to win games. This thing is about winning. We've got to win a game, no matter what happens. It's the most important game. Right now, the most important thing is having a great Thursday practice and getting ourselves ready for this phase of what we've prepared for, and that will give us the best chance to win the game on Sunday. But you've got to do the things it takes in certain situations, because that's normally what it comes down to. There are a handful of plays in situations that you do or don't execute that end up deciding the game. And it's very important, obviously, that you win every game."


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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.