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The 49ers are 1-Point Favorites to Beat the Dolphins in Week 16

The 49ers currently are favored to win all 17 of their regular season games this year. But of 17 games, the narrowest spread is against the Miami Dolphins. How strange.

Grant Cohn

Dec 4, 2022; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) throws
Dec 4, 2022; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) throws / Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports
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The 49ers currently are favored to win all 17 of their regular season games this year. But of 17 games, the narrowest spread is against the Miami Dolphins. How strange.

The 49ers are one-point favorites to beat the Dolphins on the road in December. If this game were in September when it will be hot and humid, I'd understand the one-point spread, but this game's weather will be downright pleasant. And the 49ers and Dolphins already played each other near the end of the 2022 season, and the 49ers won 33-17.

Granted, that game was at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, but the 49ers were flat-out dominant. Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa seemed visibly intimidated by the 49ers defense as he posted a quarterback rating of just 79.7. Meanwhile, Brock Purdy made his first extended appearance after replacing an injured Jimmy Garoppolo and threw for 210 yards and two touchdowns.

The Dolphins are soft. They're a finesse team, similar to the 49ers. But the 49ers are much tougher than the Dolphins. So when these teams faced each other two seasons ago, not only did the 49ers shut down Tua, they also shut down Raheem Mostert, holding him to just 30 rushing yards. Tyreek Hill still managed to catch 9 passes for 146 yards and one touchdown, but he couldn't beat the 49ers by himself.

You need a legitimate defense to take down the 49ers, and the Dolphins just don't have one. Which means they simply don't match up well against San Francisco.

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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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