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How the Perception of the 49ers Changed Completely in a Week

Here’s why I love football.
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How the Perception of the 49ers Changed Completely in a Week
How the Perception of the 49ers Changed Completely in a Week

Here’s why I love football.

Just a few days ago, we thought this 49ers team might be dead. They stunk. And now, after just one game, one tremendous victory over the Los Angeles Rams, we have to completely reorient our thinking.

That’s my favorite thing about football. That’s what makes it so intellectually stimulating and thrilling and fascinating. It’s like reading a great novel and you think you have it worked out, think you know what’s going to happen next, but the writer does something totally unexpected and you have to rethink your entire position on the book or the movie or the play. It’s wonderful.

Last week, the question was, “Who can the 49ers beat?” If they couldn’t beat the Philadelphia Eagles or the Miami Dolphins, just who the hell could the 49ers beat?

Now, after punking the 4-1 division-rival Rams, the question is, “Who in the NFC can’t the 49ers beat?”

We saw what the Green Bay Packers did this past weekend, how they couldn’t even compete against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We saw the 49ers destroy the Packers twice last season. Who’s to say the 49ers won’t beat them again in a few weeks?

And who’s to say the 49ers can’t beat the Rams again?

Seven teams will make the playoffs in the NFC this season. Who’s to say the 49ers won’t be one of them.

I’m saying the 49ers will make the playoffs. Hell, I’m saying they might even make the Super Bowl again, too.

Until next week, if the 49ers lose to the New England Patriots. Then I’ll say something different.

So much can change in seven days.

God, I love football. 

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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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