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49ers WR Deebo Samuel: "Our Record Doesn't Show how Good we are."

In the last three 49ers games -- all losses -- Deebo Samuel has 62 yards from scrimmage. Total.
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Dec 1, 2024; Orchard Park, New York, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) returns a kick off against the Buffalo Bills during the second half at Highmark Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images
Dec 1, 2024; Orchard Park, New York, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) returns a kick off against the Buffalo Bills during the second half at Highmark Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images | Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images

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In the last three 49ers games -- all losses -- Deebo Samuel has 62 yards from scrimmage. Total.

It seems he may not be a good offensive weapon anymore, just as the 49ers don't appear to be a good team this season.

Despite these recent developments, Samuel still believes in himself and his team. Here's what he said Wednesday in the locker room.

Q: I've seen you post some motivational quotes online. Does that speak to your feelings near the end of the season?

SAMUEL: I don't think it's motivational quotes, I think it's just music. At the end of the day, we're not having the season that we want to have. But our record doesn't show how good we are as a team. Still believing in this locker room. Just rallying all the troops for this game."

Q: Knowing that your team is better than your record, does that make it hard to bounce back?

SAMUEL: "No, I don't think it's hard to bounce back. We know what we have to do. We have to play complementary football. We have to out there, score points and give the defense a little motivation. The defense has to get stops and give us motivation. And we have to make plays on special teams. At the end of the day, we just have to play complementary football and we'll be alright."

Q: With Christian out now, does it feel like things are piling up in terms of injuries and personal things people are going through? How hard has it been to deal with?

SAMUEL: "We know with the game comes injuries. We definitely don't want to see Christian go down. He's one of the leaders on this team. It's just been a rocky mountain with injuries and all the other things that we've been having to go through this season, but at the end of the day we've got to step up and play some ball."

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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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