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Analyzing the 49ers' Potentially Easy 2021 Schedule

Of course, it's impossible to know just how good any team will be nine months from now.
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Analyzing the 49ers' Potentially Easy 2021 Schedule
Analyzing the 49ers' Potentially Easy 2021 Schedule

The 49ers had horrendous luck last year, but their luck could change in 2021.

From the looks of it, their schedule will be much easier next season than it was last season. Of course, it's impossible to know just how good teams will be nine months from now -- they haven't even gone through free agency or the draft yet. Teams will change.

Still, check out the clubs the 49ers will face next season.

HOME OPPONENTS: Atlanta Falcons, Houston Texans, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Indianapolis Colts, Arizona Cardinals, Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahawks.

ROAD OPPONENTS: Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles, Jacksonville Jaguars, Chicago Bears, Tennessee Titans, Arizona Cardinals, Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahwaks.

Four of the above teams finished last in their respective divisions in 2020 -- the Falcons, the Lions, the Eagles and the Jaguars. You'd figure a healthy 49ers team should be able to beat at least three of those teams.

The 49ers also will face the Bears in Chicago. The Bears head coach, Matt Nagy, is terrible and probably will get fired after 2021. And we don't know who their quarterback will be next season. So the 49ers could win this game, too.

The Tennessee Titans could lose their offensive coordinator, Arthur Smith, in the next couple weeks, because multiple teams are interviewing Smith for their head-coaching vacancies. So the Titans could take a major step back next season. This is another potential win for the 49ers.

And then there are the six games against the NFC West opponents. In 2020, the injury-depleted Niners went 3-3 against the NFC West. You'd figure a healthy 49ers team could win at least four, maybe five games in their division next season.

Which means the 49ers easily could win 10 games or more in 2021 if things break their way for a change. 

And they're due for some good luck.

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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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