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The Biggest Nightmare Scenario for the 49ers this Season

The 49ers came to an interesting conclusion last season.
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Oct 23, 2023; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) looks on before the game against the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images
Oct 23, 2023; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) looks on before the game against the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images | Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images

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The 49ers came to an interesting conclusion last season.

After winning just six games and missing the playoffs, they didn't blame their starting quarterback, Brock Purdy. Instead, they blamed the defense, special teams and coaches. So they overhauled the roster, revamped the assistant coaching staff and made Brock Purdy the seventh-highest-paid player in the NFL.

Congratulations, Brock.

Now that Robert Saleh is back and the 49ers have a new special teams coach, they expect Purdy to lead them back to the playoffs for years to come. But what if last season was his fault? What if his regression was the beginning of a trend and not a one-season aberration?

That's the 49ers' biggest nightmare scenario this year according to Bleacher Report.

"Just after landing a big-money long-term contract, Brock Purdy continues to regress significantly with a depleted supporting cast, and the 49ers find themselves handcuffed for years to come," writes Bleacher Report's Brad Gagnon.

Fortunately for the 49ers, they structured Purdy's contract in such a way that if he does continue to regress, they can get out of it after 2026. So it's really just a one-year extension, not a five-year extension.

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Grant Cohn
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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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