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Predicting the Final Score of the 49ers-Cowboys Divisional Playoff Game

This is the biggest test yet for the 49ers.
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Predicting the Final Score of the 49ers-Cowboys Divisional Playoff Game
Predicting the Final Score of the 49ers-Cowboys Divisional Playoff Game

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The 49ers haven't beaten a team as good as Dallas this season.

The best teams the 49ers have beaten are the Chargers and the Dolphins, and both got eliminated from the playoffs last week. The only team that's still alive which the 49ers have played is the Chiefs, who beat them 44-23.

The Cowboys probably aren't as good as the Kansas City team the 49ers faced that day, but they're quite good. They're 13-5. They play in the toughest division in the NFL. They have the best pass rush the 49ers have faced all season, and on offense they have serious firepower plus a quarterback in Dak Prescott who can make all the throws from the pocket and scramble for first downs as well. That's why the Cowboys have scored a whopping 31.2 points per game since Week 13.

Fortunately for the 49ers, their offense has scored 34.6 points per game since Week 13, which is when Brock Purdy became the starting quarterback. That doesn't mean Purdy is a better quarterback than Prescott, but it does mean the 49ers have a more talented offense than Dallas. The 49ers have four premium weapons: Christian McCaffrey, Deebo Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk and George Kittle, while the Cowboys have just two premium weapons: wide receiver CeeDee Lamb and running back Tony Pollard.

In addition, the Cowboys are playing their fourth consecutive road game, they're on a short week and have had two fewer days to rest and prepare for this game than the 49ers. This is a huge disadvantage for the Cowboys. Look for them to start strong but fade in the second half.

FINAL SCORE PREDICTION: 49ers 27, Cowboys 23.

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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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