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Rumor: 49ers to Play New York Giants on the Road in Week 9

Here's a game the 49ers should win.
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Sep 21, 2023; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) celebrates after catching a pass for a first down against the New York Giants in the third quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images
Sep 21, 2023; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (85) celebrates after catching a pass for a first down against the New York Giants in the third quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images | Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images

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Here's a game the 49ers should win.

In Week 9, the 49ers will play the New York Giants on the road according to Art Stapleton of northjersey.com. The Giants are one of the weakest teams on the 49ers' schedule -- they've gotten worse every season under head coach Brian Daboll. In 2022, they won 9 games. In 2023, they won 6. And in 2024, they won just 3. So if they get off to a slow start in 2025, he could get fired before this game even happens.

Unfortunately for the 49ers, this game will be played in November when it could be raining or snowing on the East Coast. And 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy doesn't perform well when there's precipitation. The ball tends to slip out of his hand when he throws it.

In addition, the Giants just drafted edge rusher Abdul Carter with the third pick in Round 1 this year. He and Brian Burns will form one of the best edge-rushing tandems in the NFL, so it could be tough to pass against the Giants. The 49ers will need Christian McCaffrey healthy for this game.

Finally, the Giants have three new quarterbacks this year -- Russell Wilson, Jameis Winston and Jaxson Dart. It's unclear which quarterback will play against the 49ers Week 9. At this point Wilson is the favorite. And the 49ers have beaten him just three times in his career. Granted, he's old and slow now. But ownage is ownage.

Stay tuned for more schedule leaks.

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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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