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The Toughest 3-Game Stretch on the 49ers' Schedule

Back to back games in the Midwest during the winter won't be easy.
Grant Cohn|
Dec 7, 2020; Glendale, Arizona, USA; Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) lines up against the
Dec 7, 2020; Glendale, Arizona, USA; Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) lines up against the | Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports

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The 49ers just released their schedule for 2024. Here is the toughest three-game stretch on it.

WEEK 12: Sunday, Nov. 24 @ the Green Bay Packers

The Packers are good enough on their own, but this game will be cold and it might be rainy, too. When these teams faced each other in Santa Clara during the playoffs, it was raining and the 49ers by only three points. Now the Packers will have the homefield advantage, and any precipitation will favor them because it seems to bother Brock Purdy.

WEEK 13: Sunday Night, Dec. 1 @ the Buffalo Bills

Instead of flying back home after the Packers game, the 49ers probably will stay somewhere in the Midwest for a week to avoid a second consecutive cross-country trip. But the last time they stayed away from home to prepare for a game, they lost to the Falcons in Atlanta, and the Bills are much better than that team. The 49ers have faced Josh Allen just one time and he destroyed them.

WEEK 14: Sunday, Dec. 8 vs. the Chicago Bears

The 49ers usually lose the first game back after spending a week in the Central or Eastern Time Zones because they're jetlagged when they get home. This time, they'll have to face the Bears, who have the no. 1 pick from this year's draft, quarterback Caleb Williams. If he's as good as advertised, this will be a tough matchup for the 49ers, who typically struggle against quarterbacks who can get out of the pocket and improvise.

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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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