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Why the 49ers Should Win Back to Back Super Bowls

The last team that was constructed like the 49ers was the Seahawks 10 years ago, and they went to back to back Super Bowls.
Why the 49ers Should Win Back to Back Super Bowls
Why the 49ers Should Win Back to Back Super Bowls

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The 49ers are the best team the NFL has seen in quite some time. They're loaded at every position except the offensive line and have few weaknesses.

And they have one big advantage over everyone else. They have the cheapest starting quarterback in the NFL and he's putting up MVP numbers. And he can't sign an extension until after next season. He's locked into his current contract through next season. Which means the 49ers Super Bowl in 2023 and 2024. They could win back to back.

The last team that was constructed like the 49ers was the Seahawks 10 years ago. They had an historically dominant defense, a great running back in Marshawn Lynch and a dynamic, young cheap quarterback in Russell Wilson who was a third round pick. When Wilson was on his rookie contract, the Seahawks went to back to back Super Bowls, and should have won both. In the second Super Bowl, Wilson got intercepted at the goal line on the final play of the game. That's how close the Seahawks were to becoming the first team since the Patriots in 2003 and 2004 to win back to back Super Bowls.

It's hard to build a team that can sustain dominance over multiple seasons during the salary cap era. The key to building such a team is a cheap quarterback who plays at a high level. Easy to say, hard to find. Fortunately for the 49ers, they found Brock Purdy, the biggest bargain in professional sports. One day, they'll have to back up the Brinks truck to keep him in town, and their roster won't be so much better than every other team's. But that's down the line. For now, the 49ers are the class of the NFL.


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Grant Cohn
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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