All 49ers

Why the 49ers Will Make the Atlanta Falcons Quit

There's a reason the 49ers are nine-point favorites.
Grant Cohn|
Why the 49ers Will Make the Atlanta Falcons Quit
Why the 49ers Will Make the Atlanta Falcons Quit

In this story:

San Francisco 49ersAtlanta Falcons

The Falcons freaking stink.

How they've won six games this season is a mystery. They rank 24th out of 32 teams in both offense and defense. They haven't beaten a team with a winning record yet this season. A month ago, they lost 25-0 to the Patriots. They have no pass rush, no No. 1 wide receiver, no depth. And their quarterback can't move.

There's a reason the 49ers are nine-point favorites.

The only way this game will be close is if the 49ers play down to the Falcons. Which means if the 49ers are true Super Bowl contenders, they'll blow out Atlanta.

The 49ers blew out the Rams and the Jaguars back to back in November. But since then, the 49ers played down to a terrible Seahawks team and lost, then played down to a mediocre Bengals team who fumbled six times and still nearly came back and won.

The 49ers haven't played a complete game since November. Now it's almost January. It's time for them to show they're the real deal.

They have arguably the NFL's best trio of offensive weapons in Deebo Samuel, George Kittle and Brandon Aiyuk. They have the highest-paid left tackle in the NFL, the highest-paid middle linebacker, the highest-paid tight end, plus Nick freaking Bosa. The 49ers have so much more talent than Atlanta, plus they have the homefield advantage.

No excuses, 49ers. Put the Falcons away early. Make them quit. Don't let them hang around like you let the Bengals and Seahawks hang around the past two weeks.

FINAL SCORE PREDICTION: 49ers 31, Falcons 10.

Published
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.

Share on XFollow grantcohn
Home/News