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49ers overreactions: Is Brock Purdy team’s best QB since Steve Young? originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
The franchise of 49ers overreactions would be a lot less interesting if it weren’t for Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.
The 49ers have finished second-best in the NFL in two of the past five seasons, and both times it was Mahomes and his teammates who came back to beat them for the Lombardi Trophy.
Those two losses have left many in the 49ers’ fan base disheartened and frustrated.
San Francisco let a 10-point fourth-quarter lead get away vs. Kansas City in Super Bowl LIV. And in February, the 49ers became the first team in NFL history to blow leads twice in the fourth quarter and once in overtime in a loss to the Chiefs.
The 49ers (3-3) are coming off a good performance in a 36-24 victory over the Seattle Seahawks. But they have to tighten things up if they hope to break their four-game losing streak against Kansas City.
Here are this week’s 49ers overreactions:
They are losing the halftime adjustments game badly (spoilertalerts)
Overreaction? No.
If there is such a thing as a “halftime adjustments game,” the 49ers would have a losing record.
The whole notion of halftime adjustments are overrated because there only are 13 minutes at halftime and teams should be making tweaks between every series. But the facts are the facts.
San Francisco outscored the opposition 96-43 in the first half of their first six games of the season. After intermission, the 49ers were outscored 77-66.
Defensive end Nick Bosa alluded to this a week ago when he spoke about the 49ers’ defensive staff having San Francisco well-prepared to open games. He said they could do better at making adjustments to unscouted looks.
But it’s not only first-year defensive coordinator Nick Sorensen who is having his problems. The offense has experienced its issues, too.
The 49ers were held scoreless against the Cardinals in the second half of their Week 5 loss.
But was that a failure to…
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Publish date : 2024-10-15 14:59:57
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