It's been hanging over the 49ers for months.
Call it a hangover, a disappointment or karmic retribution, but twelve weeks into the season they couldn't shake it.
In fact, things are getting worse.
The Niners have exposed some weaknesses during this lost season, but none of their disappointing performances compare to Sunday's 38-10 loss to the Packers in Green Bay.
Is the Niners' season technically over at 5-6? NO.
But spiritually it's over.
It might be over before it begins: The 2020 vibe that this team has exuded for the reason that Super Bowl loss in February is unmistakable.
Well, they’re undeniable. The Niners are only repeating unfavorable history immediately.
When San Francisco got here out of halftime tied at 4-4, the team had one rule for the second half: Don't lose two games in a row.
If you try this, your fate will fall out of your hands. And fate was never going to be on the Niners' side this season.
Well, the Niners lost their second game in a row on Sunday. It took three weeks for them to offer the death knell to a cursed campaign.
And, my goodness, Sunday's loss was a humiliation from start (a near-fight before the sport) to complete (Deebo Samuel refusing to talk to the media afterward).
Do we’d like to go over what happened between these points?
Yes, the 49ers took the sector at Lambeau Field without their three most vital players – quarterback Brock Purdy (shoulder), defensive end Nick Bosa (oblique, hip) and left tackle Trent Williams – but San Francisco continued to play the identical way flawed football that has marred this season.
Green Bay didn't even play particularly well on Sunday. Packers quarterback Jordan Love – hoping for touchdowns from deep moderately than controlling the ball with a lead – played around and gave the Niners a handful of opportunities to make Sunday's contest a competitive game.
The 49ers stubbornly refused to make the most. This team insists on making things difficult for themselves.
And in a game where a Niners win would have been an in depth call, they placed on a self-sabotaging performance for the ages, not only failing to simply accept the Packers' well-wrapped presents firstly of the vacation season, but missing out on top of that Tackled at a record-breaking rate, committed nine penalties – including three on special teams – and turned the ball over 3 times.
Yes, that's the performance the Niners delivered when all it took was a flawless game (and even that probably wouldn't have been enough to win).
Midway through the second quarter on Sunday, with the Niners already down 10-0 and stuck deep in their very own territory, there was a moment when the San Francisco defense took two consecutive penalties with 12 players on the court.
Yes, the Niners were so disorganized that they were assessed a 12-man penalty that negated an interception ultimately zone. Then, after a protracted pause, they huddled together and got here out again with too many men.
Let this senselessness sink in for a moment.
This is a shady football team, folks.
And the Niners have had to enhance on that level of failure in recent months. Playoffs? Super Bowl? Get real. Sunday's performance is what they’ve been working towards all season. The loss to the Packers was their showcase event.
So don't take heed to anyone who says there's a greater type of football on this team. Ignore the concept if this team “just gets healthy,” it is going to finally seem like a top quality operation.
It's a lost yr – a byproduct of this war of attrition they call skilled football. It stinks, but it might probably't be completely unexpected.
And I do know what happens next. However, you’ll have deleted it out of your memory. I don’t blame you – it happened in 2020, in spite of everything.
Aside from the incontrovertible fact that there isn’t any global pandemic, the present circumstances for the Niners are shockingly much like those of 2020. The battered and struggling Niners went in with a 5-6 record and the misguided belief that every thing can be effective in the event that they were on this one could get back to .500 this season.
They got smoked – Allen reworked them – and the Niners admitted defeat and limped to the season's finish line.
Can you guess who the 5-6 Niners will play next in Week 13?
Let me put it this manner: It's not Brandon Allen.
It has been claimed that history doesn’t repeat itself but does rhyme.
This could just as easily be a homonym.
So let's learn the lesson from the past:
In a season marked by declining performances and lower expectations, let's skip the part where we pretend there's something left for the Niners.
August's malaise has was November's agony, and things only worsen in December.
So if the Niners have any luck this season, it is going to be for his or her draft position in April.
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