According to the metrics, San Francisco are on par with era-defining teams. But look beneath the numbers and they have worrying deficiencies
Five weeks into the season, the 49ers are one of the best teams in
NFL history.
Sounds strange, right? The Niners have looked pretty good. They’ve taken apart a pair of pedestrian sides – the Steelers and Buccaneers – and blitzed the Bengals, who have lost all five of their games this season. Then, on Monday night football, they delivered a 31-3 beatdown of the overhyped Browns, a game that will be remembered more for its pre- and post-game festivities than anything the Niners did on the field itself.