As the first weekend of November ended the consensus about the San Francisco 49ers was that their 2021 season was going to be yet another failure. They had just been blown out at home by a Cardinals team missing several starters and there seemed to be little reason to believe they’d find a way to turn it around.
Fast forward three weeks, the 49ers have won three in a row, are in a playoff position, and are the hottest team in the NFC.
Injury bug bites again
The 49ers will be without two of their top players for the next one to two weeks.