You can drop passes. You can fumble. You can blow a coverage or miss a tackle. Those can be fixed.
But if a team loses its chemistry – its cohesion – it is cooked.
And let’s don’t pretend the 49ers weren’t headed that direction coming into Sunday night’s game with the Rams.
They had a losing record, a series of why-us? injuries and were coming off a defeat that even the players called embarrassing. Sports pundits were trying to troll up a quarterback controversy and 49ers’ icon Joe Staley was second-guessing the team on Twitter – during the game.