If the year was 2017 or 2018, the San Francisco 49ers wouldn’t have been able to pull off the kind of win they enjoyed over the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 3.
The box score tells a lot about what you need to know. The Niners came away with a 24-20 victory in their home opener over the still-winless Steelers on Sunday despite turning the ball over five times.
It’s almost a universal rule: If a team turns the ball over five-plus times in a game, it almost always loses. Can anyone get Elias Sports Bureau on that one to see what the winning percentages are in such a case?