The hardest defeats are the ones where you play well enough to win, but come away with a loss anyway.
Alex Boone expressed just that to the media on Monday about the San Francisco 49ers last-second, 30-27 loss to the New York Giants in Week 6.
“It’s one of those games where you feel like you got kicked in the gut,” Boone said.
That’s because there was a laundry list of positives to take away from the game, which makes the 49ers fourth-consecutive loss that much harder to swallow.
Here are just a few:
- The 49ers offense scored 27 points, a season high.