Remember back in Week 1 when we started this series, and I made the “regular season games are the homework assignments for the test that is the postseason” analogy? I made it because the playoffs were a mere certainty for the 2024 San Francisco 49ers.
At least, it should be for a team that’s been to the NFC Championship Game four times in the last five seasons.
To finish the analogy I started four months ago, the 49ers failed the course and will not be allowed into the building for the final exam.