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Why can’t the Niners hold a lead?

30-23 over the Green Bay Packers.

This edition of the San Francisco 49ers can build a lead over a lot of teams, some of them actually good, but it has a terrible time holding on to those leads. What’s going on? Why can’t they close out games?

What makes this even more frustrating is that, with starting QB Jimmy Garoppolo out injured for the year, this team has developed a really strong running game behind a powerful, rebuilt offensive line and the emergence of Matt Breida and Raheem Mostert as effective second- and third-option running backs.