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As\u00a0the 49ers continue to free fall, there\u2019s plenty of blame to go around for San Francisco\u2019s three-game losing streak and underwhelming campaign through 13 weeks of the 2024 NFL season.<\/p>\n
All-Pro tight end George Kittle narrowed the 49ers\u2019 woes this season down to two major issues following\u00a0San Francisco\u2019s 35-10 loss\u00a0to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday at Highmark Stadium<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like we\u2019ve been very, very below average in the red zone, and we have a ton of turnovers,\u201d Kittle told reporters after Sunday\u2019s loss. \u201cI don\u2019t think our run attack has been very great this entire season until tonight, I think we were moving the ball really well. Whether that\u2019s because Christian [McCaffrey] was out the first nine weeks, he was a big part of our offense and we had to change a lot of stuff because we couldn\u2019t have him in even though [Jordan] Mason was running really well.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 49ers entered Week 13 near the bottom of the NFL in both red-zone conversion rate (29th) and turnovers (16) a far cry from the previous season when San Francisco boasted the best red-zone offense in football and ranked sixth in turnovers.<\/p>\n
Those woes continued in the\u00a049ers\u2019 second blowout loss in as many weeks, as San Francisco went 1-3 in the red zone and lost the turnover battle with a minus-three differential against Buffalo.<\/p>\n
Kittle explained there\u2019s not any excuse for the drop-off in performance, detailing that the 49ers\u2019 offense simply needs to perform better.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s not really an excuse, I just think we need to play better as an offense. That just is what it is, and I don\u2019t have the answer that\u2019s going to figure that out,\u201d Kittle said. \u201cI do know that you\u2019re going to get the best version of me every single week. I\u2019m going to try and pull this team along as best I can, and there\u2019s guys in that locker room that want to pull this team along. We\u2019re going to go back out there and fight again. While that absolutely sucked, hey man, it\u2019s football. You got to move on to the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n
The next one that awaits San Francisco is a Week 14 meeting with the Chicago Bears at Levi\u2019s Stadium that has turned into a must-win affair with the 49ers sitting at 5-7.<\/p>\n
Injuries certainly have played a part, but San Francisco looks like a shell of the team that earned the NFC\u2019s No. 1 playoff seed and came within a few plays of winning the Super Bowl earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Whatever the answers might be, Kittle and the 49ers\u2019 offense better find them fast, or the focus quickly will shift toward 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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