Maiocco’s way-too-early 49ers 2024 game-by-game predictions

Maiocco’s way-too-early 49ers 2024 game-by-game predictions originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

The previous time the 49ers went to the Super Bowl (and lost), the organization took an abrupt downward turn the following season, finishing 6-10 in 2020.

San Francisco hopes to avoid a similar outcome during the 2024 NFL season, and now it knows the path it will have to take to return to the mountaintop, as the league released the full schedule Wednesday.

The 49ers are coming off a season in which they earned the NFC’s No. 1 playoff seed and then engineered two comeback victories to win the conference title. But they fell short of their ultimate goal with a 25-22 overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII. Still, the 49ers know they are the target of every team in the NFC.

And they will face many challenges along the way, including six games against NFC playoff teams from a year ago. The 49ers also will square off against AFC powerhouses Kansas City and Buffalo.

With the release of the 2024 regular-season schedule, it’s also time for our way-too-early predictions for the upcoming year. We envision the 49ers producing similar results as a year ago, when they went 12-5 and claimed that No. 1 seed.

Here’s a look at the schedule that awaits, with a score prediction for each game:

Aaron Rodgers’ Jets debut one year ago on “Monday Night Football” was a much-hyped occasion. Then it all ended after four plays when he went down with a torn left Achilles.

Rodgers sustained the season-ending injury when Leonard Floyd sacked him. Floyd now is with the 49ers, who expect to receive more production from him than they did from anyone who lined up opposite Nick Bosa last season.

This also is when the Brock Purdy Gets Paid Tour begins. This is the final year Purdy will play for a minimum salary, because if he performs similarly to his spectacular 2023 season, he figures to then become one of the NFL’s highest-paid quarterbacks.

Prediction: 49ers 24, Jets 13

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Publish date : 2024-05-16 02:01:55

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