For all the offensive firepower San Francisco still carries, the defining storyline for the 49ers as they push toward January has quietly, and consistently, been their inability to affect opposing quarterbacks.
Through 13 games, the Niners have just 18 sacks as a team -- 1.2 a ballgame -- the worst in football.
And the tape backs up the numbers: Quarterbacks are simply too comfortable, too clean, and too unbothered.
It isn’t as if the 49ers lack bodies -- they lack disruption and execution. Bryce Huff leads the team with 36 pressures and five sacks, admirable production for a veteran presence who was never meant to be the focal point.