There is a long-running joke when things get bad in anything, be it sports or otherwise, about being at rock bottom. At some point you’re eventually looking up at rock bottom, and as John Oliver put it, sometimes you’ve gone through the middle of the earth and fallen out in Australia.
The San Francisco 49ers lost to the New England Patriots on Sunday by a final score of 30-17. The team was very competitive in the first half, and fell apart in the second half. It has sort of become par for the course. We can distill some positives, but the end result is the same.