Perhaps this has been said already, but it's hard to imagine this 49ers season going any worse with so many key injuries (our number #1 offensive weapon out indefinitely, only good DT out for the year, CB room depleted and inexperienced, #2 LB still recovering, Kicker injured, etc.) and end of game collapses and yet... look at the NFC West and somehow we're still in first after 6 weeks (with the tie-breaker over Seattle) and we're the only team in the division with a positive point differential.
Just getting all these guys back from injury by the end of the year plus our usual mid-season acquisitions (you can count on at least 1 edge rusher pickup, maybe we can get a half year rental DT, LB or OL too) and this could still be a really dangerous team by the end of the year. The weak areas are obvious to everyone -- and the O Line is especially frustrating because it seems like everyone except Shanahan and Lynch already knew that keeping McKivitz as a starter was going to be a problem -- but having a legit franchise QB rights a lot of wrongs and means we'll continue to be relevant. Given how bad things have been for 49ers fans in the recent past, I'm happy with relevant.