49ers blow lead, suffer latest 'infuriating' loss to Seahawks - ESPN

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — After coughing up a fourth quarter lead to a heated division rival in the closing moments on Sunday afternoon, the San Francisco 49ers were left with an all too familiar emotion.

This time, it was the Seattle Seahawks storming down the field to score the game-winning touchdown with 12 seconds left, turning a sure defeat into a 20-17 victory.

Given the feeling in the pit of the Niners' collective stomach, it might as well have been their Week 3 defeat to the Los Angeles Rams or the Week 5 letdown against the Arizona Cardinals.

«It's infuriating, honestly,» linebacker Fred Warner said. «It's not like us. But that's just what we've shown this year so I guess until we stop doing that then that's who we are.»

What the 49ers are now is a 5-5 team teetering on the brink of a lost season. This loss dropped them to 1-3 in NFC West games and saw defensive end Nick Bosa suffer a hip and oblique injury that kept him out for most of Sunday's second half and could linger into the coming weeks.

All of which would make the Niners' path to a third straight divisional crown, or any playoff berth, substantially tougher.

The frustration Warner shares with his teammates isn't just the record against divisional foes but how San Francisco has attained it. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the 49ers have three divisional losses when leading in the final 2 minutes of regulation, which is tied for the most such losses by a team in a season since the 1970 merger.

San Francisco's three late game letdowns have come in just four chances and are tied with the 2001 Carolina Panthers, 2000 Los Angeles Chargers, 1996 Baltimore Ravens and 1994 Washington Commanders as the only teams to have that many defeats in those situations