Taking the field in Week 1 with sky-high expectations, what with eight-year head coach Kyle Shanahan having just taken his team to the Super Bowl last year, the 49ers lost games they should have won, lost key players at seemingly every turn, and suddenly sit at 5-6 as longshots to win the division?

The San Francisco 49ers' losses to the Green Bay Packers and Buffalo Bills mark the worst two-game stretch by a defending conference champion since the 1970 merger.

Getting blown out in Green Bay following another squandered late lead the previous week against Seattle has quickly turned the San Francisco 49ers from a Super Bowl contender into a team just fighting to get back to the playoffs.