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350. How to Stop Being a Loser

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Six Straight Losses to Open the Season for the San Francisco Forty Niners

In september of two thousand 17, the ni san francisco forty nine years franchise was ready for their renaissance. They got crushed by the carolina panthers, 23 to three. Amazingly, the last five were all by three points or i mean, that's hard on a head coach. John lynch, the rooky general manager, was worried about his rooky head coach, kal shanahan. I think a big part of my job the first year was being a psychologist to him, you've waited your whole life to do this. And now of a sudden, in a historic fashion, when we lost five games by 3 points or less, it had never

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