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The 49ers’ chaotic September showed this is Brock Purdy’s team

The 49ers’ chaotic September showed this is Brock Purdy’s team

SANTA CLARA — The 49ers are going to be alright.

I think.

Don’t hold me to that.

That’s because while the Niners’ season might be four games old, but if we’re being honest about the modern NFL, it’s also just getting started.

With the way NFL teams practice in the summer (if they practice at all) and their disdain for the exhibition schedule, September is, in effect, the preseason in this league. It’s a time to work things out; to find one’s identity.

And while the 49ers had an up-and-down “preseason” they are, at 2-2 after a 30-13 win over the Patriots on Sunday at Levi’s Stadium, doing just fine.

Nothing ideal. Nothing backbreaking.

Bastardizing a a baseball axiom, you can’t win a division in September, but you can lose one.

And contrary to the doom-and-gloom following the Niners’ back-to-back losses in Weeks 2 and 3, there is plenty to celebrate with this team.

They found an identity, after all:

This is Brock Purdy’s team.

This is Fred Warner’s team.

It doesn’t take 25 years in the NFL to figure out that the quarterback and middle linebacker are important to team success — they’re the guys who wear the helmet speakers, after all. But four games in, the 49ers can argue they have the best quarterback-mike combo in the league.

That’s a development — an auspicious one — amid a season that has been defined, to date, by noise and nonsense.

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