SANTA CLARA — Let’s tick off the boxes from the 49ers’ debacle against the Jaguars on Sunday at Levi’s Stadium, shall we?

The 49ers couldn’t run the ball. They couldn’t stop the run. They were gashed through the air by an opposing quarterback for whom on-target passes are a career rarity. They went entire series where catching a football seemed like an impossible feat, and for good measure, they got burned for a touchdown on special teams.

It was, in short, a complete and total mess. A no-good, very bad game.

Those happen in the NFL. It’s a league built on parity and chaos. The ball is oddly shaped, after all.

And in the modern NFL, a game like Sunday’s is the exact kind of game in which you turn to your franchise quarterback to fix things.

The great quarterbacks are janitors for orga

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