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Confidence. The food of the wise man and the liquor of the fool.

And while I’m not saying 49ers linebacker Aaron Lynch is a fool, I’d like to have a little of whatever liquor he was drinking before he offered up some supremely-confident comments about his employer.

“We have the team,” Lynch said after a loss to Tampa that dropped San Francisco to 1-6, via Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com. “We possibly have one of the best teams in the NFL, easily. Hands down. We need to know how to keep finishing games and work together throughout the whole game. Once we get that down, nobody’s going to be able to mess with us.”

They need to get that down quickly, because they’re nearly out of contention in the NFC playoff field.

Lynch wasn’t the only member of the defense talking big after the 49ers yielded gigantic yardage on Sunday: 513 total yards.

“I love this scheme,” safety Eric Reid said, via Maiocco. “If everybody does their job, we shouldn’t get beat. But whenever there’s an explosive play, somebody is out of position. We just got to tighten up.”

There’s a lot of tightening that needs to be done to make the 49ers relevant and competitive. Currently, they simply aren’t.