Cleveland Browns fans shouldn’t be happy with an 0-6 start, but at least there are some good reasons for them to keep watching this season.

The Browns have played hard. They seem to have made a good coaching hire in Hue Jackson. They have some rookies and young players who are showing promise. Browns fans, assuming they’re not distracted by celebrating the Indians, should feel like they’re watching a team that’s trying to head in the right direction.

Very little of that applies to the San Francisco 49ers.

The Browns are the last winless team in the NFL, but they’re not the league’s worst team. That’s San Francisco.

Since a Week 1 thrashing of the Los Angeles Rams, a result that is inexplicable by now, the 49ers have looked awful. They’ve lost by 19, 19, 7, 12 and 29 points. Since that Rams game, which we can write off as an outlier (like last season’s Week 1 win for the 49ers over the Minnesota Vikings), San Francisco is being outgained 430.8-287.4 per game. That’s 143.4 yards per game. The 2008 Detroit Lions, the only 0-16 team in league history, were outgained by 136.1 yards per game.

The 49ers are not competitive. What makes it weirder is on Jan. 19, 2014, the 49ers were playing in the NFC championship game against (and almost beat) the Seattle Seahawks. That’s not that long ago. The year before that, they lost in the Super Bowl.

It all fell apart in a hurry, and in every important way:

Front office: The 49ers have a few good, young pieces on defense, but the missteps have been plentiful. The team went into free agency this past offseason with about $60 million in salary cap space and did nothing with it. They signed guard Zane Beadles and quarterback Thad Lewis, who is on injured reserve but wasn’t going to start anyway. The drafts haven’t been great. This year the team traded back into the first round to make the surprising pick of Stanford guard Joshua Garnett, who seemed like a bit of a reach. Garnett couldn’t crack the starting lineup until last week. It could work out eventually, but right now it looks like the type of move a bad team makes.

The 49ers’ drafts in general haven’t been great. In 2014 the team had 12 draft picks, and only three are starters right now. Free agency hasn’t produced much. Torrey Smith was the biggest recent signing and he can’t do much without a quarterback. Safety Antoine Bethea has been good, but he’s 32 years old and now he’s just blocking 2015 second-round pick Jaquiski Tartt. Tartt is playing about 40 percent of the defensive snaps on a bad team. General manager Trent Baalke won a power struggle with Jim Harbaugh, and he hasn’t done much to justify it since.

Coaching: The 49ers pushed Harbaugh out and gave the job to Jim Tomsula. Historians will look at that move years from now and not have any idea how or why that happened. While Harbaugh is off at Michigan (you might not have known that, considering he rarely gets any press), Tomsula is out of football and Chip Kelly is San Francisco’s second post-Harbaugh coach. I don’t have any idea if Kelly is doing a good job, considering the roster he has to work with is terrible. However, it’s safe to say that Kelly doesn’t appear to be maximizing the talent on hand. Would it surprise anyone if he’s back in college in a year or two?

Quarterback: It’s amazing the 49ers talked themselves into Blaine Gabbert this past offseason. That didn’t work out. Shocking. They were stuck with Colin Kaepernick after awkwardly failing to trade him, then had to start him after Gabbert was so bad. Kaepernick did not look like the answer during his first start of the season on Sunday. Even if Kaepernick does play well the rest of the way, the 49ers just restructured his deal so he can become a free agent in 2017. So there seems to be almost no chance Kaepernick enters 2017 as a viable starter for San Francisco. Either he’ll be bad, or he’ll play well and cash in somewhere else. The other quarterback on the active roster is Christian Ponder. Yeah.

Kaepernick’s sudden decline was probably the single biggest reason the 49ers fell off so hard, more than even Harbaugh’s messy departure. It’s hard to win with a bad quarterback situation, and the 49ers have absolutely nothing at the most important position in the NFL. They need to land the right guy in the draft next season.