The 49ers are going to lose 10 games in a row.

They’re already in line to pretty easily tie the franchise record for consecutive losses with nine, set back in 1978 when the team went 2-14.

They travel to Arizona this week to face the Cardinals, who are coming off their bye. The Cardinals defeated the 49ers, 33-21, at Levi’s Stadium with their backup quarterback in Week 5. Now Colin Kaepernick will go to University of Phoenix Stadium where he threw two pick-sixes as part of a four interception day last year.

Then San Francisco comes home to face the Patriots. With respect to player safety, they may just want to scrap this game.

Those look like two pretty thorough losses. Nine losses in a row would cement this team as one of the worst in 49ers history. The bad news is, the streak probably won’t stop at nine.

The 49ers will follow the Patriots out the Levi’s Stadium doors to fly to Miami, where the Dolphins and their running back Jay Ajayi wait. If you’ve not been following the NFL very closely, Ajayi has been setting the league on fire, rushing for 529 yards the last three games against the Steelers, Bills and Jets. Those are the No. 13, 25 and 4 rushing defenses in the league, respectively.

The 49ers have the worst rushing defense in the league, allowing a mind-bending 193 yards-per-game on the ground. By comparison, the Bills allow a paltry 118.4.

Miami looked like a winnable game for San Francisco after the first couple weeks. Now it’s looking like another loss in which the opposing team puts up laughable rushing totals as the 49ers’ record descends to 1-10.

If the Dolphins game plays out on the field like it does on paper, the 49ers will have set a franchise record with 10 consecutive losses.

Let’s rewind to Jed York and Trent Baalke’s joint press conference following the team’s disappointing 8-8 finish to the 2014 season.

“We don’t raise division championships banners. We don’t raise NFC Championship banners. We raise Super Bowl banners.”

York’s bravado and confidence following the team’s mutual parting with Jim Harbaugh was admirable. On the surface they were in a good spot. They were coming off of an 8-8 season following three NFC Championship Game appearances. The roster was surely talented enough and a new coach could just slide right in and pick the team back up.

In the 24 games since that statement by the team CEO, the 49ers have managed a 6-18 record.

The 49ers are bad. Nobody is disputing that. But what was supposed to be a season of optimism where the team took positive steps towards contending again has turned into a nightmare. Instead of laying a foundation for the future, they’re on their way to being one of the worst 49ers teams in the franchise’s 70-year history.

Fans were led to believe this team had a direction following Jim Harbaugh’s departure. That is not to say Harbaugh still being in Santa Clara would mean this team would be contending, but the front office presented a front as if they had total control of the situation.

They presented the coach’s exodus as riding into a slight valley in order to head up to the waiting peak. It turns out the team was a runaway freight train, barreling straight towards a cliff with no brakes.

The hope was that maybe it would be like the cartoons where the train flies through the air and lands somehow on the other side. Only it didn’t work like that and the train plummeted off the side of the cliff and is now crashing with reckless abandon toward the Earth.

The expectation was that the team’s dismal 2015 campaign was the proverbial train crashing, and 2016 would be the start of a new journey. But the train’s still falling. The 49ers haven’t found rock bottom quite yet, although some would argue they found rock bottom and simply crashed right through it.

Perhaps the biggest issue in all of this is that York asked to be held directly accountable for the future of the 49ers. Yet, he has done and said nothing. The Kelly hiring was supposed to be a splash and it’s somehow going worse in the first season than the Jim Tomsula hiring, which was widely panned.

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Trent Baalke has been empirically terrible at his job, and the team’s best opportunity to mutually part ways with him (the bye week) came and went without even a hint of movement.

Every move this team has made since right around York’s infamous Thanksgiving Night tweet has been wrong. The series of organizational blunders has all led to this. Seven straight losses, and what looks to be at least three more coming to set a franchise record for consecutive losses. How fitting.

The question is no longer how many games the 49ers will win. The question now is whether they raise consecutive loss banners, because that dubious footnote is about all Jed York and the 49ers will have to show for the last two seasons.