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How to watch the San Francisco 49ers game today (12/1/24) | FREE LIVE STREAM, time, TV channel for NFL Sunday Night Football Week 13 vs. Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills host the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York
How to watch: Fans can watch the game for free via a trial of DirecTV Stream or fuboTV. You can also watch via a subscription to Sling TV, which is half off the first month.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: NFL Sunday Night Football
Who: Buffalo Bills vs. San Francisco 49ers
When: Dec. 1, 2024 (12/1/24)
Where: Highmark Stadium (Orchard Park, New York)
Time: 8:20 p.m. ET (7:20 p.m. CT)
TV: NBC
Free live stream: DirecTV Stream, fuboTV
Here’s a preview via the Associated Press:
San Francisco (5-6) at Buffalo (9-2)
Sunday, 8:20 p.m. EST, NBC
BetMGM NFL odds: Bills by 7.
Series record: Bills lead 7-6.
Against the spread: 49ers 4-7, Bills 7-4.
Last meeting: Bills beat 49ers 34-24 on Dec. 7, 2020, at Glendale, Arizona.
Last week: Packers beat 49ers 38-10; Bills bye.
49ers offense: overall (4), rush (7), pass (4), scoring (13).
49ers defense: overall (6), rush (11), pass (6), scoring (20).
Bills offense: overall (13), rush (11), pass (13), scoring (3).
Bills defense: overall (15), rush (13), pass (14), scoring (7).
Turnover differential: 49ers even; Bills plus-14.
49ers player to watch
DE Leonard Floyd returns to Buffalo for the first time since leaving the Bills in free agency to sign with the 49ers in March. Floyd is playing his best ball of late with 3 1/2 sacks the past two games after having only three in his first nine games this season. Floyd had 10 1/2 sacks last season in his only year in Buffalo.
Bills player to watch
WR Amari Cooper. A left wrist injury and getting accustomed to the playbook has limited the 30-year-old to seven catches for 124 yards and a touchdown in three games since being acquired in a trade with Cleveland on Oct. 15. With a bye week to heal up and more than a month to build chemistry with Josh Allen, Cooper could finally be in a position to begin playing to his potential.
Key matchup
Niners’ RB Christian McCaffrey vs. Bills run defense. Buffalo bottled up the Chiefs in limiting their ground game to 78 yards in a major sign of improvement a month after allowing 271 to Derrick Henry and the Ravens. McCaffrey and the 49ers’ usually sturdy run game has yet to get on track, with last season’s offensive player of the year limited to 149 yards rushing and 132 receiving. He has yet to score a TD in three games this season.
Key injuries
San Francisco QB Brock Purdy is expected to play after missing one game with a sore right shoulder. … The Niners, however, ruled out five starters: DE Nick Bosa (hip, oblique), LT Trent Williams (ankle), LG Aaron Banks (concussion), DT Jordan Elliott (concussion) and CB Deommodore Lenoir (knee). … The Bills ruled out TE Dalton Kincaid, who will miss his second game with a knee injury. … Rookie WR Keon Coleman (right wrist) is listed as questionable and was still wearing a non-contact jersey in practice on Friday. … RT Spencer Brown (ankle) was cleared to return after missing one game. … The Bills have yet to decide whether to activate LB Matt Milano (torn left biceps) and rookie defensive tackle DeWayne Carter (left wrist) off IR.
Series notes
The Bills played the Niners in Arizona because of COVID-19 restrictions in California in 2020. It was Buffalo’s second visit to Glendale in three weeks after a 32-30 loss to the Cardinals. … The Bills beat San Francisco 45-16 in the Niners’ most recent visit to Orchard Park, New York, in 2016, and are 3-2 overall at home. … Buffalo has won the past two meetings with neither team having won three straight.
Stats and stuff
San Francisco has lost two straight and has a losing record this late in the season for the first time since going 6-10 in 2020. … This is the fourth time this season that the 49ers are playing a team coming off a bye. They are 1-2 in the previous three. … San Francisco had only 11 first downs last week, tied for the fewest in any game in eight seasons under Kyle Shanahan. … The Niners have scored only three offensive TDs from outside the red zone this season, tied for the second fewest in the NFL. … San Francisco ranks 10th worst in the NFL with 3.85 yards per carry in three games since McCaffrey returned after ranking fourth with 5.13 in the first eight weeks. … The 44 yards rushing last week for the 49ers were their third fewest under Shanahan. … TE George Kittle had his 509th catch last week, moving into third place in San Francisco history. … Kittle leads the NFL with eight TD catches in the red zone, which is tied with Vernon Davis (2013) for the most in a season for a Niners player since at least 2000. … The AFC East-leading Bills have won at least nine of their first 11 games for just the sixth time in team history, and first since 1992. Buffalo has been 10-2 or better just four times, the last in 1991. … The Bills have won six straight for the first time since a 7-0 run to close the 2022 season. … Buffalo has scored 30 or more points in five straight and a league-best eight times this season. The most recent time the Bills scored 30 or more in six straight outings happened in 2004. … After not throwing an interception in his first seven outings, QB Josh Allen has five in his past four. He’s 43-27 overall when committing a turnover. … Allen has rushed for five TDs this season, increasing his total to 58 to rank second on the team list behind only Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas (65). … With two TDs rushing in a 30-21 win over Kansas City two weeks ago, RB James Cook became Buffalo’s first player to rush for 10 scores since LeSean McCoy had 13 in 2016. … Buffalo’s defense has forced at least one takeaway in each outing this season.
Fantasy tip
The Bills defense/special teams might be a sneaky good play, and not only if Brandon Allen starts in place of Purdy. Special teams could play a factor with Buffalo’s Brandon Codrington ranking fourth in the NFL with 243 punt return yards, and the Niners ranking 32nd in allowing 16.4 yards per punt return and having already allowed a kickoff return for a TD.
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President Donald Trump was once again floating the idea of sending federal agents to San Francisco to tackle crime.
It happened during a cabinet meeting on Thursday. The president praised Mayor Daniel Lurie’s efforts to lower crime but said he can do it more effectively.
“San Francisco, I know, they have a mayor who’s trying very hard. He’s a Democrat, but he’s trying very hard, but we can do it much more effectively, because he can’t do what we do. He can’t take people out from the city and bring them to back to the country, from where they came, where they were in prisons,” Trump said.
“He’s trying. He’s doing okay, but we could do much better. We could make it a lot safer than it is. San Francisco, a great city, was a great city, could quickly become a great city again. But, you know, they’re going very slowly,” he continued.
The president implied that the mayor needs federal help to battle crime, saying immigrants are responsible for the lawlessness. However, according to a 2025 study by researches at UCLA and Northwestern, arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants was not associated with reduced crime rates.
Gabriel Medina, executive director of La Raza Community Resource Center In San Francisco agrees.
“I think we need to make sure that our city does not also try to play this game of making up ideas about always associating crime with immigrants, when immigrants commit less crime, so that’s really bad,” Medina said.
In response to the president comments, the mayor released a statement that reads: “In San Francisco, crime is down 30%, encampments are at record lows, and our city is on the rise. Public safety is my number one priority, and we are going to stay laser focused on keeping our streets safe and clean.”
This isn’t the first time President Trump has mused with the idea of sending federal agents to the Bay Area; last October, agents were staged at a military base in Alameda, but Trump called off the plan after talking with Lurie and Bay Area tech leaders.
“We cannot normalize what this president is saying from San Francisco, that crime is associated with immigration. We need to stop conflating that,” Medina said.
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Man convicted in the deadly 2021 assault of a Thai grandfather in San Francisco avoids prison
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man convicted in the fatal 2021 attack of an older Thai man in San Francisco, which galvanized a movement against anti-Asian hate, will be able to avoid prison time, a judge ruled Thursday.
Antoine Watson, 25, was sentenced to eight years for manslaughter in the death of Vicha Ratanapakdee, 84. But, having already spent five years in jail awaiting trial, Watson received credit for time served, and San Francisco Superior Court Judge Linda Colfax said he could have the remaining three years suspended if he follows the rules of his probation.
Ratanapakdee’s daughter, Monthanus, expressed her family’s disappointment in a statement shared by Justice For Vicha, the foundation named for her father.
“We respect the court process. However, this is not about revenge — it is about accountability,” she said. “When consequences do not reflect the seriousness of the harm, it raises concerns about how we protect our seniors and public safety.”
Vicha Ratanapakdee was out for his usual morning walk in the quiet neighborhood he lived in with his wife, daughter and her family when Watson charged at him and knocked him to the ground. Ratanapakdee never regained consciousness and died two days later.
Watson testified on the stand that he was in a haze of confusion and anger at the time of the unprovoked attack, according to KRON-TV. He said he lashed out and didn’t know that Ratanapakdee was Asian or older.
San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju, whose office defended Watson, also said at his trial that the defendant is “fully remorseful for his mistake.”
The Office of the San Francisco Public Defender did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment on Watson’s sentencing.
Footage of the attack was captured on a neighbor’s security camera and spread across social media, prompting a surge in activism over a rise in anti-Asian crimes driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of people across several U.S. cities commemorated the anniversary of Ratanapakdee’s death in 2022, seeking justice for Asian Americans who have been harassed, assaulted and even killed in alarming numbers.
Asians in America have long been subject to prejudice and discrimination, but the attacks escalated sharply after COVID-19 first appeared in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. More than 10,000 hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were reported to the Stop AAPI Hate coalition from March 2020 through September 2021.
While the Ratanapakdee family asserts he was attacked because of his race, hate crime charges were not filed and the argument was not raised in trial. Prosecutors have said hate crimes are difficult to prove absent statements by the suspect.
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