Let’s forget about headsets and playcalling and Mike Singletary and Alex Smith and Jimmy Raye — let’s forget about all of that for a moment and talk bitter reality.

By losing to Seattle the Niners opened up the possibility they stink and they opened up the possibility this season could be over just as it begins.

They are 0-1 when they should have been 1-0. Call me kooky but I don’t see them beating the Super Bowl champ Saints on Monday night.

Call that 0-2. Not a good way to start.

Then they go to KC to play the Chiefs, a known crummy team which just beat the Chargers. It is very hard to win in KC. If the Niners lose — I’m not saying they will — they will be 0-3. It’ s a very bad place and it’s not where the 49ers want to be.

Right now it’s distinctly possible. Who would have thought?