This post is really unfair

Alright so I know going through a sports columnists archive to rip predictions is probably really unfair and could be done to EVERY single one, but I'm making an exception for Ray Ratto here since I fully believed in this article. I mean I believed every last letter of it and had a mini-celebration in my head. Here it is
Reading this now is pretty much masochism for me. If you were too lazy to click the link I'll explain. The article came out week 4 after the 49ers had trounced the Rams 35-0 and were a 3-1 team two games up in the division with wins over all the other division teams. As Ratto says:
This might be just the Rams game talking, but fact is, the 49ers clinched a playoff berth with their 35-0 victory Sunday.
And I bought it. I mean logically it seemed there was no way they could fail. As Ray points out, the bar for winning the NFC west was so low that the niners could "trip over it."
Last week, the 49ers were officially knocked out of playoff contention, though they were on a respirator for the two weeks prior. Again I point at this article not to make fun of Ratto, but more to make fun of myself. Because as many times as I've learned not to trust sports columnists, I did. And now, I feel like a jackass for it.
BTW the Niners actually beat Arizona twice this year and are now 2-0 this year vs. the defending NFC champions. Can't they get a smaller trophy for that? Or maybe a certificate of participation? Where's the use of the transitive property? If team A beats team B two times in a row and team B is NFC champion, then team A should be the best team in the Conference. There you have it. The Niners are the best team in the NFC. CASE CLOSED!!!!