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Aldon Smith crashes on RB during a read option play. Wilson keeps and sprints to the sideline for an easy 9 yard gain. 9 yards is a pretty big deal in the red zone, especially on a 2nd and 13 play. Wilson talks about not wanting to keep the ball and how it's usually just a ruse, but in this game he kept the ball quite often (vs. Carolina, he didn't keep a single one).
The next play the 49ers blitz, sending more rushers than Seattle has blockers. Pressure arrives immediately to Wilson, who non-chalantly throws a soft toss to an uncovered Marshawn Lynch who looks around deliberates before eventually crossing the goal line. This play is pretty embarrassing for the 49ers, but it's nice to see Wilson actually connect to a RB on a blitz, something he had issues with in the preseason and in week 1. According to Collinsworth, the route Lynch ran was improvised. When he saw the guy who was supposed to cover him blitz, he ran a route. Touchdown.
Kaepernick expertly navigates through Seattle's pass rush before completing a short pass to Frank Gore, a pass that appears to be nicked by the outstretched hand of Bobby Wagner. Vance McDonald of the 49ers wipes out the gain after the play with a personal foul off-screen. This is SF's first play after going down 19-3. Harbaugh puts on his nightstand reading glasses and looks annoyed.
On that foul, KJ Wright goes for McDonald's facemask and isn't caught. McDonald retaliates and is caught.
The very next play, Avril shoves his blocker back, gets a bead on Kaepernick. Kaepernick calmly lets a deep ball fly to Vernon Davis. This pass is damn near perfect, but Richard Sherman high points the ball and intercepts it. This is an interception only Richard Sherman can make. He is not only 6'3" and can jump fairly high with long arms, but as a former WR he is adept at catching the ball at the highest point. Sidney Rice might be the only WR on the team that even comes close to Sherman's high-point ability.
Unger and Sweezy work together to push the defensive line back a couple yards. They fail to create a real running lane though. Derrick Coleman sprints to the hole and gives a somewhat emphatic block that is very low and very fast. It's not a stellar block, but it's the best of the night for him and it actually moves the defender backwards maybe 6 inches. Lynch plows into the wall of bodies for a gain of 2.
Aldon Smith is a better run defender than he gets credit for. Lynch gets the carry on a run left off tackle, and it's blocked very well except that Smith clearly controls Zach Miller and tries to sell it that he's still being blocked to bait Lynch. Lynch takes a moment to think it over in mid-run and ends up abandoning the play to cut inside. Smart. Lynch ends up with a solid 5 yard gain. Had Smith not contained that running lane, and Lynch had run the play by design, it could have been a much bigger gain. Good play by Smith to negate a potential 10 yard run by Seattle.
3rd and 4. The 49ers overload blitz the middle. The OL picks it up but Turbin takes a bad angle and completely whiffs on his blitz pickup. Wilson runs for his life before throwing the ball out of bounds. Haushka kicks a FG to give Seattle a 22-3 lead.
Kaepernick throws a very quick pass after Bennett and Avril perfectly anticipate the snap. It's caught by Williams who uses his speed to circle around for a 10 yard gain.
2nd and inches. Kaepernick zips a short pass on the money but it's knocked away by Thurmond with a textbook full arm extension swat.
3rd and inches. Mayowa takes the field, which is kind of odd timing given the circumstances. Mayowa is a good run defender for his size at least. He gets a firm hold on Kaepernick but just barely fails to prevent the first. Actually, I think he did prevent it, but the refs gave Kaepernick the first anyway.
Mayowa is still out there. Kaepernick drops back, counts to 2, hears footsteps, bails to his left and is pressured by KJ Wright who had been playing the role of spy before attacking the QB. It's incomplete, but Maxwell ragdolls Quinton Patton and the officials don't miss it. 1st and 10 SF.
SF calls a perfectly executed screen pass to the right flat, keyed by a great block from Vance McDonald that takes Walter Thurmond out of the play. This could have easily gone 30-40 yards, maybe for a TD, but Sherman makes a terrific open field tackle and limits the damage to 9 yards.
Boldin gets his first catch. 1st down. Kaepernick's stats don't show it, but he's very sharp in the 4th quarter so far. He's playing very fast, throwing fast, and throwing accurate. It's mostly short stuff, but holding the ball against Seattle's defense is a bad idea in this game.
If you watched Michael Bennett last year in Tampa, you already know that he's the master of the ankle sack. Bennett nearly gets his 2nd ankle sack of the night but by some miracle Kaepernick dodges it twice, and also dodges a near sack from Schofield as well. After doubling back around, Kaepernick pump fakes to freeze the defense before running out of bounds after a 17 yard gain.
Schofield owns Joe Staley, breaks into the backfield and tackles Kendall Hunter for a 7 yard loss. I'm a fan of John Abraham and Alex Okafor, but what was Arizona thinking ditching Schofield? I don't get it. Schofield is a quality NFL starter on a piddly rookie salary.
Kaepernick calls a timeout. Normally you'd bust his balls for doing that, but it prevented a 2nd and 22 and I think at this point, SF was just playing for some positive momentum, similar to their previous encounter when the 49ers got their only TD late in the game in garbage time.
SF tries that screen in the flat play again, but Avril explodes off the snap and is in Kaepernick's face almost instantly. Kaepernick gets the pass off, but Avril jumps and knocks the ball away. Incomplete. 3rd and 17. It's really kind of insane how many plays Seattle's defense makes in this game. Kaepernick played much better than his numbers. I don't know if Peyton Manning would have done a whole lot against this defense in this game.
Schofield stunts and maybe sacks Kaepernick if not for being held (uncalled, but really obvious). It's 3rd and 17 so the 49ers receivers are running deep, developing routes. Kaepernick runs left to buy a few extra moments before eventually throwing the ball away. On the same play, Maxwell gets away with illegal contact. The 49ers go for it on 4th and 17. Seahulk stares lasers.
Avril makes a good inside move and has Kaepernick dead to rights for a sack and probably a fumble too, since Kaepernick does not see him. But, for some reason, Avril keeps his right arm limp at his side and just falls down completely whiffing on the play. I've never seen anything like it. It's a miracle that Kaepernick isn't sacked. Kaepernick senses the close call and takes off, picking up a sizeable gain with his feet up the middle of the field but is stopped short of the first down. Seattle ball.
Lynch gets a 6 yard gain thanks in part to a good 2nd level block from James Carpenter(!). It's wiped out by a holding call on Max Unger. Technically, it's not a bad call. Unger probably holds on most plays but knows the sleight of hand to get away with it. In this instance, the defender attempts to disengage and a royal flush comes tumbling out of Unger's sleeve.
Next play, Lynch makes a guy miss, nearly fumbles, and Breno grabs a guy for a takedown and draws a legit hold.
Zach Miller holds on after being hammered by Whitner for a short gain.
Wilson is pressured immediately and alertly throws the ball at Lynch's feet to avoid a sack. The 49er that creates the pressure... Guess who? And guess who was blocking him?
Bobby Wagner jumps a route and has a pick 6 bounce off his stomach.
Michael Bennett spin moves his way around two interior linemen before reaching Kaepernick in about 2 seconds flat. Kaepernick is standing in the endzone and is a half-second from safety #2. Unfazed, completes a dumpoff pass for minimal gain.
Mayowa is seeing some pretty good play time in the 4th quarter. On 3rd and 10, he's the spinner pass rusher, but ends up dropping into man coverage. Kaepernick has time to throw and just brutally over-thows his target. Kam Chancellor is Mr. right place right time and comes surprisingly close to a pick 6.
Sweezy is such a quick cut blocker. Giacomini wins the initial battle and #91 is slow to recover. Lynch reads it perfectly and gives great run off right tackle. Not wanting to break character, Lynch nearly fumbles the ball as he crosses the goal line. Touchdown. 29-3.
The ensuing kickoff is fumbled and recovered by Seattle. Kaepernick's worst throw of the night turns out to be his last.
Ware checks in at fullback. I'm not saying he gave a stellar lead block on 1st down, but had Coleman given the same block I would have said it was Coleman's 2nd best lead block of the night.
Coleman comes in at fullback, Ware carries. Coleman gives a solid lead block and appears to be improving towards competence in the 4th quarter. Something I've noticed is that Coleman is getting extra low on his lead blocks late in the game and it is helping him deliver a blow without embarrassing himself. Ware isn't the most physically talented RB in the world but I like how he has that Lynch type quality to slide off bodies and pick up that extra yard or two that most backs don't get when they have nowhere to go.
The OL actually looks tired. They have run the football a lot in this game, and though they've been winning their battles all game long, SF is still a very physical front and you can tell the Seahawks OL is starting to look lethargic by the end.
Sweezy has yet another cut block on an engaged lineman, probably his 5th of the game by this point. Sweezy is really good on these blocks, btw.
Ware navigates traffic slowly but intelligently and has a savvy rush for a 6 yard gain.
4th and 2. Unger is shoved backwards by the nose tackle, Coleman whiffs on his lead block, and yet Ware navigates choppy waters with impeccable instincts and picks up the game icing first down. He was very Lynch like on this run. There is a bit of a tug o' war moment at the end where the pile gets pushed, and Ware tweaks his ankle. During the play, a defensive back (#27) has a chance to tackle Ware short of the first but completely whiffs.
Seattle kneels three times. Game over.
The next play the 49ers blitz, sending more rushers than Seattle has blockers. Pressure arrives immediately to Wilson, who non-chalantly throws a soft toss to an uncovered Marshawn Lynch who looks around deliberates before eventually crossing the goal line. This play is pretty embarrassing for the 49ers, but it's nice to see Wilson actually connect to a RB on a blitz, something he had issues with in the preseason and in week 1. According to Collinsworth, the route Lynch ran was improvised. When he saw the guy who was supposed to cover him blitz, he ran a route. Touchdown.
Kaepernick expertly navigates through Seattle's pass rush before completing a short pass to Frank Gore, a pass that appears to be nicked by the outstretched hand of Bobby Wagner. Vance McDonald of the 49ers wipes out the gain after the play with a personal foul off-screen. This is SF's first play after going down 19-3. Harbaugh puts on his nightstand reading glasses and looks annoyed.
On that foul, KJ Wright goes for McDonald's facemask and isn't caught. McDonald retaliates and is caught.
The very next play, Avril shoves his blocker back, gets a bead on Kaepernick. Kaepernick calmly lets a deep ball fly to Vernon Davis. This pass is damn near perfect, but Richard Sherman high points the ball and intercepts it. This is an interception only Richard Sherman can make. He is not only 6'3" and can jump fairly high with long arms, but as a former WR he is adept at catching the ball at the highest point. Sidney Rice might be the only WR on the team that even comes close to Sherman's high-point ability.
Unger and Sweezy work together to push the defensive line back a couple yards. They fail to create a real running lane though. Derrick Coleman sprints to the hole and gives a somewhat emphatic block that is very low and very fast. It's not a stellar block, but it's the best of the night for him and it actually moves the defender backwards maybe 6 inches. Lynch plows into the wall of bodies for a gain of 2.
Aldon Smith is a better run defender than he gets credit for. Lynch gets the carry on a run left off tackle, and it's blocked very well except that Smith clearly controls Zach Miller and tries to sell it that he's still being blocked to bait Lynch. Lynch takes a moment to think it over in mid-run and ends up abandoning the play to cut inside. Smart. Lynch ends up with a solid 5 yard gain. Had Smith not contained that running lane, and Lynch had run the play by design, it could have been a much bigger gain. Good play by Smith to negate a potential 10 yard run by Seattle.
3rd and 4. The 49ers overload blitz the middle. The OL picks it up but Turbin takes a bad angle and completely whiffs on his blitz pickup. Wilson runs for his life before throwing the ball out of bounds. Haushka kicks a FG to give Seattle a 22-3 lead.
Kaepernick throws a very quick pass after Bennett and Avril perfectly anticipate the snap. It's caught by Williams who uses his speed to circle around for a 10 yard gain.
2nd and inches. Kaepernick zips a short pass on the money but it's knocked away by Thurmond with a textbook full arm extension swat.
3rd and inches. Mayowa takes the field, which is kind of odd timing given the circumstances. Mayowa is a good run defender for his size at least. He gets a firm hold on Kaepernick but just barely fails to prevent the first. Actually, I think he did prevent it, but the refs gave Kaepernick the first anyway.
Mayowa is still out there. Kaepernick drops back, counts to 2, hears footsteps, bails to his left and is pressured by KJ Wright who had been playing the role of spy before attacking the QB. It's incomplete, but Maxwell ragdolls Quinton Patton and the officials don't miss it. 1st and 10 SF.
SF calls a perfectly executed screen pass to the right flat, keyed by a great block from Vance McDonald that takes Walter Thurmond out of the play. This could have easily gone 30-40 yards, maybe for a TD, but Sherman makes a terrific open field tackle and limits the damage to 9 yards.
Boldin gets his first catch. 1st down. Kaepernick's stats don't show it, but he's very sharp in the 4th quarter so far. He's playing very fast, throwing fast, and throwing accurate. It's mostly short stuff, but holding the ball against Seattle's defense is a bad idea in this game.
If you watched Michael Bennett last year in Tampa, you already know that he's the master of the ankle sack. Bennett nearly gets his 2nd ankle sack of the night but by some miracle Kaepernick dodges it twice, and also dodges a near sack from Schofield as well. After doubling back around, Kaepernick pump fakes to freeze the defense before running out of bounds after a 17 yard gain.
Schofield owns Joe Staley, breaks into the backfield and tackles Kendall Hunter for a 7 yard loss. I'm a fan of John Abraham and Alex Okafor, but what was Arizona thinking ditching Schofield? I don't get it. Schofield is a quality NFL starter on a piddly rookie salary.
Kaepernick calls a timeout. Normally you'd bust his balls for doing that, but it prevented a 2nd and 22 and I think at this point, SF was just playing for some positive momentum, similar to their previous encounter when the 49ers got their only TD late in the game in garbage time.
SF tries that screen in the flat play again, but Avril explodes off the snap and is in Kaepernick's face almost instantly. Kaepernick gets the pass off, but Avril jumps and knocks the ball away. Incomplete. 3rd and 17. It's really kind of insane how many plays Seattle's defense makes in this game. Kaepernick played much better than his numbers. I don't know if Peyton Manning would have done a whole lot against this defense in this game.
Schofield stunts and maybe sacks Kaepernick if not for being held (uncalled, but really obvious). It's 3rd and 17 so the 49ers receivers are running deep, developing routes. Kaepernick runs left to buy a few extra moments before eventually throwing the ball away. On the same play, Maxwell gets away with illegal contact. The 49ers go for it on 4th and 17. Seahulk stares lasers.
Avril makes a good inside move and has Kaepernick dead to rights for a sack and probably a fumble too, since Kaepernick does not see him. But, for some reason, Avril keeps his right arm limp at his side and just falls down completely whiffing on the play. I've never seen anything like it. It's a miracle that Kaepernick isn't sacked. Kaepernick senses the close call and takes off, picking up a sizeable gain with his feet up the middle of the field but is stopped short of the first down. Seattle ball.
Lynch gets a 6 yard gain thanks in part to a good 2nd level block from James Carpenter(!). It's wiped out by a holding call on Max Unger. Technically, it's not a bad call. Unger probably holds on most plays but knows the sleight of hand to get away with it. In this instance, the defender attempts to disengage and a royal flush comes tumbling out of Unger's sleeve.
Next play, Lynch makes a guy miss, nearly fumbles, and Breno grabs a guy for a takedown and draws a legit hold.
Zach Miller holds on after being hammered by Whitner for a short gain.
Wilson is pressured immediately and alertly throws the ball at Lynch's feet to avoid a sack. The 49er that creates the pressure... Guess who? And guess who was blocking him?
Bobby Wagner jumps a route and has a pick 6 bounce off his stomach.
Michael Bennett spin moves his way around two interior linemen before reaching Kaepernick in about 2 seconds flat. Kaepernick is standing in the endzone and is a half-second from safety #2. Unfazed, completes a dumpoff pass for minimal gain.
Mayowa is seeing some pretty good play time in the 4th quarter. On 3rd and 10, he's the spinner pass rusher, but ends up dropping into man coverage. Kaepernick has time to throw and just brutally over-thows his target. Kam Chancellor is Mr. right place right time and comes surprisingly close to a pick 6.
Sweezy is such a quick cut blocker. Giacomini wins the initial battle and #91 is slow to recover. Lynch reads it perfectly and gives great run off right tackle. Not wanting to break character, Lynch nearly fumbles the ball as he crosses the goal line. Touchdown. 29-3.
The ensuing kickoff is fumbled and recovered by Seattle. Kaepernick's worst throw of the night turns out to be his last.
Ware checks in at fullback. I'm not saying he gave a stellar lead block on 1st down, but had Coleman given the same block I would have said it was Coleman's 2nd best lead block of the night.
Coleman comes in at fullback, Ware carries. Coleman gives a solid lead block and appears to be improving towards competence in the 4th quarter. Something I've noticed is that Coleman is getting extra low on his lead blocks late in the game and it is helping him deliver a blow without embarrassing himself. Ware isn't the most physically talented RB in the world but I like how he has that Lynch type quality to slide off bodies and pick up that extra yard or two that most backs don't get when they have nowhere to go.
The OL actually looks tired. They have run the football a lot in this game, and though they've been winning their battles all game long, SF is still a very physical front and you can tell the Seahawks OL is starting to look lethargic by the end.
Sweezy has yet another cut block on an engaged lineman, probably his 5th of the game by this point. Sweezy is really good on these blocks, btw.
Ware navigates traffic slowly but intelligently and has a savvy rush for a 6 yard gain.
4th and 2. Unger is shoved backwards by the nose tackle, Coleman whiffs on his lead block, and yet Ware navigates choppy waters with impeccable instincts and picks up the game icing first down. He was very Lynch like on this run. There is a bit of a tug o' war moment at the end where the pile gets pushed, and Ware tweaks his ankle. During the play, a defensive back (#27) has a chance to tackle Ware short of the first but completely whiffs.
Seattle kneels three times. Game over.
