Honestly, the 49ers came out playing like it was their Superbowl. Their latest defeat came on Monday (AEDT) when they went down 19-13 to the Arizona Cardinals. The Cardinals weren’t thrilled either, but certainly not to the level of the game’s loser.
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Alex Boone isn’t “worried about getting fined” for his criticism of the officials in the Niners-Cardinals game.
-A referee who claims he ran into a 49ers player on the sidelines.
“I did see him lower to get into that strike zone”. What is an illegal hit on the quarterback? “God has blessed me with this opportunity, and I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing and show the guys, show the fans and the organization that I’m here to work”.
“Bruce Arians after the game, “… “Don’t pull out your back.’ Because I thought he threw out his back”. “I knew when he made the break … he had a good matchup inside and came up three feet short”. Johnson tweeted out a handful of praying hands emojis after the game, although he said he doesn’t think it’s serious. It should be an interesting week for San Francisco.
In a marked contrast to the 47-7 browbeating in Glendale in these teams’ first meeting that first prompted the Niners’ brass to consider moving on from Colin Kaepernick, this time around Kaepernick’s successor Blaine Gabbert didn’t gift-wrap the Cardinals even one pick-six let alone two and on the contrary passed for a career-high 318 yards.
That prompted the 49ers to hand their quarterback a big contract extension before the 2014 season, in what essentially was a non-guaranteed, six-year deal that gave the franchise an early out clause in case things didn’t work out well for both parties. That just wore out the S.F. defenders by the late fourth quarter when Arizona marched down the field for the go-ahead TD. Confidence is key in this profession. He is the 49ers’ best red-zone threat. Gabbert fired a 20-yard pass to McDonald, giving San Francisco a first down at the 42. “One-on-one matchups were huge today, and the tight ends were easy wins for us, but we’ve got to win the game”.
The offense was decent – Gabbert had a few good passes – but it was the defense, the same defense that suuuuuuuuuucked last week, who stepped it up. This team was built to score and to score often.
The San Francisco defense deserves a lot of credit in this game. It’s just been a very tough year to be a 49er, period.
Victory wasn’t secured until Carson Palmer ran 8 yards around left end for the game-winning touchdown with 2:28 to play, a drive kept alive by a questionable roughing-the-passer penalty on Quinton Dial. It was awful calls all game. Palmer’s head may have dipped a bit leading into the play, and so I wonder how much that would have allowed for overturning on replay, but it is still a significant issue. “Bowman continued, “. save your energy”.
The Cardinals backpedaled to the 7, but Palmer scored to put Arizona ahead.
The coach has repeatedly said he is focused on winning games.
“That’s not what we accepted”, Arians said.
“I’m just taking it one game at a time”, Gabbert said.
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All in all, it was a great battle between two teams that don’t really much care for each other. It was just one of those games.
