“I’m not commenting on it. I’m not going to get into it, because I’m going to go back and watch tape”, Tomsula said. San Francisco FB Bruce Miller had his first carry of the season in the third quarter. Simply put, had the Falcons failed, the San Francisco offense would have taken the field under the stress of attempting to run the offense coming out of their own endzone, with the ball inside the one yard line; and with a QB starting his first game who has played poorly for the majority of his National Football League career. It’s as if is confidence fluttered and never looked back.
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By most accounts, the start to the season for the Atlanta Falcons season has been nothing short of fantastic by first year coach Dan Quinn. “We thought that we would get off the slide this week and score a few touchdowns but that wasn’t the case”. With Reggie Bush (knee) on injured reserve and Jarry Hayne on the practice squad, that means the team’s running backs against the Falcons will be Kendall Gaskins, Shaun Draughn and Pierre Thomas, none of whom were on the active roster last Friday. The (3-6) 49ers aren’t going to win their next seven straight and suddenly be Super Bowl contenders, regardless of how good Blaine Gabbert looked yesterday against what turned out to be a much more mediocre Falcons team than people realized.
“We’re working on what we’re looking at right now, getting combinations together on the field”.
The right side of the offensive line struggled at times, but manufactured an improved effort. Gabbert brought a basic competence to the San Francisco offense that has been lacking most of this season.
It was the Falcons running game that really held them back in Sunday’s one-point loss. “Blaine had a great day today”. Say what you want about Kaepernick’s play this year, but he is one hundred times the playmaker Gabbert is. “Going through all that, you’re either going backward or forward”. Kaepernick had only thrown for 6 touchdowns and threw 5 INT’s with a pedestrian completion percentage of 59% this season. On Sunday the Falcons settled for field goals before touchdowns which caused the loss against the 49ers.
There won’t be anything easy about this, but the 49ers kept paddling on Sunday, kept breathing, and braced for the long haul ahead. Fans should prepare for two weeks packed with additional San Francisco 49ers rumors about where the team will turn next. Wide receiver Julio Jones caught 10 passes for 137 yards.
“Or any other quarterback”, Celek said.
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It’s doubtful the 49ers view Gabbert as their long-term answer at quarterback, but he showed he can at least give the team a chance to win games by minimizing mistakes. Freeman wound up with eight catches for 67 yards and Jacob Tamme six receptions for 61 yards…. Ryan opened the drive with a 54-yard deep strike to Jones, giving Atlanta a first down at the 49ers’ 24.
