San Francisco hosts NFC North-leading Cincinnati (10-3) on Sunday. Against the 49ers, they nearly cut that number in half.
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The Browns paid tribute to Dawson’s return to Cleveland by featuring him in a highlight video on the scoreboard in the first quarter. At least according to some. I thought he had a great sense of the plan and how they were playing us and making in-game adjustments.
The Cleveland Browns look to win back-to-back games for the first time since last season.
The post Outside opinions: 49ers get bashed for blowout at Browns appeared first on 49ers Hot Read. He is now the first player in National Football League history to record 50 or more catches and 600 or more receiving yards in each of his first 13 seasons. No seriously, the 49ers couldn’t beat a team that had a 2-10 record coming into the game, and though certainly there are many, many people to blame for that, the person most responsible is Tomsula.
Does Sunday’s performance vindicate defensive coordinator Jim O’Neil, who has been under fire all season, and provide an example of what his defense can do given time? The 40-year-old kicked a 44-yard field goal and received a warm ovation from Browns fans after a video tribute was shown of him on the stadium’s scoreboards.
Manziel received support from a running game that has underachieved for the vast majority of this season. He bounced back in the third quarter by throwing a touchdown pass to tight end Gary Barnidge, capping a 78-yard scoring drive. It was a season high in the NFL. That’s when a quarterback is so afraid to get hit, they sabotage there selves when going through progressions.
Elsewhere on the injury report, Tomsula told reporters that running back and special teams staple Kendall Gaskins sustained a concussion on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the Browns defense came into the game ranked 29th and were 31st against the rush.
Perhaps the lens through which we view Manziel is the problem. Instead, it appeared that the 49ers actually forgot they had a football game to play yesterday. An issue that was not helped by the departing of offensive line coach Andy Moeller, the running game has been virtually nonexistent averaging less than 75 yards per game. He has produced positive grades in his last two starts, and in pretty much every game he has played this year he has made a couple of big plays – even if they haven’t always outweighed the bad. He added that Manziel’s teammates have not given up on Manziel because they have also seen major improvement in his commitment. “He is a very energetic player”. He completed 18 of 28 passes for 194 yards with one touchdown pass of six yards to Jerome Simpson. Fitzpatrick has the Jets at 8-5 and firmly in the playoff hunt, and is not a awful starter at the position. Sure it was only the 49ers but there were some good takeaways.
A season of head coach Mike Pettine doing his best to keep Manziel buried on the depth chart behind an aging journeyman in Josh McCown ended.
“It’s a good combination for us to come out and score some points”. “It’s a credit to those guys how they prepared”.
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This season, Manziel was slated as the backup again.
