“I think from a player’s perspective, we’ve got to make it work”.
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“I told that O-line I was going to stick in there and take a few shots to the chin but get the ball out”, Gabbert said after the 17-16 win over Atlanta.
Center Daniel Kilgore, who is coming back from a broken leg suffered more than a year ago, is expected to resume practicing with the team November 16.
“Just to hear his lingo and just to be around what he’s feeling about the game – he’s a take-charge type of guy”, Draughn said after Sunday’s game. “I just feel like we have to play faster as an offense”. That is what I want to keep hearing, that I am starting to look like the normal me. Even though it’s another black eye for Atlanta, having a head coach that stands behind their player and will trust them in every facet of the game is what the ultimate goal is. “That was the biggest thing”.
Gabbert threw a pair of second-quarter touchdowns to Garrett Celek, and the defense stood its ground down the stretch to hold off the Falcons (6-3).
Gabbert finished with 185 yards on 15-of-25 passing but was propped up more by a flailing Falcons defense than anything else. A barrage of passes by Matt Ryan (30 of 45 overall, 303 yards) moved the Falcons from their 33-yard line to the 49ers’ 1.
“It was just the way that they played us”, Ryan said. We didn’t play up to the way that we’re capable, and I think San Francisco did a nice job.
The Falcons have lost three of four and are fortunate not to have lost five of five.
The San Francisco 49ers are probably going to be looking for a new quarterback in the 2016 NFL Draft.
Moments after Blaine Gabbert impressively won his debut as the 49ers starting quarterback, coach Jim Tomsula repeatedly refused to say if the job remains Gabbert’s or if it will revert to Colin Kaepernick.
The Falcons, however, had struck first, taking a 3-0 lead with 9:25 left in the opening quarter on Bryant’s 44-yard field goal, capping a 46-yard drive. He put the ball where it needed to go on the field. All three active tight ends (Celek, Vance McDonald and Blake Bell) are in the game with Bruce Miller and short-yardage running back Kendall Gaskins in the backfield. “I felt like we were stopping them defensively and we’d go stop it again and go win it”, Quinn said. As Atlanta prepared for the 49ers last week, the team listed 11 players on the final injury report, the most all season. The 49ers were already projected to struggle on offense, but failing to score much at all is extremely concerning. We need to win football games, and we need to win them one at a time. He completed 30 of 45 passes for 301 yards but only one TD.
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Prior to the first touchdown pass, Gabbert almost scored himself on the previous snap, scrambling nine yards before getting marked down inside the 1, as officials confirmed on a replay challenge. Limiting Devonta Freeman to 12 yards on the ground and the Falcons to 17 total rushing yards made the Falcons offense extremely one-dimensional. The 49ers are 2-6 and have dropped six of their past seven games.
