“I thought it was time to give DeShawn a chance to see if he could do it”.
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The 49ers benched Colin Kaepernick last week, giving Gabbert the start Sunday against the Falcons.
“There’s something about playing here”, outside linebacker Ahmad Brooks said.
Gabbert continued to move the 49ers effectively in the third quarter, but had to twice settle for short field goals from Phil Dawson after getting inside the Seattle 10. San Francisco found this out the hard way, when they elected to not cover him.
Thomas Rawls scored two touchdowns, ran for a career-high 209 yards on 30 carries and caught all three of his targets for 46 yards in Sunday’s 29-13 win over the 49ers. Patton made an easy turn and catch for the first down that sparked the 49ers into a 2-minute drill.
But while Gabbert kept marching the 49ers downfield, he couldn’t get the 49ers into the end zone in the second half, despite several trips into the Red Zone. “Little did he know, I’m not running out of bounds”.
“I feel I can be better….”
“I did think it would go quicker”, the coach said of the progress up front.
-Have we talked enough about how Cliff Avril needs an extension? Antonio Brown has been torching secondaries all season long, so it will be interesting to see if Kris Richard elects to have Sherman act as his shadow, considering Cary Williams’ struggles in 2015.
Lucky for the 49ers and Seahawks, most teams in the National Football League are floundering, too. He’s a complete back but an older one, a leader who doesn’t strive to lead, and he’s important to the Seahawks for reasons beyond the stat sheet, even as his stats are likely to continue to diminish. The Seahawks have allowed seven touchdowns to tight ends in those six games. Steven Hauschka missed the attempt after the Seahawks’ second touchdown, and the kick was blocked after Rawls’ touchdown in the fourth quarter.
“We look real familiar again”, Lockett said.
Jackson was happy for Rawls’ success. One sack was on a scramble by Wilson for zero yards – though that doesn’t count when Wilson ran into left tackle Russell Okung while scrambling away from pressure near the goal line and lost the ball. The previous best was Rawls’ 169 yards on October 11 against Cincinnati.
When faced with adversity the past two seasons, the Seattle Seahawks were able to find solutions.
Second quarter: Lockett catches another touchdown pass from Wilson.
Russell Wilson showed up in a big way for the Seahawks in this game, throwing for 260 yards, three touchdowns, and no interceptions and also accruing 33 yards rushing. “It’s one week at a time, one day at a time, one practice at a time. And 24 didn’t play”, San Francisco linebacker NaVorro Bowman said in reference to Lynch.
“Obviously, you don’t want to not have Marshawn”. But give the man a few credit, because he was solid against a good Seahawks defense.
The Seahawks took care of business against the 49ers behind Thomas Rawls’ breakout performance.
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“Hopefully, we have that three-headed horse, or arsenal, that we can bring all those guys in there”.
