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The 49ers are cruising in the first half vs. Seattle, and Kyle Juszczyk scored his 1st TD of the season.
1-yard TD from Mr. 100!
📺 #SEAvsSF on @NFLonFOX pic.twitter.com/e68Px1wCPR
— San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) September 18, 2022
The Seahawks muffed a punt and the 49ers recovered for their third takeaway of the game. They failed to capitalize on the first two, but they needed just four plays to find pay dirt after recovering the muffed punt. They capped the series with Kyle Juszczyk’s first rushing TD of the season and the 49ers went up 20-0.
The Seattle Seahawks will meet the San Francisco 49ers in Week 2 of the NFL season on Sunday afternoon from Levi’s Stadium.
The Seattle Seahawks will meet the San Francisco 49ers in Week 2 of the NFL season on Sunday afternoon from Levi’s Stadium.
The Seahawks are coming off a 17-16 win over the Broncos in their opener, where they shut down Russell Wilson and will look to keep that momentum with Geno Smith at QB. Meanwhile, the 49ers played in a swamp in Chicago where they ended up losing 19-10 with Trey Lance under center as he will look to make some improvements this week.
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George Kittle’s Week 2 status still TBD for the #49ers.
The 49ers had to play their season opener without star tight end George Kittle. He suffered a groin injury the Monday before the first week of regular practices started. Kittle wound up missing the entire week of practice and Sunday’s game in Chicago. Whether he’ll be available Week 2 when the 49ers host the Seattle Seahawks is still unknown.
Head coach Kyle Shanahan on Monday in a conference call with reporters said Kittle thought he’d have a chance to play in Chicago, and now the waiting game is on for his Week 2 status.
“He thought he was, that’s why he made the trip, but we decided pretty early there Saturday night just talking to the doctors,” Shanahan said. “I haven’t really found out about him today I’ve been doing all this stuff from the people from the game, so I hope he’s ready to go Wednesday, but not sure yet. I know he’ll be working to get back this week.”
Kittle was originally listed as questionable on the official injury report for Week 1, but reports came out Saturday night that the club wanted to exercise caution with their tight end in hopes he’d be healthy for Week 2 and beyond.
With so much happening in Sunday’s game, Kittle’s absence flew under the radar as an issue for the 49ers’ offense. They’ll need him back Sunday against a Seattle team that looked excellent Monday night against the Broncos.
San Francisco will practice Wednesday, which will give us a better indication of where Kittle’s status is trending heading into the home opener.
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The #49ers are still hanging around in the top 15 of the @usatodaysports NFL power rankings after their Week 13 loss.
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The 49ers managed to stay in the top half of the USA TODAY NFL power rankings after an ugly loss to the Seahawks in Week 13. They dropped one spot to No.14 overall just behind the Ravens and just ahead of Washington.
San Francisco’s defense is one of the reasons they’re still sitting in the top-15, but it could also be one of the reasons they fall out after their Week 14 matchup with Cincinnati.
From USA TODAY’s Nate Davis:
The defense has nine takeaways over the past four games and could feast on a sloppy Cincinnati team Sunday – assuming it can keep the points down after surrendering 56 over the last two weeks.
It’s worth noting Seattle got 9 of their 30 points from a safety and a special teams touchdown, and Minnesota the week prior got 7 of its 26 points on a kick return for a touchdown.
San Francisco’s defense despite some injuries played well for the most part the last two weeks, and generating turnovers is their only real chance to make noise.
On the flip side, not giving the ball away is an even bigger key for a 49ers club that doesn’t have a large margin of error. The turnover battle is always key, but with this team it seems to be the sole determining factor in whether they win a game. One fewer giveaway against the Seahawks wins them the turnover battle and might’ve been enough to swing the game and push the 49ers the other way in the power rankings.
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LT Trent Williams detailed how the Seahawks sold out to stop the #49ers run game.
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The 49ers finally found an identity. Now it might be time to find a wrinkle in it.
After three weeks of dominating on the ground and rattling off three consecutive wins, San Francisco’s rushing attack was stifled by a swarming Seattle defense that wasn’t going to let the 49ers be who they want to be offensively.
It was apparent live, but left tackle Trent Williams confirmed after the game that the Seahawks sold out to slow down Elijah Mitchell, who ran for just 66 yards on 22 carries.
“They just crowded the line of scrimmage, crowded the box, and brought the linebackers down pretty quick to draw us off of double teams,” Williams said. “They just wanted to make one on one’s across the line. Obviously, teams are going to play us like that to try to stop the run.”
This is something teams are going to continue doing against the 49ers and Seattle gave a blueprint to San Francisco’s five remaining opponents.
Head coach Kyle Shanahan is very good at scheming mismatches in the run game that allow the blockers to get into the second level and pave the way for chunk plays for Mitchell and other ball carriers. Seattle executed a game plan that forced the 49ers to go elsewhere to find yards.
Ultimately they averaged 6.5 yards per play (a very good number), but two Jimmy Garoppolo interceptions and a sack in the end zone for a safety helped Seattle overcome some of their own shortcomings Sunday.
This is the big question with the 49ers – can they win games without their run game? The answer was ‘no’ this week, and teams are going to continue trying to force them to win in different ways. How Shanahan and the offensive coaching staff adjust to defenses selling out to stop their run game will determine just how far San Francisco can go this year.
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Trying to find some silver linings in the #49ers’ Week 13 loss to Seattle.
There weren’t a lot of things that went right for the 49ers on Sunday in Seattle. It was a classic San Francisco disaster at the Seahawks’ home stadium that featured a slew of mistakes of varying severity, but they all added up to the 49ers’ sixth loss of the year.
While the bad stuff will linger through the week, we were able to dig up a few good things that jumped out from the contest and add some silver linings to an otherwise dreadful showing for San Francisco:
Head coach Kyle Shanahan had an update on RB Trenton Cannon, who left Sunday’s game in an ambulance.
49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan had an update on running back Trenton Cannon who was taken off the field in an ambulance after sustaining a head injury on the opening kickoff of Sunday’s loss to the Seahawks.
Cannon suffered a concussion, but no additional head or neck injuries according to Shanahan. Overall it’s good news that there’s no further damage after Cannon was hit in the head and then hit in a way that bent his neck awkwardly as he went down while making a tackle on the opening kickoff.
The 27-year-old running back will stay in a Seattle-area hospital overnight for further evaluation.
Everything we know from the #49ers embarrassing loss to Seahawks
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The 49ers needed a win in Seattle to put some distance between themselves and the rest of the back of the NFC wild card race. They responded with one of their worst performances of the year and caught a loss to snap a three-game winning streak.
Here’s what we know in the immediate aftermath of a disaster at Lumen Field:
Observations from a bad #49ers loss to the Seahawks.
The 49ers’ showing in Seattle was about as bad as it gets. Turnovers, penalties, and zero second-half points spelled the end of their three-game winning streak as the Seahawks beat them 30-23 at Lumen Field on Sunday.
Our observations from a wild NFC West bout:
The #49ers pushed the Seahawks out of field goal range with Arden Key’s fourth sack of the year.
Defense takes down Wilson for the third time today!
📺 #SFvsSEA on CBS pic.twitter.com/uBCpApK4Vg
— San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) December 5, 2021
The wheels were falling off for the 49ers after a safety by the Seahawks tied the game at 23. Seattle was in field goal range with a third-and-7, but defensive lineman Arden Key flew in with a host of 49ers defenders to sack Russell Wilson and move Seattle out of field goal range.
