No Brock Purdy, no Nick Bosa and no Trent Williams.
Not that it mattered with the quantity of errors the 49ers made Sunday, desecrating Lambeau Discipline with penalties, turnovers and missed tackles in a 38-10 loss to the Inexperienced Bay Packers.
The 49ers might have had all three of their large names in addition to Charvarius Ward, Javon Hargrave, Talanoa Hufanga and the 2023 classic Christian McCaffrey within the lineup and been hard-pressed to even preserve it shut with the sort of efficiency they put forth in falling to 5-6.
It was a day the 49ers wanted to be buttoned up, execution-oriented and mistake-free to beat a Packers staff on their house subject that’s 8-3 and sure for the playoffs on a day through which they had been with out a few of their most necessary gamers.
As an alternative, it was a clinic in the best way to take a recreation that might have been aggressive and make it an embarrassing blowout loss — the third-worst level unfold defeat since coach Kyle Shanahan arrived in 2017.
Quarterback Brandon Allen, subbing for the sore-shouldered Purdy, had an interception that went off the palms of Deebo Samuel and misplaced a fumble. He was 17 of 29 for 199 yards and a 3-yard landing move to George Kittle. However given the circumstances, Purdy or No. 3 quarterback Josh Dobbs would have met an analogous finish outcome.
The 49ers merely couldn’t get out of their very own manner, which served as a magnifying glass right into a staff that’s crippled by accidents but additionally severely flawed as they trudge towards the top of a season the place 9-8 may be a pipe dream.
“I’m not really concerned with how many guys we missed today because we didn’t play good enough,” 49ers Shanahan mentioned. “But when are missing some guys, you have to be better and when you have those penalties and don’t stop the run and had those three turnovers in the second half, that’s how you get embarrassed.”
Penalties? How about 9 for 77 yards. Beforehand error-free rookie guard Dominick Puni had three of them. A holding penalty on Eric Saubert erased an 82-yard kickoff return by Deebo Samuel to open the second half, and Ricky Pearsall had a 20-yard punt return erased on a holding name by Nick McCloud. The protection put 12 males on the sector twice close to the aim line — getting snookered by Inexperienced Bay’s substitution techniques that left Shanahan furious.
Quarterback Brandon Allen (17) recovers his personal fumble within the first half of a 38-10 loss to the Inexperienced Bay Packers at Lambeau Discipline. A.P. Photograph
Stopping the run? Josh Jacobs had 91 yards by halftime and completed with 106 on 26 makes an attempt with three touchdowns. The final time the 49ers gave up 100 yards within the common season was 103 yards to quarterback Justin Fields of the Bears on Oct. 31, 2021. The final time a operating again broke 100 was Jonathan Taylor of Indianapolis per week earlier. That was 55 video games in the past.
By the point the sport was over, Inexperienced Bay coach Matt LaFleur had seized a giant a part of the Shanahan perception system — that speeding makes an attempt equal success — because the Packers ran the ball 42 instances for 169 yards and had a 36:43 to 23:17 benefit in time of possession.
The 49ers, enjoying from behind, ran the ball 16 instances for 44 yards.
“We knew the challenge their running backs gave us going into the game and we just didn’t execute,” linebacker Fred Warner mentioned.
The 49ers halted their very own momentum at each flip and when the rating was 17-7 at halftime it appeared as if it could possibly be significantly worse. This wasn’t a ten a.m. physique clock time for the 49ers both, however slightly a day slot time that ought to have prevented their first-half sleep-walking session.
By the depend of Fox statisticians, the 49ers had 10 missed tackles by the top of the primary quarter, had 15 at halftime and reached 20 earlier than the top of the sport.
“That’s about as bad as it can get, probably the worst I’ve been a part of,” Warner mentioned. “Even then, it was 17-7, a 10-point game, had everything in front of us. We just didn’t make the plays when we needed to.”
Warner will get no argument from Shanahan, who watched because the Packers transformed all three 49ers second-half turnovers — Allen’s interception and misplaced fumble and a misplaced fumble by McCaffrey — into touchdowns.
“I thought we got out of our gaps a number of times, we had way too many missed tackles,” Shanahan mentioned. “Them being able to control the clock in the first half was one of the worst I’ve been a part of. I thought we stepped it up in the second half, especially in the run game. It gave us an opportunity to get back in the game, and to have those three turnovers that led to 21 points, you combine that with the penalties, that’s how you get embarrassed like that.”
On a day when the 49ers wanted their wholesome stars to shine, it didn’t occur apart from Kittle, who had six receptions for 82 yards and a landing. Samuel has been a rumor of late, and it was simply his luck that his kickoff return that might have supplied momentum went for naught.
Samuel caught one move for 21 yards and didn’t run the ball from scrimmage. McCaffrey had 11 rushes for 31 yards with an extended of 9 and caught three passes for 37 yards as he works his manner again from bilateral Achilles tendinitis.
Requested the place the 49ers would discover a manner preserve combating, McCaffrey set his jaw.
“Three’s always a fight,” McCaffrey mentioned. “Each day you’ve got to wake up, look yourself in the mirror and get better whether you win or lose. Speaking for me personally, that’s what I’m going to do.”
Little doubt McCaffrey means it, however the 49ers have been well-meaning all season and it hasn’t finished a lot to alter an injury-riddled, mistake-filled season.
“We had all the confidence in the world with who we were going into the game with,” Warner mentioned. “With the result of the game it’s going to look like we thought we didn’t have a chance. That wasn’t the case at all. We were confident. We came in ready to go . . . you’ve got take it on the chin, take it like a man and move on.”
