49ers report card: How they graded in chaotic victory at Tampa Bay

PTAMPA, Fla. — Right here is how the 49ers (5-4) graded in Sunday’s walk-off 23-20 win over the host Tampa Bay Buccaneers (4-6):

PASS OFFENSE: A-

Brock Purdy and this unit delivered within the clutch for the primary walk-off win of Purdy’s profession –and Jake Moody’s. Granted 41 seconds to engineer a profitable drive, Purdy accomplished all 4 of his passes — two apiece to Jauan Jennings and Ricky Pearsall — to arrange Moody’s 44-yard discipline aim. Purdy acknowledged he struggled to discover a rhythm early on like different video games this season, however he rallied within the fourth quarter with some phenomenal performs, the highlights approaching a fourth-quarter drive with a 30-yarder to Christian McCaffrey after which an 11-yard, off-schedule landing toss to George Kittle. Ricky Pearsall’s first profession landing — a 46-yard catch-and-run for a 7-0 lead — got here with the spectacular aptitude and willpower befitting this first-round choose who is barely 71 days faraway from a death-defying taking pictures. Jennings’ impression (catching 7-of-11 targets, 93 yards) shouldn’t be understated in his return from a hip harm and two-game hiatus.  Deebo Samuel had his moments (5 catches, 64 yards; three carries, 14 yards) however his on-field confrontation with kicker Moody and lengthy snapper Taybor Pepper wasn’t changing into of a staff captain.

RUN OFFENSE: C-

McCaffrey’s season debut noticed him sprint for five yards on the 49ers’ first snap, and he impressively stayed in for 56-of-64 performs. He proved extra productive as a receiver (six catches, 68 yards) than as a rusher (13 carries, 39 yards). “There’s a couple of things that maybe I didn’t feel like myself 100% but that’s normal when you haven’t played in a long time,” stated McCaffrey, who emerged feeling “pretty good” after two-plus months battling Achilles tendinitis. Jordan Mason initially relieved McCaffrey then vanished after three snaps, presumably from aggravating his Oct. 10 shoulder sprain. Mason had just one carry (5 yards) and so did Isaac Guerendo, who was stopped for no achieve and appeared to attract the ire of left sort out Trent Williams for maybe lacking a block on a red-zone sack of Purdy, who scrambled twice on the opening drive however none thereafter.

PASS DEFENSE: B

Baker Mayfield escaped sacks amid a fourth-down conversion however his last throw of the day fell incomplete, forcing the Bucs to accept a tying discipline aim within the final minute. The 49ers didn’t should face Mike Evans nor Chris Godwin, so Mayfield handed for simply 116 yards, however he did toss a 9-yard landing to Rachaad White within the third quarter to spark Tampa Bay’s comeback. Nick Bosa visibly battled by a proper hip harm from Wednesday’s follow, and he bought to Mayfield for a fourth-quarter sack (and almost one other on that fourth-down completion). Charvarius Ward’s absence was felt within the wake of his daughter’s memorial service Friday, as Mayfield focused Renardo Inexperienced earlier than a toe harm pressured him out. The 49ers had no interceptions or fumble recoveries.

RUN DEFENSE: F

This unit proved weak as soon as once more, particularly because the fourth quarter opened with rookie Bucky Irving zipping by for a 12-yard landing run. The 49ers allowed 73 yards to Irving (5.6 yards per carry) whereas White had 31 yards on 10 carries. Bosa, Fred Warner, Maliek Collins and De’Vondre Campbell every had a sort out for a loss. “First half, we stood up and played great defense. In the second half we came up short in some of those areas,” Warner stated. “But to hold them at the end to a field goal and give our offense a chance to win, that’s as grimy as it’s going to get.”

SPECIAL TEAMS: D

Moody’s first profession walk-off winner (44 yards) notoriously got here after three misses, together with a 44-yarder on the 49ers’ previous sequence to immediate Samuel right into a verbal and bodily altercation with Moody and lengthy snapper Pepper, who got here to the second-year kicker’s protection in what may have been a way more damaging scene had the 49ers misplaced. The 49ers additionally favored Jacob Cowing’s mulligan as a punt returner: Darrell Luter was blocked into Cowing on a muffed return that led to the Bucs’ first landing within the third quarter, and Cowing responded with a career-long 30-yard return to arrange Kittle’s fourth-quarter rating. Ronnie Bell appeared to bobble the 49ers’ lone kick return en path to a 23-yard effort.

COACHING: C-

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Kyle Shanahan’s locker-room speech, as posted not less than partially by the 49ers, confirmed his reward for the way they battled and the way Moody confirmed super psychological fortitude. However this recreation was a microcosm of the 49ers’ rocky season with inconsistent manufacturing and errors from all three phases. When a participant (Samuel) confronts a teammate (Moody, then Pepper) with time nonetheless on the clock, that may not occur. Shanahan can downplay that rift to reporters however it was the look of a disjointed staff, not one which professes to have one another’s again. Gamers, coaches and staff executives exited Raymond James Stadium with appears of each disbelief and reduction that they escaped with a win over an undermanned underdog. Now the 49ers head house for a pivotal divisional recreation towards the Seattle Seahawks, who’re 4-5 and coming off their bye.