This is the live blog for the second quarter of the 49ers Week 13 game against the Rams in St. Louis. I’ll update this frequently with information and analysis from my living room.
10:41 On first down, Gore gains about 15 yards up the middle, but Joe Staley is flagged for a hold.
10:43 Kaepernick completes a five yarder to Crabtree on first down and a five yarder to Manningham on second down. On third and ten, Kaepernick dodges two potential sacks and runs out of bounds for a one-yard gain. Andy Lee punts and pins the Rams at their nine yard line.
10:45 The 49ers couldn’t dig themselves out of the first-and-20 hole. Once again, Greg Roman has failed to get Vernon Davis involved early in the passing game. He has not been targeted.
10:49 Sam Bradford hits Kendricks on second and eight for a nine yard gain. Bradford play faked and Kendricks was wide open. Bowman was flagged for holding Givens over the middle, but the Rams declined the penatly. First and 10 at their 21 yard line, and the 49ers take timeout No.1 of the first half.
10:53 On second and nine the Rams are flagged for holding, and they can’t recover. NaVorro Bowman, Ahmad Brooks and Carlos Rogers all made outstanding tackles on the series. The 49ers are not bringing a pass rush. They’re dropping seven and sometimes eight men into coverage and forcing Bradford to throw short passes. Then, the 49ers are tackling the ball carries immediately. The strategy is working so far. The Rams punt 63 yards. The 49ers will start this drive at their 18 yard line.
10:56 On first down, Roman calls the Y-Stick and Kaepernick hits Vernon Davis for a six yard gain. Finally.
10:57 On third and three, from the shotgun, Kaepernick catches a low snap and fires a seven-yard pass to Delanie Walker. First down.
11:00 Next play, Kaepernick hits Crabtree on a slant for an 11-yard gain. Remember that play.
11:01 Gore follows that up by gaining two yards on first down, and then losing two yards on second down. On third and ten, Roman calls the same slant to Crabtree from three plays ago, but Crabtree drops the pass. Andy Lee punts. The 49ers tackle Pettis at the Rams 18 yard line.
11:04 Justin Smith tackles Jackson for a 2-yard loss on first down. On second down, Aldon Smith sacks Bradford, tying the 49ers franchise record qith 17.5 sacks. On third and 18, Bradford hands off to Jackson, and Whitner tackles him after a gain of one. The 49ers have only missed one tackle, I believe.
11:06 The Rams punt. Ginn makes the fair catch at the 49ers 39. The Niners have 2:16 and two timeouts.
11:08 On first down, Kaepernick throws a low pass to Crabtree at the line of scrimmage. The refs say the pass hit the ground, but on television it looked like Crabtree actually caught it. On second and ten, Gore ran up the middle for three yards. The 49ers face third and seven from their 42 yard line after the two minute warning.
11:11 The Rams blitz, Staley gets beat around the edge, Kaepernick gets flushed out of the pocket to the right and fires to Manningham on the sideline, but Manningham can’t catch the pass. Andy Lee punts. Rams ball at their 13 yard line.
11:15 Bradford play fakes and hits a wide open Kendricks in the middle of the field for a 20-yard gain to move the ball into 49ers territory. On third and two, Aldon Smith pressure Bradford, who throws behind his receiver. Incomplete. The Rams are going to a attmpt a 58-yard field goal.
11:17 Zuerlein misses the long field goal wide left. The 49ers get the ball at their 48 yard line with 25 seconds and two timeouts left.
11:20 Kaepernick tries to extend second and third down and takes sacks both times as a result. On fourth and two, Kaepernick drops back and throws the ball out of bounds to kill the clock and send the game to halftime.
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Wheeew
Niners D playing well as expected. Another long drive would be nice.
Md,
This is about to be a blowout!!
+1
come on Staley
Great job Staley.
Come on staley!!
Lets keep it rolling. This kid is good under pressure. VD needs to do a better job today. He’s my boy but he ain’t ballin.
Damn flag! Hey staley instead of whining to the media step up and play! Nice run by Gore
Gore is a beast
Wtf? With these penalties AGAIN!!!!! Never mind. Lol
Send Staley to AZ with Smith to join Snyder!
Dunbar is a target today. I wonder why?
Dink dunk. Dink dunk. Dink dunk.
Discount double check down!
Sacks avoided log
3. Some dude
2 dudes on that play
Rams d line is kicking our pass protections azz!
Horrible line play. After he went whining I don’t know if I’d trust staley to have my back. He sleeps with smith.
Figure it out. There are a lot of dynamics in a locker room that we don’t know about. Do you really think Smith’s teammates hated him like you 49ers “fans” do?
The Rams pass rush is strong, regardless.
lol. right. Some think the same jr. high blog mentality effects these pros.
You don’t go whining about another guy not starting. Figure that out. If these blogs don’t affect players then the media talk shouldn’t either ribico.
JS ruined the drive . AS will not see the field anytime soon. ..get over it JS.
Escapability – Superb. At least that’s 1 sack we KNOW smith would’ve taken.
I count three
I’m maintaining a log, with notations of plays created.
JH conservative offense is being exposed
Yes sir.
One thing that I am noticing the offense in this game is looking very much like the past. No pass protection, droped ball, penalities, nothing new about this.
The red zone touchdown was sort of different.
Poor Akers.
Thats very true lots of times we have been stuffed on that.
Except for the quarterback is thriving despite all of this. The protection is bad but he’s stepping up in the pocket and still looking to make a play downfield before he takes off.
The Niners have the best run blocking line in the NFC, and the most mediocore pass blocking line.
CK playing OK.
Nice play design by the Rams there. Ticky-tack call on Bowman but it didn’t matter.
Here come the Colinscuses. :p
LOl. It’s the locker room Alex faction that pulling the team down now.
Shoe, meet other foot.
?
I don’t get it.
Stick around, you’ll see how it works.
Hopefully not 7 years of excuses. This staff has shown it will move on if the QB isn’t good enough.
Especially since Alexcuses 1 – 10 are not relevent to CK’s situation.
msclemons67 says:
“Hopefully not 7 years of excuses. This staff has shown it will move on if the QB isn’t good enough.”
Exactly. I agree msclemons. They move on…unlike smithers clan members in this thread. lol
No one’s moved on. It’s always *someone* else ‘s problem when the QB falters.
No matter who’s playing :)
Keep em
In that hole DDDD!
Bradford was looking for that deep ball but checked down. Gotta watch out for Givens deep on the play action in this game.
I think the niner offense would really benefit from having Lamicheal James in this game. The niners run offense is going to be really important in this game- They are getting good pressure against the pass.
Too much time to throw, even for Bradford!
By design
The DDDD is ballin!!!!!
Some nice open field takes by the defense.
Tackles
Best in NFL by far
The defense came to play. It looks like teams are scheming more against CK. Roman needs to adjust and ease the game for him.
Come on CK! you can overcome this Staley sabotage!
lol
Lets go! nice long drive here.
Keep throwing it on these bums!
Nice DW
Look at walker. Maybe Kaps throws fits him better
Yeah, they stick to him!!
You can’t replace that Gun!!! Kid throws Lasers!
Pew Pew!
we are missing kh for sure….where’s lmj?
inactive
That’s my QB( tears in eyes!)
Keep moving them chains
Maybe Walker likes the harder pass he has been catching everything.
Am I the only one seeing tons of hands to the helmets and face masks?
And no flags
Yeah, Rams are slamming heads.
C’mon Crabs!
Crabs, catch the ball!
Butterfingers
Drop
A 4 yard pattern when you need 10? I thought Alex wasnt playing this game.
You sound so pathetic right now lol. Really, the best you can do?
You’re right, I shouldn’y try to ape hater posts verbatim.
Oh, the irony.
Adam, irony is too subtle a concept for the hater faction to grasp.
The rams are blitzing almost every pass play. The niners are just trying to get the passes out.
Ribico,
How long are you going to keep your avatar pic?
Heh. You should pose the question to Houston Niner. His player avatar hasn’t been on the team for over 30 years.
Haha truth!
And this dude says “why all of the crap talking” ribico change that picture hater!!!
Notice the only constant crying is coming from ribico and adam every week in the games blog yet blame the other guys for keeping it going. Look at the current blog posts from them in this whole second quarter thread for proof whether its a good play or bad. Niner fans all in? lmao hypocrites! :)
Crying? Heh, just making commentary on the haters commentary. Hater’s commentary that sounds like a 90 proof distillation of “Smithers” on a good day.
All everybody has to do is look at your posts & Adam posts in the second quarter thread. This is good though for later proof of how you guys keep it going with jordan and the others. All these crying passive aggressive posts on game day by you guys about Kap vs. Smith. Every game day thread the last few weeks. People should start saving the links to point to the hypocrisy. lmao! I could care less about the smith haters.
No matter what, Alex is already playing elsewhere. You’ll never see him on the field in a Niner uniform again.
Sir, you reek of the butthurt of a loser. You sound like Mitt Romney talking about all of Obama’s “gifts.”
Alex is done. Say good night, Gracie.
Do it again DDDD!!
Aldon!
Aldon
Aldon is a beast, I don’t know what else to say.
SMITH!!!!!!
Aldon!! The sack master!!
17.5 sacks! Sweet.
All done!!!!!
IT’S NOT HAPPENING. Ha ha haaaaaa.
Kiss the sky, Aldon!
Rams will get nothing today and the will like it!!!!!!
Good field position.
We need 7 more here!
Defense looks great. I am luving it
That’s a catch!!
Bull*hit call. That was a catch and a 1st down
Didn’t like that call. Run the fly sweep, don’t fake it!!!
MC caught that! What the hell ref?
Grant, why were we supposed to remember Crabtree’s 11-yard slant reception?
The 49ers ran the same play on third and 10 three plays later.
Typical – seems to be a favorite play call, but it only works when Crabtree 1) catches the ball, and 2) breaks 19 tackles after the catch.
How about VD over the middle now?
This play calling is becoming predictable. Jimmy Yahoo Raye in the building?
The way this o-line is playing today. We wouldn’t have 7 if smith was playing. They’re getting punked.
Debatable. Rushing yardage made up our scoring drive.
That drive was all rushing!
That makes no sense troll.
It’s what you do to a young qb! You blitz and pressure like there’s no tomorrow! They wouldn’t be doing that to Smith. They would be picking there moments!
Rams getting good pressure on us. Somebody has got to get open deep when Kap rolls out.
Jeff Fisher has a good plan against CK so far.
Come on DDDD!!!
Ram defense is playing with good intensity. Good to have a 7 point lead going into half. They have game planned well for CK7, but I look for us to take complete control in the 2nd half.
Our defense is ‘ballin’ again!
Here we go with this prevent crap
Blown coverage Patrick!
A miss would be great
Watch the fake!
Hail Mary time!!
Nice. Enough time to score here
Offense may be completing more 3rd downs but its contributing to no points. Offense looking bad right now. All this talk about opening the playbook with Kaep, well we not seeing it this half.
707, too much pressure from that d line.
Playcalling is crap!!
You sure you want to say that? They’re out there. They’ll eat that up!
Jordan, honorary “Smither”.
Here’s your badge, son.
Play calling aint that bad so far. O-line need to play a bit better though. Rams are playing good defense and the crowd is fired up. Its gonna be a fist fight to the end.
Theres no way Ted Ginn just made that catch
Bad take ck. look liked Alex
Hail Mary!
Hail Mary alright, right up your a$$!
Cannot take a sack there! C’mon Kap!
Why not? You want a checkdown play? He tried extending the play and look for a deep one downfield. This with seconds remaining at the half.
Checkdown is a good strategy!
Jesus you people are brain dead with the robotic play of the 8-year wonder.
Escapability?
Ha!!!Sooo much better then Smith!!!
Sacked 3 times already!
All I can say is hmmmmmm
I thought Colin was mobile? SMH.
The bitter Smithers are incredibly amusing today.
>>The Smithers are incredibly observant today.
Fixed that for you, clems.
Yup, they are in bitter rare form today. lol!
just waiting for superior stats…10/15 for 75 yards..zero td pass…taking sacks…
As i thot fisher has kaep a bit confused or tentative. Growing pains.
Two sackeroos in a row. CK needs to dump the ball.
Do you seriously understand how clock management works? Seconds left in the half, you try and escape, look downfield for a big play, then kick it between the uprights. Dumping it off isn’t doing them any good 20 secs to halftime.
I believe he means throwing it out of bounds
Clearly you don’t understand. Throw. The. Ball. Away.
C’mon O-line!! Give Kap some time!!
Gotta get rid of the ball there CK7. Give a receiver a chance on a jump ball.
Don’t play like your predecessor or you’ll be replaced too.
What a horses butt performance that half!
eye opening maybe?
This is not what we had in mind when we made the switch. It’s part of the growing pains. They’re just playing a zone.
The good news is CK hasn’t forced anything. Be patient and take what the D gives you. But I think teams figured out to take away the first deep read.
Maybe GR can make the adjustment he made in the Seattle game, when they started to dump it to Gore.
D is playing good.
Pass protection is terrible
Excuse
25 seconds to get 10 yards and a FG. Takes two sacks. Kaep looking lost today. Offense hasn’t looked this bad since NYG.
Play calling too conservative, 2 drops…..O-line sucking. Time for some half time adjustments. Give Kap some time to throw.
In Harbaugh I trust.
Welcome to the Alex Smith world… Drops, conservative, play calling… Wonder how many dump offs Kaep will have today… I hope they make some adjustments for Kaep in the Second half, so he can light it up…
Agreed Crab15. I personally don’t feel we have a 7 point lead if AS starts this game. CK has taken some sacks, but AS would have doubled that.
Todays play calling reminds me of a pre-season game: Conservative! Perhaps saving something for Patriots.
AES Or he would have checked to a better play and got a TD. Dont forget he was 6/7 and a TD las time he played the rams
“tries to extend second and third down and takes sacks both times as a result”
“If Alex Smith had played, he would have been sacked five times.”
How many is that for Colin so far today Grant? I thought extending the play and not getting sacked was one of the reasons he was better then Smith so what gives?
Anger is one of the 5 stages of grief.
You’ll go through bargaining and depression next.
Eventually you’ll accept the fact that Alex is gone.
thats a fair question msc no ned to be bitter. All CK has proven is that he doesn’t suck. the rest is yet to be determined.
We get the ball in the 2nd half. Damn Rams playing us tough on dee! We’ll see the adjustments after half.
Smith would have been sacked 100 times so far this game. /haters
no…probably 200 times at least….lol..
The score would be 3-0 with your buddy. Alex is allergic to red zone TDs.
Yeah, we would have negative points. If Alex was playing.
You mean he would have taken a sack in the endzone, right Ribico?
Whatever it takes to make a hypothetical come true.
They wouldn’t be blitzing Smith like this! Learn football, its what you do to inexperienced qbs. I’m not a hater. This is what I was worried about!
Makes me nervous. we completely dominated the first half and have a 7 pt lead to show for it. need to get the passing game going in the second half and not just on 3rd and long but maybe take a shot on 1st down
The D dominated
Jimmy Johnson is right….Rams D has played lights out.
Our O-line needs to wake up and block. Mike Solari has done a pathetic job of preparing them this week.
2nd half is when it counts. RoboKap will not disappoint.
I watches alex have about 80 games like this…i think we can hang with Kaep for a few
80 games?Are you sure?
With Alex in there Harbaugh simply takes a knee before halftime. With Kaep, they take chances to see if they can hit on a big play. That’s a huge difference.
Wow!
All those great runs. Avoiding the sacks. Accurate passes deep down field. CK sure looks great.
This sucks! The Rams didn’t cross mid-field till 50 seconds were left and all we have to show for it is 7 stinking points on a very AS type drive!
Seems to melike the D of the NFL is starting to figure CK out. This is all on JH. Not CK.
Grant
How many times is AS sacked in this game? I await your A- grade.
It must be tough wondering which team you’ll be rooting for next year.
lol. Since when did bay start posting as DS?
you just hate facts don’t you?
Why do we always play down to level of the rams. We own this team.
We should be blowing them out. How many long passes have we attempted?
We better not lose this game.
Wow!
All those great runs. Avoiding the sacks. Accurate passes deep down field. CK sure looks great.
This sucks! The Rams didn’t cross mid-field till 50 seconds were left and all we have to show for it is 7 stinking points on a very AS type drive! Starting drives at our 40 every time but 1.
Seems to melike the D of the NFL is starting to figure CK out. This is all on JH. Not CK.
Grant
How many times is AS sacked in this game? I await your A- grade.
Yeah this is the 3rd game stinkfest for this team this year. D is playing well.
What the heck is going on with the play-calling? This week was a huge distraction. Not sure if it makes a difference.
CK does not have the hot hand today. It doesn’t look like it.
Not hating. Just saying.
I want CK to air one to Moss!
you are dead on DS…where’s Jordan???
It is strong, the butthurt of the BS.
You Kap haters act like we’re losing………Scoreboard baby!
Not hating on Kap. He’s our guy. And we are going to win this game.
But nothing better that tweaking the hater noses for posts that sound like the last 2 years of smither posts. I thought they were much more advanced than smithers.
It’s a win-win :)
I’ve got to run to the store for some peanut butter and some half and half. Would you like me to get you a tube of Preparation H?
take it easy…7-0?You would be calling for Alex’s head!
I can get some for you, too.
Vegas point spread was Niners -7. Lookin good
No haters here. Yeah but the style points (which got him the job in the first place) arn’t there. And the guy he replaced did just fine on the scoreboard dont u think?
I love the Kap haters. Err, Smithers. No matter what Kap does, we all know Smith would be worse because Kap is better. 1 more TD for us and this game is over.
And a couple more sacks and a turnover and we have trouble!
Kap riding on the backs of the defense? I thought those days were O-V-E-R.
No, Alex still better at pre-snap adjustments
WOW!!you watching same game?
This is great for Kaep. Face adversity and grow.
but is it great for TEAM?
Goldson make a tackle…
BOS49er says:
December 2, 2012 at 11:37 am
AES Or he would have checked to a better play and got a TD. Dont forget he was 6/7 and a TD las time he played the rams
@BOS49er
Or he would have tried to run out of the pocket and sustained another ‘bell-ringer.!” If CK isn’t being given much time to do anything at the moment, what makes you think AS extends plays?
In the shadow of the end zone… do the 49ers take a sack and punt? Nope, they have a real QB now.
Ouch, and then CK follows up with an Alex play.
seems like aldon smith is standing around a lot…..needs more killer instict to always go after the ball, not just slow up when he knows he can’t get a sack on the play?
Is McDonald hurt?
Time to bring in AS to save the day???? Just kidding….but seriously so far a Smith-like performance from Kap time to get things going. Funny though how Jordan is now blaming the offensive line, if Smith were QB he’d only be blaming smith.
Niners a big break there.
Kap here’s your chance….red zone…..3rd and goal no FG please!!!!
we’re missing Hunter today….need the change of pace when Gore can’t seem to get it going….
What a waste of number 85…. Looks straight at 82 all the way…