This is the live blog for the first quarter of the 49ers’ Week 6 road game against the Rams. I will update this frequently with information and analysis from my living room.
5:31 49ers win the toss and defer. Touchback. Rams’ ball at their 20 yard line.
5:34 Austin Davis completes a 42 yard pass to Jared Cook on third-and-five from the Rams’ 25. Cook beat Perrish Cox.
5:35 Dan Skuta sacks Austin Davis, but Ahmad Brooks is flagged for illegal hands to the face. Automatic first down.
5:35 Tavon Austin lines up the backfield and runs up the middle of 8 yards on first down.
5:36 Austin runs up the middle again on second and 2 and gains 2 yards and a first down.
5:37 Davis completes a pass to Tre Mason out of the backfield. Jimmie Ward tackles him at the 49ers’ 5 yard line. First and goal.
5:38 Ian Williams stops Zac Stacy in the back field on first down, but Eric Reid is flagged for illegal contact on second down. First and goal at the 49ers’ 3.
5:40 Davis completes a quick out pass to Austin Pettis on second down. Third and goal from the 1.
5:41 Bennie Cunningham runs off let tackle on third down and scores. 7-0 Rams. 11 play drive. Rams made it look easy. 49ers’ seemed caught off when Tavon Austin ran the ball.
5:45 Brooks’ penalty was a killer. Would have been third and about 15. Dan Skuta was unblocked.
5:46 49ers’ ball at their 20.
5:46 Colin Kaepernick telegraphs a slant pass to Vernon Davis on first down and the Rams almost intercept the pass.
5:47 Vernon Davis is flagged for false start on second down.
5:49 The 49ers go empty backfield on second down and get Stevie Johnson matched up on linebacker JoLonn Dunbar. Johnson beats him on a slant for a 13-yard gain. Next play, Kaepernick throws behind Anquan Boldin on third and two. Incomplete. Andy Lee punts. Tavon Austin returns it to 19 yards to the Rams’ 36. But Janoris Jenkins is flagged for holding. First and 10 at the Rams’ 19.
5:54 Davis takes a shot from Ray McDonald and completes a 16-yard pass to Jared Cook. Antoine Bethea got beat. Next play, Ahmad Brooks sacks Davis for a loss of 7.
5:56 Tavon Austin gains 9 yards on a screen pass on third down and the Rams punt. Ellington lets the ball bounce and it bounces toward the 49ers’ end zone. Chris Cook grabs the ball and runs out of bounds at the 49ers’ 14.
5:58 Let’s see if Greg Roman runs the ball here. Didn’t call one run the first drive.
6:00 Kaepernick runs up in the pocket and hits Boldin for 27 yards on second and 8.
6:01 Next play, Kaepernick completes a pass to Vance McDonald. James Laurinaitis strips him and recovers. Rams’ ball at their 45 yard line.
6:03 Mason up the middle for 24 on first down. Huge hole, and Bethea missed a tackle.
6:04 On third and one from the 49ers’ 22, Davis play fakes, rolls left and hits Lance Kendricks for a touchdown. No one was covering him. 14-0 Rams.
6:08 Touchback. 49ers start at their 20 with 53 seconds left in the first quarter.
6:09 Kaepernick completes a pass to Vernon Davis for 7 yards on first down, and Gore runs a counter to the left for four yards on second-and-three. First-and-10 from the 49ers’ 31 when the second quarter begins.
Rams making it look easy
Brooks has to be the dumbest player on this entire team!
Should be benched
It’s bad when I’m calling 55 for hands to the face before they do
lotta niner fans there
Good tackle by Ward there
it’s gonna be a battle
What’s new???? penalties!!!!
They missed a pretty big hold on that TD…
Yep, I can’t see how they missed that.
Dahl was held on that play the whole time. I assume they’ll let the Niners do that too.
We absolutely need points on this drive!
Mister Harbaw:
what tastes worse than a can of dip…?
this is a gimme question…
That would be a loss to the Rams on Monday night.
Go to work, Colin. No ugly wins tonight…
certainly not before a national audience, hmm?
Our defense looked like a bunch of idiots.
Skuta and Dahl were both bear-hugged to the ground. Refs determined to have a say in this one too, apparently.
That was not just holding, it was an out and out tackle by the pig ram.
Have you learned nothing Kaepernick?
oy
Pleas scrap the slant!!
Did our team decide that this game didn’t matter?
nice! wide open
Nice pass to Johnson.
Good grief.
Sloppy game so far
But great special teams tackle by Reid.
Grant please ask Roman why the continue to run one read slants. So many picked/nearly picked it’s absurd
Niners look undisciplined.
Worst run defense. Can we Please run the ball.
can you even imagine, Colin?
you are down 7-0 to the Rams,
and then you throw a pass,
your first play from scrimmage,
and it could easily have been an
interception. My, my, my.
you are sucking eggs, Kapurnicus.
I’m thankful Davis is back in the lineup. He ran a great route on the slant and the false start was right with his average of 1 per game.
Grant called it. Said only way we lose is if we dont run the ball.
Ahmad Brooks is not done yet
Brooks, the good and the bad!
Good stop D, thanks to Brooks!
Impressive sack by Brooks…where has that guy been all year?
Run the football.
We got lucky on the Brooks sack. He hit the QB in the head and the refs didn’t call it.
Brooks just likes hitting the helmet. …..did you see him slap the qb with his hand?
Nice Kap!
Wish Kap was as cool in the pocket as he was there all th etime
Great job of turning a negative into a positive Kaep!
that sucks we were moving
Great! Good play McDonald! You idiot!
And then McDonald coughs up the rock. Ugh!
Damn, let’s not let them believe! !!
We’re definitely in danger of letting the Rams take over the momentum here. Need the D to put an end to that.
Vance finally decides to catch the ball… and that happens
We’ll be drafting a TE in round 2 or 3 next year. Being a good blocker as a TE is not enough in today’s NFL.
So far Bethea is horrible tonight!
What the heck is wrong with the defense?!
Geez
Rams making us look like fools
For the love of…even I saw that one coming.
Too many mistakes. Mistakes are killing this team: false starts, hand to the face, fumbles, ineligible player…etc etc.
Wow…smh
This team is not prepared at all!
Sleep walking
Fangio’s game plan is trash so far
Has McDonald done anything in 2years?
Shhhhh. Some on here are still talking about how great Baalke is in his draft. Carrier seems like only TE worth a grain of salt
Where are the double moves?
They loaded the box on that play and we ran it and still got the first down. RuN THE BALL
Fame is fleeting and new stars are born! The Rams QB was assisting a high school coach last year and now . . .
Rams: 150 yards in the first quarter.
good push by g-c-g
Catch that Davis!
I keep telling you guys about Vernon Davis!
Too many mistakes. Mistakes are killing this team: false starts, hand to the face, fumbles, ineligible player…etc etc. and now a dropped ball. Lack of concentration…
A case of where the 49ers believed their own press clippings.
Need 8 yards. Throw for 5.
Other teams have good players and coaches too, but I hate losing due to mindless football.
What the hell is culver doing?
The Rams are channeling their old Greatest Show on Turf at the moment.
It’s time to put our much acclaimed offensive weapons to work.
Thought we came in too overconfident, and perhaps thought we could walk thru the rams. Time to turn it on. Mistakes and penalties are keeping us from building momentum.
Bad play by Kap. Why throw to Davis when he’s short of the sticks and hardly ever fights for extra yardage? Gotta be smarter than that KAP. You’re getting good protection. Make better decisions.
Can we clean it up guys. Do the basics run. Catch. Tackle. We look unstoppable with the exception of beating ourselves.
Are you kidding me?!
Great rush Skuta.
Skuta is playing out of his mind!
Skuta is Ballin!!!
Boldin understands something GRo apparently doesn’t. Why aren’t we running the ball?!
Mistakes are ruining the flow of the offense. We are going into the bye week. Why is there such an urgency to get VD going. We not running , we are not passing well.
Now we are pressing.
One team looks like a playoff contender, and another team thinks its a playoff contender
I hope to see more lynch on the blitzes. Whilhoit keeps over running the plays. Culliver looked like he tried to two hand touch on that completion. Austin Davis looks as good as he did coming in.