The 49ers were without both starting quarterback Brock Purdy, & tight end George Kittle, but it was Mac Jones & the defense stepping up, with the 49ers beating the Saints 26-21 to move to 2-0.<\/p>\n
Jones went 26\/39 for 279 passing yards, along with 3 passing touchdowns, along with 6 carries for 6 rushing yards, but a majority of those were kneel downs to end the game.<\/p>\n
Christian McCaffrey led the way rushing with 55 rushing yards on 13 carries, along with 52 receiving yards on 6 catches, including a receiving touchdown, while Brian Robinson Jr. had 20 rushing yards on 6 carries.<\/p>\n
Receiving wise Jauan Jennings led the way with 89 receiving yards on 5 catches, including a 42-yard touchdown catch & run, while Ricky Pearsall had 56 receiving yards on 4 catches.<\/p>\n
Kendrick Bourne had 3 catches for 32 receiving yards, while last weeks hero Jake Tonges had 31 receiving yards on 4 catches, and Luke Farrell had 2 catches for 15 receiving yards, including a receiving touchdown, his first of his career.<\/p>\n
Kyle Juszcyzk had 1 catch for 5 receiving yards, but left the game with a concussion, while the 49ers also lose starting left guard Ben Bartch, but rookie 7th-round pick Connor Colby filled in nicely, to the point where the pass blocking got better.<\/p>\n
Defensive wise, Fred Warner led the way with 11 tackles, followed by Nick Bosa with 9 tackles, Dee Winters with 8 tackles, Marques Sigle had 6 tackles, & Renardo Green, Upton Stout & Mykel Williams each had 5 tackles.<\/p>\n
Bryce Huff & Deommodore Lenor had 4 tackles each, while Jason Pinnock, & Luke Gifford had 2 tackles each.<\/p>\n
The 49ers had 3 sacks, 1 each by Bosa, Stout, & Huff, whose sack sealed the game for the 49ers on a 4th & 2 play.<\/p>\n
TFL wise, the 49ers ended up with 7, 2 by Williams, & 1 each for Warner, Bosa, Stout, Huff, & Lenoir.<\/p>\n
PBU wise, the 49ers had 3, 1 each for Warner, Green, & Ji’Ayir Brown.<\/p>\n
Special teams wise, new place kicker Eddy Pi\u00f1eiro went 2\/2, with a long of 46-yards, along with 2 extra points, but missed the first extra point, but he was perfect afterwards, while Thomas Morstead had 4 punts for 173-yards, with 2 of them being inside the 20-yard line, Isaac Guerendo had 2 kick returns for 47-yards, and Skyy Moore had 1 punt return for 1-yard, but that was a punt that nearly landed out of bounds.<\/p>\n
Next up for the 49ers is their home opener against the Arizona Cardinals next Sunday from Levi’s Stadium at 4:25pm eastern\/1:25pm pacific, and will be on FOX.<\/p>\n
As always, thank you for reading, you can follow me on X\/Twitter @49erscap<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0& on Blue Sky App @49erscap.bsky.social<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 49ers were without both starting quarterback Brock Purdy, & tight end George Kittle, but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,137,110,3,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-exclusive","category-game-review","category-player","category-roster","category-team-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":35,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43876,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43874\/revisions\/43876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}