49ers & Falcons go toe to toe in O.T. thriller

by Herbert_07078 | 5 years ago | 1 Comments

A thriller of a game if you're into high scoring affairs. The Forty-Niners, fighting for their play off lives.The Falcons, who are out of contenttion, jumped out to an early lead with a 5 yard touchdown run by Donte Freeman. The 49ers returned the favor and tied the game with a beautiful 35 yard run for a touchdown by Brieda. The San Francisco "Gold Rush" defense then held the Falcons on a goal line stand and held them to a field goal. That's when the 49er offense started to roll. Atlanta defense did a fairly good job all day against the run. Matt Brieda led the corp of runningbacks with 53 yards. They did manage to out rush the Falcons 93 yards to 48. The San Francisco defense denied Donte Freeman any slack, smothering him for the most part. San Francisco was able to jump out to a 21 -13 point lead at halftime. Neither teams could muster much in the third. San Francisco manging only a field goal.

In the 4th quarter Julio Jones and Matt Ryan came firing back, out scoring the Forty-Niners 25 to 14. The Falcons tied the game up late and here we go into over time. Atlanta winning the toss and electing to recieve, drove down into Forty-Niner territory and a Matt Bryant field goal put the Falcons up. Jimmy Garoppolo and Emmanuel Sanders came up big all day long, but it was HB Tevin Coleman who hauled in the winning 3 yard touchdown.

All in all it came down to the two number one wide receivers, Julio Jones and Emmanuel Sanders. With a display of spectacular route running and stick to your hand receptions.  Sanders put on a receiving clinic with 11 catches for 228 yards. 41 yards of run after catch. Not to be out done, Julio Jones erupted in the second half, starting with a 90 yard touchdown reception. ending the day with slightly less than Sanders at 224 yards. 141yards of that was run after catch!

Although, neither quarterback were slouches. Garoppolo ended the day 29 of 38 for 415 yards and 4 touch downs. A passer rating of 146.2. Matt Ryan, although sacked 4 times, went a respectable 29 of 39 for 518 yards and a 141.7 passer rating !