What we learned as 49ers’ blunders bring loss vs. Vikings originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
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MINNEAPOLIS — The 49ers did not have to play a perfect game to emerge from Week 2 with a victory over the Minnesota Vikings.
Instead, the 49ers played a perfectly awful brand of football with an abundance of errors across the board.
The 49ers could get little going on offense, and defense and special teams had their share of breakdowns in a 23-17 loss to the Vikings on Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium.
The 49ers’ record drops to 1-1 after their impressive 2024 NFL season-opening victory over the New York Jets.
The organization’s streak of futility on the road continued Sunday against the Vikings.
The 49ers have not won in Minnesota since 1992, a streak that now includes eight consecutive losses.
Here are the takeaways from the 49ers’ loss:
Breakdowns Across The Board
The 49ers did themselves no favors while digging a 10-point hole in the first half. And they found it difficult to get back in the game due to even more miscues.
Special teams and defense allowed two huge plays that forced the 49ers to try to dig out of hole for most of the game.
The first breakdown occurred at the end of the team’s second possession of the game.
Vikings special-teamer C.J. Ham blasted through hole on the right side between Robert Beal and protector George Odum to block Mitch Wishnowsky’s punt.
Trishton Jackson scooped up the loose ball and returned it 37 yards to the 49ers’ 24-yard line. The Vikings settled for a field goal for the first points of the game.
Minnesota extended the lead to 10-0 early in the second quarter when quarterback Sam Darnold and Justin Jefferson, the highest-paid wide receiver in the NFL, exploited 49ers safeties Odum and Ji’Ayir Brown for a 97-yard touchdown.
It was the longest play the 49ers’ defense has allowed in franchise history, replacing a 96-yard pass play in the organization’s inaugural NFL season of 1950.
The blocked punt was the first…
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Publish date : 2024-09-16 00:14:24
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