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The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The team plays its home games at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, which is located 38 miles (61 km) southeast of San Francisco in the heart of Silicon Valley. Since 1988, the 49ers have been headquartered in Santa Clara. The name “49ers” comes from the prophets who arrived in Northern California in the Gold Rush of 1849.
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Who will the draft in 2016
One could argue that it takes three years for any NFL Draft pick or class to reach the point where it can be properly assessed.
If that’s the case, the San Francisco 49ers’ 2016 draft class certainly fell short of expectations.
Recently, I took part in a site-wide FanSided retrospective on the 2016 NFL Draft, breaking down the final class selection and overall impression put into the final by former general manager Trent Balke.
2016 was a really bad year, of course, with the Niners finishing 2-14, ousting both Balke and one-and-a-half head coach Chip Kelly by the end of the year.
And in terms of what the team was doing after a massive roster decline from last year, one would have expected that the 2016 draft would have provided San Francisco with some much-needed talent.
Outside of Pro Bowl defensive tackle DeForest Buckner, there wasn’t much to brag about.
Colts score
Colts coach Frank Reich was not one to make the same mistake twice.
After being burned by a conservative third-down run call after losing at the hands of Baltimore two weeks earlier, Reich put the ball in the hands of Carson Wentz this time around – and it paid off.
Wentz threw a 28-yard TD pass to Michael Pittman Jr. to end the San Francisco 49ers in a rain-soaked 30-18 win on Sunday night.
Instead of playing for a field goal the way he did late against the Ravens, which contributed to an overtime loss, Reich remained aggressive even in treacherous conditions.
“I thought there was something about the Ravens learning a lesson from the game,” he said. “We had third and -8 and I called a run. I told people, ‘I’m not going to do that again. I’m throwing a pass.’ I don’t care what anyone says. It really comes from trusting your quarterback and trusting your receivers.”
Wentz and Pittman earned that confidence, delivering several big plays during a driving rainstorm that could throw deep hard.
Pittman had four catches and one touchdown for 105 yards. He also drew two other pass interference calls as Wentz repeatedly looked to his direction as the Colts (3–4) overcame wet conditions and lost four games after a 0–3 start in a nine-point opening deficit. Won for the third time. Season.
Jonathan Taylor said of Pittman, “It’s like he just kind of goes into Beast mode.” “When the ball is in his hand, he is like, ‘No one is stopping me.’ And if the ball is in the air, he’s like, ‘This ball is mine, or this is a pi. This is my ball.'”
The 49ers (2-4) dropped their fourth straight game and remained without a win at home for more than a year since defeating the Rams on October 18, 2020, as quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo’s return to the wet night sparked no failed to provide.
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Two years after co-founding the Packers with Curly Lambeau, George Calhoun began writing a piece called The Dope Sheet, which served as the official press release and game program from 1921–24.
Honoring Calhoun, the first publicity director, the Packers are rolling out this weekly feature as their release, being made available exclusively to fans on Packers.com.
A complete version of the Dope Sheet will be available each week during the season in PDF format located at Packers.com Game Center.*
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD DOPE SHEET (PDF)
Notable stories from this week:
-Two equally matched clubs that have taken the same up and down streets in 2006 in what is expected to be a damp monster park.
-For the sixth consecutive road game in the series, the Packers made a late-season trip to San Francisco. Each of the last five meetings in City by the Bay has come on or after November 29. Three of these matches were in the playoffs.
-Including the playoffs, Green Bay has defeated the 49ers in five consecutive meetings, and in 10 of its previous 11 appearances. The only loss in the stretch was an example of a game-changing blunder in Mike Holmgren’s last game as Packers coach in the 1998 playoffs, for which league owners changed the rules this spring.
-Mike McCarthy returns to San Francisco to face the 49ers, the team for which he was offensive coordinator in 2005, the first offensive coordinator of Mike Nolan’s tenure. Two of the Packers’ last four head coaches, including Holmgren, hired by Ron Wolf in 1992, came to Green Bay shortly after serving as 49ers offensive coordinators.
