San Francisco 49ers News and Rumors
49ers get date with road demons in dome49ers get date with road demons in dome [...] before they can visit the Superdome in New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII and end an 18-year quest, they will travel to Atlanta for an NFC Championship Game that provides a chance to confront demons and chase … |
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The Falcons will surely defend the 49ers' rushing attack in the NFC title game better than the Packers did, but Andrew Perloff still feels Colin Kaepernick and Co. will head to the Super Bowl. |
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Judy Battista, nytimes.com A preview of the N.F.C. championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Atlanta Falcons. |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Last night’s game in San Francisco was a pretty good one, especially for the home team. But 92 folks who paid for tickets left prematurely, and involuntarily. According to the Associated Press, 92 fans were ejected during the 49ers’ 45-31 victory ov… |
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Matt Loede, 49ersgab.com In the wake of San Francisco’s 45-31 victory over the Green Bay Packers in Saturday night’s NFC divisional playoff, 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s touchdown celebration of flexing his right arm and kissing his bicep has taken off on social med… |
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Don Banks, CNNSI.com FOXBORO, Mass. -- Musings, observations and the occasional insight as the most riveting weekend of NFL playoff action in memory winds to a breathless close.... |
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Quick Take: 49ers at FalconsJan 13
Five things to know about the San Francisco 49ers' matchup against the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday in the Georgia Dome: 1. QB matchup. The 49ers' Colin Kaepernick ranked third and the Atlanta Falcons' Matt Ryan ranked fourth i… |
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Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com Mayors of rival cities make cities make light-hearted bets on the outcome of sporting events all the time. Just yesterday the Packers-49ers game had chocolates, cheese curds, sparkling wine, "a free admission day to the Children's Museum" and … |
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John Clayton, ESPN.com The Falcons and 49ers found vindication while winning their way into the NFC Championship Game. |
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Jay Busbee, yahoo.com Man, life is tough for a kicker. You get all the blame (and death threats) for losses when you miss a game-winner; you fight for your job with every single soccer player/college kicker/donkey who wanders into camp; and since you're not a hulking physica… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The Packers left San Francisco as 45-31 losers to the 49ers and members of the Colin Kaepernick admiration society. Watching Kaepernick light up the defense for 263 passing yards and 181 rushing yards, the most ever by an NFL quarterback, left the archi… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Green Bay receivers Donald Driver and Greg Jennings both acknowledged in the locker room following Saturday’s loss to the 49ers that they might have played their last games with the Packers. The 37-year-old Driver caught just eight passes in 2012, and i… |
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Michael Crabtree makes a playoff splash On Saturday, in his second whirl across the grand playoff stage, Crabtree wore large, dark sunglasses to his postgame news conference. Colin Kaepernick will command most of the headlines, but Crabtree carved out h… |
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Packers offense shut down in 2nd half Aaron Rodgers, the Chico kid, has been looking forward to playing here against the San Francisco 49ers for a long time, especially after his favorite team while growing up bypassed him in the 2005 NFL draft. Kaepern… |
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Justin Smith, arm in brace, makes an impact In his first game since sustaining a significant injury to his left arm 27 days earlier, 49ers defensive tackle Justin Smith had five tackles and routinely displayed his trademark bull rush in a 45-31 division… |
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49ers' defense trails offense, for once The grind-it-out, defensive team we've come to know over the past two seasons morphed into an offensive juggernaut in Saturday's 45-31 playoff win over the Packers, making more records than Motown. The Niners' D e… |
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NFC PLAYOFFS: 49ERS VS. PACKERS / Game review With his running (181 yards) and throwing (263), Kaepernick was involved in 444 of the 49ers' 579 yards, a franchise playoff record, and four of the six touchdowns. Defense N Packers quarterback Aaron Rodger… |
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SAN FRANCISCO -- That settles that. Saturday night proved beyond any doubt that Colin Kaepernick is the best quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, and resoundingly so. Better than Alex Smith? Time to aim higher. Kaepernick was better than Green Bay's… |
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Doug Farrar, yahoo.com Through his two seasons as the San Francisco 49ers' head coach, Jim Harbaugh has espoused a theory of offensive football that seems to go against the NFL grain. While many teams were heading in a pass-first direction, Harbaugh stuck to his guns, believi… |
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SF 49ers run all over Packers, 45-31 Harbaugh climbed out of a UFO two years ago and took the 49ers' job, and turned San Francisco's bumbling losers into instant winners. The 49ers play for the NFC title next Sunday against either the Seahawks in San Fr… |
