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| Clay Matthews spoke all week about hitting the QB. He forgot you can't hit him out of bounds during Sunday's playoff rematch with the 49ers. |
Cory Puffett
San Francisco’s coaching staff banned Colin Kaepernick from
running during the preseason and most of training camp. It certainly seemed to
help Sunday afternoon as he kicked off his first full season as a starting
quarterback with an impressive performance with 412 passing yards. It was his
first game with 300+ passing yards, and he became just the fifth quarterback in
the Super Bowl era to throw for 400 passing yards, 3 touchdowns and no picks in
a season opener.
Green Bay had a tough game as they tried very hard to
establish the run but couldn’t get much going against San Francisco’s stingy
front seven. Aaron Rodgers had a solid game and Jordy Nelson was fantastic,
answering everybody’s questions concerning his time off after knee surgery a
month and change ago.
Unfortunately, a late hit out of bounds by Clay Matthews,
followed by an error by the officiating crew in replaying a down on offsetting
penalties led directly to a San Francisco touchdown that helped keep this game
just out of Green Bay’s reach. In most situations, offsetting penalties result
in a replay of the previous down, but when the penalties both occur after the
play, it is a dead ball foul and the down still counts. It should have been
fourth down for San Francisco.
But in football, you have to overcome errors. You prefer not
to have to overcome officiating errors, but occasionally it happens. The
Packers failed to overcome, just as they failed to cover Anquan Boldin who
hauled in 13 passes for over 200 yards in the opener.
San Francisco is looking to return to the Super Bowl this
year, and they took a nice first step on Sunday.
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