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49ers overreactions: Does Super Bowl pressure have team on the fritz? originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
The 49ers opened the second half of the 2024 NFL season with a crucial victory Sunday on the road over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
So all’s good in 49erland, right?
Well, not exactly.
Yes, the 49ers came away with a 23-20 victory over the Buccaneers, but it was another of their patented cliffhangers.
The 49ers should have pulled away and left no doubt. Instead, they had to get out of their own way several times en route to the victory.
And that leaves the fan base with plenty of fodder for reactions and overreactions.
Such as …
Kyle Shanahan is far too happy to settle for a field goal on 4th and short. As the rest of the league gets more aggressive, “conservative Kyle” is just as much to blame as Moody for taking long field goals over going for it. (briansedel)
Overreaction? Not entirely.
The chart says to go for it. That seems to be the consensus any time a team faces a fourth-and-manageable situation.
The 49ers rank near the bottom of the league when it comes to going for it on fourth down. Of course, that stat would mean a lot more if the top six teams in fourth-down aggressiveness weren’t Cleveland, Chicago, Dallas, the New York Giants, Carolina and Jacksonville.
Those are six awful teams.
The 49ers are 3-of-7 on fourth-down conversions on the season.
The five other teams that have run fourth-down plays seven or fewer times are Baltimore, Green Bay, Tampa Bay, Minnesota and the Los Angeles Chargers. That’s certainly better company than those other teams.
On Sunday, Shanahan made the correct choices to attempt field goals on fourth-down plays with yards to go of 9, 3, 15, 5 and 7 yards.
The fourth-and-3 situation was from the Tampa Bay 31-yard line with 29 seconds remaining in the first half. That one is debatable because of the time remaining in the first half. Even if they got the first down, they might have ended up settling for a field-goal attempt,…
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Author : NBC Sports BayArea
Publish date : 2024-11-12 18:27:28
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