Morning Tailgate: Oct. 2
Posted by on October 2, 2012 – 10:48 AM
The San Francisco 49ers helped and hurt an astounding league-wide statistic last week in New Jersey.
According to a release sent out by the National Football League early Tuesday morning, teams scored 699 points in Week 4, bringing the season total to 2,986 points – the most points scored through the first four weeks of a season and the most of any four-week stretch in NFL history.
The San Francisco 49ers offense contributed mightily to the output, producing 34 points against the New York Jets. Conversely, the defensive unit made sure the point total wasn’t any higher with a shutout performance.
Through Week 4, teams have combined to score 47.40 points per game, the highest average through Week 4 since 1970. Last season, team’s averaged 45.56 combined points during the opening four weeks of NFL action.
The NFL also notes that teams have combined to score 327 touchdowns through Week 4, the most ever in the first quarter of the NFL’s season.
SI.com’s Peter King lists the 49ers as his No. 3 team in his NFL power rankings. Kings: “Niners 34, Jets 0: Most dominant game by any team in the first four week of the season.”
ESPN.com’s NFL writers voted San Francisco as the league’s fourth-best team through four weeks.
Cam Inman of the San Jose Mercury News offers grades from the 49ers win in New York, including rave views for the coaching staff. Inman on Jim Harbaugh’s staff: “Bravo, bravo. The glowing reviews for this off-Broadway show were much needed. Creativity emerged with the WildKap offense, which complemented a brute-force running game. Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio had his unit totally dialed into the Jets’ play calls. Grade: A.”
FoxSports.com lists the 49ers impressive win as one of the biggest takeaways from Week 4. “You know about Frank Gore and Randy Moss. But Sunday marked the official coming-out parties for 49ers backup QB Colin Kaepernick (No. 7), newly acquired wideout Mario Manningham and backup running back Kendall Hunter. Kaepernick played the “Tebow” role the Jets brass likely dreams the real Tim Tebow could play, running the ball five times for 50 yards and a touchdown and nearly connecting with Moss on another score late in the second quarter. The 49ers’ offense has a lot of tricks in its bag. And we haven’t even seen rookie running back LaMichael James yet. The D’s great. The offense is darn good, too.”
49ers.com looked at the team’s recently created new workout facility.
Seats for the new Santa Clara Stadium are on sale for the general public.
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Tags: Colin Kaepernick, Frank Gore, Jed York, Jim Harbaugh, Kendall Hunter, Randy Moss
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By bow53 on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
server on break???????
By bow53 on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
so frustrating here just wanna coment on the up coming game….
By rjdniner on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
Let’s see from what ive seen of the BILLS there a team as always you must get totally prepared for, Fitzpatrick is a fairly descent QB, so when they show the stick from the blimp nothing but red is what I what am going to see.
By 11yearswithalex on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
poof nice one hey yorks and front office i hope these new web guys are not the ones doing the new stadium …they bl0w worse than before and that is bad
By 11yearswithalex on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
wow so real football talk gets poofed and when the talk goes to how bad the website is oh all of a sudden hey that one opos up lol
By 11yearswithalex on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
lol worked again ok lets see website can be done a lot better ….now i hope the defense keeps it up so the alex can claim more victories to his stats lol ……bring on kaepernick ill wait 2 years of check downs from him …he is looking better and better and alex looks the same as when he got here …lokk at his first games he looks and does the same things …sad really all those millions and still the same after 7 years ….what CEO would not get fired for 4 that debocle….nice hire cut the cord and stop the bleeding alex needs to step aside and let the niners blow out the league and set the standard with the kaepernick show
By 11yearswithalex on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
see it went through lol too funny …….go niners …hire a new web guy again this one is no better even worse actually
By garygolfer on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
blog: pay attention to last 4 posts. this guy knows what he is talking about, see all the thumbs up?? LOL.
By rjdniner on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
11yrs you keep beating that same old drum, answer this how long have you been watching the 49er, s …
By 9erdog on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
one game at a time, first we win our division then home field
through out the p[layoffs. and nothing will come easy! What I’m hoping for is for us to make it throughout the season without injures, and to peak a couple a games before the end of the season. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONINERS!
By abrahamer on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
9erdog u and me both !!! GOOOOOO NINERS !!!
By abrahamer on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
RJD ur giving 11-j too much credit for having ever actually “watched” the niners
By 49erdefense2012 on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
dude,,,
By 49erdefense2012 on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
if kaepernick was as good as you think he is,wouldnt coach harbaugh have him in there already?
By 49erdefense2012 on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
kap is still taking too long setting up his feet when throwing from the pocket
By 49erdefense2012 on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
and untill he gets the hang of that,,,,,,,,,,,,,you’ll just have to keep wishing your raiders didnt suck so bad
By 49erdefense2012 on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
but, seriously, thats kap’s on-going problems. the kid can spin it,but he has to be on the move,keeping his feet striding, when he plants his feet to throw,,,BOOM,, too much shoulder, equating to late throws,,,see randy moss before the triple coverage caught up to him
By 49erdefense2012 on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
alex may lack certain things, but he can make plays from the pocket,as can tolzien, kap on the other hand,,well, lets just say, he has to learn more than the pistol formation to succeed at this level,,the wild-cat formations lasted how long again ???
By trueninerfan on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
J-11 loves to be called an Idiot, he keeps saying the same thing over and over and over, and we keep calling him an Idiot, well J-11 you got what you asked for again, your an Idiot. Hey J-11, who would you rather have…Romo or Alex???
By trueninerfan on Oct 2, 2012 | Reply
Your a Cowgirl fan aren’t you, cause no Niner fan is that stupid. Go back to your Cowgirl site and let the big boys talk…LOL
By trueninerfan on Oct 3, 2012 | Reply
What are Defensive coordinators going to do when we let Lemichael James and AJ Jenkins onto the field….can’t wait
By rjdniner on Oct 3, 2012 | Reply
Some time back I mention that I wished that we could have gotten Dalton, because of his pro style at TCU a lot you thought I was NUTS and now you see why …..i wanted Dalton ..
By bow53 on Oct 3, 2012 | Reply
thats right 9erdog one game at a time, we keep doing what were doing then the playoffs will come naturally….
By bow53 on Oct 3, 2012 | Reply
ha.. i got that thru………..i want to say more but server sometimes noozing?????
By rjdniner on Oct 3, 2012 | Reply
Everyone of my comments are posted no problems .
By 49erdefense2012 on Oct 3, 2012 | Reply
sick & tired of seeing the final score of last years NFC championship game EVERY time I open the 49ers homepage to go to the morning tailgate blog
By 9erdog on Oct 3, 2012 | Reply
had to do all kinds to get here! had to goto History on my tool bar to get this to open!, strange, I’d say! Its like I had to come in the back door!
By rjdniner on Oct 3, 2012 | Reply
Are you sure you’re on the right blog site?
And you’re the only one that’s said anything about it ,I even tried to find it .
By 49erdefense2012 on Oct 3, 2012 | Reply
I would like to extend my apologies to taylor price and the 49ers webmasters for my comlaining about last yrs nfc champ. game score always being on my home page,,,it was an old favorites link that has now been over-written, thanks for the response in my private inbox, you guys are very kool,,oh and by the way, please keep jeromy and 11years with alex off here,,,,LOL,,,