49ers Dominate Jaguars 34-3 To End A 3-game Skid And Look Like Super Bowl Contenders Again

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.: Brock Purdy threw three landing passes, together with a 66-yarder to George Kittle, and the San Francisco 49ers seemingly mounted all their woes with a cross-country journey and a 34-3 drubbing of the Jacksonville Jaguars that ended a three-game skid Sunday.

Deebo Samuel returned from a three-game absence and added a 23-yard scoring run for the 49ers (6-3), who stopped Jacksonville’s five-game successful streak and reestablished themselves as a Super Bowl contender following a bye week.

San Francisco dominated each traces of scrimmage and managed the sport from the opening drive. The Niners ran for 147 yards towards one of many league’s high run defenses and sacked Trevor Lawrence 5 instances. Nick Bosa was a menace all recreation, and newly acquired defensive finish Chase Young acquired in on one of many sacks.

The Jaguars (6-3), in the meantime, embarrassed themselves at each flip and regarded nothing like a legit playoff contender. They had a five-possession stretch through which they fumbled, kicked a area objective, threw an interception, fumbled and threw one other interception. Lawrence was answerable for three of the staff’s 4 turnovers.

It was Jacksonville’s worst dwelling loss since a 45-10 blowout to the Los Angeles Chargers in 2019.

Kittle completed with three catches for 116 yards. Christian McCaffrey completed with 142 whole yards, however his streak of consecutive video games with a TD ended at 17 video games, together with the playoffs.

He was tied with Lenny Moore for the NFL report, and the Niners tried to get him the mark by giving him the ball or focusing on him on 5 consecutive performs in a 31-point recreation whereas different starters had been eliminated.

Purdy accomplished 19 of 26 passes for 296 yards, giving method to Sam Darnold within the fourth with a 148.9 QB ranking. Purdy’s first TD move was a shaky one to Brandon Aiyuk into double protection, however he was significantly better the remainder of the sport.

Purdy threw 5 INTs in the course of the staff’s three-game skid, however vowed to have higher ball safety popping out of the bye. It absolutely helped that Samuel and All-Pro left deal with Trent Williams had been again within the lineup.

After scoring 17 factors in every of their three losses, San Fran topped the 30-point mark for the sixth time this season — most within the NFL.

KIRK’S MISCUES

Jaguars receiver Christian Kirk had three performs he’d absolutely prefer to have again. Kirk overthrew operating again Travis Etienne on a trick play within the second quarter, let a punt bounce that ended up getting downed on the 1-yard line on the following possession and fumbled within the third quarter.

The incompletion was worse. Kirk took a pitch from tight finish Evan Engram and had Etienne broad open down the sideline. He led him means too far and ended up getting Etienne hit by Charvarius Ward on the finish of the play. Kirk instantly shouldered blame for the overthrow.

He nonetheless led the staff with six catches for 104 yards.

KEY INJURIES

49ers: DT Arik Armstead injured his proper ankle within the first half however returned just a few performs later.

Jaguars: Returner Jamal Agnew injured his left shoulder damage within the first half and didn’t return. CB Tyson Campbell re-injured a hamstring early within the second half.

UP NEXT

49ers host Tampa Bay subsequent Sunday.

Jaguars host Tennessee subsequent Sunday.

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