Colin Kaepernick Stats, Contract, Highlight & Salary: 49ers QB's Impressive Play Leads Win Over Rams
- Nens Bolilan
- Oct 15, 2014 09:32 AM EDT
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You can call that 31-17 victory divine intervention, after the San Francisco 49ers were kept at nil against the St. Louis Rams' 14 points for a time in the first quarter of Monday Night Football at Edward Jones Dome, Oct. 13.
The game's turnaround came when Brandon Lloyd and Colin Kaepernick connected late in that quarter, delivering a bunch of points from that impressive 80-yard touchdown and finally cutting the gap to just 14-10, SB Nation said.
San Francisco, now 4-2, then scored 24 unabated points, effectively shutting the door on home team St. Louis, 1-4, it added. The 49ers were led by Kaepernick's 343 yards and three touchdowns, and headed to the second half with quality football, even with big-time injuries listed on both ends of the ball.
Meanwhile, St. Louis fell apart after starting off as though they would rip the 49ers apart at night's end, SB Nation observed. They coincidentally crumbled with the 80-yard conversion and have not recovered from it, managing only a late field goal to get to 17.
According to an SF Gate article, that evening was just Kaepernick's "magic Monday," also noting that his tosses for three touchdowns went down in 15 minutes of play. Kaepernick also completed 22 of 36 passes, it added further, the highlight 80-yard completion being his longest.
"I think he's good all the time," San Francisco head coach Jim Harbaugh told SF Gate, about his star player. "He's done it, and done it and done it. And he keeps doing it, and doing it and doing it."
Trailing 14-3 after 29 minutes on missed tackles, a couple of penalties and a turnover that was reflected on the scoreboard as a Rams touchdown, the Kaepernick-Lloyd team effort "definitely gave us momentum and then we were just talking about coming back and keeping it," Harbaugh told the report.
"We knew [we] were getting the ball back offensively. [I] thought that was going to be an important drive," the coach told the report, and Kaepernick delivered more.
With 14-10, Kaepernick was the main player in an 80-yard march, finishing a 12-play set by showing off his right arm, said SF Gate. In the third quarter, he made a throw to Anquan Boldin for a 17-14 lead, said Bleacher Report.
"I've done drills with a lot of quarterbacks through the years and nobody plays like this guy does... Can't really attribute to any drills or any practice. He's got a way," his coach told the SF Gate report.
Perhaps the 49ers are getting what they signed up for when they struck a $126-million deal for Kaepernick's loyalty to the team from 2014 to 2020, including an NFL-record $61 million guaranteed, per Baltimore Sun.
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