49ERS FIND NO CONTEST IN ATLANTA : NOW IT'S TIME TO BRACEFOR UPSTART CAROLINA SAN FRAN. 34, ATLANTA 10.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Steve Young flashed that look and the San Francisco 49ers Young, fully recovered from two concussions and a groin strain that hampered him most of the season, ran and passed the 49ers to a 34-10 rout of the Atlanta Falcons abbr. National Football Conference West showdown with Carolina next weekend. Young showed off his trademark running ability, sprinting for a pair of touchdowns. And he wasn't afraid to stick his head into the pile, enduring a couple of vicious hits for a few extra yards. ``I kept telling him, `Man, why don't you slide sometimes?' '' fullback William Floyd
William Floyd said. ``He looked at me like, `I'm Steve Young. This is the way I play.' When he gives you that look, you know everything is going to be OK.'' Young had touchdown runs of 26 and 5 yards in the first half, threw a scoring pass on the 49ers' first possession of the third quarter and then spent the rest of the night on the bench. His final numbers were vintage Young: 23 of 30 for 254 yards passing and six carries for 43 yards. ``When I suit up now, I'm able to play the way I want to play and throw the way I want to throw,'' said Young, who has missed all or parts of eight games this season. The 49ers cruised to a 25-3 lead at halftime on Young's two touchdown runs and four field goals by Jeff Wilkins For the American basketball player, see Jeff Wilkins (basketball). Jeff Allen Wilkins (born April 19, 1972 in Youngstown, Ohio) nicknamed "Money" is an American football placekicker who currently plays for the St. Louis Rams of the NFL. . Young connected on five straight passes for 62 yards on the 49ers' first possession of the second half, capped by a 10-yard touchdown throw to Terry Kirby Terry Gayle Kirby (born January 20, 1970 in Hampton, Virginia), is a former professional American football player who played ten seasons in the NFL from 1993 to 2002. A 6'1" running back from the University of Virginia, Kirby's best year as a pro came during the 1995 season as a . After that, Elvis Grbac Elvis Grbac (born August 13, 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a former NFL quarterback. College career Grbac played college football at the University of Michigan from 1989 to 1992. took over at quarterback, but Kirby returned to get the first 100-yard rushing game for the 49ers in nearly two years. He carried 12 times for 105 yards. San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden (10-3) remained a game ahead of Carolina in the NFC West heading into next Sunday's game at 3Com Park. The 49ers are tied with Green Bay for the best record in the conference, though the Packers have the tiebreaker tie·break·er n. An additional contest or period of play designed to establish a winner among tied contestants. Also called tiebreak. tie advantage by virtue of an early season victory. The 49ers scored on all six of their first-half possessions, running up and down the field for 342 yards. San Francisco averaged a staggering 7.4 yards per play before the break. The 49ers have beaten the Falcons in eight of their past 10 meetings by an average score of 43-13. Atlanta has lost eight consecutive Monday night games since 1981 and the Falcons have been outscored 161-47 in their past four appearances. ``I'm very disappointed in how we played,'' coach June Jones June Sheldon Jones, III (born February 19, 1953, Portland, Oregon) is an American football coach, formerly with the Atlanta Falcons and currently with the University of Hawaiʻi. said. ``We played awful on offense, about as bad as I've been around. When we had guys open, we couldn't hit them. When we had the ball there, they couldn't catch them.'' San Francisco, which outgained the Falcons 464 yards to 178, led 6-3 early in the second quarter when Young took control. Facing third and 7 at the Falcons 26, he stepped up to avoid the rush, noticed a clear path to the end zone and wasn't touched until he was diving into for the score with 13:28 left in the half. After Wilkins' third field goal gave the 49ers a 16-3 advantage, San Francisco stayed on the ground for an eight-play, 87-yard touchdown drive. Kirby ran five times for 59 yards before Young sprinted in from the 5 on a quarterback draw with 41 seconds remaining in the half. The 49ers missed the two-point conversion In American football and Canadian football, a team may try to score a two-point conversion (score two points) instead of an extra point (one point) immediately after it scores a touchdown. , but they weren't through scoring. Bobby Hebert's pass was picked off by Dedrick Dodge at the Atlanta 39. Young completed two passes for 28 yards and scrambled for another 6 yards to set up Wilkins' 23-yard field goal as time ran out. Wilkins also connected from 39, 26 and 43 yards in the first half, giving him 27 of 30 for the season. Kirby went over 100 yards late in the third quarter - the first San Francisco player to reach that mark since Ricky Watters gained 105 yards against New Orleans on Nov. 28, 1994. ``He wasn't going to play anymore,'' Floyd said. ``But when we found out he had 91 yards, we were like, `Coach, let him go back in.' '' Hebert, who had been completing more than 60 percent of his passes, was 10 of 25 for 113 yards with two interceptions. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: In a rout of Atlanta, 49ers quarterback Steve Young had to play only into the third quarter. Associated Press |
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