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Backup quarterbacks pressed into duty due to injuries have won Super Bowls more often than you’d think. Jim Plunkett was a failed Heisman Trophy winner backing up Dan Pastorini in 1980 for the Oakland Raiders and had thrown one pass all season when Pastorini broke his leg in the Raiders’ fifth game. Plunkett took over and the Raiders won a Super Bowl a few months later. Jeff Hostetler had started two NFL games when the 1990 New York Giants needed him to replace an injured Phil Simms late in… Source link

Backup quarterbacks pressed into duty due to injuries have won Super Bowls more often than you’d think. Jim Plunkett was a failed Heisman Trophy winner backing up Dan Pastorini in 1980 for the Oakland Raiders and had thrown one pass all season when Pastorini broke his leg in the Raiders’ fifth game. Plunkett took over and the Raiders won a Super Bowl a few months later. Jeff Hostetler had started two NFL games when the 1990 New York Giants needed him to replace an injured Phil Simms late in… Source link

Yahoo Sports’ Matt Harmon and Scott Pianowski explain why McCaffrey’s new team isn’t helping his fantasy stock this season. Video Transcript [AUDIO LOGO] SCOTT PIANOWSKI: I want to be careful how I say this. I want players to play well. I want players to stay healthy and hit their theoretical ceilings as much as they can. But there was a lot of Christian McCaffrey victory lapping a couple of weeks ago, like, oh, aren’t you glad you didn’t fall for that Jonathan Taylor [BLEEP]. CMC, you know he’s… Source link

Justin Herbert leads the Chargers against the 49ers on Sunday Night Football. (Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images) Sunday Night Football in Week 10 features the high-powered San Francisco 49ers in a cross-conference matchup with Justin Herbert and the Los Angeles Chargers. Which team will pick up a quality win? Follow all the action right here with Yahoo Sports. Source link

The San Francisco 49ers have boasted one of the NFL’s top rushing units almost every year since Kyle Shanahan took over as head coach in 2017. Over the past four seasons, the 49ers ranked top-15 in rushing attempts and rushing yards, and they ranked top-seven in both categories in the two seasons San Francisco made deep postseason runs (2019 and 2021). And up until they traded for Christian McCaffrey, the 49ers had accomplished all of their rushing success with relatively unknown talent. The… Source link

The San Francisco 49ers value the running game as much as any team in the NFL, and they got one of the best running backs in the league on Thursday night. The Carolina Panthers traded McCaffrey to the 49ers, as reported by Yahoo Sports’ Jori Epstein. It won’t come cheap. The 49ers are giving up four picks to the Panthers, though no first-rounder, according to NFL Network. The Panthers confirmed the trade later on Thursday night. McCaffrey should be a great fit for Kyle Shanahan’s offense in San… Source link

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports Dennis Allen not thinking about a quarterback change The Saints didn’t score any points until the fourth quarter of Sunday’s loss to the Panthers and quarterback Jameis Winston is playing with a transverse fracture in his back that requires him to wear extra padding, but neither of those things is leading Saints head coach Dennis Allen to consider making a quarterback change. Winston [more] Source link

The San Francisco 49ers were forced to turn back to Jimmy Garoppolo after starting quarterback Trey Lance was carted off with an ankle injury in the first quarter of their Week 2 match with the Seattle Seahawks. The 49ers already announced Lance won’t return to the game. Lance looked to have hurt his ankle on a designed run play on second-and-8 at the Seahawks’ 21-yard line. He was immediately given an air cast and carted off of the field. It’s a huge blow to the 49ers, who were banking on… Source link

2022 was supposed to mark the official coming out party for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Trey Lance. It still may be. But Monday’s deal to retain Jimmy Garoppolo pumps the brakes on his coronation. After failed efforts to offload the veteran quarterback via trade this offseason, the 49ers reportedly agreed to a one-year, $6.5 million guaranteed contract with Garoppolo on Monday that includes an additional $9.5 million in bonuses largely attached to playing time. The deal arrived hours… Source link

The AV Club Meet Lodge Kerrigan, the best filmmaker you’ve never heard of In 1994, Lodge Kerrigan won the Independent Spirit Awards’ Someone To Watch award for his debut feature Clean, Shaven, which starred Peter Greene (Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects) as a schizophrenic trying to regain custody of his daughter. Ten years later, Kerrigan’s third film, Keane, explored similar themes, following the title character—played with restless magnetism by Damian Lewis (Band Of Brothers,… Source link