2024 Week 6: 49ers 36, Seahawks 24
This game started slow, the first half was a field goal-fest and one lucky/broken play that resulted in a Deebo Samuel 76-yard TD. After that the offenses took over and the better offense won the shootout.
San Francisco (3-3) beating Seattle puts them in a great place to take the NFC West. People are finally starting to turn on Seattle after their fortunate early schedule. They did this after losing one of their top corners, Charvarius Ward, pre-game, and Jordan Mason early in this game.
The Seahawks (3-3) are a fake 3-win team just like they were a fake undefeated team. Seattle isn’t a bad team but they’re not great and will probably be a 7 to 9-win team, but they’ve been getting worse as the season has drawn on. I think it’s more likely they only get 6 or 7 wins than 8 or 9.
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QB Report:
- Brock Purdy (18/28 for 255 yards, 3 TDs) played a normal Brock Purdy game and the long score from Deebo helped buoy his numbers. San Fran has had issues converting in the red zone all season and they finally relied on Kittle and Kyle Juszczyk (1-6-1, 3 catches for 10 yards) to get it done.
RB Report:
- Jordan Mason (9-73-0, 1 catch for 9 yards) was well on his way to the best game of his career… like a 150-200+ yard game good. Mason had 8 carries for 65 yards before getting hurt and left early in the second quarter. He came back in for one carry after halftime, took it for 8 yards, and then pulled himself from the game.
I don’t think Mason is going to miss Week 7 but if he does Isaac Guerendo (10-99-0) would be the lead over Patrick Taylor (5-16-0, 1 catch for 12 yards).
There was some slight CMC news that came out this week, but nothing promising. He’s still several weeks away and his practice window hasn’t been opened yet either. He may not play this season.
- Kenneth Walker (14-32-1, 8 catches for 37 yards) was the focus in Seattle’s backfield… even in the passing game which is not his strong suit. I couldn’t believe it when I saw he had 8 catches. Zach Charbonnet (5-20-0, 1 catch for 15 yards) was tossed to the side like Andy did to Woody in the first Toy Story.
WR/TE Report:
- DK Metcalf (3-48-0/11) was so close to having an insane game. He was an out-of-bounds toe and an illegal formation away from 100+ yards and 2 TDs. 2 down games in a row but I’m not worried about his on-field performance... It’s the off-field stuff that is concerning. DK like any other WR on any team is complaining about not getting the ball enough. Teams usually respond by feeding them so we should have good times coming for DK owners.
- Noah Fant (6-63-0/6) had a nice game against the Niners good linebacking core. I don’t think there’s anything to read into this ‘pop’ game… Geno dropped back 52 times.
- Deebo Samuel (3-102-1/5, 4 rushes for 15 yards) had a big game but it came off of one deep ball that should have been picked or at least batted down. The Seahawks Safety was late/mistimed his jump and Deebo took off for the score. If the Safety made a better play then Deebo would be a thing of concern in the fantasy football world. I’d sell him high off of this event, his touch counts are too unpredictable for me.
- George Kittle (5-58-2/6) is the top dog right now… I thought Jauan Jennings (3-27-0/5) and Purdy’s connection would take advantage of Riq Woolen’s absence but that didn’t seem to happen this match.
D/ST Report:
- Rookie Safety Malik Mustapha (2 tackles, 1 TFL) was hurt early on… San Francisco is seriously hurting on the secondary.
- The Seahawks were supposed to have one of the best defenses going into the year behind DC Mike McDonald but I haven’t seen that in the last few weeks. Even after their Week 1 game I thought the more impressive defense was the Broncos. Seattle has allowed 35.6 points per game during their losing streak.
image source: (AP Photo/John Froschauer)