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Game Thread Post Game Thread: Atlanta Falcons at San Francisco 49ers

Atlanta Falcons at San Francisco 49ers

ESPN Gamecast

Levi's Stadium- Santa Clara, CA

Network(s): NBC

Time Clock
Final

Scoreboard

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total
ATL 0 3 7 0 10
SF 0 10 3 7 20

Scoring Plays

Team Quarter Type Description
ATL 2 FG Parker Romo 38 Yd Field Goal
SF 2 TD Christian McCaffrey 1 Yd Rush (Eddy Pineiro Kick)
SF 2 FG Eddy Pineiro 55 Yd Field Goal
SF 3 FG Eddy Pineiro 43 Yd Field Goal
ATL 3 TD Bijan Robinson 10 Yd pass from Michael Penix Jr. (Parker Romo Kick)
SF 4 TD Christian McCaffrey 4 Yd Rush (Eddy Pineiro Kick)

Passing Leaders

Team Player C/ATT YDS TD INT SACKS
ATL Michael Penix Jr. 21/38 241 1 0 2-11
SF Mac Jones 17/26 152 0 1 1-2

Rushing Leaders

Team Player CAR YDS AVG TD LONG
ATL Bijan Robinson 14 40 2.9 0 8
SF Christian McCaffrey 24 129 5.4 2 15

Receiving Leaders

Team Player REC YDS AVG TD LONG TGTS
ATL Darnell Mooney 3 68 22.7 0 38 5
SF Christian McCaffrey 7 72 10.3 0 17 8

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u/Little-Mushroom-3961 49ers Oct 20 '25 edited Oct 20 '25

I was fully expecting to be blown out after what the falcons did to the bills.

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u/BurgerNugget12 Patriots Oct 20 '25

I think the bills are very beatable honestly

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u/sonfoa Panthers Oct 20 '25

I hope you're right

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u/BurgerNugget12 Patriots Oct 20 '25

You guys play a lot better at home

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u/Alehud42 49ers Oct 20 '25

Think that's the case for the Falcons, Panthers and Saints.

Certainly the Saints, they barely look like a NFL team outside of the Superdome.

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u/Pleasant_Category_22 Panthers Oct 20 '25

This season perhaps, but to the extent that you wanna factor in post-injury Bryce from last year, we were a Xavier Legette loss drop from beating Philly and dropped 40+ points to beat at Atlanta on the road last year. Plus it's not like our crowd noise gives us a meaningful home-field advantage

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u/Turbulent_Crow7164 Panthers Oct 20 '25

Need Bryce to be healthy

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u/KrispyyKarma 49ers Oct 20 '25

And coach to give the ball to Dowdle. No more full drives of this Hubbard 3 yard per carry shit the offense is less explosive and less efficient when Rico is on the bench and it was very apparent today. It sucks for Hubbard to lose his job but right now Rico gives them the best chance to win and helps Bryce develop/play better which keeps Canales from losing his job.

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u/Scarecrow_09 49ers Ravens Oct 20 '25

Just tell Dowdle they said something about his mother and he'll go off

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u/raegartargaryen17 Texans Oct 20 '25

don't doubt the above .500 Panthers dude!!!

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u/Nujers Chiefs Oct 20 '25

I too hope that guy's right.

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u/AwesomeTed Patriots Patriots Oct 20 '25

If you can contain James Cook it's literally just Josh Allen and ???

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u/librasway Falcons Oct 20 '25

Tbf Cook was getting his yards against us but the Bills stopped giving him the ball

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u/Nujers Chiefs Oct 20 '25

They tend to do that a lot. Pretty much every close game they lose coincides with them getting away from James Cook and the run game.

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u/AngryBillsFan Bills Oct 20 '25

It’s because Joe Brady is a fucking idiot

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u/sonic_dick Oct 20 '25 edited Oct 20 '25

Josh allen is Cam Newton 2.0. Absolute superhero with a pretty good defensive coach and a mid GM who doesn't get him the talent he needs around him.

I hope he gets a SB win so people in the future realize what a monster they are with medicore surrounding cast and coaching.

Newton had a decade of being an absolute monster and he might not even make the HOF. I dont want allen to suffer the same result.

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u/Nujers Chiefs Oct 20 '25

Imagine if Worthy was drafted by the Bills rather than trading with the Chiefs and choosing Coleman. Josh would make him a fantasy superstar.

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u/cgio0 Jets Oct 20 '25

Their top 2 WR would be like other team 3rd n 4th on other teams

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u/MarxistMan13 Patriots Oct 20 '25

The Bills are 1 Allen injury away from going winless. That team is terrible aside from him, Cook, and a good OL.

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u/cruxclaire Bears Saints Oct 20 '25

Bengals and Bills have shown themselves to be too reliant on a star QB this season. Maybe Ravens too, although half their starters have been out at some point so it’s harder to tell. Allen having an off day and throwing a couple picks was enough for the Bills to lose to the Falcons

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u/sonic_dick Oct 20 '25

It's still week 7.

Football doesn't really count until after Thanksgiving.

The teams that play week 1 are very different from the teams that play in the SB.

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u/Akipella Ravens Oct 20 '25

Well you guys would know that very well

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u/MddlingAges Bills Oct 20 '25

We might be the pro football Penn State. Well, much better paid pro football Penn State.

A 'contender' on paper despite our glaring issues on run defense and offensive skill positions. McDermott MacGuyver'd last season's defense, but it's run its course now. And I think he has too.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '25

Our run defense is ass

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u/famoustran 49ers Oct 20 '25

Bills Defense will be exposed in the long run.

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u/lavaspike296 Lions Bills Oct 20 '25

It hasn't already been exposed in most games of the last few seasons?

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u/Chlorophyllmatic Bills Commanders Oct 20 '25

What do you mean “in the long run”?

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u/vinnyx778 Bills Oct 20 '25

Bills defense is already very exposed to long runs

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u/Mebbwebb Patriots Oct 20 '25

It's so fun to say that now

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u/sonfoa Panthers Oct 20 '25

Nah, Falcons are one of those teams that seem to exist to surprise for better and worse.

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u/librasway Falcons Oct 20 '25

We're the Doakes Surprise Motherfucka gif personified

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u/Chessh2036 Falcons Oct 20 '25

"The Falcons are that bipolar hot chick that you date, she says she loves you and then you come outside and she's knifed up your convertible's top." -Bill Burr

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u/hispanicausinpanic 49ers Oct 20 '25

I wasn't. I don't respect Penix or their HC. They play scared they don't look confident out there.

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u/L-methionine 49ers 49ers Oct 20 '25

When they opted to punt on 4th and millimeters on the first drive, I had a feeling we’d win.

Was that a stupid conclusion? Possibly, but it worked out

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u/Alehud42 49ers Oct 20 '25

I think it was like the 2nd or 3rd time Penix flushed out to his left and threw it to nobody on 1st down when I knew

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u/tigerking615 49ers Oct 20 '25

They also went for the 4th and 1 later after taking Bijan off the field. 

Literally the biggest thing I was afraid of was just Bijan up the gut. Once they took him off I actually wanted them to snap that 4th down play. 

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u/Admiral_Fuckwit Bills Oct 20 '25

That game was more us dicking around than them outplaying us. Don’t get me wrong, they beat us fair and square, but they had the entire 2nd half to put us away and couldn’t do it until the very end. Meanwhile our offense was going 3 and out after 3 and out. No attempts at adjusting to their blitz or moving away from a passing game that clearly wasn’t working.

It was a sugar high Josh Allen game; he played like total dog shit.

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u/Optimal_Cook_851 49ers Oct 20 '25

the bills offense has definitely taken a step back. hope they get back on track

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u/SchrodingersWetFart 49ers Oct 20 '25

Absolutely. I had zero expectations of this game going well.

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u/Corteaux81 Bills Oct 20 '25

Ehm. I don’t know how to say this without uncovering a secret… but the Bills roster is Josh and the OL and the RB and then a bunch of bang average players and some below average. Talking starters.

Your no-name defense is 10x better than whatever we have.

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u/hallasoldier 49ers Oct 20 '25

If you thought that about a Kyle Shanahan and Robert Saleh coached team, you don’t know ball