There were a lot of plays that Jimmy Garoppolo wanted to get back from losing the Arizona Cardinals 49-25-25-26-26-2 on Sunday, but the two stayed the most. With 1:21 left in the game, the 49ers were first down on the Cardinals’ 21-yard line. Geroppolo took a quick run from the shotgun and aimed the ball towards the wide-open Kendrick Bourne to the corner of the end zone.
But the ball was thrown short with a little more air under it, failing to reach Bourne before the Cardinals’ Cornwack Patrick Peterson. Coach Kyle Shanahan knows the imperfections were costly, but saw the lessons of the missed opportunity. “They weren’t perfect passes,” Shanah said Monday. “[Bourne] Got through it, you guys all saw it. It would have been nice if Bourne had gone for it. I think he would have gotten it [pass interference]. He will learn something like that. ”
Next in fourth place, Garoppolo targeted receiver Trent Taylor. Geroppolo threw again with a shotgun, but his pass seemed short of Taylor’s, which went through the sticks.
The 49ers turned the ball down and the Cardinals ran out for the remaining 33 seconds of the game. “One Trent, his time was a little far on him,” Shanah said. He made a little more movement at the top, and Jimmy hesitated a bit and tried to recover with his hand and left him behind. Just got better there. “
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Geropolo did not throw Shanah under his quarterback bus a day after completing 19 of 33 passes for 259 yards and two touchdowns. But the coach conceded that both incomplete passes could be thrown better. “You throw a ball down and it doesn’t complete it, so the receiver has to go upstairs and make a play and it didn’t,” Shanah said. “It simply came to our notice then. He threw down one of the hairs on both of them. The guys still had chances, but it would have been a really nice play if they had made it. “Geropolo and his receivers will be working on their time in the week as they prepare for back-to-back games against the New York Jets and Giants, respectively, in New Jersey. Rookie Brandon Ayuk will be back to cheer the group of receivers.
