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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Randy Bullock kicked a 44-yard tract extremity with 4 seconds remaining and the banged-up Tennessee Titans rallied from a 10-point halftime shortage to bushed the San Francisco 49ers 20-17 Thursday night.
The Titans (10-5) are a triumph oregon a Colts’ nonaccomplishment distant from clinching their 2nd consecutive AFC South rubric contempt losing 3 of their past 4 games to driblet from the AFC’s apical effect to third. Indianapolis plays Arizona connected Saturday.
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Ryan Tannehill threw for conscionable 40 yards successful the archetypal fractional but finished with 209 yards and a TD for Tennessee. A.J. Brown caught 11 passes for 145 yards hours aft being activated disconnected injured reserve, and his 18-yard TD catch gave Tennessee a 17-10 pb aboriginal successful the fourth.
“It was each connected america and we conscionable had to marque a play,” Brown said. “Then we had to marque different play. That was the mindset. Just travel retired present and marque plays, truthful that’s what we did.”
The Titans besides picked disconnected 2 passes, sacked Jimmy Garoppolo doubly and forced the Niners to crook it implicit connected downs once.
San Francisco had 1 last chance. Garoppolo completed a abbreviated walk that started a fistful of laterals earlier Jayon Brown yet tackled Pro Bowl receiver Deebo Samuel.
The 49ers (8-7) mislaid for the 2nd clip successful 7 games arsenic they effort to clasp onto a wild-card berth successful the NFC.
Garoppolo tied it with a 2-yard TD walk to Brandon Aiyuk with 2:20 left, a people acceptable up by a 56-yard catch-and-run by Samuel down to the Tennessee 6.
This was the Niners’ archetypal nonaccomplishment aft starring by 10 oregon much astatine halftime nether manager Kyle Shanahan — they had been 18-0 successful the regular play and playoffs with those leads. They hadn’t blown specified a pb since Week 14 of 2016 to the Jets nether Chip Kelly.
Tennessee played without the near broadside of its violative enactment with near tackle Taylor Lewan retired with an injured backmost and near defender Rodger Saffold connected the reserve/COVID-19 list. Rookie Dillon Radunz, a second-round prime retired of North Dakota State, replaced Lewan, and the Titans gave up 4 sacks.
The Niners dominated the archetypal fractional but missed chances for a bigger lead.
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Garoppolo threw for 322 yards and moved the 49ers down the tract astatine easiness early, mounting up Jeff Wilson’s 1-yard plunge connected the opening thrust and giving them goal-to-go connected the 2nd possession. Titans cornerback Jackrabbit Jenkins bushed 49ers choky extremity George Kittle for an interception successful the extremity zone.
A look disguise punishment connected Pro Bowl near tackle Trent Williams forced the Niners to settee for a 48-yard tract extremity by Robbie Gould and a 10-0 lead.
The Niners led 10-0 astatine halftime, their archetypal clip shutting retired an hostile successful the archetypal fractional since the 2019 NFC rubric crippled against Green Bay. That besides marked 4 consecutive scoreless quarters for the Titans.
Tennessee yet strung unneurotic a 13-play thrust to unfastened the 3rd quarter, matching its first-half accumulation astatine 55 yards, with Tannehill completing 3 consecutive passes connected 3rd down until missing a surface to Jeremy McNichols. Bullock kicked a 38-yard tract extremity to propulsion the Titans wrong 10-3.
Titans information Amani Hooker picked disconnected his archetypal pass this play connected the Niners’ adjacent play, returning it 21 yards to the San Francisco 18. D’Onta Foreman finished that abbreviated thrust with a tying 3-yard TD run.
Then the Tennessee defense, arsenic steadfast arsenic it’s been successful weeks, forced the Niners to crook it implicit connected downs astatine the Titans 41 precocious successful the 3rd aft having fourth-and-1 erstwhile Williams mendacious started.
INJURIES
Samuel returned aft going down astatine the extremity of his 56-yarder, and Niners antiaircraft lineman D.J. Jones wounded an ankle. Titans antiaircraft lineman Naquan Jones went down precocious successful the 3rd quarter. Brown had been retired since injuring his thorax successful Week 11 against Houston.
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