49ers report card: Slip-and-sliding absent to an atrocious defeat in Chicago

CHICAGO — Below is how the 49ers graded in Sunday’s 19-10 season-opening loss to the Chicago Bears:

Go OFFENSE: D+

Naturally the rainy weather created passing tough, but it’s not why Trey Lance had a fourth-quarter go intercepted on a travel in which the 49ers necessary to response the Bears’ go-in advance landing. Lance said his eyes didn’t trick safety Eddie Jackson lengthy enough on that failed attempt to Jauan Jennings. Now, Lance did throw one of the mystical darts in a prolonged time by a 49ers quarterback when he zipped a 20-yarder by a number of defenders and into Ray-Ray McCloud’s mitts. Lengthy completions to Jennings (40 yards) and Brandon Aiyuk (31 yards) also had been encouraging. But Lance and Shanahan mourned an overthrow of a likely landing to Tyler Kroft, who, remember, was making his 49ers debut in spot of the hurt George Kittle. Mike McGlinchey aptly scolded himself for a to start with-50 % sack that prevented a area-purpose endeavor, and Brandon Aiyuk had a capture wiped out for move interference. Lance’s passer ranking: 50.3 (13-of-28, 164 yards).

Run OFFENSE: D+

Deebo Samuel’s first-collection fumble apart, the hurrying assault started promisingly. There was a nice blend of Samuel, Lance and Elijah Mitchell. Then Mitchell bought hurt in the 2nd quarter. Then the speeding match bogged down, other than Lance desperately rushing to shift chains. The solution assault available some creative appears to be, and the 49ers completed with an ordinary of 4.8 yards for each have (37 for 176 yards). A few false-get started penalties didn’t enable matters.

Move Defense: D

3rd-down sacks by Samson Ebukam and Nick Bosa set an early tone … that Justin Fields inevitably modified with his scrambling ability. Protection snafus also arose, primarily on the 51-yard bomb to 49ers castoff Dante Pettis that ignited the Bears’ comeback. Fields was just 8-of-17 for 121 yards, and he experienced a move intercepted by Talanoa Hufanga. But the 49ers should really have pinned him in additional, and much too normally there was an escape hatch up the center for him to run or toss.

Operate Protection: D

The Bears stubbornly held providing the ball to David Montgomery (17 carries, 26 yards) to operate into a pile of bodies at the line of scrimmage. Khalil Herbert discovered much more achievements and scored their last touchdown. But what definitely wrecked this unit were being penalties, questionable ones or not. Dre Greenlaw and Azeez Al-Shaair both of those knew Fields appreciated to slide at the past 2nd, however both equally linebackers received penalized for hitting the quarterback following he surrendered with a slide. Worse than that, Greenlaw drew a facemask penalty — he insisted he only brushed the facemask and didn’t get it — to nullify a 3rd-down cease.

Particular Teams: A

Nicely, the 49ers needed to make improvements to in this classification this year, and Ray-Ray McCloud didn’t botch any punt or kickoff that he fielded. Robbie Gould only acquired to attempt (and make) one particular field purpose and just one stage-following kick his counterpart skipped two stage-following tries. Mitch Wishnowsky pinned 3-of-4 punts inside of the 20, such as one that Pettis foolishly fielded inside the 10.

COACHING: D

Blowing a 10-position lead to a expertise-starved Bears group with a initially-12 months mentor? Ooph. This was a catastrophe made by a dozen penalties, a couple of turnovers and a second-half freefall.