Quarterbacks in such scenarios are 1-6, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. Of course, the Niners entered this season knowing Lance would have his share of growing pains, but it was also hard to judge him (or anyone else) much on a day when the rain never stopped and the playing conditions were more akin to a Slip 'N Slide than a football field. "Absolutely not," right tackle Mike McGlinchey said. But as for our performance as a team, the game shouldn't have been in that position in the first place." I would never hold any of that against him. That was a sentiment shared throughout the Niners' locker room after coughing up a 10-0 lead in a game they seemed to have under control. For most of the first three quarters, it appeared as though the Niners were going to dispatch the Bears with relative ease. But with every opportunity the 49ers' offense had to extend the lead, they made a costly mistake in the form of a penalty, a turnover or a combination of the two. While the offense was failing to capitalize on those chances, the defense kept making the type of miscues that allowed the Bears to hang around. San Francisco finished with 12 penalties for 99 yards and two turnovers while going 1-for-3 in the red zone. Chicago had three penalties for 24 yards and one turnover while scoring touchdowns on both of its red zone trips. The Niners' mistakes were spread almost equally, with four penalties on offense, six on defense and two on special teams. The timing of some of those infractions was equally costly. The Niners had three defensive penalties on third down for 45 yards, all three resulting in a Bears first down. Two of those kept the Bears' first two scoring drives alive. "It's hard enough to play against the opposing team," left tackle Trent Williams said. "It’s even harder when you play against yourself. Any game that I could remember where we had close to 100 yards in penalties, we had two turnovers, especially one in scoring range in the red zone, it generally never turns out that well." I have been playing football a long time. Now, the Niners must figure out how to fix their many issues before Week 2 against the Seattle Seahawks. Opening games against the Bears and Seahawks were supposed to be a relatively light introduction for Lance as the starter, but Sunday offered a reminder that there's no such thing as a sure thing in the NFL. In theory, the 49ers should be able to fix many of their penalty woes. After all, many of them - such as linebacker Dre Greenlaw's 15-yard face mask flag - were the result of a bad decision and not a 50/50 call left in the hands of the officials. That's no guarantee, given that costly penalties have been a persistent problem for the Niners in recent years. In 2021, the 49ers had the third-most penalty yards in the league (1,066), and they have the 11th-most penalties (539) in the league since coach Kyle Shanahan took over in 2017.īut with Lance learning from his mistakes on the fly, the 49ers can't afford to make things harder on themselves, or a promising season could slip away as quickly as Sunday's game did. "It's tough to win when you do that stuff," Shanahan said. "We always talk about doing right longer.
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