·      Ginn breaks tackle off Cary Williams and goes 75 yards for touchdown HOWEVER, penalty on frank gore for a chop block, ball called back

·      Redding sack on 3^rd and 13

·      Ray rice has 29 yds on first 8 carries, good start (32 straight games without a 100 yard rusher)

·      49ers, no touchdown allowed in first half of last 4 games

·      smith sacked again for fourth times, by mcclain (second in league in sacks before today)

·      Flacco picked off on long ball to torrey smith – however holds his arm down and is called for pass interference, ball on 49ers 15 – 50 yard penalty

·      Leach creates big hole for ray rice to take tha ball down to the 6 yard line

·      49ers have yet to allow a rushing touchdown this year (10 games)

·      ray rice carries the ball only inches from the line (2^nd and goal)

·      rice taken down by CJ spillman in the backfield for a 4 yard loss

·      flacco goes for qb draw but can’t make it more than a yard past scrimmage, ravens should have just pushed the pile, use flacco for a sneak instead

·      cundiff hits 23 yard field goal to put ravens up 6-3 with 2:51 to go

·      total yards so far 49ers: 39r, 16p, 55t ——- ravens: 47r, 69p, 116t

·      smith shakes of ngata, scrambles right and gets ball to davis for a first

·      2 min warning: qb comparison – smith (5/6) 41yds, flacco (5/9) 69yds

·      49ers offense has scored 7 times in the final 2 minutes of first half this year

·      49ers moving the chains, picked up approx 20 yards before smith throws the ball out of bounds to pick up 3&3, with :32 left to play

·      Gore makes stop at line of scrimmage to prevent 1^st down conversion

·      Offense is going for it on 4^th and 3

·      Ravens get called for 12 men on the field even after timeout, auto firstdown

·      Smith picked off by webb in the endzone with 11 seconds left to play covering braylon Edwards (box out) 4^th int of the year for webb

·      Flacco takes a knee to end the half.

·      First half stat summary:

o   Rush yards – sf 41 : ravens 46

o   Pass yards – sf 54 : ravens 69

o   Total yards - sf 95 : ravens 115

o   Sacks – sf 0 : ravens 4

Boldin hauls in another pass for 18 in the middle of the field, and Rice goes up the middle for 5 yards. Ray Rice has already had 8 touches in the first quarter so it seems as if the Ravens are trying to get him more involved in the offense again.

Torrey Smith gets first catch of the day. He currently leads the NFL in yards per catch with 20.3

Ngata sacks Smith on 3rd down, forces the 49ers to bring out the field goal unit

Smith goes to Davis on 3rd and 2, who runs the ball downfield for 20 yards.

This has long been considered one of the hardest places to play in the NFL, not due to the cold like stadiums up north, or the winds at Heinz field, but because of the fans. It just got so loud that the 49ers were forced to call a timeout with 9 seconds left on the play clock because apparently the receivers couldn’t hear the audibles. Apparently it does have serious impact on opposing teams, seeing that they’ve gone 15-1 at M&T in the last 16 home games.

The Ravens defense has yet to surrender any points on the opposing teams first drive of the game for any game this season. Even more impressive, this streak actually dates back to the last 18 regular season games. Let’s see if they can continue that streak today….


UPDATE: 49ers forced to punt and Ravens bring their streak to 19 consecutive games

Tedd Ginn Jr. has only 3 career kick returns for a touchdown, but averages 28 yards per return this year, one of the highest totals in the league. It’ll be interesting to see how big a role he plays against this Baltimore defense.

Billy Cundiff knocks the ball between the uprights from 40, and the Ravens put the first points on the board (3-0). Cundiff is now 23-29 on the year, with all those misses coming from over 50 yards.