NFC Championship game notes

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San Francisco 49ers ? Niner Insider Blog ? SFGate.com » 8 years of pounding pays off for Gore

 

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San Francisco 49ers ? Niner Insider Blog ? SFGate.com » Kid quarterback cool as a Kaepernick

 

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San Francisco 49ers ? Niner Insider Blog ? SFGate.com » Win in Atlanta sends 49ers to Super Bowl

 

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San Francisco 49ers ? Niner Insider Blog ? SFGate.com » Falcons cooled after Jones? start

 

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San Francisco 49ers ? Niner Insider Blog ? SFGate.com » 49ers earn Super Bowl trip the hard way

 

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https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2013/01/21/refo-49ers-falcons-nfc-championship/

While Smith again failed to take the quarterback down, he turned in one of his best performances of the season by recording pressure seven times (2 Hits, 5 Hurries) and being a persistent nuisance to the Falcons’ running game, even though he recorded only one tackle. He was able to get penetration into the backfield to force redirects and helped ensure the Falcons could never control the tempo with the lead. Smith even spent some time in an interior alignment, over Peter Konz, late in the second quarter, and recorded pressure from there on the Falcons’ final touchdown drive.

– Ray Lewis isn’t the only one playing well through a potentially season-ending triceps injury. He may not be a force as a pass rusher (only two hurries in two playoff games), but Justin Smith is playing the run tremendously with three stops in each of the 49ers’ victories and plenty of disruption around those stops.

 

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Adam Schefter:

Since the AFC and NFC formed in 1970, this is just the 3rd time that both road teams won conference championships (1992 and '97).

 

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ESPN Stats and Info:

Elias Says Super Bowl XLVII will be the second in which each team had lost a conference title game the previous season

 

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Report: Matt Ryan has sprained AC joint in left shoulder | National Football Post

This story would have ended up driving so many people crazy had the Falcons won. Remember the shots of Umenyiora's foot day after day after day going into the Super Bowl?

 

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Mike Sando:

49ers GM Trent Baalke planned to go from ATL to Senior Bowl, then join team in New Orleans.

 

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Nathan Jahnke:

Mike Iupati allowed 1 sack and 3 hurries. Rest of SF O allowed 0 pressure. I don't recall 1 player allowing 100% of the pressure before

 

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Nathan Jahnke (PFF):

Mike Iupati allowed 1 sack and 3 hurries. Rest of SF O allowed 0 pressure. I don't recall 1 player allowing 100% of the pressure before

 

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San Francisco 49ers ? Niner Insider Blog ? SFGate.com » Aldon Smith: ?The panic button was never hit?

 

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Jeff Deeney:

Kaepernick was also 6-7, 88 yards and a TD when using play action yesterday. Perfect 158.3 rating.

 

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Matt Maiocco:

Saw Mike Pereira at ATL airport. He said ref Terry McAulay got it right on review. Could not overturn Douglas catch; replay inconclusive.

 

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Aditi Kinkhabwala:

Mike Smith says no surgery is required for Matt Ryan. He'll rehab here in Flowery Branch. Sprained AC joint, 3-4 week recovery

 

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Sam Monson (PFF):

To be fair to Terrell Brown I think he's got a pretty good case that pushoff hitch thing Julio Jones was running is OPI

Thank you!

 

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Darren Rovell:

Nielsen: 49ers-Falcons drew 42M TV viewers. Ravens-Pats drew 47.7M TV viewers.

Poor CBS (for the Super Bowl).

 

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Matt Ryan won?t play in Pro Bowl, could have in Super Bowl | ProFootballTalk

 

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New Boston billboard owns up to Ray Lewis oversight - NFL.com