Three numbers to know for Denver Broncos-San Francisco 49ers

Within the Broncos’ locker room this week, the notion of stopping the 49ers’ run first was outstanding.

It’s not that the San Francisco 49ers can’t be efficient by the air. However when the 49ers offense has hummed greatest beneath Kyle Shanahan, it has normally relied upon the bottom recreation.

And that’s the place the primary quantity at the moment turns into related:

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56

The share that’s the magic quantity for the 49ers relating to run-pass ratio. When San Francisco runs on not less than 56 p.c of its performs beneath Shanahan, they’re 16-0. In all different video games beneath Shanahan, they’re 29-44.

On the flip facet of that, the 49ers are 7-38 within the Shanahan period when they don’t run on not less than 45 p.c of their snaps.

Little doubt, it’s a chicken-and-egg conundrum. You run to maintain a lead. However the 49ers don’t ditch the run if the sport is inside one rating; they are often affected person. But when the Broncos power the 49ers out of their prized floor recreation, they put the onus on Jimmy Garoppolo — the place they need it.

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3.14

This isn’t just the start of pi, but it surely’s additionally the common per-game variety of holding penalties referred to as since 2020 by officiating crews led by Shawn Hochuli, who will referee Sunday’s recreation.

However on the constructive facet, Hochuli’s common of two.08 false begins per recreation since 2020 ranks eighth amongst seventeenth at present lively referees. He additionally calls the third-fewest delay-of-game penalties amongst lively referees since 2020 — 0.42 per recreation. Delay-of-game stays a subjective name.

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PLUS-2

If Denver has a plus-2 turnover margin, you may seemingly put this one within the win column.
San Francisco’s report beneath Shanahan with a minus-2-or-worse turnover margin is a meager 1-21. Even being minus-1 hasn’t damage the 49ers a lot; they’re 8-8 since 2017 with a fair turnover margin.

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Different numbers of observe:

• San Francisco is 8-0 when Garoppolo begins and completes not less than 75 p.c of his passes. When he completes greater than 70 p.c of his makes an attempt, the 49ers are 16-2. However the 49ers are 2-5 when Garoppolo doesn’t hit the 60-percent mark.
• Time of possession doesn’t matter as a lot because it as soon as did, but it surely issues to the 49ers, who’re 14-1 beneath Shanahan when possessing the soccer for not less than 35 minutes.
• Opponents are 25-6 in opposition to the Shanahan-led 49ers when operating the ball greater than 46 p.c of the time.

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