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Four sacks? In the first half of a preseason game? The last time San Francisco 49ers quarterbacks suffered an August drubbing like Trey Lance did Sunday was in 2011 in New Orleans.
The 49ers thought it would be a run-of-the-mill preseason opener. Then-New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams had other plans, and he dialed up 18 first-half blitzes that resulted in six sacks. “I didn’t even have a mouthpiece on in that game,” quarterback Alex Smith recalled years later. “I remember thinking, ‘I’m going to get rid of the ball, throw a few completions, move the chains, and I’ll be off the field before you know it.’ And I think we got Cover 0 and overload pressures on an absurd number of snaps.”
The rumor back then — one denied by the Saints’ head coach at the time, Sean Payton — was that Payton was steamed his counterpart, Jim Harbaugh, didn’t bother to return a pregame phone call. Because of the diss, he gave Williams the go-ahead to blitz mercilessly. . There didn’t seem to be any ill will between the 49ers and Las Vegas Raiders coaching staffs Sunday — the teams practiced together in the run-up to the game, after all — and the Raiders defense certainly didn’t send many exotic pressures. They blitzed only once on the 49ers’ first three possessions, all of which were three-and-outs.: When is this guy going to get it together? Maybe it’s time to move on.
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