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Film Breakdown: Bad Jimmy's Bad Day

When I do my weekly film breakdowns, I usually highlight the good and not so good from Jimmy Garoppolo. I call it Good Jimmy vs. Bad Jimmy. Not this week.
Film Breakdown: Bad Jimmy's Bad Day
Film Breakdown: Bad Jimmy's Bad Day

When I do my weekly film breakdowns, I usually highlight the good and not so good from Jimmy Garoppolo. I call it Good Jimmy vs. Bad Jimmy.

But when the 49ers lost 24-20 to the Cardinals on Sunday, there was no Good Jimmy. It was a Bad Jimmy production from start to finish, and you could tell early in the first quarter.

Here were Bad Jimmy's worst plays:

1. 8:31 First Quarter. First and 10 at SF 31. 

Kyle Shanahan calls a play-action pass for Kendrick Bourne running a deep curl route in the middle of the field. Garoppolo feels pressure to his right, but he has plenty of room to reset his feet and fire to Bourne for a first down. Instead, Garoppolo checks down to Raheem Mostert, who gains five yards. Good Jimmy would never check down so quickly. That was an Alex Smith play.

2. 6:55 First Quarter. First and 10 at SF 25. 

His first read is Dante Pettis, who runs a go route up the sideline. Garoppolo decides not to throw to him, and just stares at him. Doesn't go to another read in the progression. Doesn't see Bourne and George Kittle, both of whom are open. Just stands there and takes a sack.

3. 5:29 First quarter. Third and 3 at SF 32. 

Instead of throwing to Bourne who's open at the first-down marker, Garoppolo makes up his mind before the play that he's throwing a low-percentage deep pass to Jerick McKinnon. Garoppolo throws the pass off his back foot and overthrows McKinnon. 

4. 13:58 Second Quarter. Third and 12 at AZ 12. 

The pirouette play. Garoppolo spins in a circle three times and never seen McKinnon who's open right in front of him. Bad look.

5. 9:46 Fourth Quarter. First and 10 at AZ 37. 

Pettis is open on left running curl, but Garoppolo never looks at that side of field. Instead, he checks down to Kyle Juszczyk, who’s covered. Incomplete.

6. 8:47 Fourth Quarter. Second and 5 at the AZ 5.

Raheem Mostert is open in the left corner of the end zone but Garoppolo looks away from him too soon. Throws incomplete to Bourne on the right. Bad Jimmy has tunnel vision.

7. 1:21 Fourth Quarter. First and 10 at AZ 21. 

The play that should have won the game for the 49ers. Bourne runs stutter go. Garoppolo's throw is late and underthrown -- he babies it, and Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson breaks it up with the back of his helmet.

8. 0:37 Fourth Quarter. Fourth and 5 at AZ 16. 

Garoppolo's final throw of the game. He steps away from his target, not toward him, and misses the throw behind Trent Taylor, who was open at the first-down marker. Terrible footwork. Good Jimmy's footwork is much better.

Watch the full breakdown below.

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Grant Cohn
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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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