Sunday, January 24, 2021

Len Dawson powers San Francisco past the Bengals in week one

In the 1970 Fantasy Draft league I played the 49'ers with Len Dawson and came out strong against the Bengals who were being led by Dennis Shaw. 

The first half was a blowout, with the 49'ers scoring all over the Bengals and RB Ron Johnson breaking a 80 yard run and finishing the game with 139 yards. The 49'ers had 3 TD's and a FG in the first 3 quarters. Then the Bengals started to click and scored 3 TD's closing the score to 24-21. 

The 49'ers had the ball late in the 4th when Dawson dropped back and threw an interception with 44 seconds left. From their own 48 the Bengals had no timeouts and had 4 shots at the endzone and came up empty. The game ended on two sacks and the 49'ers hung on. Shaw for the Bengals finished with 19 completions for 248 yards. He spread the ball all over with 4 receivers having over 40+ yards catching.

Len Dawson finished 16/25 with 280 yards. His primary target was Shanklin who had 136 yards. 







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