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Garoppolo on Shanahan: His mind is incredible. He’s two plays ahead

Last week, a lot of fans wanted to blame Kyle Shanahan for putting the offense in bad situations. I wonder how much of that is on the quarterback. By that, I mean before the play even starts, does Jimmy Garoppolo have the ability to change the play? Well, we didn’t need to find that out this week. Here is how well the offense played on Sunday. They ran 68 plays, and only nine of those were on third down. For reference, the Bengals ran 65 plays and had 18 first downs as well as two fourth-down attempts.