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Kurtenbach: Here’s how the 49ers can stop Lamar Jackson

How do you stop Ravens quarterback and MVP candidate Lamar Jackson — the best dual-threat quarterback this league has seen in decades?

The short answer is that you don’t.

Thanks for reading. Good luck to the Niners Sunday.

No, no, seriously — in the words of the great Dan Patrick: you can’t stop him, you can only hope to contain him.

Ok, so try No. 2 — how do you contain Lamar Jackson?

From my perspective, here are the three things Robert Saleh and his defense need to do to stand a chance of slowing down the MVP frontrunner in Baltimore:

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