The Game Manager, Week 10: Nick’d at Nite

Not all heroes wear capes.Beat Hard with a Venge... Wait, no. C.J. Beathard didn’t even play. He ceded the franchise to Nick Mullens kind of like how Matt Damon gave the Bourne franchise to Jeremy Renner -- another not very tall guy who grew up idolizing Joe Montana and the Niners. (The question is will Beathard ever re-take it like Damon did.) And Mullens didn’t disappoint, despite his two interceptions, putting up fairly similar production to his first game (more on that later). Still, this game looked awfully familiar, didn’t it? The competent play on offense led by big games from Breida and Kittle building a lead, and then of course the defense choking up that lead when one big stop -- or turnover, if you’re really dreaming -- could’ve salted the win away.

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