49ers Defense Faces The Challenge Of Stopping Ravens Lamar Jackson
(WorldNews Sport)

BALTIMORE (CBS SF/AP) — Mother Nature added a new challenge for the San Francisco 49ers defense hoping to contain Baltimore’s gifted QB Lamar Jackson Sunday — a forecast of steady showers that should turn the field into a muddy quagmire. On paper, the 49ers defense certainly appears capable of putting the brakes on Jackson and the high-powered Baltimore Ravens. The unit has averaged at least three sacks in their last eight games. Then again, that’s what some of the so-called experts said about Seattle, New England, Houston and the Los Angeles Rams. All four of those teams reached the playoffs last year, and each one of them lost by at least two touchdowns to the...