49ers Today: Season is unraveling for Jimmy Garoppolo and the 49ers, who lose a slop-fest to the Colts

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49ers Today:Season is unraveling for Jimmy Garoppolo and the 49ers, who lose a slop-fest to the Colts



The rain came down in torrents and the wind blew Sunday night at Levi’s Stadium. The Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers had the unenviable task of trying to play a football game amid talk about an “atmospheric river” and a “bomb cyclone.”

The results were predictably perilous and appropriately sloppy. There were turnovers. There were dropped passes. There was a 79-yard punt by the Colts when 49ers returner Brandon Aiyuk muffed the rain-soaked football, then kicked it inadvertently backward into his own end zone for a fortuitous touchback. Referee Craig Wrolstad’s on-field mic malfunctioned during the second half.

The Colts didn’t win as much as they persevered and survived. They beat the 49ers, 30-18, in the trying and ever-soggier conditions in Santa Clara, Calif.

“It’s tough playing in that weather to begin with, just the mental toughness you have to have,” Niners quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo said. “But then when things are going wrong like that, it makes for a tough night. So it was very frustrating. But we’re going to stick together.”

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