San Francisco 49ers escape against St. Louis Rams with 31-17 win on Monday Night Football thanks to a stacked offense full of weapons like 'Mr. Dependable' Anquan Boldin

In a division billed as the toughest and best this year for the NFL, the San Francisco 49ers managed another victory on MNF to vie for NFC West superiority. The team the 49ers need to beat, the Arizona Cardinals, is still 4-1. As the 49ers picked up their fourth win of the season, the NFC West division is up for grabs and Colin Kaepernick and company are looking forward to the battle for divisional superiority that looms overhead of their season.

The 49ers showing on Monday Night Football was another offensive clinic for San Francsico's QB Colin Kaepernick. ESPN's San Francisco 49ers reporter Pault Gutierrez remarks on the numerous weapons available to Coach Jim Harbaugh on offense. The argument can be made that Kaepernick's favorite receiver is Michael Crabtree or Vernon Davis as his security Tight End or Brandon Lloyd for an explosive sideline burning of the secondary. The one receiver who has been overlooked is that of Anquan Boldin who had a monster game on Monday Night Football. Boldin would come up huge when needed, especially on a busted play-action from Kaepernick running for his life to a nice impromptu throw to Boldin for the nails in the coffin touchdown to stifle the St. Louis Rams. As Gutierrez explains, Anquan Boldin has been the most dependable back that Kaepernick has at his disposal. Boldin has statistically and repitetively been there to make huge plays when San Fran absolutely needed them most. The same was true last night as Boldin put up nearly 100 yards catching with one touchdown. In fact, the same seems to be true every time Boldin suits up against the Rams, who has a respectable 12-4 win ratio, over 1400+ yards and 6 100+ yard games (receiving) versus the Rams.

Indeed, Kaepernick himself would have a record setting game via his legs. The Kaepernick-Boldin improvised touchdown would be recorded as Colin Kaepernick's sixth NFL touchdown this season while being flushed out of the pocket, those 6 mobile touchdowns are now the NFL record this season, as Kaepernick just surpassed Andrew Luck for the bragging rights. Anquan Boldin had more to say about how well Kaepernick's elusiveness and reads have gotten as he watches this NFL superstar QB further improve and progress:

"It was a broken play...Kap made a play with his legs...Because with a mobile quarterback...things like that are going to happen. … I've seen him do it over and over...His decision-making has improved a lot...He's always been a good leader. He's always been able to make plays with his legs. But his decision-making has really grown in the last two years, the two years I've been here"

Kaepernick had equally high praise of Anquan Boldin who has been dubbed as 'Mr. Dependable' in San Francisco after Monday Night Football play. Kaepernick while regarding his broken play touchdown to Boldin gave credit where credit was due, "He came back and made a great play...He was supposed to be running the other way, saw me scramble. … I'll give Anquan a shot any day of the week." As San Francisco finds more and more playmakers on both sides of the field this season stepping up with huge plays, they will need that deadly 49er offense with 'Mr. Dependable' at the helm for San Francisco' s big challenge next week against the equally dominant Denver Broncos on Sunday Night Football.

References:

http://espn.go.com/blog/san-francisco-49ers/post/_/id/9998/colin-kaepernick-has-his-personal-mr-dependable-in-anquan-boldin

http://espn.go.com/blog/statsinfo/post/_/id/97082/top-stats-to-know-49ers-31-rams-17

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San Francisco 49ers: Michael Wifall