Week 12 NFL Pick - Niners +3.5
The Director
are outscoring their opponents by nearly 10 points per game in their
last 5 games on 344.8 yards per game outlast an inconsistent Ravens
team.
The Director
Final Score: Baltimore 16, San Francisco 6
Baltimore, MD (Sports Network) - Dennis Pitta's first career touchdown
proved to be the difference and the Baltimore Ravens tied a franchise
record with nine sacks en route to a 16-6 victory over the San
Francisco 49ers. The game saw the first-ever meeting in the NFL of
head-coach brothers, with John Harbaugh guiding Baltimore and San
Francisco's Jim Harbaugh patrolling the opposing sideline. The older
brother got the better of his younger sibling thanks mainly to a
suffocating defense led by Terrell Suggs' three sacks. Joe Flacco
completed 15-of-23 passes for 161 yards and the game-deciding
touchdown for Baltimore (8-3), which won its second straight game to
take a 1/2 game lead for first place in the AFC North over the
Pittsburgh Steelers. Pittsburgh heads to Kansas City to play the
Chiefs Sunday night. San Francisco (9-2) could have clinched the NFC
West title with a win, but will have to wait at least one more week to
seal its first trip to the postseason since 2002. Alex Smith threw for
140 yards with an interception on 15-of-24 passing in the 49ers' first
defeat since a 27-24 overtime loss to Dallas on September 18.