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SAN FRANCISCO - J.T. O’Sullivan threw San Francisco’s first scoring pass of the preseason and led the 49ers on back-to-back touchdown drives.
Whether that was enough to help him complete his long-shot bid to become the Niners starting quarterback remains to be seen.
O’Sullivan threw a 59-yard touchdown pass to Josh Morgan and outplayed top competitor Alex Smith as the 49ers beat Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers 34-6 Saturday night.
“I’m going out there to try to play quarterback as well as I can and let it go from there,” O’Sullivan said. “Unfortunately I don’t get to make the decision.”
O’Sullivan came into training camp third on the depth chart behind Smith, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2005 draft, and Shaun Hill. But O’Sullivan has started both preseason games for the 49ers and gave the best performance of the three in the first half against the Packers.
Coach Mike Nolan said earlier in camp that he’d like to have a decision on his starting quarterback by the third preseason game next week. He’s now not sure that will happen.
“We want to make a good decision and we will,” he said. “I’m confident, I’ll say it again, I like all three of them. I thought tonight all three of them did a nice job.”
Rodgers has no competition for the starting job in Green Bay following the trade of Brett Favre to the New York Jets earlier this month. But that doesn’t mean he has nothing to prove in the preseason as a quarterback who has never started a regular season game in the NFL.
Rodgers wasn’t nearly as sharp as he was in the exhibition opener, going 9-for-18 for 58 yards and failing to get the Packers into the end zone in one half of action. Rodgers didn’t get much help from his teammates, as he was sacked four times and his receivers dropped a couple of passes. Green Bay had only 46 total yards of offense in the half.
“As an offense you need to make some plays to get into a rhythm and to get a tempo going,” Rodgers said. “Tonight our tempo stunk. I didn’t make any plays so I take that squarely on my shoulders. A lot of times a quarterback, if he’s making plays, can get the offense going and I didn’t make any plays.”
O’Sullivan got off to another shaky start, throwing an interception to Charles Woodson on San Francisco’s third drive of the game. That was his third turnover in seven preseason drives, an alarming rate even at this time of year.
But he looked better once Green Bay’s first-team defense started heading to the bench. After hearing some boos from the home crowd following a false start by Jonas Jennings and a timeout call, O’Sullivan connected on a 27-yard pass to Jason Hill on third-and-eight.
He then hit Morgan with a 22-yarder on another third-down play that moved the ball down to the 3, setting up DeShaun Foster’s 1-yard score on fourth down.
O’Sullivan hit Morgan for the long score on the next drive and finished 8-for-17 for 154 yards with the touchdown and interception.
“It’s our job as an offense to go out there and score touchdowns,” O’Sullivan said. “Tonight we moved the ball consistently and we want to keep putting the ball into the end zone.”
Smith played the third quarter and went 5-for-12 for 62 yards, a day after flying home to San Diego to attend a memorial service for a family friend who died earlier in the week.
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