With minimal time left on the clock, Steve Mariucci lost control on the referee after a poor ball spot, and then a prolonged process of setting the ball up. Mariucci burned a timeout just to yell at the referee after the 49ers had spiked the ball to stop the clock. With the clock ticked down to seven seconds, the instructions were not made clear for Garcia to throw the ball away if there was nothing there. Garcia tried to make something happen as the clock ticked down to 00:00 and the 49ers were left up by four instead of at least seven.

After the game Mariucci took full blame for the situation. "I learned something today, I concerned myself too much with the official at the end of the half. I was trying to get back some time on the clock and to no avail. I need to stay in better communication with Jeff and Greg on what we are going to do. We had a plan. There were instructions. And I let it go. I need to make it even more clear as to what the instructions are."

The issues carried into the locker room too, and full concentration was not applied on getting into the end zone. Luckily the defensive staff had a very productive half time meeting. "I made a throw I shouldn't have made," Garcia said. "I can't say what I said on the field. That play is just not typical of me. It's not the way I play football. But I can't compound a mistake by making a worse mistake. It's one of those things you try to put behind you, but the whole halftime I was fuming. That should not have happened."

The 49ers learned something this past weekend. It’s a mistake that won’t likely be repeated and a mistake that I’ve never seen Mariucci or his team make before. “I have to take full responsibility," Mariucci said. "We are all still disappointed how that play at the end of the half turned out. You have to let it go. That's something you have to do mentally. We needed to shake it off and have short-term memory."