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In the moments after this, Colin Kaepernick fumbled the ball. (FOX)

With the clock winding down and the 49ers set up on the Rams' 2-yard line with first-and-goal, it seemingly was only a matter of seconds before San Francisco would score the go-ahead touchdown with less than a minute to play.

Funny thing about that.

After a 1-yard pass and an incompletion made it third-and-goal with 9 seconds to play, this happened.

That's 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick fumbling into the end zone and, somehow, the Rams jumping on it for the game-sealing recovery that gave St. Louis a surprise 13-10 victory.

Can't see much there, can you? No, and that's why the end of the game was so confusing. Nobody could be sure where and when Kaepernick fumbled, and it was close to impossible to see where Rams linebacker James Laurinaitis recovered it (we assume he did, since he was the one to emerge from the scrum with the football).

CBS Sports' Mike Care's take?

Kaepernick clearly lost the ball prior to the endzone, but their was no visual evidence his left elbow was down. #STLvsSF

— Mike Carey (@MikeCareyRef94) November 3, 2014

After a quick review, referee Jerome Boger declared that the play had been called correctly, and after a St. Louis kneeldown, the game was completed.

But did the 49ers actually deserve the win? Until the NFL figures out a way to place a camera in the middle of a goal-line scrum, I suppose we'll never know for sure.

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Report: Cowboys QB Tony Romo won't play today, may rest through Week 11 bye



NFL Network's Desmond Purnell broke the news earlier this morning via a source: Tony Romo will not play today versus the Arizona Cardinals. Romo is dealing with a back injury, one that was thought to be only a deep bruise but is actually a couple of small fractures.NFLN's Ian Rapoport adds that he's heard that Romo was the one who made the call. He told his coaches last night that he couldn't play, and the Cowboys are already planning for the possibility that he doesn't travel with the team on Monday for next week's game against the Jaguars in London.



This is pretty much expected. It would have been terribly rash for Dallas to play Romo against an aggressive defense and behind an offensive line that is dealing with some injuries as well. However, I think the more interesting half of this story is what happens to Romo for Week 10. The Cowboys will leave for London tomorrow; will Romo join them or will they just let him stay home and revisit his situation after their Week 11 bye? This story is a long way from over.For today, Brandon Weeden will start against the Cardinals' bottom-ranked pass defense. With a handful of big-name QBs on bye, I think he's a decent fill-in, especially in two-quarterback leagues. It's not that I'm sold on Weeden as a quarterback; anyone who is didn't pay attention to what went on in Cleveland for the past couple of years. But Weeden has a strong arm and a great group of weapons -- Dez Bryant, DeMarco Murray, Jason Witten, Terrance Williams -- at home in a plus matchup. Give him a chance if you're in a deep QB bind.