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GREEN BAY Diontae Johnson Jersey , Wis. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers turned the ball over three times but still had a chance to hold off the Green Bay Packers.Then an illegal contact penalty on cornerback Richard Sherman with 43 seconds left wiped out a sack of Aaron Rodgers on third-and-15.No way were the Green Bay Packers going to give away a second chance at victory.Seven plays later, Mason Crosby kicked a 27-yard field goal as time expired to hand the young 49ers a 33-30 defeat.“It’s part of the process and it’s part of going against the best quarterback in football,” Sherman said. “You give him a chance at the end — I can’t have that penalty on me … and give them a shot.”It wasn’t just Sherman’s penalty that contributed to San Francisco’s downfall.The Packers went 58 yards on a four-play drive that took just 1:05 to tie the game at 30 with 1:55 left on Davante Adams’ 16-yard touchdown catch.The 49ers were in good shape with their next drive starting at midfield, but C.J. Beathard’s deep pass over the middle for Marquise Goodwin was intercepted by Kevin King at the 10. Under pressure, Beathard looked as if he might have underthrown the ball.San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan said Beathard had four options on the play. He didn’t pick the right one.“It’s a play that if you hit it, it looks great. If you don’t, then yes, it’s not great. But it is what it is,” Beathard said.The Packers took over and had a tough start. Rodgers was sacked with 43 seconds left Justin Layne Jersey , and it looked initially as if the 49ers would get one more shot. Given how they had burned the Packers with deep plays to Goodwin earlier in the game, San Francisco figured to have a decent chance to at least get a late field-goal try.The flag on Sherman, who was covering Adams, gave Green Bay a fresh slate.“Nothing, really. I covered him,” Sherman said when asked what happened on the play. “He gave me an outside release, we kind of ran into each other a little bit. And then it looked like a sack on the play — I didn’t look back and see it — and there was a flag.”Asked if he agreed with the call, Sherman passed.“It doesn’t matter if you agree with the call,” he said. “It’s not like Benny Snell Jr. Jersey , ‘Oh, I didn’t agree with the call, they’re going to pick it up.’ They called it. I’ve got to find a way to do better.”So does the rest of the secondary after the Packers got the 49ers to bite on play-action early that resulted in open passes to Jimmy Graham and Marquez Valdes-Scantling. Rodgers found Valdes-Scantling for a 60-yard completion on the Packers’ first play from scrimmage, setting up Ty Montgomery’s 2-yard touchdown run with 9:20 left in the first quarter to tie the game at 7.Graham and Valdes-Scantling each finished with more than 100 yards receiving. Adams had 10 catches on 16 targets with a game-high 132 yards and two scores.“We kept fighting and I’ve got to give our guys credit,” Sherman said. “We’ve got to find a way to finish that.” Norv Turner easily could have opted to keep traveling the world with his wife, writing country music songs and playing with his grandchildren.At 66, who would have blamed him?Instead, Turner decided to return for a 33rd season of NFL coaching as offensive coordinator of the Carolina Panthers.Turner, who won two Super Bowls as a coordinator with the Dallas Cowboys in the early 1990s Zach Gentry Jersey , wasn’t necessarily looking to return to coaching after sitting out last season. But when approached about the Panthers’ job opening, Turner couldn’t resist the chance to reunite with head coach Ron Rivera — Turner’s assistant for four seasons when he was head coach of the San Diego Chargers.He’s also joining his son, Panthers quarterbacks coach Scott Turner, and has the opportunity to coach a “talented group” of players that includes 2015 league MVP quarterback Cam Newton.“It’s a unique situation,” Turner said.Turner joins a team that has his fingerprints all over it.When Rivera was hired by the Panthers in 2011 — also Newton’s rookie season — he brought in Turner understudy Rob Chudzinski as his offensive coordinator. And when Mike Shula took over when Chudzinski left to coach the Cleveland Browns, many of Turner’s play calls remained. So it’s not like Turner is starting anew.But he does have some new ideas.“We are trying to build a complete offense and that will include things they have done here and it will include things they haven’t done here,” said Turner without elaborating on specifics.Newton said the onus has been on Turner “to take what we have done good and expand on it, rather than just ripping the sheets of paper up and having a this-is-my-way-or-the-highway mentality.”So far the two say they’ve bonded well.Turner was familiar with Newton because Scott worked with him during his first two seasons with the Panthers in his first stint as quarterbacks coach.Turner said he likes the way Newton sees the entire field, but that his goal is to improve the quarterback’s decision-making skills.“We want to make sure we get all of our eligible receivers involved Nick Bosa Jersey ,” Turner said.Turner also wants to see Newton’s career 58.1 completion percentage increase significantly, something Newton has already said he’s eager to work on.“That has to be my mentality,” Newton said . “We have a lot of guys who can take two yards and turn it into 20 yards, or more. But it starts with me and I have to trust those guys and get the ball to them.”The Panthers talked last season about limiting the wear and tear on Newton’s body after undergoing rotator cuff surgery in March 2017 by cutting down on his running.Newton is 29 and entering his eighth NFL season.But Turner put no restrictions on Newton, Carolina’s leading rusher last season and the NFL’s all-time leader in touchdowns rushing by a quarterback, when he spoke after practice Thursday.“Every game is different and all of sudden you are in a game where they are pressuring and he puts the ball down and runs three or four times, and then you have three or four runs called. … so there are games where he is going to carry the ball,” Turner said. “And there are games where he is not going to carry the ball. A lot depends on how people defend us. A lot depends on how well we are playing, too.”Turner did reiterate Rivera’s point that Christian McCaffrey will be a focal point of the offense L.J. Collier Jersey , saying that 20-25 touches per game is not out of the question for the second-year running back.The man who co-wrote a country music song called “Things I’ve Never Done,” with Stephen Ray, the son of former San Francisco 49ers head coach Steve Mariucci, is clearly enjoying the idea of doing what he’s done for more than three decades.It is, after all, a unique situation for him.“I am very comfortable with coach Rivera and the things he likes to do,” Turner said. “We were together for four years, so nothing is a shock to me.”12<button class="view-gallery">View Gallery</button> Gallery:REDIRECT::Top 10 Texas High School Quarterbacks Currently In the NFLStephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports | Stephen Lew