So, Harbaugh did in game one what it took Singletary 6 weeks to do last year, and that was win game one. Next on Harbaugh’s bucket list is to win on the road. Since last year’s Denver gasme was technically a home game (London? Right), Singletary didn’t win a road game til week 12 in AZ. Yes, Cincinnati is a bottom-feeder in the NFL, but home field is a pretty big equalizer. Just ask Dallas. They barely escaped an 0-2 start, while the Niners would have been included in the list of surprising 2-0 teams (Washington, Detroit, Buffalo, and Texas). Anyhow, 1-1 is fine for now. However, if this team is going to be thought of as making progress, they need to beat the crappier teams in the league. And Cincinnati certainly falls into that realm. Gingerbread man Andy Dalton notwithstanding.
Raggedy Andy has put up decent numbers (37/56, 413 yds, 3 TDs 0 picks, 105 QBR) against a couple of bad defenses in Cleveland and Denver. He’s hitting a lot of underneath stuff (7.4 yds/completion), so this may not bode well for the 49ers. Dallas killed the Niners in the 4th quarter with underneath stuff after harassing Romo most of the day. Their pass pro is decent enough (5 sacks in 2 games) but one can hope we bring the pressure more than Cleve and Denver.
As far as our offense goes? I can’t even hazard a guess. The Niners played as good a 1st half as they could have offensively. They followed it up in the 2nd half with a strategy that let Dallas right back into the game. one hopes that they’ll keep the offensive flow going throughoout the entire game on Sunday, and not try to force the run at all costs.
Forty Niners Forever 
Anyone notice that when you watch NFL highlights, most of the other teams look better than the NIners? I mean, long pass plays, screens, draws, pitches around end. They work. They gain lots of yards. Crisp blocking, quick reads, catches on the run, lots of YAK. Weird…
Today’s snooze-fest of a game was a ploy to surprise Philly next week. (Yuk-Yuk)
We do just what the G-Men did to them. Work the edges and their LBs.
I would also figure Philly to pin their ears back against this OL too.
Trent Cole is no joke but, their DL is not too scary to run against, assuming we can ever find a way to get a RB going.
This could be the perfect spot to play spread ’em out football and maybe get Frank and Kendall some lanes against their ‘Backers. Force those ‘Dream Team’ CBs to tackle all day. Which they didn’t manage to do very much against NY.
I have absolutely no expectations to win the Philly game but, anything is possible in the NFL.
It would be nice if we didn’t have to chase Vick all over the field too.
Our challenge is to slow down their WRs. No small feat. Be interesting to see how Fangio schemes this one. Their OL is suspect and so is our Secondary.
Nothing to lose, go with our best shot and see what is gets us.
Vick is out for a month.
Andy Reid just said the CT scan revealed NO fracture, just a contusion. We just might get the Puppy Killer after all.
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