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 
Yikes. Tendencies? 3rd and 2 up the middle? I thought we were change things up from last year.
Same as it ever was….
Why, why?
Some of this is on the play calling
6 1st downs and 92 yds total offense for the 1st half.
Bring back Jimmy Raye!
Say what you will but Jimmy Hat Raye had 3 games with 0 1st downs in the 1st half.
Bad blocking, penalties, Smith inconsistent, drops by VD and Crabs, and lousy blocking gives you 0 points. 2 downfield passes? Blocking or no, send someone on a go route. ONCE?
Harbaugh’s a pussy.
Our line cannot block for the run. Our line cannot block for the pass.
Not leaving us a lot of options here, guys.
Can’t remember seeing such poor OL play except for last year and the couple before that.
I just got home, watched to hand offs to Gore when the Niners were back behind their own 20 yard line
We’re seeing it too unfortunately
Week 2 our secondary lost the game. Week 3 our offensive line lost the game. Sando: The Niners should draft a qb in the first round for the next ten years. Wrong. I used to believe it, but wrong. The Niners should draft a DB or OLinemen in the first for the next 1,000 years. I wonder if we lose this game if Harbaugh will get so much heat he’ll start looking at other players. I wonder if Kaep could have completed all those five yard passes Smith just missed.
If you want to call that good play calling, feel free to do so.
Smith has had a few passes dropped and he doesn’t have much time back there but he’s hardly been accurate with his passes. And that last sack reminded me that his pocket awareness isn’t very good. How many 1st rd picks do we have on that OL? And there have been plays were everyone fucked up the block at the same time. Did balkke have a lot to do with all these 1st rd OL picks?
Nice play by Alex to stay on his feet and make a play.
Smith has to do a better job of hitting his receivers so they can run after the catch. Walker had to go way down to catch that. A better pass is an easy 1st down.
Got to get some end zone here. Get a couple scores ahead.
Wow. Not good there. Don’t know how he got it back.
He’s getting desperate, now has Ice on offense to try to get some blocking for the RB
Lucky break, but we’re playing right into their hands.
They are crowding all our plays.
Fucking Crabs.
Someone please tell me why we gave Frank Gore a contract extension?
You can do that right after you tell me why Crabtree dropped that pass.
In my house hold his name is Frank “two bad knees” Gore. Kinda like signing, Tejada and Cabrera.
Why does Crabs get to play?
I don’t know Chuck maybe Billick said he was great?
Nice catch crabtree
Smith hit Crabs right in the hands. Fucker needs to quit if he can’t catch that shit.
Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!