Game Day – Vultures in the Desert Heat

Well, air conditioning. Looks like we are up against Drew Stanton today. Division game, the potential for 2 games out, and being passed by Seattle and the Rams all loom large  in this game.

the pass rush HAS to improve, and Kappy needs to make better decisions with the ball. As do the coaches. Read-option ain’t fooling anyone anymore.  Win and you quiet the doubters. Lose, and the naysayers will get cranky.

It’s early, but this is supposed to be the easier part of the schedule.

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331 Responses to Game Day – Vultures in the Desert Heat

  1. 270+ comments and counting. It’s just like talk-radio. Team starts off 3-0 with nothing to bitch about, nobody calls in. Start 1-2 with a myriad of problems, and everyone feels the need to get their 2 cents worth of bitching and moaning.

    We’re a helluva species. That’s why I prefer the animals.

  2. NoFear49er's avatar NoFear49er says:

    Chuck set this place up and runs it as a bear pit. You can add please and thank you to your opinions but you’re just as likely to get belted in the mouth anyway.

  3. bigflavor's avatar Flavor says:

    the worst part of all of this is that it turns out Denny was right. Harbs needs to go. You have no idea how much it pains me to admit that Denny was right….

  4. NoFear49er's avatar NoFear49er says:

    I don’t think Harbaugh needs to go. He’s brought a lot of success to this team. I think he does need to change a few things he does, however. You don’t teach discipline by going apeshit on the sidelines over every call, and preaching the opposite to your players, for example.

    He needs to hire someone to figure out how to streamline the play calling process. And he needs to take some of the pre-snap decisions away from Kaepernick until he sees defenses better.

    • Spitblood's avatar Spitblood says:

      Agreed. Rodney Harrison just said the Cardinals had a more talented roster than the 49ers. It’s time for 49er fans to realize our roster ain’t that talented.

      • NoFear49er's avatar NoFear49er says:

        They do have a strong group but how much is Stanton demanding? Or Carlson?

      • NoFear49er's avatar NoFear49er says:

        What’s the pro-bowler count?

      • Spitblood's avatar Spitblood says:

        I don’t know if the pro bowler count works because the pro bowl selections are usually a year behind.

      • NoFear49er's avatar NoFear49er says:

        Nobody’s earned it yet this year.

      • Grumpy Guy's avatar Grumpy Guy says:

        Three of our Pro Bowlers were out today anyway.

        Without Aldon and NaVorro this defense still plays the run well; but its weaknesses in the secondary are utterly and horribly exposed.

        Without Davis at tackle, Jonathan Martin may get Kappy killed. And in any event, the offense still does not know what it wants to be. Are we a power running team? An option team? A passing team? The answer changes constantly, except when there IS no answer.

        Whatever coaching adjustments we make at halftime seem to make things worse.

        Add in knucklehead plays like Anquan…

        Me and Jose Cuervo are off to party like it’s 2005.

      • Spitblood's avatar Spitblood says:

        When you limit the roster, you limit the halftime adjustments. It’s not that we’re making things worse at half (although it may seem that way). We just don’t have options for halftime adjustments.

  5. “Nobody would shoot Del because he’d be a drunk pacificist (sic)?”

    Spit, you got half of that statement correct. If you haven’t figured out by now that I’m an “Old School” shoot first ask questions later type of guy, you haven’t been paying attention. Pacifist? Shit. I love war. I have a signed copy of P.J. O’Rourke’s “Give War a Chance” collecting dust on a shelf somewhere.

    “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”

    No wonder it took nearly nine years to defeat the fucking Brits. I wouldn’t have waited.

  6. Spitblood's avatar Spitblood says:

    The problem with this 49er team is that there’s nobody in their prime. We have old players and young players. The only guys in their prime who are starting right now are Brooks, Staley, Iupati and …… and…… Crabtree? After that the porridge is either too hot or too cold.

  7. Nipper's avatar Nipper says:

    Harbaugh better go back to Peru. He ain’t doing anything here. His team is without discipline. His offense through his OC is worthless in the second half of games. Three straight duds.

  8. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    Prime? We are young enough to score in the 1st half, and too old to sccre in the 2nd half?

    • Spitblood's avatar Spitblood says:

      Why don’t you look at what I’m saying instead of stubbornly being stuck on your premise that Harbaugh is the problem. List the number of players on this team in their prime.

  9. bigflavor's avatar Flavor says:

    can someone give out the link to “skeebs blog”. I have heard about this for years, just want to check it out.

  10. NJ49ER's avatar NJ49er says:

    What’s missing in all of this is that Kaep can’t beat a blitz.
    Stanton did.
    Repeatedly.

    There’s a frustration setting in with the playcalling and guys like Gore are starting to show signs of it.
    It appears to me that Roman is force feeding the passing game to Kaep right now, at the expense of utilizing a balanced attack.

  11. I’m hearing lots of grumblings that the refs and the NFL “have it in for us” for not sitting McDonald. Thus all the penalties. I’m not a conspiracy theorist. As much as “I Want to Believe” like Mulder (love the X-Files. Who doesn’t like aliens and a hot redheaded FBI agent?), I can’t buy that song and dance.

    I do, however, believe in karma as most of you know. And it sure in the hell seems like we’re getting repaid in spades in that regard. Karma is a bitch. I’d sit Ray (I wanted him sat from the get-go) now just to try and appease the football gods. i.e., Roger Goodell and his new NFL.

    • NJ49ER's avatar NJ49er says:

      Del it’s simply something to think about IMO.

      I’ve contended forever that the Great Equalizer on any given Sunday is Officiating.
      Too inconsistant. Too easy to explain away. No option for recourse.
      Always has been.

      How many times have we seen Patrick flagged?
      He’s as clean as they get in this game.
      Call it karma or, a vendetta, it’s blatantly obvious that we’re taking a whole lot more scrutiny from the Officials the past 2 games.

    • Spitblood's avatar Spitblood says:

      The refs don’t have it in for us because of McDonald. The refs have it in for us because of the way Harbaugh treats the refs.

      • NJ49ER's avatar NJ49er says:

        Either way Spit, it’s glaringly obvious that the focus of the magnifying glass is squarely on us.
        I’m simply suggesting that it’s very easy to deliver a message via Officiating in any game.
        RayMc’s situation isn’t PC for the general public too.
        Ever not seen Roger at the Grand Opening of a new NFL stadium?
        Just say’n………..

  12. You guys wanna hear a joke? We’re favored by 4 > the Eagles this week.
    Shit. This team shouldn’t be favored over Gino Torretta and Pinole Valley High School.

    • NJ49ER's avatar NJ49er says:

      We are going to kill Philly.
      Time for us to circle the wagons.

      • Spitblood's avatar Spitblood says:

        You’re delusional.

      • NJ49ER's avatar NJ49er says:

        No doubt Spit.
        Watching these past 2 games, and our complete lack of ability to adjust to 2nd half adjustments from the opposition, is enough to make anyone go ballistic.
        I’m confident that there’s enough ammunition for the guys like Gore and Staley to rally the troops now.

        These past 2 games were pathetic, from Coaching, to execution and, everyting in between.

      • Spitblood's avatar Spitblood says:

        Gore, Staley, Brooks, Willis and all the king’s men won’t be able to put Humpty back together again….

      • NJ49ER's avatar NJ49er says:

        We’ll see.
        I happen to think Philly’s Defense is pretty lame.

        This is a game ripe for smash-mouth, grind them down Offense.

        Lord knows we haven’t overworked the running game yet this season.
        Frank is pissed.
        Staley became unglued on the sideline.
        Boldin is both embarrassed and ashamed of his misdeed as well.

        These are your locker room leaders.
        If they can’t rally from this deficit, we’re sunk.

  13. I’ll pay for the plane ticket, you guys can drive his ass to the airport.

    • Spitblood's avatar Spitblood says:

      Jed York won’t let Harbaugh out of his contract. York has him locked up through 2015. Harbaugh won’t allow a trade unless the team is stacked with talent and there aren’t many stacked teams in the NFL right now. So if you can’t trade him, and there’s no way you fire him, all you’re left with is him coaching here in 2015. After that it’s anyone’s guess.

      • NJ49ER's avatar NJ49er says:

        It’s a pivotal point in the process Spit.
        Harbaugh has his work cut out for him right now.

        He either gathers the troops and refocuses them now or, he’s pretty much ready to step onto the Lame Duck Express.

      • Spitblood's avatar Spitblood says:

        He’ll definitely go the lame duck express. No question about it. You can’t rally these troops. This is half of a team. It’s not a full team. You can’t win with this roster.

      • Spitblood's avatar Spitblood says:

        But hey, we got Blaine Gabbert on the bench makin’ two million.

      • NJ49ER's avatar NJ49er says:

        If they keep putting Kaep into the running game or, continue to allow blitzing up the gut, Gabbert may earn his shillings, while Kaep recovers from injury.

        We are starving for a pocket passer that can defeat these blitz packages we’ve been seeing.
        Kaep either isn’t seeing a hot read or, we don’t have one.
        Again, I question why Johnnie Morton hasn’t developed someone beyond Boldin and Crabtree.
        I’d be happy with a legitimate dump off/screen option to a RB for chrissake.

  14. I know this doesn’t bother all of you, but when I see Kap show up for his postgame interview wearing fucking sunglasses and those goddamn headphones wrapped around his neck it just makes me want to cringe. Face of the franchise?

    Then to top everything off his answers are short, terse and evasive just like Harbaugh’s.
    I don’t know WTF has become of our Niners. But they sure in the hell ain’t my old team any more.

    • NJ49ER's avatar NJ49er says:

      Times they are a changing Del.
      These ain’t the Walsh-era 9ers anymore.

      Some truth to the reputation many have given us too.
      40-whiners.

      For me, that directly reflects on the amatuerish behavior of our current HC.
      If Jim doesn’t get his grip on this locker room, like immediately, I’m afraid the revolt won’t be pretty.

  15. NoFear49er's avatar NoFear49er says:

    I don’t think there’s any conspiracy to penalize us for RayMac playing. But I don’t think the officials who get berated on every call against us mind throw a flag on us. Just give me an excuse, Harbaugh.

    I don’t think Harbaugh would like some fan jumping up and down in his face over every play call. Why does he think the officials do? They have a job to do in order for him to do his. With all the reviews and challenge flags at his disposal these days he should use the tools and act a little more like a grown up on the sidelines.

    If the league really wanted to get at Harbaugh they would issue a new rule penalizing out-of-control sideline protests. Called the no crazy sumbitches rule.

    • NJ49er's avatar NJ49er says:

      Well NoFear49er he was certainly in his usual sideline element in the PS, which garnered a flag.

      Wanted to ask your opinion of the OLine play today.
      Hoping you’ve had benefit of some expert tape review?

      I was too consumed with anger to be objective to the blitz packages AZ sent our way today.

      IMO, Kaep pulls his eyes down and immediately goes to his wheels.
      Not to suggest saving his own a$$ is a bad thing, just curious whether he’s looking for a hot read or not?
      Do our WRs even make an adjustment to these blitz packages?

      Seems to me the book is to force Kaep to panic.
      Get in his face, kill the play.

      To Stantons’ credit, he stared it down and pulled the trigger with pretty good success against us today.

      • NoFear49er's avatar NoFear49er says:

        I don’t know NJ49er, I’ll have to watch it through again, too. In the first half at least it seemed like Kaep was getting the ball out pretty quick, blitz or no. I think Martin and Boone blew one or two blocks there. My impression is the penalties stalled our drives and kept some of theirs alive in the second half. The coaches film is out in two days usually and I like to go over it a couple of times. Maybe it’ll answer your questions.

  16. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    The no-huddle worked well early as AZ wasn’t able to get their pass package into the game. As the game wore on, AZ started blitzing a lot more. On the late sack, The protection looks good til their DB comes through clean, as Boone whiffs on the block. Martin had a shitty game as he was late a slow a few times.

    Again, though, the initial game plan was great. It netted 2 TD drives. Aftger that, AZ ratcheted up the pressure, and we had no answer. No delays. We tried a screen, one. But it looked to me like they called on one of their LBs to spy on Kappy to limit the runs in the 2nd half. He certainly didn’t get what he got in the 2nd half what he did in the 1st. But, no quick passes, no slants, no no-huddle. All the stuff we did well in the 1st half WE seemed to go away from.

    Kappy now appears to be the passing game AND the running game. Hyde had 3 rushes, Gore 6. Kappy had 13. What is this team?

    What is Philly going to do? Blitz like crazy to open the game.

  17. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    New thread is up . . . .

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