As in the 49ers may need an IV after this one, to keep them on playoff life support. This is either the beginning of the end of the Harbaugh era, or the end of the beginning of this shitty start to the 2014 season. I, along with many others, saw these early games as mere tests to our depleted defense that would be overcome by our newly retooled offense. Funny thing is, though, the NFL, in all it’s glory, decided to institute new rules around line play and WR rules. Which was seemingly designed to slow down Seattle’s constant harassing of WRs, most notably, Denver’s in the Super Bowl, Seattle had the temerity to slow down Pyeton Manning’s passing attack. Verboten, in the eyes of Herr Goodell. The fallout from that was the apparent referee revenge on a 49er team that is extremely physical and hard-hitting. Recent case being two 15 yard penalties on Dan Skuta and Patrick Willis, which both proved to be legal hits as neither were fined. Anything remotely close to being a penalty has been called on us. Harbaugh redux, or merely kicking big dog when he’s down? Don’t know. Don’t care. But these penalties have been a BIG hindrance in these last two losses, and they need to figure the boundaries and stay within them. If not, this team could very well see themselves looking at a very tough road to even reach the WC. 1-3 and the division is pretty much gone. And we’re on;y at the quarter pole.
Beyond that, this is the second opportunity to win a game in their shiny new stadium. Philly comes in seemingly matching the Niners style of play by falling behind early, and zooming back to victory. The Niners of course have zoomed ahead to leads while coughing them up late. Philly surely doesn’t defend the run or pass well, and is having trouble running themselves due to a decimated O line, so one would think the Niners can attack on the ground and in the air. The key for the local team is to keep the ball away from Chip and Philly’s offense and score TDs when they get the change. I woud love to see the Niners get on top of a team and then keep the hammer down and win going away, but I just don’t know. I think we turn the page back a little and stop ;the 5 WR formations and get back to a more traditional 2-3 WR offense that doesn’t telegraph our intentions.
Tell ya one thing, Philly loves to attack with 3 WRs all day, so our safeties have to do a much better job of communicating downfield. Could be a barnburner. Course that usually means a 12-9 game.
Forty Niners Forever 
Heard a great stat this morning on the Colin Cowherd show. The Eagles have only beaten Jacksonville and teams (IND, WAS) whose lone win this year came vs Jacksonville.
Paper Tigers?
Charlie Weis got shit-canned this morning from Kansas. You heard it here first. If Jimbo and Roman leave together Weis will be our new OC. Still haven’t figured out a HC just yet. But I tell ya one thing. If they pry David Shaw away from Stanford, I’m done watching this team.
Don’t hate on Charlie. Nobody can coach those yahoos in tornado alley.
6-22 is 6-22 regardless of weather and location.
Spitblood, I say that because the secondary has to adjust to formation shifts and receivers stemming their routes, on the fly. That requires either somebody yelling out a keyword or knowing their teammates’ likely adjustments from experience. Since this secondary doesn’t have experience playing together I give the benefit of the doubt that the stadium was loud and they couldn’t hear each other.
Could be they suck either way but I’d rather hope for the best. Unlike Martin where that hope was all but gone in the pre-season and vanished with the first games. Who in the hell keeps him in there giving up the right side of the o-line?
Carlos Hyde should make his mark in this one. If we can knock-off the fucking penalties we gotta shot.
Yeah, the closer we get, the (tiny bit) better I feel. Philly’s defense is weaker than ours. But again, it’s all about taking advantage of what they see out there. We should be able to run and pass on these guys, so there’s the opportunity to control the clock.
Hey, Spit! How’s your Raider prediction looking right about now?
They’re a complete joke. Dennis Allen won’t survive the plane ride back. He’d be better off jumping out sans parachute.
I still like McKenzie but his pickup of Schaub and his pick of Carr are curious to me. I’d be building a dominate front 7. Dennis Allen sucks, but sometimes, from a drafting perspective, that helps your team. But I admit I was wrong about their progress this year.
Aaron Rodgers said everyone should just relax. 38-17 > Chicago. 4 TD passes thru 3 quarters. I think Rodgers is relaxed.
And we lost to the Bears.
Cutler’s working on his best imitation of Kaepernick at home.
Why is Geno Smith still playing QB for the Jets? I hate to admit it, but they should be playing the Puppy Killer. Rex Ryan is as good as gone.
You guys want Rex after Jimbo exits? That would be a hoot.
49ers inactives
QB Josh Johnson
OL Dillon Farrell
OL Marcus Martin
CB Tramaine Brock
WR Quinton Patton
DL Tank Carradine
TE Vance McDonald
Maybe Tank can sack Foles when he runs out of bounds today. That’s *if* he’s not too busy with his coloring book.
What a waste.
Jimmy Ward sucks. Celek beats him by five yards. Celek. That’s not a fast receiver. That’s a tight end.
Christ, you never win spot challenges unelss they are blatant.
Then again, no penalties.
Did we trade Vernon “false start” Davis yet?
Our OL blows. The Eagles even got great pressure play before rushing only 3.
We suck.
Nice special teams units. Lol.
Wow. No running at all. Blitz sack vblocked kick. Great line play.
This team is tuning out Harbaugh. They are all pass all the time now., Lose Gore and you’ve lost the team.
And our ST sucks as well. Say hello to 6-10. Bye-bye Bo Schembechler Jr™
This team can’t pick up a blitz to save its life. Rush 4 and they get in.
1-4…… and Harbaugh looking for greener pastures else where. And now we’re stuck with Baalke and Tomsula. Kaepernick’s gotta be happy.