Talk about an unraveling. St. Louis was supposed to be the next up-and-coming team in the vaunted NFC West. They had some coaching continuity with Jeff Fisher and co, Sam Bradford was set to shine, they have a stout defensive line that only got stronger with the addition of Aaron Donald, and they added O line depth with 2nd overall pick Greg Robinson.
Unfortunately, Sam Bradford’s season was ended with another knee injury, Chris Long is out with an ankle injury, Erstwhile backup Niner Shaun Hill came and went with a quad injury (no, not like Ozzie’s), and the Rams are down to their 3rd string guy, Austin Davis, a guy who looked good against Dallas (30-42, 327, 3 TDs) til he threw two 4th quarter picks, including a pick 6, to salt it away for Dallas. Speaking of Dallas, thanks for the tarnishing of the 12th man and beating Seattle in their house.
St. Louis, with all their defensive line firepower, has a total of ONE sack in 4 games. Curious at best, but that makes me a bit uneasy. Wonder if they miss Michael Sam. Still and all, if the Niners are going to progress offensively this season, they need games like this to put an end to the offensive woes. Score early, score often. Win by 21. Dallas did us a big favor, so we need to take advantage of that. Go 4-2 and get 1/2 a game up on Seattle is a good thing. We need to keep pace with AZ. Lose this one, and it just makes everything harder.
But as the SF Giants proved, it isn’t how you start, but how you finish. This team is actually doing much better on defense than I imagined. Time for the offense to step up.
Forty Niners Forever 
Vance McDonald….. Lol. Nice 2nd round pick. Lol.
Hey, McDonald. Would you like fries to go with that shake that jolted the ball loose from your possession.
Bethea missed tackle on Tre Mason.
That was pathetic. Beat like a redheaded stepchild.
Great secondary play so far. Excellent.
No words at the moment. Just completely dumbfounded.
Our secondary is awful. Can’t throw the ball or defend the pass.
Vernon isn’t trying…. penalties, dropped passes, injured….. walking holdout.
Where’s Carrier?
Spit, I’d dump (trade) both he and Crabtree right now. I wouldn’t wait til the end of the year.
So good to have Vernon back tonight. Go back to fucking painting your 15′ self-portraits you self-righteous no-talent POS.
you know, until we get Smith and Navarro back, I think it’s realistic to feel like we are a pretty average football team.
Smith and Bowman aren’t going to help the offense in the red zone.
and I agree with Spit and I’ve felt this way all season. Our secondary stinks.
When Phil Dawson is your MVP, you’ve got none chance of winning the SB.
None.
less than none. Our offense is really, really bad and our D isn’t going to remind anyone of “dominant”.
And Kap needs to run the ball more. A lot more. He’s just not that good at running through the progression of a passing play. And to people who think that’s increases injury risk I say, *you’re wrong.” Who’s more likely to get injured, the QB who is running with his eyes on everyone in front of him or the QB who sits in the pocket waiting to get blind sided.
We needed 3 yards there and Kap through one of his classic fades into double coverage. He was far more likely to get the first down by tucking the ball and taking off.
You guys are ridiculous. Isn’t there a “We Hate the Niners” blog you could go ruin?
Better yet, stick with baseball.
Don’t be a party-pooper on our Niner hatred, NF. I’m sure as a proud and distinguished member of our military you’ve heard “taps” a time or two. Strike up the band.
I wonder if we can trade for Terrel Brown or Donte Whitner? Oh yeah. No money. But hey, we’ve got 4 million for Johnson, 6 million for Gore and 2 million for a backup qb. What’s not to like?
The 49ers might be the worst team in the division. Must be Harbaugh’s fault.
That offensive PI (which it wasn’t) wiped out a huge 3rd dn conversion that was a direct result of some shitty 49er tackling that allowed some serious YAC by the Rams receiver.
You can write that on a 3 x 5 card and slip that into the complaint box while you’re at it.
The good news here is we should be down by 35.
Other than that, we suck.
Told my son, yeah, we’ll run on the 2.
And with that, we’re right back in it!!!!
Nice! Where has that play been all year? Deep ball? We need more of that, please.