I guess Bay Area sports fans should thank the NFL schedulers in their putting the Niner bye week right in the middle of the Giants World Series run. Worked out very well.
With that said, lets’ get back to football. There are 9 weeks left and this team has some work to do. The #12 issue with the team is their health. Willis is a game-time decision, Bowman still has a week or two of recovery, Dorsey will be back soon, and Aldon Smith should be joining the ranks at some point, irregardless Mike Florio’s unsubstantiated statements of him coming off the susp list early. Losing Kilgore was a killer, and they can’t take another hit on the O line.
The other issues remain the same. For some inexplicable reason, the 49ers run multiple WR formations between the 20s. When they get into the red zone, it’s back to the jumbo formations, and stagnation. This team struggles wildly in the red zone. If they can fix this, it’ll go a long way to actually getting double-digit leads. Something Jim Harbaugh seems to be adverse to. Along with this is the fact that the Niners tend to go away from things that seem to be working. If they find something to exploit, force the other team to stop it, don’t merely move on to something else.
Defensively, I simply was perplexed at how they tried to attack Manning. Playing off his WRs and rushing 4-5 out of their base defense was asinine. That absolyutely plays to his strengths. The Ram game the previous week saw stunts, blitzes from different LBs, and a lot of movement along the line to dsiguise blitzers. I was excited to see how that worked against Manning, as I noted that it was the way Singletary and Co did a good job of containing Manning and the Colts a few years back. As above, they went away from something successful and it failed.
The Rams? Their pass rush seems revitalized in weeks, but they are struggling offensively. This SHOULD be a tune-up game. Let’s hope we can get on top and coast for a change.
Forty Niners Forever 
Bethea’s pick was good, but basically a gimmee. Terrible throw by Austin.
Niners capitalized on it. Finally with a TD. Not sure if that was luck for Boldin to get so open or a good misdirection design…
No help from Dallas. They have a shot to miss the playoffs after their hot start.
If I were calling Niner plays, I’d be calling draws, screens and flat passes all day as long as the Rams keep blitzing the way they’ve been. That is, if those plays were in the playbook…
And, quick slants and hitches…
Yeah, quick shit til they come up to stop it. It’s beyond this team sometimes to adjust.
Finally some pressure. Davis with some garbage throws.
WOw. Staley looks like he’s on break still. Same with AD.
Nice play. A little blocking there,
4th sack of the half. Sub-par OL play at this point would be welcomed.
This is pathetic.
I don’t think adjusting is in our playbook. Incredible.
Continuing to not understand Niner play calling. 3rd and 3, you know Rams will be coming, yet Roman calls a play with long developing routes. Has Stevie Johnson got near a ball this half? If so, I must have missed it…
Good news is when Aldon is back, he and Lynch are going to be crazy good on the rush…
Like Dana Stubblefield opined, “Same old sorry-ass Rams.”
Coverage sack but I’ll take it,
Hey. something different.
Aldon Smith’s return isn’t going to improve this POS of an OL.
Just sad.
This is insane. Empty backfield and the offense is surprised when they bring the house. The O line is beyond horrible.
This is how we keep teams in games.
Niner OLine just getting mauled. They’ve got to change this scheme up to take advantage of that Ram surge or Kap may not survive the 3rd quarter…
Can you say busted coverage?
Niners still on bye vacation, apparently…
Borland ain’t Willis. 5 sacks by the Rams so far.
Wonder if we can get going here? This offense needs to somehow figure out screen passes rather than go with their slow developing shit, I’vew only been saying this for 10 years now,
Nice run back.