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 
Niner offense today reminds of the days of Mike Nolan at the helm.
Sheezus…
But all the angst of our offensive woes are directed towards Roman. It’s Harbaugh’s offense. Roman just executes his plan and follows his orders.
It’s Harbaugh’s fault. Always has been.
Niner D needs to make a big play turnover…
I hope Iupati enjoys his big contract and playing in Tampa next year.
Unreal. Playing to lose. This is a completely flat terrible stupid effort. This should have been a Ram TD.
Huh? No reason to blow the play dead. Harbaugh has some ‘splaining to do. His team looks like shit.
Great. Lee fucks up.
Ellington gets a penalty for lobbing the ball? THis is the stupification off the NFL. Is this what Gooodell wants?
Fucking penalties on every play? Any emotion gets a 15 yard flag?
Yeah, that penalty was just ridiculous. Ellington basically handed the ball to a Ram player. Why is that a penalty? You couldn’t even see it without a slow mo replay. Refs making up for a pretty hankie free first half…
Are these refs just making stuff up?
The runner never went out of bounds? Why blow the play dead? Illegal “block” by the kicking team, i.e., the Niners? None of that makes sense. Then, Lee shanks the re-punt. May be the worst game ever by the Niners in the Harbaugh era. Team is playing like they’re taking bong hits on the sidelines…
I take that back. The defense has actually played all right, against an incompetent, horrible Rams offense. I’d let the Niner D take over on offense. Maybe they could move do some blocking and move the ball…
College football is way better than this. Way way better…
Raiders making Seattle sweat up in Puget Sound…
Kap audibled, Rams countered with their own audible…
The way this game has gone, I wouldn’t be surprised at Kap throwing a pik or some other turnover before they kick. Or, they miss a kick. Offense looks disorganized when they should be hurrying up…
Up tempo.
Well, that works.
Fucking incredible. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to just walk away from the tv and out of the room.
Wow. just waste all that time while you fiogiure out what to do. \\\\
That’s either a completion, a TD, or an incomplete.
We are not a good football team, we need to go back to the drawing board.
If that’s a completion, it’s a TD.
They’d better punch this in.