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 
Kappy up the middle
He fumbled it twice?
Fumble….omy
Only appropriate. We DESERVED to lose that game.
Wow. Unreal. Got to get a hometown call for this. We lost an awful game. Fuck. This probably is the season. Sorry to say.
Appalling….those pricey ticket holders must be fuming
Wow. Unreal.
This team can’t make a play in the red zone to save its life.
Holy shit. That was ugly. That was 2005 Alex Smith ugly.
NO ONE deserved to win this game, at least the offenses, but we deserved to lose more. We came out after the bye and looked like shit. Tell me the Fairy Tale about our great offensive line again.
This is in no way whatsoever a playoff team.
Offensive incompetence to a disastrous degree. You get two PI penalties to get you there with goal to go, and can’t get it in. This is not a playoff team. Maybe the rumors of internal dissension are true. That would be one explanation of this exhibition today by the offense.
Another totally shitty game for Kappy. But the pass to Crabs should have been a TD.
The NFL is now an inferior product. I’m losing interest. The Niner season is done.
I didn’t think that Kap catch was a TD. The ball did not break the plane. The next two calls were bogus. Totally appropriate disaster of a last series to end a disastrous game. The offense looked like it hadn’t practiced in 6 months. Harbaugh will be hard pressed to explain this one…
I meant the Crabby catch…
What he initially caught the ball, it was half way over the goal line.
I don’t know what the defense could have done differently. They did fine without Bowman, without Willis, against a turd of an offense. You hold the other guys to 13, you should win. This Niner offense is just abysmal. Harbaugh and Roman have managed to channel Sing and run this thing into the ground…
Well, the consistency that they’ve had on the O line is gone. Injuries, holdouts, and penalties all lead to this bullshit performance. Both tackles looked lost. Martin struggled badly. Everyone looked bad.
Not a game to build on. The defense played fine. But Drew Brees is a little better than Austin Davis. Can’t believe they figured out how to fuck that all up.
Wilson just threw a pick. Go Raiders
Overturned… Typical Raiders.
Unless the Niner OLine figures out what is going on, this team is headed for 9-7, or worse. The blueprint for other D’s has been set up. Lots of pressure, and this offense stalls like a flooded old car. No ability to block the pressure, or get WRs open quick; no screens, no quick traps. Call long winded plays and barely get them off before calling a TO, Kap makes bad choices under pressure. Keep calling play action when Kap barely has time to decide and throw in the shotgun. No ability to get plays off quickly when you have to do it. Totally incompetent look for the entire offense…
What a stench! I feel sorry for the suckers at Levi. I hope they don’t get too mad at the traffic going home. ONE BIG BLEEP!
New Orleans has been feeling it the last few games. Even with Willis back, the Superdome visit looks like a real rough time for the Niners. They’ve already lost two at home (Bears, Rams) that you figured for Ws. If they lose to NOrleans, they’re probably out of the playoffs…
“When” is more apt.
Out of the playoffs if and when? The Niners postseason fate has been written. So shall it be done.
Bummer. Tough to see a path to the playoffs after losing the easy ones.
Kap sucked, play calling was abysmal, O line is AWOL, other than that everything is just peachy.
Hard to understand how after a week of “self scouting” the brain trust could be out scouted by the Rams.
What the hell took so long to move Kap out from under center to buy a little time? The Rams D line was in the backfield in less than 2 seconds just about every down. Run game? Nothing quick and no disguised plays to fool the pass rush.
The same basic problem persists. In general the O under performs in various ways week by week and it ain’t the talent that’s lacking. I seriously think Harbaugh made a grave error in sticking with Roman. Loyalty is a fine attribute but Roman is less than the sum of the parts. The talent on the team deserves better.
Niners have a tough road to the playoffs now and will rely on the Cards collapsing in order to make it. Not ready to throw in the towel but it is time they went all out to win, no margin for error or for the conservative close to the vest strategy that has not worked this year. They need to use this years personnel to their max potential and I just don’t think they have.
Crabs has been less than stellar, Davis has been a bust, the running game has not had blocking to run through, in fact the only thing that has shown much of anything has been the spread whether from under center or from the shotgun. Time for a come to Jesus rethink methinks.
Still think Kap is going to be the best NFL QB for the foreseeable future?
Kap > Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson?
Go punch the next guy who you see that is all “tatted up” standing on the street in the goddamn throat. You’ll be doing him, yourself, and society in general a huge favor.
I think Andrew Luck is the real deal. Wilson is not better than Kap for my money, he is further along the learning curve though.
I’m pretty sure 12th man is going to owe that Spitblood character $200. I’d hate to be the author of this blog’s potd.
What’s with you clowns hiding behind multiple screen names? You screw up your reputations because you are assholes then get stuck playing whack-a-mole until whatever blog you are on figures out you are worthless, which takes not very long at all.
I made no bet with anyone but you know that already of course. Time for another screen name ass wipe.