Well, there you go. An offense that struggled against some bad teams was completely overmatched by Seattle. This season is pretty much lost , so I guess the Harbaugh watch starts tomorrow. Frankly, I’m pissed this offense has been pretty much a failure. I’m at the point where I don’t know if the coaching staff has fucked Kaepernick to the point of his indecision and not trusting himself, or if he just isn’t getting past his 1st read and just chucking away.
Beyond this game, Roman has been a failure throughout this season. Kaepernick hasn’t grown as a QB, and the new weapons we have were basically ignored after week 8. VD has been a disaster, Crabs has been fair to middling, and the run game has disappeared. Boldin has been the only consistent WR on the team, and the parade of backup TEs have done nothing. I heard Collinsworth say t0night that he saw Harbaugh start to take over the play calling in the middle of the 3rd quarter. How he knew that I don’t know, but if it took Jimbo this long to figure the play calling needs help, then I don;t know what he has been watching these past 10 weeks.
Where are we as a team? Well, the defense is beyond awesome. Despite killer injuries. The offense? I don;t know. Harbaugh may have resurrected Alex Smith’s career, but I think he’s breaking Colin Kaepernick.
Forty Niners Forever 
For me, when guys like Staley and Crabtree call out ‘The Scheme’, it seems as though it means ‘Game Plan’.
To hear guys like Sherman suggest that he knows what’s coming simply reminds me that we continue to draw up game plans with crayons.
We’ve struggled to beat poor Defenses like the NYG and DC.
We’ve looked ordinary on Offense for weeks, if not months this year.
The idea is to find momentum this time of year.
We aren’t close.
Why Kaep felt compelled to challenge Sherman suggests he’s got something in the Macho Dept to prove too.
The old adage is, take what the Defense gives you.
Maybe the Coaches could devise something to exploit other matchups?
NJ- While watching the game on Thursday I kept thinking the best thing Kap could in that game was one read and run. Obviously some think that is bad but sometimes you do what it takes to win. In the long run that wouldn’t be good but the running lanes were open from what I saw. If I were observing from upstairs I would have told Kap to take off if his 1st read is not open. I don’t get the sense our coaches would make those kind of in game adjustments.
Berger Kaep is a fish out of water as it looks to me right now.
I agree, win the matchup no matter the cost.
I seriously think our game plans are too conservative.
Nothing changes much from week to week.
Definition of insanity to me. Keep doing the same ridiculous nonsense and expect the results to change.
In a matchup against your biggest nemesis, one would think we could have had something new to offer.
What exactly were we saving Carlos for?
Seattle managed to get Turbin into the screen game.
We don’t even have a screen game.
All I can come back with is, we play checkers when the opponents play chess.
I can’t defend Kaep in this game either.
Coaches don’t make the throws.
He had a piss poor showing in terms of accuracy and decision making.
There’s plenty of blame all around with that outing.
Hope they enjoyed watching Seattle feast on their logo too.
Wake the eff up and do something about it.
IMO, we are trying to run the most used offense in the NFL. Half the teams use 3 wide as base. Statistically, it is the most used formation because it keeps defenses off balance. They can’t hone in on one area when run correctly. Our coaches have tried to learn it on their own. Defense know how to defense it. The beauty of the offense is there is no way to defense it when it is being run correctly with the exception of a dominant D-line. But a dominant D-line beats any offense. Our coaching staff should have hired some help to install this new offense. The first thing they would learn is they over complicate it. The 2nd thing they would learn is it is often a hot read offense and hot reads are not something we don’t use much. It is how to beat the blitz. We just expect our line to pick up the blitz and then blame the player execution when the QB is sacked. Now I’m reading there is no direction because there are too many cooks. If Jim can’t get this under control he has to go whether I like him as a coach nor not. Like Jed said, this is unacceptable.
For me it looks like the Seahawks have Harbaugh’s number. That has gotten into Jimi and Kap’s heads. They have no answer. Kap looks rushed when he plays Seattle. The coach should recognize that and adjust the game plan. It isn’t happening. IMO, they need to simplify and that would allow for easier execution by the players. Probably not going to happen with so many cooks. They’ll give Kap another bad game plan and he’ll look the same next time we play Seattle.
NJ I do think Jed could have been much more supportive and Demanded those 2 work together which from what we saw publicly he didn’t. Not a word, just let it fester. That’s on Jed. That looks like passive-aggression. Water under the bridge now and it’s too damn late to fix it. Makes me wonder what the next HC will face?
From ownership to the OL this is not a cohesive team.
Silver and Black baby…
Hard to understand why Stevie and Bling aren’t seeing more opportunities either.
Kaep missed Stevie several times on Thursday night, and forced balls to each while Sherman was in coverage.
Why not get those guys on the LBs if possible?
Crossing routes are not something Kaep throws well, or often enough for me.
Either you teach it, practice it or, you’ll never perfect it.
Something stinks in this entire Offensive system of ours.
I’m hard pressed to have an answer but, it’s pretty obvious the results are not going to win us any Championships as currently constructed.
Bottom line Berger, if Jim can’t beat Carroll, what good is he to us?
I expected much more competition from Jim too.
Likely, Baalke and Jed did as well.
Until you beat them, they own you.
Pete and his Staff have proven worthy of the prize.
It’s up to Jim to prove he can overcome it.
If not, good luck in your next endeavor.
Jim brought his College Staff along, with few adjustments.
Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize the College scheme isn’t cutting it in the NFL.
Bingo
NJ- I watched Devin Funchess of Michigan. He is the real deal. He catches balls below his knees in stride. He catches everything in his hands. I think if he is on the board he is our guy.
We’ll see what comes Berger.
He is a big target, something we could definitely use.
Saw a good NT today from Baylor.
Andrew Billings.
Only a Sophomore though so, we’ll have to wait.
Eddie Goldman from FSU will be coming out.
Got a chance to see him today.
He was a nice interior player too.
Eric Branch has a few thoughts too:
http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2014/11/28/topping-49ers-holiday-wish-list-effective-offense/
12th anyone of us here could have written that article I think.
When it comes to Offensive creativity, our Coaches Crayola box is missing a few colors.
Putrid display of ineptitude.
Most telling perhaps?
Frank Gore’s response to us having the best talent he’s seen on Offense in his 10 years.
Agreed NJ, more astounding is how some guys refuse to see it.
Looks to me like mutiny will commence with the next loss.
Likely in Seattle in 2 weeks.
They’re lucky to have survived the NYG and DC games IMO.
I did however think we could have scored 20 vs Seattle.
In hindsight, had we done that, we’d have won.
Think where we’d be without Fangio and our D.
Should not have had to come to this but here we are, 1 more loss, and don’t kid yourself, that could be the Raiders.
If they overlook Oakland 12th it certainly could.
I’ve got this sinking feeling that the locker room might have seen enough of our ‘business as usual’ approach after Thursday night.
Flat out embarrassing.
I just hope they all got a good look at Russell and Sherman feasting on the mid field logo.
If that doesn’t motivate them, they’re done now.
One College HC I’m pretty impressed with is Aldon’s former College Coach Gary Pinkel of Mizzou.
Seems he has ties to Saban and Jack Lambert of all people.
He put the Mizzou Tigers on the map during his tenure there.
Might be someone worth considering if we go shopping for a new HC.
He also had Blaine Gabbert during that stint.
From what I’ve read, he’s signed through 2015 at under $3M/yr.
Might be worth some consideration, seeing as he’s beaten some pretty prominent opponents in some big games over the years.
I think I’m done with college coaches for now. Brees’s OC’s pretty innovative. Certainly gotten a lot of offense out of that little guy. He was semi mobile back in the day.
Anything is worth consideration at this point Chuck.
Problem with OCs is whether they’ve ever run an entire team.
Assembling a cohesive Staff doomed Singletary too.
The HC needs to delegate, communicate and assemble a game plan with the pieces he has to operate with week to week.
One thing a College HC provides is motivation to succeed.
I think the real roadblock right now is Harbaugh being too stubborn to realize he isn’t improving things.
How Mangini was appointed to TE Coach suggests to me that Harbaugh can’t delegate and coordinate well enough.
As Barrows suggested with his piece about too many cooks.
Who glues all this talent together?
Too fragmented and counter-productive.
As you, and many of us have identified, there’s plenty of room to improve Kaep.
Can’t take the fish out of water and expect him to survive.
Tailor a plan to maximize his strengths and improve his weaknesses.
I actually think Kaep has regressed since last year.
Find a guy who’s organized and motivated then provide him with the talent to succeed.
Takes a guy who’s got the ambition to survive and take the next step.
Harbaugh seems to be stuck in his ways.
The Pro game is all about being creative and a willingness to adapt.
We’re stuck on conservative.
Seattle picked on Borland with good success too.
Any decent coordinator exploits matchups.
We’ve added Bling and Stevie and pretty much have them running the same routes as Q and Crabtree.
What purpose does that serve?
Most everything we run involves a catch and a fall.
Very few routes are thrown open or produce YAC.
A crosser or a slant, if timed and executed properly, should give the Receiver a chance to gain yardage.
Ours rarely do.
As Seattle did with Turbin, get your weapons into favorable matchups.
Think a little. Get creative.
Harbaugh’s falling prey to what killed Nolan and Singletary, and that’s believing his own press clippings and getting hard-headed regarding the offense. In all cases it comes down to ‘here’s what we are doing. Try to stop it.’ Invariably defenses adjust and solve this team.
None of these guys adapted to the changing situation around them.
Nope.
Plain and simple, it isn’t working Chuck.
Unfortunately, Harbaugh isn’t adapting in any meaningful way.
He had all off season to find something to out scheme Pete with and, he flat out blew it.
Seattle moved the pocket for Russell, he kept plays alive.
Their Defense was able to hem Kaep in and pretty much neutralized him.
We can’t just keep making excuses about execution.
Practice should improve execution.
Obviously, our Defense must be shutting down our Offense pretty regularly in practice by the looks of it.
This sh!t is embarrassing.
One more nauseating loss and Jimi + Gro are gone, Tomsula or Fangio will be elevated. It could be as soon as the Raiders depending on how many more O players say “No mas”. Say we win that one, then we limp into SEA and very likely get pasted by 2-3 TDs and look like crap again. That will be it for the Harbaugh regime.
Chargers and Cards could beat the Niners at home to wind this stinker up 7-9 or 8-8. Only thing I could see preventing this sad outcome is ‘everybody’ on O feeling big relief and having a burst of energy/enthusiasm.
Then we will see if Baalke can ‘draft’ a new coaching staff.
We’ll see Phil.
Fangio could easily depart since he came in the same package as Harbaugh and GRo.
Right now the smart move is to have Harbaugh quit if he gets embarrassed in Seattle.
Likely won’t see that happen since he’d part with the final year’s payout.
Baalke would likely get the blessing from Jed to find a deal for Jim next year.
That could mean a deal with Oakland for a Pick(s) and, assuming the final year of his current Contract.
Mangini could be a short-term DC if necessary too.
In terms of talent, Baalke hasn’t done poorly IMO.
We need someone to get them all on the same page.
That’s the expectations from any Coaching Staff.
This whole thing is a rotting mess right now.
Can’t see them firing Jim and having to pay him the final $5M.
If they force Roman out, then Jim could easily resign.
I’m also figuring that Bowman will get shelved until next year too.
Right now, having him activated likely won’t change things dramatically.
Baalke has decisions to make on Vernon and Ahmad next year too.
Each is up there in terms of age and Contract value.
Add to that, Crabtree and Iupati enter into FA.
We’re able to obtain Comp Picks for both Iupati and Crabtree, which are high end Comp values, as both are former 1st RD Picks.
Vernon and Ahmad could return lesser value Picks too.
Lots of changes coming by the looks of it.
Berger, what’s funny is you slinking over here crying about some “hanging posse” that you instigated, championed and set yourself up as gatekeeper for on Alex Smith. Now faced with some disagreement you tuck tail and go to another blog to cry about what you started. Hilarious.
FYI, the numbers I gave you are the same numbers in the article you praised for being factual, and from the same source. Do you think you might be guilty of a bit of bias when reading? No wonder you get it wrong so often.
I guess the snarky is easier to dish than take if you’re in the PI. If you’re that butt hurt over it maybe not start it up in the first place PI.
You posted the same numbers but only the ones you wanted us to see to sell a bill of false goods. It is what Bullit does with his Kap bashing. No mention ever of a coaching staff that is obviously losing control. You only see what you want to see. That article told a broader array of facts. It was actually worth reading instead of your info based on us needing only to think your way.
The reason I left until there is some kind of change in coaching is I am sounding like a broken record trying to point out all angles. Thje hanging posse is sounding like a broken record trying to hang the QB. Their is nothing more to say over there for now that isn’t just repeating the same thing over and over. The only thing I get there is hang the QB. Not very informative. Now that all the info is coming out about the discombobulation of the coaching staff I think the hanging posse would start to question their thought process but that is not what hanging posse’s do. I get a more intelligent conversation here for now.
Yes NJ the shortcomings on O we blogged about endlessly here and Skeebs are exposed for all to see on prime time TV. Even passive-aggressive Jed is embarrassed and angry. Not surprising it’s come to this as ‘nothing’ was done to resolve issues w/ HC-GM and JH/Gro had no clue how to build a decent O. So, sad as it is, this is no surprise.
Well we’ll see if Baalke can get on target twice and get a decent HC and staff. I do hope so and we will see next year. What do you think of the idea of Fangio becoming HC and him hiring an OC?
That might be workable, you think?
Well Phil, same scenario applies to Fangio as it did for Singletary.
Having resources to assemble a Staff would be paramount to his success.
If we believe the press clippings, Tomsula would likely get the nod ahead of Vic.
At this point, our Offense is the steaming pile of garbage in need of some qualified assistance.
Kaep needs a mentor-type.
I’ve thought about Shanahan but, he’s up there in terms of age now so, I’m not sure how viable he’d be.
I do know Shanny was very instrumental in getting Steve Young into the elite level of QB play and, I would like to see more WCO elements involved for Kaep.
While this season is likely over, we’ll have plenty of ‘blog-fodder’ to keep us busy in the off season 😀
Yadayadayada same old same old
Yeah Bowman won’t be back quite likely. This season is very close to a wrap
One thing that is depressing me Phil, (among many), is that I have a ritual of leaving my 9er flag outdoors until our Season is officially over.
Looks like I’ll be pulling it down in December for the 1st time in several years.
I was kinda getting used to playing football in January 😥
I like the idea of Shanahan as a consultant or OC if he was up for it. Young turned out pretty good.
I mention Fangio because he has stated his ambitions to be a HC and easiest transition would be to make him HC here and keep some kind of continuity on D. Rather than see him bolt or get booted by a new HC.
Hard to predict what’s coming at this point Phil.
This pot of festering feces has been boiling for quite some time now.
It finally looks to have reached critical mass with the Turkey Day meltdown for all the world to see.
I’ve got nothing but respect for the job Fangio has done with this Defense since he inherited it.
Not impossible to think Baalke could assemble a piece meal staff around Vic or Tomsula if necessary.
Part of the issue, likely a BIG part is, Jim being loyal to GRo and others on his Staff.
Asking a HC to cut off a finger to save his hand, isn’t an easy option for him apparently.
Many of us, myself included, feel that GRo is doing what Jim wants him to do anyway.
Thus, making GRo the scapegoat wouldn’t sit well with Jim.
Simple truth is, Jim had a golden opportunity to win the Lombardi several times over the past 3 years and couldn’t find the magic bullets when he needed them for the kill shot.
Now, it looks like the competition has found his kryptonite.
Jim’s bag of tricks is apparently empty at this point.
I just can’t understand how we continued to rely on Kaep to throw on Thursday night, with little or no effort made, to give Carlos and Frank an extended diet of carries against a Seattle D that was missing some key components on the interior DLine?
Run from multiple WR sets if need be?
This lack of preparedness or, a diverse game plan is baffling to me.
Constantly wasting Offensive series and wearing out our D isn’t going to do anything positive.
We’ve got a young RB in Carlos, with very little mileage on him to this point of the year.
They’ve obviously saved the running game for the latter portion of the season for a reason.
When would you propose to use it?
Yes agree Jimi had his chances and I’m assuming the worst = that he’s gone along with GRo. Fine, what can we expect at this point with Jed tweeting shit which is a direct threat? One more loss = POW, out.
But looking ahead it would seem less disruptive to have Vic become HC which he says he wants, keep some continuity on D and his staff (except for DC?) , plus promote Tomsula the golden child. Just thinking of what might avoid the most trouble for the team which is in disarray on other side of ball (0). Vic might be the most important coach left “when” the axe falls. Why wouldn’t Jed/Baalke keep Jed?
Just being hopeful. Yes we don’t know any of the details…
Lot’s of sh!t to sort out Phil……stay tuned I guess?
NJ your questions on O are spot on and unfortunately point in one direction = piss poor coaching on O. I think owner/FO get this and are prepared to act. Hope they get a good replacement for next year. I would hate to have to root for a Harbaugh Raider team while NIners turn to shit.
Falls to knees beseeching Heaven: “Please God not THAT; I’ll be good I swear!”
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I sink or swim with the 9ers Phil but, I hear what you’re saying.