It’s pretty early in camp, but it is becoming apparent that the offensive line is thin to say the least. Daniel Kilgore hasn’t recovered, and in fact had a ‘clean-up’ procedure to help heal his ankle. As it is now, he’s still in a boot, and isn’t looking to be off the injured list before the end-of-camp deadline barring some kind of miraculous recovery. Which means he’s out the first six games. With AD’s untimely retirement, this leaves the 49ers very thin at RT. Marcus Martin is still learning, but the Niners would love to plant him at RG while Kilgore gets the Center duties. Eric Pear is pretty much a turd from everything I’ve read about the guy. I don’t see him magically being spectacular, but serviceable, even? Hard to say, but it doesn’t look good. They are even trying rookie Trent Brown at RT. At least early in camp.
As of now, Joe Looney is getting the majority of the snaps at C, so that would put Martin at RG. Tomsula has pencilled in Alex Boone at LG apparently in case Joe Staley goes down and they need a smooth transition. This seems risky as the right side of the line looks to be pretty weak and inexperienced. Brandon Thomas would appear to be the rover a la JMart, just not as sucky.
I think at this point we need to find a RT soon. One better than Pears. If only for depth. Shit, he’s injury-prone, but get Sam Baker. I can’t find out of he’s ready to go or not, but they should look. Oniel Cousins may be the only guy out there worse than Pears, so they can avoid him. Other than that, there’s always the chance they can pick up someone from the upcoming cut-down days.
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Oh, the internet . . .
Instead of walking the line, I liked it better when June Carter was dancing on a pony keg in Jackson!
You are very famous on the Commie blog, Bergs . . .
One of the things that is really good about Kaepernick is he was smart enough to seek other coaching than RoBaugh. He realized the coaching he was getting was not good enough to continue to improve his abilities so he went to get other opinions. Very smart!
The coaching he received from Exos in 5 weeks was probably more educational than the 3 years he had with RoBaugh. We will see soon.
The other thing that will be important is to see if we run an offense that makes sense. The RoBaugh offense sometimes seemed to rely too much on Kap making a big play to save their asses. I would rather have an offense with some rhythm and a scheme that makes sense.
Unca- This is the post that gave the North Korean Harbaugh apologist a stroke. Somebody should explain to him that his last coach was RoBaugh. I do understand that the North Korean apologist would want to try and forget that. Who doesn’t. When Kap didn’t get the necessary coaching here, he went elsewhere. The Harbaugh apologists can’t handle truth. We have yet to see what kind of coaching he gets this year. Kap did not want to wait. He was yearning to learn. Very smart!
Wow. Nofear wonders why Kappy didn’t get help earlier. Well maybe because he played well dunbass. Remember? 2 NFC championship games and and a super bowl?
Funny you weren’t complaining then. Meanwhile there WERE problems back then with getting plays off. Too many 3 and outs. Poor 3rd down co version rates. Things Kappy overcame with his athleticism.
Funny that some of us remember a couple years ago. Nofear is busily rewriting it.
Because he trusted his coaches, until he didn’t. It was obvious why he had to stop trusting the coaches, his team mates were calling out the dumb schemes while the system for play calling didn’t allow to get the ball snapped on time. We led the league in delay of game penalties. It pissed the players off, just listen to Boone who explained it today. Jed fired them and Kap got some help on his own. Most fans understand this. The Harbaugh apologists deny and cry, especially the North Korean Harbaugh apologist..
It really is amazing how the POV’s on kappy differ. I still think the kid has a very high ceiling that he hasn’t come close to achieving. However I still think the main dividing line between our blogs is “H”, I know I won’t miss him, not after last year. If we stink up the place then we’ll just have to try something else.
I concur.
It’s reality that the Harbaugh apologists are denying and crying about.
Thing is they have a built n excuse for a downturn, if it does happen. I think they would have sucksd with the barb/Roman Scheme in place another yeAr.
In the end t doesn’t matter but for the assholery on that side of the geofootball spectrum. I just want to see a more effective offense.
I don’t know how effective the coaching and scheme will be but I am enjoying the press interaction with the coaches so far and hearing some actual information is refreshing.
That Harbaugh “trusted agents” shit was ridiculous.
He had a trusted agent in the North Korean apologist.
The one area that can be lesser in talent and somewhat overcome is O-line. Play calling is the most important thing to overcome a poor line. Bill Walsh proved that in his early years. In fact he drafted only one O-lineman in the first round. A poor line does take away some plays that need to called but sometimes life is a bitch. If a team has a weakness ion defense it will be exposed, some weaknesses on offense can be lessened with a good play caller. There is no way to get around a bad D-line or a bad QB. Luckily we are in good shape at both positions.
We don’t know how good the O-line will be. So far the reports don’t sound good. We know RoBaugh’s play calling couldn’t survive a bad O-line. They would just rely on Kap bailing them out with big plays with their college offense. My hope is out biggest upgrade this off season is with the play calling. That could really help mitigate the problems of a leaky line if indeed that is what we have.
Meanwhile on the “other” blog, Bullit is lambasting this blog and Mr. Berger in particular as being demented and full of propaganda. How dare someone be optimistic about the 49ers!
In North Korea education is not a trusted agent and paranoia is paramount. The North Korean apologist is proving this.
Well, it looks like we’ll be running left this year. Hey, it’s ear;y, but I’d like to see us get better on the right side. Or Brandon Thomas make a push to start at RG and get Evan Mathis. Something.
Yeah. they all want Kappy to go back in time to get more offseason training. You know, they were clamoring about it 2 years ago. Right? Oh, yeah, they weren’t. Meanwhile some of us saw the shortcomings with this offense through the past few years.
Revisionists all of them. Too funny.
Who cares what the cancer blog and the North Korean apologist thinks. I’m a 49er fan. They are Harbaugh fans. They just keep apologizing for Harbaugh. They have gone so far at apologizing they are keeping a Harbaugh score board. I’ll be watching the 49ers and hoping for the best while they’ll be hoping for losses to protect their precious reputations.
Kim Jung Skeebs?
It’s like perpetual ground hog day. Who gives a shit, it’s over for fucks sake.
Go Niners!
Actually, Bullit is the North Korean apologist. I guess since Skeebers runs the site he could be Kim Jung Skeebs. He did delete my posts in the same fashion Unca did which made Bullit compare this site to North Korea. So the analogy is accurate. I don’t have a problem with being deleted, I’m just following the North Korean apologist’s logic.
One thing I will be watching this year is how well Roman does in Buffalo. If he does well then we know Harbaugh was the problem with the offense. If he doesn’t do well then it was Roman. It always cracked me up that a former nose tackle was trying to teach Kap how to be a good QB. To think Harbaugh would help out there was mitigated by watching RoBaugh run a college offense that opposing DCs salivated to be able to strategize against. Load the box and take away the deep pass was all they needed to do.
Yeah, the whole quarterback whisperer that Harbaugh was supposed to be doesn’t really fly. Luck was Luck. Harbaugh had little to nothing to do with him. JJ? Meh. Alex? His numbers post Jimmy-hat and pre Harbs (the Mike Johnson era) are identical to what Harbaugh got out of him. Kappy regressed a little last year due to poor coaching/play calling and a dogshit line. I just think it’s hysterical folks are clamoring for Kappy to get schooled up 3 years ago. If they work on anything beyond the timing/getting out of their breaks faster, its the red zone offense. These have been glaring issues for a while now.
Seeing Gore wearing the white and blue 23 yesterday was odd I must say. I wonder if he goes out like Gore, or Franco Harris. RBs changing teams late in their careers doesn’t seem to work well. Hope to see him keep it rolling though. He’s defying the odds every year.
Crabs is being a training camp wonder so far in Oaktown. Hope his feet hold out, and he doesn’t get a bad pair of shoes. Maybe he’ll wear his Dallas shoes he’s so proud of. . .
yeah, it’s gonna be strange seeing Gore in fucking blue. i do wish him the best, he was a great 49er. And it’s funny but i wish Oakland would be relevant again. I kinda feel sorry for some old friends.
I’ll be rooting for the Colts and Gore this year! Plus, Luck is a special QB. If I was starting a team and had one player to start it around it would be Luck.
Luck is the only young QB I would take over Kap at this point in time.
Roman? Buffalo? Right. Can you say 6-10? Manuel is fair to middling at best. Their run game is crap till proven otherwise. McCoy will help, but how much? He’s got a toe injury, and Boobie Dixon is possibly out for a long while with a calf injury. Rex Ryan brings his usual bluster and bullshit, and non-existent offense, but it signifies nothing. He’s eating dog biscuits now . . .
Buffalo’s ace in the hole is the leader of the robot resistance in FB John Connor, but I just don’t see Roman as the guy to fire up a moribund offense.
Rex is one of the best DCs in the league. Look what he did for the JETS especially when he had Revis, fergawdsake. He’ll turn the Bills into something better than what they’ve been, I guar-own-tee it.
I don’t like Roman overall, but he will install a good running game. That’s his thing.
I realized in retrospect that I forgot that the Bills were a decent team last year, 9-7 with a Top 5 defense. What they need is offense. A QB might come in handy. (I never understood why T-Rex wouldn’t give Tebow a chance in NY. He’s not my guy, but I still like him better than Sanchez.}
It will be interesting. Rex really has the pieces to make an awesome defense, and ride that as far as it goes.
yeah, I can’t wait to see how all the players and coaches who left the team are doing. And, it’s all that
goddamned Jed’s fault the forking eyeshole.
Imagine waking up and being Bullet. Imagine thinking like he does. Every ill is blamed on Jed York.
“Imagine waking up and being Bullet” AKA Paris Hilton, what a drama queen.
Niners released CB Chris Cook.
http://49ers.pressdemocrat.com/49ers-release-cb-chris-cook/