Well, game one came and went in the Jim Tomsula errror, uh era. All in all, the team looked good when the first and second stringers were playing. No major injuries, and the only minor one was to LB Desmond Bishop with a calf strain. The D line looked real nice stopping Hou 9 times inside the 10 yard line. Gaine Blabbert looked like not the 32nd best backup and made some nice underneath throws to the TEs. And surprising to me, the O line looked wholly serviceable in the first half. Kappy had the time to throw a deep ball to Torrey Smith, who blew past Hou’s 2 CBs. Kappy didn’t get enough air underneath it, but this is a play that these guys need to work on more to get the timing down. Gabbert had time to get the ball out clean without too much pressure. Granted, Hou didn’t play Watt, but the O line, which isn’t deep, played well. Til the backups came in, and Dylan Thompson was under siege in scrubbini time.
Jarryd Hayne had about a perfect day as one could hope for by doing great in PR/KR duties, and breaking off a 58 yard run in the 2nd quarter to set up the Niner TD.
The LBs were OK, and the coverage was fairly bleh, but we didn’t have our first unit out there for the most part. Dockett and Bowman didn’t play, and don’t expect to see a lot of them this preseason, but Bethea laid the wood a couple times, and the run D was stout, but I’m worried about the pass coverage.
Weird to say the least to see a 33 yard extra point. All in all, about what you’d hope for from game 1 of the preseason. No injuries, a nice TD drive, a nice goal line stand, and some points on the board from the 1st/2nd stringers. Houston won the battle of the Walmart brigade in the 2nd half 15-0, but the 1st and 2nd string won 10-8.
Forty Niners Forever 
There is no “body of evidence” outside ignorant speculation of fans who blame the coach because they don’t know any better. I just showed you Kaepernick had 19 seconds to get the team lined up and the ball snapped and he failed to do so.
Somebody just said the solution and the big push and hope for the new season was to get Kaepernick 20 seconds to line up, read the defense, make his adjustments and snap the ball. I just showed you the evidence that he had that and still couldn’t get the ball snapped in time.
On that particular play the defense started calling out “Run, run, run.” Kaepernick got rattled and tried too late to change the play. You blame the coach.
Sorry if the facts don’t conform to your view of the problem.
Yes, I definitely blame the coach. The system sucked. Let’s see if we have the same problem going forward this year. That should be your body of evidence.
Looks like the North Korean doesn’t like being identified and he’s fighting back. The poor little guy just longs for home so he affectionately calls us the North Korean blog. Can’t you guys just feel the love!
Actually I couldn’t give a rats ass what that dick head says.
True. But every time he speaks he is doing his comedy act. It is entertaining to laugh at the North Korean court jester. He just keeps providing his Harbaugh apologies while showing his lack of football acumen. They don’t have football in North Korea. He checks in here daily for his education and reprints what he has learned at the cancer site. It’s his show and tell to the other students.
Again, nofear, this has been a problem, noted by thousands of people including Harbaugh and Sing for 7 years now. One play does not release the onus on the other penalties and timeouts. If you want to cling to one play as your basis for the problem, have at it. Just don’t expect to be taken seriously.
that means one TD pass for Kappy means he’s God.
Saying there’s no body of evidence is ludicrous. Or willful ignorance. Nolan/Smith had problems with it. Sing/Smith as well. Sing/Hill did, Sing/T Smith did. Sing/JTO did. Sing/Carr did. Harbaugh/Smith did, as well as Harbaugh/Kappy.
But there’s nothing to support that it isn’t the coaches? How many combinations of players and coaches do you need to come to the conclusion that they are having problems with this? I What did they all share? 2 plays called for every play. Harbs had 4 guys making the decisions on 2 plays for every down. Then they had to relay the 2 plays to Kappy. And Smith before him. And in every case there were numerous occasions during games where we burned timeouts too fast or got penalized.
It was mission 1 this offseason. And it wasn’t about Kappy being too slow on the draw. It was geting the team onto the line much faster. That alone tells the story.
But yeah, Kappy had one penality called on hi last year. He caused 8 years of issues.
Chuck, the single statement from NF “there is no body of evidence” covers it. No point going beyond that. You can’t reason with the unreasonable.
Well, hell. Just trying to enlighten and inform.
Jesus. Revisionist history says we never had problems getting plays off. Yet I can point to 100 in-game posts of us taking needless timeouts or getting d-o-g penalties.
If it isn’t a problem, why has this come up about 1,000 times since the end of the season?
If this isn’t a problem, why is it issue 1 with this coaching staff?
Here’s an article from 2012
http://www.ninersnation.com/2012/11/3/3596042/49ers-penalties-2012-timeouts-delay-of-game-alex-smith-jim-harbaugh
The gist of the article:
“Whatever the case, this has developed into a fairly noticeable issue. Ideally they would use the bye week to rectify it, but if the length of play-calls is part of the problem, then I’m not sure there is really an in-season fix at this point. Any thoughts on this issue? This seems to be the biggest weakness for the Jim Harbaugh offensive coaching staff.”
A 2014 article:
http://www.ninersnation.com/2014/9/29/6861247/49ers-figure-out-a-way-for-colin-kaepernick-to-avoid-delay-of-game
Kaoppy gets the blame for one, but not both. The gist:
“We don’t know for certain what is going on with the delay of game penalties, so we can only be so critical. It could be Kap being slow to get through things. It could be the play-calling takes time getting two plays in. Whatever it is, there is clearly a problem that needs to be resolved. The 49ers were not quite as awful on stupid penalties in Week 4, but they more than made up for it with poor clock management.
Of course, this is not a new problem. We saw this back during Alex Smith’s time with the 49ers. What exactly is going on with this?”
Another article:
http://49ers.pressdemocrat.com/wont-miss-jim-harbaugh/
The gist:
But the worst was Harbaugh’s play-calling system. Just calling the play took him and his coaches forever. It seemed they burned timeouts to avoid delay penalties almost every game. Call it slapstick football.
From 2013:
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2013/02/ravens_49ers_super_bowl_the_small_decisions_that_cost_san_francisco_the.html
The gist:
“One of the more obvious foul-ups was San Francisco’s mismanagement of its timeouts in the second half. If the 49ers had any hope of coming back from down 22, it was certainly going to be close at the end, and timeouts were going to be invaluable. Had the 49ers retained all three timeouts, they would’ve gotten the ball back with about 1:22 to play and great field position, assuming they would’ve forced a Baltimore three-and-out. With two timeouts, San Francisco could have had 43 seconds left after a stop. In fact, with at least two timeouts, San Francisco would’ve had enough clock to kick the field goal on fourth down of what turned out to be its final possession, force a Baltimore punt, and then kick another field goal to win.”
Another 2014 article:
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/sports/20141227/jim-harbaughs-four-years-as-49ers-coach-closing-in-on-the-end
The gist:
When the 49ers lost that Super Bowl — 34-31 to the Baltimore Ravens in the “HarBowl” — the cruel ending saw three incompletions from Kaepernick to Crabtree, from the 5-yard line. During that finish, Harbaugh had to call a timeout to prevent a delay-of-game penalty, foiling a possible touchdown run by Kaepernick and defining the clock-management issues that plagued the Harbaugh era.
2013 article:
http://www.bayareasportsguy.com/timeout-do-the-49ers-have-a-clock-management-crisis/
The gist:
Fans gnash their teeth; writers ask what’s going on. “That was us not getting the play in on time,” said Jim Harbaugh in response to a question after Sunday’s game about the “play clock issues.”
Is this enough body of evidence? The head coach readily admits it.
Minor point: Your “evidence” is things you say, mostly made up bullshit, not facts. That’s conjecture not evidence.
Minor point 2: Despite whatever you think is going on in the play-calling scenario there is no helmet radio communication from the sideline after the play clock hits fifteen seconds.
Minor point 3: Combination plays are common these days. One play with built in options. All the QB needs to do is call that play in the huddle. “Kill”ing the primary option activates the alternative without having to audible a different play.
Calling two plays in the huddle is a rhythm killer. IMO, it is really stupid.
Minor point 4. Everyone points to a problem you don’t say exists. Yet when faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, you point to one play as the reason.
My evidence is years of articles saying the team has a problem getting plays run on time.
You think I wrote all those articles? I didn’t even paraphrase them. Those are quotes.
You know, evidence.
An article of speculation. Where’s the beef? These articles pose questions not facts that identify the source of a problem. Why not post a youtube video with a catchy lyric for proof?
You make your living making up shit. I never said there was no problem. I refuted the widely accepted notion here that the coach was delaying the games by forcing Kaepernick to get the play off with no time left. It’s pure bullshit and I offered proof in facts which you rejected like water on the wicked witch in the land of oz where wild theories pass for truth.
So let’s see if we have problems getting the ball snapped in rhythm this year. That alone will be the evidence of proof for me. What I see is more important than some numbers that don’t add up. In one pre-season game the evidence is showing it was Harbaugh. But if you want to wait until the regular season to compare, OK. I can wait.
Well a know I shouldn’t but I don’t want the site with the best bloggers I know to be referred to as
The pyongang n.k. chapter of the fairyland blog. Has become the jackass comedy site.
I guess the big reason was BUlIITT thinking his post about us being 6th in the league in pre snap penalties. This he says means
The apologists argument
Has no legs to stand on and is just another straw man and means nothing in the big picture. It falls apart and is scattered by the slightest breeze
Has no legs to stand on and is just another straw man and means nothing in the big picture. It falls apart and is scattered by the slightest breeze
I feel like I’m in the twilight zone.
First NOFEAR says kap caused the delay of games and now BULLIT says this
As we who actually know what we’re watching presnap penalties include other unrelated penalties like false starts. We were in fact a league worst in both number and yards of DELAY OF GAME penalties.
This matters big time. The other top 5 teams were all bottom feeders
We here know who are the stat checkers and apologists and which blog is the comedy jackass blog
We here know who are the stat checkers and who are
Different coaches, different QBs, different offenses and similar systems produced the same results. Problems getting plays off. And you point to one play as being the answer to it all. Brilliant.
So according to you all our QBs from Rattay to Hill to JTO to Smith to Weinke to D Carr to T Smith to Kappy now ALL had problems getting the team to the line in a timely manner? Because as these articles explain, this has been an issue for a loooong time.
One instance does not refute 8 years of problems.
You make your living being obtuse and vague with your comments (6-10 to 10-6!). Disavowing the obvious is also one of your traits. The fact that you can’t connect the dots as well explains a lot. You cherry pick factoids to support your shakey assumptions.
Beyond the fact that a delay of game penalty may have cost the team a Super Bowl title, yeah, these delay of game, and time management issues bear no significance whatsoever.
Behind the lace doily.
Yeah, ignorance is bliss over there. Anyone caught refuting the rule of law over there is banished.
Troll as a girl? Fine. Troll as a troll? Fine. Bring up opposing viewpoints? Nope. Sorry. Troll and bait? Fine, as long as it is the accepted viewpoint.
Revisionism.
Gee………I don’t think Chuck and “Constant Fear” are going to exchange Xmas Cards.
Rob- You hit that one on the head. Bullit is completely out of touch and showing his lack of football acumen. We led the league with delay of game penaltiesa but he is trying to include all pre snap penalties to obfuscate with his straw man. I guess that is what they teach in North Korea, the North Korean is trying to fill us with propaganda to make us think a lie is the truth.
I love it when he calls us North Korea. It shows how much he misses home.
Chuck, I think I lost a couple of posts in the spam filter.
I restored them, Bergs. Not sure why they got caught.
As usual, Bullit doesn’t understand what just transpired. Poor little fuck-tard. He thinks he did another ‘gotcha.’ Something that appears to be very important in his insignificant existence. All he proved was his stupidity in his rush to make some kind of point.
NoFear said there was no ‘body of evidence’ of a time management problem. I provided articles (not posts, dumbshit) proving otherwise going back to the previous QB.
Get it? Of course not. Hyuk!
The North Korean says it’s not a big deal but he spends over half his day refuting what we say. If he stepped back and read what he writes he would realize what an idiot he is.
Well BERGER BULLITT just grudgingly acknowledged the point we were making but vehemently denies that was the cause if the “downward spiral”
I’m led to believe by that, that he’s not too happy harbaugh is gone.
I think Jed letting himself get led around by the nose by Baalke was the problem, not Harbaugh. Who sabotages the HC before a game has been played? Only an idiot with a Napoleonic complex, that’s who. At least Napoleon was a genius.
I think Baalke’s been the problem for years. I hated Scotty and I was dead wrong; I admit it. Look at our SB losing team. Scotty’s plus Harb’s QB. With mixed draft positions, look at Baalke’s team we have today. It sucks.
I’m not going to waste time arguing the subject. You guys have been doing that endlessly for months. I’m going to focus on the season. I’ve got my opinion and it’s not going to change. You believe otherwise;; that’s fine. Our opinions change absolutely nothing.
RT- Obviously I disagree but your opinion is OK with me. I don’t mind people disagreeing. Having people put up false and misleading info to prove they’re right and then being called names about it is a whole different situation.
RT
I hate the whole dueling blog thing. If you want my take on who the real villain is just take a quick peek at my last post there