Well, the 2015 season is underway. Let’s check in on the doings around the league. One thing I noticed is the Rams have a very fast defense. Foles looked pretty good against a fairly weak Seattle secondary. AZ looked very good on defense as well. Their O? Well, as previously noted, they live and die by Palmer. If they can keep him upright, they are solid. Seattle Looks a little discombobulated. Their O line looks horrible as Wilson got sacked 6 times, and they couldn’t give Lynch enough room to get a 1st on 4th and one to keep their last drive alive. And no, this wasn’t the Super Bowl. This was a different team with a different line. Same outcome though. Hah!
Other than that, Denver looks shakey as Manning looked pretty frail out there. He threw a lot of ducks. Then again so did Flacco. 2 good D’s in a FG fest. Greg Roman had an auspicious debut, scoring 27 points against a VERY soft indy defense. 150 on the ground, and 195 in the air is the usual recipe for Greg. Buff has a stout defense, so Tyrod (Straight Outta Nowhere!) Taylor and Co. look like a legit team at this point. The Bears came up short yet again to the Packers. Maybe GB improved their pass defense. Or maybe it was just Cutler.
The Cowboys reffed their way to an improbable comeback win, Alex and KC beat the Houstons, the Bolts scored 23 2nd half points to blow past Detroit, and in the battle of first 2 draft picks, Marcus Mariota annihilated Jameis Winston as the Titans smoked the Buccos.
Aaaand, stop me if you’ve heard this before, but the Browns and the Raiders were both obliterated to start their seasons. David Carr was hurt trying to stiff-arm a defender (doh!), and McCown was hurt trying to score on a one yard plunge. Instead he fumbled out of the end zone and suffered a concussion. Johnny Football made a nice toss to give Cleve a 7 point lead, but a pick and 2 4th quarter fumbles sealed Cleve’s fate.
The Niners? Well, who knows? I feel we will be able to stop a rusty AP. However, if he gets to the 2nd level consistently we are in trouble. Teddy Bridgewater? He’s an unknown to me. 6-6 as a starter last year, 14 TDs 12 INTs. 224 ypg? Decent numbers for a rook. For us, its all about the O. Move the chains and sustain drives, and we should be good. One thing I noticed this preseason was a LOT of TE drag routes. Love it. As much as we like to use VD deep, teams easily took that away last year and that seemed to clog up the rest of the passing game. Torrey Smith will keep defenses honest (that’s the hope) and the underneath passes to Hyde/VD/Boldin should flourish.
Run blocking looked solid, pass pro not so much. The line was a work-in-progress all preseason. We’ll see the real thing tonight…
Forty Niners Forever 
Miss!!
Dodged a bullet. Battle of the Ugly so far.
Yeah, I said the same thing, RTF> The Rams got the better end of the Foles/Bradford trade.
It was weird, though. Bradford looked good in the second half. But only 8 carries for DeMarco? Most of those I saw in the second half when they started clicking. Maybe I missed something. I saw two swing passes to DeMarco early????? Matthew dropped another big pass early, not just the last O play. Just ugly, but Foles would have found a way.
Love the fast paced offense. If we can keep up the run, we’ll get Smith open deep.
Fucking Hochuli.
Bridgewater has a funky looking delivery, to me. 2 of his first 3 throws were way off the mark.
Mostly good so far
Took Bush, what, 3 plays to go out?
What a concept! A blitz! Tartt can fly!
That was The Blitz of the Year. Too bad on Hayne’s first ever play.
Looks like Bush is done for the year. Unbelievable.
Maybe the Aussie will get a chance to redeem himself now with Bush out.
The guy fielded punts cleanly the entire preseason, then bones the first on in the regular season. I guess you chalk that one up to nerves. Hopefully.
The wind blew it short and fooled him.
The D is looking mighty tough so far, and on all fronts.
Love it he goes for it lol
Fuck Bush. That run should have gone to Hyde.
Christ. Penalties.
Fuck me.
All of these runs should be going to Hyde, especially on a 3rd and 1. Since when is Reggie Bush a between-the-tackles runner?
LOL
My best buddy just says to me
Um why are the 49ers uniforms like that
OMG
They look like power rangers
That was not a first down
As long as they kick ass like the power rangers, I’m good with it.
“Unexcuseable.” That’s Trent Dilfer, ladies and gentleman, college graduate.
Bethea with a hell of a play. Got a little arm bar in there.
That worked out nice.
Big Tank with his first sack of the year.
OK, can we play clean now?
Hyde can turn the corner nicely. Great block by Miller.
Nice
Carlos Hyde
Special teams ace
Mcray
Another Baalke find
Great GM
Penalties and mental errors killing the Niners so far. Hayne with another great dead-leg juke.
Nope.
Need the defense to create a turnover at this rate.