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 
My guy Taylor Mays off the streets to starting for the Raiders!!!
Yikes. How bad can it get?
Both safeties are out with serious injuries. The Raiders D is suspect as it is, Khalil Mack or not.
Another blitz! 2 more than we saw last year!
Steve Young and Jerry Rice are at the Giants game tonight.
A blitz followed by a 3 man rush? Dont like that.
2 generous spots there
Challenge the fucking play! That wasn’t a first down!
Calf injury for Bush, per ESPN.
Speaking of fast defenses, we don’t look too bad ourselves.
Need more touchdowns. They started the game going downfield, then went away from it. Keep Hyde going then start play-faking.
Yeah, saw that. Not too concerned about him. He’s good on the edge, but I still don;t get him up the middle on that play,
There ya go Jared!
Sorry, Jarryd!
It’s early season for bloggers too!
Chuck, the D does look sharp, secondary and line. Acker’s made a couple of nice tackles on runs.
Nice Kap
Nice aggressive d
These fucking holding penalties are killing us,
Ooooh. Illegal hands to the face! WTF?
I was just going to comment on how good they’ve been at getting the plays off, then this. The second half is a bad time to be burning early timeouts.
Better than burning 3 in the 1st quarter.
Shit. Bad throw there.
Gave the defense a nice long rest there.
Jimmie Ward is in the house!
Shit. Didn’t look like his knee, but losing Bowman won’t be good.
We need to get pressure. Blitz. Great to see Bowman back. Apparently he got kicked in the nuts.
49er cheerleaders look good in black.
how bout a turnover boys
Come on Noonan. Miss… Fuck. He barely got that.
Brock
Big 3rd down pickup there. Got to keep this rolling.
That’s 8 penalties for 57 yards now. Gotta shore up the holds.
I love it!! Play action on 3rd and 1!!!!
Yes!!! Wonder how Skabies is doing?