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 
The goddamn world had better recognize CARLOS HYDE! WhooooHooooo!
Yessssss
Yeah it doesn’t matter to get plays off quickly. Tempo doesn’t matter.
Drastically improved in those areas.
Love ya Frank, but there’s a new bellwether in town.
I wanted to let Gore go two years ago.
Doubt if anybody’s missing him now…
200 yds rushing for the team, 136 yds for Hyde. This dude looks like the real deal, like upper echelon real deal. Awesome.
Great answering drive by the Niners.
Pinion is booming those kickoffs.
For once I’m glad Dilfer’s on. Kappy looks great. We’ll have to wait for another game and a better defensive opponent to see if he’s truly gotten it. But he looks a million times better than Matt Ryan and Bradford did in Game 1. Whatever BullTom think of him.
Phil refuses to be sad that the Niners won. Sorry. Own it. Don’t be a weasel.
Hey I’ll mail you my address to send me that crow if the Niners look like this all year.
I’ll have to start looking at recipes.
Hah!
This is only the Vikes, but the defense looks pretty strong.
And figure to get stronger as the season goes on…
There’s that TO!
We have rhythm on offense. Something we never had last year. Now if we can just quit shooting ourselves in the feet with penalties. That has to get cleaned up.
I’m OK with the FG here, but another TD was right there. So close!
Offense has better rhythm. Still looks like they’re afraid to throw into the end zone and put the opposition away…
I remember when we drafted Hyde telling everybody that he just took games over at Ohio St.. This game looks like he did in college. The guy has moves but he also runs people over. He always got better as the game went on in college.
I said he was going to be a beast often enough and he didn’t that I changed to wait and see. OK, I’ve seen. Now can he last?
OMG
She says
The 49ers coach looks just like Paul Barth mall cop
She’s on a roll.
So, is Bush out for tonight, or longer?
Don’t really know or care. Supposedly a calf injury. Shoiuldn;t be too long, but Mike Davis is fine as his replacement.
I was pissed when Bush danced through the hole. That was a terrible play call. But all in all, the play calling has been good.