Well, the travel weary Niners came back from their 2 game roadie, I should say the defense came back from their 2 game roadie. The offense is circling Turlock in a holding pattern. A pattern where no one gets open and no one catches shit. In a game that saw very solid pressure from the base D, the 49ers befuddled and harassed Aaron Rodgers well enough to win this game. Unfortunately, the offense is circling the drain amid more sniping from T Smith, and ineffective blocking. Teams are daring us to beat them through the air, and since we can’t block, we are struggling mightily to even get first downs, let alone touchdowns.
CK had another underwhelming day, and the blocking was it’s usual porous self, but VMcD had a big drop on what would have been an early 1st down, the refs got CK on a call that was ludicrous at best, we had the 1st Packer drive stopped but for a ticky-tack illegal hands, and a missed facemask call on BJ Raji.
Granted, those are little things that decent teams can overcome. But not us. As the game progressed, there was less and less time, more and more pressure, and dwindling confidence offensively as a whole. CK did hit T Smith on a nice deep pass, but that ended in a 4th and 5 play where an all-out blitz was met with the usual slow-developing pass play that had zero chance of working.
This offense is struggling with the same things that they were last year. Poor line play, and no help for the relentless pass rush CK faces all the time. I’m not even going to mention screens, because they won’t work against teams playing us so close to the line. How about a slant? A play that gets the ball out in under 3 seconds?
Either CK isn’t able to do this, or we just don’t have this shit in the playbook. I hate to belabor this point, but the Previous QB suffered the same fate. No quick hitters. No hot-read passes. No slants. I can’t profess to know, but I know Reid throws quick passes, and Young Sir Alex can make that throw. No reason to think CK can’t do the same.
But until the line play improves significantly (shuffle the line already) and the team comes up with a different strategy to slow down the relentless pressure, we will continue down this path.
Forty Niners Forever 
“Hush, hush
I thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
She broke my heart but I love her just the same now
Hush, hush
Thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
I need her loving and I’m not to blame now”
Great song! I love Deep Purple!
Alright LURKERJOHN
🙂
Showtime has a documentary on Hendrix going on, with a lot of stuff from the Atlanta International Pop Festival in 1970 (truly hard to believe that was in the South and was a reprise of the previous year’s festival also held there). It got me thinking about those days… I was going to try to tie this in with the Niners somehow. OK, I’ll try, but mostly I love the singer though I wouldn’t have taken her home to Mom. This was the first time an awful lot of people saw her. By the time I was of age the Pop Festival Era was dead and gone…
I’ve been a lifelong Niner fan since my Dad took my brothers and I to see the Niners’ last regular season game at Kezar, a win over the Falcons. Dick Nolan, John Brodie, Gene Washington – yeah those guys were the first guys I remembered. This year my love for the Niners is like a…
From the Monterey Pop Festival 1967
WordPress filter seems to be working overtime on me today. I’ll try again. If you see three identical posts from me later, you now know why. If you don’t see my post at all, then pfffft.
Now that’s funny. I seem to have run into this before. WP won’t let my post through because it’s a “duplicate”. LOL – of what?
24-20, Giants
30-10 Giants. Ouch!
31-6 NY. I don’t think our offense knows what a touchdown looks like.
19-16 Niners (OT)
14-0 Michigan over #13 Northwestern in the first 4:40. It could be a long afternoon for Harbaugh Haters.
21-0 with 2:35 left in the 1st.
Michigan had to punt. The sky is falling in Ann Arbor.
38-0 final over the 5-0, #13 team in the country. What a riot when Harbs comes back to the NFL to coach the L.A. Rams in the NFC West. I wonder what Jed’s excuse will be after a couple seasons of that.
It’s best to forget Harbaugh. He isn’t coming back no matter how much we all hate the present situation. Losing is not fun.
Harbuagh was handed the keys to one of the three best and THE deepest roster in the league.
He was hired by jed and Baalke.
The man gave it his best shot
He also wore out his welcome with the olayers and front office
The Santa Clara 49ers v. New Jersey Giants………Sunday Night titans go at it.
Well, I was dead wrong about the Niners D coming off the offseason. They’re good. I was dead wrong about Kappy being the best thing about the Niner offense. LOL. I was the first and loudest about the ludicrous Niner O-line. Got one right.
The Giants are on one of their Super Bowl type runs. They are playing good football – mostly. They are beatable. Eli can be great, but he can make stupid mistakes. Don’t mistake him for Jay Cutler though. He’ll kill you. Their offense won’t impress anybody, but they can run sometimes and they can quick strike through the air sometimes. Up, down, held up by veteran play and (don’t say it here) a great and very unlikable HC. Their D can keep it winnable till the end. Damn, sounds familiar.
They win with ball control, D, and a veteran 2-time SB Champ QB. Watch the run and keep a safety doubling Odell. It’s Game 5. Let’s see what happens.
They put Andrew Tiller on the 53. I doubt he plays this week but it puts pressure on Devey especially but also Pearson with a possible line shuffle.
Pears
Foles throw a Pick-6 against The Pack. Heck, I don’t blame him. He’s been creamed in the ribs, in the head, tasted lots of dirt, tanked one into the dirt as he got massacred again before he even had a chance to hit a screen, and it’s only the 1st quarter!
It does say something about Kappy that he didn’t meet the same Fate last week.
It’s rough out there!
GB where visitors lose…..lose…..lose……
I don’t know who the Rams are starting, but they drafted darn near a whole new O-line. It takes 2-3 years for an O-line to mesh usually, even if they’re good college players.
Fuck the Packers and the NY Giants, that’s all I really have to say.
Yeah baby!
C’mon you guys! Geep made “major changes” to the offense this week! Victory is guaranteed!
Time to turn Geep into a Jeep and ride his ass out of town!
The Seahawks blew open a close game in the 3rd with a 60 yd. off tackle (with the missed tackle of the year)and a 20 yd. sweep. Ahut, ahum, the 20 yd. sweep was a Bengals offensive play – oops. 14 points in no time flat. This is why no one takes them seriously when it comes playoff time.
Playoffs?
I meant no one takes the Bungles seriously. Those two plays were Pee Wee and they probably cost them the game against the best team they’ll face this season. I’d rather have good draft position than have a team like that, playoffs every year then disappearing when the spotlight shows.
Well bust my britches, the Bungles came back from 24-7 against the Seahawks in the 2nd half to win it 27-24 in overtime. No matter how much I know about this game, I don’t know shiest.
Josh McCown just set the all-time Browns’ record for passing yardage in a game with 400 and a whole bunch more in the OT win over Harbaugh Sr.’s Ravens. Johnny Football is gonna have to wait another day. Or week. Or month, or season. Who knows, they’re the Browns?
It has been crazy so far today, lots of OT. Hopefully the Niners can pull one out of the hat today, not likely but I’m crossing the fingers and jumping up and down like a fool, maybe that will work.
Im all for jumping up and down like a fool
Woodson broke a 17 year drought against Peyton. Two picks today – the second one was a beaut.
I think we’ll give NY all they can handle tonight. Im hoping for the upset but figure on probly 20 – 17 giants
Hey Berger. Omg lost ur new number
Trying to call
Cmon 9ers pull can we pull our record to 2-3
this one could get ugly. I’m gonna watch this game through my slightly separated fingers that I’ll have covering my face….
How the fuck did Seattle blow a 24-7 lead? That shit doesn’t happen to them. Must have missed The Legion today…..
It happened in the Super Bowl. These are not the same Hawks. They’re good, but the O is erratic and the secondary isn’t where it was a couple of years ago. They were damn lucky to get to the SB last year.
Why didn’t we pass there goddammit where are the rollouts ???
So far, the “major changes” look like the same old bullshit.
Eric Pears is a fucking BOZO. This is bullshit this guy being on the field. He can’t even run block, a complete piece of shit.
We need to get to manning
So last week the D looked very improved. What the hell is going on tonight?? And don’t get me started on the O line!! Oh what the hell, let’s go there, why pray tell do opposing teams QB’s look like they have all day to wait for plays to develope?? And make the pass plays!