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 
I agree Nipper. Cut Bush and make Hayne and Mike Davis Hyde’s backups.
Cut Bush and trade V.Davis if possible
The game winning pass happened right down the steps from where I was sitting on the side of the end zone.
In this pic, the guy with the white hat and face paint was just down and to the right of me.
I thought for SURE Bowman was going to knock that ball out of his hands.
He was off by mere inches.
Great game to see live. Would’ve been better if we could’ve stopped that final Drive of course.
http://tinyurl.com/nr9ej94
Competitive game NJ, glad you didn’t have to sit through a blow out like I did in AZ.
I’m going to the Bengal game too, must be a glutton for punishment.
I hear ya 12th.
Took plenty of ribbing during the tailgate about how badly the NYG were going to destroy us.
Could’ve heard someone fart in the upper deck when we scored with less than 2 minutes to go.
Then, of course, we left too much time for them to come down the field and cut our hearts out.
Place erupted to deafening applause.
Bowman was right on that throw too.
Alas, it wasn’t meant to be on this night, sadly for those of us wearing 9er colors.
Keep the faith. Gotta represent. Even when things look bleak.
I will say that Geep at least tried to get the ball out of Kaep’s hand more quickly.
OLine had some struggles on short yardage but, for the most part, they played well enough to win.
Could have burned more clock prior to our final score.
Gave them way too much time to utilize on that final Drive.
Defense got a little too conservative I thought.
CHUCK you there ? How about a new post ?
I think not accounting for Vereen was their biggest issue all night, especially the last drive. He went basically unchecked and killed the Niners at the end. You figure Beckham will get his yards, but Vereen?
Oh chuckles
Chuck has left the building.
Anybody here trying to call me ? Just got two calls from unknown number
Hope all is OK Chuck.
CHUCK is probably on vacation
BERGER gimme a call
I got an angle
I know a world class athlete at Michigan. What one question would you have him ask harbaugh
What in the world possessed you even more than that poor pea-soup-barfing little girl in D.C. to scar off Peyton Manning from signing with the Niners and ultimately choosing to re-sign Alex Smith to a 3-year $24M contract?
JH: We were only “evaluating” Peyton Manning.
WCA@UM: No. Please answer my question.
JH: We were only “evaluating” Peyton Manning.
WCA@UM: Not the question I asked: Answer my question please.
JH: We were only “evaluating” Peyton Manning.
WCA@UM: Answer the question I asked.
JH: We were only “evaluating” Peyton Manning.
WCA@UM: Answer as asked.
JH: We were only “evaluating” Peyton Manning.
WCA@UN: I see this is going no where fast. Johnny Mac? Little help.
JH: Beelzebub. It was Beelzebub all along.
That’s a “Godfather” reference for you mooks out there.
what really’s up between you and jed.
What’s up between me and Jed?
I’ve lit the votive candle at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Pinole. Along with that I wish each and every goddamn day with all my heart that Jed, all the Yorks, the entire FO and all the players (practice squad too) die in a fiery plane crash on their next charter flight and land into the “Deep Blue Sea” (The scene in the movie where Sam L. Jackson gets eaten by a mako shark is worse than god awful. But the hit it took on Sam L’s acting credibility after the movie was worst of all).
It’s time to hit the reset button on this entire franchise. It all must go. Time to blow it up. Time to blow it all up.
Blow. This. Motherfucker. Up. Ka·boom.
Other than that? Not much.
And I hate to have to post this here to respond to something that was said over on Skeebers’ blog, but since I’m banned over there…
I have to call South Park “shenanigans” on Spitblood giving rhyme, reason and advice to and/for alcoholics. I have the same response for you if I just learned from Gambling Anonymous that my new sponsor was Art Schlichter.
Fuck and you.
that was funny
That comment had a harsh ending. Here’s something a tad more pleasant.
Support your local PD and the HP. They do a great job.
And just where the fuck is Chuck? I think it’s finally high-time someone posed the question: is this finally…
Niners 30, Ravens 24
YEAH!
31-6 Ravens. I think we get creamed.
LOL DENNIS
24-21 niners
How bout that ending to the Spartans/Wolverines game? The Michigan punter didn’t know to just FALL ON THE BALL instead of trying to lateral it and have it p/u by a MSU player who returned it for the GW TD as time expired. BTW, that same MSU player hurt his hip while celebrating his TD in the end zone. Hurt it so bad he had to be transported to the hospital. Apparently he dislocated it while getting trampled on by his teammates.
What a bunch of mooks. Even more so than that Michigan punter.
What a minute. Michigan? I know the coach over there. It’s Jim Harbaugh! That punter didn’t know what to do in a critical situation. That’s on coaching. That’s on Jim Harbaugh! But why should I be surprised?
Jim Harbaugh comes up the smallest in the biggest games. He LOST two NFCCGs and a SB. Don’t throw any regular season numbers at me. It’s “Super Bowl or Bust” round here. Just ask my buddy Jed. But ask him soon. He’s already been seen pricing out “waterbed mattresses” for when he bunks with Luca Brasi. Jim Harbaugh is “The Biggest Loser.” And we ain’t counting calories. Yet I used to get lambasted on this very blog for calling him such from the get-go. Ha! I’ll ask yet again…
Did we fire Jim Harbaugh yet?
Man. Ex-Niner Mike Shumann (he says everyone remembers the last 49er to make a catch in the ’82 NFCCG [that’s Dwight Clark for you super mooks] but no one remembers who was the first 49er to catch a pass that fateful day. It was Schumann! Don’t believe me? Just ask Mike. He’ll tell ya. He tells everyone that) just ripped Kap a new asshole on the KGO postgame show. I don’t think anything was left of his old one after everyone and their uncle ripped it before.
“Kap has all the hardware but not the software. Doesn’t spend enough time in the classroom. Can’t read the pre-snap defense. Compared him to an NBA ‘Catch and shoot” player.” I won’t even get into what he said about the whole deal about his mechanics. Or lack thereof.
Wow. Catch and shoot player. That’s parlance for “we don’t want you to think (because you can’t), just play. Just what I want from my starting NFL QB. If this is what you guys have settled for, you can have him.
And the ripping didn’t end with Kap. In closing Shumann was quoted as saying that Tomsula has already let the inmates run the asylum. Big wow. That charter flight can’t take a nose dive the combined length of both Bob Hope’s and Jimmy Durante’s schnauzers soon enough.
Blow this thing up.
Oh! Speaking of Bob Hope, Svengoolie (best horror host since the late-great Bob Wilkins) is currently show Hope’s 1939 classic “The Cat and the Canary.” Not to be confused with the picture he made a year later, “The Ghost Breakers,” in which Bob uttered this hilariously famous punch line…
I don’t believe it. Spitblood has turned Skeebers blog into a fucking AA meeting. I’ve never wanted, no, needed a drink more in my life than at this very moment. Just my luck the house is dry and I have to go to bed now for early work tomorrow.
Maybe I should find a 49er blog that has turned into a Gamblers Anonymous meeting. I could bet on the ponies racing now in Japan.
But I don’t have a problem with gambling as their society suggests all members do.
I have a problem with losing!
It’s dangerous out there……..quack!
Been saying this for a while:
http://www.ninersnation.com/2015/10/16/9550829/vernon-davis-trade-rumors-teams-interested-49ers-say-not-available
No CHUCK yet ? Looks like us inmates are ruling the asylum
No Chuck sightings since the 7th. I do hope he’s OK.
Me too wtf
Ok inmates
Cmon more rollouts and bootlegs. Im starting to like bruce miller
CHUCK does tend to disappear from time to time RT
Walkabout?
Lucked out there – you don’t often see Smith drop TD passes right in his hands.
Nice pass
Kap to Torrey for 76!! Finally…
Yeah baby mikey
This team is so frustrating. Get a turnover at the oppo’s 29, and you don’t even once really throw into the EZ to score? And, the Raven’s defense backfield is nearly the worst in the league, just gave up a long TD to Smith. Championship level teams go for the throat — this one goes for the toes…
That TD pass was a thing of beauty
Smith let that one go right through his hands. The Niners have dodged two TD bullets so far.
Chuck is on a job-related trip to Italy in an area with limited internet access.
Aha, thanks! I hope he remembers to bring back postcards.
Looks like a lot of empty seats, if I’m seeing that correctly.
Niners are absolutely inept in the Red Zone. Might as well just take shots into the EZ outside the Red Zone instead…
Agree not much to lose by trying
It’s obvious to me they are afraid Kap will throw a pick into a reduced amount of field, and don’t want to lose the default field goal chance. It’s just totally weak play calling. At 1-4, WTF do you have to lose?…
The Ravens are pretty bad.
Perfe coverage better catch
Receiver shoved off and no call. Ref was right there.
NFL reffing is a joke. $10 billion corporation, and it uses part time dudes to manage it’s product. Ridiculous…
It makes for a shoddier product than it should be.