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 
They have to find a way to get QB pressure from week to week. Letting Manning just stand there all game long is ridiculous.
How about a rocket launcher?
I’ll chip in some money.
This is where Kaepernick drives you nuts. Last week a good many of us, myself included, were ready to run him out of town on a rail. Then he comes back in an east coast, prime time game and has a great game against a good team. It’s there, still. He made some great touch passes tonight, made two nice TD passes and completed about 2 thirds of his passes. After the first quarter, it was like night and day.
It’s maddening. Which Colin do we get next week?
Consistently inconsistent……The Colin Kaepernick Story.
Keep in mind coming into this game, per the radio crew, the Giants had the statistically worst pass defense in the league…
Don’t forget the Niners had the worst QB rating
They also had the best run and overall defense. Give credit where credit is due.
We made changes to the offense kap did well
Now we need to put it all together and both O and D to have a good game
I only got to see the 4th quarter and that was enough to drive me fucking crazy. Happy for the offense tonight though we need a little gravy on something.
Lets face it Winder………. you’re one crazy dude. Blogging on the “other” blog proves it.
lol. Most of them are true 49er fans, they just really hate Jed. An exercice in futility.
Notice how the media paints this loss as heartbreaking? If you’re in contention for something it’s heartbreaking. This team has too many holes to be in contention for anything. Only Kap believes they can still go 12-4. You need a Hollywood script to believe that.
1-4 sucks, but all you can look for at this point is improvements, and at least the offense showed that last night. Keeping it up will be the key. And I don’t think even Kap believes there’s a snowball’s chance in hell they go 12-4. That’s just media BS.
Kap knows like we do. We’re a better team than we’ve shown so far. Tiller is in and Kilgore will be back soon. Not to mention trent Brown.
From what I saw last night the changes chryst talked about paid off. That imo is another positive.
Keep on guys
Brown is hurt or just not ready for prime time?
Coaches say not ready John.
They took Tiller straight from PS to the game day line up. He played the same amount of snaps as Devey. Niners did what I hoped they would do which was to change the O line up and the play calling to give Kap a better chance at making plays.
As Rob says, Kilgore should also be back soon because Martin is getting rag dolled out there.
Getting a good center back should help a lot with consistency.
No team last season with a losing record after Week 5 went on to make the playoffs. How useful is this? Not much, there were a whole mess of teams at 3-2, including the SB Pats and Seahawks. I always like to know who’s on pace for the playoffs, though. Today it would be the Pats, Broncos, Bengals, Colts, Jets (!) and a tie between the Bills (!) and the winner of tonight’s Steelers-Chargers game. In the NFC it’s the Packers, Falcons, Cards, Giants, Panthers (only 4-0 cuz of their bye), and Vikings (!!).
They may as well pay off R. Bush and send him off into retirement. They need a productive RB besides Hyde. Bush is so fragile a strong breeze is a threat to his health.
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.
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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.