Game Day! The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

maybe. What used to be filled  with excitement now gives way to morbid curiosity.  Game day. What used to be a rivalry  for the ages is but a meaningless division game between two also-rans.

Oh well, the question is, when will I start work on replacing that faulty power steering pump? My Su days seem to be getting a little more wide open.

Shit, at this point all I want to see is this team making adjustments. They have no RB depth and cut their backup RB and feel-good story Jarryd Hayne. Nice move.

Jesus.  Hard to get that Trent Baalke isn’t catching heat for building a team with no depth. Reggie Bush is no way a reliable backup. Two plays, one IR stint already.

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150 Responses to Game Day! The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

  1. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    Can’t get much lower than this. The offense is absolutely awful. When we do finally block and get guys open, invariably the pass is dropped. I counted 5 drops today among some fair to middling QBing. Again, though, pressure all day. No run game. Hard to win when the line loses every battle.

    If the team is quitting on Kappy, then I fear what happens when Gabby comes in. The Rams are not very good offensively. Fuck this sideways.

    I thought there was little way we could get worse than last year on offense. Well, I was wrong.

    The line blocking is dogshit. We can’t run block. We are out of RBs. We started well with quick passes and no-huddle. Since it nominally worked, they stopped doing it.

  2. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    What can they do? Replace the coaching staff? The defense has been fair to adequate amid the big plays theyve given up. But criminy when your offense gets shut out of the end zone for their 3rd game in 8, well, you suck.

    • rtfirefly's avatar rtfirefly says:

      Acceptance is the first step to recovery.

    • 12th Man's avatar 12th Man says:

      Dump the OC, it hasn’t worked. Change the O line players on the right, can’t be worse anyway. Dump Reggie Bush, he has contributed nothing anyway and bring in a vet. Try to resign Hayne and give him some real opportunities. Cut McDonald. Trade V. Davis if they can. Play the young guns, wins are no longer a frame of context, evaluation is.

  3. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    Fuck. TRY a deep ball.

  4. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    Dumb pass. Triple coverage.

  5. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    We used to eat Jenkins for lunch.

  6. 12th Man's avatar 12th Man says:

    Shit can the TE centric O, they kinda did anyway. Start Boldin, Smith and Simpson, he earned it.

  7. rtfirefly's avatar rtfirefly says:

    Crabs just made a great catch ball slightly behind him while running a slant. Then he got hit by three different Jets simultaneously, bounced off and went on into the endzone. Who wanted to dump him?

  8. Grumpy Guy's avatar Grumpy Guy says:

    “Hey do you guys miss me yet?”

    – Greg Roman

    Ten yards on 15 carries by RBs… Kappy under 50% complete and no TDs…. 2.9 yards gained per offensive play, while allowing 6.1 to the Lambs.

    Not going to win many games with that shit.

    This team simply is not even remotely good, in fact it’s one of the worst in 49er history. And the blame for that lands at the feet of our Dynamic Duo, BaalkeMan and Little Jed.

    It’s 1978 all over again…

    • 12th Man's avatar 12th Man says:

      I think they miss the very good O line Roman had to work with more Grumpy.
      Not to say Geep is good either but given the god awful players they keep playing its hard to evaluate him, but the bottom line is Geep keeps playing them so he gets to pay the price.

  9. 12th Man's avatar 12th Man says:

    Bush, suspected torn ACL.

  10. Winder's avatar Winder says:

    They gotta fire Baalke.

  11. rtfirefly's avatar rtfirefly says:

    Hayne out, Bush in. LOL

  12. Nipper's avatar Nipper says:

    Perhaps the Niners could move to LA instead of the Rams…….just kidding……

  13. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    Roman is what, 3-4? Yay. Who gives a fuck, Grump? You think Roman would be doing well with this line? Get real. Look at Fangio. 2-5 with the Bears. What does it mean? Nothing. Like giving a shit how Stevie Wonder is doing on the 2-6 Chargers. Crabs is a great 3 in Oakland. Whoopie. Yay for him. What a dumb move by us? Wouldn’t make a goddamn bit of difference. Unless Crabs can block 3 guys.

    What is insanely galling is your backup RB is an injury-prone 30 year old guy. You just canned your punt returner so your injury-prone RB IS your punt returner. So he catches a punt on the 9 (wrong) and runs backwards (wrong). and proceeds to get hurt (wrong) trying to get some yards even though there was a penalty (wrong) which leads to a safety (wrong) as they are backed up to the 2.

    There’s your 49er replay.

    Baalke has to go.

  14. unca_chuck's avatar unca_chuck says:

    Pears continues to play. Same with Devens. I don’t get it. Are the others worse than them?

    Like running Hayne, he’s worse than the PS guy? How is that possible?

  15. Lurker John's avatar Lurker John says:

    As bad as the team has been, did anyone here think the team would “top” last games’s mediocrity? Well, they sure did. Unbelievable.

    • 12th Man's avatar 12th Man says:

      I figured they would do better than 8 wins, but that was said before they lost the starting RT Davis and lost Aldon Smith.

      Doubt those 2 would make enough of a difference anyway.

      Tarts played well today.

  16. Lurker John's avatar Lurker John says:

    So, what’s next? Keep trotting Devey and Pears out there and wait for Kap to get broken in half? Keep this incompetent coaching staff in place? Baalke? This is an unmitigated disaster with no end in sight.

    • 12th Man's avatar 12th Man says:

      I don’t get it either. Devey is a revolving door, Pears is a back up quality guy and Martin has been horrible although I didn’t see anyone better on roster except the injured Kilgore.
      Boone had a few whifs today too.

  17. zumiee's avatar zumiee says:

    You guys are hardier folks than me, if you’re able to sit through a Niner game these days.

  18. Nipper's avatar Nipper says:

    This blog is into self-torture. To put up with this season you have to enjoy hurting yourself. Ouch!

  19. ewisco's avatar ewisco says:

    went with wife, twiscos (and their girlfriends) to the raider game (long story). the raiders looked pretty good (though we left before the end of the third quarter. great move by us!). was following this train wreck on the blog (keep it going chuck!). I think Balke has to go but who the heck could you get? and there is no way in hell that the jedster by himself could identify an up and coming asst. GM who might be a good fit. i can’t think of anyone on the ash heap of history that is the current crop of unemployed GM’s who i would even consider. someone said earlier not to trade staley but you’re going to have to give up value to get value and they have so many holes that they’re going to have to get 2-3 for 1 to be able to patch them all. The key to successful franchises is the ability to judge talent. someone in NE is doing that very well so far. if it was easy, more teams would be doing it. the fact that so many guys get hurt just exacerbates the issue of having more talent, i.e. depth, on your squad. the tomsula pick didn’t impress me and he’s not looking great so far but Lombardi would have trouble with this team. and again, who are you going to get that will be willing to step into this mess. they really kind of look like the raiders at the end of the Al empire when all he could get were people like kiffen etc.

  20. Lurker John's avatar Lurker John says:

    I’m convinced now, more so after the past two games, that Tomsula is out of his depth, and painfully so. He is in no way NFL head coach material. He seems like a good guy and he is a good position coach, but letting him continue as HC proves nothing and hurts the team even more moving forward. That permanent look he has on his face that at first looked like rapt concentration, is nothing more than pure deer in the headlights. The decisions he’s made regarding who plays and who doesn’t, not forcing Bow to take fewer snaps because, “The guy wants to play football,” and things like not going for it while losing in the 4th quarter are all evidence of his incompetence.

    This whole thing is going to have to be gutted, but the truth is that doing it right now probably wouldn’t be that productive. If Baalke is still running things next year, we’ll all know for sure that he has compromising photos on file of Baby Jed having a roll in the hay with a smooth-skinned Filipino lad. He has got to go.

    This is all very upsetting to long time 49er fans, but the immediate future doesn’t look very promising.

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