We interrupt the CK freakout . . . BTW I guess we get to see a whole lot of Kappy on Thursday . . .
Teddy Bridgewater is the latest player to be waylaid by the preseason. Players keep dropping despite the best efforts of the league to limit hitting in practice, and stop two-a-day practices, and cutting down on practice time in general. Bridgewater was carted away in an ambulance for an apparent knee injury. A non-contact injury. Granted, we have lost a few ourselves, including Carlos Hyde (concussion) Quinton Dial (knee sprain) Bruce Ellington (pulled hammy) Eric Rodgers and Thad Lewis (torn ACL). Teams all over the league are suffering through various and sundry (and not so sundry) injuries.
“Preseason” is the scariest word for any head coach to hear, as players like Tony Romo, DE Vance Walker of New England, and now Teddy Bridgewater many many more are severely injured in these practice games. At some point you’d think the owners would want to protect the very players the league is built on, but that would cut in to owner profits for games that no one shows up to, and fans are forced to buy tickets for.
There has been talk of getting rid of two preseason games, but at the cost of adding two regular season games. The NFLPA rightly went ballistic over this back in 2011, and the owners couldn’t even really rebut that, since adding 2 more real games to the schedule would guarantee a boatload of injuries. Goodie Goodell always preaches safety, but he NEVER stands in the way of profits (see concussion: whitewash). I certainly hope that the league (the owners) see fit to do away with 2 preseason games and not messing with the rest of the schedule.
Forty Niners Forever 
The problem we have had at the WR position is something I have said since these blogs started way back when. It is called the Sardine Can Offense. I just didn’t call it the SCO way back when. The only decent play caller we have had for this offense was Norv Turner. Couldn’t judge McCarthy because the talent was so bad. Over all our play calling has been as bad as any team in football. Even when we went to the SB. Thank the football gods that we had a great defense for a few years.
Bergs, i think we are going to witness the same problems with those offenses as we will now. Teams are going to scheme the short passes away from Gabbert and force him to try to go downfield. We certainly haven’t shown yet that we can do it.
IF the run game works better than expected, then maybe we can force teams to honor the run and attack the edges.
Al this being said, I was hoping to see much more passing to the WRs in these games. There has been very little except for Ponder and the 3rd stringers.
New thread is up.