Game 3 of the treacherous 5 game start to the 2016 season continues in Seattle, the land of Rainier Beer, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, and year-round wet clothing. Seattle, for its part is coming off a couple of very uninspiring games. Offensively anyway. They have scored a grand total of 15 points in their victory over the Dolphins, and their loss to the Rams. Defensively of course, they are still formidable.
Our offense? Kind of a mixed bag of trix. While we have scored 55 points in 2 games, there have been too many 3-and-outs, notably in the 3rd quarter. Our quarterback has been inconsistent, quick to check down, and goes through stretches were he throws grounders, and the run game has been haphazard. Hyde has looked good at times, but the run game was shut down by the Panthers.
Thing is though. the Rams and the Panthers have good defenses. As does Seattle. So, where does that leave us? Well, our defense has done good against a shitty team (Rams 185 yards, 0 points), and bad against a great team (Carolina 529 yards, 46 points), so, again, a Mexican standoff when you look at the numbers. Seattle, for all intents and purposes, look more like the Rams than the Panthers so far, but that doesn’t mean anything. Russell Wilson is hurting with a high ankle sprain, and has lost a lot of mobility. Teams are taking advantage of that, and Seattle is struggling to score. Beast Mode is gone, and their offensive line has been a different kettle of fish with Max Unger gone.
So the name of the game is pressure. Get to Russell, and we should be able to control the game. Leave him alone like we left Newton unscathed last week vs Carolina, and we can expect to lose. Simple as that. Playing the safeties deep to keep things from going over the top is well and good, but it lets underneath stuff in and Seattle will try to take advantage of that. I think we may need to gamble more if we aren’t getting pressure early. We can’t let another QB play pitch and catch all day.
21-12 Niners . . .
Forty Niners Forever 
I’d assume Kaep wants out as much as Baalke wants no risk of him getting hurt to trigger another year of wasted Cap dollars.
Put whatever package you can together to move him somewhere, anywhere.
Give Ponder a shot at what Gabbert can’t seem to overcome.
Completing passes in rhythm.
Kaep still wants to run his way out of trouble. Recipe for further injury.
If Baalke is worried about breaking Kap if he plays him, then by all means give Ponder a shot. He’s nobody’s dream QB, but I guarantee that he’ll be more aggressive trying to get the ball downfield. He can also move around pretty well. Any more displays like today is really going to demoralize the fan base.
If we’re sitting on Cap money for no apparent reason, take the hit with Kaep and move on.
Suck as we will, but, Chip needs to open his eyes and realize that this system of his looks too eff’n predictable and, elementary right now.
Playing at high speed is great, if you’re going somewhere other than 3-N-Out.
If we allow EzE to gash us next week we’ll be pretty sure to see a Top 5 Pick next April.
A crap Seattle OLine blew open our DLine like nobody’s business.
Think what Dallas’ better OLine can do if O’Neil doesn’t get this straightened out.
Bowman was easily smothered at the 2nd level because Buckner/Dial/Dorsey and Purcell couldn’t clog it up to allow the ‘Backers into the holes.
Pathetic.
Welcome to the NFL DeBuck, you need to defend the run game too in this game.
He was neutralized by a group of newbies.
Baptism by fire I guess?
Live and learn.
Chip isn’t making it too rough on them either by suggesting it’s ‘not the end of the world’.
Might be time to get Wilhoite back alongside Bowman too.
Our ‘Backers were buried today. Not to mention, again, the lack of time the had to catch their collective breath due to the wonderful Kelly Offense being piloted by a QB who is going 95mph between his ears when the rest of the Offense is operating at 55mph.
The problem isn’t just Gabbert, like I said, Gabbert made a couple of passes down the field got them 1st down, so what does Kelly do, he immediately goes back to the run, 2 rubs and a screen, got them nothing!! Start passing on first and second downs
Bigger concern Irish Kevin, stopping the run right now.
Granted, play calling on Offense is totally abysmal as well.
New system, working out the kinks, I get it.
But, we can’t rely on the Defense when the Offense isn’t carrying their weight.
MN sacked Newton 8X today.
We’re showing signs of not only growing pains but, also a lack of a coherent scheme.
This Staff has to get together and decide if all the pieces are being meshed/utilized properly.
Study film, practice your a$$es off etc but, B2B weeks of getting gashed by backup RBs isn’t a good look.
ALynch isn’t the answer to bank on.
He’ll contribute certainly but, I’m beginning to question the overall philosophy involved.
Too predictable? Too tired to hold up?
We’re just totally out of sync.
DLine Coach Azzinaro isn’t without some scrutiny here either.
Plenty of criticism to pass around beyond O’Neil.
I kinda figured we might fool em for a few games because of the Chipski’s new offense. What a F-ing joke. I still don’t know why I am surprised because i didn’t see over 3 wins but to look this bad is like chuck said”Total dog shit”
I went with 5-11 Winder.
Hoped to steal a split within the Division, maybe 2 more from within Bears/Cowboys/Bills/Dolphins/Jets/Bucs/Falcons.
Saints looking vulnerable too for now.
But, right now, any team with a RB is looking tougher than expected to me.
First things first.
Find out where the eff’n high octane Kelly Offense is hiding.
If it’s Gabbert, try another option.
Sucking sucks 😀
We won’t see the Rams/’Hawks again until the final 2 weeks of the season.
At that point, it won’t matter if we can’t grab at least a .500 record before the BYE.
3 important games before then.
Cowboys/Bills/Bucs.
Need to get a pair from those 3 and hope for some dumb luck against AZ who we’ll get at home after the ‘Boys.
We travel B2B to Miami and Chicago. Tough sledding due to travel.
And, the Bills smacked AZ in their building today.
Gotta get together and figure this nonsense out.
3rd Downs have been a disaster.
Both sides of the ball.
We got plenty of manageable distances and still sh!t the bed on Offense.
Not to mention, we’re apparently allergic to scoring in the 3rd Qtr.
Great halftime adjustments there Chip.
In conclusion: Total suck.
Yeah, hard to fathom how we got beat so bad by a supposedly dinged up Seattle O line. Fucking Carolina gave up 8 sacks to the Vikings in their loss yesterday. We didn’t breathe on him.
When we rushed 3 on 3rd and 14 I knew RW was going deep. Its elementary football. You can’t blitz all the time, but Jesus. You can’t let RW (or Newton, or Prescott, or just about any fucking QB in the league not named Kasey Kaseum or Blaine Gabbert) stand back in a clean pocket and throw all day.
Kaepernick may be in by next week. If he sucks, bring on Ponder. At this point it should be tryout time for anyone. I tell ya Prescott and Wentz are surprising the shit out of me. Wentz seemed like a lot of hype for nothing, and Prescott I barely saw in college. Actually, I said Dallas would be better of with Prescott rather than Romo simply based on his preseason. Both are taking advantage of their shots. We don’t stand a chance vs Dallas I’m afraid.
Unless we somehow continue our pattern of playing like heroes at home and 3rd string high schoolers on the road.