In the inexorable death march to whatever this offseason purge portends, we have reached the mid-point of the season in worse shape than last year. Huh? How is that possible? Why? Well, a steadily dwindling pool of talented players is the biggest reason. Throw in injuries to what few good players we have, a revolving door approach to coaching hires, and lack of attention to the offense for the past 6 drafts, and the slide continues.
I have no idea what happens at the end, but if the results are going to continue on the current trend, what is there to do? 8 more losses and we’ve done the impossible and made Jimmy T look like, well, Monte Clark. Instead of himself, which is how the front office portrayed him as they tossed him aside. As if they weren’t the ones that hired him in the first place. Granted, Adam Gase, Hue Jackson, Jim Harbaugh, or God himself couldn’t win with this collection of 2nd and 3rd stringers.
So my hope is for fly-bys, protests, and more and more bags . . .
Forty Niners Forever 
Chuck I’m already, (finally) getting excited for my Fat Man In The Middle next April.
We’re hurting at the Nose right now.
Scheme not withstanding.
Just hope we don’t do something stupid, like winning a couple of games, to screw up a Top 3 Pick.
Haven’t seen the game yet but, from a stats standpoint, it would seem Kaep found some success in the passing game.
But, as we know, stats can be deceiving.
Kap went 0-7 at one stage in the second half and half his yards were RAC from short dump offs. PFF gave Brees an 82 and Kap a 40.
He was better but not good.
Memo from Jed to the peanut vendor…….”You’re Fired!”
Kaep was decent. Nothing more. He made a dumb mistake not looking off the LB on the pick. It was an easy read for the LB to jump the route. He made some nice downfield throws as Patton actually got open a few times. Think he got over 100 yards. T Smith flattened his route too early on a 3rd and 6, and let the DB tackled him short of the 1st down whe he had room to get the 1st down. Stupid play there.
Kaep did go ice cold in the late 3rd quarter. Killed 2 drives, but Davis fumbled on the 1 yard line killing our best 3rd quarter drive of the season. Harris fumbled, and Kaep fumbled as well.
We pulled out usual 2nd half disappearing act. 3 points.
Levi’s should be shut down and mothballed by NFL for play not up to NFL standards. May as well make it a dog racing field. At least that would be decent entertainment. Or bring in some dirt bikes and a ton of soil and forget the turf once and for all. Football played in Santa Clara should not be allowed.
Man what a scandal……..charging money for that type of football. Only in America.
Here is a piece about Jim O’Neil I agree with:
http://www.49erswebzone.com/commentary/1626-under-oneil-49ers-have-worst-defenses-nfl-history/
O’Neil you’re fired !
Trump has bought out the Yorks. They got sick of the abuse. Jed has embarked on a round-the-world cruise. Okay I’m daydreaming.
Winder, you were right and I was wrong, the Niners are worse this year than last. Amazing.
ugly bad
12th- maybe by playing so bad this year the FO will be forced to make some changes next year. For the better of course.
If wishes were fishes, then I’d like to see:
a) Mark Davis decides not to move to Vegas and instead moves to Santa Clara
b) Jed sells the team to Steve Young and Brent Jones, and they pass a deal to a build a stadium in SF.
They level buildings and build it across from City Hall. Trolley lines go right to the stadium.
I wrote after week 3 or 4 that we could be a worse team than last year. I was ridiculed. There was no need to bring it up again with people who were just going to let me know I was wrong. Now you folks are saying it. Now it seems to be the thing to say. I’m not trying to say I told you so, I’m trying to explain that I saw the bad coaching then and keep seeing it. This team has enough talent to win 8 to 9 games but does not have the coaching.
When I saw how we were using our D-line I knew we were screwed. To have the talent we have up front and completely misuse them is something that makes me feel one does not need to be a good coach to be an NFL coach, you just need experience and a connection. Watching Chip run the Counter Trey with no back side protection tells me he is not ready for the pros. Watching our receivers never getting YAC with any consistency until this last game tells me our play caller does not know how to design plays which lends to being out coached when in game adjustments need to be made. It’s my opinion that our talent is much better than our coaching.
Having said the above, our talent is not great but it is at least average. What does that say about our coaching. We do have a huge hole up the middle of our defense, NT and ILB. That is tough to coach but a good coach would use his talented D-line to cause havoc instead of being timid. IOW, try to create some turnovers. This coaching staff is hard to watch. NJ used to say about Robaugh’s offense, we are playing checkers and they are playing chess. That saying applies here to our O and D coaches.
Watched the game today.
2 things jumped out.
Kaep still gets frantic when his first target isn’t open. Muscles/rushes too many throws as a result.
Batted balls late in the game in the Red Zone. He’s staring down targets and, has done it since he arrived with Harbaugh.
Smartest thing I think I’ve ever seen outside of a Belichick Coached Team?
Chip instructing the DBs to mug the Receivers in the Red Zone to force a NOLA FG.
In general, Kaep’s numbers were way inflated.
Sure, every QB in this game takes the benefits from a short pass that goes long.
What hasn’t changed is his efficiency between the hashes.
He can talk of ‘getting more comfortable’ in the System but, he’s just not poised enough to command the Offense comfortably when he’s asked to stand tall in the Pocket and make throws into tight windows.
I’d like to say our play design was better but NO has a bad defense. I’d need to see it again to think the coach has a clue. Kap looked better but there is no excuse for our QBs not looking good for the time they are getting to throw this year. If Ponder can’t get in over Gabbert and Kap then either our coaches can’t evaluate very well or Ponder really sucks.
This isn’t about who’s better, Bergs. It’s about who gives them the least ability to lose by 40. Don’t know who you are referring to about being ridiculed. If it was me, it was for your political views. Tough shit, skippy. The Groping Rapist Bankruptor is going down hard. Hopefully he falls off the Earth. Maybe he’ll give you a job on Trump TV. Like Trump steaks, Trump Airlines, Trump University, and Trump Vodka, it’ll be a short-lived pile of shit that dries up and blows away.
I gave Kappy one more game. He didn’t stink it up, but he didn’t play especially well either. Ponder? Sure. He looked good against the Walmart brigade in preseason. I could give a rat’s ass at this point. This team has been bleeding talent, and the season was basically lost when Ian Williams wasn’t able to come back form his ankle. Hmm, wonder if we should have taken that into account when we had a billion in cap money to spend. So Kappy gets another game. Big whoop. Backside coverage on sweeps? Who gives a fuck? It’s the read-option that kills most of these runs. Hitting the hole without the delay of the read-option negates having to worry about back side blocks. No ons is fooled by the read option anymore. All you need is play action at this point.
No I don’t like the coaching, but we don’t have very much talent on the team. What talent we had got hurt. The front 3 are weak sauce. NO ran over Dial all day. Having Blair holding the nose was injury driven, but hoping the Buckner and especially Armstead to improve dramatically is a stretch. Armstead is doing little to stop the run or the pass. Our OLBs do nothing in space and don’t penetrate either. Our short zone is good for giving up 5 on 3rd and 4 about 15 times a game.
Our DBs are fair to middling. Bethea is toast however. If this roster was fully healthy we could have been 8-8. Now it is way too hurt and way too shitty.
Fuck you and your dick in the mouth politics. You really are a butt fucking idiot. I said nothing about politics. You just can’t get your dick out of your mouth. Did you voter for your Epstein plane riding pedophile Killery? And yes, you were the fastest to ridicule me for saying we are as bad as last year. You could be the biggest dick who ever ran a blog. You look like a porn star with a bag on your head, like a dick with a condom over it.
Awww. Poor baby. You act like trump. You come unglued over a tiny bit of criticism. Yeah, he should have his finger on the button because he freaks out over a SNL episode and went on yet another Twitter tirade.
His handlers took his twitter account away from him!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does that tell you he’s a guy in control? The leader of the free world can’t control his emotions over comedy skits. If that’s your guy, then you are the dumbest dude in the world. Of course not. He has financial ties to Russia, and is currently helping Putin fuck with our election. he has no problem with Russia seeking to take back what the Soviet Union lost in the 90s. Russian aggression? Yeah, that’s great. He’s what Stalin would call a ‘useful idiot.’ An unknowing agent of the enemy. An easily manipulated dupe who Putin can make dance from St Petersburg. Why does Putin want to fuck with this election? Ask yourself that question.
Are Act like Buwwit and find the post, dumbass. Go to Skeebers blog with your racist tripe. Trump and Epstein go way back. Which is why Trump has a trial coming up in December for raping a 13 year old girl. You know, an actual trial, not an imaginary trial that your Dildo in chief keeps talking about. Just another of a stream of lies coming out of Orange Hitler. I know you equate jay walking with murder, so bite me. There has never been a more dangerous or ill-prepared monkey to run the country than Donald. Trump. If he wins, Canada isn’t big enough for all the people that will flee the US.
You say you are an independent? You are a puppet. You are being used so hard you and you don’t even know it. Bush II was bad enough. Trump is 5x worse. You are just like the Bundys. Poor little white folks who feels bad that he can’t feed his cattle for free on land that isn’t his. Welfare farming at its finest.
The only good thing that came out of this election is that the Evangelicals are all hiding in the shadows because they can’t even begin to publicly say that Trump is their guy. Hard to believe, but the Mormons got it right. All the rest of the Republicans that haven’t stood up to his absolute idiocy are going down with the party.
Seriously, if you can’t see how dangerous Trump is, then you are dumber than a bag of dicks. A fucking 10 year old in a room full of adults. This is my last political rant, so enjoy it. I;m close to shutting this down anyway as there’s no hop for this Goddamn team until Boy Blunder sells, but, Jesus Christ, Bergs, you can’t be this stupid.
Killery. Typical Playpen stuff there. Grow up you child. You been sucking on dirt for too long.
C’mon guys –
9er football is aggravating enough without Politics heaped on.
What’s going to happen, will happen, with this Election.
The people will speak.
Keep it cool.
We’re better than this.
Chuck there’s a huge disconnect between what these guys did under Fangio and what they’re being asked to do now.
To a Man, no one is blaming the Coaching when put in front of a mic but, it appears that these guys are just learning on the fly and failing miserably.
More pieces needed for sure.
I expected major headaches on Offense.
Defense is simply looking lost as well as over worked.
Just tank it, see what pieces are worth keeping and jettison the rest.
Another SF do-over.
One thing I’m hoping they don’t do is extend Eric Reid.
Let Tartt have the job and go from there.
Another day and I’m still breathing and yes the 49ers still suck big time. And no one is fired yet? Jed must really be drugged out of his mind. These rich boys are worthless. DC still has his job? I’m not voting today. I don’t like any politician. Those propositions are on the ballot because the lousy politicians don’t have the guts to raise taxes themselves, they want you to do yourselves at the ballot. Rest assured they all want your wallets.
Reid’s fine. Bethea is the one that needs to go. This team is going through the motions until they clean out the front office.
Start with Jed then Trent then Chip. I’m daydreaming again.
Send over Winder with a bulldozer and a “clean house” course of action. Ouch!
I hope the banner air corps gets organized soon. Get those banners flying. Bags on the ground and banners in the air would be a nice touch. Perhaps Jed will wake up from his slumber to take some action.
Yeah I’m day dreaming. Action is not Jed’s thing.
Once again the Seahawks have the refs in their pockets. This shit has been going on for years.
Chuck- I hope you decide to keep the blog going. It is a good place to vent and the music is usually pretty good. Jed isn’t selling but he has to do something. He is gonna make money no matter what but when no one shows up for the games it will be a reflection on his self.
This years money, except for parking and concessions is in the bag it’s true, but like any company, a declining bottom line year over year will prompt change, even at the top.
Thanks, Winder. It’s getting harder and harder to care about this team when they are so actively doing nothing to improve it.
yeah, but it’s still the 49ers and they are way bigger that fucking Jed
Its not his team, its our team and we are the reason it exists. He is just the caretaker, for now.
As for closing down the blog. We don’t play on the field or coach. All we do is support our team by buying swag or going to the games or spending our time in places like this with our fellow fans (V excepted), whining or cheering the soup du jour.
We are all older guys here who have been long term Niners fans and most have been through the best and worst of times like me. Speaking for myself, nothing the current caretakers or so called brain trust do will make me turn away from one of the proudest and most successful football teams of all time.
Red and Gold till I’m dead and cold indeed.
Jed’s 36. So, 40 more years?
If he’s not brain dead, he does a good imitation.
That’s my biggest problem.
How many bags do you have to make?
About 40,000
Ouch! You need a paper mill.
Another Baalke ACL warrior, the one he said would play this year is done this season. This method of drafting injured players high as “value” picks has been an unmitigated disaster, what value, Tank Carradine? He barely see’s the damn field. Baalke has got to go.
http://www.csnbayarea.com/49ers/49ers-rookie-cornerback-redmond-will-not-play-season
Armstead to IR
A good decision, gives him time to have surgery and be ready for TC next season.