Here’s the Wiki caption when you look up Nick Mullens:
Nicholas Clayton “Nick” Mullens is the owner of the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He played college football for the Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team, where in 2015 he set single-season school records for passing yardage and number of touchdown passes.Wikipedia
Too funny. Nick Mullens, he of the UDFA status and the practice squad last year, and this one, set a ton of records at Southern Mississippi, throwing for over 11,000 yards, 87 TDs and 46 picks. All that got him was 4th on the depth chart last year and a seat at the kid’s table. He looked pretty darn good at times in the preseason, and folks have been itching to see him at least get some real live action, as the Beater was stumbling anf fumbling his way to a 1-9 record. I mean, what is there to lose? Except draft positioning, that is.
Something tells me Nicky won’t be on the practice squad for a while.
Granted, this game was against a Raider team that has quit on the season already and is looking to get pick #1 (and Baby Bosa) in the draft. I mean really. Gruden’s plan all along was to tank the season and get Bosa. Otherwise, why trade your best player, an elite pass rusher, before the season even starts? But I digress.
Nick Mullens yesterday came out throwing and didn’t disappoint. He hit short passes, fit the ball into small windows, hit a couple nice mid-range passes, and fared pretty well under pressure. The only really bad pass came before his 2nd TD pass of the game. Which he shook off, and hit Bourne for a score on 3rd down. His line was 16-22 for 262 yds, and 3 TDs. Mullens threw to 8 different receivers. Brieda and Mostert got 130 on the ground for a well-rounded effort. Again, the Raiders.
The biggest stat, though? ZERO turnovers. And only 3 penalties
The defense chimed in with SEVEN sacks against the Raiders high-priced line and held the soon-to-be-crapped-out Raiders to 242 total yards. Carr was a mediocre 140 yards in the air.
Bottom line, the team at least hasn’t given up. At this point all they can do is try. to play well, and act like they are getting their shit together. They accomplished that yesterday. A short week, no less.
We will likely play ourselves out of the Baby Bosa sweepstakes, but there are a boatload of great pass rushers in this draft. The least this may do is quiet the thoughts in my head that we need to get a QB with a high pick. Our needs are so varied that I’d hate to think we need to use a high pick on a QB. If Mullens can keep his head while CJ fumbles his way to oblivion, then we have one less thing to worry about.
This is a good write up on Jimmy G and CJ. It shows what most of us have said before, a QB needs to pass the eye test. On the usual stats we read, both QB’s are similar, yet the eye test tells us that Jimmy G is a much better QB. NFL has NextGen stats with a deeper analysis I thought it was fascinating:
https://www.49erswebzone.com/commentary/1954-beathards-advanced-stats-show-different-quarterback/
Great article, thanks
Here is another interesting take on the Niners/Raiders rebuilds and path to a SB. It was written before the game was played, but is actually about how the franchises are going about their respective rebuilds and shows why Gruden may well decide to move on from Carr:
Jimmy G’s contract is as front loaded as the league would allow. His cap hit will be much less after this year.
Yup its correct. Salary was also part of the argument. I don’t see Gruden dumping Carr until he has a viable alternative if at all, but they are certainly getting rid of their high dollar players.
Ram’s lose. Glad to see it.
It’s just such a shame that our beloved 49ers are too pathetic to beat the Rams themselves but we can always root for relevant teams to do it. Although now that we have the second coming of Tom Brady with Nick Mullens the Rams and the rest of this league better take notice because our HIGH POWERED offense is coming to get them!
Yawn….
I may just be distracted because I’m jumping on the Chiefs bandwagon just like the rest of Niner Nation but I know an MVP third stringer when I see one.
Sounds to me that you don’t understand 49er /Ram football. We have played each other twice a year since 1950. I really didn’t start following the Niners until 1960. I don’t care if the Rams are a better team this year or not, either way it gives me pleasure when they lose.I think we spanked em for 17 straight games at one time. It all comes back around.
Just saw this this morning
Film breakdown of Mullens debut:
https://www.49erswebzone.com/commentary/1956-film-room-nick-mullens-goes-practice-squad-prime/
Nice!
Lots of weird shit out there.
New thread is up.