I fully blame Demeco Ryans for this terrible showing so far this season. Our defense has much better players than last year, but we are 17 in yards allowed and 17th in points allowed. Horrible. Much worse than last year. No aggressiveness. The goal line stands have been nice, but drive by drive, GB was doing whatever they wanted. The Eagles had a lot of yards as well. Dee fucking troit took it to us in the 2nd half.
This is WITH Dee Ford, Nick Bosa, and DJ Jones back. Robert Selah had lesser players playing much better. Yes, this is a learning process for Ryans. But the cardinal sin against Rodgers is to let him feel comfortable in the pocket. He was very comfortable on that last drive. What Ryans should have pressured Rodgers with blitzes. Instead we dropped deep and protected the sidelines. Which left the middle wide open. Which Rodgers took advantage of easily.
And, stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Kyle Shanahan has a real glaring fucking issue with clock management late in games. Even with GB having no timeouts, I was screaming for Shanahan to run the ball. Burn time. Give Rodgers as little time as possible. But no, he went pas happy. 4 incomplete passes on that last drive gave GB the time needed. Out of the 2 minute warning on GBs 36, we needed to burn time. Instead we burn ONE second on an incompletion. This isn’t 20/20 hindsight. I was telling my son, RUN THE BALL!!! ONE stinking running play. 1st and goal from the 12 with 43 seconds left. RUN THE BALL!
Maybe Reid pulls a McCarthy and lets us score. Who knows? But all I know is we left Rodgers too much time and he did what he usually does.
And sure let’s get into the fucking inability of the offense to do anything for the first 20 minutes. THIS is when the defense shone. Like the Eagles game, the offense looked like the 1976 Buccaneers. The saving grace of the 1st half was Trenton Cannon’s 70 yard KO return which set up the 1st TD.
The 2nd half was played well enough as we took the 2nd half kickoff and scored 6 on a 83 yard, 14 play drive culminating in a TD to Brandon Aiyuk. Apparently fully out of the dog house Brandon Aiyuk.
Anyhow, this far along in the Shanahan tenure, and I’m still worried about how Shanahan seems to fuck up a lot of these close finishes. Ryans I’m less concerned about as he’s new to this, but he HAS to understand that his base 4 man rush was beaten by 2 rookies and a 3rd string tackle. Come up with something else to disrupt the opponent’s passing game.
Mainly because we have arch-thorn-in-the-side Russell Wilson coming to town, and there 2 things that cannot happen that usually does. Wilson getting 50+ yards on scrambles, and our offense starting slow.
Do that, and we are 2-2 and looking up at everyone else in the west. This becomes a huge game. Seattle is reeling a bit with their 2 losses already, and them being 1-3 would seriously hurt them as the rest of the west would be 3 games up on them.
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
some scribes on twitter wondering why they didn’t play some variation of a box and one defense on that last drive. Everyone and their mother knew the ball was going to Adams. It’s monday morning QBing but it does make sense to at least bring up
When Shanny can’t run, he doesn’t have much more than dinking and dunking.
Thankfully he hasn’t gone Harbaugh-gadgety yet but, he rarely stretches the field.
Hoping to see Trey add that dimension, and soon.
Putting him in for RPO plays will get him dinged sooner or later.
We don’t need Kaep 2.0 at this point.
Let the kid rip a few downfield and empty the box whydon’tcha?
I would like to see Lance out there on 3rd downs since we are having troubles getting first downs. Just about everything we do is set up by the run and since we don’t have a running game at the moment defenses are just keying on Jimmy.
Precisely Winder.
Shanny needs to open his eyes and design something akin to max protect and, teach Trey some hot reads, which is sure to multiply this week.
I was very impressed with Cousins on Sunday when he stared down a free Seattle rusher in his face and beat their coverage.
Takes some balls in this game to do that. Not convinced Jimmy could have pulled it off.
We shall see come Sunday.
Division nemesis in the house…..balls or no balls Shanny?
Well the bubble screen to Kittle has to go. And the go route to Kittle has to go. That was a haebaugh special that I couldn’t stand. Teams are playing up on us again and we need to beat it with either slants or double moves. Jimmy has little pocket presence early but did ok in the end. At some point they just have to go deep. When they get single coverage just let it fly.
It even worked in the detroit game when Jimmy G underthrew Samuel and he adjusted for the 70 yard TD. Samuel was man-to-man and he beat the coverage. Design more plays like this.
Throwing to Kittle when he was triple covered? Not so much. If he was triple covered, someone somewhere else was open. It’s not like the protection is horrible. Jimmy does have time to throw.
I just got kicked out of gramma’s basement. What will I do?
Hit the streets and find a cardboard box to sleep in..
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