Right? This is rock bottom? Jimmy was just rusty? Even though the week before it was ‘just like riding a bike’ and he was Mr. Swaggger? This team does nothing but infuriate me. Trey Lance plays his 3rd NFL game in a driving monsoon, scores 10 points on the road, makes one rookie mistake, and all the pundits come out of the ooze to crucify him for being a bust, a failure, and wasted pick.
Jimmy Garoppolo, a 9 year vet playing in his 65th game in perfect weather scores 10 points, makes 3 rookie mistakes (walking out of the end zone being the biggest, to go along with the INT and the obligatory Jimmy fumble), and all the pundits come out of the muck to defend him. Oh, he didn’t practice with the team. He was rusty. He just had surgery. He had a bad day. His Chi was in the 7th house of Mars. My take? Jimmy is an idiot.
Fuck, I don’t know. More annoying to me is the guy who architected all this madness is not catching any heat from the national media or the locals for the debacle that this offense is right now. Kyle Shamahan took a shitty team and made it respectable. Yet the onus on him even before he got here was his choking away a 25 point lead in the Atlanta Super Bowl. He took Matt Ryan and made him an MVP. Turned Matt Shaub into a Pro Bowl QB. RG III had a rookie-of-the-year season under Shanny.
So, what happened to Jimmy? He’s apparently immune to the Kyle effect. This far into Kyle’s tutelage, and Jimmy is still a one-read and panic QB. He takes unnecessary sacks, has no pocket awareness, and has the escapability of a snail. So, what is Kyle to do? Build the most boring, predictable offense he possibly can. I get that Kyle doesn’t want to take unnecessary risks throwing the ball too much, but he’s his own worst enemy when it comes to putting Jimmy in bad situations.
We saw the results. Quick passes on 1st down to start the game. It opened the run game on that 1st drive. Quick score. And Shanny’s response to that success was to stop doing it and go back to the prevent offense. Teams invariably catch up and pass us, so Kyle is forced to have Jimmy throw. When the other team KNOWS he has to throw. Trouble ensues.
I’ve pretty much given up on expecting anything decent from this team at this point, so I won’t be so angry if we end up getting waxed by the Rams. They looked pathetic early and rebounded.
Can we?
Forty Niners Forever 
This song is me. I used to care, but things have changed.
IMO Dylan is the greatest songwriter/storyteller that I know of.
Okay so what exactly went wrong with offense, well Nick Wagner on Twitter says , Deebo, Brandon, Kittle, 15 touches, 141 yards and a Touchdown in the first half, second half the 3 of them, 2 touches 5 yards, Nicks assessment of the second half was Yikes. Yikes indeed
Sounds like Denver adjusted but we didn’t. That has been happening for a long time. One key injury to our oline and we are toast. Shanny sure does seem stubborn to the point of WTF.
The Shanahan story, He and Harbaugh share that as well.
Plays were there. Jimmy could not throw an accurate pass. He missed a short Texas rout in the 4th quarter that would have sealed the game. It was a short pass of less than 10 yards. Deebo had reach back and break up the interception. If he gets hit in stride, he might have a long TD. If Jimmy throws like that this week he needs to be pulled.
Yeah, Jimmy does have a lot to answer for that 2nd half. Jimmy misses lots of plays and has since he’s been here. I don’t think he is trying to get better. I am just really pissed at the way our offense works and to me that is mostly on Shanny.
When JG misses on passes Kyle goes straight to the run, what Kyle needs to do is continue to challenge JG so that he either starts making the plays or Kyle finally realizes he needs to go to the 3rd string guy
Announcers for Chiefs/Bucs game commented that the Chiefs went out and got an O-line to protect Mahomes. I wonder when the Niners will do that to protect their rookie QB or any QB they have. Hopefully before I die.
Right. All we did was let our best guard go and ignore the fact that our center retired.
Man, I wish I had a clue as to what would happen tomorrow. Can’t believe we are favored.
When your team has scored 41 points and you are up by 17 with less than 5 mins left in the game, I can live with an interception
That is crazy. This pre-Rick James Neil. I’ll move this to the next post.
New thread is up.