I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees . . .
Here we are, week 4, and it already feels like the season is at the crossroads. Of course this isn’t really true this early in the season, but what should have been a transcendent season of looking to the future and watching our young exciting quarterback develop into a star has instead been seemingly sabotaged by the guy who directed the signing in the first place.
Kyle’s bright idea was to develop Lance’s passing game by running him repeatedly into the line and work the passing in at some later date. Well, that is now next season. Curious as this strategy has killed our last 4 leading rushers under Kyle the Merciless. Why he thought his costly quarterback would fare better is baffling as fuck, but here we are. Back to square one. Back to Jimmy. Mr. Fragile. Mr. costly fumble/game-killing interception. You know, the 9 year vet who is so rusty he forgot how big the end zone is.
But I digress. Tonight we get to find out if Kyle’s mastery over Sean McVay will continue, or if McVay found the key to beating us is to oversell against the run and force the game into Jimmy butterfingers hands. Thing is, but for the Tartt fail, the Niners could have won that NFCCG game WITH Jimmy. But that is a bridge long passed. Shanahan shit the bed in that fateful 4th quarter. And so did Jimmy and the rest of the team.
Now, the 49ers come into this game beat up. And it’s week 4. Mitchell is gone, Lance is gone, Williams is gone for a month, Kinlaw is (shock) hurting, AA is hurting. Brunskill is cleared to play, so the hope is the line does OK. They did well enough last week, but it didn’t seem to help Mr. ‘it’s like riding a bike’ as he fell off the bike and smashed his face into the pavement.
The Rams? After their humiliating loss vs the Bills to open the season, they rebounded with a win against the Falcons, and followed that up with a win over AZ. Nothing spectacular, but they finished their games. We didn’t. This was supposed to be the easy part of our schedule, but we’ve blown two 4th quarter leads in three games, and tonight a loss would mean last place and 2 games behind the Rams. Another blazing start here in year 5 of the Shanahavenoplan. I mean, shit, he’s the offensive guru who has two explosive 10 point games under his belt.
We got healthy vs the Rams last year after the worst loss I have even seen against Colt McCoy and the Cards, so the hope is we do the same this year and get better. Cuz last week’s game was just as pathetic.
Back to back sacks.
Fuck. Why didn’t Kyle take the timeout after the 1st play? He wasted 12 seconds to do nothing and Jimmy nearly threw a pick. Look at the 4th down play!!!! Guy was wide open!!! Jimmy throws it away!!!
The 2nd half is where we usually fall apart. I sure hope we don’t I would love to stick it the the stinkin Rams.
Don;t go utter winpy here. Which is what we do on 1st sdown.
Jimmy check-down misses Juice down the middle for the TD.
Catch the fucking ball!!!!!!!
Oh fuck me sideways.
Hey, there you go. Juice!!
Let’s not go run happy
big mistake
Well, this drive will seal the game if we can score that elusive 2nd half TD.
3rd string olineman so run only
Screens aren’t going to cut it
If the Rams tie this game up, I am going to be pissed
Pick Six!
Yeah!!!!
Niners needed that
If the pick didn’t happen, Kyle would not have known how to put the game away
Hey now! Fucking incredible game by the defense.
Shanny once again is leaving the other team in the game by going soft. He should have gone for the TD.
DeMeco Ryans is becoming a great coach before our eyes. He stopped dropping the LBs deep on these 2nd half plays, the aggressive D has come through in spades.
This is where Bill Walsh would try new plays game is over but he would call new plays. Some worked and if they scored that would be a new play that he would have