Pretty sloppy effort all around today, but hey, it’s all backups all the time. Shanny did no favors for his young QB by telegraphing the fact that every play was gonna be a throw to start the game. It wasn’t until the fourth drive before we ran the ball. Once we ripped off a coupe runs, Lance was able to move the team. Pretty? No, but some of it looked fine. He sure doesn’t look like he’s processing the field fast enough. A step behind throwing out of the pocket, and late in breaking contain.
As I’ve been complaining about, the offensive line depth is non-existent. Lance had little to no time to throw, and when he did he seemed indecisive and slow to throw things away. Still, it’s game action. Game action that he needs to progress. Darnold was Darnold. More than a few nice plays, and a couple piss-poor ones.
And the rookies fared pretty poorly. Automatic Moody missed a 40 yard FG attempt, TE Cameron Latu fumbled the ball on the 49er 12, and WR Robbie Bell dropped a pass for a pick. All in all, though, Bell looked pretty solid with a bunch of nice catches. With Ray Ray McCloud out, D’Shawn Jamison looked very good as the new punt/kick returner.
Too many penalties, the Raiders drove up and down the field, and the only TD scored by the red and gold was on a sure pick thrown by Lance that was tipped around and caught by Dwelley.
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
My first thought after watching today’s game. I hope the starters stay healthy. We looked as bad as the score indicated.
Yep. The good news is we won’t be down every starter on either side of the ball.
The other good news is it is first game, preseason. I think Lance will do better next week.
Lance looked very timid trying to process. He was under pressure but a lot of that was on him for not getting the ball out on time. He looked like he did not want to throw into a tight window. If we were trying to show case him, it backfired.
Glad I was busy. Lance is worrisome to me but then you can never read too much into the 1st preseason game. We gotta play the dregs just to see who’s got the fire. I wish Bosa would just sign and get that out of the way.
The season is the showcase. He ain’t moving this year.
I agree.
If Darnold passes Lance on the depth chart, and Purdy plays the whole season, it very well may be that Lance doesn’t get his 5th year option and simply drifts away.
But given the QB injury rate around here, I’d think Lance will get some starts. If he can show any kind of progress, it would help. But I seriously doubt the team would try to sign him if he shows the same inconsistency though. Darnold may be Darnold, but he looked more game-ready than Lance.
Sure, it was a debacle trading all that shit for Lance, but if we can win with Purdy, the supposed hit is minimal. Folks will bitch and moan about the loss of all those picks, but it is all water under the bridge already. Getting our starting QB with pick 262 mitigates the sting of losing those 1s.
No idea how this turns out, but really, I’d hoped to see a little more improvement. That being said, I hope they play SOME of the 1st string offense with Lance next weekend.
I agree Chuck, the draft is always a crap shoot. Look at all the QBs that have gone 1,2,3. Not very many make it worth to draft them. Brady and Montana not #1’s.
Yeah, and our 1st, 2nd round pick success isn’t very great anyway. I’m gonna have to list out who they’ve picked in those rounds.
New thread.