This season is distilling in my head the problems I’ve seen with Kyle Shanahan. The lack of changing schemes in a given game, his stubbornness in rotating players, his ‘I’m the smartest guy in the room’ approach to coaching, and his complete inability to close out games.

Yeah, I’ve gone over this a thousand times, but this season alone has shown this stubborn approach and how it has failed numerous times. Even in 3 of our 5 wins this year, Dallas, Seattle, and Tampa nearly came back and won those games. Our 2 ‘great’ wins came over the hapless Jets, and the horrible Patriots.

9 of these games saw us with the ball and the lead in the 4th quarter. We lost 4 of them. We could very easily be 2-9. And we could just as easily be 8-3. Such are the vagaries of the NFL. 9 of these games came down to a few plays. A blocked punt. A missed FG. A punt return for 60 yards. a KO return for a TD. And the hundreds of inopportune penalties.

Pre-snap penalties, false start penalties, special teams penalties, and our shit O line and their holding penalties.

Shanny doesn’t know how to change shit up. This is the same problem Harbaugh has. And the Chargers are starting to crack already despite their 7-4 record. Looking at their games, they are routinely out-schemed in the 2nd half due to the inability to make in-game changes to affect the outcome. Too many 3 and outs late. No taking shots on 4th down. No downfield passing. Abandoning the run. On and on.

Say the team goes 1-5 down the stretch. I mean, really, even the Bears are a stretch. That would put us at 6-11. This team has a shot at losing out based on what I’ve seen. 5-12 would be an unmitigated disaster, and SHOULD be the impetus to can Shanahan.

I’m sure the wimp that is Jed will do nothing but let Shanny ride out his last year as the lame fuck HC, but this team, despite it’s aging, is still among the best in the league.

We need a fucking head coach that understand that you cannot ignore the O line and expect your young newly minted billionaire QB to simply dodge pass rushers his whole career. Same goes with the defense. We have decimated the interior line with pushovers and run a terrible scheme.