Super Bowl hangover
Front office shenanigans with BA and Trent Williams
The injury problem
The drafting of Ricky Pearsall
The shooting of Ricky Pearsall
The ultra-soft defense (#1 issue)
Repeated special teams disasters (#2 on the issue list)
Play calling
Red zone play calling
Shanny’s dependence on the stars
Shanny hoping CMC would save the season as he rode him into the ground
The inability of Shanahan to spell his RBs
Shanny’s force-feeding of Deebo to the detriment of the rest of the team
Shanny forgetting about Kittle for too many games
Shanny playing it safe on 4th down
Illegal formation penalties
False start penalties
Penalties in general (13-1 in yesterday’s game!)
The pisser to me in this list is the same fucking problems were all readily apparent yesterday.
Week 18!
And the team did NOTHING about these recurring problems.
The front office didn’t shit-can Brian Schneider after week 4
The coaching staff didn’t tell Nick Sorensen to change his defensive style
The penalty situation never changed
The play calling didn’t change enough
The red zone offense didn’t improve
The biggest pisser to me was the fact that if the 49ers had beaten the Rams, they were prepared to sell off the team. They had Kooper Kupp on the trading block, and had they gone 0-5, they likely would have pulled the trigger. But no, we had to give up the fake punt that destroyed the entire season and the Rams end up winning the division.
They blew all 3 of the divisional games that would have won them the division.
They have the players
They need a better coaching staff
This harkens back to the Chip Kelly/Jimmy Farts-a-lot lost seasons where the 49ers were a talented team, but severely rudderless. Harbs came in and got the guys on the beam and they were a playoff team.
Funnily enough, Harbaugh took a talented but rudderless team in San Diego and poof! They are a playoff team now.
I really wish they’d think about getting rid of Shanahan. Sure, it might end up like Andy Reid, but hey, Philly won their Super Bowl 2 years before Reid and the Chiefs did.
Bears would be smart to get Pedersen alongside Caleb IMO.
Sorensen out.
huzzah
Ward might not make it back to football, death of his daughter really affected him
https://apple.news/AMEoepIwaRsqdOVTGtT3LQQ
Klay Kubiac officially becomes the 9ers OC.
Brandon Staley to interview for the DC position 2nd year in a row.
Deebo is staying.
Javon Hargrave is out, at least initially, they will see what the market offers him.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/nick-sorenson-could-move-to-special-teams-coordinator-for-49ers-brandon-staley-under-consideration-for-dc
Reshuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic?
WTF? Like telling the difference between the left sock and right sock in the laundry basket.
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb please switch chairs. 🤬
You get a new title and… you get a new title and… you get a new title.
Kyle still does everything.
New rules. Kyle gets put into a straight jacket in RD3.
Give Ulbrich a call for shit sake. He’s a legacy icon and plenty capable.
What pissed me off was Kyle sticking with Schneider ALL season. I really think he needed to cut bait around game 6, or even at the bye giving him time to shuffle the coaching pack. Send the message and maybe change the ST outcomes for the better, they certainly couldn’t have gotten worse.
They can’t be serious about keeping Sorenson around as a ST coach and same with Staley both showed how overmatched they were last year!
Ulbrich& Saleh are the 2 obvious top choices with plenty of ties and experience to add! I’m not in with Colts DC Archie Bradley who’s defense was terrible among the worst in the league and plenty of internal and ego issues among players didn’t help..
The promotion of Klay Kubiak( an up an coming hot commodity they don’t want to lose)to OC is interesting and Shanahan obviously think he’s talented and he hasn’t had a OC since McDaniel, but who really makes the play calling it’s always been Shanahan ?unless he’s finally willing to just COACH and Relinquish play calling to Kubiak?Time will tell how this plays out..
Shanahan knows offense,some defense,and next to nothing about ST.Which is fine so long as the coaches he delegates do!
I don’t expect Shanny to coach or call much in regards to ST he never has except for a fake punt or onside kick when it fits the game flow.
And when they fail at that he has to find a replacement with somebody better and Schieder &Sorenson wasn’t the answer!
Yeah, they should have made changes in ST immediately after they looked fucking stupid every goddamn game. The Rams game springs to mind. That one missed fake punt can very well be seen as the point where the season went south.
They should have made changes to the defense after the Dallas game. At the least told Sorensen that he needs to step up the pressure.
Or fire him.
Sorensen as ST coach? Yeah, just move your incompetence over here . . .
Kubiak as OC? Sure. As long as he gives more than knob service to Shanahan.
There’s no girls here…..