It is hurt? Is it not hurt? Either way, the the calf, uh cat will be out of the bag tomorrow once the game starts, if not earlier. Not sure if this is gamesmanship on the part of the 49ers, or simply nothing, as CMC said himself yesterday, or a bigger problem like last year.
Hearing ‘calf’ send alarm bells in my head given the achilles issues, but hey, that’s me. Anyhow, this should be a good test for our offense. Regardless of CMC, Seattle has a soft interior line, so we look to run. Then again, Seattle has a solid run game themselves so they look to do the same.
Their defense isn’t spectacular in any stretch, but they are decent. We don’t know what we are on D. To win this game it may just come down to who makes the mistakes on offense. With or without CMC our offense should be able to move the ball. Red zone? Well, that’s where we missed CMC the most.
Seattle? They have Slinging Sourdough Sam Ginger Darnold. But they don’t have DK Metcalfe. We need to get on top early and pressure Darnold. He’s not gonna run like Wilson, or even Geno, so just force him to fuck up.
Niners 28-20. No fucking FGs.
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
“Signs are pointing toward 49ers RB Christian McCaffrey (calf) playing vs. the Seahawks,” Mike Garofolo tweeted on Saturday. “Kyle Shanahan wouldn’t speculate on McCaffrey’s status after he was a DNP yesterday but McCaffrey was confident he’d play. It’s looking like he will.”
Yeah and hopefully more than a few sets of downs. Over the years after missing a lot of game one year his bounces back the next and has a great year. But time could be catching up to him and that would really be bad for us. Anyway fingers crossed.
he bounces
I liked what Harbaugh did to KC.
Heavy pass game. Herbert ate their D and wore them out. Seattle likes to blow up the inside running lanes to disrupt the pocket.
Work the edges with the short passing game?
As long as we don’t play that preventive crap I am good with just about anything. Should be a fun game today that actually means something. Shanny better be on his play calling also because if I know what’s coming you can bet they do too.
Dallas came out passing as well and it worked early. Seattle may overload the box to help their bad interior D.
Would love quick passes to start the game.
Not sure of this will work, but it’s got some great advice from Bill Walsh, Joe Montana, and Steve Young.
Apropos more this year than last, but Walsh’s comment to Montana was “Don’t try to do too much. It’s OK to punt. We have a good defense.”
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CMC was a ‘full participant’ in Saturday’s walk thru.
But yeah, walk thru.
We will see.
CMC not on the inactive list so there’s that.
Great play call
Nice drive. Seattle’s run D is better than I thought.
Run D looking soft.
Give em a gift td
That pass would not have been caught.
Rookie mistake.
We’d better figure out how to run.
Pressure wins. Esp against Darnold.
Nice stop. Need to get the running game going. Nice to see Kittle getting touches instead of holding him back for the run game.
Yeah, but we have to get the run game going. B Rob to the outside looked good.
D looking better. Got to get the O rolling.
His is where I disagree with the play calling. Why run on 3rd and very long. IMO, pass the ball, take the chance. I guess there is a greater chance of an INT rather than a fumble? Still I would throw the ball.
I’m cool with it at this point. Pin them deep and get the ball back.
Shit, Kittle out 😡😡😡
Kittle out with a bad hammy.
Fuck.
I am not surprised with Moody
1st down call fucked that drive. Time was running out and they flailed.
And there you go.
Missed a 12 yarder.
Unreal
I /bet Kyle is calling Lynch right now. Get me a fucking kicker
I blame Kyle for keeping him.
Yup.
Shanny should have called time.
And now we are gonna let them score.
They are worried about the Minnesota game last year.
Ha. Who could have predicted Moody would miss a chip shot? Everybody.
Shanny is a complete dope on this issue. Get some kicker they surely have on the speed dial and cut Moody loose, like they should have done 6 weeks ago, if not in the off season. Shanny risks pissing off the whole team by keeping this guy.
They had plenty of reasons to can the guy. Utter stupidity.
And their guy hits from 48.
Moody is just not a NFL kicker, I don’t care what he did in college that had the Niners drafting him
Kyle had better figure out what to do with the blitz Seattle is doing, you don’t want your $265 million QB running for his life
The 1st and goal fuckup killed that drive.
Shanahan has to go for it on 4th down from anywhere within field goal range for the rest of this game and dump this headcase right after the game.
There’s no easier FG than the one Moody just missed. Inexcusible.
Moody is a head case. Just can’t rely on the guy.
Everyone knows that crossing route.
They need more heat on Darnold
Shanny spelling CMC is about 2 years too late but yeah.
Kyle going conservative, interception and let’s run the ball only
Throwing away 1st downs.
Sigh, special teams is going to cost us this game
Wow. Just wow.
Can’t blame Moody for that one, but…
unbelievable.
An entire off season to fix special teams. Yet, deja vu all over again. Inexcusable…
They did a lot but kept Moody.
Derp.
Saleh went soft on 3rd and 4. Bad call. Sick of this soft shit.
Esp with Darnold. Pressure him like we did and he sucks.
D needs to do more than 4 guys. They aren’t getting home.
Really bad calls there. You fucking go play action on 2nd and 2. Or a bootleg. SOMETHING misdirection rather than the obvious.
Throwing away another 1st and goal.
I had my eyes closed
Shanahan’s play calling in the red zone hasn’t changed.
It is fucking awful.
Purday was a touch behind Pearsall and it cost him the TD.
Should be 16-10
Made 1 of 3 EZ field goals. You can’t win games with a dysfunctional kicking game.
You can’t win with Shanny wasting every 1st down call in the red zone.
D is on point. Shanny is sucking in the red zone. Again.
Purdy trying to do too much, but of course Kyle will take it out of his hands and run the ball
Stupid for Purdy. Read the blog, fuck-o.
what is Purdy looking at, both interceptions 100% bad throws into covered receiver’s.
Game’s in Purdy’s hands.
Single coverage throws are much better.
This is another Kyle problem, he doesn’t play with any urgency, sitting in the huddle letting the clock run. You already are having trouble in the red zone. Get down there and score a TD, especially since your kicker is not reliable
Can’t believe Seattle didn’t go 4th and 1.
me too, dumb.
Shocking. 1st and goal and a run up the middle with CMC.
Shanny is no fucking genius.
Bosa!
In shocking news Jennings is hurt his first game back after a not hold out.
Once again, that’s a perfect 1st down call. On 2nd down.
I’ll take dumb luck for $600, Alex.
The Niners should not lose this game
Hoooooooooooooooooooo!
Some times it’s better to be lucky than good
Defense wins the day.
F the MF Seachickens!’
as Flavor would say, that is all
Seattle will be second-guessed for the 4th down wimp-out. They could have iced the game.
I totally thought the pass to Tongues was a throw-away.
Unreal.
Niners dodged a howitzer to pull out the win in this one. Defense bent, didn’t break in the very end. Bosa basically wins it for ’em.
Get a new kicker. Stop the idiot run calls in the red zone.
Seattle isn’t that good…
Sould have been a 10 point win. Niners need to get rid of Moody right now, clear out his damn locker.
Now what are they going to do with all the hurt players. Seeing how complicated Kyle makes the offense they could struggle. Unless Kyle develops a game plan that rookies will be able to excel
Shanahan says Moody stays, there’s no question.
WTF.
First game of the season chaos but sure glad we took it. Moody has a chance to lose every game for us. way to stressful for me. Shanny looks pretty much to same to me, more stress.
You guys will be stuck with Jake Moody for the rest of his career. He’ll continue to be the Hunter Strickland of football and hopefully continue to cost the Niners pivotal games.
Who won?
Even company man Maiocco says enough is enough with Moody. Every time he kicks the ball its a hold your breath event, that has to be bad for his teammates who all work so hard to put Moody in position to succeed.
Shanahan and Lynch need to grow a pair and do what’s obvious to everyone, cut bait with their 3rd round blunder.
Sherm too. Hello Greg Joseph?
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This team has so many rookies and youth, it is these kinds of games they typically lose early, like they opening loss to Detroit in 1981. It didn’t seem like we were stuffing the run but the statistics are good. Our defensive line wasn’t dominant. they did just enough. Our offensive line is not so good. Our passing game dried up when Seattle went man coverage. Watching replays, the WRs weren’t getting open. This why Shanny was trying to get the run game going. I agreed with what he was going. Purdy won a game he probably shouldn’t have won. I was very impressed with Dee Winters. I did not get a good look at Mykell Williams. He didn’t make any plays but I never saw him get run over. Kalia Davis was good. Tonges made plays, just like in pre-season. I’m wondering why Shanny is keeping Moody.
The D started out kinda soft. Esp on the 3rd and 8 where they didn’t bring pressure. They got better and better as the game went on. Their only TD came on an unnecessary PI on Stout. He got thrown at a lot and did pretty well but for that early drive.
Purdy’s 2nd pick was just flat stupid. Throwing into triple coverage is never gonna work. The 1st one was a good read by the LB as we run that deep cross all the time.
THe TD to Tonges is all on Tonges. He went and got the ball. It was a wounded duck.
The defense was dramatically better than the last couple years.
Just another 3rd RD bust pick.
Probably doesn’t have anyone holding him on a fantasy roster either. Why put up with the constant adventures of Shakey Jake?
Waive him. No one will claim him anyway.
Of all of the rookies, I thought Siegle was solid, Williams was OK, Stout had some plays, good and bad. Stout and Williams were probably getting a lesson on the speed of the game. They will probably get better fairly quickly as the game slows down for them. I’m sure that happened to Siegle, too, but he looked like he was already up to speed.
The stats say the defensive line did well. The eye test said they need a lot of work.
Dustin Hopkins should be available. Unless Cleveland wants him back on Monday, after their kicker’s dreadful performance.
Lenoir needs to control his antics.
Niners get the #11 pick on the waiver wire for the first 3 weeks. After that it resets each week.
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