In the immortal words of Kyle Shanahan, “We embrace the shit out of doing it the hard way.” Yeah, this is true. This weird season just keeps on getting weirder. In the immortal words of Hunter Thompson, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Well, let’s get weird. Fred Warner has officially been cleared to practice even as the LB corps is gelling into a pretty damn good unit as we have rolled to our 4th MLB with Erik Kendricks manning the green dot and the middle, and the freshly plucked Garret Wallow from Denver doing great things in place of Curtis Robinson.
Throw in the fact that Trent Williams is healthy for this game cracks open the window to victory a little bit. Plus, there’s the added factoid that Brock Purdy has never lost in Seattle, going 4-0 there, and 6-2 overall vs the Seachix.
What does it all mean? Nothing really. My hope is we do what we did in the 2nd half of the Philly game and show a lot more 5-6 man fronts and not give up so many easy runs. I’m sure they will try to burn us deep, but Saleh just has to swallow that bitter pill and somehow generate pressure. The D didn’t allow a lot of point that last game, but they did control the ball for 2/3 of the game. Even the Philly game was 35/25 Eagles.
Speaking of hope, they need to get the run game going somehow. And I would really like to see the occasional slant and some quick passes rather than the constant diet of sideline fades.
In that vein, Ricky Pearsall is limited in walkthroughs today. At least he’s out there. Tomorrow will tell a lot about his status for fucking Saturday. Nice to see the NFL throwing more adversity at us.
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
As far as what Kat said about the indy college coach going to Raiders with Mendoza, the college guy has it so much easier. He doesn’t need a GM to change roster, he can add them through portal as they did with Mendoza from Cal or based on past success recruit at top of food chain. plus, he is the one who has control and power as long as things go well. This guy has grace of at least a couple years, win or lose CFP Finals.
Meanwhile, Sirianni wins the SB and now he’s vulnerable, forced to change OC and maybe more. at NFL level, far too much distance btw HC and individual players Even Shanahan has had to change Special teams and strength/conditioning staff repeatedly and navigate complications of salary cap. And it can all go sideways on you in a year, or a week.
Yeah, like I said, U of Indy just dumped close to a billion dollars into their football program. Their coach ain’t going anywhere.
Sirianni is Jim Harbaugh with a little more luck. Rah rah rah and all that. Harbaugh did exactly what Pete Carroll did with USC. Broke the rules and did all he could to get that national championship and then jumped off the program he laid to waste to sign a huge NFL deal.
Winning college coaches get unfettered dark money from boosters and the like, but Super Bowl winning NFL coaches get more glory.
When is the National Championship game anyway? It always gets to the point that I’ve completely forgotten about the last game by the time it rolls around.
19th, next Monday.
It’s Seattle’s defense that we have to figure out, they along with Texas have the best in the NFL and it’s been getting better as they go. I don’t know if Purdy can get the ball out any faster but I do know he’s gonna be pressured the whole game. We will have no room for error in this one and our coaching needs to be spot on. This one should be fun.
I feel better with Trent back. And our LBs playing better.
Interesting article on why the Niners are playing on Saturday
https://apple.news/AXR6RLg5ITjOZ0OzdBX1bQA
Player safety be damned. It’s all about the money. That’s why there are so many Thursday night games now.
And they conveniently stopped enforcing helmet-to-helmet hits, and they never really enforced the hip-drop tackle they said they would penalize.
Im a big fan of Tonges, he’s got very reliable hands and Im bummed they never used him and Kittle at the same time, I think that formation would have posed serious issues.
I also think we are looking at a player that may well be the guy to take over from George once his ability/age/cost/ injuries make that inevitable.
We don’t know if George returns as the same beast he has always been and to be clear, I consider him the best all around TE in the league
I doubt we will ever see another full season from Kittle, Williams, Bosa, and probably Warner too. Plus theirs a good chance McCaffrey is lost for most of the season. Thats been his MO for most of his career. I think they know now is their shot
Until he tore his achillies I figured George had 2 or possibly 3 years left. Now we will likely lose him for the season next year and then who knows how he comes back
Trent wasn’t very good early in the season but improved and ended up playing most of the games, he looks like 1 more year and he’s done.
Bosa was playing for a big ass contract next year, but even before he got hurt, he hasn’t been a dominant top 5 DE for a couple of years. He will have to show he is once again dominant next year in order to get another big bag and that may not be with the Niners.
Fred is a different case, he is at the top of his game and looks to have another 4 or even 5 years left in the tank presuming this injury doesn’t affect him.
What sucks is not being able to replace Buckner after all this time. Huff is the latest disappointment as the opposite DE.
Good news is it looks like Pearsall is practicing and looks ready to go. We need all the help we can get on offense.
We HAVE to be able to run the ball to give Purdy time to throw.
Forgot about CMC, you’re right, his MO is heavy use 1 year and injured the next. I also don’t think he is the same RB as 2023 and probably never will be again. Not to say he isn’t a great player, he is, but not as a battering ram RB which is how he is being used. He no longer has the power or burst to break tackles which has always been the difference between CMC and regular RB.
Yeah he seems to get open and is a dangerous pass catcher. Maybe use him more as that it might be a little easier on his body.
Down to 8 H/C jobs available now as John Harbaugh becomes the new head coach for the New York Giants..
New thread is up