The most important injuries from the latest crash-test-dummy football game involving the 49ers are what they call day-to-day. Both Mike Evans and Trent Williams, two hugely important components of this high-flying offense, may play against Denver this weekend. Evans has a rib ‘issue’ that Shanahan isn’t calling a break, but Evans was in a boatload of pain coming off the field. The impetus may be to not run Evans over the middle and face big hits, but we all know how that goes.
Trent Williams issue was a neck stinger that Shanny said should be resolved by Thursday. Both of these of course come with the caveat that we don’t know shit, and they are tight-lipped about anything like this. Dre Greenlaw will be monitored for his quad contusion. He’ll likely play a limited amount. Romello Height is coming off hand surgery and will play.
And in other good news, Mykel Williams will have his practice window open Tomorrow so he will be available for the Seattle game. He will be closely watched I would think.
So the offense is in about as good shape as it could be in given all the previous injuries.
Defensively we are in the same situation we have been in. Stop the run. We have been fairly unsuccessful at doing that. Both Miami and the Cards had HUGE time-of-possession differentials in their losses. AZ especially could have won that game with a couple missed plays on our part.
And, hey, not all the games will go as planned. But we got the win. Just look at Seattle losing to an 0-2 Commando team using a backup QB in Marcus Mariota. Or even the 3-years-retired Case Keenum leading the Bears to a win over the Eagles last night.
Got to say I’m a little disappointed in Raheem Morris not changing things up to stop the run. Still seeing a lot of 4-man fronts. And the pressure is still not up to par. 2 sacks on 52 passing attempts isn’t stellar. Yeah, Bosa’s out. But scheme different looks. Send a corner in press coverage. Nix is no world-beater, but give him time and he WILL hit big passes.
Doesn’t get much better than Pat Summerall and Tom Brooksheier.
Heartbreaking season to me as an 11 year old kid.
Thanks chuck love watching the old Niner clips and 72 was such a fun year. Until it wasn’t. It really hurt that we couldn’t go the whole way.
In 1962 I was 10 and the World Series loss to the Yankees was the first time I ever got my heart broken, still not really over it now.
Yup. Preston fucking Riley still pisses me off to no end.
My brother in law had tickets in the south end zone and I saw 3-4 games that year. Including Brodie’s triumphant return to beat the Vikings to get into the playoffs, and the heartbreaking Cowboys game.
When we got home, we found out our house had been robbed.
The 1972 Cowboys playoff game was my first broken heart in sports. There were other losses, but I had that game won, then it wasn’t.
I really hate thieves.
In defense of Morris, that D line had 1 recognizable name at a time playing, its literally a bunch of no names, some of which joined the team that week and played snaps.
Also, I saw far more 5 man and even a 6 man fronts than we saw under Salah.
Yeah, we are showing much different looks but when we were wearing down I wanted to see more chances taken. Brissett had like 8 completions in a row and we weren’t stopping the run either. The old death by 1000 cuts.
And as well as the offense is going, Shanahan needs to deal with figuring out how to keep the defense off the field by running some more.
This is like the old Marino Dolphins. They could score at will but the defense would be on the field like 40:00 to 20:00 every game.
The 79-80 Niners were kinda like that too. Deberg(sp) could score some points but we had no DB’s that could stop anything.
I remember the 49ers holding open tryouts for defensive backs at Sequoia high school in Redwood City in 1979. Went down and watched. I think they still have Walsh’s office the way he left it 45 years ago.
Carried this in my wallet from that day until we beat the Cowboys in the 1981 playoffs.
Very cool.
Yep
Yeah very cool Chuck,Did you get Preston Riley to sign the back?Just kidding he probably would have fumbled your ticket.I never truly got over his screwup on the onside kick! That and the Cowpokes rallying for the Win with a rookie QB Yep I believe Roger Staubach took over made it worse in a total nightmare finish!!!!!
Yep terrible day all around. My brother almost got shot by a cop when they came.
When we got home, a bunch of stuff was stolen out of our house and there was stuff lying in the bushes, so they boogied when they heard us driving up. We called the cops, and when they came, my brother was looking for stuff around the yard.
He’s about 70% deaf, and didn’t hear the cop calling him, and the cop drew on him. I screamed ‘That’s my brother! He can’t hear you!’ Luckily the cop didn’t shoot.
An even bigger pisser is there was like 35 seconds left when the 49ers got the ball back. Brodie hit Washington on a deep pass the would have put the ball on the Dallas 45 with about 25 seconds left but there was a holding call the nullified the play.
Not that Bruce Gossett was all that great, but we had a chance to kick a FG if not for the penalty.
As brutal as that Dallas game was, the playoff-clinching win over Fran Tarkington’s Vikings by the 4th quarter return of John Brodie the week before was just as incredible.
We were in the right end zone for both the 4th quarter TDs thrown by Brodie. The crowd was insanely loud when Brodie came in, and pandemonium when he won it.
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