I do think the whole "revenge tour" thing was a disaster. Hell, you could go 16-0 and getting back to the Super Bowl would still not be a given. One week at a time was how they got to 13-3 last year, and I think the seeds for a disappointing season were planted the moment people started talking about the 2020 Super Bowl.
Honestly, maybe the worst loss of the last 20 years. This was a team with legitimate Super Bowl hopes a month ago, and we just got curb-stomped by a bad team, ending our season in Week 5. I can't think of any worse loss than this.
A heartbreaking, just-barely, close loss to the powerful Dolphins ...
Some invigorating things to take away from the game:
--Bourne's hands of Elmer's Glue snatching every one of the 13 off-target passes;
--The IOL's fluid Maginot Line blocking allowing no pressure up the middle;
--Dwelley's shut down blocking;
--JG's unerring accuracy, with the small exception of 7 or 8 throws scarcely off-the-mark;
--Special teams remarkable alertness on the fake punt;
--Special teams innovative approach to fielding the kickoff 7 yards deep in the end zone (it was a fluke the returner was barely stopped by a fingernail by eight Dolphins at the 14;
--Special teams gathered themselves this week and allowed no blocked punts!--and no block kickoffs either!, and what with that blizzard of kickoffs after 9er TDs is something of a miracle!
--Defense again showed off their in-game IQ (3rd and goal from the 20, no need for Saleh to caution the first-game DB to not allow receiver to get behind him, anything but that would lead to a field goal, so, all good there);
--Only downside I can see here is that Hyder and Warner didn't get the memo that these were the legendary Dolphins, for Pete's sake, and to play hard for a change;
Now, even more upside! The grueling part of the schedule is over and now the boys can coast a bit, just a bit, because if you take patsies like the Seahawks, Packers and Rams too lightly they can knock a few bicuspids loose, but still, we can rejoice that the gauntlet is over.
I’d like to go to the link you sent, but it always asks for more info and when I give it it asks for more. I’m old, computer unsavvy; I don’t know what a URL might be or a work station address. I know everyone else can get get around these sites, but for some reason all I can ever do is read your Fortheniners articles, which I always like. Thx.
Plain and simple the team feeds off the defense; last year when the defense was on point the offense fed off that energy and emotion, and it’s gone. Buckner play and presence is missed; and along with no Bosa, Ford, or Sherman on the field is hurting this team; its not anyone’s fault per say, the starters are hurt, their backups are hurt and we’re playing guys that couldn’t make the Jets roster I bet. We cannot get to the quarterback, which in turn causes turnover opportunities, allows the secondary to play with mor confidence and take chances for INTs. At this rate, I’m just hoping we get a really high pick this year, that we can trade back (if desired player is off the board) and obtain more picks; which the ladder might be best as we need IOL, OT, CB and EDGE, and a top 10 pick can easily fetch a few extra mid round picks, plus a late first to fill the holes that need filling.
It was a disaster in every way, and while Jimmy of course played like garbage, I don't see how any skill position player can be fairly evaluated behind what has become the worst offensive line in football. If Trent Williams, Laken Tomlinson and Mike McGlinchey were ACTIVELY TRYING to get their QB hurt, would it look any different than these last several games? How many times have we seen the first defender getting to the QB before the QB even hits the last step of his drop?
If this is the line we're going to be sticking with after this year, we need to dump Garoppolo and draft a scrambling QB who can run, because there isn't a pocket passer in the game who could succeed behind this line.
Shanahan's treatment of injured guys is head-scratching. Two years running he sits there and watches Kittle play through an obvious injury from early in the AZ game, only to have Kittle sit out multiple games thereafter. Jordan Reed was obviously hurt, but goes back in the game and suffers a more serious injury. Garoppolo was apparently not able to plant his back foot to throw with any velocity, but he was reinserted in the starting lineup. Meanwhile, Witherspoon was healthy enough to dress and healthy enough to go in the game, but not healthy enough to start over a guy even the most die hard 49er fan had never heard of?
Everyone needs to be better, but it starts with Kyle Shanahan.
Completely agree. I've been a big fan of Jimmy since the jump, and I still think he can be the guy for us. What I don't think is that he is being put in situations that help him get there. Not being able to plant your back foot seems like something they should have been able to figure out in practice rather than waiting until he was throwing ducks into the arms of Dolphin defenders. And for once I'd like to see Kyle start the game by getting him some quick easy throws to build a rhythm instead of starting off with two running plays that make Jimmy's first throw in 2.5 games a 3rd & 6.
Something just feels off. We all know about the injuries, but something else is going on here. How did Trent Williams go from looking like an All Pro in the first two weeks to looking like Zane Beadles in the last few games? Laken Tomlinson got rave reviews in camp and was one of the guys we generally didn't have to worry about, and he's turned into a Jordan Devey-like turnstile. When you have the left side of the line playing that poorly, you can't then have Mike McGlinchey celebrate his selection as a team captain by apparently abandoning the weight room for the summer and come back much lighter and FAR less strong.
It's baffling, and hugely disappointing, and I don't see this team turning this around unless the line drastically improves. With the schedule they face in the coming 7 weeks, it's not crazy to think these guys could be staring down the barrel of a 2-10 record. FML....
It guts me to start getting on team tank again, so early in the season so soon after the last time (just two years ago). For that reason, I think I'll hold off one more week before formally hopping aboard. If they can somehow beat the Rams and get back their secondary, then maybe the offense can start to resemble what we all expected and the defense can become a middle of the pack unit. That might be good enough to get them in contention for a wild card slot.
But if they lose to the Rams, I think at that point I'm fully aboard the tank plan (obviously the players and coaches don't tank, but I'll just be content with losing at that point). As you said, our Super Bowl run was largely the result of sacrificing Jimmy's knee and the 2018 season for Nick Bosa. I don't know that they will obtain a player anywhere near that impactful this coming draft, but with so many needs the ability to sign a potentially great player at corner, tackle, or edge would probably make it worth it. This blows....
Our season is over, and in a way I'm a bit relieved. The bandaid has been ripped off, and we know this team isn't playoff bound, let alone the Super Bowl. Better to know that now then to be strung along by mediocrity all year only to be disappointed. When we finish 8-8. Better to be the 2018 team than 2014.
If we lose to the Rams, we might as well just call it a season and IR our injured remaining studs to ensure we obtain a high value pick; top five would be awesome but outside of top 10 is pretty much a waste IMO. If we can garner a top five pick, with Lance, Fields and Lawrence we can ask for Kings ransom for the pick and by trading back, getting multiple picks. Or we take one if those QB studs, and use the cheap rookie deal to our advantage and reload the o-line and secondary.
This week is going to be a long season. Bad coaching, bad qbing bad line play. everything was bad
Highlights how cocky the team got. Revenge tour - they expected to waltz back to the Super Bowl and got punched in the mouth instead.
I do think the whole "revenge tour" thing was a disaster. Hell, you could go 16-0 and getting back to the Super Bowl would still not be a given. One week at a time was how they got to 13-3 last year, and I think the seeds for a disappointing season were planted the moment people started talking about the 2020 Super Bowl.
"This week is going to be a long season" might have been a typo, but it's so, SO accurate.
That was possibly the worst game top to bottom of the ShanaLynch era
"possibly" I think undoubtedly
Honestly, maybe the worst loss of the last 20 years. This was a team with legitimate Super Bowl hopes a month ago, and we just got curb-stomped by a bad team, ending our season in Week 5. I can't think of any worse loss than this.
A heartbreaking, just-barely, close loss to the powerful Dolphins ...
Some invigorating things to take away from the game:
--Bourne's hands of Elmer's Glue snatching every one of the 13 off-target passes;
--The IOL's fluid Maginot Line blocking allowing no pressure up the middle;
--Dwelley's shut down blocking;
--JG's unerring accuracy, with the small exception of 7 or 8 throws scarcely off-the-mark;
--Special teams remarkable alertness on the fake punt;
--Special teams innovative approach to fielding the kickoff 7 yards deep in the end zone (it was a fluke the returner was barely stopped by a fingernail by eight Dolphins at the 14;
--Special teams gathered themselves this week and allowed no blocked punts!--and no block kickoffs either!, and what with that blizzard of kickoffs after 9er TDs is something of a miracle!
--Defense again showed off their in-game IQ (3rd and goal from the 20, no need for Saleh to caution the first-game DB to not allow receiver to get behind him, anything but that would lead to a field goal, so, all good there);
--Only downside I can see here is that Hyder and Warner didn't get the memo that these were the legendary Dolphins, for Pete's sake, and to play hard for a change;
Now, even more upside! The grueling part of the schedule is over and now the boys can coast a bit, just a bit, because if you take patsies like the Seahawks, Packers and Rams too lightly they can knock a few bicuspids loose, but still, we can rejoice that the gauntlet is over.
🤣 tell me about it. What a disaster. And its going to get a million times harder.
join us on the slack, ton of discussion there
https://join.slack.com/t/fortheniners/shared_invite/zt-i1ubwik6-Eoj5yOi_1z1v7__QoMhnAQ
I’d like to go to the link you sent, but it always asks for more info and when I give it it asks for more. I’m old, computer unsavvy; I don’t know what a URL might be or a work station address. I know everyone else can get get around these sites, but for some reason all I can ever do is read your Fortheniners articles, which I always like. Thx.
Plain and simple the team feeds off the defense; last year when the defense was on point the offense fed off that energy and emotion, and it’s gone. Buckner play and presence is missed; and along with no Bosa, Ford, or Sherman on the field is hurting this team; its not anyone’s fault per say, the starters are hurt, their backups are hurt and we’re playing guys that couldn’t make the Jets roster I bet. We cannot get to the quarterback, which in turn causes turnover opportunities, allows the secondary to play with mor confidence and take chances for INTs. At this rate, I’m just hoping we get a really high pick this year, that we can trade back (if desired player is off the board) and obtain more picks; which the ladder might be best as we need IOL, OT, CB and EDGE, and a top 10 pick can easily fetch a few extra mid round picks, plus a late first to fill the holes that need filling.
This team misses Bosa a hell of a lot more than Buckner.
It was a disaster in every way, and while Jimmy of course played like garbage, I don't see how any skill position player can be fairly evaluated behind what has become the worst offensive line in football. If Trent Williams, Laken Tomlinson and Mike McGlinchey were ACTIVELY TRYING to get their QB hurt, would it look any different than these last several games? How many times have we seen the first defender getting to the QB before the QB even hits the last step of his drop?
If this is the line we're going to be sticking with after this year, we need to dump Garoppolo and draft a scrambling QB who can run, because there isn't a pocket passer in the game who could succeed behind this line.
Shanahan's treatment of injured guys is head-scratching. Two years running he sits there and watches Kittle play through an obvious injury from early in the AZ game, only to have Kittle sit out multiple games thereafter. Jordan Reed was obviously hurt, but goes back in the game and suffers a more serious injury. Garoppolo was apparently not able to plant his back foot to throw with any velocity, but he was reinserted in the starting lineup. Meanwhile, Witherspoon was healthy enough to dress and healthy enough to go in the game, but not healthy enough to start over a guy even the most die hard 49er fan had never heard of?
Everyone needs to be better, but it starts with Kyle Shanahan.
Completely agree. I've been a big fan of Jimmy since the jump, and I still think he can be the guy for us. What I don't think is that he is being put in situations that help him get there. Not being able to plant your back foot seems like something they should have been able to figure out in practice rather than waiting until he was throwing ducks into the arms of Dolphin defenders. And for once I'd like to see Kyle start the game by getting him some quick easy throws to build a rhythm instead of starting off with two running plays that make Jimmy's first throw in 2.5 games a 3rd & 6.
Something just feels off. We all know about the injuries, but something else is going on here. How did Trent Williams go from looking like an All Pro in the first two weeks to looking like Zane Beadles in the last few games? Laken Tomlinson got rave reviews in camp and was one of the guys we generally didn't have to worry about, and he's turned into a Jordan Devey-like turnstile. When you have the left side of the line playing that poorly, you can't then have Mike McGlinchey celebrate his selection as a team captain by apparently abandoning the weight room for the summer and come back much lighter and FAR less strong.
It's baffling, and hugely disappointing, and I don't see this team turning this around unless the line drastically improves. With the schedule they face in the coming 7 weeks, it's not crazy to think these guys could be staring down the barrel of a 2-10 record. FML....
It guts me to start getting on team tank again, so early in the season so soon after the last time (just two years ago). For that reason, I think I'll hold off one more week before formally hopping aboard. If they can somehow beat the Rams and get back their secondary, then maybe the offense can start to resemble what we all expected and the defense can become a middle of the pack unit. That might be good enough to get them in contention for a wild card slot.
But if they lose to the Rams, I think at that point I'm fully aboard the tank plan (obviously the players and coaches don't tank, but I'll just be content with losing at that point). As you said, our Super Bowl run was largely the result of sacrificing Jimmy's knee and the 2018 season for Nick Bosa. I don't know that they will obtain a player anywhere near that impactful this coming draft, but with so many needs the ability to sign a potentially great player at corner, tackle, or edge would probably make it worth it. This blows....
The buck does stop with Kyle. Agreed. And not many would survive behind that OLm
Our season is over, and in a way I'm a bit relieved. The bandaid has been ripped off, and we know this team isn't playoff bound, let alone the Super Bowl. Better to know that now then to be strung along by mediocrity all year only to be disappointed. When we finish 8-8. Better to be the 2018 team than 2014.
Is anyone else hoping for a covid outbreakso we don't have to get embarrassed on national TV next week?
Would not be opposed it. Jesus Aaron Donald vs this OL is going to be a nightmare
If we lose to the Rams, we might as well just call it a season and IR our injured remaining studs to ensure we obtain a high value pick; top five would be awesome but outside of top 10 is pretty much a waste IMO. If we can garner a top five pick, with Lance, Fields and Lawrence we can ask for Kings ransom for the pick and by trading back, getting multiple picks. Or we take one if those QB studs, and use the cheap rookie deal to our advantage and reload the o-line and secondary.