Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
Originally posted by Baldie:
Firing Roman won't help, Harbaugh still has his say on what he wants on offense. He'll just find someone else that agrees with him.
This. Make no mistake about it, this is the offense that Jim wants, this is the offense he approves of and played in.. The worst part about Harbaugh is that he's dogmatically attached to this offense because of his own personal beliefs and loyalties, fire Roman, bring in whoever you want, this will still be a very conservative, "go for the safe points" sort of offense with a 1970's era passing philosophy.
Good enough to get you to the playoffs and just good enough to get you beat sooner or later when you get there.
Some of that philosphy can work even today. If the defense won't give you stuff down the field, play dink and dunk until you see something. Thats how the Chargers beat the Hawks yesterday. Their gameplan was excellent, take what the defense gives them and play no-huddle. The Packers presented that blue print in week 1 but they just didn't have enough on defense to win.
The niners problem, they or Kaep, always looks for the BIG play seems like on every play. That worked in Dallas but it won't work all the time. Sometimes his 1st read should be 5 yard pass and not his 3rd or 4th read. But then again he should know that pre-snap but he doesn't read defenses good enough yet.