Where is our biggest weakness on this team at this point?

Until proven different, Special teams minus Lee/Nedney.

Good field position and limited turnovers change the outcome of games (and potentially playoff appearances).

The Organization is obviously prioritizing it with Ginn Jr, Williams, and Vann. Increasing the average starting field position greatly increases the teams ability to score and in punting situations, forcing the other team to a long field.

Essentially creating an average 7pt increase in scoring per 12 scoring drives. And more wins.

Originally posted by fan49:

Originally posted by Kalen49ers:
Definitely QB

i love when people say stuff like this... what are u outnumbered in the poll by 90 percent... the other 90 must be wrong?

Well QB is the weakness right now, how is it not?? Sure, we have stability at the position, but in no way is Smith a solid starter as of right now. He has struggled, but you can't really blame him after coming off almost two years of injury.

Originally posted by Leathaface:
QB, hopefully that changes this year.

this, if alex plays at a pro bowl level this team can be dangerous. its all up to the qb.....go alex!

Originally posted by Kolohe:

Originally posted by fan49:

Originally posted by Kalen49ers:
Definitely QB

i love when people say stuff like this... what are u outnumbered in the poll by 90 percent... the other 90 must be wrong?

Well QB is the weakness right now, how is it not?? Sure, we have stability at the position, but in no way is Smith a solid starter as of right now. He has struggled, but you can't really blame him after coming off almost two years of injury.

agreed.. i agree he has to prove.. but it will happen. like urban said he will only excel if he knows the offense. he said that when he got drafted. took 5 years.lol

Since our offensewas still in bottoms of the league, then it must be on Offense. Let's go through it and see if we come up with a chicken dinner.
WR: nah
TE: nah
OL: upgraded
RB: he'll naw
QB: winner winner chicken dinner

Originally posted by fan49:

Originally posted by fan49:

Originally posted by BleedRednGold:
It's funny how no one mentioned that we still have NO PASS RUSH. I don't think we improved on D as much to say that we don't have to worry about our d line. We still need to put pressure on the qb. Justin Smith is the only one who does this on a consistent basis.

still no pass rush huh... 3rd in nfl... pass rush sucks. lol

oh yeah the stats are misleading according to some.. regaRdless we were 3rd..

Look on Espn. Our Pass Defense was 21 in the league you moes, LoL. Don't even say it was our corners either cause any corner can't do anything when the qb has 10 seconds to throw the ball.

Originally posted by BleedRednGold:

Originally posted by fan49:

Originally posted by fan49:

Originally posted by BleedRednGold:
It's funny how no one mentioned that we still have NO PASS RUSH. I don't think we improved on D as much to say that we don't have to worry about our d line. We still need to put pressure on the qb. Justin Smith is the only one who does this on a consistent basis.

still no pass rush huh... 3rd in nfl... pass rush sucks. lol

oh yeah the stats are misleading according to some.. regaRdless we were 3rd..

Look on Espn. Our Pass Defense was 21 in the league you moes, LoL. Don't even say it was our corners either cause any corner can't do anything when the qb has 10 seconds to throw the ball.

well if our corners could cover we would have a great defense..... but we dont we plug the run get sacks and let the ball fly thru the air and cant do nuthin bout it. cb is a weakness definitley. oh yeah were 3rd in sacks last year in nfl but thats a weakness right moe! lol

bleedredngold..... our pass rush is a weakness right

1 Minnesota Vikings 16 29.4 470 989 831 158 48.0 1 73 11 0 43 36 23 13 1
2 Pittsburgh Steelers 16 23 368 1,026 779 247 47.0 0 79 12 2 189 82T 14 10 1
3 Miami Dolphins 16 22.5 360 1,032 850 182 44.0 0 90 15 1 164 29 14 6 1
3 Philadelphia Eagles 16 26.8 429 1,062 874 188 44.0 2 117 25 2 370 83T 15 13 2
3 San Francisco 49ers 16 20.6 330 1,101 874 227 44.0 0 87 18 1 237 51 23 15 2
6 Arizona Cardinals 16 23.4 375 1,049 882 167 43.0 0 108 21 1 338 80 12 8 0

bleedredngold our pass rush is the weak link right. not corners. we ranked 21st d as u say in the league in passing u moe... so doubt this


Defensive sack leaders team
1 Minnesota Vikings 16 29.4 470 989 831 158 48.0 1 73 11 0 43 36 23 13 1
2 Pittsburgh Steelers 16 23 368 1,026 779 247 47.0 0 79 12 2 189 82T 14 10 1
3 Miami Dolphins 16 22.5 360 1,032 850 182 44.0 0 90 15 1 164 29 14 6 1
3 Philadelphia Eagles 16 26.8 429 1,062 874 188 44.0 2 117 25 2 370 83T 15 13 2
3 San Francisco 49ers 16 20.6 330 1,101 874 227 44.0 0 87 18 1 237 51 23 15 2
6 Arizona Cardinals 16 23.4 375 1,049 882 167 43.0 0 108 21 1 338 80 12 8 0

Originally posted by Kalen49ers:
Definitely QB

Agreed. It would be scary, if we had a greater weakness than at the QB position.

Read some of the reports on the recent OTAs about Smith. Great cheerleader - that's all he showed.

Middle linebacker

Originally posted by fan49:
bleedredngold..... our pass rush is a weakness right

1 Minnesota Vikings 16 29.4 470 989 831 158 48.0 1 73 11 0 43 36 23 13 1
2 Pittsburgh Steelers 16 23 368 1,026 779 247 47.0 0 79 12 2 189 82T 14 10 1
3 Miami Dolphins 16 22.5 360 1,032 850 182 44.0 0 90 15 1 164 29 14 6 1
3 Philadelphia Eagles 16 26.8 429 1,062 874 188 44.0 2 117 25 2 370 83T 15 13 2
3 San Francisco 49ers 16 20.6 330 1,101 874 227 44.0 0 87 18 1 237 51 23 15 2
6 Arizona Cardinals 16 23.4 375 1,049 882 167 43.0 0 108 21 1 338 80 12 8 0

I would like to see how our corners did in these games. I remember some 5 turnovers games with a s**t load of INTs.

Now check how our corners did in games where we didn't apply much pressure.

Our corners are fine. It was our Free Safety that sucked.

Originally posted by WestCoast:

Originally posted by Leathaface:
QB, hopefully that changes this year.

this, if alex plays at a pro bowl level this team can be dangerous. its all up to the qb.....go alex!

If Smith plays at a Pro Bowl level, we're a NFC champion caliber team. That's not gonna happen, IMO.

Shoot, I'll do cartwheels if the kid can be a top 12 QB this year.

Originally posted by RogerCraig:

Originally posted by Kalen49ers:
Definitely QB

Agreed. It would be scary, if we had a greater weakness than at the QB position.

Read some of the reports on the recent OTAs about Smith. Great cheerleader - that's all he showed.

hater... its cb... and he was more than a cheerleader. guy he aint had a chance to do anything yet... and i mean anything. sometimes thats the business hes in, but regardless, urban meyer said he will never excel unlless he knows the offense thats nolans fault. hes gone singletary knew to bring in continuity..

qb