Finally Time to Blame HARBAUGH ! | Page 3

mella8 · 2012-09-23T15:36:07-07:00

I was very disappointed in Harbaugh today. I think he actually bought into this team's current success primarily by playing conservative, and that plain sucks. One of the reasons why Harbaugh is credited with the turnaround last year is bc of his ability to improvise and take chances. It was this fiery unpredictable personality that made a cellar dwellar into a contender. Today, on 2 drives where he shouldve and couldve gone for it on 4th and 1 (both drives we were moving the chains easily), he opted to kick (1 was blocked). On several drives, he decided NOT to take advantage of a weak Vikings secondary deep. On several passing plays, we could easily see the defense giving Moss a 15 yard cushion --- only to have either Moss not get a throw OR have him on the sidelines the very next play. And it kinda makes sense. Last week, we marched down the field in 4 plays (opening drive) and scored on Detroit. After that, we went into conservaball mode, killing the clock and letting Det hang around. I think Harbaugh has detracted from his style of coaching and has bought into the conservaball approach this team has been relying on these past few weeks. It's the same approach that Singletary used, except he was adamant on pounding the ball, whereas Harbaugh has allowed Smith to make low risk passes. I hope he gets back to what made this team successful to begin with.

Sep 23, 2012 at 6:49 PM

#31

Hopper
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Originally posted by Mann716:
i knew this conservative sh*t was going to catch up to us. i seen this coming even in our 2 wins. We MUST open up the offense.

I'll admit I swept it under the rug because we were winning. But the conservative playcalling was so obvious today. The best example was after Kyle Williams gave us outstanding field position after his 94 yard Kick return. Two runs for 5 or 6 yards and a rollout by Alex on third down which amounted to nothing. What in the world was that? Totally wasted great field position. But then again we did it so many times in the redzone last season which is why Akers set the FG record.

Sep 23, 2012 at 7:07 PM

#32

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The team was just flat. It's not the end of the world. Offense has to open up. If you continue to allow a team to go toe to toe like the Vikings did the conservative game plan goes up in smoke. My thinking going into the game was that there was no way Petersen was 100%, guess I was wrong. 49ers didn't get beat they got beat up.

Sep 23, 2012 at 7:36 PM

#33

49rz4Life
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Harbaugh does make bonehead decisions. Today exposing them. Not letting Moss run wild. We have all the arsenal in the world yet we dink and dump. I'll even bring up the Cowboys game from last year when he took the three points instead of the 1st down, and removing a struggling Kyle williams returning the ball.Let Smith play!! If you don't trust him don't play him.

Sep 23, 2012 at 7:36 PM

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ninersrule4
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I felt like we didn't want to win especially with the PC in the 4th... Very anti the Saints playoff game

Sep 23, 2012 at 7:47 PM

#35

Bobbi9698
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Originally posted by DonnieDarko:
everyone on the team except for kyle williams had a s**tty day. i wouldn't get all emotional and compare harbaugh to singletary LOL

The play calling was similar...run up the middle until you vomit.

Sep 23, 2012 at 7:48 PM

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lordfangio
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So the only way Harbaugh wouldn't get blamed is if we went 19-0 this year...ya ok that seems fair

Sep 23, 2012 at 7:53 PM

#37

fly15
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he's a qb guru

Sep 23, 2012 at 7:54 PM

#38

TheXFactor
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cant wait to forget about this one

Sep 23, 2012 at 8:04 PM

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KegBert
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Originally posted by grizzlyadams:
Fire Harbaugh. (Joking)

Everybody has a bad game. I'm a little concerned about some of the calls Roman made, though. Fangio sucked today, too.

Ya, pretty disappointed in the way he called the D today.

Anyone, see that there where like 2 people wide open on that second passing TD by ponder?

AP ran COMPLETELY free outa the backfield and ponder didn't see him. But ended up throwing to the most covered person... Who still caught it.

Also, why not dial up some blitzes when we weren't getting any pressure at all with our down 4?

Sep 23, 2012 at 9:12 PM

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Originally posted by lordfangio:
So the only way Harbaugh wouldn't get blamed is if we went 19-0 this year...ya ok that seems fair

well he deserves a lot of the blame...if you saw the game, the whole team looked flat and the offensive play calling was very vanilla

We weren't going to win em all but we didn't fall short to a good team...we got outcoached and out played by a team we should've beat easily...the HC takes the responsibility when the team beats themselves.

Sep 23, 2012 at 9:18 PM

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sacniner
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Yeah, our coaching staff had a bad day also. All around loss.

Sep 23, 2012 at 9:21 PM

#42

Shemp
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Originally posted by Baldie:
You can't blame this all on Harbaugh. Roman calls the plays remember. Lets not forget...Alex runs the offense and is responsible for throwing the ball.

why does it look like Harbaugh is calling them though? He has the plays in front of him and he covers his mouth and says them. is it just because he relays what Roman says to him onto Smith via headset? What a federal government-like process if that is the case...

Sep 23, 2012 at 9:30 PM

#43

guitarsnvettes
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Dingleberry isn't still calling the plays? Coulda fooled me today..

Sep 23, 2012 at 9:42 PM

#44

MrTruth
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Originally posted by Baldie:
The vikes beat us at our own game plan.....run out the clock so the other team doesn't get a chance and play D. When teams do that against us, we'll be in alot of trouble.

And guess what, we didn't run the ball on them when Gore avg 5.3 but only ran 12 times. And the Defense didn't play up to their standards and gave up a TD on the 1st drive on a 4th down, gave up a rushing TD by Ponder and 2 TDs to their TE, made their TE look like VD LOL.

[ Edited by MrTruth on Sep 23, 2012 at 9:43 PM ]

Sep 23, 2012 at 9:57 PM

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Originally posted by KegBert:
Ya, pretty disappointed in the way he called the D today.

Anyone, see that there where like 2 people wide open on that second passing TD by ponder?

AP ran COMPLETELY free outa the backfield and ponder didn't see him. But ended up throwing to the most covered person... Who still caught it.

Also, why not dial up some blitzes when we weren't getting any pressure at all with our down 4?

Cause they game planned against the run (AP), but they failed at pass defending (Mainly Harvin and the TE, they made the TE look like VD with 2 TDs LOL). Their plan was to surprise the Vikings with passing and stop the Vikings' running game and expect Ponder to fail, but when none of that work out, the team just fell into disarray and never recovered since the pass protection was horrible all game and the defense never play up to their own standards and never got good pressure on Ponder. Like Harb said after the game, "We didn't get it done." LOL!!! Like I said, should have run the ball more to set up the pass and the defense as a whole learned a lesson, play your best every Sunday or don't expect to win on Sundays.

[ Edited by MrTruth on Sep 23, 2012 at 10:06 PM ]