Originally posted by genus49:
Originally posted by SF9er05:
Originally posted by genus49:
Originally posted by NinerGM:
Originally posted by NCommand:
I forgot about this guy...genuinely.
Right? I couldn't even tell he was on the field.
Against a banged up Cards OL. This team lost 2 OL players and we still had to blitz to bring pressure. It may not be time to press the panic button but wave a red flag? Certainly.
Kyler Murray's mobility has something to do with it. You can't rush guys like that the same was as you would a Jared Goff or Tom Brady.
And to be honest people forget both games against the Cards last year could have easily been losses, the fact remains the Niners have issues with Mobile QBs. Armstead and the rest of the DL did the best they could to be honest. The issue wasnt in creating pressure it was in containment, Saleh could have used a safety to spy Murray but instead made no adjustments. This is the knock I have on Saleh when things are clicking he looks great but when it comes to actually coaching and making adjustments to your scheduled gameplan thats when the Niners look lost. This goes for Shanahan as well.
I don't think we have issues with mobile QBs...it's just our defense is so heavily influenced by our pass rush that when they cannot just do their usual stuff the rest of the defense has to be perfect and they weren't yesterday.
Overall they really didn't play poorly. Cards got two TDs from a blocked punt deep in our territory and a flag filled drive that should've been a safety in our favor...honestly the refs flagging that on KW is a preseason call that's iffy. Not sure why time and time again we're finding ourselves getting fisted via bad calls. Maybe I'm biased but I don't recall a single questionable call against Cardinals that helped us in a key moment.
How many drives did they keep alive with calls?
Of course end of the day we have to play well enough where bad calls can't kill us. We didn't do that which is why we're 0-1 right now.
Exactly my point, is that even going back to last year Kyler was elusive against us the same thing with Wilson. And to be fair I thought the defense played well enough to win, our defense looks good, some minor things to clean up i.e. tackling but over all I thought they did well. I was mainly speaking for those who thought Armstead didnt play well when in fact the D Line got pressure it was the containment that killed us. Also Im all for running qbs but the rules need to change for qbs period, its too hard to know when you can and cant tackle them esp in real time, on slow mo every hit looks like its avoidable but the way these guys move its hard to avoid them. For example if he dives head first and doesnt get touched he could conceivably get back up and continue to advance the ball, so I think that does play a part. But alas like you said it shouldnt have come down to a call we should have been up 21-0 in the first qtr. and never looked back but thats not the way Shanahan coaches and like Saleh thats our downfall in a lot of these games the coaching really comes to surface. They are young and I know they will get better, its the little things that separate champions Walsh, Belicheck, Parcells, late Pete Carroll from Early Belicheck, late Parcells, early Andy Reid, early Pete Carroll for example.
