Originally posted by VA49er:
For me the game was 100% on Roman. It could be Kaepernick too. Depending. But ultimately Roman. We refused to just take what their D was giving us and move the chains. Constantly looking to hit a home run. There could have been instances where Kaep was audibling to big plays but I don't think so. The play calling from our own end zone was unbelievably risky in a close game. Frank Gore was getting 5 per carry. We needed to lead with the run and look for the quik passes first with deep reads being the secondary option. We tried to play over top of those guys but it just wasn't working. We really were a couple of plays away from breaking that game open, and that is on a number of people but we were in a grind of a game and we didnt' grind it out.
And therein lies the rub, If the game plan is executed and 1 or 2 of those big plays happens, we win, and everyone is talking about catching the chickens of the sea.
But fortunately or unfortunately that didn't happen, and it has exposed the fundamental weakness of our offense. We have no short, intermediate passing game, and getting 12 yards when we need 14 doesn't count. You need this to beat a pass rush. I don't care how good pass rush is, if the ball is out in 3 steps, the ball is out.
But now it's frank (love ya), or vd on wheel or seam route, and thats about it. (Don't get me started on how or #1 TE can't find hole in zone or use body to block out on a curl route. Every catch doesn't need to be 40 yard td Vern.) Stop that and you stop the Niners. Easy blueprint, everyone has it, not everyone can do it, but everyone knows it.
Now what causes the weakness? Is it because of design? Or is it because Kaep can't make the quick decision throw? No one knows, because we are not at practice, where this stuff is sorted out and we are not even trying it in the game, so nothing to go on there as well.
Only 3 losses, not so bad, loads of room for improvement, wild card is well in hand, and who knows maybe sea chickens chakras will become unaligned, and put an end to those lucky ass b******t plays they constantly get.
[ Edited by RMuTT1981 on Nov 11, 2013 at 2:11 PM ]