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Baalke's Ties To South Carolina
May 10, 2015 at 10:25 AM
- xtm059
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how do you get so mad if you only posted 200 times
May 10, 2015 at 11:27 AM
- TheXFactor
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Culliver was a great pick
May 10, 2015 at 11:34 AM
- cciowa
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if it was not for spurrier, we never would have made the playoffs in 72
May 10, 2015 at 12:33 PM
- 9ers4eva
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Originally posted by Sosa:That's where JH went wrong. He puts Kap in and our offense takes a step forward, unfortunately our defense took about 5 steps backwards during the NE game that season, and never recouped.
We go into the offseason and, from my evaluation, Harbaugh tweaked things. Forget short passing, if the deep play isn't there, use your legs. Where Harbaugh didn't tweak things is where the whole league had caught up. The running game. All those shifts and running plays from the 70s/80s weren't fooling anybody anymore. It seemed like him and Roman were geniuses, but they were just running plays that hadnt been seen in many years.
Just as those plays had been studied and stopped before, it happened again. What JH was running wasn't a shock to the league anymore and our run game got stuffed.
The o line fell apart and it's no wonder why. They didnt lose their abilities to run block out of nowhere, teams just knew what was up. An easy one was if Millers lined up in the back field, whatever hole he blocks in is where the plays going. So easy.
And this coming from a PRO JH fan. My dream scenario was get rid of Baalke, keep JH, find a new OC and get a new offensive scheme. Sadly, it was either JHs offense or no offense and now we're stuck with Baalke.
Harbaughs ego was never going to allow for a new offense or a new quality GM. Only way Harbaugh would've stayed is if he was given total control of 49ers as either coach/GM or with a puppet GM ala Lombardi. That would've been a colossal failure. He'd make Chip Kelly look like Bill Walsh.
May 10, 2015 at 1:27 PM
- dtg_9er
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Originally posted by cciowa:
if it was not for spurrier, we never would have made the playoffs in 72
Such high hopes there were!
May 10, 2015 at 1:31 PM
- pasodoc9er
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Can you imagine JH as GM too? Wow that would have been a colossal screwup and one we would have not recovered from for yrs. So close to disaster, but trent got it done right and made JH Hero for state of Michigan. Boy are they ever in for a surprise.
May 12, 2015 at 5:52 PM
- CorvaNinerFan
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Spurrier's one of the great college football coaches...at Fla and again at SC. His players, especially on offense are coached well. Example: Mike Davis. He's not only a good runner but he excels in pass protection. As a former NFL QB and longtime college coach, he stresses things like that. I like that Baalke has a solid connection with Spurrier...only bummer so far was Lattimore and his knee was so damaged he simply couldn't play.
May 14, 2015 at 10:10 AM
- tsty
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Originally posted by GIMMEa6thSHIP:
I can't stop myself from being upset after reading the articles below about Baalke's rapport with Steve Spurrier. This quote had me fuming: "We got a little bit of information, a little inside information," Baalke said with a laugh, referring to his South Carolina pipeline."
Where the hell was this inside information when we drafted AJ Jenkins over Alshon Jeffery?
http://www.csnbayarea.com/49ers/baalke-spurrier-history-leads-49ers-toward-south-carolina-players
http://espn.go.com/blog/san-francisco-49ers/post/_/id/13368/whats-trent-baalkes-deal-with-south-carolina
Good point because I totally expected us to draft Alshon Jeffrey that year.