Originally posted by English:
Originally posted by FromDaBay2La:
I thought Kyle Shanahan was a good coaching hire. WRONG.
I thought our DL was better than this. WRONG.
I thought Ward would be a little better at safety. WRONG.
The DL is doing ok and it is way too early to call Shanahan a bad hire. Check the games, the Niners have kept them damn close.
This is kind of ridiculous - if you chart the plays - Shanny has been calling a good game! Check the execution - horribly erratic. Penalties, failed reads, interior line play on runs and passes, and DROPS have been super costly. I thought Hoyer would be more consistent - but it is hard to blame him because it might be the receivers running the wrong adjustments.
The defense - at first they seemed to be improving and getting more consistent - then last week there were blown assignments at the DL, LB, and DBs - it seemed to be contagious. So much so, it seemed like the offense had figured out the defense reactions to certain reads and started using that against them. For example, on the long runs, the OL blocked one way and the run went the other. Clearly the offense knew the entire D - secondary included was over-reacting to some things.