Originally posted by genus49:
Originally posted by DrEll:
Originally posted by genus49:
Originally posted by SmokeyJoe:
Originally posted by 9ers4eva:
9ers losing to Baltimore was a far bigger choke job.
Agreed.
I always said a choke job by the coach is if they don't have their team prepared to play.
Players making key mistakes on the field that have nothing to do with coaching is not on the coach.
Purdy not able to hit Aiyuk at the 2 minute mark isn't on Kyle. Burford literally doing his own thing isn't on Kyle.
I'd say there was more fault on Kyle in 2019 but even there Jimmy not making his throws that were there, including an open Sanders isn't on Kyle(tho we did have someone who legit called that a bad play call because it would've had us scoring too quickly smh)
Harbaugh's fail in that SB I still haven't gotten over. Some on here know I live in MA and as long as they're not hurting us by winning I root for the Pats. That AFCCG I wanted the Ravens to win cuz I legit didn't see a way we could lose to them. We were built to beat that team…and we all know how that game went.
THAT is a choke job. When you need a blackout to happen simply to stop the other team from blowing you out and still finding a way to blow it at the end due to poor design of playcalling and going away from your best player.
Mike McCarthy's playoff game vs GB in 2023 - major choke job. They had no business losing that game and came out completely unprepared.
Coaches can't make the plays on the field. It's not Madden. It's up to the guys out there to execute what's drawn up. And for the majority of the time Kyle has this team in position to make those plays and win the game. That's all you can ask for in the HC/playcaller.
Up to the players to do their jobs…but both sides get paid.
Awful post. Your Kyle bias is astonishing. The lengths you go to blame individual players, injuries, refs, weather, undercooked dinner before the game….just to excuse Kyle's mistakes is stunning. Then you casually make bland comments like "Harbaugh lost us the SB". Why not stick with your own recipe ? Why not blame Kaepernick for not placing the ball in a better spot for Crabtree on that last play on 4th down ? Maybe if Kaep audibles the play on one of those last 4 downs, Gore gets the ball and runs it in. But Kaep didn't, so it was Kaep's fault not Harbs.
See what I did there ? I followed your strategy on taking the whole sum then breaking it into small little pieces and diverting blame for each individual mistake to player, ref, weather, lighting, etc. When in reality if you pull back the camera and look at the big picture, just as Harbaugh was to blame for the SB loss vs the Ravens, Kyle played a hand in both those SB losses. Both SBs that he had 10 point leads and opportunities to step on KC's throat and failed to do so.
You need it explained because you refuse to actually stop and use logic and actual football results.
The 49ers were built to take out that Ravens team. Immobile QB vs dominant pass rush. Ravens with a big but slower D vs Kap who was tearing up defenses with his legs.
We literally went into a game where we were heavy favorites and had superb matchups and started the game with an illegal formation penalty. Wow Harbaugh really had the team locked in...all the way to 28-6 deficit. All it took for the team to wake up was an act of God and a blackout in the stadium to kill the Ravens momentum.
And why I'm not blaming Kap is because the playcalls were idiotic. Ravens best run defender on the sidelines and you're gashing that defense with the run and Gore...well goring them out there. He doesn't get another look in a first and goal situation. And to top it off Harbaugh's bizarre need to have 3 guys involved in goal line playcalling and his love to wait til the last second to see what the defense is doing led him to calling a timeout that by all accounts would've resulted in a walk in TD by Kap(a run play)
So no...what you did there is make absurd mental gymnastics based on nothing football related. All you're doing is showing how absurd your logic is.
Shanahan had the team in position to succeed. Harbaugh didn't. There is no realistic argument otherwise.
Harbaugh had the team one play away from wining at literally the last few second of play after an incredible comback. Kyle had double digit leads into both 4th quarters and choked away both games. One was a historic come from behind near victory the other choked away the lead in the 4th quarter of not one but two SB's to the same damn team.