Weekly wrap from a 49ers fan's perspective

My take --
49ers -
OFFENSE is potent but predictable, lacking the deep vertical strikes as usual. Stribling, Evans, Cowing, and Kirk were all supposed to add an element of that to the offense and haven't. Unless it evolves, it will still struggle against the Seahawks style of D. With the game tight, CMC load went back to too much, Black needs to be in the plan even when the score it tight, because it will be more going forward.
DEFENSE - Raheem earned his paycheck - even though the D let long drives happen, it manufactured wins and pressure without much of a D-Line. That D is going to wear out at this pace with no D-Line. Osa and Halton not getting much rotation relief on run downs is problematic. And Warner having to play at the LOS is going to get exploited by more experienced teams seeing this film. They need to survive 1-2 more weeks until Mykel and Bosa are back in weeks 5-6. I think the 9ers correctly deduced interior pressure was needed to counter Sam Darnold and Matthew Stafford and invested correctly in Osa and Halton. But damn, don't wear them out.
Verdict: 9ers are going to need to be better on both O and D to beat the Broncos!

RAMS - wow, gave away a win. No Puka and Garret showed up, Donald didn't have the impact hoped for without Garrett.
BRONCOS - Broncos look dangerous when they wake up. Slim hope they don't show up again in the first half against 9ers next week.
SEA - Are people figuring out the Hawks defense, can the 9ers learn from it? JSN seems unstoppable, but interior pressure might help if they can contain Darnold on the edges.
C'BOYS - That offense looks legit and defense improved, but still having 'Boys giving up games.
PACKERS - Holy wow, does Matt Lefleur make it to the end of the season? With most other owners he doesn't survive. He doesn't seem able to inspire the team effort and have solutions past the initial game plan.
JETS - They are becoming a real team - kudos to Aaron Glen.
RAIDERS - Are you kidding me, Clint has that team turned around mentally. They are playing sound ball even without premiere talent. Crosby's price just went sky high if you could even pry him loose now. The optimism for next year means they keep Crosby.

Hopefully Philly loses tonight to complete the weekend. They are my most hated team outside of the division.

Originally posted by miked1978:
Hopefully Philly loses tonight to complete the weekend. They are my most hated team outside of the division.

That would make it a NFC round-robin for me!

the jaguars are our biggest rivals, dude….(since December 2017)

/threat

Rewatching the game, Brock had a great game, but it was different that game 1 and 2. It looked like some of his throwing fundamentals weren't as good as game 1 and 2. And to be honest, he missed seeing some open deeper throws. The Cards defense throws a ton of looks at the QB, so not terrible to not see some open guys. But it also seemed like if Brock saw a couple of guys covered, be wasn't continuing his progression like the first 2 weeks, and instead was scrambling to find plays out of structure. And although AZ didn't contain Brock, they did seem to have a plan for his scrambles that throttled down the pursuit and instead had the pursuit focus on pushing him deeper in his scramble. A good plan so he could not step forward and zip passes.

Broncos will see this and try to capitalize on it. I hope the 9ers coaching points this week are for Brock to avoid the backward drift in his scrambles, look for the opportunistic deeper shots later in his progressions (assuming he has time), and get back to his strong base fundamentals.