SAN FRANCISCO – The 49ers lost to the Rams 16-13. Here are the grades for the 49ers coaches.
Coaching: F. This loss falls directly on the 49ers offensive coaches for a variety of reasons.
First of all, what a horrible play to call on your 17 yard line where Colin Kaepernick is in the shotgun and running that option to his LEFT. The pitched sailed out of reach of Ted Ginn Jr. who was in poor pitch relationship for the play in the first place. How many times was that play practiced, and from that negative field position, and for Ted Ginn Jr? I’d guess zero. Kaepernick is right-handed and you run it to his left???????
Second, Roman played for a 50-yard field goal in overtime. There is plenty of evidence that David Akers is terrible kicking field goals which are longer than 40 yards this season.
Vernon Davis caught two passes for 15 yards on three targets in five quarters. Are you kidding me?
The Rams shut down Frank Gore, yet Roman stubbornly called his number 23 times. The Rams were conceding six-yard hitches to the wide receivers and tight ends all game, and Roman only took advantage a few times. He did not take what the defense gave him.
Vic Fangio did not coach well, either. Chris Givens of the Rams had 11 catches on 14 targets for 92 yards. Steven Jackson was next with 5 catches. There was no question who the Niners had to cover in critical situations, but they didn’t get it done.
Amendola had 11 catches last time in the tie game, so it is not difficult to figure out that the Rams are a one trick pony in the passing game.
On the whole, the game plan – especially the offensive one – was not up to snuff, but that will happen when you only have one coach who is the significant designer of the game plan.
If Roman has a bad week as a game plan designer, the whole offense stinks. That’s why all the coaches should contribute and meld ideas.
When Bill Walsh had a bad week, his team’s offensive productivity also stunk.
Remember, the 49ers have played 10 full quarters of football against the Rams, so Roman should have been better.
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When Alex Smith was QB, conservative play calling was called, “..proof the coaches do not trust the QB”. Also, my understanding is that they normally call a run and a pass – and the QB has to make a call to “Let it Roll” or “Kill”. Just food for thought…
I see you are. Blaming on the coaching, not the personnel executing…
why did we change QB’s again?
Explosive playmaking! I did see a couple of explosive plays, alright…
More like implosive…
But you are right – the coaches *do* deserve an F for starting Kaepernik. I think that’s what you wanted to write, but just could not get the fingers to type the correct words.
So CK gets an A- after throwing a poor Int last game. And in this game, the coaching gets an F-.
Way to make the CK excuses Grant.
CK missed a wide open VD who had room to run in OT. That would have put us in prime position for Akers to miss another FG. CK took the Safety. Not Roman. CK screwed up the toss. Not Roman.
The past 2 games were game designed around CK. And the past two games, CK has stank. CK does much better with an AS game plan (Bears game). So, may want to put AS back in there. CK can’t imitate CK as well as he can AS.
BS Alex is not coming back no matter how much you rant. I know they took yohr favoriete toy away. Youre gonna have to learn to play this game with out it. Now grow up time okay? Hes DONE!!!!
Whew! I was worried that you’d had an accident Jordan. If the 49ers had won this game you would have 50 posts by now and if Smith had quarterbacked a loss you would have 100.
And if he weren’t here, I wouldn’t worry at all.
I give Grant a F- for predictions
This game really shows why CK7 shouldn’t be starting yet. He made mistakes that Alex Smith would have avoid. Yes, he made some good plays but his mistakes put Ram’s back on the score board. CK can’t handle a game with a good D (Yes, Bears’ D is overrated).
Alex Smith gives the team the best chance to win a Super Bowl. He led the team to the brink of one last year and if it wasn’t for Kyle Williams we would have made it to Indianapolis.
Kaepernick has potential but you don’t give the keys to a Ferrari to a teenager.
OK game by Kaepernick. 1 good game against the Bears when there was no film on him, and 1 very average game against the league worst Saints defense and Harbaugh rolls with him.
Kaepernick was 100% responsible for 8 of the points the Rams scored.
This is Alex Smith’s team. He should be behind center.
AGH!!!!!! Aint gonna happen. Alez Smith is history in these parts fella.
You’re remarks are history, judge fairly or eat crow. If blame should be on Kaep blame it on him but stick with him. Don’t just make remarks to others just because they call for AS as much as you call for CK, grow a pair.
You’re mistaken about the key point, Uno – this is Jim Harbaugh’s team.
Alex Smith is the past. 7 years of failure are enough. Time to move on.
We can only hope for more that same kind of failure we had last year. Suddenly, even that is looking in doubt.
Halluelujah !! No more precious or delicate flower, or whatever his name is.
“Alex Smith is the past. 7 years of failure are enough. Time to move on.” MSClemons
We win both Ram games with Smith at QB. I like Kaep, but He has produced no wins Smith would not have produced and he has lost one Smith would have won.
To try and lighten the mood, Grant, you get an F for again jinxing the team with your blow out talk.
+11
as a lifelong fan, im disgusted.
Grant, I agree on the play calling. The other thing that ruined the timing on the pitch play was the terrible low snap by Goodwin. That play requires perfect timing and was sure to be a charlie-foxtrot once the snap was bad. CK’s error was in not eating the ball or at best trying to run it up the gut back to the LOS. He tried to make something out fo nothing, and too often, that is a prescription for disaster.
Running Gore to no effect instead of taking what the defense was yielding. No explanation for that. We wasted a good twenty offensive plays running up the middle for a yard. More ominous, by the end of the game, Gore looked bate up and old. Keep abusing him like that, and he’ll be totally ineffective in a few weeks, or less.
As for playing for the FG with the year we all know Akers is having… nothing to add, except that is utterly bizarre.
I am glad some brought up Goodwin. Time to draft a new center, he is getting old anyways. But he can’t seem to make the shotgun snap with any reliability. He keeps shooting grounders back there. Yet our “Genius” coaches keeps calling for the shotgun formation.
Goodwin did not seem to have this problem before Kap went in. For whatever reason, he seems to have some problem adjusting to Kap’s height. It’s something that has happened the entire time Kap has played, and contributed to the INT he threw last week as well. It needs to get fixed.
Goodwin isn’t good at snapping shotgun.
I don’t recall any really bad ones with AS in there. I think CK’s height might be throwing him off.
The worst thing is to snap it too high, and have it go over the QB’s reach (Hello, David Baas) but he needs to get them up at least a little bit for CK.
That said, the mental error by Kap turned what was already a failed play into Armageddon. A QB has to learn the old adage, “When you find yourself in a hole, Stop digging.”
Goodwin might not be good this year, but he snapped shotgun for years with Drew Brees. He can/could do it well.
Grumpy
I’m pretty sure it happened.
Points to make
1. AS didn’t take a lot of shotgun snaps when he was in there. Not a large sample size.
2. I’m pretty sure he missed a few to Alex. None resulted in TO’s. But a sack or two/busted play throw-aways I believe.
3. Goodwin has done a fine job this year. The coaches need to recognize like any other player that there are things he does well and things he does not do well, and play to his strengths.
“But the excitement the second-year quarterback brought to his first two starts definitely is not there today. The Rams defense has taken away Kaepernick’s deep options and has kept a spy on him so that he doesn’t escape the pocket. He’s been sacked three times, including twice on the final drive of the half.
That’s forced Kaepernick into a lot of checkdowns and shorter throws, which, of course, is what Alex Smith was known for – and criticized for – when he was the starter.”
The difference is Alex always checks down regardless, he won’t take those deep shots even if the coverage dictates he take a shot. Rams respected Kaeps deep ball with their tampa 2 coverage at times.
Not having Hunter showed. Brandon Jacobs in relief? 4 carries, 6 yards. Gore can’t be overworked. He’s their offense.
Calling LaMichael James anyone????
+1 I thought it looked like Gore was playing hurt the second part of the game.
Greg Roman sucks!!!! He’s not the mad scientist people make him to be. I could have sworn Jimmy ray was calling the plays. Where was LMJ? You think he could have spelled Gore this game? Why the gimmic plays especially that deep into you field? Why so many dive plays? VD anyone?screen plays to your rb?
Vic left alot to desire too. With the Rams running that shallow stuff all day in the middle, why not use a zone blitz every once in a while ? where were the corner blitzes?
Once again, we’re out coached out adjusted at halftime. Strictly on JH!!!
CUT Aykers!!!! He’s hurt, I guess and mentally done!!
Failed trick plays have been a part of the Harbaugh/Roman offense from day one. Usually they just kill one or two drives per game.
Defense gave up 6 points today.
Roman made Alex Smith look like a competent QB. Alex the bust Smith.
I think Roman’s ok. He screws up occasionally but really, he managed to make Alex Smith look good. He can’t be too terrible.
Moronic comment.
I was at a game last year in Phoenix. Smith threw zero TD’s, choked on the last drive and was supported by 4 Akers field goals. Smith was 3-17 on third down conversions that game. The Anti Smith group ripped Smith for his game and the Smithers were up in arms. He had a game like this in his 7th year.
The Smithers are such an unrealistic group. Zero acountability. NEVER SMITHS FAULT.
Well he’s not your QB anymore. We are going to experience growing pains under Kaep. Accept it. He had one bad play this game. It was a terrible play. He still accounted for almost 300 yards. No interceptions and was 8-19 on third downs.
Kaep still threw for over 65% completions. Six times last year Smith had lower quarterback ratings than Kaep had today. But his kicker was money for him.
If you are going to evaluate a game and critique, be sensible in your critique.
Get over yourself, did ck have a good game or not? If not he deserves the same criticism that you would have given AS….
He had a good game and had one terrible play. What would your thoughts have been had Delanie caught the TD?
Now you are making excuses for you QB, he has a bad game.
I see we’ve lowered the bar a bit.
A QB who:
1. Directly gives the opponent 8 points
combined with
2. Mediocre stats
and especially combined with
3. losing a game to a inferior opponent
does not have a “good game”.
But yay, growing pains, right?
More than one bad play. A bad missed pass to Davis, a mistake resulting in a safety and going out of bounds at the end of regulation to leave enough time for the Rams to go for the tie. He looked young and inexperienced but very talented. Call it straight. He doesn’t need the help.
The play to davis wouldve been called back becajse of holding. Kap steppinv out of bounds late was a bad play. Hes gotta learn thag you hav3 to stay in bounds there. He wont make that mistake again. Coaches put plagers jn pksition to win games. We put it in akers hands 2 times against the Rams and he mIssed both times. Kap made a couple kf misfakes. He will learn.
So when Kaep goes for 21 of 32 and 208 yards & 0 TD’s, you compliment him? You should be the one to judge fairly and say Kaep had bad game, simple as that.
But you’re right, he’s our starting QB and as long as he is we (Smithers, AS Haters, & Faithful) have to continue to cheer for the guy, what would you do to fix what happened?
Delanie doesn’t drop the TD and it’s a very Smith like performance. Except the third down conversions. 8-19 on third downs cannot be ignored.
>>8-19 on third downs cannot be ignored.
Since they were part of a losing effort, I’LL IGNORE THEM. No participation medals here, right?
Since we are playing what if. What if Kap does not take the safety? What if he does not throw away the ball and give up a TD? What if the Rams convert on the 4th & goal?
A lot of what ifs Bayarea but one question we have the answer to is, coaches have enough film now on how to beat our running QB.
Rib,
put Smith on a team that averages 2 yards a carry and a field goal kicker that misses critical kicks and his receivers drop critical TD’s and SMITH wouldn’t be able to win either…..
Yeah and Smith does not run into the end zone and take a safety. Nor does he shot put the ball for a fumble.
Why don’t you talk about the rookie mistake Jimmy?
Are we grading AS playing the rams? No, you cannot seem to get over you pick for QB hd a bad game
>>put Smith on a team that averages 2 yards a carry and a field goal kicker that misses critical kicks and his receivers drop critical TD’s and SMITH wouldn’t be able to win either…..
..and Bay and the rest of the hater brigade would be blaming Smith. Since we are talking fantasy.
This is the same 49er team that Smith was winning games at a .800 clip over the last two years, is it not? Even our stellar defense, you know the one that has carried Smith, couldn’t bail out that offensive stinker today. Yes somehow they could in the past.
Absolutely right, Grant. The worst game calling since Jimmy Raye. Or is he back in charge?
Running plays almost guanteed not to gain more than one or two yards. Slant passes that were consistently open. So what does Roman do? Run the ball over and over and over.
Roman may be a mad scientist and smart at devising good, creative plays, but play calling is an entirely separate skill. If Roman was responsible for the play calling, give that function to Geep Chryst. If it’s Harbaugh’s call, he needs to get out of the way. The average fan off the street, with a few days training, would have been better.
Your grade is perfect! Roman is not impressive. The announcers will rave about all the various formations the Niners have. But has any bothered to notice how confused things often look, with either QB back there. We are always going to the last second on the play clock and waste too many time outs because we can’t get the offense straight. I also agree that the pitch call was bad, in fact I call it the worst play call I can remember. The pitch is undoubtedly the most risky play in the NFL, yet Roman chose that place on the field to run. It was also not likely to get the first down. But then Roman has probably given up even trying to get the first down 50 times since he has been the OC. To many times the third down play requires a player to break tackles in order to get a first down. Also, why were we playing for a FG after the shanked punt in OT. Four bad running plays, and the last pass attempt was another poorly designed play. So to no fans surprise Akers trots out and missed another one. He is now under 50% over 40 yards. Kaepernick wasn’ very good, but he was stellar compared to the coaching staff.
Grant, too many times you have called Roman the real offensive genius of this team. You’ve touted him as the next great nfl coach in waiting and how he won’t be with the 49ers for much longer because of it. Oh how things can change so quickly just because Smith isn’t under center. Stop pouting.
Frank Gore was suppose to be fresh in the playoffs, he is a beaten down already this season.
But they were rushing so much to protect AS because they don’t trust him to throw the ball. Remember Neal? So if CK is in there, they will pass it a lot more preserving FG for the playoffs.
BS,
The future has never been brighter, CK worse game is AS average game, what took AS 8 years to learn, CK has done it in 3 games, can’t wait when AS is gone next season, and you will be following him to his next team. Your so such a hater in JH I trust.
Who is BS Neal? Stupid is as stupid does I suppose.
And AS’s average game under JH he scored more than 10 points. And didn’t give the other team 10 points in return for a grand sum of 0 points.
And AS average game…we won. AS beat the Rams twice last year. CK didn’t win once out of two this year. Even with our WR’s from last year. And RM this year.
Face it Neal. You aren’t a Niner fan. That is fine. It happened to me in another sport. I just realized it before I started to ever blog and act like an asshole as you have done.
BS, Let’s face it, you are a Alex Smith fan first and your a AS fan second, and third you are a hater, you hate JH and CK. Did you join the tea party yet?
Roman does not suck but he can get too cute at times. Not a great game called by him though with so many questionable RB/FB dives late in the game. Some bad play calls for sure especially on the option toss to Ginn. Why Ginn & why not Moss on that play instead? Randy Moss hands and veteran savy would have at least fell on the ball to save the turnover like he did last week on that endzone play were he knocked down the pass that almost got picked from Kap.
I’ll give the coaches a D+ or C- for turtling up the offense late. That was by design with a young QB on the road against a improving Rams defense than people are giving credit for. Kap still killed us with the safety and turnover. BTW, i know we don’t use it in our playbook alot but i wish we would use some WCO screens to the backs and tight ends.
Overreact much? Every time you pick the Niners in a blowout and it doesn’t happen you take it personally and go way over the top in your negative reaction. Your overreaction comes from the fact that your high hopes blinded you to the fact that there were likely to be some growing pains with any QB change. Quit acting like you know how to get the reward without the risk.
If Kaep is in because he’s willing to take chances down the field and also because he presents a threat with his legs then the coaches have to call plays for him to take those chances and use his running ability. Once they co, it’s then it’s on him to know not to pitch the ball in a bad situation. Of course that’s exactly the type of risky mistake you expect a rookie QB to make at some point, but you can’t get the reward without risking such mistakes at some point. Since Harbaugh chose Kaep he has to let him make exactly that mistake in the regular season so he can learn from it before the playoffs. You have to take the bad with the good with a young QB. I hope Harbaugh gives Kaep another week to learn from his mistakes, and for Roman to adjust to how they defended him.
What a joke! You AS fans are ridiculous. Lets not forgot that last time we played the Rams AS started and stunk through 2 quarters. Lets also concede that AS is sacked at least 6+ times in this game. The line was terrible in run and pass blocking. Kaep still made throws AS could not dream od making and with a non existent run game he would have been horrible. The biggest loss for the niners is hunter and that showed big time…ongoing problem and I can promise you that means more pressure on QB and smith has proven again and again that without run support he is not good.
Alex stank in the last game against the Rams? Wasn’t he 8 of 9 with a touchdown, and a 150+ QB rating? He did get sacked a few times, more than Kap, but was pretty effective. You, DaNiners, look silly when you write that kind of thing.
Kap has more potential than Alex and I like him but he did screw up a play that wouldn’t even have been called for Alex, and that cost us the game. Other than that and the safety (which was incorrectly called), he played well. This loss is squarely on the shoulders of the coaches and specifically who was responsible for the play calling, which was absolutely incompetent and should cost somebody that particular job.
losses – and wins – are always a collective effort but these are good criticisms, Grant. spot on.
“The Rams shut down Frank Gore, yet Roman stubbornly called his number 23 times.”
Just read one of Maiocco’s twit, about “players said Rams were in perfect defense for everything 49ers had called.”
I don’t know. Can I speculate that Kaep was not changing enough calls before the snaps?
For the predictability of this offense today, look no further than the opening play of the 2nd half.
It starts with a 22 look, and they then shift to empty and try to run 4 verticals. This is exactly the same shift look and play they ran against Chicago when Kaepernick hit Davis for a 32 yard completion. The Rams saw the shift and immediately loosened up their coverage.
If I can see this stuff, you can bet the defense can see it.
That’s inexperience and if Harbaugh thinks he can coach thru lack of inexperience than he should win coach of the year again. Somehow no one has ever accounted a substitute for it.
You guys will say how else is he suppose to learn? Well not in week 13 and with team primed to win it all. Pretty sure a lot of vets are scratching their heads tonight.
How can people not vote Walker as the goat? That pass was lofted right into his freaking hands for a TD after CK’s 50 yard scramble. He makes that catch and we are all giddy. He dropped it, no excuse for that at all.
Still a 9ers fan and have trust in Harbaugh. I’m hoping that we continue with Kap, it was a team loss as there were mistakes all over the field. Yes the bad toss was only the beginning, but lets not overlook that we could not challenge the intentional grounding/ score as it was a bad call since the ball did cross the line of scrimmage. Some of you need to take your emotions out of your your game analysis.
Give an “A” to Jeff Fisher for his coaching. He had Jenkins and Givens this time around. He used the clock judiciously, unlike Harbaugh. We just can’t seem to get past that win-win-flop pattern, no matter who the QB is. That’s coaching.
Especially so with their Niner killer from last game, Amendola, on the sidelines.
to me the most egregious error was not killing clock after the 50 yard run. after running on first down all day, they pick that time to try a low percentage pass and stop the clock, then stop it on 3rd down as well. unbelievable.
for such a good coach, harbaugh got undressed by fisher both times this season.
Is it just me or is it hilarious that the pile of debris DS returns to the blog when CK has a bad game?
The Smithers are celebrating today.
Pfft. You are the one calling for the 3rd stringer now. How many sides of a fence can one sit on?
I sit on the “please get a good QB after 10 years of suck” side of the fence.
I have zero faith in your Precious but that doesn’t mean I’m a CK7 fan.
DS totally disappeared on game day in the threads against chicago and saints. You just knew he/she/it was gonna slither in here when a loss came about. DS must have been in the fetal postion in pain during those games. Same with Hof he was pretty much quiet during those games as well for the most part.
I agree he also left during the Peyton manning hype, he will be gone next week when we win and CK plays well.
You guys bitch if I’m here and bitch if I’m not.
I see a pattern here. Hate.
DS next season I suppose you will be on another teams site and following your man crush.
Just shows he is not a fan of the team, more like a obsessed and infatuated fan of AS. It will be gone next season.
“The Smithers are celebrating today.” MSClemons
What? Are you trying to compete with 23J and Bayarea for the most moronic comments? No Niner fan is celebrating and only the really stupid ones are trying to talk about Smith to take the focus away from a very inept performance by Colin Kaepernick.
The bad pitch was just as bad as Smith’s fumble vs Philly several years ago. Backing up deep into the end zone on the play that was called a safety was a mistake of inexperience. He also did not have a very good day selecting plays at the line of scrimmage.
There are many ways that game should have been won. Walker should have caught that perfect TD pass. The official on the sideline that let the pass on the safety sail over his head without even looking to see if it reached the line of scrimmage could have done his job. Roman could have figured out that after 4.5 quarters of Gore getting 2 a carry it was probably time to avoid that call. Of course, Kaepernick could have figured that out also. Both of them could have figured out that Akers needed to be inside 40.
I don’t see anybody here celebrating. In fact, I don’t think there have been any “Smithers” on this site, only Niner fans whose opinion about Smith differs from yours. It seems that your problem is that some of the arguments that favor Smith make excellent football sense. You have no intelligent retort, so you resort to the “Precious” thing. There is a solid football analysis.
Above you made reference to 7 years of failure on Smith’s part. Tell me how reaching the NFC Championship game was a failure. Tell me how Kyle Williams’ fumbles were Smith’s failure. Tell me how organizing the team so they would have some knowledge of a completely new playbook during the lockout was a failure. Tell me how 6-2 and in the top five in passing was a failure.
Don’t change the subject…just tell me how you can categorize those things as failure…or be man enough to get off the “Precious” thing and make intelligent criticisms of Smith when they are warranted.
You are pretty interesting in all your non-Smith football comments.
It would be nice to read some intelligent commentary on the SF quarterback play from you.
I think Kaepernick will learn a lot from this week’s game. It appears that he is likely to become the type of QB that can overcome in the type of game that was played today. I prefer his style of play over Smith’s and I am very excited that Kaep seems to be our QB of the future.
Smith gives us another way to go. I think he would have overcome today, mainly because he has done so well at selecting plays at the line of scrimmage this year and because since the start of last season, he has usually gotten us points in close games when Roman’s play calling has failed.
I don’t know which way will be better this year. I’d love to hear actual football points from you about which way you think will work best for 2012.
Thank you, about time time someone calls out msclemons. That dude’s constant garbage comments are nearly as bad as neal and jordan.
How is it going msc?
I certainly hope that Greg Roman gets hired as a Head Coach by some unsuspecting owner real soon.
God you’re foolish. Rid of Roman now? NFL people have raved about his play selection and formations and shifts for the most part of this year. You smithers make it sound like he’s Jimmy Raye and Alex is Peyton Manning. It was a questionable game plan but man…talk about overreacting. lol!
Oh, yeah! I’m a smither because I think Roman is suspect?
And you call me foolish!!!
and why are the snaps 6 inches off the ground? and why does K have only 8 seconds at the line of scrimmage? Coaching was the main reason we lost today. And get a new kicker!!!!!
It’s getting late on the east coast, I’m off (at least to read about one of my teams that won today, the Knicks).
The next time I return I expect to see the Niner problems corrected by this blog. Don’t let me down.
Looking forward to more of your hypocrisy monday.
You’d best get high or be wasted the next time you come back on then. Because then it just may appear to improve to you. lol
Well Grant it looks like your going to need some preparation H buddy, like I said before the only thing that would be a blow out would be your sphincter after pushing out all the crap you were full of.
Hey wilson, shut your pie hole…Go rewatch the first niner ram game and tell me what the score was when smith left and tell me what those 8-9 passes meant. How effective he was. Nothing, dink and dunk, same old smith passes…he is not, has not and never will be the future of this team…move on.
Whos wilson
Hey Wilson,.Go rewatch the first niner ram game and tell me what the score was when smith left and tell me what those 8-9 passes meant. How effective he was. Nothing, dink and dunk, same old smith passes…he is not, has not and never will be the future of this team…move on.
Wilson is just another smith lover trying to tell me his effective he was in the first Rams game. Yeah, 72 yds in the first half is effective…on top of what, four sacks or something.
I’m a high school football coach. Even if we ran the triple option, which we don’t, I don’t ask my QB to pitch it when I’m at my own 17 yard line in a close game with about 3 minutes remaining and we have a strong defense, especially if I’ve been very CONSERVATIVE the whole game! I play it very safe and punt the ball if we don’t get the 1st down. That is a very risky play especially if it’s not your regular offense! I can’t believe that Roman was so conservative the whole game and pulled that sh*t. Now everyone wants to blame CK. That was a huge coaching error. The loss is on the coaching staff!!! It was pathetic and probably cost the 49ers the division championship…
Grant, I think you are one of the few who see the game as it was. Kap was not the story. On defense Willis and Bowman were poor in coverage, and on offense the play-calling was (again) weak. Hopefully next year we can snag Norv Turner or Mike Holmgren for OC.
You got a point there D coach. Why try a play like that? Onthat side of the field..run gore,jacobs to pick up first down..if we dont get it…We got one of the best punters in the game..Make the rams drive the field from 20-30yds out to score…they still had to get td and two point conversion so…
But what gets me is the playcallin after kaps fifty yard run..why look to score quick with pass?we needed to make them use their timeouts but get a first down.. We just needed a first down. Then line Akers up..The play callin in ot to put the game in struggling Akers hands is a head scratcher..i cant believe harbaugh and roman would put themselves in that predicament again… Still baffled by it..
When we lose.. It seems everything goes wrong at once.. The safety that wasnt technically a safety,a pitch reverse gone wrong.delanie droppin sure td pass,defense couldnt hold off rams another min,missed tackles,bonehead goldson hit on bradford, leaving the game up to Akers..we had like four chances to win this game in spite of mistakes..Now smith supporters will blame kap..cause it makes them feel better and justified.. But I and others know different.. Cant win situation for kap in that regard.. If we pulled it off.. We won but kap this..or that
People calling for Smith to be back under center and say he had us in the Super Bowl if it weren’t for 2 williams fumbles seem to forget how bad smith was that game. He did hit davis for a couple big plays. But 3rd down is the money down in the league, he was 1 for 15, and thorughout the game, had 1 completion to a WR. That’s awful. It took Smith 6 years to figure it out and still doesn’t throw many WRs open or anticipate real well. Kaep at least makes a lot of NFL throws on out routes and deep outs, that Smith would not. It was one loss, and people forget, Smith was getting man handled by this same Rams team at home before he got hurt, so people cant say he would have won. There’s still few more weeks in the season, and Kaep will be fine.
Dump this stinker on Harbaugh/Roman alone. Two minute warning after Kaep’s long run. Why pass? Run three wide plays, kick the field goal. No risk and the Rams have around 55 seconds and no time outs. Changes everything.
I know Kap did not play well this game but I do blame the coaches for creating a game plan suited for AS. It does not make sense. Stop playing for field goals which is what was done with AS because of the lack of trust and play for the td. By the way, Grant please post Kap’s third down completion percentage the money down. thx!
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The Bears game was designed/game planned for AS actually. It appeared he was going to be ok, so the game plan was with AS in mind. This game and the Saints game were designed/game planned with CK in mind.
Really. Get your facts straight first.
I guess I’m the only one who saw Delaney Walker not catch a short TD pass that was right in his hands late in the game. Don’t blame the kid for that. Alex is history and he should be. We have all been groomed over the past 7 years and now we think a game manager is great, well it’s not. The kid is the future.
AS has had to deal with a WR/TE/RB core who has the highest drop rate in the NFL for years now.
Last year AS still managed to win most of those games. Though Ginn screwed up in Baltimore.
Take a look at the poll, Cobalt, DW is at the bottom of the list as who was the “goat” from this game. I believe Kaepernick is the future as well, but the truth is that he had a bad game. And if he had seen Moss all alone in the endzone and thrown an easy TD, the fumble, Walker’s drop, Aker’s missed FG would not have mattered because the score would have been 14-13 and the 49ers win. But Kaepernick never looked his direction and instead threw to MM and it resulted in a FG. But now it’s all history and time to move on from this game because there are very important games ahead that must be won to get to the SB.
U are so right cobalt.. People been watchin Alex smith playin style so longg..they think thats how its supposed to be.