oldmanfan

and the GM.

Football always has been and will always be about physically beating the guy in front of you. Our D line got physically dominated yesterday. Has nothing to do with coaching, has to do with getting whupped.

I agree with the latter. I was screaming all day for them to do something different than rush 4 and play zone.

How many other teams stop guys like these? Look at the Rams D yesterday, couldn’t come close to stopping a great player in Josh.

The true coaching failure was Smiley having 9 guys on the field. Taking the penalty gets them into 3rd and I think 15? Your D has to stop that. Has to. But we couldn’t stop them all day. That’s why I was OK with the onside kick. I think that was a better chance than assuming we could stop them with 3 TOs.

Thanks Nostradamus. Should a TO been called? No. But if Josh had not liked the call, he could have just spiked it instead of running the play. McD didn’t call the play, it was either Brady or Josh that decided to run it. As for the TO and onside kick, for that to be the wrong decision you have to assume that our D would have held them. I think it’s a pretty safe assumption we would not have. Mcvay would have known one first down wins the game, so he would have had his entire list of plays available vs. just running it 3 times. We hadn’t stopped Stanford all day long.

I estimate the chances of all that happening at 3% or less. We had not held them all day,. McVay would not have just called three runs when he knew one first down wins the game.

So when offensive guys make great plays it’s on them, but when D linemen get shoved around all day that the HC’s fault?

Just to clarify when players like Josh do good things it’s only about the player, but when players like on our D line do bad things it’s only about McD?

He’s right. Face it, today their WRs were way better than our DBs and their O line especially was better. That’s why they won.

As a coach I would put it on my defense of course. But regardless we were going to need a miracle to win in that last minute.

Then you did not watch the game and see Johnson’s TD I guess.

Oh please. Give me a break. I’m critical of McD today because he and Babbitt didn’t get out of their rush 4/zone thing that wasn’t working. His decisions the last minute not so much.

Given we hadn’t stopped them all day what were the odds we do so in the last minute?

Great coaches tend to have great QBs. Which is cause and which is effect?

That can’t happen.

Football is about beating the guy in front of you. Always has been, always will be. Their O line beat our D line, their WRs beat our DBs. And vice versa. At some point today someone on the D needed to stand up and win a battle. They didn’t.

Kind of like what happened to the Rams D today. Really good offenses tend to beat defenses.

Exactly. We were dominated. As was their D.

And all those coaches benefitted from having a great QB.

I would not have called the TO. But let’s be analytical. Under the best of circumstances we don’t call a sneak (which I think Josh called at the line), we throw three times and hopefully score. Then the assumption everyone makes is that somehow we use our 3 TOs, stop them on a 3 and out, get the punt and somehow with maybe 20-30 seconds move to where we kick the winning FG. Can that happen? Yeah Josh did it with 26 seconds Thanksgiving a couple years ago. Here’s the more likely scenario. McVay knows he gets one Ist down it’s game over. He also knows his WRs have shredded to Bills all game. I don’t think he calls 3 runs, I think he calls pass maybe even on 1st down. And game is over. It would have required a miracle either way, inside kick or not. This game was lost because of our D getting dominated. And the same would have been said about the Rams if we had won. Ih, and to people here who equated McD to a murderous leader of the Third Reich whose name I never use: put that stuff where the sun doesn’t shine. That is beyond despicable.

The simple fact is that their offensive personnel destroyed our defensive personnel. And vice versa. Our D steps up it’s not a close game. And again vice versa.

I think McVay would not have been afraid to throw it at the end. The destroyed our zone all day and any quick throw to Puka was almost guaranteed.

If Bill Walsh hadn’t had Montana, Reid hadn’t had Mahomes, Paul Brown hadn’t had Otto Graham…

This was a Game of the Year today? Please.