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Marshawn Lynch, Lee Evans, Fred Jackson, Stevie Johnson, Kelsey, Poz, Stroud, Whitner, Kyle, McGee, Schobel. I mean I just picked one random year. Forget about the Takeo years or the Mario years. We have had more talent in the drought years multiple times and for long stretches. We just didn’t have a quarterback.

This team looks exhausted from Super Bowl or bust expectations. It’s one thing to rally when you’re new to a situation and you have belief, but these guys know how long a road this is and how difficult it gets, and to be perfectly honest I don’t think they have the will to rally like they once did. The message is old. The roster is weak. The resolve is fading. The fans are feeling the same thing.

Beane is the biggest issue. But I don’t think it gets fixed with just Beane. This team needs an entire schematic overhaul and it will probably hurt for a year, because this regime drafts players so specific I doubt many would even function in a traditional scheme. At the end of the day we wasted our best shot at a Super Bowl win since the early 90’s in a slow and painful way. I really don’t know how people could sign up for more of this, but I have a feeling Terry is going to make us.

Indeed is too good for him. Craigslist

We are a soft team that wants to say it’s physical. Houston is not a soft team and doesn’t say anything.

It doesn’t make sense to make guys play in contract years. They’re usually more motivated after large sums of money 🙃

McDermott looking like he’s about to show a teenager hot to use a miter saw.

Gotta love this PST living

He’s a niche player. He’s not even a conventional slot. More gadget slot guy.

None of it is subjective

Houston has just put us in a bag and beat the hell out it two straight years now

Realistically the 49ers are doing more with less, on both sides of the ball way more injuries than we are dealing with

I push back a little on this. Hard to say how much a decent rushing attack can soften things. It doesn't need to be about getting completely gashed for 60 minutes. This isn't the 70's. But 5 yards a pop really hurts in the playoffs. We are 4-1 when we don't allow 125 rushing yards. The only loss being our first AFC championship game. We are 3-5 when we allow 125+. Which was basically every KC game outside of that one, the Bengals game, and the Texans game. In several of those games we had couldn't get teams off the field and the run defense was part of it.

I think the problem is with exception of Bosa, in most instances, we are several years removed from all these decisions. I think our first build was really well done. Especially the bargain Free Agents. We still get a hit on some bargains like Floyd and Bosa <== who is more a bargain than trying to pursue elite talent. Nice hit either way. But we really haven't made attempts at bigger moves in awhile now, preferring to invest in our own picks, many of which are in fact role players. Which then tends to lock in further attempts at growth at these positions. When you are arguably a player or two away it is a bit frustrating that we are so hesitant to add a known commodity. Personally, I think Beane is gun shy over the Diggs and Miller moves, which didn't work out, but I feel were correct.

they should find his pets and let them out

I appreciated the Scrambling Fran as well. You don't tend to think that right away because of the size difference and physical style, but he has that pure playmaking and sense of surrounding.

That is pretty well said! You can see a bit of all those guys. Just nuts we get to watch this.

Allen is the most productive offensive player in NFL history. I would be ok if somebody called out Jim Brown, because it's similar when you look at era and positional impact. Allen, like Brown, could play for any team, any group of players, and that team would instantly be a top 10 unit. His individual contribution is that strong. I have wanted to better understand Allen's off script production for years now as it's clear a very large % of his production is not within the play design. For all these reasons it makes it very hard to evaluate our coaches and GM and other roster talent. He's play's in a way that nobody else ever has been able to do at his level.

I don't know what the perspective is here? The Colts were up 10-7 and failed to convert a 4th and goal at the end of the half. We go the length of the field, score a TD. Colts miss a 33 yard FG in the 3rd quarter. We take a 14 point 4th quarter lead and still need to get a stop on the final drive to win it. Colts finish with 450+ yards, 25+ first downs. We aren't going to win most of those games. We won that day. How is this an example that our defense can provide support when it matters?

Not sure what game we are talking about here. This is the game I have been discussing. That was the year of 13 seconds and our #1 overall defense.

he's taking us from a perennial .500 team to a 13 win team. This doesn't look much different than our meddling drought years without Allen.

No, Sean McDermott is the Coach of the best QB in football. Allen could make your posts seem logical, he's that good. It was 24-7 at halftime?

In 2021, when we allowed 40+ it was Carson Wentz, not Phillip Rivers. The year prior when we played Phillip Rivers in the Wild Card and almost lost, they didn't punt. They had 27 first downs and 472 yards off offense. I'm pretty sure that was the most first downs allowed in a playoff game in victory. We got some very timely stops. The point is the injury narrative is insanely over played. We have cratered in the postseason defensively like clock work regardless if we led the league in total defense or we completely sucked. We are much closer to the latter at this time.

That year we would consistently jump out to 14+ leads, then put offenses in pass only scripts with back up level QB’s and we just steam rolled people. Not exactly what we face when the stakes get higher.

You could say they had a “playoff caliber” offense