colin

Allen is gonna will this squad to a win

Well, I suppose your one dimension is ok tho I wanna win!

Our backs and tes are garbage. Only chance we have is airing it out and using that to set up the o. This team is abusive to fans!

Ya, this game has the makings of another prime time blow out loss. These guys are soft. Idiot rb loses the ball in the end zone.

Bad juju right here

These goof azz broadcasters said winters was in.

And geez better be ok, motor too

Hey, so the broadcast showed winters starting at rg, did he get benched mid drive?

i dunno, i like tirico. he's not perfect, but he's very enthusiastic and clearly loves the game.

so, we (me included) have been saying our ol is good at pass blocking, bad at run blocking. I think the second part of that is the only one which is correct. bad.

he's a better football player than i thought he was, so obv i was wrong about that. the corches have also adjusted how they use him to great effect tho. bill bellycheat is the king of that, only has guys do what they are capable of. he picks players based on his scheme, of course, but then he makes wrinkles and adjustments to maximize what he's got. im glad our guys did that too, but they are so stubborn sometimes, taking a lot of hits to the head against the wall before figuring out they can go around it. my football dream of 3 capable line backers on the field at the same time shouldn't feel so far fetched, considering we were top 3 on D w a 4-3 scheme the past two years, but what do i know.

the suggestion above about blending the impact over a few years, be it explicitly or with some kind of carve out allowances, makes a lot of sense. the three players above, along w brown and murphy might solve our entire issue.

this game is gonna be all about the run D. if milano is back we might even see a shocking new scheme involving more than 2 line backers on the field at once! i do think the bills did a solid job vs the chargers, who are a much better O than san fran, but san fran's varied run attack kinda scares me. on the other side, a slightly more consistent performance from the O can score more points than the niners can answer with (if we get to 27 again, i don't see us losing).

that stat is is because of how much we ran it on first down. the real breakdown vs the chargers is we ran play action a ton of times and didn't do well in it. the Dline was able to beat our Oline so fast that the gains from play action were snuffed out by how quick the pass got disrupted. it was a bit of a case of sticking to what wasn't working, but the run came on like gang busters late, if we didnt' have the devin fumble we likely get another 30 or 40 yards rushing and more points, so i kinda understand what we were going for. aside from the Ol needing to be better (hope morse being back longer helps, and winters is just trash and needs to be replaced by someone else on the roster) i think dabol needs to scheme a little better on the pass run selection. i think a small adjustment will make big returns on that front.

young may be the better overall athlete, but to me the bosa's are special. they were bred to be NFL DEs. they have the genetics (dad was an NFL player, decent one too), they have been trained doing drills and learning the craft since they could basically walk (there are videos of them pass rushing against dummies and such as pre teens), and they maintain a very high level of taking care of their body, living like body builders or olympic athletes. imo, garrett or young may be the top just total talent (donald is obv a freak too, but different position), but the bend and change of direction and hand techniques the bosa's use are basically a cheat code.

the pass rush destroying our line likely made for fewer deep routes being called. also, lee smith being in there some meant less personnel matchups favoring spreading out the D. the biggest thing i took away watching this game is how different the O for the bolts and bills are. we spread out, slow to develop plays, screens are in a muddle (intentionally sure), they have these goofy bunch formations, move guys all over but generally close to the line, and the plays hit really quickly. ball is out in under 2 seconds at times, and they screen on a pre snap read to the rb out wide most of the time. the only thing i want to see us add is a couple of quick hitters, not the whole bolts package. i think having a TE worth a shoot makes a lot of that possible tho.

How about we make a radical move and even play football with 3 linebackers on the field?!? Given that milano can cover, we could even do it vs 3 wrs sometimes! I get we have had injuries and that we played a ton of nickel last year, but how do we never have 3lbs? Our base 4-2-5 is weak to the run up the gut, but that is due to lb injuries and bad dt play, it has also gotten eaten by screens and sweeps, which is just bad tackling and block shedding. Having an lb around the ball making teams adjust blocking and two others who can rush can give the o fits. We may just invent a wacky balanced d call d the 4-3!

I think the bills can eat the browns. I don't see them covering our 3 wrs in the intermediate passing game, which will open up everything. They have some sick players on O, but our d is getting better at just the right time and without the browns getting big plays, they will shoot themselves in the foot on long drives.

Well, the downside of today is it was a super sloppy game and at times on O an absolute disaster. The upside is, the run game came back, and the d honestly balled out of control. Except the desperate garbage time hail Mary (which didn't even result in points), there were no big plays given up, and they did reasonably well against the run too. Our o lacks any kind of speed without brown in there. Diggs is obviously sick, but the d was talking the top away from him all day (the one pass early which lead to pass intro woke them up) and our TEs are cheeks and no other wr is a real burner, and our rbs are slow too. I think the team we saw today, warts and all, with brown and milano and kroft can match up all over the place. On D, and if be been pooping on it all year, they seem to be figuring some stuff out and if epenesa can continue to improve, and with klien coming into his own, throw in milano and an improved edmunds and it might actually be playing a bit better then they were at the end of last season.

Tre! Oh my the drama

They want to lose and deserve to

D just absolutely balled doubt there

This team is just disgusting

Sloppy laydown

Third quarter strikes again, even after a money opening drive. This team just falls into lulls like no other. I think it is because we have near zero balance