San Francisco 49ers Discussion

adrian522 wrote: »

That was bad, there's no sugar coating it.

Jimmy was awful, some of his throws were just a case of lobbing it up there and hoping for the best, he missed open receivers and was indecisive a lot of the time.

Injuries to Kittle and no WR mitigate this somewhat but I'm not seeing any improvement from last year.

Defensively we were owned by Murray and Co, couldn't get off the field, and gave up way too many silly penalties. Doesn't bode well for this season though you'd expect them to improve. They really need some receiver help.

Taylor and Pettis contributed nothing, bourne was ok but he should be a WR3 at best.

Jimmy was dire. They seemed shell shocked from the punt block until the 4th quarter. Even just in the last drive, that was an easy TD for Bourne with a better throw (though Bourne should have still done better with it) and the last throw to Taylor was late.

For all the blame on Jimmy, it didn't seem like Kyle was even calling plays to the WRs. We've seen similar from him in previous years. Whether it is not trusting Jimmy or the WRs, either way they need to get rid of whoever they don't trust.

As I mentioned in the main thread, this isn't a huge surprise given the injuries and how they've struggled with the Cards and mobile QBs in general. Hopefully not jinxing things too much but the next 2 weeks should give them a chance to play themselves into some form.

myate wrote: »

It's the first game of the season...in general it's always a game of getting the rust off, especially with no preseason. Last years first game against the Bucs was pretty bad but the D showed how good it could be & the team got the win. Yesterday was awful. Very few positives. But nobody said it would be a perfect season! The team could barely contain mobile QBs last year, and nothing looks to have changed. This loss will wake them all up.

After sleeping on it, despite all the injuries and everything going terribly they should have still won the game with a TD at the end, if they had slightly better play by either the QB or WR.

First time live tackling in 7 months being against such a mobile QB was not a good situation to be in.

The margins are just so tight in the NFL and the majority of those games went for the 49ers last year.

adrian522 wrote: »

I was really expecting JG to improve this year but there was little enough evidence of that. I'm still hopeful but the early signs are not encouraging. The lack of receivers is not helping but his accuracy and decision making don't seem to have improved. He also had a couple of throws that should never have been made and was lucky to avoid turnovers.

On a positive note he didn't throw any passes directly to opposition defenders.

I've been very much a JG defender but he was very poor. Saw an interesting stat that each season he had poor performances regarding accuracy so there is potential that he should improve (he went to average or above average by week 2 or 3 each season).

adrian522 wrote: »

Yeah, we'll see. I'm not writing him off based on one game without WR1, WR2 and TE1 out there as a decoy. But all the issues we've seen in the past were still there.

Hopefully we see these issues getting ironed out over the next few weeks.

I remember posting here with happiness over Chip's first win and we saw where that went.

Game 1 does not make or break a season

Foxtrol wrote: »

At least it is that run rather than a tougher part of the schedule. After Eagles it is the Dolphins but then the hardest stretch of the season kicks in

Calf strain apparently. But yeah, thankfully next 3 games aren't too bad...or shouldn't be!

Gloria from White Men Can't Jump said it best - Sometimes when you win you really loose...that's how that win yesterday felt. Bosa & Thomas within 2 plays of each other going out with probable season ending ACL's. Jimmy getting banged up but his 1st half play was good, very good. Mostert...who knows whats up with him...will find out later. D stepped up nicely in 2nd half, but lets be honest, it was the Jets!
I like Nick Mullens & he can fill in nicely for a few games, especially easier games.
They couldn't agree terms with Ziggy Ansah last week...I think that might change today! Tough season...a lot of players etc said it would be an injury plagued season (for all teams)...they're not wrong so far.

Great performance from the back ups and they even got to rest some guys towards the end. Thankfully, it sounds like the injuries weren't close to as bad as last week. Aiyuk's performance giving a lot of hope he'll break out earlier this season than Deebo did last year. Having both of them, Kittle, and Reed on the field with whichever RB should cause opposing Ds nightmares

Rams and Cardinals losing adds to the successful week (pity the Seahawks squeaked put another one score game).

Sunday Night Football next week with a demoralised Eagles side coming off a battle with Bengals, going the full way through OT and picking up some more injuries. Hopefully we can get a few of our guys back and build off the performances from today.