Positives and Negatives: 49ers vs Packers

Better get that straightened out if you get my drift.

I am thinking I got House and Hyde mixed up and am not really all that concerned,

Negative:

Losing another playoff game at Home

Some playcalling was questionable at best...ie., the run to Cobb...do ya think the 49ers might have guessed what was coming when he shifted into the empty backfield.

Injuries just kept piling up

S/Ts gave up a big return on a great placed kick that should have pinned SF behind their 15 yd line

Jones dropped a couple that in the past he would have caught.  The one off his face mask at the 5 yd line

Rodgers played not good in the 1st quarter

McCarthy may need to get himself a real OC

Not getting the kick blocked

 

Positives:

Lacy

Rodgers scramble and pass to Cobb, one of the best under-pressure plays ever made by an NFL QB.  In the same category as Eli's SB toss vs NE.

Nelson, the guy just gets better and better

Defense, despite injuries played so good...most of the time

Starks nice to have him for a change of pace RB

Crosby kicked right down the middle

Team never quit, never rolled over and never gave up

They can talk about Kaper**** all they want.  The only thing he did of note yesterday was the two big running plays.  The passes he completed were to wide open receivers, threw a pick and should have thrown another 2 if our guys knew how to catch.  Garbage.

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#Packers OLB Mike Neal said medical exam showed no major structural damage. Will have MRI. And Shields tweeted he avoided a major injury

Good to hear with Shields.  I guess the best way to avoid major injury on these Packers is to be in the locker room for most of the game. 

Great news.

 

That way they can both get injured early next season.

Nelson is a stud.  Until recent games, I just do not think the QBs targeted him often enough.  I hope to see that change next year.

Thanks, just spit coffee on the old 'puter.

 

That's so funny if not sooo true.

GB can score more than 20 against those guys.

So can other teams. 49ers have given up 20 or more points 8 times this season.

Packers offense completely underperformed. They are the reason the team lost the game.

AR and MM's offense, only opening day starter who was unavailable was Finley, should have scored 30 at least IMO.

Red zone offense is terrible.

You want to win in today's NFL? SCORE SOME POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Couldn't agree more Free Safety. I did expect the offense to play better

Red zone offense has been a problem all season.  Odd considering how good they have been there for so long.

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Lacy and Starks Combo is awesome, gotta keep that going next year.  With a running game like that and healthier line we'll score 28 a game.

A crippled defense held them to 23 points - shoulda been enough

Hyde is a keeper, even though he missed that pick

Team showed a lot of guts and heart after being decimated with injuries.

 

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Jones had a bad game..... I've been a big fan of his but was disappointed.  It could cost him...

Missed containment on Kaepernick too many times

6 yards in first half.  If we had a few first downs SF only gets 3 points, not 6

agree on the first and goal call... why get cute?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Has anyone mentioned #12's collarbone remaining in tact? I'll say that as a positive.

 

The gamble to bring him back got the fans a classic win against the Bears for an NFCN title and a surprisingly competitive playoff game. 

There was no gamble with when they brought AR back. He wouldn't have played last week or yesterday if McKenzie thought there was greater than normal risk to the clavicle.

 

Reading that Shields has an MCL injury.

Per a league source, it’s currently believed Shields has a strained MCL.  The official diagnosis will come from an MRI evaluation.

 

 

Curious to know why Shields and Neal were pulled from the game.  I get the caution part of it but unless they were unable to run, that's maddening.

They were probably unable to run and cut.

But they could have done everything else football players CB and OLBs are asked to do!!! I am so angry.

One big plus is that Tramon Williams has finally started playing well the last few weeks.  Hopefully that will carry over into the 2014 season.

I'm hoping Tramon isn't on the roster.. Not worth the price tag, even with the improvement over the past few weeks. 

http://www.nationalfootballpos...Morning-MD-1090.html

 

Couple of notes on the Packers injuries from the Monday Morning MD

Both Neal and Shields appear to be OK for next year

 

 

I keep Tramon.  He's overpriced, but not to the point where his production/paycheck hurts the team. 

Get rid of Tramon? Because a starting tandem of Hyde and House next year excites you?

 

Hyde is no Heyward, hopefully the latter comes back strong because Hyde lacks the talent and instincts to make up for his lack of speed. He would probably be good enough at safety but he's toast against vertical receivers from the corner.

He needs to reduce his salary. Good player or not his cap number is 9 million next year. That's a lot for an over-the-hill CB. 

Calling Williams "over the hill" is dumb.

 

Some people called Woodson "over the hill" and "done" before he arrived in GB. 

 

 

Not sure I agree with Whitt's assessment that Tramon was back to '10 form, but he was playing extremely well and needs to return with a contract restructuring.

 

Hyde should have probably had the pick, but  I was more bothered by the failure to make the play by Burnett on the Davis TD. He's getting paid to make that one and it's a play most reasonably competent safeties in the league do.

I was reminded this morning that "Show Me the Money" is Shields' agent. 

 

 

Shields and Heyward..   House and player X as backups, could even move Heyward inside like they did Wood when in nickle.   Hyde moves to S.

 

I Know everyone wants to blame Capers and Hydewants and Jones, but to me, MM needs TO GIVE UP PLAYCALLIN and hire an OC. We lost this game when we had the ball at the six with First and goal and he pulled Cobb into the backfield rather than jam Lacey up between the Tackles like we have been seeing all season and ALL GAME. He was dragging 49ers on his carries. They struggled to tackle him. This, the vaunted Niner run defense.

 

Why does MM not perceive the trends in the game as it proceeds? That is his weakness.

 

Agree...  He tends to get too cute.   Hopefully with a year under his belt of having one of the best power run games in the NFL, he adjusts.  I assume he will look at the redzone failures and come to the same conclusion a lot of us did, too many passes, not enough attitude.

It was 1st and goal at the 9, not the 6... and McCarthy will never give up play-calling. If he is not the play-caller he is not the HC too. It's a set.

I don't mind a handoff to Cobb on 1st and goal from the 9, but it needs to be a jet sweep or something where he gets the ball on the move and gets to the boundary.

 

A flat footed handoff with all the LBs looking right at him was a bad idea.

 

To me, that play was the start of taking the game, tossing it in the crapper, and flushing it down the drain.

 

How many times did SF not properly contain?  How many times did the Packers gain meaningful yardage starting at or near the LoS that was due to avoiding SF?

 

Possibly not one time.

 

Maybe it would not have worked (who knows?), but the biggest success near the LoS was Lacy or Starks jamming it down their throats.  To me, part of that scheme was an awareness that there WILL be plenty of contact and so part of the prescription would be to welcome it and shove it right back at them.

 

But, no.  Play it pretty.

 

I admit, it still pisses me off and in retrospect it was at that moment that a winnable game began to derail right off the tracks.

 

The 9ers have a lot of speed on the D edge and I don't know if Cobb gets wide enough fast enough to turn it up field. At least with Lacy (and even Starks) you are almost guaranteed the pile moves forward for a couple.

 

 

I was shocked a back corner fade wasn't called

I am not saying a Cobb sweep is an automatic TD. But we've all been complaining about the red zone offense all year and I can see where MM would want to something a little different and get the ball in Cobb's hands.

 

That 1st down play didn't change the game as so many people are claiming. It was then 2nd and goal from the 8. Not the end of the world.

 

The problem is that our typical red zone problems showed up again. Two shotgun pass attempts with no real plan. No play action, no picks or rubs, just AR run around and try to find somebody to squeeze the ball into.

 

Every other game I watch, at least once there is a good play design that has a TE or somebody wide open crossing in the EZ for an easy red zone TD. When was the last time we saw that in GB? Bubba Franks?

Fair enough FS except one thing.  Everyone knows SF has one heck of a defense and the red zone shrinks the playing field.  Each and every one of those 3 downs on 1st and goal is worth their weight in gold.

Bak had a rough game as did most of the OL. On the jet sweep to Cobb, Bak gets beat and Aldon Smith forces Cobb to alter his trajectory. Then the LB blows by EDS and the play was toast.

 

And while we all kvetch about the Packers offense in the Red Zone, keep in mind that they held the niners to 2 FGs and an INT on 3 trips to the RZ early in the game- that kept GB in the game long enough for the Offense to wake up

Satori,

 

I thought that was Newhouse at LT on the play. ??

Nice post. When is Cobb in the backfield ever a bad idea? Guy averages something like 9 yards a carry, doesn't he?