Instead,

Make it go… away.

once again, nolan’s game management skills, or lack thereof, screwed the niners again today. His inability to be the defensive guru he was stated to be, screwed the niners again today. His inability to bring in quality free agents screwed the niners again today. His inability to draft impact players, screwed the niners again today. The season is lost. What are we left with? JTO “i’m a mike martz turnover machine,” and a defense that can’t stop anyone. I am hoping that the niners fire nolan tomorrow and place singletary or martz in power. what a complete waste of 3 and and 3/8’s seasons.
 by the way. what did jeff garcia do today? he went out and won, like he always has. the niners should have given anything and everything for him the minute gruden was benching him. now we have the inevitable 22 win season of the warriors to look forward to. What a perfect time for the sharks (go sharks) to be the only good team in the bay. They look great. Now there’s a team that nows how to get stuff done. John York should be taking notes.

They need to take some credit for the loses, however it’s tough to feel fully competent with those coaches ‘leading’ the team.

Nolan sucks. Paraag Marathe sucks even more. Egregious non challenge followed by 2 egregious challenges. What the fuck?

JTO is not a good quarterback. Let’s face it. He looked awful today. Yes he made some nice plays. That does not make him a good quarterback. I won’t call for him to be benched because Shaun Hill is not a good QB either.

The defense is not holding up their end of the bargain. Get some damn stops.

Fooch, can we start a discussion about our best coaching, quarterback, nose guard, o-line, d-line candidates leading into next season? Maybe someone in the organization will pay attention to the financial contributors/fans of this team that we love.

this was the worst-coached game ever. I can remember back to Pete McCully, too.

Just a couple of comments.

1. JTO is not a great quarterback but he didn’t lose this. The offense looked good for a stretch there. The quick passes and running game was beating the Eagles defense. The Eagles adjusted. The Niners had no answers to the Eagles’ adjustments. When the Eagles changed from pressure blitzes to a three-man rush the Niners lost it. The screens and underneath stuff were killed by man coverage. That’s on Martz. If I thought that Hill could do better I’d call for a change from JTO, but I think it would just get worse. Those two wins last season were fool’s gold.

2. I think we can all agree now. The “big sub” is more like “big suck”. Even in the game we won (I’m not counting the Detroit game) against Seattle, the BS didn’t really stop the Seahawks. There are two reasons:
   2a.) The scheme sucks.
   3b.) The personnel doesn’t cut it.

The D-line still isn’t very good. Maybe we’ll finish low enough to get a good interior D-lineman in the draft next year, for the next coach.

After Hostler’s O last year I could live with the very flawed Martz offense. But the defense just does not cut it. How many times this season have we seen the DBs playing way too far off receivers? I would like to see QBs’ overall completion percentage against the Niners versus other teams.

Except to see if the defensive coaches would do better without Nolan around, there isn’t much reason to change the coaching until the end of the year. On the other hand, if the Yorks wait until the end of the year, maybe they’ll get talked out of doing the right thing.

Paraag: “Hey, where’s my change for that hotdog?”

Nolan: “Did you say ‘challenge’?”

I’m going to be that crazy fan, only it will be watching the 3rd quarter of this game over and over hoping that my team will still win.

Nolan is going the way of our previous inept head coach, initial optimism, followed by a complete lack of following through of expectations. JTO may have known the Martz system the best at the beginning of the season, but his performance as of late does not make up for his initial foreknowledge of this offensive system that is spotty at best. I think we keep JTO in for the Giants game, and if (when) he blows it, Hill goes in, so he’ll at least have the extra week on the bye to work with the starters and “learn the system”. Nolan can’t experiment with a failing QB during a season where so much is on the line for him career wise. Drafting a qb is not the answer, it dooms us to more years of rebuilding, we need to make a trade (monday trade deadline anyone?) or a move during the offseason.

Speaking of the Fearful Leader, another experiment failed in San Fran. Nolan has been a bigger bust than Alex Smith (THERE I SAID IT). Another failed coach. Singletary should be head coach, Martz as a coordinator works better than as a HC, and he knows that. We need help, and we need it in the form of Bill Cower. START THE CAMPAIGN NOW. He can put in the offense that centers around Gore (FINALLY taking advantage of one of the best offensive weapons IN THE LEAGUE) and put a D in that will take advantage of the skill at the LB position, and a coverage scheme that can match its outrageous payroll.

TripTheNinja, how could you? Root for the NFC West? As amazing as it is we are still in the division crown race! I can’t bring myself to root for any of those three loser teams in our division, especially when two weeks time can flip out season.

I’m so angry, frustrated, disappointing, and depressed. F*ck this game.

that seems to be the Nolan Niners biggest problem. Mooch could get 4 big quarters, as well as seifert and walsh. the last two guys can’t do anything close to that. The niners had 1 really good qtr (the 3rd) today. Other than that, they looked flat all day long and ever other game has featured the same story. thats a huge sign that nolan needs to go. Start the singletary chants!

First, I really do think that the 49ers are better than their record shows. You guys have a team with some real playmakers and a QB that’s figuring this NFL out.

I agree about the coaching though. For Nolan to make those two stupid challenges that were never going to be overturned, but not make the challenge on the long Hank Baskett catch that he clearly dropped was insane. That catch led to the Eagles first TD and it was dropped when he hit the ground as clear as day. The FG was never going to be overturned and the Desean Jackson catch looked clearly in bounds.

Second, I was dumbfounded/elated by Mike Martz in the 4th quarter. I think he got greedy and basically tried to be too smart for his own good. He came into this game with a perfect offensive game plan against the Eagles and O’Sullivan executed it perfectly. Those quick screens to the RB and TE as well as those quick slants were exactly the way to counteract the Eagles constant blitzing. Plus the run game was rolling… Yet when the 4th quarter came around it seemed like Martz abandoned the idea, which befuddled me. He won with that strategy for 3 quarters…

But overall I was really impressed with JT O’Sullivan. Frank gore is awesome.

I’m not really sure what happened on defense. It just looked the guys upfront for the Eagles started winning battles. You guys would probably know better then me…

Fellas,
How can we continue to suffer week in and week out with this staff. Our offense outsmarts itself. We have the best running back in the league and do not use him when the game counts. We have a offense coordinator who does not know how to call plays to finish off an opponent. Nobody ever talks about this piss poor defense that allows freaking 4th string WR to burn our “pro-bowl” secondary. We rely on a journeyman to lead us down to score the winning TD but he ends up giving up his par 2 TO a game.
NOLAN has to go NOW. he cannot get it done. Please let us put pressure on ownership to get him out of there. Singletary is the motivator and no non-sense guy to put a foot up these underachievers butt to win. Who is with me?

First, fire Nolan. Then name either Martz, Manusky or Singletary as head coach. I’d probably go with Martz, not because he’s been so great but because the ship is sinking, he’s been a head coach before, and I’d like to see if there’s any reason to keep him after the season. Getting rid of Nolan will also help everyone to figure out if the stupid defensive schemes that Nolan’s so happy with are also Manusky’s and Singletary’s. I doubt it. I suspect that Manny Lawson isn’t back yet from his injury last year, but it would be nice to actually see a defense that uses him.

Changing quarterback isn’t going to make much difference this year, probably only make things worse. JTO is the best we have. Depending on who coaches next year we’ll probably have another quarterback either drafted or picked up through free agency..

The most important thing right now is to get Nolan out of the building. I think this morning I said just the opposite, but it’s clear that the season’s not going to turn around with that narcissistic dumbass at the controls.

but does anyone know what nolan’s record is for challenges?

This one got me sick real fast. I puked all over myself already and it’s only a quarter of the way over. Do you think it will have an ‘up’… or is the whole thing just going down? And the Rebels fell apart too!! Can’t wait for basketball season in Vegas!!

But realistically – the Niners were only in it based on the fluke FG block TD at the the end of the half.
Martz gambled trying to pass in the 4th rather than run out the clock with a short lead… but do you really expect our defense to hold? The Philly defense stepped up big when it mattered.

Time management was horrible, however.