I think more than half of the sacks given up by the 49ers offensive line could have been avoided by JT letting go of the ball. There were times where he could have stepped up and out instead of retreating. There were times where he was already out of the pocket and just failed to unload the ball. JT’s got to give his offensive line a little more to work with.

As for Nedney’s kick, I think he does one of those at least a couple of times a season. He’ll just completely botch a kick off. Considering his age, it’s probably something to be expected now, as he’s probably not going to improve upon it.

I don’t think the 49ers problems are in schemes. It may have to do with coaching, but in the sense that the players are not executing and maybe there are ways the coaches can work with them toward achieving that.

For example, I think that the entire defensive gameplan going into Seattle was to just minimize any big plays. They’ve employed the same exact defense for the Seahawks throughout Nolan’s regime, so they aren’t keen on changing it, obviously. I think the thought is that you can let them run all they want, as it’s tougher (and more time consuming) to get to the other end of the field gaining 5 yards at a time. The pass defense was fairly solid, despite the fact there was no pressure. WRs never really got to run with the ball, which is good. Thanks to the aggressiveness of Walt Harris and Nate Clements, WRs didn’t always get a clean shot at catching the ball either. The only thing I disagreed with was keeping Spikes in the game instead of a guy like Lawson. I think Lawson may have done and infinitely better job than Roman in covering a rookie tight end, but what do I know.

Biggest thing from me this game was JT holding onto the ball too long. Those kinds of sacks are deflating to an offensive line unit because they DID give him time to throw, he just didn’t throw (even if it would only be incomplete).