Never approved Raye’s hiring, still don’t approve of him.

because I think the Niners’ problems have more to do with the bodies on the field than the playcalling, although it seems pretty clear to everyone now that the team cannot move the ball from a standard formation with the QB up against the center.

I may give Raye a thumbs down at the end of the season, or next week, but that will be for his inability to adapt his offense with the ragamuffin cast of characters he has.

Jimmy Raye, Norv Turner, we could bring back Mike Shnanahan and it wouldn’t matter because Jed and his stupid father have proven that they only know how to do what it takes to lose. Its been 7 years of losing can’t you see yet that these guys don’t know and never will know how to run a winning program?

These idiots including Scott (I only draft mediocre players at best) McCloughan don’t care about winning and they don’t know how anyway. If you 49er fans thing they’ll ever put a winning product on the field you are delusional. Even Al Davis has the balls to pay what needs to be paid to get the top players.

HEY YORKS PUT US OUT OF OUR MISERY! YOU ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE NFL OWNERSHIP FOODCHAIN AND THERE IS NO END TO THELOSING IN SITE!!!

I hope he is looking at himself in the mirror and telling himself it’s time to walk.

until we know how much of the play calling is Sing’s wish to run conservative and how much is Raye.

We know he can open it up—did it against Houston, did it again against GB. It means he has the plays and the ability on the offense to make them.

So what’s holding him back?

I choose to abstain this week. I don’t really like the way our offense is run but I’m thinking that Sing is as much to blame for that as Raye.

I found the actual playbook online and it goes in to extreme detail….too much to put in a single post. It takes a while for the entire thing to load up but if you are interested in looking at it in detail, here is the link:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2944874/1994-Buffalo-Bills-K-Gyn-Offense-Marv-Levy

Here is another article on it as well:
http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-3/bills-no-huddle-not-return-of-k-gun/c810fd9f-8157-4c16-8c4b-70564755a8b4
and there is a bunch more that you could read up on.

The main reason why I think it would help is due to the fact that Alex Smith functions great in a hurry-up; no huddle offense. There were alot of reasons it was effective in the 90’s for the Bills. Audibles at the line were key in the offense so it something that Smith would have t get used to doing. But the greatest example that I noticed in Thurman Thomas when they ran it is if there was a mismatch, or even a 5 on 5 (4 down linemen and a LB) because the rest of the D was spread out. At the line of schrimmage, Kelly would audible to a run and Thomas would take a direct snap and just go (Sometimes it would be a delayed handoff as well. This also set up play action quite well freezing safeties in the secondary. Gore in the Chicago game took a couple direct snaps but Smith was not in the back field, so the defense knew it was coming (even though it still worked a couple times). I think it is important to have the QB back there also (you arent so transparent when that is the case). The K-Gun is good for creating mismathces primarily; as well as not allowing defenses to get subs in there. Obviously it would take an entire offseason to implement this completely and totally but it’s something worth considering. And if the season is a loss, then start mixing it in there now in practice and then in games.

Gore is comparitive to Thomas as far as being able to catch and run the ball very effectively. And our WR’s arent Andre Reed and James Lofton but they have the potential to be IMO. I also believe that Rams ran their own version of it at times when they had Warner, Faulk, Bruce, and Holt. The most glaring difference is the offensive line obviously, however, if we do well enough in the draft and or free agency in upgrading, we could definitely pull it off with the guys we have. We would actually have one more weapon in a great TE. I mean Metzelaars was good but I think V. Davis is strides beyond what Metzelaars could do.

The bottom line I think here is that that style offense could be effective in alot of different areas both run and pass. With what we have in our personel, by spreading it out, it defintely prevents teams from blitzing as much also. Our Oline could certainly use the leverage in that.

Anyhow, thats my two cents on it since you asked.

That I think Alex and this team need:

Shotgun, single back or no back. Two TE’s or one. At least 3 receivers (including TE if necessary) split out from the tackles. Lots of motions for two reasons, 1. helps identify defense, 2. allows to bring blockers to point of attack pre-snap.

Running from the Gun isn’t such a big deal for Gore. Snap, catch, handoff. There is really no sidestepping, stuttering, etc. You can direct snap it if you want, sure. You can also motion Gore out of the backfield to create a super spread whereby, granted you’d need mediocre pass protection on those plays…but you’d be certain to get a mismatch in coverage.

The point being you have a ton of athletes on the field who can run pass routes. Who is the defense going to use to cover each? They have to decide and you have to exploit the mismatches. If they choose to go to a Dime defense (6 DBs) you have a run mismatch. If they go base, you have LB’s covering Gore, Walker, Davis…or worse (for the defense) miscommunication puts a LB on a WR.

MattMaiocco
  
Dre’ Bly at cornerback for Tarell Brown is possibility, 49ers coach Singletary says.

MOVE THE TEAM TO L.A…. I’M WAITING WITH OPEN ARMS :D (smile from ear to ear)

I think the offensive scheme is OK. And there is enough in there to move from heavy run to (what we’ve been doing in the second half) heavy pass. I don’t like his play calling. I’d like the playbook to stay the same for next year and someone else call the plays. You could probably pull plays out of the book at random and have more success than we’ve had. I think the team needs to do an offense, any offense, two years in a row. That would be nice. We need to buy some talent at a couple of spots. If daddy loosens the purse strings it might be a good year next year seeing as how we have cap space, two first rounders, good WRs, good RB, good LBs, good TE. 1 Pass rusher, 2 OGs, 1 shut down corner. I think that would be enough to get back into the hunt, not that we’re not this year (statistically).

We all should have given Raye a thumbs up, that dumb ass play with Morgan in motion stopping by the TE was not ran in this recent week. It took long enough but it was scrapped.