49ers Vs. Ravens: Sound FX, Thanksgiving Edition

by David Fucillo on Nov 28, 2011 10:30 AM PST in San Francisco 49ers News

One of the perks of playing on NFL Network Thanksgiving night is the chance to get mic'd up by Sound FX. Although the game did not turn out the way we would have liked, there was still some solid commentary from the players and coaches. Some of it was purely entertainment, while other parts gave us a little bit more information about some questionable decisions and penalties.

49ers-Ravens Pre-game

49ers Miscues

Harbaugh & Harbaugh

The middle video is arguably the most valuable for figuring things out from the game. Early on they show Greg Roman and his staff up in the OC box seeing Delanie Walker get wide open on a play. Smith mentioned it shortly after, but I'm not sure if it was because he knew he'd missed Walker deep, or if he had just looked at the printed out shot of Walker being open.

They also show an angle on the chop block. The penalty was called against Frank Gore, but it should have been called on Chilo Rachal. As the video shows, he gets his hands on the defender as Gore is blocking him low and that is simply not allowed. It was a play that required a bit more discipline. Such is life.

The complete Sound FX from the game aired on Saturday, but I'd like to hope NFL Network will air it again. The San Jose Mercury News had a few additional quotes from the mic'd up players. The best was probably Terrell Suggs telling Dashon Goldson "We'll see you in the Super Bowl." It's only talk for now, but still nice to earn a little bit more respect around the league.

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The useless Chilo

Bout 2:30 into the miscues video shows Chilo just let Suggs go right past him. Doesn’t even bother getting beat this time he just doesn’t attempt a block at all. Snyder needs to get healthy ASAP. How do you let a premier pass rusher walk right by you without even touching him.
C’moooon man

Call me cautiously optimistic....because I know what the Niners do to people who have real optimism (see the last 8 years).

by crumpedup15 on Nov 28, 2011 11:14 AM PST reply actions

The line was confused

on who to block. They had no idea on who was coming or going. Im not just talking abouit the play you pointed out, but the Ravens had a good defensive scheme in that game.

"I hate it! It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air."

Norm Sloan

"We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors."

Weldon Drew

by EcERyda69 on Nov 28, 2011 11:33 AM PST up reply actions

confused?

Suggs was directly in front of Chilo. In fact there was nobody else within 3-4 yards of Chilo. Confused or not you have to block who’s in front of you.

Call me cautiously optimistic....because I know what the Niners do to people who have real optimism (see the last 8 years).

by crumpedup15 on Nov 28, 2011 11:49 AM PST up reply actions

ok.. lemme coach u up..

the blitz is disguised as an overload left, the line clearly slides left, probably from a blocking audible, it wasn’t Suggs it was #93 , and if you put that on anybody its Gore, because RBs are taught to take the inside man.. Rachal had a horrible game, this was not an example of that.

by itsAteamGAME on Nov 28, 2011 12:02 PM PST up reply actions

Gore

can’t block 2 guys. there were 2 coming inside. The 3 interior linemen didn’t block anyone on that play. Staley, Davis and Gore got blocks on 4 rushers leaving 1 free. That 2 day prep and then travel for the offense really left them unprepared for the Ravens pass rush.
Oh yeay, by the way it was Chilo playing patti cake with the guy Gore was chopping on the TD to Ginn that was called back.

Call me cautiously optimistic....because I know what the Niners do to people who have real optimism (see the last 8 years).

by crumpedup15 on Nov 28, 2011 1:10 PM PST up reply actions

we were talking about the specific play you brought up right?

2 day preps and travel have nothing to do with calling a blocking audible and guessing wrong, the Ravens disguised it well. INSIDE man means of the two rushers, you take the one closest to the center. There was a free rusher, again, not on Rachal on THIS play, which was the point I disagreed with in your posts. Anyone who understands running backs blocking knows you take the inside man when faced to choose, because he has the best angle and most direct path at the Qb. The outside man MIGHT overrun the qb if he steps up or scrambles. Gore doesn’t have to block both of them. Im not saying a sack still won’t happen, but it clearly wasn’t the o-lines fault, just a bad guess. I don’t know how I can be more clear..

by itsAteamGAME on Nov 28, 2011 1:44 PM PST up reply actions

Do they have SoundFX on NFL Network on Demand?

I was too busy watching the college games to check it out, but I wanted to – especially since I missed the original broadcast thanks to traveling and staying in a hotel which lacked the NFL Network

by ZacharyD on Nov 28, 2011 11:32 AM PST reply actions