Golden Nuggets: 49ers Blasted By Texans In Less Than Stellar Affair

But from the recap it looks like our O-line completely fell apart again. Anybody know the details and who if anyone had a decent night?

… they sure got abused last nite , the one bright spot for me was Larry Grant and the punter Sam Paulescu , I sure hope Harbaugh has something up his shelve , didn’t really understand his thought process last nite in terms of player rotation , but it looked pretty demeaning to me , can’t see much of a confidence builder from this , unless your the Texan’s …!!

… Does he let the starters play and build up some moxie when the Charger 2’s and 3’s are inn or does he subscribe to to the conventional way as most teams do and just have the 1’s in for a series …!!

Glad I missed this one. Cards/Chargers were on and the Cards look light years ahead of us.

and none of my fears have been quelled. The only saving grace thus far is that the Seahawks have looked terrible as well. We could get a horrific non-entertaining potential win in week 1, but after that..

-They are not ready or not good enough to compete in base sets.

-There was no point to play the entire 2nd team D against the 1st team offense. He should have rotated in a couple players battling for starting jobs and that’s it. Chalk it up to a failed experiment though, nothing that deserves anger.

-I said this after the NO game, but the offense should really be focusing on short patterns. 3 step drops which are 1-2-3 ball out, or 1-2-3, first guy covered, 4-5 next guy, ball out. I realize it’s the pre-season, but it’s very clear that they can not pro-long plays consistently enough to get the skill position players practice.

-They’re going to need to use heavy shot gun, especially early.

-If Harbaugh is “hiding” his game-day offense for the season, I think it’s stupid. It would help only in week 1, where-as practicing it in game situations for 4 games would have helped the first half of the season.

-I don’t think Williams is guaranteed a spot as a project NT, wouldn’t shock me to see Dobbs get his spot as a project DE. Tukuafu is solid on the roster.

-What was up with the safeties in this game taking really poor tackling angles.

-It appears the base defense is not able to produce any pressure still. So, they’re back in the boat of either being really aggressive with blitzes, or trying the whole bend bend bend, hold to field goals defense.

-I’m starting to think a 2-3 win season is not out of the question, the Cardinals and Rams starters are already looking worlds better than the 49ers. Winnable games on the schedule that are not “whoa, what an upset” type games have slimmed to the Seahawks, Bengals, Browns and Redskins.

-Side note, the Rams look pretty solidly good. 9+ wins, solidly good.

The Kawakami link brings up a SB Nation spam page (that also happened in the Nuggets the other day; weird) so I couldn’t read what he said about Cohn, but I did read Cohn’s piece. I know what you’re saying, Fooch, in that his tone is a bit condescending (he finds it ‘unlikely’ that the NFL will offer a four-week dispensation just for the 49ers; in other words, a disingenuous remark which just makes him sound a bit unnecessarily sarcastic) but if his overall tone was searing, that’s because the 49ers were just taken apart, right? And the coach was abrasive?

I stuck up for Harbaugh the other say when he was abrasive with the media, as they seemed to be asking stupid questions, but on this occasion, I can see Cohn’s point that the tactic of a one-word answer followed by hard stare is passive aggressive and Harbaugh doesn’t need to be treating the media that way.

Ultimately, if the relationship is a little tense at present, it’s probably just because the Niners are poor – relationships between coaches and media are always better when teams are winning, in my (UK) sports/media experience – and that the Niners are poor is down to Harbaugh at present, or maybe Scotty Mac/Mike Singletary/Jed York/John York/Denise York/Trent Baalke/the Boogie Man, and certainly nobody in the media.

The fan base and the media smell a dismal season ahead after over-hyping the power of JH to have an immediate impact on a perennially dismal team for half a dozen years.

Pre-season games are just what they are but 2 out of 3 this year have been total disasters, embarrassing disasters.

The relationships with the media and fans will get alot worse (get ready Alex) before they get better. With the economy and the markets and the strident politics so negative for so many there was at least something to look forward to in a fresh start with JH.

But unless something just clicks on and the OLine and the Secondary get much better, and I mean pronto, it is going to be a very tense and awkward season.

If Alex Smith is the QB then he should be the QB 90% of the time. Leave CK alone. Let him do the clipboard thing on the sidelines for at least the first half of the season and don’t fry him just because he “might” be able to rally the troops on occasion.

Mostly tho, everyone needs to step away from playoffs talk and hope and prepare for the worst for this season at least.

Onward!