Where In The World Is Vernon Davis?

Great offense for TE’s? Not looking like it!!!

the 9ers will be formidable opponent.

Also, if they can time their runs right, and use a little more creativity pulling and swining guards and tackles, then the sort game will open up.

This will help Vernon tremendously, but so far I am in the same boat as Vernon. Suprised.

Im actually glad how he approached the situation, more logically then like most WR/TE’s would have. He pointed out an actual fact about their secondary, and did not really say he was so much so dissappointed than he said just suprised. This really shows how nuch he has grown up right in front of our eyes.

Most PassCatchers would have just complained about the lack of touches, without really providing a reason except they want or deserve to get the ball.

While I am sure VD feels this way, he is smarter than that to say those things, instead he focuses on a weak point of the opposing Defense, and was just wondering why it was not attacked more often.

With all this being said, I am tremendously excited about what the future holds for this team, this year and especially next year. As a fan it is a good feeling to know next year the same coaches will be back, and I am 100% sure the players feel even more strongly towards that way.

If the 9er offense can get VD some touches, with the emergence of Ginn, Willimas, Morgan, Delanie, Braylon here, and Crabs coming back this offense has no more excuses as to why they should not put up atleast 25 points a game.

9er areas of concern: 1.O-Line blocking schemes, 2.2ndary health and their ability to communicate and gel together
3. The big play threat

These areas can all be easily fixed and have at times shown themselves as possible. The only key for 9ers is to remain consistent and gather some confidence, and with their great coaching staff, like I said, the 9ers will be one hell of an formidable opponent week in and week out

Was that on a couple plays Alex Smith got turned into compost, VD was wide open for what could have been signficant gains. I deleted the DVR recording and will never watch that game again, but I do remember on two plays seeing VD open on the replay as Alex Smith was getting spiked into the turf. That was probably one big reason why VD was left in to block so much.

I’m not trying to make excuses for the vanilla play calls, just finding reason behind it. We see so many short passes from the 49ers, because the OL can’t hold up for long routes. I think one of the reasons we see VD block so much, is because if he doesn’t, Alex Smith will become cripple. I agree that the OL needs to take care of business, but in the interest of winning, if they aren’t, someone has to step in and help.

We have to remember we don’t have the best team in the world, and the OL isn’t quite where it should be yet (I think some of this you can blame on the lockout, but not much). Having said that, both TEs need to be utilized and it was good to see Walker make good on his opportunity. Also, Moran Norris really does need to go.

Is that the only lb that can cover him is on that team. Manny is probably going to be matched up with him the whole game. Could be a big game for Delanie if the O line can win their one on one battles

So is everyone saying now that we just need to be patient and wait till next year? Because that is what some of this sounds like.

I guess the we are going to go 10 and 6 talk was a little premature and this new amazing coach and offense that we have that is going to make the difference and give us 4 more wins this season isn’t going to happen.

that Vernon was constantly double teamed. The play where Delanie got single coverage and scored the TD was one of those occasions.

6 sacks has a lot to do with Vernon not getting the ball.

Honestly Vernon disappoints me when he has the ball in his hand. He just isn’t a good open field runner. He doesn’t sense when someone is behind him, when to turn on the speed, doesn’t get up field quickly enough. He waits too long for blocks for a clear lane when he should just be beasting. There is no reason Lee should EVER catch him from behind.

I’m not bringing any judgment to the table about offensive performance here for a little bit. We saw improvement from last week to this past week (aside from the number of sacks) from the offense. I think we will continue to improve as we go along and I really do think that having a new offense and new coaching staff in a shortened off season makes things a bit tougher than we really know.

We gotta have some time to work out the kinks.

sure, its going to happen, and we know he is more than capable of it, but these guys need the ball in their hands

watch. Until they can figure out how to get the ball down the field and loosen up defenses the 49ers will continue attempting to run into 8 man fronts. I understand the idea that Walsh used to run when it looked like pass. Unfortunately they forgot to make it look like pass first. The defenses seem to be saying stop Gore and we will take our chances with there passing game. The 49ers need to get some respect for there passing game. When they do Gore will find more holes to run through. If Crabtree and Edwards and VD dont excell we can expect a lot more of what we have already seen. We need all 3 of those guys on the field making plays to establish the threat, which will open up our running game.

That’s right, 23 personnel grouping, no wide receivers! Then they had two of the three tight-ends run free and executed a pass play for to one of them a long gain(or for a TD, I forget). Can’t do that in NFL, but it was awesome to watch!

I just noticed, for as much as Vernon is not getting the ball thrown to him enough and he was not in that game, he still leads the team in catches and yards.

Also Ginn has more return yards then Smith has passing yards and just as many TDs. Not a knock on Smith, that is how bad our offense is. WOW!