Golden Nuggets: And The Magical Season Comes To An End
by James Brady on Jan 23, 2012 2:00 AM PST
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And so, a magical season comes to an end in the most disappointing way possible. First, let me make one thing absolutely clear. The only thing I think that was absolute garbage was the forward progress fumble and I do not in any way claim that this won the game for the Giants. They beat us fair and square. But what hurts the most is that we beat ourselves, too. Who would have thought it was Kyle Williams and the special teams to let us down? And then the offensive play-calling regressed to being laughable. I'm sorry, but any defense in the league will stop any offense in the league if they run the same plays multiple drives in a row. Roll out, short pass that's either high or low and then run from the shotgun on second down. Who does that? We do, apparently. I'm sure I'll feel great in a few days and be stoked about the season. It really was a great season.
Kyle Williams ... come back strong next year. That's all I have to say.
49ers lose to Giants 20-17 in overtime; miss chance to go to Super Bowl (Examiner.com)
49ers' report card vs. Giants in NFC title game (SFGate.com)
San Francisco 49ers' wide receivers ineffective (MercuryNews.com)
49ers lament what went wrong in painful season-ending loss (CSNBayArea.com)
49ers' season just shy of super (SFGate.com)
Tough loss equals poor grades (PressDemocrat.com)
Championship Sunday's five least valuable players (Yahoo.com)
Avoiding their own turnovers, New York Giants capitalize on 49ers' mistakes (MercuryNews.com)
Postgame notes, quotes and anecdotes (MercuryNews.com)
49ers Fall 20-17 in Overtime Loss (49ers.com)
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We should re-sign Smith, he’s gonna want to come back to the same OC for once. He has unfinished business and is not going to find a team anywhere nearly as good as ours that has a need for a QB. Chances are he’d end up some place where he’d had have a tough 2 or 3 years, lose some confidence, and find himself to be 32 years old.
There’s no need to break the bank for him, I’m confident we could get a good deal done.
3 years from now he'll be 30
Gimme 1 round!
by ItBurnzWhenIP on Jan 23, 2012 1:40 PM PST up reply actions
Bad End to a Great Season
Sitting in Modesto with a sore throat the morning after a 13 hour round trip that ended horribly…….
The "fumble that wasn’t was a disaster…..
Our lack of playmakers at wide receiver, which had one catch for 3 yards and resulted in 1 for 12 on 3rd downs exposed the 49ers most glaring weakness……
The Giants ran 92 plays to our 53…. Our defense just played spectacularly!
You look at all the negatives we overcame, and the game was still ours to win except for one play.
Yea, it is a team game, but the bone-headed muffed punt off of Williams knee IMHO cost us the Game. Should have not got to OT.
I know it will sound like sorry grapes 49er fans, but we beat ourselves, and that is tough to swallow. We can be hopeful for seasons to come, as we have a great team that is destined to get better, but this one was tough to handle.
sour grapes speaking...can easily argue that the quick whistle to stop forward progress could have changed everything
even just a FG, just to say we got it, puts a huge momentum swing in our favor. and takes away a muffed punt. but hey….it is what it is, and the 49ers exceeded far beyond any expectations, and that’s with again another coaching staff and NO preseason.
Beat yourselves?
The Giants held the pitiful offense to 1/13 on 3rd down, had a much higher time of possession, among a litany of other things.
Aaron Curry is the first Seahawk since Walter Jones to have a legitimate shot at Hall of Fame induction - John Morgan
by Fearless Frog on Jan 23, 2012 12:31 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
I guess you don't know what "beat ourselves," means. You do realize that we are suggesting that we beat ourselves as part of the 1/13 on third down, right?
Mainly through predictable play-calling. Then again, I don’t know why I’m responding to you, either way.
And then God created Saturn ... and he liked it, so he put a ring on it. ... Always a ninja
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Yes because the Giants defense had nothing to do with that.
The 49ers obviously can only beat themselves, I forgot.
Aaron Curry is the first Seahawk since Walter Jones to have a legitimate shot at Hall of Fame induction - John Morgan
by Fearless Frog on Jan 26, 2012 3:15 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Crabtree was pathetic in playoffs
Williams is to blame for this one BUT crabtree is been the nfl for a while allready he done nothing he should just STFU
by Moflush on Jan 23, 2012 6:53 AM PST via mobile reply actions
Thats because York couldn't get T.O!!!
That would have given the GIANTS more things to worry about – GOOOIIIIINNNNGGGG DDDEEEEEPPPP!!!
KW is NOT the reason we lost
Playcalling is. Gore and Hunter were pounding the ball down in the Giants throat, at least 4 yrds avg, still they shared just 20 carries in 5 qtrs? Are you kidding me, mr. Roman?
by RomeNiner on Jan 23, 2012 7:00 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
KW is the reason we lost
Roman might be the reason we didn’t overcome KW
by mrg80 on Jan 23, 2012 7:06 AM PST up reply actions 5 recs
I FEEL THE 49ERS SEASON WAS SUCESSFUL
I KNOW THIS BAD TASTE WILL LINGER FOR AWHILE, BUT IT WILL ONLY MAKE US STRONGER WILL HAVE SOMTHING TO BUILD ON RIGHT INTO NEXT YEAR, WELL DEFINATLY NEED TO MAKE SOME CHANGES ON OUR OFFENSE WIDE RECIEVER CORPS AND PLAY CALLING OTHER THAN THAT I SEE MORE POSITIVES THAN NEGATIVES THAT BEING SAID I FELL THE SEASON WAS A SUCESS, BELIEVE ME ID RATHER LOSE NOW THAN LOSE A SUPER BOWL, I CANT WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR ……49ER 4 LIFE! WHO GOT IT BETTER THAN US
NOBODY!!!!
Dang , all caps ...!!
I'm your " Huckelberry "...it's just my game ..( .AleX ) was asked , what do you think about all the game manager talk ... AleX i guess i just managed myself a VIctory ... Extend the Man ...!!
hey whatever helps him cope lol
"Cruelty, It’s not giving another person what they want. That’s our mindset on defense, to go out and play with everything we have and not give the other team anything." -Patrick Willis
I may never understand why Frank Gore got so few carries in the 2011/2012 playoffs. It seems like nonsense and I still can’t get over it. I’m sure there was something I didn’t know, though.
"Can Manchester United score? They always score... Peter Schmeichel is forward... Beckham, in towards Schmeichel- it's come for Dwight Yorke. Cleared... Giggs with a shot- SHERINGHAM!"
Our Biggest Needs got exposed in this game
We need a #1 WR. Crabtree is a solid 2 (Free Agency)
Free Safety Goldson is a great strong safety but we need him to play more like Reed and I am not sure that’s his strong point. Plus, he is going to take the money so we will have to address position with back ups and draft
OL The line played great but I am sure that the Coach Staff want to dominate ToP and of course the run. Draft or Free Agency
OLB Brooks must have a challenger and Jets will get double teamed next year. Why not have another guy (FA or draft) come in play a role like Aldon did this year situational.
CB Spenser will probably go to another team and we have 3 young CB but are they going to spend money on Carlos? I am thinking since the front seven is solid they might risk drafting a shutdown corner
This draft will probably be the signature move that will define our coaching staff because they know that teams will now see us as a measuring stick. Regardless who is the starting QB. I can honestly say I do not know which way the team will decide (draft offense then defense for depth or BPA and fill pressing needs with FAs or wait and see approach) Either way I will be excited.
If the 49ers success offends you, so be it." Jim Harbaugh quote... Love It!
This is not all on Williams
I think I’m more upset about the one he let glance off his knee than the final one. It really stings, because I am excited about him as an up-and-comer in our offense and I hope he can get past this. In fact, I really hope he can improve his punt returning because who know if we’ll be able to afford to re-sign Ginn…
I agree on the Bradshaw non-fumble. That is absolute BS. What a horrible call. I’ve seen guys in other situations that were more stalled than that who have the ball stripped and it ends up being a fumble. Unless a guy completely gives himself up or his knee (or butt, elbow, whatever) is down, he’s not down.
I would agree except that final fumble KW was shown to be barely gripping the ball. That is insane in that situation, On top of that, KW has fumbled like that in the past – he should have known better.
That makes the second one worse than the first in my book.
Over
by cybermaldonado on Jan 23, 2012 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
Thanks for bringing up his college day's...
Apparently KW did the same bone-headed mistake and cost his team the game. If he didn’t learn then, why are others expecting him to learn from yesterday’s game? And to add salt to the wound, Kendal Hunter was a good kick/punt returner in college and yet we went with the guy who had documented muffled returns in college…sigh.
for some obtuse reason...
I didn’t get up and bellow at the television on that non-fumble. Just too sick at the moment to even think that anything could swing the game our way – kept my butt planted and said nothing.
Sure wish it was a different call.
Make it so.
IF T.O. was playing - More Space available for CRABS & more options for Alex
That the truth period!!!
Nope
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A wonderful, fun, exciting football season. No one predicted what we enjoyed.
Heartbreaking loss…..Excellent prospects for the future. We still have it pretty damn good.
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