49ers Offense: Anticipating Offseason Moves and Progression

I read on twitter that right now he weighs over 280lbs and runs a 4.88, ummm, no thanks…

Interesting thinking about draft and free agency. I am going to go out on a limb and say the 9ers will not pursue big contract free agents for the WR position, I expect them to draft 1 and bring in a few udfa. I personally would draft two, one with kr/pr skills and also a cb that is a dual threat.

When you say that you liked the opening up of the playbook toward the second half of the season, what do you mean? I actually thought that getting away from the effective run game we had might have hurt us. Especially in the NFC Championship game.

we could be once again wowed by Smith’s performance.

people were wowed by this past season? the only thing that wowed me was the saints game

What I fear most is a Josh Freeman-like regression that turns our season on itself, but I don’t expect it.

first off, josh freeman played a lot better in his big year than alex did this season. also, i dont think it would “turn our season on itself” considering how little we actually use alex smith regardless.

How do we solve this? Draft a rookie because our line is finally starting to get experienced? Keep banging our head into the wall with an overachieving backup or an underachieving backup? Sign the big name free agent and spend more? I’m thinking a mid-tier player that could use a change of scenery. Must have blitz awareness. Anthony Davis is the wild card. Will he figure things out or still rely on a crutch.

Would love for FO to resign Morgan, get a big name in Bowe or VJax, then draft a kid like Brian Quick out of Appalachian State in the mid rounds. Feel this would be more than sufficent to the passing woes at that position.

Feel that 1st round pick shouldn’t be used on a Jeffery or Sanu, it should be used instead on a CB/S or OLB. That’s only if they can’t trade out of #30 slot.

Hopefully we can get Jackson or Bowe, and Nicks would be sweet to fill up our front line. However, Baalke and Harbaugh will get the best talent available while not overpaying.

Priority #1 : Fix the right guard position. Rachal can’t pass block and went from a mauler in the 2010 season to a whiffer this year. Snyder can’t get any push off the line of scrimmage and that’s a huge reason why our short yardage running game gets stuffed. Right now depending on who we start we are a liability somewhere.

Priority #2 : Implement the sight reads and get rid of this built in hot route nonsense. Any team who wanted to blitz us last year treated Smith like a pinata. You cannot wait on a route that requires a 3 step drop timing to be hot. That is just so fundamentally flawed I don’t know what to say. It also might help to stop it with the Max Protect all the time. Every man out in a route is another threat to the defense that must be accounted for. Nobody on defense is saying "Oh noooo!!! Vernon and Frank are staying in to block!! How will we counter that? " It’s the idiocy of trying to be too smart on the chalkboard and forgetting there are real players on the field and not X’s and O’s.

Priority #3 : Learn to stick with what works. If you are running the Power or Counter O and the defense isn’t stopping it that’s because they have some weakness in scheme or personel that they are either being slow or unable to compensate for. Keep running it. Don’t get cute and decide to throw in a double toss sweep reverse in a monsoon. When the defense gives you a high percentage crack at 5-6 yards a play you march down the field with it. You don’t forget about it and come back to it next quarter.

Priority #4 : Accept that there is risk in the game of football. If you refuse to throw to anything but open receivers you do eliminate some interceptions. You also leave alot of points on the board because you are not giving your playmakers the chance to make plays. Either Alex can make those tight throws or he can’t and we need to find out. If he can’t he doesn’t belong back there and we need to write him out of the future plans and see what the rookie can do. If that’s a disaster, it’s a disaster. I’d rather it be disaster that lights the path of the future than accept the consistent disappointment of mediocrity.

Has everyone forgotten what was wrong with us for so long? We have good coaching and finally stability. Why are we hunting for big name free agents? Find talented players that just have not clicked yet. Coach them up and plug them into the system. Build with patience and we will dominate for years instead of selling out for a chance to get one ring like the Eagles tried.
Let Harbaugh work. Look what we did with Carlos Rogers and Donte Whitner and how we got away with the mistake with Braylon Edwards. Stability may be boring in the offseason, but it pays off during the season.