HavePityPlease

FIFTY FIVE

I really think they have to sit Joe and let him heal. We're simply not built for these old old OLD school pure pocket passing games.

Ok that was rough yeesh

Another great play by Hill, well done

Beautiful play from Hill

Definitely getting to "bring in the tryouts" territory.

Nah we need the offense to take the training wheels off. It's only 3 points.

The first one the guy was literally hanging off of his shoulder before Joe even threw it, and second one Joe shouldn't have thrown (DB stuck his hand in there, not much to be done)

So fuggin lucky. I think we have a long way to go with our safeties, which I suppose shouldn't be a surprise. It's not often a team drops its two starting safeties in one offseason. Note that I don't necessarily mean their positioning/tackling/skill, I mean their ability to orchestrate the secondary coverages. I always remember those seasons with Zimmer where he pulled Crocker off the couch and it immediately fixed these types of problems.

From everything we've seen the past couple of days it seems to me Joe isn't going to play. He had that intense look on his face in the presser yesterday (where he's usually pretty relaxed) and he's been quoted as saying things like "it might not be up to me" etc. I'll also agree with others that if they really were paring down the playbook to accommodate Joe's calf, that's a stupid approach. Sit him and let him heal until he can play.

Simple answer: We don't have a dynamic offense. We have a shotgun passing offense which already *greatly* limits our options. We rely on an elite QB and elite WR's for this to succeed. The 49ers on the other hand have TWO absolute horses running the ball, taking wildcat snaps, draws, under center play action runs, etc etc etc. We simply require someone other than Zac designing the offense for anything to ever change here.

NE is going to play the Cowboys next week, rational thinking says they saw Grier might be elevated soon and got him in so they can pick his brain for that game. He could very well get dropped again soon after/close to, it's not like he can step in and run their offense (not that that will help us any). The Pats have been weirdly cutting and re-signing QBs this season.

This is, of course, nonsense. Minkah is a known head hunter as others have said - he's dirty as hell. And from a defensive players perspective, I'm sorry - he's not going to go low like that *in sight of the goal line* unless it's with malicious intent. His assignment is to stop the guy from attempting to reach the nearby goal line, you don't do that by diving at a guy's lower legs. I would go as far as to say he saw his teammate engaging high and took the opportunity to take advantage of it. Look how he went into him - no shoulder, no face-up, he threw his back directly at his knee. Dirty.

Last one. I don't know if people who weren't watching the game realize it, but this is the moment Joe reaggravated his calf. That's Queen hitting him late after he'd thrown the ball away (Zac complained to the refs and of course they ignored him):

Just for fun, here's the CTB penalty aftermath where you see the ref looking the other way as he's about to throw the flag

Here are a couple more fun ones: Here is the "block in the back" they were GOING to call on the punt return TD, but picked up the flag after presumably seeing the replay on the big screen: And here is the "illegal contact" call on CTB where it was simply OBJ grabbing him by the collar and throwing him. Isn't this embarrassing for the league and the ref crew?

FWIW I tried to get a screencap of the holding call on the Bengals' second play from scrimmage. It looks like they called it on Volson who, as you can see, has a tiny bit of jersey here. The problem is that in full speed the shirt grab does nothing, the guy pushes out of it like it was nothing. Cappa simply blocked his man perfectly.

Inconsistent defense and the INT decided the game. The D has to play quite a bit better if we're to overcome another 0-2 start.

Throwing shit passes like that will lose the game a lot faster than the refs can...

The defense is starting to figure their stuff out, but playing against the refs at this level of tilt is extremely difficult. It's a typical close game against the Ravens so the tilting can easily sway it their direction. I have to wonder what the league is going to say about that last phantom flag, the ref wasn't even looking at them when he threw it. In the end it wasn't decisive but again I think that's the refs just attempting to make up calls when they throw such obvious and baffling phantom flags that it's embarrassing to them as a unit.

Same old Harbaugh, has the luxury to complain about OBVIOUS penalties his team commits, while the crew is giving him all the free calls it can.

I stand corrected, they're still willing to call BLATANT phantom calls that everyone in the stadium can watch. They probably shouldn't include the mafia dudes on the ref crews.

See? They pushed their luck with too many phantom flags. They realized they couldn't do another one lest they risk their chance to ref a playoff game. I was about to shut this shit off. Note, however, they will do some more later, especially phantom holding/allowing holding.

A couple more of these and I'm out, I can't watch tilt games anymore.

I'm going to guess the secondary is holding them like crazy, this game has started in the "heavy tilt" mode - no calls on Baltimore, a phantom one to take away a first down for us.