Looking at the 4th quarter of the playoff game, what the hell happened? Love went 5 of 7 for 20 yards, and a pick. Jones went off for 53 yards early in the quarter and one more carry for a yard. We absolutely owned them on the ground like nobody else did all year. And then we just abandoned the run completely. Jones got 3/4 of our offense output for the 4th quarter on that one play.
Obviously, LaFleur needed to get him the ball more (drink!).
Love didn't play well. He missed a wide open Jones for a first down. We got fucked out of a first on an uncalled facemask on Jones at one point that would have been huge.
I wonder if Jones got dinged (they were working on his helmet)? They pulled him for Wilson who made a really nice hurdling first down but that was the final carry. The offense just came to a screeching halt after that huge run at 9:37.
When Jones snapped off the long gainer, I thought we punched our ticket. Then basically nothing.
edit. And I've said it many times, but on that last McCaffrey touchdown Quay once again just guessed wrong and took himself completely out of the middle. SMDH. And they are going to count on him to be the man in the middle this season? He can't shed blocks and just guess and runs recklessly into holes. McCaffrey just waited for Quay to commit and walked right through the gap he vacated. We are in trouble in the middle if he doesn't improve significantly.
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It was all Downhill after Zach Toms injury
Inexperience
Joe Barry
Don’t forget Darnell Savage dropped a Pick 6, would have been a huge difference.
Both of our tackles went down, allowing Nick Bosa to wreck our offense. Then our defense refused to blitz or play aggressive – allowing the Niners to kill the clock on their way to a TD.
The last 11 passes went for 19 yards and 2 interceptions. Not gonna win when those are the numbers.
Tough as he basically dominated the almost 10 games before that (counting the rest of SF). 23 TD, 1 INT with about 2/3rds completion percentage.
Zach Tom getting a concussion. IIRC that’s when Bosa moved to the right side and there was a lot of pressure in the 4th.
Same thing as every year: Hippy curses.
I think this team has remarkable resilience when dealing with high pressure situations late last year.
In the SF game, they did the same, and then… It just fell off a cliff. A lot of questionable calls put the offense and the coaching staff in tight wound, high pressure situations where if you let yourself think about it in real time, makes you err on the side of caution vs playing loosely, which is how we got where we were.
I think the coaching got way more “safe play” prone, which in turn allowed SF a few wins at the line, which put us against the wall, which then, add in a few bad spots/questionable calls/non calls… And the young team with the tightly wound coach playing his friend…
They got the yips. They tightened up and then got the yips.