David Sims is carrying us to Week 9 of the NFL

He was also QB coach for late 90s Lions and Cardinals teams that made the playoffs.

 

And in Cleveland.
Here's a guess- maybe it's Cutler and not the guy who has had success everywhere else.

 

Trestman has not had "success everywhere else."

He has been run out of town at every stop as his team develops the habit of turning itself one-dimensional by entirely abandoning any idea of a running game, and thus piles up tons of yards and few points. The 49ers of the '90s, the Raiders of the 2000s (Gannon was well on his way to that MVP award via his first three years with Gruden, Trestman was a late arrival on that scene and it all exploded the year after the Super Bowl), and all the stops in between his departures have not been pleasant. A lot like Mike Martz but without the high points.

 

The Raiders offense under Gannon was "death by a thousand paper cuts."
That was where the league was headed at that point in time and Trstman perfected it.
I consider it success when a guy helps navigate three or four stinkers to the playoffs.
His offenses usually stretched their talent.
Not even counting the success he enjoyed in the CFL.

 

Coffee, screen.
Well done.

 

Spurrier loved that kid and there are probably just a handful of players over the years you could say that about.

 

QB gets a ton of credit when its going well; well I'm going to put a big amount on the QB here.

Simply Kaep needs to have some pocket presence and presence about the game situation but he continually fails to do so. How many times have you seen Peyton (greatest at this, even a rookie like Derek Carr), take a simple slide step to keep the play alive? Now how many times has Kaep done that? For as great an athlete as he is, he is not quick and he gets taken down in the pocket a lot when he takes his first steps to try to avoid the rush. He rarely just throws the ball away when play breaks down.

Most glaring, Niners are dominating, up 10-3 and have great field position at about midfield, last 2 mins of half, 2nd and 1, he gets sacked and fumbles. Rams tie game. Damn, get rid of the ball. Next possession, in FG position, he gets sacked. now 55 yd try instead of 48 or so. Horrible game presence. This is not the first time.

The last fumble; its now a pattern, turnovers at the absolute worst time.

I know the OL was horrible yesterday, but a QB can help them out by getting rid of it early to avoid the sack. Not happening.

I am not writing them off just yet, but its getting close and there's no margin for error left.

 

When Harbaugh leaves, the 49ers go back to the darkness. They'll love it for a few months that he is gone. Headquarters will be a nicer place. But the Boy King doesn't like anyone threatening his turf, so he'll follow this one up with a weaker, more controllable coach.

 

It's time to consider the possibility that Jonathan Martin is the cause of
another NFL team falling apart.

 

My Chutes and Ladders crack aside, I like Kaepernick a lot and think he's incredibly difficult to prepare for because of his speed, his size and his gigantic strides.

I've said that if Kaepernick can find that second receiving option consistently, he'll be an elite QB. Yet, now in his second full year as a starter, he has so much trouble with the play clock. It leads to needlessly burning a timeout, sometimes two in a half.

In today's NFL, having all three timeouts in the last five minutes of a half is huge... more than ever.

Yesterday...

First Half:

First quarter. Kaepernick burns a TO on the opening drive. They're left with two TOs at the end of the first half. SF attempts a 55-yard field goal and misses. If 49ers have all three TOs, that drive probably turns out different. Mix a draw play or a dump off in there for 12 yards. FG attempt is much shorter. As QT notes, game presence is also lacking at the worst times. There are certain places on the field where you CANNOT take a sack.

Second Half:

10:20 3rd Quarter. SF gets a false start and then Kaepernick burns a TO. Opening drive of the second half.

3:23 4th Quarter. SF burns a timeout when Rams have the ball. I almost always disagree with this unless you absolutely have to burn them (at 2:20 in regulation and under). 49ers calling timeout saves time with 3:23 left. However, those 30 seconds that were saved have less value at 3:23 left than they would at, say, 1:05 left on the clock.

To Kaepernick's credit, he did have that final TO in his pocket at the fumble.

This was a game where the 49ers burned timeouts early in each half. I think it cost them more in the first half than in the second. Their offense simply got too cute at the very end.

I do remember far too many games where the 49ers have worked through their timeouts and are scrambling at the end when they shouldn't have to be.

I like Kaepernick, LOVED watching him at Nevada but I think he needs to coach to tell him to not burn any timeouts early in a half unless they're absolutely necessary.

 

He's made me very sympathetic to Richie Incognito.

 

What "it." Cutler isn't having a bad year.