NFL Week 14: Jim Harbaugh's first number

One major coaching decision for Niners going forward, Mr. Versatile, Delanie Walker, TE #2, has 12 catches and 7 DROPS (incl. of course last week's huge one). How can you even play someone at a pass receiving position like that?

 

Apparently, you need better hands.

 

Not sure that the travails of the second tight end would qualify as needing a "major" coaching decision. If he catches every one of those, he is still averaging fewer than two catches a game.

The bigger question is why they can't get the ball to their #1 tight end, who is also their #1 pass-catching target of any kind, yet who has gone over 37 yards once in the past seven games, has one touchdown in that span and has been shut out completely twice.

With all their funky formations and the quarterback change and especially that horror show of a pitch play, I'm starting to wonder if Harbaugh is succumbing to the impulse most coaches have to show us just how genius they are.

 

A pefect gift for Lions fans everywhere.

http://deadspin.com/5966649/

 

I do wonder why Davis is not having a bigger year. I think that the attention he's drawing is making it easier to get it to others, such as Walker. Still 7 drops for such limited use is a wow factor. Not sure its the genius thing so much as it is that at Stanford, they use their TEs so much that it may not be the headliner who gets most of the balls, but more spread around (Fleener was a 1st rd pick yet Ertz had as many big plays as Fleener last year.)

Mr. Versatile, that's how they've labeled Walker out here.

 

1983. Nothing will ever touch that.

John Elway at 1. Eric Dickerson at 2. Curt Warner at 3. Jimbo Covert at 6. Bruce Matthews at 10. Willie Gault at 11. Jim Kelly at 14. Joey Browner at 19. Ken O'Brien at 22. Dan Marino at 26. Darrell Green at 28.

 

Ken O'Brien (UC Davis) at 22; Dan Marino at 26. Love that!!! Then again, it was the Jets.

 

Marino was actually the sixth quarterback taken in the first round that year, behind Elway, Todd Blackledge (8th overall), Jim Kelly (14th), Tony Eason (15th) and O'Brien.

 

jets took most heat for passing on dan but chiefs and pats effed up worse by picking blackledge and eason. o'brien was better than both.

and for impact in rookie year this class might get the nod; remember, elways wasny good at all in year 1 and kelly was in the usfl. for rookie i cant recall any year in which THREE qbs played as well as these three. they've been extraordinary, although there's no question ut was much more difficult for college qbs to adjust to nfl defenses; and the rules made it much more difficult for receivers to get separation. in comparison today's rules make passing almost 7-on7 drills.

how many yards and tds do ya think elway, marino and kelly would've compiled under today's rules? l

 

The Steelers had an aging QB and a young superstar in their backyard.

 

LOL, Bears defense.

 

LOL, Jay Cutler.

Sure, the Bears are perfectly capable of contending for a Super Bowl.

This is a team that's not prepared to play when the pressure's on, a team that wilts in the face of a challenge.

But I blame everyone but the head coach, because that's what the head coach would do.