Originally posted by cciowa:
the team made some small progress yesterday on offense but come on,. our defense is still wretched. maybe foster will help but nothing is helping this wretched secondary. we drop balls and make mistakes. now moral victories and all this talk about what our record SHOULD be is fine and dandy. but somewhere along the line the team has got to figure out to win games and not lose them. other wise they will be losers long after this fiasco of a year is over. may not matter to the fans if the team wins. but it does to the players. this whole its ok to lose cuz we are playing close is well.. nonsense . you have no wining culture. guys will want to leave and we will have to continue to over pay people to come here. and then the issue of trying to put people in the stands if your team goes 0-16. that is a whole other kettle of fish
Well, maybe this is all a mirage, but i don't think so. FIVE consecutive losses by less than 3 pts? That is a NFL record BTW, never been done before. It means two things to me.
First , as talent depleted as this team was, kyle/John managed to get rid of 32 of them, meaning they had to bring in 32 new players...and if that isn't a record, it's damn close. Also, we signed 14 rooks...close to another record, but some of those are ???. E.g., Joe williams, and one other. Both on IR. So give them credit for recognizing a piece of turdt floating down the river and they got rid of it. Second, they improved on one helluva lot of those picks over what was here, got way younger and one heckuva lot faster. So now if we do it bad, it is younger and FASTER.
Next, Kyle immediately jettisoned gagbert and kap, two washed up semi Qbs. Great move but left us Qb-less. Ok, so we needed someone to teach ZBS, what Kyle is going with. So hoyer. My money is on Kyle remembering hoyer as a lot better Qb when he last coached him several yrs back. I believe hoyer surprised kyle wiht his "awfulness". The accuracy, and obvious unfamiliarity of WR routes were impressive...disturbingly so.
On a parallel track, kyle has greased the skids for a Cuzins Comeback of the 49ers, altho none of that is or could be on paper. But it is there. No one else has that "understanding" wtih Cuz that kyle has.
On a second parallel track and this is the big counter: kyle DID very damn well hand pick CJ...somebody no one here even heard of...and certainly no one guessed on. But the potential for FR QB with CJ is not canard. It is legit. Looks downfield. Stays in pocket. Fearless. Accurate, good head on his shoulders.. Great vision and you can see him run thru his progressions. Wildly, and against what most think, he has a serious set of wheels and knows how to use them. Passing characteristics: doesn't hold the ball up like a damn statue, gets the ball gone in a flash. Now, all I am doing is running thru Kyle's list of what it takes to be a great QB. And this was the ONE and ONLY QB he had any interest in, jumping up from pick #2 in Rd 4 to #30 in rd 3. ie, he was rightfully afraid, somebody, esp Green Bay would take CJ also. so he jumped up for him. There is but one reason for all this. KYLE WANTED CJ. So while he was just another 3rd rd pick, to kyle , CJ was a legit FR QB potential aspirant. And a damn good one.
Leaving us with this. We lost last 5 games barely. Barely. NOw add the #1 LB in all of collegiate sports, PLUS the one QB that has all the fundamentals that kyle wants, and you got CJ. Then we see him in real life for 2mins of 1st half for a TD, and for last half of game, and he ties score at 17 and then again and finally wiht a minute to go moves us downfield, the zebras being the only thing ruining his winning drive. And THAT to me, anyway is the makings of a FR QB. No real missteps, and the ball mostly right on target despite several more drops.
So my gut tells me with both Reuben and CJ playing, laugh if you will, but this team has 4 or 5 Ws in the win column if BOTH those cats are playing. And that is exactly what i think will happen this weekend against Dallas. We win, because we now have the rest of that front 7 AND we finally, 17 long yrs later, at last have our FR QB...obviously, CJ will have to prove that over the next 10 weeks. But you have to admit, he is off to one helluva start.
And to cap it off, just as important, we ahve our new , less polished and less experienced, OC/HC in the Bill Walsh mold. And that, is how a great franchise gets off its knees and once again returns to the halls of power in the NFL.
Lastly, i am happy to say...that IS us.
Yep nothing good ever comes out of never quitting. f**k erasing double-digit leads....they should have quit and lost by three TDs in each case. 