What is the biggest weakness?

Originally posted by mattster03:
Secondary.

Using 3 1sts and a 3rd on Trey Lance is the gift that keeps on giving

Wouldn't have used those 1sts on dbs anyway.

Originally posted by NinerBuff:
Or maybe Stafford is actually good, and some games won't be like the PIT game. The Rams and Seahawks will be in the mix for playoff spots. And Puka Nacua is very good, period.

This. Stafford is an elite QB and he's healthy again. Rams will be one of those teams that give everyone fits as long as they can keep him on the field.

HC and his inability to game plan against opponents..

Originally posted by 9moon:
HC and his inability to game plan against opponents..

He can gameplan against a team as a whole but has no concept of targeting specific players or accounting for specific players on opposing teams.

He's also terrible at calling timeouts and challenges.

The secondary scheme is probably a bigger weakness though. It looks like we are only capable of playing a soft zone.

Even Mooney ward when he tried playing man for one play it was an instant penalty. Wilks has no concept of the down and distances. Every play it's a 10 yards off soft zone.

Originally posted by 9moon:
HC and his inability to game plan against opponents..

Originally posted by SLCNiner:

Originally posted by 9moon:
HC and his inability to game plan against opponents..

LOL..

Boo all you want but he isn't one of those HC who plans around the opponents.. his playbook is often use over and over.. the guy is a good play designer and uses those plays over and over all year long..

UNTIL he learns how to attack the weakness of the team his playing by game planning around it, he'll be nothing more than a very good OC who wears a CAPTAIN'S hat..

If the 49ers have a weakness it's the right side run game behind McKivitz. He has to get better at the point of attack. He's being shed by the defenders too easy.

Nacua and Tutu are good WR's and McVay is one of the best at crafting a passing game. The Rams directly expose our thin secondary with their players and scheme. The saving grace is that Rams don't have much of a run game and (in my opinion) are one dimensional - or become one - during the course of the game.

I haven't seen Wilks do a lot of defensive line stunts, and Demeco used them much more than Wilks. Wilks likes to blitz a bit more than Demeco, in my opinion. If anything, I'd like the DLine to be more aggressive in the pass and use more stunts - specially against the Rams which (to me) don't have much of a run game.

Originally posted by BoldRedandGold:

Originally posted by 9moon:
HC and his inability to game plan against opponents..

He can gameplan against a team as a whole but has no concept of targeting specific players or accounting for specific players on opposing teams.

He's also terrible at calling timeouts and challenges.

The secondary scheme is probably a bigger weakness though. It looks like we are only capable of playing a soft zone.

Even Mooney ward when he tried playing man for one play it was an instant penalty. Wilks has no concept of the down and distances. Every play it's a 10 yards off soft zone.

Hes 20 out of 38 in Challenges since hes been here. Thats little bit more than 50%.
0 out of 0 in 2023
4 out of 6 in 2022
2 out of 3 in 2021

Hes only had 1 year where he was below 50% in challenges and that was in 2018. What would you expect as great if according to you 50% is terrible?

What about penalties? Over the past two games, we've helped our opponents put something like 17-21 points on the board via drive-sustaining penalties.

Too early to call. We are feeling teams out as well as ourselves. I'll judge after the Dallas game. We'd have 5 games under our belt and would have played an elite team (Dallas) and 2nd tier (Rams) as well as the Steelers, who I think will end up being a good team. Its enough data points to really assess where we are.

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:
Hes 20 out of 38 in Challenges since hes been here. Thats little bit more than 50%.
0 out of 0 in 2023
4 out of 6 in 2022
2 out of 3 in 2021

Hes only had 1 year where he was below 50% in challenges and that was in 2018. What would you expect as great if according to you 50% is terrible?

Slightly better than 50% when you literally could dedicate a dozen people to watching a video in slow motion to me is bad. You could pay a guy to only tell you when to challenge. Realistically it should be like 90%.

I don't get annoyed when he does not win challenges though it's the fact that big plays he doesn't challenge which can be game breaking. Ie the eagles game. Challenging also can be used to stop momentum even if you lose.

Originally posted by LifelongNiner:
Too early to call. We are feeling teams out as well as ourselves. I'll judge after the Dallas game. We'd have 5 games under our belt and would have played an elite team (Dallas) and 2nd tier (Rams) as well as the Steelers, who I think will end up being a good team. Its enough data points to really assess where we are.

IMO we will go as far as the pass protection, and Purdy can take us once we face the playoff defenses.

Too soon to say. Two games is not a large enough sample size.

Originally posted by mattster03:
Secondary.

Using 3 1sts and a 3rd on Trey Lance is the gift that keeps on giving

Thank the lord for the fifth round.

Originally posted by BubbaParisMVP:
What about penalties? Over the past two games, we've helped our opponents put something like 17-21 points on the board via drive-sustaining penalties.

That Deebo covering up the TE penalty was just deebo trying to cheat by getting a better angle on that crackback block. Some of those penalties, like the blindside block by Jauan, don't have to do that, just get in the way. Good news, I didn't hear a holding penalty on McKivitz, going against that Ram DLine. The Greenlaw personal foul hurt because they were on 3rd down and got a freebie first down instead of a 4th down and kick the FG situation. But for those penalties and three missed passes by Brock, this could have been a blowout. Credit to the Rams players and good coaching by Kyle's best buddy McVay.