They do it spectacularly…

Besides 9-0, A-Dub, and Beanie… nobody really did anything good. Worst game of the year for us.

He would have been down at the one yard line if they didn’t take it away.

Really I wouldn’t read into too much into this game. This was a fluke in my opinion. Everything went right for the ‘Niners and everything went wrong for the Cardinals. While the interceptions were bad the fumbles really weren’t. Fumbles many times just come to luck and random chance. If you look at past NFL seasons the teams that lead the league in fumbles lost very from year to year and record to record. Sometimes the worst teams have the least fumbles while the best have the most. Its mostly chance.

On the fumble by Hightower the defensive player came in leading with the crown of the helmet with his head down and poor technique along with dangerous play got rewarded. Nothing you can really do as a ball carrier. The second fumble was a great play by Willis and the running back never really had time to get a good grip on the ball. It happens every week. You can’t really coach or teach against that. Just hope that the defensive player doesn’t make a great play. The fumble by Beanie was another case of poor and dangerous tackling technique getting rewarded with the defensive player hitting a player with the crown of his helmet and his head bent down and got the ball. You keep doing that you can get paralyzed. The Boldin fumble was just great play and a bunch of guys trying to strip the ball. You can’t really blame that. Sometimes it happens. It is impossible to hold on to the ball that long with that many guys ripping at it.

I really wouldn’t be worried. It happens sometimes. Whenever you ran the ball you had success, but you either fumbled or got a holding penalty on a wideout. The offense just never got into a rhythm. Whatever. If that is holding then there should be flags on every long run in the NFL. If that is a block in the back then no team will ever have long runs. Just some bad breaks. I thought AZ’s defense played fantastic. The 49ers scored 17 points while receiving the ball inside the Arizona 40. Outside of the drive right before half time they played great and kept the ’Cards in the game.

I am not the type that usually says a game is a fluke or a team got luck, but the Niners got lucky. Every break, every penalty went their way. The ‘Niners have serious problems. Their quarterback is horrible who is only good at hard counts. They don’t have any wideouts except Crab. Davis is overrated. Their defense is pretty good I guess, but you can’t rely on getting 5 fumbles to win a game.

I still don’t understand how Fitz did not catch that ball on the one yard line. If that is not a catch then how the Giants win the Super Bowl? Dual possession (not even really), guy gets the ball stripped from him while he is on the ground three seconds after the play was over. If that play is overturned then the Cardinals probably roll. Cheer up you get the Lions next week.

Warner looked scared all game.
Gandy was… what can be said that hasn’t?
Fumbles…
Ugh.
I feel like we lack pride on our team.
Watching this team play was like watching the football team I coach. They rise up to big games when they are the underdog and have something to prove, but when they are suppose to win and the underdog plays harder then them, they quit. Drives me nuts. Me, the HC and the OC can’t figure it out for our lives.

We left Gandy out on an island and as usual he failed.
Why didn’t we go with the max protect sets and give Warner the time to make his throws.
Last week we won the game in the trenches – this week the 49ers were up for the battle and we weren’t.
All the mistakes were because we were allowing the 49ers to dictate the game.

This game was for the division and we screwed the pooch. This team still fits the “any given Sunday” motto but elite teams don’t lay an egg like this. For whatever reason our veteran leaders can’t stand up and lead this team week in and week out. We play down to our competition and get terribly sloppy.

This game was a disgrace.

These are the new nicknames for Wells & Hightower. I am growing tired of Wells falling over himself in the backfield and missing out on provided holes (obviously I am sick of his fumble but am using this to co-inside with the new nicknames). Hightowers fumbling problem is obviously not solved. Wells almost lost a ball even before his late game fumble. This is a little dramatic but I am thinking to make inactive both Wells & Hightower for next weeks game. During the week force them to carry a ball with them and literally beat the crap out of their arms and upper body trying to get them to loose the ball. By “giving them” the week off as inactives you allow time for them to heal up and for the obvious let it sink in that their fumbling is inexcusable. Means we face the Lions and Rams I think we could get away with it. I know LSH fumbled as well but that was his first (that i know of). Wright becomes the starting back. We would need to pick up somebodyoff a PS or as a FA. So it would go Wright, LSH & the new guy. What do you think?

I was pretty happy with the defense in general. Gore had a good game, but he is a great back. You can’t shut those guys down every week. We got enough pressure on Smith that he forced some things. Our secondary played pretty well. I was frustrated with the 2 minute offense though. Something isn’t right there. Alex Smith carved us up at the end of the half which is ridiculous.

I liked how we came out to start the second half by running the ball a lot. The 9ers were showing a lot of soft coverages. In the past we couldn’t move the ball, even against such defenses. Now we have the toughness up front and in the backfield to run it in these situations, if only we can HANG ONTO THE FREAKING BALL.

I’m very frustrated overall, but I think there were enough positives that I’m not going to freak out like I did after the Colts game. That game left me feeling completely lost.

This was a bad game, terrible game… but it was only a game, the team is headed in the right direction, and Whisenhunt is a big part of it, remember that it was only last week when we were talking about how good we looked against the Vikings, winning is difficult in the NFL, of course we are not an elite team, but we are going back to the playoffs and we can compete with anybody… I think Whisenhunt is not the greatest coach of course, but to me he can be one day, he has done a remarkable job, specially changing the culture (remember how many coaches have failed just trying to change the culture), taking us to the superbowl in just his second season, and still improving, we still need more playmakers on deffense and some young players will continue to develop, but so far Whisenhunt has done a great job, so don´t get carried away by one loss, in the end, we will be in the playoffs, we will be taken as the underdog (I love it) and hopefully play our best in january…. GO CARDINALS