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I don't think it should if you reached the ball out and pulled it back yourself. If it was knocked back by our team it would apply.

Throw in the fact that you can't challenge a terrible call makes for even more problems. 40 yards for DPI, when cooks was the one who didn't look for the ball and wrapped up the defender. That's a massive gain for just throwing it up for grabs.

Almost won it too - if zay pulls that pass down.

Just beat the lions who were in a playoff race. It's a division game - they hate the ravens like the dolphins hate us.

I seem to remember AJ green torching us that game. 16 points is 16 points though. The jets 2nd game had some bad turnovers, and no run defense.

This isn't why the NFL instituted replay. They added it to fix obvious mistakes - a fumble where his knee was down, a receiver not getting both feet in, ball hitting the ground and being called a catch. Not this - the ball may have been moving while at the same time his foot may have been touching turf... Or last weeks when james was reaching out and it was called no catch... or maybe the jets guy getting called for fumbling into the end zone when he never actually lost the ball. That one still irked me the most. The ball never hits the turf, but because it was like, unpossessed for a split second on a replay its a touchback? That's just ridiculous. The stuff you see in slow motion isn't what is actually happening on the field. He caught the ball and got both feet in - touchdown. End of story. Yeah - didnt really get that. He reached the ball over, and pulled it back. Its essentially running the ball forward and then backwards. It's not forward progress. If you ran for the first down and ran behind it and got tackled it's not a first down. Same idea applies to this, or so i thought. The only place it doesn't is the end zone where if you break the plane its a TD and you can then bring it back.

I mean - we fumbled away that Jets game pretty badly if i recall. Squandered some chances, and couldn't stop the run.

No pass rush. And no takeaways. They're just not a good defense. It hurts carr because they're always playing catch up.

They have 12 takeaways this year. Last year they had 30. -9 TO diff this year, vs. +16 a year ago. Not taking care of the ball, and not taking the ball away. Cooper coming down with the drops, and i think field position, and being behind has hindered their offense.

Burkhead might be banged up... could we be seeing Touchdown Mike this week?

Olay action and see if tt can just run for it

Terrible play.

He caught it at the 10

Its what the fins offense is built around, lot of shifty guys there

Like Gaines, but he is always hurt huh

Like the shot on cutler there.

Dont love it, but they went for the jugular

Seemed like clay stopped running there

The Harris one pissd me off... he absolutely went for the knee. He even twisted it after he went down.

All the action to the right with the fake screen and use taylors shiftiness to pick a running lane... good stuff

Is he playing?

Why do you write on here like you're on twitter? I don't think there's a character limitation, and it comes off as pouting.

You can create a scheme for a bad/flawed QB though. We don't have a good QB on the roster - so if you're trying to win.... you would scheme around your QBs strong suits. Not mash everyone into your existing scheme. He's had upwards of 20 passes batted down at the line this year. Clearly the 3 step drop rhythm pass isn't working, maybe we try something else. They're constantly stacking the line and forcing him to get the ball out quick and he's holding it... maybe we spread them out so they can't stack the LOS... so we can run the ball more effectively. I'm not claiming hes good... I'm just saying if he's who youre going with, maybe you should try and do something different.

And before that it was Kaepernick and Alex Smith.... http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2015/09/30/the-greg-roman-re-re-evaluation-if-you-were-paying-attention-during-his-49ers-tenure-you-actually-dont-have-to-keep-changing-your-mind/ –The staggering amount of delay-of-game penalties and rushed snaps at the play-clock was not a great example of strategic and functional brilliance. Right there, that was bad on Roman and Harbaugh.

I don't think Lawson is terrible, but i agree we need to get better at rushing the passer. Lawson will definitely need to improve, but the injury this year is unrelated to the year 1 injury so I hesitate to call him injury prone. I think he just got rolled up on. Having a rookie season where he missed camp did not help his development at all and hopefully there is some improvement between years 2 and 3. Improved pass rushing by the DTs will hopefuly make everyone on the line look better. Clay costs the same to keep as he does to get rid of. 9 million against the cap. Thanks Doug. Oline - i'd like to see them snatch a vet or two to help the right side.