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I still don't like that team until they can run the ball. But that's me

It also has the minus effect of guaranteeing that money - essentially you can't cut him. I prefer that strategy to in-house guys, because you knwo what you're getting.

Love Mike Wauffle - guy was a maniac on hard knocks. Maybe a little scared straight with a certain fat lazy d-lineman. Club rex is over! Move it tubby!

Funny how history pretty much repeated itself with Calvin Johnson. Matt Stafford's gotta be getting frustrated. How good does he have to be to make that team any good?

What's funny is that usually the "dancing" rb's struggle in zone schemes, but shady has hit the hole hard for the most part. He did struggle in 2016 with negative runs though (https://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stats/stuff-percentage/2016/). I see dimarco lining up all over the place in this scheme. We lack a real 2nd TE for pass catching purposes, but we can line him up all over the formation as well as like a FB.

All i could think was - if we draft Pat Mahomes... is he going to blindly defend him til the end of time if he stinks? In all honesty though, I thought he was the best of the bunch... but i also don't think tyrod is bad. So what do i know?

Yeah the team with the 7th rated rushing attack beat the team with the 5th rated rushing attack in the super bowl. Just pass all the time! It works! Ask Kyle Shanahan and Matt Ryan... Also - wasn't he the OC of the team that won the super bowl in 2015?

Like on 3rd and goal from the 8 with under a minute left in the game... down 6 against a top NFC team...

They have receivers who excel at turning those passes into yards. We didn't, and still don't.

Would be nice to get a parting gift from Rex and Doug.

How about a little play action?! The shotgun "play-action" is always so easily read. Never seen peterman play. Don't really want to at this point... maybe next year or if people are injured.

If Tyrod didn't take a paycut ---- We cut him. Draft may play out differently but maybe we still end up with watson or mahomes. And if (when) they stink - the new regime blames whaley. Now at least the new guys pick their guy - and are married to him. That way if (when) they stink - we can blame them!

Man were the Jets smart to low-ball him. Unfortunately the GM/coach who made that smart move, and set the team up for a shot at getting a top QB in the draft, are both very likely fired after this year.

I'm interested to see what the sack rate looks like in a new offense. And just generally how we intend to use Tyrod's unique skills. He was sacked a lot last year, but the average yards lost weren't particularly high, and the turnovers were very low. We had a lot of half field high-low concepts... if neither guy is open you're coached to hold the ball and take off. Anything but a turnover basically. If we had taken the ball away more last year (like the niners did under harbaugh), and held teams to fewer yards (specifically on the ground) - we would've made the playoffs.

I look at it like this - Tyrod is the hardest working player on the entire team. I want him to succeed. If he doesn't, he'll have done everything he could to be great. I don't think everyone on this board does - they'd rather be right about him.

From what I recall in that article, the under center numbers were better than shotgun. Could be a case of small sample size - cuz we ran 90% of plays from shotgun/pistol...

I want to be less predictable... Deep drops and stuff on first downs and 2nd and shorts. I'd also like plays designed to get the ball out of his hands quicker. We ran 17 screens in 2016. The patriots ran probably 20 against buffalo in 2016.

All true - never seemed liek we gameplanned to throw the ball. I'm sure a lot of that is Tyrod. A lot of it was also who our receivers are... and our identity as an offense. The lack of screens, bubbles, swings, and just creative ways to get athletes the ball was telling. Barely ran plays from under center, which takes bootlegs and PA out of the game.

4th in team sacks. EJ and Cardale's sacks in the finale counted in the total.

That I can agree on. Team needs to get their YPA up. I think some of it is on Taylor, and some of its on the receivers and O-line. If the YPA doesn't go up - then we need to be a LOT better on defense. Example: Dallas passed only 9 more times than us. The also gained about 600 additional yards passing, and completed 7% more. They were sacked less, and had a similarly efficient run game.

By a single player... the browns were sacked 66 times. We were 4th in sacks allowed, 18th in yards lost from sacks. Also 27th in INTs... if you're talking drive-killers

Roman offense facts - Top 12 in points scored 5/6 years. 8th or better in giveaways in 5/6 years. Top 8 in rushing yards 5/6 years. Bottom 5 passing yards 5/6 years. Teams usually near the bottom of the league in sacks. 3 playoff teams in 4 years with SF. Almost won a superbowl, and almost got to a 2nd. What is the main takeaway? The niners defense was awesome, and top 5 in yards all 4 years under harbaugh. Ours was bottom half in yards, and worse at getting takeaways and short fields. And one of the worst rush defenses in football.

Sacks are a bit of a function of the Greg Roman offense. Alex Smith was sacked 44 times in SF when they won 13 games. Combine Smiths and Kaepernick and you get 40. Kaepernick was sacked 39 and 52 times in his 2 full years under roman. Tyrod was sacked 36 and 42 times at a sack rate of 8.7/8.8%. Pretty much in line with what Smith and Kaep did in their years under Roman.

By DVOA we were rated 26th. This put us above powerhouses like Detroit, SF, Cleveland, Indy, and NO.

Like yes - he needs to be better especially in crunch time situations. He could hold the ball less, keep his eyes downfield, use the middle of the field. But the defense needs to be better at like - every position. We struggled with play calling, we struggled in coverage, penalties, tackling... what didn't we struggle with on defense? What was our identity on defense? 3 200+ rushers!!