Welp, that kinda sucked. So close and yet so far. We got doomed by poor play in the first half and shitty play-calling on the final three plays of the game. And yes, the refereeing was kinda suspect, but we had many a chance to rise above that and didn't. So it goes.

On to the next season. The good news? Almost all of our contributors are certainly returning, and the good ones are getting better. Kaep is still reaching his potential. For the first half of the SB, he looked very much like a guy starting his 10th NFL game, but he brought the ruckus in the second half. Crabtree has turned the corner and will continue to get better. James will continue to improve. Our D didn't quite look like our D for a little over half the game, but I don't see it slipping in the season to come.

The bad news? The NFC West isn't getting any easier. Seahawks are on the come up. The Rams are improving. The Cardinals really just need any competent QB to make them competitive. So we can't just rest on our laurels right now.

Off-season priorites: First, trade Alex Smith if we can. Looks doable, as apparently the Chiefs and the Browns are interested. I'd be fine with him on either of those squads. Second, draft some defensive players. Yeah, we're strong, but our key guys played LOTS of snaps during the season. And by the time the play-offs came, a lot were hurt and exhausted. And seeing as we may lose Goldson, we gotta keep the talent pool fresh. Third, probably pick up another WR. Moss is certainly gone, so we need another option.

So, that's it in broad strokes. Sucks we couldn't make it, but we have the talent and ability to be back next year. So let's make it happpen.

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Niner Nation... we are in mourning. I know I am still trying to wrap my head around that game...

The Good: -Our offensive line is a force. Our offense will be a force because of it. They stay relatively healthy, and is a pretty young unit.

-Kendall Hunter, Mario Manningham, Kyle Williams, Parys Haralson will all be back next season.

-Colin Kaepernick. If he improves at the trajectory that we'd expect a QB with his potential to improve...10 starts in.. we will be talking about him as a top 5-10 QB in the entire league in a couple years.

-Michael Crabtree has become that guy I partied over dropping to us in the 2009 draft.

-Patrick Willis, Navarro Bowman, Aldon Smith, Ahmad Brooks are all under 30.

The Bad: -Justin Smith and Frank Gore aren't getting any younger.

-Greg Roman has double agent tendencies

-The cats out of the bag...Our secondary can be had.

Free Agents: Dashon Goldson, Issac Sopoaga, Delanie Walker, Randy Moss, Ricky Jean Francois, Ted Ginn Jr., Larry Grant, Clark Haggans, Leonard Davis, Tavares Gooden, Tramaine Brock, Darcell McBath

Who should we re-sign?
What are our needs?
What are we looking for in the draft?
Justin Smith surgery?

and everybody's favorite topic...What will happen with Alex Smith?

Fuck this: I'm ready for week 1

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not sure theres 5 I'd take over him right now

as a Jet fan, I wanna keep Revis, but I gotta say, if theres 1 team I'm calling to see if they have are willing to pay a King's Ransom it's SF... Jim Harbaugh knows with Revis on his side they win that game last night no doubt and don't get torched by Julio Jones so badly vs Atlanta

I say fuck that. If we had one guy any where near Revis level...hell, if we had the last season Carlos Rogers..we'd be partying right now.

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But either way we still have to address safety from a cover standpoint.. Whitner blew a coverage too but Goldson acted like he didn't even know what half the plays were and instead stayed focused on diving head first into piles.. I'm sorry I know y'all love him but I'm done with this cat. can't have two hard hitting safeties without one that's above average in coverage.. just can't. And I damn sure don't want Whitner to go anywhere.
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>The Good: -Our offensive line is a force. Our offense will be
>a force because of it. They stay relatively healthy, and is a
>pretty young unit.

Yep. I hope we are grooming or preparing to draft Goodwin's replacement.

>-Kendall Hunter, Mario Manningham, Kyle Williams, Parys
>Haralson will all be back next season.

I hope Hunter still has his burst. Our future Hunter/James backfield looked really promising as Gore fades.


>-Colin Kaepernick. If he improves at the trajectory that we'd
>expect a QB with his potential to improve...10 starts in.. we
>will be talking about him as a top 5-10 QB in the entire
>league in a couple years.

I think we can all agree Kaep is going to be exceptional. I think he's probably in the 5-10 range already. His mistakes--and there were some big ones--this post-season were all inexperienced rookie mistakes that are going to get better with more coaching and experience. At 25 he's playing about as good as Steve Young did at 29.


>-Patrick Willis, Navarro Bowman, Aldon Smith, Ahmad Brooks are
>all under 30.

Aldon Smith is 23. And he better work on some additional moves this off-season. Maybe it was injury, but it looked like opposing teams figured him out by the end of the year.


>The Bad: -Justin Smith and Frank Gore aren't getting any
>younger.

Biggest heartbreak of last night was Gore not getting his ring. He might still be on the team if/when we win one, but unlikely he'll be The Man on that team. Pretty sure if he takes one in on that last drive for his 2nd TD, he's Super Bowl MVP.


>-Greg Roman has double agent tendencies

He and Harbaugh need to sit down and script their situational plays better. And Harbaugh needs to be more forceful about overruling. He admitted he didn't like that stupid pitch call from the Rams game but he went with it anyway. I have a feeling he was not crazy about those goal-line calls either, but he's ultimately responsible.

It will help having a full off-season and playbook designed around Kaep, rather than one designed around Smith and hastily adjusted for Kaep mid-season.


>-The cats out of the bag...Our secondary can be had.

Yep. Especially with a mediocre pass rush.


>Free Agents: Dashon Goldson, Issac Sopoaga, Delanie Walker,
>Randy Moss, Ricky Jean Francois, Ted Ginn Jr., Larry Grant,
>Clark Haggans, Leonard Davis, Tavares Gooden, Tramaine Brock,
>Darcell McBath

Gotta think we've seen the last of Moss, Ginn, Davis, and Brock.

Depending on who they plan on picking up in draft/FA we may have seen the last of Goldson and Walker.


>What are we looking for in the draft?

-D-line. J-Smith and Sop are old and declining pretty fast. No way Smith should play as many snaps next year.

-A kicker.

-Safety

-A TE hybrid to potentially replace Delanie.


>and everybody's favorite topic...What will happen with Alex
>Smith?

Hope it's the Chiefs. Andy knows QBs and it's a good fan/media environment. Plus, the long tradition of 49ers QBs going to die in Kansas City (Montana, Grbac, Bono).

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>The Bad: -Justin Smith and Frank Gore aren't getting any
>younger.

I figure we've got our running game set. We're deep enough at the position to keep Gore as fresh as possible for a play-off run.

>-Greg Roman has double agent tendencies

Well, we certainly need better redzone plays. Him and Harbuagh need to work that shit out and start right plays exclusively for Kaep.

>-The cats out of the bag...Our secondary can be had.

Last night there was definite room for improvement, that's for sure. Culliver looked awful. On the other hand, Flacco just made some tosses that no one should have been able to catch, yet Boldin and Jones somehow did.

>Free Agents: Dashon Goldson, Issac Sopoaga, Delanie Walker,
>Randy Moss, Ricky Jean Francois, Ted Ginn Jr., Larry Grant,
>Clark Haggans, Leonard Davis, Tavares Gooden, Tramaine Brock,
>Darcell McBath

Of those, we need Sopoga and Walker. Walker won't be expensive, so I think he can re-sign him without that much of an issue. I like Goldson, but I'm not ready to break the bank for him. We can find a cheaper free-agent stop-gap and draft his eventual replacement.

>What are our needs?

D-Line. Kicker. Maybe a safety. A kicker we can get via free-agent.

>What are we looking for in the draft?

See above, but I say go for the D-Line. Maybe another WR.

>Justin Smith surgery?

Hope not, but it may be necessary.

>and everybody's favorite topic...What will happen with Alex
>Smith?

Well, hopefully we trade him to the Chiefs. Maybe the Browns; him and Norv working together again would be good for Alex. Regardless, I'd rather not let him hit the open market and let him get picked up by the Cardinals.

Still feeling good about our prospects for the future.

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Kap's explosiveness makes Frank Gore more replaceable. Obviously get what you can get for Alex Smith. Jim's a really good coach, he's kinda hoe-ish though. Not much that can be done about that. I'd like to think you guys will be back pretty soon.

bad playcalling at the end, and refball didn't help.

i really hope they remain competitive next season, but you never know what can happen, and there's always the opportunity for injuries.

i don't think the secondary is really bad; it's just they kind of get picked apart by good QBs when they play zone because the front 4 does have difficulty getting pressure at times.

Last night was painful.

Would love to keep Goldson if we can make the money work, but I guess I should preparing myself in the event that we can't.

The team's in pretty good shape otherwise.

the big hits don't compensate for the absolute liability he is in coverage

Whitner brings a better combo of coverage and physical play.. pair him with a young cover safety and we good
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We did it all to ourselves. I said i thought we'd shoot ourselves in the foot with a James or Gore fumble and a Kap pick.. but that we would still be able to over come it. What I didn't expect was we'd give up a return too and give up so many big pays. I'm really down on our defense this morning... the missed tackles, the dumb penalties, miss assignments.. very disappointed in them dudes right now.

The offense did pretty much what I felt the could coming in... I figured the Ravens would try and stop the run first which would create space for our passing game.. after exploiting that we could come back to the run.. and that ended up being exactly what we did. Still wasn't enough due to the slim margin of error we left ourselves with.

Let me make it clear that Kap played great for a guy in this 10th start... but I can't help but find some irony in the fact he audibled into that 4th down fade basically losing the game with his head.. our old QB's strong suit.

It just sucks period.. bring on the A's
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No it didn't

I mean how you not gonna give Gore the ball at least a couple times down there? Even if he doesn't get in on the first carry, it forces the Ravens to call TO or the clock runs.. giving them less time if the 9ers do score. Just puzzling all the way around... but the 4th down was on Kap. It's spots like that where you need your QB to make the right read and adjustment... he's doing great for a guy with this little on field experience... but it's an area he's going to have to get better in... and I think he will
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>I'm really down on our defense this morning...
>the missed tackles, the dumb penalties, miss assignments..
>very disappointed in them dudes right now.

But the missed tackles killed me. We gave Flacco to much time to scramble and make some incredible passes. One time it seemed like Brooks just stopped instead of going after Flacco; I guess he thought the play got whistled dead, but it was still dumb. Culliver getting beat badly sucked. And it was inexcusable that on that 109-yd run-back, dude ran right through our coverage, and McBath was the only person that even touched him.

>Let me make it clear that Kap played great for a guy in this
>10th start... but I can't help but find some irony in the fact
>he audibled into that 4th down fade basically losing the game
>with his head.. our old QB's strong suit.

I can never tell when Kaep is actually calling an audible. It seems like runs to the line of scrimmage just before every play. I can't tell if it's all for show or he's actually changing the play.

>It just sucks period.. bring on the A's

Um, yeah. Pitchers and catchers report soon, right?

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>Culliver getting beat badly sucked.

He's the new poster child for keeping your mouth shut during super bowl week

>I can never tell when Kaep is actually calling an audible. It
>seems like runs to the line of scrimmage just before every
>play. I can't tell if it's all for show or he's actually
>changing the play.

Kap was the one who came out and said he changed the play... props to him for owning it like that but a fade in that situation is one of the last plays I'd want called.


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Ellerbe came up the middle untouched, Kaep literally had 1 second to get rid of the ball

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Crabtree was 2-3 yards deep in the endzone when the ball was thrown... but no he didn't have much time

And yeah he's on tape saying he changed the play at the line

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he played the mentor role well and I give him props for that... but that wasn't the type of effort I wanted to see from him going for a ring
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Could be the last game he plays, period.

I'll also give him props for the mentoring; Crabs & the other WRs, Alex Smith, and Kaep liked having him around, but he stunk it up for much of the game. Quit on routes, don't show much effort in general. If he was trying to use this as a showcase game for some other team to sign him next season, it was a pretty big failure.

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I mean even though I've never like to see a player give less than 100% you could almost understand what he did on the Raiders... but damn you competing for a ring right here (in what could easily be his last shot) and you come out and play like that? It's so mindbogglingly bizarre you have to question this dudes mind. The fact he said he was better than Jerry only a few days early makes it even crazier.

I just wish we had either Williams or Manningham Sunday, then we could have just sat his ass down.
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