NFL 2025
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@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2024:
49ers pull a win out of their behind
Will definitely take it. An away divisional win is golden for a team trying to re establish their identity. 49ers defense looks far better with Saleh back as defensive coordinator.
Feels like it will be a roller-coaster season - should be far more fun than last year's Super Bowl hangover nightmare season.
We lose Kittle for at least 5 weeks, Purdy is questionable and may be out for 2 weeks. We just can't stay healthy
Agreed on the health - though I would be surprised if Purdy missed any games (he played with injured ribs in his rookie year with 4 days between games) and if he did - I suspect it would only be 1 (they may wish to avoid the artificial surface of New Orleans week 2 before a home game.on natural grass week 3)
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@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2024:
@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2024:
49ers pull a win out of their behind
Will definitely take it. An away divisional win is golden for a team trying to re establish their identity. 49ers defense looks far better with Saleh back as defensive coordinator.
Feels like it will be a roller-coaster season - should be far more fun than last year's Super Bowl hangover nightmare season.
We lose Kittle for at least 5 weeks, Purdy is questionable and may be out for 2 weeks. We just can't stay healthy
Agreed on the health - though I would be surprised if Purdy missed any games (he played with injured ribs in his rookie year with 4 days between games) and if he did - I suspect it would only be 1 (they may wish to avoid the artificial surface of New Orleans week 2 before a home game.on natural grass week 3)
Well it took less time than usual for me to be proven dead wrong.
Purdy to be out 2-5 weeks.
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@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2024:
@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2024:
@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2024:
49ers pull a win out of their behind
Will definitely take it. An away divisional win is golden for a team trying to re establish their identity. 49ers defense looks far better with Saleh back as defensive coordinator.
Feels like it will be a roller-coaster season - should be far more fun than last year's Super Bowl hangover nightmare season.
We lose Kittle for at least 5 weeks, Purdy is questionable and may be out for 2 weeks. We just can't stay healthy
Agreed on the health - though I would be surprised if Purdy missed any games (he played with injured ribs in his rookie year with 4 days between games) and if he did - I suspect it would only be 1 (they may wish to avoid the artificial surface of New Orleans week 2 before a home game.on natural grass week 3)
Well it took less time than usual for me to be proven dead wrong.
Purdy to be out 2-5 weeks.
Reality is Shanahan wanted Mac Jones from the beginning but ended up with Trey Lance. Mac Jones is up for SF
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some very fucking boring football televised yesterday. Atlanta v the Vikings was shit, 2 ordinary offences kicking field goals while edge rushers made offensive lines look stupid.
Superbowl replay was dire. The Chiefs are a horribly constructed "team" that seem intent on wasting the middle years of one of the best QBs ever by recruiting zero skill players. No runners, no receivers, just old man Kelce or Kermit having to do it himself. The Eagles are loaded with talent and yet yesterday they ran nothing but tush pushes, mostly illegally. A dire game really.
The exception was the Giants at the Cowboys, where for most of the game Russ Wilson wound the clock back at the same time his team was giving up about 80 penalties costing about 3,000 yards of offence. The last quarter was sick, huge TDs leading to a frantic OT where unfortunately for the Giants Russ remembered it's not 2013 and he is not in Seattle.
Denver lost on a fucked but probably justified penalty.
Defensive talent is insane at the moment. No separation in the pass game, 3 or 4 edge rushers who are the best athletes on the field, QBs have no time and nothing to go to. And it makes the game hard to watch at times with dump play after dump play. Find a run game or die.
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Cowboys game was great
So too Dolphins
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Enjoyed the Bucs Texans on MNF. Chargers Raiders not so much. Also, Khalil Mack's arm bent the wrong way - it looked very ugly.
Still a good comp this year. In fairness @mariner4life KC have lost their top two receivers So they're playing the Finlay Christies of the wide outs.
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The great escape! How bout those Eagles. Unbelievable.
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Didn't expect Green Bay to lose let alone Carolina to complete flog the Falcons.
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@MacDazzler said in NFL 2025:
Didn't expect Green Bay to lose let alone Carolina to complete flog the Falcons.
Even the most ardent Browns supporters wouldn’t have been confident winning against the Packers.
It’s been a round of surprises. The Bears winning.
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@ACT-Crusader said in NFL 2025:
The Bears winning.
Bears looking competent and winning! Ben Johnson looks a good head coach right now. He's made Caleb play to his strengths. Got to be stoked if you are a long suffering Bears fan like my mate
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@ACT-Crusader said in NFL 2025:
The Bears winning.
Bears looking competent and winning! Ben Johnson looks a good head coach right now. He's made Caleb play to his strengths. Got to be stoked if you are a long suffering Bears fan like my mate
That flea-flicker was a thing of beauty
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Devastating news for the 49ers. Nick Bosa gone for the season with a torn ACL.
The one silver lining to the 49ers injury woes was that none were season ending - silver lining gone
The problem for the 49ers is they are on 2 different timelines - they have a lot of good young players who will be better next year however they also have a number of older players who dont have many years left plus a Defensive Coordinator in Saleh who is likely gone in the offseason to another head coaching opportunity.
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I can't get over how many teams still seem unwilling to bolster their O-line. Blind freddy can see it's the most important unit in any team and the early weeks have once again borne that out.
Houston is the prime example. Last year they couldn't do anything because Stroud was getting the shit beaten out of him. In the offseason they bafflingly decide to make their O-line appreciably worse, and now what's happening? They are 0-3 all because Stroud is getting the shit beaten out of him even more than last year.
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OL is a funny position. If you're passable, you're fine. If you're great you might be great, but it depends. If you're terrible, you might as well start planning for next season.
But I think it's that difference between mediocre and brilliant that hurts teams - the teams that convince themselves that they'll be okay and the rest of their offence can make up the difference are sometimes right as a bunch of journeymen strike a really good combination and you maybe get a career year or two.
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Its a typical problem that I think has multiple facets, and thats why its hard to solve.
One is the pay to talent disparity. Edge rushers and difference making interior d-linemen get paid. So that's where the talent goes.
Next is coaching, I am not sure there are a huge amount of really good o-line coaches.
3rd is the weight of expectation. Say there are 30 drop back situations in a game. If you have 3 good edge rushers and they each get to the QB just once, you are really happy as a defense. That means the o-line got it right 27 times, and probably look like they failed. -
Watching this season though, there are a lot of Quarterbacks getting called busts, with "bad mechanics" because they get enough time for their first read and their first read only before these huge fast rushers are on them.
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OL is a funny position. If you're passable, you're fine. If you're great you might be great, but it depends. If you're terrible, you might as well start planning for next season.
Yes, if your O line is shit; you really are shit.
The Chiefs have an issue (Taylor) they need to sort.
