Melencause":1c68ujmq said:
Marvin49":1c68ujmq said:
bigtrain21":1c68ujmq said:
Wow! A one play drive Marvin!? How many yards?
1 or 2.
Who cares? The point was that one play drives don't last too long so don't quote time of possession to me.
Its like you don't understand basic football. Pushing a ball 1-2 yards... doesn't really tell a story of greatness. However having your run game stuffed mostly against a terrible Dline across an entire game does.
If Romo wasn't handing you the ball the game would have been very close.
The strength of the 49ers has been the Oline and the Linebackers..correct? I didn't see anything super out of them as I am used to seeing. The offense needs to make up for the weaker D for half of a season and I saw nothing indicating they would against Dallas.
The only defense you have of your statement that the offense is looking good is that they scored points. I don't know if you realize this but there are 2 sides to every football game. If a defense lays down for you... points happen even with a terrible offense. Your offense didn't look terrible they just looked... average.
Nothing stood out in that game that would speak to the ability to challenge tougher teams. Its not doomsaying to speak on this its an observation of a single game... maybe they had a subpar game, but you definitely can't say that is was a good performance.
Again its like Mike Tyson beating up a toddler and calling him a champion boxer. Maybe he is... but the toddler fight didn't prove it. How do you not get this?
Dude. LOL. Pretty comfortable holding up by understanding of basic football to yours.
You were arguing time of possession. Niners held the Ball for 1:34 in the first quarter. In that quarter, the 49ers built a 21-3 lead and scored a TD every time they had the ball. Just so you can do the math, that's 13:26 that the Cowboys had the ball in the first quarter.
Why is that? It's because the Cowboys held the ball on long (and ultimately unfruitful) possessions and the Niners scored very quickly.
That means of the remaining 45 min of the game, Dallas held the ball for 17:58 and the Niners held it for 27:02.
This is why you have to WATCH the game and not look at a freakin statsheet and act like you know what you're talking about.
Moreover, Dallas had a 7 minute possession in the second half that was aided TWICE on third down with bogus illegal contact/defensive holding penalties. That's not just my opinion they were bogus BTW...it was spoken about by a number of people watching the game including the announcers.
A football game box score doesn't give you all the facts you need to draw a conclusion. Stop trying.
Since you like them tho, lets look at a few stats....
Frank Gore ran for 66 yards and averaged 4.1 yards per carry.
Carlos Hyde ran for 50 yards and averaged 7.1 yards per carry. He also scored.
Together, they ran for 116 yards, averaged 4.8 yards per carry, and scored a TD. Yeah...they got stuffed all right. DeMarco Murray BTW ran for 118 yards against a 6 man box.
LB and O-Line strengths? Well that might be true if they weren't missing half their LBs and 2/5th of the line.
Can't say they looked good because Dallas sucks? WTF are you even talking about?
Here's more numbers that you seem so fond of...
Russell Wilson vs GB: 19-28, 191 yards, 2 TDs, 110.9 rating.
Kap: 16-23, 201 yards, 2 TDs, 125.5 rating.
I guess Russell was pretty unimpressive too.
Oh..playing Dallas doesn't count because they suck? Playing GB does tho? That certainly isn't what I've been hearing here the last 4 times the Niners beat GB.
Oh yeah...remember Murrays 118 yards? It was largely against a 6 man box because the 49ers were playing coverage to take away Bryant and Witten. How did THOSE guys do? 12 yards. COMBINED.
Dude.
Just stop. Niners dominated the game on offense scoring TDs on 3 of 4 possessions and then all but shut it down in the second half. That's would be really clear if you weren't looking for a reason to poke holes. Don't talk to me about basic understanding of football if you can't understand what happens when a team gets a huge lead and then just sets out to get out without getting anyone hurt and without showing anything to the next weeks opponent.
I mean seriously...the Niners had a drive in the 4th quarter where they ran it on every single down against a Dallas D stacking to stop the run and they still got into field goal range.
Niners have some issues to fix...they need their LBs back, they need their corners to get healthy, they need to be able to better stop the run even with a 6 man box...
...but saying they were unimpressive in a game they were leading 28-3 at halftime and moving the ball almost at will is disingenuous.
