09-12-2022, 04:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-2022, 04:29 AM by OutsiderFan.)
(09-11-2022, 03:27 PM)BostonCard Wrote: I thought you had already made your assessment based on practice and pre-season games.
BC
Nope. In fact, I was attacked for not having an assessment of how the Niners would do this season after the pre-season games.
It was frustrating to have the first game be so marred by terrible weather, an oddly passive game plan, and so many mistakes on defense that rendered an otherwise dominant showing on that side of the ball moot. Really tough to evaluate much from such a set of circumstances other than no team is good enough to overcome so many basic mistakes with a game plan where the head guy felt in control with a 10 pt lead. Not exactly smart from a guy who OC'd a team with a 28-3 lead in a Super Bowl and lost, blew a 4th quarter Super Bowl lead as a Head Coach, and also blew a lead in the 4th quarter of the last real game he coached, the NFC CG.
Trey Lance was good enough to win the game if the team around him didn't make so many crushing mistakes and he was given more opportunities early when the conditions were less worse and the offense had maximum ability to keep the defense guessing.