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I still don't think Dirk was his call. I wouldn't be surprised if Blank lost faith in his OC picks after firing Sark that he meddled in the selection process. Blank has some Jerry Jones in him.

Its sad how under every coordinator Ryan had been with except for Shanahan, we can't capitalize on defenses with huge weaknesses or dominate ones injury riddled fielding street free agents with our high powered talent. We watch the same struggling defenses get lit up and embarrassed by lesser talented offenses the week after playing us lol. I still don't understand for the life of me how New York giants with washed up Eli and barely any receivers were able to light up the eagles only to watch Sark not use the same game plan on them in our playoffs defeat. I remember Vel or PMF breaking it down. Phillies secondary was getting lit up repeatedly with all the injuries they had that year. Yet Julio Calvin or any of our guys couldn't set it off against them because of repeatedly weak game calling by Sark. We didn't perform against top defenses that year. I never thought Sark was good. His numbers were inflated. I remember too many games his final year when the offense would stagnate for 2 whole quarters only to finally open up after the defenses have sort of put the game away. People tend to forget that but point to stats lying to our eyes claiming it was top 10 because he reached certain numbers. I will miss Kyle and his assistants. I don't think Chris Morgan is a good assistant coach either. He is still living off his time with Kyle.

Could we argue that the db coach was just horrible for both Manuel and Quinn? I still think Quinn is very capable. Look at the turn around job he did during our superbowl year when he took over from Richard (i forgot his last name). I am not sure if he is good at making assistant coaching decisions. He let 2 Shanahan disciples go despite knowing he wanted to keep the offense. If he would've retained one of them and we still performed badly, then the organization and fan base would have supported letting him go. He moved a premium secondary coach in Raheem to offense just to promote Manuel. He hired Henderson who was garbage for both Manuel and him. I hope the growing pains with him are over. Hopefully the loyalty butterflies in him are gone. I like coach whit and the new defensive line coach. I've always thought they've been underperforming for more than a while now.

To be fair, Manuel had better results rushing 4 that year. We were giving up egregious amount of completions rushing 3. I think that was where the frustration with Manuel boiled with ppl. He didn't have a feel for his guys when they were finally in a rhythm on defense. He will get cute and take them out of it. Raheem is just night and day better in what ever look we fielded during the second half last year.

I think he probably means for the team to start hitting their stride on both sides of the ball regardless of record. 2016: even though we started the season with a good win/loss record, the team especially the defense didn't start hitting their stride until Quinn to over second half of season. 2017: the new defensive coordinator (forgot the name of Quinns buddy) didn't really start hitting their stride with the defense until second half of the season as well.

Luckily we have a new secondary coach. I would like to see what he looks like with competent coaching. I can't seem to think of a player his style reminds me of. Browner with ball skills?

Great point Athell. As much as I get on Matt about this aspect of his game which contributes to our red zone efficiency woes, i also think it has as much to do with Matt beating himself up for his high turnover rate his rookie year for being aggressive (i prefer this Matt by the way). I think coach Smith coached him out of it. That's why he only attempts these kind of throws only when the game is on the line or back is against the wall instead of making this part of his regular arsenal. If you play as if you are scared of throwing interception all game, those high risk throws become even harder to make when needed. This is where the elite qbs shine over Matt to me. The break the defenses back with these difficult high risk throws because they trust the wr to win even when the defense knows its coming. They make the back shoulder throw, fades, jump balls, even a good jump ball pass on go routes that isn't wobbling in the air for the defender to gather and make a play on the ball.

I've always wondered if Dirk and Ryan watch cut ups of the 49ers offense so they can add to the play book to evolve the offense. Heck i wouldn't mind if they steal some things from Andy Reid too.

With his speed and athleticism, I wonder what he would look like at safety.

I totally agree with how Kyle used Julio. I was shocked to see Julio getting schemed open. I will miss Kyle. I wish we would have brought in someone else asides from Dirk. I don't know why we didn't poach any of Kyle's assistants after we fired Sark. I know Gurley will eat. I'm more worried once we get either injury along the oline or Todd. We don't fare well. We always blame injuries when we don't do well. Injuries are going to happen. Yes there might be a drop in production but the teams with very good coaches somehow help their units overachieve. Whether that's through masking through scheme or plays... or simply coaching the next man up like Raheem did when he took over.

Yet why is it hard for our coordinators to do these things? Everything for our offense airways seem like we're plodding and hoping to get a first down. Other teams with less have players running wide open multiple times a game while our players have to execute perfectly with almost any margin of error just to get 5 yards. I laugh when I'm getting ready to watch a game with my friends and the announcer mentions how the opponent is missing 2 corners and are fielding a bunchof street free agents. 4th quarter with 4 minutes left, we're in a close game barely reaching 20 points🤣. We somehow squeak out the win. The same opponent gets blown out or loses convincingly the following week😂

Yes. I think he had a phenomenal rookie campaign. I think the playoff loss made him gun shy ever since. I relent during that year, all we had were Roddy and turner. He took chances on those go routes with Roddy even if his defender was stride for stride with him or in the end zone. Turner was the number 1 so he was guaranteed to get his touches. Then Matt to Roddy was number 2. I wish we can get back to that formula.

With the exception of 2016 and 2015, we always have problem getting our playmaker the ball. Heck I think Tony Gonzalez was probably the main one that overachiever in Dirk's scheme. We always hear excuses that teams are double our triple gaming Julio yet, Antonio brown, DeAndre, Marques Colston, Micheal Thomas and the list goes on....are getting schemed open or favorable one on one matchups so they could thrive. I don't know if it's a Matt problem or play caller problem. We've had some stacked teams only to get easily shut out or drastically underperform with everyone except for kyle. Playoff Teams with much less are executing much better than us on offense. It's just annoying.

I don't understand it to the level of Vandy Vel PMF KOG and the rest of our geniuses on the board. I remember how in one of PMF threads he talks about how well Kyle's mind works by integrating so many parts in to every play design to use as chess pieces for home run plays later during the game. That depth and creativity isn't there with Dirk. It flashes at times but it requires everything to be so perfect at every position to get average results while kyle helps his unit out with so many disguises.

That would mean taking audibles away from Matt. According to this board, they want Matt to call the plays instead. Kyle doesn't allow his qbs to audible because the percentage of run plays will decline. It was evident last year when Matt checked out of them with those run pass option plays. This is something Dirk will have to enforce this season. I really hope he is studying san Frans plays during this lockdown. He needs to literally steal every run play they ran last year. Anyways, we can only hope. I just don't know why our guys always have blown assignments in the run game but thrived in executing blocks at a high rate when Kyle was here. What does that say about Chris Morgan's ability?