The whole point is it’s the saints pushing us around….not the niners. We shouldn’t be pushed around by teams on the saints level if we are a team that is expected to make a deep playoff run and be taken seriously.
Sure, this does happen to great teams once or 2x a year but this isn’t a one year sample size for us, it’s been the last 3-4 years of a sample size we the same inconsistency’s ie ; lack of consistent run, lack of consistently stopping the run, one dimensional.
I’m not loading up the “guns” or sharpening the pitch forks, I know this team is capable of winning 10,11,12 games this year- that’s great, the goal by now should be getting over the hump. It’s not about giving up on the season, I surely haven’t but it’s being realistic about how our offseason shortcomings coming home to bite us in the ***.
We do half measures and hope in the offseason that’s why these issues never get addressed. We are literally relying on 6 rookies right now to get us over the hump- to say fans saw this coming is an understatement and I say this still watching every week and rooting for the team