Tough to win when the stars don’t show up

[Flamma]

160 million dollar QB didn’t have his best game.
90 million dollar RB 31 yards
Star WR has only 1 catch
Star DE no sacks
Rookie Star LB no sacks
All Pro CB no big plays


Can’t win when your big stars don’t produce.

If God were to come down and tell fans the 49ers are going to score 23 points against Dallas, at home, in tomorrow's playoff game, 99 out of 100 would put money on Dallas. The offense screwed the pooch.

 

[Diehardblues]

If God were to come down and tell fans the 49ers are going to score 23 points against Dallas, at home, in tomorrow's playoff game, 99 out of 100 would put money on Dallas. The offense screwed the pooch.

Not if they watched the Cowboys second half of the season.

We were 6-0 against our division. And 6-6 against the rest. It’s a tale of two different teams pending who we were playing.

 

[ChuckA1]

Blackrain, roof was closed. Problem with sun is/was caused by glass wall on west side of stadium.

 

[buybuydandavis]

160 million dollar QB didn’t have his best game.
90 million dollar RB 31 yards
Star WR has only 1 catch
Star DE no sacks
Rookie Star LB no sacks
All Pro CB no big plays

Can’t win when your big stars don’t produce.

Oline laid an egg too. Even Martin. As healthy as they've been all year, and laid an egg.

One thing we've got to take a look at in the offseason - just how good are the Cowboys out of division? Playing in the NFC East gives them 6 games against trash opponents every year. It distorts team and player evaluation.

 

[buybuydandavis]

Not if they watched the Cowboys second half of the season.

We were 6-0 against our division. And 6-6 against the rest. It’s a tale of two different teams pending who we were playing.

6-6 against the rest of the league. A mediocre team that didn't really belong in the playoffs, but was the best of the worst division.

The stank of the NFC East has been masking the Cowboy stank for years.

We need to go back and judge the team for the last few years by our play outside division for how we stack up outside our division stank. Team and players.
I bet the result will not be pretty, and show that we've been overrated for years.

 

[Flamma]

Not if they watched the Cowboys second half of the season.

We were 6-0 against our division. And 6-6 against the rest. It’s a tale of two different teams pending who we were playing.

It's not so much division or out of division, any team with a pulse would shut our offense down. Either for the entire game, or until they got a big enough lead. The exception being the Patriots.

My point is that it's not a "stars" didn't show up issue. Not a defense issue. Why does our offense clam up?

Go back to 2019. Games against the Saints, Packers, Jets, Vikings, Patriots, Bills, and Bears. Same pattern. We're either shut down completely, or shut down long enough for the opponent to get out to a big lead. Then blow out the weaker teams.

The team was no different in 2020, it's just that the defense was so bad it's harder to spot the pattern.

 

[Diehardblues]

It's not so much division or out of division, any team with a pulse would shut our offense down. Either for the entire game, or until they got a big enough lead. The exception being the Patriots.

My point is that it's not a "stars" didn't show up issue. Not a defense issue. Why does our offense clam up?

Go back to 2019. Games against the Saints, Packers, Jets, Vikings, Patriots, Bills, and Bears. Same pattern. We're either shut down completely, or shut down long enough for the opponent to get out to a big lead. Then blow out the weaker teams.

The team was no different in 2020, it's just that the defense was so bad it's harder to spot the pattern.

Understood and agree with most. But even our stars on defense didn’t show up in this game . No sacks or big plays by Parsons, Diggs or Lawrence .

 

[Flamma]

Understood and agree with most. But even our stars on defense didn’t show up in this game . No sacks or big plays by Parsons, Diggs or Lawrence .

It's harder to do in catch up mode when your opponent isn't taking many chances, or isn't desperate. They held down the fort well enough. They forced Jimmy G. to throw that awful pick. But he wasn't hurried for most of the game because they ran the ball effectively against us. Watch how much worse he plays when he doesn't have a 13-0 lead on the Packers.

 

[DandyDon52]

Yep I read the same thing and that cost us some points right there unbelievable

the odd thing is jerry would not say why he doesnt use the curtains ! there is no reason not to.
I think he is insane, so this kinda is an example of that.

 

[Pantone282C]

Amazingly as poorly as they played we still had a shot in the end. 49ers should have blown us out.

And probably didn't blow us out from their own ineptitude. Won't go far in the playoffs with play like that.