Yakuza Rich
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- Even though the Cowboys lost last week, I did come away with more positives than negatives last week. All things considered, I thought the team looked like a top 10 team last week. The question is whether or not they can keep up the pace. I will say with Wade as HC, you'd get the feeling that they would win here, but there would be a lot of frustratingly sloppy play. That's a big part in the process for Garrett as a HC. Can we eliminate that and play a good, crisp game of football?
- I do feel pretty good about where we stand in the NFC East. The Eagles beat a team that hasn't won more than 8 games since 2003 and Vick reverted to his old ways of needing to beat teams with his legs instead of out of the pocket. The Commanders did look pretty good, although the G-Men looked decimated by injuries. However, I wasn't quite as impressed with Rex Grossman. His throws were often high and he still seems like the game moves too fast for him. That being said, the playcalling by Kyle Shanahan was masterful.
For all of the talk, even by myself, I thought Romo looked like the best NFC East QB last week. I'm not trying to get into that conversation again...just protect the freaking ball Tony...for the sake of my sanity.
- I do think we'll have to grind it out on offense because the Niners defense I think matches up pretty well with us. Getting Dez healthy is big because I can see Willis matching up with Witten. I think the key players then become Felix and John Phillips.
- I was impressed with the improvement of communication on defense. We seemed to struggle with communication all throughout preseason, but did a good job on the road against he Jets. Still, there were a few times we struggled with communication and it cost us. We need to clean up those mishaps.
- I think Rob Ryan's plan was to throw a ton of different blitzes from the secondary and to put Sean Lee on LT2. Lee can't quite cover LT2 (not many ILB's can). But I think Ryan's thoughts are that as long as it doesn't kill us, he'll take the tradeoff. This week, we've got to worry about Frank Gore.
- 2nd week in a row we face a helluva ILB. I'll take a Bart Scott on my team any day...this time we get Pat Willis.
- Probably the player I'm most interested in watching against the Niners is Mike Jenkins. I think that block by Plaxico woke him up. That being said, I'm a bit torn on that block. I think it was a legal hit, but something tells me if Dez did that to Revis, they'd throw a flag (and fine him).
- Maybe the refs actually call a penalty against the opponent this week!
- I get the feeling that Dockery is close to starting over Nagy. I think they'll hold off on it this week though. I think Nagy looked better as the Jets game went along and I think that keeps him as the starter for this week. My feeling is that on this team, with Garrett as the coach...the best players, play. No 1/2 arsing it...doesn't make a difference if it's a long time veteran or a 1st round pick or a promising rookie or whatever. The best players play. THAT will eventually get us where we want to be.
- I feel like we get a win here. I think the game will be won by 10 points or so, but it will be relatively close in nature. I think Harbaugh keeps the offense conservative for the Niners and their defense keeps the game close. Winning a pretty tough game on the road by 10 points isn't a bad thing for me, but I'm curious as to how crisp this team plays. I'm also curious as to how well this team gameplans and adjusts. I thought we did a great job there against the Jets, but it was the 1st game of the season so we had more time to prepare.
YR
- I do feel pretty good about where we stand in the NFC East. The Eagles beat a team that hasn't won more than 8 games since 2003 and Vick reverted to his old ways of needing to beat teams with his legs instead of out of the pocket. The Commanders did look pretty good, although the G-Men looked decimated by injuries. However, I wasn't quite as impressed with Rex Grossman. His throws were often high and he still seems like the game moves too fast for him. That being said, the playcalling by Kyle Shanahan was masterful.
For all of the talk, even by myself, I thought Romo looked like the best NFC East QB last week. I'm not trying to get into that conversation again...just protect the freaking ball Tony...for the sake of my sanity.
- I do think we'll have to grind it out on offense because the Niners defense I think matches up pretty well with us. Getting Dez healthy is big because I can see Willis matching up with Witten. I think the key players then become Felix and John Phillips.
- I was impressed with the improvement of communication on defense. We seemed to struggle with communication all throughout preseason, but did a good job on the road against he Jets. Still, there were a few times we struggled with communication and it cost us. We need to clean up those mishaps.
- I think Rob Ryan's plan was to throw a ton of different blitzes from the secondary and to put Sean Lee on LT2. Lee can't quite cover LT2 (not many ILB's can). But I think Ryan's thoughts are that as long as it doesn't kill us, he'll take the tradeoff. This week, we've got to worry about Frank Gore.
- 2nd week in a row we face a helluva ILB. I'll take a Bart Scott on my team any day...this time we get Pat Willis.
- Probably the player I'm most interested in watching against the Niners is Mike Jenkins. I think that block by Plaxico woke him up. That being said, I'm a bit torn on that block. I think it was a legal hit, but something tells me if Dez did that to Revis, they'd throw a flag (and fine him).
- Maybe the refs actually call a penalty against the opponent this week!
- I get the feeling that Dockery is close to starting over Nagy. I think they'll hold off on it this week though. I think Nagy looked better as the Jets game went along and I think that keeps him as the starter for this week. My feeling is that on this team, with Garrett as the coach...the best players, play. No 1/2 arsing it...doesn't make a difference if it's a long time veteran or a 1st round pick or a promising rookie or whatever. The best players play. THAT will eventually get us where we want to be.
- I feel like we get a win here. I think the game will be won by 10 points or so, but it will be relatively close in nature. I think Harbaugh keeps the offense conservative for the Niners and their defense keeps the game close. Winning a pretty tough game on the road by 10 points isn't a bad thing for me, but I'm curious as to how crisp this team plays. I'm also curious as to how well this team gameplans and adjusts. I thought we did a great job there against the Jets, but it was the 1st game of the season so we had more time to prepare.
YR
