thesack12 wrote:Jikkle wrote:After 8 years of the Shanahan regime, I've learned not to really care about what happens during training camp or the preseason games especially offensively.
Now I'm not saying there isn't anything to take away from it but it always seems like we look like a mess during August and when week 1 rolls around the offense does just fine.
So as far as yesterday goes I couldn't care less about what the offense performed. Half the offensive line was gone and Purdy's number 1 option yesterday would be his 5th or 6th option if we played all our starters. I didn't like seeing Purdy take those hits but I also get why he would want to get out there and see some live action since you just can't replicate that in practice.
The only thing that peaked my concern a bit was the run defense looked eerily similar to last season in that it either got gashed for big gains or it completely stuffed the run.
I'd rather not see a year of inconsistent defense where they can look like the best in the league one drive and the next drive look like absolute garbage and get ran off the field.
And honestly I don't know if I can take another year of awful 3rd down defense. We were 27th in the league in terms of opponents 3rd down conversion rate at 42.47% and I might gouge my eyes out if I see another year of it being 3rd and 5 and all the DBs are giving like 5-yard cushions and it's just an easy pitch for catch for 7 yards for the conversion.
100% this. The inability of the defense to get off the dang field was maddening. I was basically never confident on 3rd down, that they were going to get a stop. And don't even get me started on 3rd & long situations. The defense was impressively bad in 3rd and longs. It was almost like the other teams game planned around getting into 3rd and longs, because the SF D was so constantly bad there.
I also don't want to hear any more about how supposedly great and talented the Dline is, while they are simultaneously getting routinely stonewalled by opposing O-lines, and the defense is getting gashed in the run game.
Oh, and I know he's hurt right now, but any time Ambry Thomas steps on the field for a meaningful snap the 9ers will continue to be playing 10 on 11. I honestly have no idea how that guy STILL is on the roster. He's basically always the worst 9er defender, and more often than not the worst player on the field overall. Hopefully, with the infusion of CB talent and depth, Ambry won't make final cuts.
I'm more critical of the defensive line and really the front 7 for the run defense. I didn't think the defensive line with the pass rush as people believed.
When you dig into the stats and maybe I'm interrupting the data wrong but the 9ers were 3rd in the league for QB hits but 18th in the league in sack percentage. When you look at the other 4 teams in the top 5 teams for QB hits all 4 of those teams were the top 1-4 in sack percentage. Now when you look at the Y/A given up the 9ers were a respectable 5th in the league at 6.4.
The way I interrupt all of that was the 9ers did get pressure but didn't get sacks because the ball was out of the QBs hands before they could get the QB sacked hence why they had a lot of hits but not the percentage of sacks that they should've had.
It's why I've been pounding the table for the defense to play more like the defenses that defeat our offense and that's have the DBs play man and beat up the WRs at the line, force the QB to hold the ball longer, and now some of those QB hits will become QB sacks.
Instead they play zone most of the time and the QB is able to just get the ball off quick into a hole in the coverage and it's a 1st down.
What they've been doing on defense for years even before Wilks is not give up big plays and play the percentages you'll eventually get a stop on somewhere along the drive.
As infuriating as the defense could be to watch I did in general feel like fans did overreact to it. They were still 3rd in the league in scoring and the reality is you're going to give up some big plays and some points. Your defense line is going to get stonewalled and you're in a league where if you get a sack on 9% of the snaps you see that's considered a really good year so over 90% of passing plays aren't going to end in a sack.
