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I hope Burden is OK

agree and amen to both these comments.

amen

aaaahhhhh

here comes the nasty blitz

DA has some nasty blitzes in his pocket for this drive.

He is gonna be great for us for many years!

Think of it this way - Caleb is keeping pace against the Niners good defense with what the Niners offense is doing to our terrible defense. Impressive.

Caleb has been deadly. That pass rolling to the left was ridiculous.

no, youre not. hes gotta be gone next year.

We can still win this, but I am glad we are getting punched in the nose 2 weeks before the playoffs. We need to realize that when it comes to the really good teams, we need to give more.

it's like an NBA game - you really score by getting a defensive stop. ANd maybe DA is saving some nasty stuff for the right moment at the end. I kind of feel that a lot of our midgame woes are because if we start pressing early, they can respond with our lack of pressure. So we kind of try to slow things down and get to the end game where we pull out our aggressive stuff for the surprise knockout. All this changes when we have a D line that can pressure the QB. That's the missing piece.

love it

100%

Ugh we needed a score before halftime.

We need a D line - we knew this in August. It's amazing how opportunistic our defense has been, but most QBs this year that we have played had plenty of time and it makes it just too easy to pick us apart. Good news is it's SO obvious that Johnson and Poles must know it and they will make it a priority this offseason.

I was discussing the Bears - you were implying that trading DJ didnt open up cap space, I said you were wrong about that. Then you said you just meant that there is dead cap space, um, there is always dead cap space, what matters is how much cap space the move opens, and you know this, we all know this, you read the chart wrong and now youre tap dancing like you didnt. Just stop trying to "get me", you wont. I'm not saying cap stuff that isn't true. You just want to fight and I REALLY don't. I do want to talk about the Bears, and if that includes clearing up something you posted that was factually incorrect, then thats OK. Now drop it. PLEASE. PLEASE.

It's possible the Niners will play the Seahawks hard, but i can see them resting people too. I guess I'm used to the games not mattering much this time of year, but usually it's because we are out of it, not because we have the division locked up and a likely 2nd seed. Lets Go!

really? crap!!

at some point maybe someone will give you a week's ban or at least tell you to stop. I shouldnt have to just keep taking it without the ability to respond. It feels like since you have Pix on your side that youre just gonna keep taking jabs assuming i am unable to respond because he will ban me again. But I would rather be banned than be someones bitch, so if i have to ramp it up again i will. so cut it out so we can all live in peace here. Maybe some other members can give you some good advice about this too, since they felt free to tell me to stop too?

thank you! I hope they all recover fast.

The conversation about Swift and Kmet not being good enough was one thing - and then Swift started playing like he never had before, and i said that he had played himself back on the team many weeks ago. We all saw Swift run and said similar things after the bye. The discussion about Moore and Jaylon Johnson wasnt that they werent good enough, it was about their cap space. So that's different. If youre going to bring someone in, even a highly paid free agent, you need to clear cap room for them, and there are only a few players who can do that. The LT conversation didnt include Trapilo because he was off of most people's radar for the draft - a right tackle - so the discussion was that Braxton wasnt good enough. And that we should draft one of the good left tackles. No one at the time expected Benedet to develop like that, and until we drafted Trapilo no one was thinking about him either. None of us had him in predraft lists. After we drafted him, and saw a couple preseason games, I said I thought he would beat Braxton out. I was right that Braxton sucks, but I didnt even consider Benedet, and I had hope for Trapilo - I still do. So the rewritten history lesson should not then stand as proof that we can roll with what we have on the D line. It's apples and oranges. We need killers on the D line. And I trust we will find a way to get some. Sweat, Dayo and Booker are not enough by far. All could be good in supporting roles to a stud Edge and something new and disruptive at 3T.

who else besides Wright?

This is such a strange team! On one hand we get turnovers, and our offense is taking steps every week. On the other hand I've never seen a team win so many games without a pass rush. I keep expecting it to catch up with us. But you know what? if we are a weird formula for a team that wins, who am I to say no? I believe this team can beat any team we play, and at the same time I still dont know how without a pass rush! I CAN say that they have now achieved the goals I had for them this year, and there are two games yet to play! WOW. Divisional Champs sure sounds good. Can they keep the magic going? Why not! Lets go!

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