Couldn't watch the game until the end when the Arizona-St Louis game ended but read that Bush played over House on defense?

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Five 3 and outs is completely unacceptable.

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and turnovers. Which you cannot do against great teams.

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Wow.

I am shocked by some of the negativity.

We played one of the best teams in the league and should have/could have won the game. Our own miscues lost the game (turnovers, offensive penalties, CM3's penalty, boneheaded returns from the end zone).

We had lousy field position all night, starting at/behind the 20 most of the evening. Our D did a good job stuffing the run, shutting down the read option, and containing Krapernick.

Yeah, the D left too many guys wide open down the middle of the field (and that's a consistent problem with Capers' defense--so I'm thinking that's a scheme issue), but even with that we almost beat the 49ers.

I was highly encouraged by the performance in the first game of the season--the penalties & boneheaded returns can be addressed.

JSO 



Because it's more important to rack up stats than it is to keep the other team off the field, or rest your defense. If Kaepernick had 1/3 fewer plays, he'd only have had about 264 yards passing. I think we win.

We also saw what happened when the defense gets worn down in the 4th quarter.

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considering whenever they tried to control the ball they turned it over on downs... Your obsession with it being about stats is just completely fucking stupid and old. You simply have no clue what you are talking about. The difference between the two offenses today was the 49ers had all day to sit in the pocket. Gb had a much smaller window to work with.

It was a perfect loss. I could not be more pleased.

Todays loss will result in a 14 -2 season.

Now.. If the Packers won big today.. It would have resulted in a 10 - 6 season.

The best thing that could have happened to this team is to lose on week one the way they did today.

Think about it, and think deep.

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We always think deep at PH, RP. Some are more capable than others. [grin1]

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I wish they would of put Tramon on Bolden. Shields is fast and a good cover guy, but he's gonna get out toughed by players like him. We missed Burnett a lot today. We need guys who can cover TEs. Jennings and McMillian is simply to small to cover Davis. I really wanted some emphasis this offseason to really work on that safety position.. Obviously not focusing on that position is showing it's effects now.

I think the 49ers surely had the right idea to play us today. We wanted to play heavy run, and play tons of Zone. So Kaepernick couldn't run free. They played opposite of what we thought they would try to do. Recievers had free releases ALL day. Didn't even feel like we blitzed a lot today either. Honestly if he's gonna beat us with a 4 man rush. Why not send more guys and press the recievers more. We played them better than we did in the playoffs, but like I said they just went in another direction that we wanted to attack them with.

If we play them in the playoffs we need to get physical with their recievers or else we'll lose to them 4 times in a row. I think this might be the last year dom is our cordinater despite the results of this season.

I like how Lacy and Finley came back after their rough start in the beginning. Lacy just looks so much more dynamic than the backs we've had here in the past. Bakhtiari played pretty well and played the best he could against Smith(Aldon). I was really cringing on the 3 big runs that came back because of Holding calls.. Sheesh that is bad luck on that part. Aaron just played lights out... He is just so damn consistant year to year. Nelson and Cobb also just played lights out coming off of injuries. AMAZING CATCHS by both of them Especially Nelson's sideline catches. wow... Those guys caught everything that came their way. Absorbed big hits and still held onto the ball. I don't think this offense will miss a beat this season again.

The only question marks is our PASS defense and our special teams. Mainly returning kicks and punts. I'm not as concerned with our Offensive line surprisingly because it won't get worse than what we have. I believe Bakhitari and having Sitton on that side will be better than last years Newhouse and Lang Combo. I think we should try someone else on KR other than Ross. That or he needs to be a better decision maker in that endzone. Defiantly not as dynamic as Cobb is. Hell try Hyde back there. I thought we were using him in that role. Well punts, but I bet he'd do a decent job returning kicks.

And Tramon isn't going to get "out toughed" by Bolden?

Bolden beat them both at times today.

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