It's almost as if using a first round pick on a backup in a win-now year made zero sense. It's just one game, but Bowers had 6 catches for 60 yards in his Raiders debut btw. I'll hedge all of this by saying Fashanu seems like he's been doing well, but the fact of the matter has always been that he's unlikely to have a big impact this year.
Offense couldn’t move the ball with speed. SF’s D was flying everywhere. The simple easiest answer was to go with power. At least fucking try it. Not one running play to anyone but Breece until 5 minutes left in the game? After drafting 2 RB’s this year? Unacceptable.
Add in our previous year draft picks too... Of past 2 year drafts, only Tippman had an impact last night. That's not very comforting.
How can we take a player at pick 11 and not play him? Add WMD with pick 15 and you see why were not in the niners league. Also, Tippman is backup quality, not playoff starter quality.
I'm not getting mad or worried about our draft picks' contributions in week one. That's ridiculous. It was known Olu is sitting unless of injury. Malachi has some development as a receiver and should have some role in time, but didn't expect a ton week one. Other guys are clearly backups and developmental players. That said, I would have liked Braelon Allen to spell Breece more often and hope for that in the weeks ahead. He shouldn't be on the field every single snap. Allen has showed enough to warrant playing time due to his performance coupled with the need to not run Breece into the ground
Breece didn't get a spell at all until they pulled the starters, there were definitely some sort yardage situations that they should have used him instead of sending Breece up the middle to get folded over. He's a finesse back, he's not going to break through in those short yardage situations. Hackett has no clue how to employ any personnel.
Brock Bowers probably doesn't even register a catch in our own offensive game plan last night. And likely catches about as many balls on the year as Lazard did last year. Or that we'll get out of the money that was basically flushed down the toilet on Mike Williams that was always more about feeding the the offseason "we need a big name!" headline hype train then anything else. If anything last night showed exactly why Bowers never actually made any system fit sense *here* in the first place. At least again, once you got past the completely unrealistic expectations of what better QB play was actually going to look like in *THIS* offense that chose to put zero competent minds in that coaching room.
