Which is why he's no longer starting for the 49ers. It's absolutely mind boggling to me how you can be a QB (even in college fooball) and then just ignore having a wide open receiver on the sideline, you don't throw the ball to him, instead you hand the ball to the RB? Just inexcusable. Why wouldn't you throw the ball to him? If you can't see that you shouldn't be playing. If you do see that and you still stick with the original call (run up the middle) you shouldn't be playing. If you're on the same page with the receiver (Colin and Torrey Smith were) you get the ball to him no matter what.
Attention: Sniper in the building. Cromartie gets taken out, leaving the slot guy wide open but Pryor shows great hustle to make another TD saving tackle. Has there ever been anybody that ran away from him? His closing speed on the field is terrific.
Don't get me wrong, it's a nice write up and I appreciate the effort. But the "take out that one play" nonsense is nonsense. It's arbitrary and all you're doing is using it as a ploy to fit it into your narrative. When grading a game -and I don't care about letter grades--you can't take away a great great play. _
Nice to see how good Pryor is becoming. I dont hear his name much on the big sports outlets, but he has to be at least in the conversation of the probowl. A lot of Jets have a shot this year, actually. Hopefully none of them will be allowed to play.
Fair enough, I guess we both look at it a bit different. I look at it the same way I'd look at a defender, a linebacker recovering a fumble and returning it 99 yards for a TD. It's more luck, not much skill. Great job staying alert and scooping the ball up. Maybe I value tough throws too much but everybody looks at it different which is fine.
The fans haven't really noticed his strong play yet but hopefully as we win more games the next few weeks they start voting for him more. I'm not worried about the players and coaches not voting for him, I'm sure he'll be one of the top 3-4 safeties if it comes down to them.
So Fitz recognizing the defensive lapse, quick snapping it and calmly throwing the ball to Marshall is like a LB scooping up a fumble and returning it 99 yards? All I know is, if it were Brady or Rogers it would be the stuff of legends. But Fitz? Can really give him too much credit for that. _
Let's get to Fitz' 3 TD passes. Did a great job on the first one using his head/eyes to freeze the safety, enough time and space for Decker to gain inside leverage. One the second one Fitz takes advantage of a confused Titans defense that didn't get the call in. Fitz sees it, Marshall is on the same page, and that's all she wrote. Jurrell Casey tried hard but couldn't quite get there. Poor guy. Powell shows off his elusiveness yet again, great vision and YAC. Fitz has done a tremendous job lately with the checkdowns. Whenever Marshall and Decker are covered he usually goes to Powell as his next option and it has been paying off for us.
You don't think that was his first read--he barely gives a look to the right where Decker and Marshall aren't even through their routes--it looks like he did that to draw the defenders that way. I don't think that was a check down at all. Looks pretty similar to the Powell TD last week although I think that was a true screen with the lineman setting it up. _
If you look at Marshall, he is setting himself up for the block before the ball is thrown--thus indicating the screen was the call.
Good catch. Not a check down, perfectly executed screen. I tell you, I've never been a huge Powell fan but that dude is indispensable. He looks like a totally different guy this year. _
No, I was just saying in general. Powell has become our #3 option in the passing game lately. Any ball that doesn't go to Decker or Marshall usually goes his way. And with Devin out for the year I think his role is going to increase as well.
Demario getting Pinball'd on the left side. This is what I was referring to earlier in my opening post, once a tackle or a TE gets a hand on him there's a good chance he's gonna end up flat on his back. He's only effective when he gets through unblocked.
Wilkerson and Mauldin with the pressure, forcing an incompletion. Almost picked by Revis. Mauldin ties up 3 linemen while Mo uses his instincts to get around them and go collect his 2nd sack of the game. Mauldin with a nice stunt over the middle, misses the sack and Mo finishes it off with a strip sack. Watch him toss Chance Warmack aside with one arm.
Obviously, we should have traded Wilkerson this past offseason. He only looks good because he plays next to Snacks and because Cromartie gives him so much time.
Well, you have to hand it to him. He bet on himself and he's going to cash in bigtime after the season. Cutting guys like Pace and Cro should free up enough money to extend Mo, then re-do Brick, slash his salary in half, work over Breno's deal and we're good.
