Bulaga hurt?

[Bossman641]

The 49ers especially and Seattle to an extent had to bottom out for a succession of years in order to get into position to draft all those big, talented OL and DL. With the exception of 06 the Packers have been drafting towards the end of round 1 every year. Even taking that into account, it's been the injuries that have screwed up the line positions. Harrell should be in the prime of his career. Sherrod and Bulaga were supposed to be bookend tackles for the next 10 years.

SF
2004 2-14
2005 4-12
2006 7-9
2007 5-11
2008 7-9
2009 8-8
2010 6-10

Seattle
2008 4-12
2009 5-11
2010 7-9

[wist43]

Here is my problem with you and Rbaloha. This game was very close. Tied midway through the 3rd quarter. We were not physically dominated, we were out schemed....that almost sounds like a soft way to win....running a trick play the Eric Walden falls for everytime.

We ran the ball very effectively early, got a pick 6 early by our soft defense, and down one score at the midpoint of the 3rd we benched our only healthy running back and didn't run again.

That isn't soft, that is setting your QB up to be killed. If we run effectively this season and MM has confidence to keep calling it, we likely win the big game again. This despite our 2 first round OT's being out.

We are soft?? We have lost a big physical DE 1st round pick, 2 1st round physical OT's, and a big physical 1st round OLB to injury. Show me a team that does that and still wins. ONly one I bet.

We have been unlucky. MM having zero confidence to call run plays at clutch moments doesn't help...but soft?? I just don't buy it.

We get physically dominated on both sides of the ball for different reasons.

On offense it is our philosophy that acquires offensive linemen that are first and foremost, mobile. That usually translates into players that can't drive block, or anchor very well in pass-pro.

We get absolutely no movement of the LOS off the snap - none. That is physically dominated.

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On defense the wounds are more self-inflicted by Capers addiction to playing as small as possible at all times.

Perhaps we could hold our own on the LOS if Capers played the game as if controlling the LOS were a goal - but controlling the LOS isn't even on his checklist. Hence, our front six are undersized to take on power running teams like SF - and we get shoved around more than we should.

This doesn't bother Capers in the least, b/c in his spraypainted head, coverage trumps every other consideration - and we don't even do that well when we come up against the big boys.

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As for the SF game - say what you will about what the score was before their dominance was permanently reflected on the scoreboard - after things settled down, there was no doubt which team was going to win, and there was no doubt that GB was utterly powerless and clueless to do anything about it.

I had a little bit of hope when Shields took that early pick to the house - but it didn't take long to see that SF was completely dominating us in the trenches, and as long as Kapnerfucker didn't implode, SF was going to win going away.

The fact that the game turned into an embarrassment - a fight that should have been stopped on a TKO... that speaks to how utterly clueless MM and Capers were in their prep for that game.

In the end, we had lost that game long before the team ever stepped on the field - it was a complete mismatch - and I fully expect a repeat in Week 1. We're starting the season off 0-1, and if we meet them in the playoffs, our season will be over at that point.