Well,
LargeRon here was factually incorrect about his response to me (and so was. The games the 49ers lost were against physical, balanced offenses.
Right. Which is exactly what I did, providing the evidence of the numbers. You probably ought to make sure that posters on "this" forum, like LargeRon, do not provide bogus numbers like he did in his response to mine. A good source for you to see that my data was correct is profootballreference.com. If you go there, instead of assuming that I was "making up stuff," you would see that my claim was correct. If you were even more diligent, and went to nfl.com/replay (after paying a small fee, of course), and watched the four games the 49ers lost, you would find quite convincing evidence that in each of the 49er loses with the exception of the Rams, their opponent played a BALANCED and PHYSICAL offensive game.
With the Vikings, they ran the ball enough to keep the defense honest, but it was Ponder's play that gave the Viking offense balance (they are usually a run heavy team, but in this game they played more of a traditional balanced west coast offense, with a physical running attack to keep the defense honest).
With the Giants game, CONTRARY to LargeRon's claim, they were able to run the ball very well against the 49ers (while normally they are a pass first offense). Instead of passing the ball all over the field like they normally did, Bradshaw broke more than 100 on us, and
Eli didn't even break 200 yards passing on us.
The Rams game was a physical, defensive match. This one shouldn't have been a loss, if not for a freak turnover, but the 49ers defense shut them down.
The final loss, against Seattle, Russel Wilson was held to less than 180 passing yards, but Lynch got 111 (very hard to do against our defense). The Seahawks ran AND passed the ball. They used a power running game mixed with a quick, short passing attack. The offensive attack was BALANCED.
In the three losses which a great deal of the blame fell on the defense, the opposing offense was BALANCED.
Now contrast that with some of the teams that were one dimensional against us:
Green Bay- win
Detroit- win
Jets- win
Buffalo- win
Seattle the first game- win
Arizona both times- wins
Chicago-win
New Orleans-win
New England - win
The only team that played a one dimensional offense and beat us was the Rams, and their offense had NOTHING to do with their win.
So in closing, good sir, I didn't "make up stuff." The poster I responded to did, however.
have a good evening NinerFan
