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StickyBun · 10-23-2023, 01:38 PM

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https://twitter.com/DustBaker/status/171...1446501636

10-23-2023, 02:20 PM

Sounds like McCaffrey is playing. This is not good. He needs a few shots to the midsection to make him think twice about that.

10-23-2023, 02:22 PM

Quote: @MaroonBells said:
Sounds like McCaffrey is playing. This is not good. He needs a few shots to the midsection to make him think twice about that.

Not to be an Eeyore, but even w/out McCaffrey and Deebo, I would still take the 9'ers to win.

I just dont trust this team or O staff this year...Its just "off"

10-23-2023, 02:42 PM

I could even see Minnesota making a game out of it......yet not winning. Close but no cigar kind of thing. Going to need Addison to play like JJ.

10-23-2023, 02:49 PM

Quote: @purplefaithful said:

@MaroonBells said:
Sounds like McCaffrey is playing. This is not good. He needs a few shots to the midsection to make him think twice about that.
Not to be an Eeyore, but even w/out McCaffrey and Deebo, I would still take the 9'ers to win.

I just dont trust this team or O staff this year...Its just "off"

They're favored for a reason. And the Vikings without JJ is a much bigger factor than the 49ers without Deebo.

But I do like a few of the matchups, particularly Hunter against whoever replaces Trent Williams, and our tackles against their edge rushers. Sure, Nick Bosa, but he has 2.5 sacks, 10 tackles and 5 TFLs. In comparison, Hunter has 8 sacks, 22 tackles and 11 TFLs.

I also kinda like Flores blitz-happy-and-play-man defense against Purdy, who showed he's far from perfect last week against a similar defense. Shanahan and Purdy will slice up a zone, so we should see more man tonight. Can our corners hold up? Probably not consistently.

Either way, if Cousins is "on" AND finds the sons of Addi and Hocken early and often, AND the Vikings play a clean game for the first time this year, AND don't shoot themselves in the foot AGAIN, this should be a pretty good game. Vikings by 10. Take it to Vegas and thank me later.

10-23-2023, 03:04 PM

Purdy has a rating of over 100 against the blitz, over 110 with no blitz, so on the surface blitzing sounds like a good idea, however he actually averages a little more YPA when facing the blitz so it likely averages out. We lead the league in blitzing, but are only mid pack in team sacks, cant find anything on hurries or hits ( to gauge the non sack blitz effectiveness) but we are mid pack in points allowed ( with only 6 games played vs many teams that already have played their week 7 game ) so while I like the concept of blitzing the shit out of Purdy, unless we go all out on almost every play, I have my doubts that our D will have much success tonight unless those sacks happen to come at very key drive killing moments, seems like getting teams behind the chains with early down sacks dont seem to affect the outcome of the drive that much as they will just dagger our D with a long 3rd down conversion.

I see this as either a close nail biter, or a complete blowout loss, but either way this is exactly the type of game our boys find a way to win every year, but then cant follow it up with anything of substance.

10-23-2023, 03:14 PM

Quote: @JimmyinSD said:

I see this as either a close nail biter, or a complete blowout loss, but either way this is exactly the type of game our boys find a way to win every year, but then cant follow it up with anything of substance.

Thats exactly the way a 7-9 win season plays out...

10-23-2023, 03:28 PM

Quote: @purplefaithful said:

@JimmyinSD said:

I see this as either a close nail biter, or a complete blowout loss, but either way this is exactly the type of game our boys find a way to win every year, but then cant follow it up with anything of substance.
Thats exactly the way a 7-9 win season plays out...

Yes, and the 14th pick in the NFL Draft. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. Same thing forever.

10-23-2023, 03:53 PM

I keep thinking about that Philly game when they drove the field for a TD by running the ball 15 times in a row. Once Philly realized the Vikes had no way of stopping their running game, they took over the game. I think San Fran can probably do the same. If not, then the Vikes might have a chance.

10-23-2023, 04:24 PM

Quote: @JimmyinSD said:
Purdy has a rating of over 100 against the blitz, over 110 with no blitz, so on the surface blitzing sounds like a good idea, however he actually averages a little more YPA when facing the blitz so it likely averages out. We lead the league in blitzing, but are only mid pack in team sacks, cant find anything on hurries or hits ( to gauge the non sack blitz effectiveness) but we are mid pack in points allowed ( with only 6 games played vs many teams that already have played their week 7 game ) so while I like the concept of blitzing the shit out of Purdy, unless we go all out on almost every play, I have my doubts that our D will have much success tonight unless those sacks happen to come at very key drive killing moments, seems like getting teams behind the chains with early down sacks dont seem to affect the outcome of the drive that much as they will just dagger our D with a long 3rd down conversion.

I see this as either a close nail biter, or a complete blowout loss, but either way this is exactly the type of game our boys find a way to win every year, but then cant follow it up with anything of substance.

It's more about the man than it is about the blitz. In some ways, this could've been Purdy's big downfall, if it didn't already happen last week. He was horrible. But I suspect Shanahan will have him ready for it this time.