I'm clearly not as down about this as most here. This season was the most fun I've ever had watching football. Obviously, a win in February would have been much, much better, but that doesn't take away the past several months for me. Plus, there's so much optimism to be had for the future. The first time probably ever that we've been happy with both coordinators - and both should be returning. Lamar is going to be, to borrow a phrase, "pissed off for greatness" and will work to come back even better next year. Finally, there are so few pieces that we need to acquire to overcome weaknesses; we aren't due to lose many of the more valuable starters to begin with; and will have a ton of cap space and likelihood of players wanting to sign with us in the offseason.
As far the loss yesterday is concerned, I can't figure out if the utter choke was more on the coaching or the players, but I suspect the former. Perhaps they all bought into the inevitability of a championship and let that get to their heads. As far as the game was concerned, there was practically no pre-snap motion, a nearly empty backfield all the time, etc. Seems like everything we did throughout the year was abandoned in unnecessary panic. The fourth and short calls were absurd to me. Thinking back to the Seattle fourth and 2, there were several players in the backfield creating all kinds of confusion. This time, Lamar just lines up under center and runs parallel to the line. Mystifying. I also question that the analytics would say to go for it down 8 rather than use Tucker to move within 1 score.
Not sure if I'll watch anymore postseason football. If not, I'll hope to read that the 49ers or Packers won it all.
