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The Refs, the OL, and the Coaching

He’s looked really bad, they’re not even touching guys, they’re just whiffing
Remarkably, the pass blocking has been better than most teams. If you look around the league many teams’ QBs are running for their lives, including Minshew yesterday.
 
He’s looked really bad, they’re not even touching guys, they’re just whiffing
That's the thing that kills me. It's one thing to get bested by max crosby, totally get it. It's another to not even get a hand on him and delay it for one second. Lamar doesn't even get a chance to scramble or use his best assets because he's getting dropped the second the ball reaches him. Falafel isn't a remotely competitive NFL player. Doesn't even delay the pressure
 
Wasn’t everyone on here saying Mekari should get all the snaps over the rookie? How has he given up that many pressures?
He was a lot worse vs Crosby than Jones if my memory serves. Maybe thags a stylistic thing fkr him. But either way, he's been disappointing. :(
 
That's the thing that kills me. It's one thing to get bested by max crosby, totally get it. It's another to not even get a hand on him and delay it for one second. Lamar doesn't even get a chance to scramble or use his best assets because he's getting dropped the second the ball reaches him. Falafel isn't a remotely competitive NFL player. Doesn't even delay the pressure
I’m also calling him Falafel until he earns the right to have me lookup how to spell his name
 
That's also with splitting time...

He's played better than this. So idk why he totally squandered his starting opportunity
His opportunity should've been squandered in the first quarter yesterday, if it wasn't for someone aiding and abetting his opportunity to last this long as the starter.
 
Wasn’t everyone on here saying Mekari should get all the snaps over the rookie? How has he given up that many pressures?
I don't know about everyone here, but I figured RR should've gotten way more playing time yesterday and let him go through his growing pains. He looked promising.
 
I don't know about everyone here, but I figured RR should've gotten way more playing time yesterday and let him go through his growing pains. He looked promising.
I don't think it matters if we don't have a NFL player at RG, any combo is going to wreck that side up. Of course, getting a starting gaurd at this point is pretty impossible, but I don't see why we don't at least try Cleveland.
At the very least we can get some move in the run game with him.
 
He was a lot worse vs Crosby than Jones if my memory serves. Maybe thags a stylistic thing fkr him. But either way, he's been disappointing. :(
Probably helped that while as dominant as Jones is, he was still a DL playing Edge. Benefits a T who gets beat because he doesn't have that insane change of direction ability to get to a QB a la Crosby.
 
As I said yesterday, if Ben Cleveland is worse than Faalele, then we completely mismanaged our OL depth and that’s a bigger issue.


I don't think he's worse than Faalele and honestly I think Cleveland was the coaching staff ideal starter at right guard but its possible they didn't like something. Could be he didnt show up to camp in better shape or maybe he didnt take on practice duties serious enough than Faalele
 
I don't think he's worse than Faalele and honestly I think Cleveland was the coaching staff ideal starter at right guard but its possible they didn't like something. Could be he didnt show up to camp in better shape or maybe he didnt take on practice duties serious enough than Faalele
I'm sure that's part of it, and I even gave them the benefit of the doubt. But we've now seen 5 games of Faalele at RG and the good moments are so few and far between. I can't buy that a guy that can't process nor move quickly enough is ever going to be anything useful. Cleveland may be a lazy piece of shit but we've at least seen him play well. Just feels like playing Faalele is malpractice at this point with not much hope of getting better.
 
As I said yesterday, if Ben Cleveland is worse than Faalele, then we completely mismanaged our OL depth and that’s a bigger issue.


This would imply that Harbaugh is not completely full of shit about his vendetta against Cleveland
 
Didn’t Ben show up to camp overweight one offseason? Is that why he’s still in that dumbass’s doghouse?
 
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