GDT: 49ers vs Texans, Pre-Season Style

[ChrisPozz]

From John McClain (Texans beat) on twitter. I thought he stood out a little early on tonight. Not much, but he had a few moments.

After playing better against the Saints than he did against the Jets, I thought Mario Williams took a step back tonight.
6 minutes ago

It didn't matter if Williams was standing up or dropping into a 3-point stance, I didn't see him make any plays like I did against Saints.
6 minutes ago

 

[Dodub]

Our offense has done literally nothing all game. It reminds me of the days of Hostler as OC.

 

[ChrisPozz]

Bethel-Thompson just looks funny on the back of a jersey.

 

[ChrisPozz]

There's T.J. Yates. One of the more intriguing projects in the NFL to me.

 

[ChrisPozz]

A rare Devard sighting. I remember him in college.

 

[Hangman]

Does anyone else thing the Niners were not trying to do anything other than suck tonight?

 

[ChrisPozz]

Wonder how many yards the Texans have gained on the perimeter tonight via the dumpoff/swing and the run.

 

[Hangman]

Ha, they switched it to the Huston announcers cause even the niners announcers sucked tonight

 

[ChrisPozz]

Anyone else see that Jim Schwartz photo in the Browns media guide from '94 that they just showed? Yikes.

 

[ChrisPozz]

Kubiak on Foster via Nick Scurfield on twitter:

Kubiak: "We don’t think it’s anything worse than what we were dealing with before... I’m just hoping... he’ll be ready for opening day."
26 minutes ago

 

[Ray_Dogg]

That coat Kim has on hurts my eyes.

Her face hurts my eyes. Yes that is mean but I can't sugarcoat that.

 

[Ray_Dogg]

I'd say Ron Johnson played his way off the 53 tonight. Still impressed by Culliver and Brock. Madieu Williams stood out as well. Dobbs should make the team. Aldon didn't do a whole hell of a lot. Looks like Haralson will be hanging on to his starting job.

 

[CalamityX11]

OL starters make the 53 by default....

terrible....

 

[Arete Tzu]

To get your third stringers some good game experience? you get better quicker when you play people who are better than you.

But we have some people fighting for positions, including starting jobs like linebacker, and O-line. I would have liked some of the number 2's to get time with the starterss, that's valuable from an experience and evaluation point of view.

I can see how not having the elite guys next to you, has a way of highlighting each players weaknesses in an honest way. So I'm not mad, I just think with this off season even our starters need time.

 

[huskers1217]

Texans are damn good...

 

[RobertPhD01]

Didn't see the game. Stats show that we got kicked in the teeth! Need to pick yourselves up! Let's go 49ers!!

 

[ViperVisor]

 

[Mozart'sGhost]

Our offense has done literally nothing all game. It reminds me of the days of Hostler as OC.

My goodness, what positives can you take away from this game? I'm not sure which was more worrisome, the clueless look on Harbaugh's face as the Texans dismantled both our offense and defense or the fact that Kaepernick got so many reps. I tell you, if he is actually thinking about starting Kaepernick in the regular season they are in big trouble. He looks absolutely lost out there. The O-line is really struggling too as Smith got hammered every time he went back to pass.

I was hoping that maybe the vanilla offenses and defensive schemes were just to hide what they really plan to do in the season but now I'm not so sure.

 

[Mozart'sGhost]

You know how they say "A picture is worth a thousand words"? This is a perfect example. This says it all. I gotta rep this one.

 

[krunchdoggy]

Ones vs ones, the score was 10 to 7. Is that correct?