What a shytty loss, this will be the loss that haunts us because beating the Panthers could end up being the difference between a 3 seed and a 6 seed. We're not gonna catch Seattle and we gotta live with that. We seem to have the Saints number but the problem is that their Defense is vastly improved.
Here's what I saw
No complaints about the defense, we played very well and held a dynamic QB to 10 points, nuff said.
I blame Roman and Harbaugh, our offense is so smart it's stupid. We have a wealth of talent that we are mismanaging. Kap clearly is doing way to much thinking in this offense. Last year, Kap was freestyling and it worked out. He passed if it felt right and ran when it felt right, and he marched down the field. Now he seems so unsure and his ability to read blitzes sucks. If he is regressing, then I blame the play calling and furthermore why are we not using shovel passes and short routes to keep defenses honest and slow down blitzes, all our runningbacks are good to very good receivers out the backfield and is a cheap way to get yards.
Vance McDonald needs to really work on his hands in the offseason, he has bobbled an uncomfortable amount of passes.
LaMichael James was not utilized at all outside of return duties and it makes me think we should move him in the offseason, he's been inactive all this time, and we still didn't use him in the game like we needed which leads me to my next point.
Why did we abandon the run in the 2nd half? AGAIN?!?
Roman is a one trick pony and we need to seek a more forward thinking guy, maybe promote Tom Rathman?