I saw the replay of the game online and realized some things:
We were cocky. We came in that game, not having done our homework. I expected us to play a game like we did in 09 where we win or lose by 3. But we lost by 11. They were the better prepared team and they won fair and square, shytty officiating aside.
Staley is a good left tackle, despite the bad game. Jared Allen is the best pass rusher in the league and better tackles looked like fools against him. Dude had 22 sacks last year, nuff said. I expected better but fukk it, bad game.
Alex Smith didn't play well but let's be honest. I blame the playcalling more. Christian Ponder played just as average, but the running game came through, which leads me to my next point.
Frank Gore is still a very good back, but he needs to split carries with Hunter and we need LaMichael James and Brandon Jacobs back full speed to give a few different looks.
We need to play to win. We need to take shots downfield a lot more. If Alex Smith can't do it then we need to give Kaepenick more snaps, because I think he can ultimately. Alex Smith plays smart and minimize the damage, but we need gamebreakers to show up.
Quite frankly, our our front seven especially our D-Line is overatted. We have a good pass rushing crew, but with the loss of Parys Haralson, our run defense suffers, furthermore we need a true nose in this defense. Again, I'd like us to work out Albert Haynesworth, we need a space eater, because if a recovering back like Adrian Peterson can do that to us, we'll lose to the Seahawks and maybe the Cards.
The Vikings are a better teams we gave them credit for and they're gonna sneak up on a lot of teams.
We got work to do.
This isn't 2011 and we ain't catchin no one by surprise anymore.
DO WORK!!