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Steve Lentz -> RE: General Vikes Talk (1/11/2020 10:17:08 PM)
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Funny how the Thumbtacks are taking it to the heavily-favored Ravens early on. They look fresh with an aggressive game plan rather than looking flat, lifeless and without direction. Interesting.
Come on now. We were down by 4 points at halftime and the defense was starting to get the best of Garropolo. Far from lifeless and without direction.
2nd Half: I will agree with you.
Key is we played NOT TO LOSE in first half, never had momentum, never played with agression...
We played Zimmer ball, close to vest, feeling take the sure points and punt rather than be agressive... It did keep it close UNTIL we ran out of gas and they passed us by and then left us in the dust...
Zimmer never will play any other way...
SF played it close to the vest the whole 2nd half. And most of the 1st.
We were physically over matched. Especially our OLine.
We said the exact same things two years ago after Philly game, overmatched lines... Its a bit more than that, we were outcoached even though we almost knew and well understood the game plan, and early on Garoppolo was quite off on thows and there were more plays to be made that could have turned the game.
We never siezed the moment, we played flat and calculated, never siezed the moment and capped it off with a style of That 70s mantra that feels a lot like playing NOT TO LOSE.
YES in the end we ran out of gas and their lines then statted having their way with us...
We are a poorly coached team who has coaching staff that are very slow to make adjustments and not good at in game changes in flow or capitalizing on matchup in gametime. If we start flat its what we are. Looked at Zimmer numerous times on sideline and we were a mirror of his being... listless and expressionless...
We need to smach them in the mouth and take over the game, but we instead felt comfy taking the for sure points and wasting time, to the point that once we wore down we were through. We let them off the hook when we should have been agressive and played for a close game, but played right into their motive, like they knew what a Zimmer coached team would do if given that choices...
Once the momentum shited and turn overs started to bury us, the air came out and it was over, the lines imploded and you could feel it just lift, any feeling of hope, it just floated away, nearly a whole quarter left and it was done...
Just give me an example of what we should have been doing on offense.
Instead of wasting two downs running into teeth of D we should have been doing more misdirection, slants and screens to weak side instead of run, run, overthrow... Kirk was flat, he was tenative, holding the ball and staring down first options.
Should have tried a few more shotgun formations instead of the heavy run game. We had no counters, no adjustment to their plan. Shanahan knew Kirks weakness and we just did what we could to limit the O line liability and keep trying to get the run game a factor. Never worked, and unfortunately Kirk is not a put the team on his back QB...
Maybe w could not have done anything with the match up, we were out played on lines and out coached. Players can only pour so much into a game like that and then even the studs wear out and conceide its not working...
We were beat by a better team than us on several levels, no shame, but lots to consider moving forward and I think you need to weigh this along with NFCCG two years ago as what we lack to take that step further...
Looks like it's time for the Ravens to rebuild.
Ravens couldn't even win a playoff game.
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