I'm still trying to figure out why we gave our 1st round pick in 2008 away.
Now I'm going to leave the defensive side to some of the other fans, but I'll be glad to take to task the Niners offense.
The bright spot(s) this year so far:
Gore hasn't died yet despite constantly getting blown up everytime he gets the ball.
Vernon Davis got another year of trying to catch the ball and seems to of gotten better at it after returning from injury.
Arnaz Battle can catch. In the preseason I said he could become our #1 WR depending on how things broke and realistically he's the only guy on our receiving core doing anything. Mind you it doesn't amount to much, because the offense still blows, but it's nice to see we had one gutty receiver on board the entire time compared to Lelie or D-jax.
On that note, why did the team pick Lelie up in the first place? For a guy considered a starter, catches in only two games is downright pathetic.
Now the bad news:
Alex Smith is terrible. Experiment over, enough time has been given to see some sort of improvement from the kid and none is forthcoming. He overthrows anything resembling a deep ball, is indecisive, has poor peripheral vision (How many times has he been blindsided this year?) and to top it off Smith can't seem to hold onto the ball.
We got fleeced in the D-Jax deal. Even if could perform better than he is currently, we don't have the QB to take full advantage of his skill-sets.
The team has been getting wrecked in the middle pretty much every game. Not that the rest of the offensive line has been holding up too well.
Niners stink, the end. Basically they'll have to go from one rebuilding project straight into another one.
"Us" Raven fans aren't too far behind.As for the Niners, I bet they could only wish Norv heads back into town. Alex Smith seemed to be progressing in his scheme.
