if we’re not going to get any horses back on offense, Baker may need to develop a calf injury sometime this week.Cant get greedy, agree, we are ahead of where we need to be. Injury bug has chomped us, hard, but they’ll almost all be coming back, soon.
Yeah.
Injury bug has hit us ridiculously hard this season, especially on offense.
Yet, here they are, ranked 6th in the league in scoring. Baker playing like the league MVP candidate. Grizz getting better every week.
No excuses from that side of the ball.
Like you said, let's celebrate 5-1 and look forward to the calvary that we can see on the horizon!
Might be time for some Teddy-B in Detroit.
Lol!
I wouldn't totally hate it.
I thought Bowles was hit or miss. The soft zone worked (sorta) but not really... We were able to stop them when penalties benefited us.
From memory, I think that's what caused every "stop" (fg attempt).
Bowles drew up a few nic blitzes and generally I'd give him a B- for the game. Turnovers saved us.
I'm just genuinely confused why he went from blitzing 60% of the time vs QBs that do well against it to barely blitzing vs 2 QBs that generally struggle against it... I'm not sure I understand the strategy unless I'm missing something?
Yes it makes his blitzes harder to predict but when you go cover 2 and keep giving up 15+ yard chunk plays, there's something wrong...
niners were lost without warner and baker produced, that simple
on the other side of the ball … it is mac jones and our defense played overall good game, but that soft zone will soon or a later kill us. bowles does good adjustmens in the halftime but it won’t help if we are three TDs down.
emeka already had hammy problems earlier this year, let’s see how that develops and when mike and chris are back. with all three in the lineup and this baker we can beat just anyone!
I hated on Parrish when we drafted him. But man this dude has been a difference maker on this defense. He has had sticky coverage and really saved our ass a few times yesterday. The LBer play HAS to be better. We are getting killed over the middle of the field.
I'm just genuinely confused why he went from blitzing 60% of the time vs QBs that do well against it to barely blitzing vs 2 QBs that generally struggle against it... I'm not sure I understand the strategy unless I'm missing something?
Not saying I agree with this, but Bowles and SR and Josh Q have said its been an adjustment to being down CBs.
Yesterday the strategy worked initally. Mac Jones a short passer was sacked 3 times in the 1st quarter in large part because we took away the short stuff okay. The 49ers ADJUSTED (is Shanahan after all) and started dropping balls where? Over the top of our LBs. Seam passes and ins right over the top of our LBs.
We then adjusted back and only allowed 3 points in a pretty dominant defensive performance in the 2nd half. Defensively the game is good start, trouble in the middle, good end.
So much negative focus on the defense when it created 2 turnovers, had 6 sacks and held the 49er to 3 points in the second half.
Zero focus (or MISPLACED focus on play calling) on Mayfield because he played so well overall BUT he also KILLED TWO CRITICAL DRIVES right about the time that Warner gets hurt. Those drives are not duds because of play calling (lmao), they are duds - AT A CRITICAL MOMENT WHEN THE BUCS COUDVE SQUEEZED THE LIFE OUT OF THE 49ers - because of Mayfield's BAD PLAY (as great as he is/was overall)
One drive (right when Warner goes down) is KILLED by Mayfield not putting enough air on a 2nd and 9 pass to an OPEN Otton. That play is followed by a sack that he takes because he declines to throw the dump off screen. Who knows where that screen pass ends up, but the sack and stop gives them momentum right when we should be taking it all. Sometimes for all his greatness, Mayfield seems to need a run like that highlight run he had or some over real adversity to come to life.
Obviously he has the multiple misfires to wide open Egbuka, so those should need no mention lol
Again, all of that is outweighed by Mayfield's stellar play overall, but Grizz is/was calling a good offense and the defense played well overall too, even adjusting (some posting Bowles could not lol) to take away a Shanahan adjustment
Anyway you slice it the Bucs defense is forcing turnovers and more importantly INT's. And finally sealing the deal with sacks.
I was just trying to look it up but we are on track for maybe 12-14 INTs versus 7 last year?
Which is closer to the historic norm for a Bowles defense which is a good sign. Last season was an anomaly for his defense to force so few INT's.
Take care of the football and we will continue to win these games. I really can't wait to see this team at full strength on offense man.
I really can't wait to see this team at full strength on offense man.
A-freaking -men to that!!
Hard to imagine what the offense could be with Irving, Godwin, Evans Egbuka . .
I was told Jones doesn’t throw deep. Ever. Doesn’t appear to be correct.
Biggs . . OF COURSE your 2nd post in the game day thread is a TROLL (lmao, so predictable)
IRONICALLY its about deep throws. Since you like DEEP THROW discussions enough to TROLL during the game. How about a POST-GAME review of this stat:
"Mayfield leads the NFL with 23 pass TDs on throws of 20+ air yards since joining the Bucs in 2023"
Didnt you say Mayfield couldn't make vertical passes, they were not in his "wheelhouse?"
How about those two Johnson TDs yesterday?
:-)
defense played well in the second half, no?
defense also got the game started on the right foot, setting up offense on a turnover after their own failed opening drive, for a 7-0 start
fair is fair, sure they gave up some long plays and yards to Jones/Bourne combo but giving up 19 points in total and just 3 in second half point the team in a position to win
with Baker playing at an MVP caliber level, that is all you could ask of the defense
let's face it, after seeing the Seattle 35 point game, i think most expected another shootout yesterday and the D held them to 19 points.
Kudos all around
and Bowles has postgame jokes about on of his favorites:
“That was Dean’s first sack that I have seen in my career and that was probably the best play that I can say next to Mike Evans getting 1,000 yards last year that I have ever seen,” Bowles said. “That goes down in history for me.”
To be fair Dean beat a block.
I was told Jones doesn’t throw deep. Ever. Doesn’t appear to be correct.
Biggs . . OF COURSE your 2nd post in the game day thread is a TROLL (lmao, so predictable)
IRONICALLY its about deep throws. Since you like DEEP THROW discussions enough to TROLL during the game. How about a POST-GAME review of this stat:
"Mayfield leads the NFL with 23 pass TDs on throws of 20+ air yards since joining the Bucs in 2023"
Didnt you say Mayfield couldn't make vertical passes, they were not in his "wheelhouse?"
How about those two Johnson TDs yesterday?
:-)
Biggs, you trolled a single word ("strictly") during the game, but no time to post about your long multiple post vertical/wheelhouse rant after a game? Even though there's time post about . .
Players can get "cleared to play"
classic
ROMO on Mayfield
“He’s in that sweet spot of his career where his footwork, his arm talent and his knowledge of the game all come together,” Romo said. “And his athleticism was shown again [against the 49ers]. He’s slippery, always gets out. But his instincts, he’s looking off [defenders] as well as anyone in the National Football League. And his arm talent, it’s way up there right now. He’s throwing balls that not many quarterbacks are throwing right, and he’s putting them right in that exact spot. I mean I couldn’t be more impressed with the way that Baker Mayfield is playing.”
I really can't wait to see this team at full strength on offense man.
A-freaking -men to that!!
Hard to imagine what the offense could be with Irving, Godwin, Evans Egbuka . .
And Goedeke back which frees up Otton and Durham in the pass game.
