re: So this game, sadly, is on Brees

We were running the ball well enough. While they could stop it (sometimes) if it was obvious, we were still getting 3-5 yards on some runs, which is enough to make the defense respect it. That's all Brees needs. With a little bit of play action bite he can shred up the secondary. If they aren't the least bit scared of our run, it's a whole lot easier to shut us down.

That long drive was an aggravation. Having a 4th string in there trying to defend Brees against a great pass rush doesn't help.

We play those first four games again and we win at least 3 if not all 4. the KC game is biting us in the arse hard..its rare for a pick 6 but two in one game is like..,damnit that hardly ever happens to us.

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But when we got down, those same 2,3,4 yard chunks dont really do much for you other than drain the clock.

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This is exactly why our O line suddenly evaporated and the game got way out of hand. Goes to show that you need to stick with the game plan, especially if it's working (!).

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Our defense wasn't even aware enough to jump on a damn fumble by their FB in the 1st half.

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Ugh, forgot about that!

That was terrible!

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I understand what you are saying but being down just 14 isn't a large enough deficit to abandon the run or your original game plan period. Actually, the drive where the lead was cut to 28-21 was what was needed later in the game. There were some effective runs on that drive & the play calling was mixed up well.

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That PI on Morgan was HUGE. If that call goes our way, we likely tie the game there. Instead we punt and they go on that long FG drive that drained the clock. Brees had no shot when he got back on the field.

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I'm sorry about how things went earlier in thread. I apologize. I hope you have a clear explanation of why I feel why the offense was outcoached more then being out manned.

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Its cool. I stay out of TD.com "arguments" but I could tell you knew what you were talking about so I was trying to understand where you were coming from. I got you now.
I just think we've seen this oline play against every top front 7 in the league over the past 5+ years and this team is the only one that has made them look like this, now,twice. They've had some other duds(STL last year) but never looked this helpless when it mattered. Im sure scheme has something to do with, but I think the credit goes to their players. You put any combo of our front in their scheme today vs our offense and I think Brees shreds them. We dont have their athletes.

Their front 7 is scary and their secondary literally knocks people out. When Brees was lucky enough to get a pass off, it was target practice for those guys in their secondary.

Miners had Zero sacks in first half, Drew's horrible decision to throw basically ithrow into quadruple protection just completely turned this game around. What would of been a halftime lead quickly turns to a tie game with 22 seconds left in the half, and that was completely on Drew Brees. That terrible decision basically turned the entire game against us and gave the Niners all the momentum they would need. They second pick was just a badly ball thrown too high, that pretty much marked the end of the game. After those two pick 6's, this team just basically quit. Bad blocking, poor decisions on what to do with the ball in Bress's hands.

As great as Brees is and no matter how much we love him as fans, he makes sum bonehead decisions in every game, some cost us and some dont, but he cost us quite a bit with this one! Terrible refsrefusing to call pass interference didn't help any. Even tho they called one on us, After our guy had been grabbed an yanked on first! Just a brutal game to sit thru, from all directions!

I found this coach (harbough or whatever] to be a manipulating liar..steadily bullying and harassing the officials who should have shut him up with penalties. Per the plan, the intimidated officials didn't call a lot of the endless cheating. This SF coach has replaced the Atlanta coach as the focus of my disgust.

The bad calls overlooking the cheating that took out the badly needed Lance Moore and finally added up to that long long long a_ _ed drive took the game from us (even though our stout defense held them to 3.)

Drew had made up for the interception before the half pulling us to within seven points. I'm blaming confused referees cowering to a screaming bully who protected his cheaters with distraction.

The game's a shame..

I counted 1 bad throw. The INT that went right to the guy. The other INT was 100% pure luck/bad luck. The problem was our WR couldn't get open and our OL couldn't block.

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this game is on him.

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Yep that sums it up

6 ints, right?