Podcast – Goff's progress and position shakeups

InvaderRam wrote:

there are no repercussions to the constant mental errors

Here’s the fallacy for me.

We have no idea what takes place behind closed doors.

And in fact I have seen a long series of things where players have repercussions with Fisher. Remember Jenkins running the stairs while benched at SF in 2012? Want a list of guys they cut or let go and so on?

But as a rule you can’t get consistency and coherence from an offensive line if you bench guys, so, I don’t know what he would do there except keep plugging away and coaching it.

So I don’t understand these kinds of declarations–that players are comfortable etc. and so they don’t execute.

It just strikes me as the stuff you get from frustrated fans, whether or not it has any real connection to the reality of the team.

It just seems to me that when a team loses, fans come up with theories, which usually involve blaming someone.

When the team wins, they just celebrate.

I am one of those people who is skeptical about all the “we’re losing for this reason” theories, most of which just involve mind-reading. All I really see with that is the fan being frustrated.

And I don’t think replacing linemen for some over-magnified mistakes in week 11 fixes anything. So that’s why I am skeptical. They aren’t losing because Player X had this penalty in game 10. It goes way beyond that. In fact it’s so far beyond that, that the simple theory that somehow they aren’t “accountable” makes no sense.

If they can do one thing to win, it seems to me, it’s get Goff up and going. If they had a qb half the things we complain about would never even come up. That too is a theory, I know.

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InvaderRam wrote:

it’s not just one mistake here or there. it’s the cumulative effect. not just of penalties. mental errors. tavon supposedly not being ready for the ny game.

Tavon didn’t say he wasn’t ready btw.

In any event, people focus on those things because they’re losing. You know what I see? I see a team that’s pressing. They’re pressing because the margin of error is so small.

And, the reason the margin of error is so small is, to me, one thing and one thing only. QB.

Get a qb, which in this case means waiting for Goff to mature, and the margin of error is less, and they press less and play from confidence, and the errors diminish PLUS we stop magnfifying them.

It is, and was, and always was, just the qb.

When the qb is fine they will be fine and we will not be having these exchanges about what the “cause” is. I really believe that. I would be surprised if this theory turned out to be wrong.

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and i also have to say that the defense has performed well overall. so yeah. fisher has to get credit for that.

maybe the oc needs to be changed. i don’t know. again i say all this while acknowledging that much of what i’m saying is speculation.

i just don’t think fisher comes away from this clean.