When does the blame start landing on Rivera

[rayzor]

In Rivera's pressers, he talks constantly about guys missing their gap or trying to do too much. He doesn't seem to think they are just getting outmanned out there. Now of course he probably would never say that, but he seems pretty candid. Hopefully with a full offseason and some key guys back, guys will be where they are supposed to be more often than not, and you won't see so many big runs and 3rd and long conversions to the tight end.

beason talked about it in preseason. he said he looked at the tape and guys were freelancing out there and missing assignments. i fully expected him to tighten that crap up when he got back in there because that's what he does. he makes sure that people are doing the stuff they need to be doing and where they are in the heat of battle. with a young team in a new scheme with not a lot of time to prepare for the season it was going to be a problem anyway. then you take out the field general and things can really get ugly.

that defense just needs beason's presence out there.

[Snake]

it all boils down to

• young team
  
• incredibly shortened offseason
  
• drastically different schemes on offense and defense compared to what was in place before
  
• personnel issues....mainly a ton of injuries to key players and an inability to have a consistent lineup really on either side of the ball, but esp. on defense.
  

sorry if that's not a good enough reason for some of you experts. that's the reality of the situation.

fixing them will take time that they will have plenty of, esp. since...and i know that this is going to disappoint a few...rivera is going to be around for a long time.

rivera just wasn't given the time he needed to get this team ready for the season.

the massive amount of injuries that have taken place...so far 12 have been put on IR, which is 2 short of what they had in all of '04 and we are just halfway through the season.

making it even worse was that they lost beason and davis as well as the vet DT they were counting on this year early in the season. it can't be underestimated just how detrimental that was to the team being able to get it's act together this year. they just don't have the leadership they desperately needed on the field.

now i know that people are going to and have been making comparisons to jim harbaugh, but harbaugh has had an advantage in a couple key areas.

1) he's had a much healthier team to deal with. the only guy i could at all consider key thats on IR is josh morgan...a mediocre WR at best. they had to go without braylon edwards for a few games but...meh. they only have 4 on IR compared to us (12).

2) although it's college head coaching experience, he still has head coaching experience. this is brand new territory for rivera. there is a difference between the two jobs and of course it was going to take rivera a little more time learning how to manage things in that capacity.

3) harbaugh inherited a better team. better offense. better defense. better special teams.

4) they've also had much more stability in key positions than we have, such as LBs, Dline, and Oline (largely due to lack of injuries).

5) harbaugh isn't starting a rookie QB. he got a very underrated QB that was considered just bad, but who was really a guy who was in a horrible situation that no QB not named peyton manning would have been able to succeed in. every year of his career he has had a different OC and a drastically different offensive scheme with no coaching staff willing to build around his strengths like harbaugh did.

look at this and say, "meh...you're just making excuses but THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR GOING 2-14!!!!" even though that isn't the record and the season is done.

harbaugh and the 49ers lucked out in that situation. they just needed new management. we needed a complete overhaul. it's going to take more time to get this wagon right here, but it's going to happen. most of the pieces are here that we need. it's just a matter of getting everyone healthy and on the same page and that will happen probably not as soon as some of you guys looking for a quick fix would like, but soon enough.

we're moving forward and we got the right group of guys here to go forward. give it a couple years before you start screaming that the sky is falling.

Yea basically they were the 2001 Panthers minus the QB. Our team was basically blown up last year and Rivera is in charge of the clean up.