Quick analysis after preseason game #1:
A lot of our starters on offense & defense did not play
I already talked about why this team is going to be injury prone
Too many smaller/fast/athletic guys, whose bodies cant hold up
Also this team is still extremely undisciplined, and that comes down to coaching
Way too many penalties, and it was the same thing last season too
The QB position should be Garoppolo & Mullens, trade Beathard please because he's not getting any better
McKinnon is still injured, but we can get by with just Breida, Coleman, and Mostert for now
We are good with Kittle and Dwelley. Let the rookie Smith & the vet Toilolo fight it out for the last TE spot
We have a lot of young guys at the WR position, so there's going to be some growing pains
Rookies Deebo & Hurd look very promising, they just need to stay consistent, fine tune their craft, & finish learning the playbook
I like that we drafted bigger, tougher guys
Richie James has natural athletic talent, but is kind of a knucklehead, he's almost guaranteed to do some dumb shit at least once per game
Trent Taylor might be our most reliable WR but he'll be out with a foot injury for the next 1-2 months
Borne & Mathews are kinda just...meh. Nothing special really
Pettis hasn't really stepped up to be a #1 WR. He's been playing like hes scared of contact, scared of getting hit. Dude needs to man up
Same thing with Goodwin. Take the hit & stop alligator arming passes over the middle
As for our O-line.....fellas we might have a serious problem here
We have zero depth, and our starting interior players are very mediocre
Lynch & Shanny better be looking to trade or pickup backup o-linemen from the waiver wire
Our starting D-line should be legit as long as they can stay relatively healthy
From the backups tonight I liked Sheldon Day, Julian Taylor, Kentavius Street, Damontre Moore
Fred Warner & Kwon Alexander should be solid. And hopefully Greenlaw can take the starting LB spot away from Malcolm Smith
Let Smith, Elijah Lee & Mayo/Nzeocha be the backups
The safety position is a little concerning to me
Adrian Colbert is trash fellas. When he played well his first few games of 2017, was fools gold
He fucked up in this game, hes been fucking up all training camp, and he was fucking up last year, before he got injured
You can't really start Jimmie Ward because his body will not hold up all 16 games
So that means we have to pray that Tarvarius Moore can step up & play well as a starter for the whole season
I guess we can get by with Tartt, but who's backing him up? Marcell Harris? Antone Exum?
Sherman, Verrett, Whitherspoon, K-won Williams are decent...not great or even very good, but decent enough.
DJ Reed & Mosley are kind of up & down because they are young, but they're showing promise
We have to hope these guys can stay healthy all season because there's really no one else good behind them
Our rookie kicker looks good out there. He did mess up once, but I've heard that hes been solid all training camp long
Between Wishnowsky & Robbie Gould, our special teams unit should be pretty solid
And again..... its a little too early to tell how well this team will do overall
We have a lot of injury prone players, a lot of young inexperienced players, a lot of undisciplined players, a lot of unknowns
I'm thinking 8-9 wins this season, but still not exactly sure about that yet