2025 NFL Week Six

McCaffrey gets the TD, at least! If San Francisco manages to win this one they'll be one of the luckiest 5-1 teams ever. C-Mac's talent is being wasted with this inept O-line, among the 49ers' many other issues.
 
I love how Romo and this other douchebag are making Baker's resurgence out to be some mystery. It's called getting screwed over by being drafted to the Browns and having to play for Hue Jackson, Freddie Kitchens, and Kevin Stefanski. Then going to the Panthers and Rams for a cup of cold coffee. Yeah, real mystery.
 
Bengals really are a dumpster fire without Burrow. Years of poor drafting will do that to a team.
 
Cmac TD. I wish they would give it to juice and some of these situations. Save wear and tear on Christian. I really think the 49ers would’ve had a couple Super Bowls in the last few years if they had a bungled that trade for Trey Lance.



Great route running by Juice. Terribly under utilized.
 
Kaptain said:
What a play by Hebert and Mcconkey!
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That was the play of the week so far. Herbert's strength in avoiding the sack and McConkey's speed in avoiding the tackle set up the chip shot game winning FG, made all the more satisfying as it was against the NFL's darkest team.
 
Leonardfan said:
Bengals really are a dumpster fire without Burrow. Years of poor drafting will do that to a team.
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Flacco was great in his prime but he's 41 now and doesn't have much left in the tank. There are many younger, better White QBs available, but apparently the team's "leadership" decided that with Burrow out for so long, the season should just be treated as lost already, so they weren't going to bother spending/trading the capital that could have netted them the kind of QB who could have saved the season until Burrow returned.
 
yah, picking up Flacco rather than sticking with Browning who at least started to come on a little last week in the 2nd half is just waving the white flag. Why not at least try trading for a backup with untapped potential sitting on the bench behind one of the magical ones. Somebody with some youthful legs and arm.
 
I am trying to be optimistic that CMC busts a long one in the second half. His ypc seems to be getting lower each week. I hate to say it, but some of his attempts might be better going to his backup. I don’t like the beating he is taking with the inept line.
 
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The Flacco signing isn't that complex. He's extremely visible low-hanging fruit and was apparently the Bengals' last resort. Browning wasn't cutting it and he had to be benched. Ryan Tannehill is sitting on his couch right now. He absolutely would've came in if the Bengals had called him. He still has a lot of gas left in the tank.

Kenny Pickett was by far the best option available to Cincinnati. Highly mobile with a lively arm and still quite young (27), he would've given the Bengals everything they needed and then some. It wouldn't surprise me if they did inquire about a trade for Pickett, but since Aidan O'Connell is on IR, the Raiders would have no backup QB if Pickett left. So, they greedily hold onto him and waste his career because of their own ineptitude.

What doesn't make sense is why they contacted Derek Carr. The guy's shoulder was almost completely destroyed last year and he was set to miss this season anyways if he elected to get surgery. This is why he retired. That's just a GM throwing excrement at the wall and seeing what sticks.
 
Warhawk_46 said:
I am trying to be optimistic that CMC busts a long one in the second half. He ypc seems to be getting lower each week. I hate to say it, but some of his attempts might be better going to his backup. I don’t like the beating he is taking with the inept line.
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I was thinking the same thing. It's like he gets a solid 5-8 yard run off tackle or sweep and then they run him straight up the middle when there's 8-9 in the box and there's nowhere to go, because everyone in the stadium cheerleaders included know he's getting it.
If they're going to do that, then let Robinson run up the middle and let McCaffrey get a little space where he works best.
On a sad note, it does look like he's lost some quickness and cutting ability. He took one carry up field and I thought for sure he was going to cut back and break a long one, but he didn't seem to have the ability to make that move anymore. Anyone else here notice this about CMAC?
 
I can't think of a single athlete in any sport that didn't lose something after an achilles injury. It's sad but that's life. And Kyle Shanahan has to take some of the blame for this. He ran CMC into the ground. There is also something to be said about the 49ers training and medical staff's protocols. That many players getting injured so severely in such a high frequency is not a coincidence.
 
The Bengals put themselves into an unnecessary Browning vs. Flacco, no other choices situation by being so cheap. They could have had many more options if they were willing to spend/give just a little more for a legit shot at saving the season. I think they didn't bother calling Tannehill because they knew he'd want more than they were willing to spend.

But this is what happens when owners face no consequences for losing records, bad drafts, or stupid decisions. They can safely sit in the owner's box year after year no matter how much they fail, and the money will keep flowing thanks to revenue sharing. And the Caste System marches on.
 
footballenthusiast said:
I can't think of a single athlete in any sport that didn't lose something after an achilles injury. It's sad but that's life. And Kyle Shanahan has to take some of the blame for this. He ran CMC into the ground. There is also something to be said about the 49ers training and medical staff's protocols. That many players getting injured so severely in such a high frequency is not a coincidence.
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Yep. Not to mention the beating he took here in Carolina!
 
The Niners should give Juice 5-6 carries a game, put him and C-Mac in the backfield multiple plays, keep the defense guessing. Won't solve the O-line's horrible run blocking but it may give the team a few more wins, and lengthen C-Mac's career.
 
Gator Dad said:
The Niners should give Juice 5-6 carries a game, put him and C-Mac in the backfield multiple plays, keep the defense guessing. Won't solve the O-line's horrible run blocking but it may give the team a few more wins, and lengthen C-Mac's career.
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Yes and he just made about a 11-12 yard run on his own and the OL gets caught holding!!
But on another note, Baker Mayfield is playing his A$$ off.
 
footballenthusiast said:
I can't think of a single athlete in any sport that didn't lose something after an achilles injury. It's sad but that's life. And Kyle Shanahan has to take some of the blame for this. He ran CMC into the ground. There is also something to be said about the 49ers training and medical staff's protocols. That many players getting injured so severely in such a high frequency is not a coincidence.
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It is just piss poor team management to not build from the lines out. Every successful team has a stellar offensive line. It is the most important position group. Even more so than QB despite not being sexy.

Case in point: Aaron Rodgers last year versus this year. Not saying Pittsburgh has the best line in the league but it is leagues better than the Jets.
 
With San Fran what we are seeing is how top heavy they are. A handful of superstars and very average to below average depth. Goes back to what you were saying about Lynch being a poor GM.
 
Warhawk_46 said:
With San Fran what we are seeing is how top heavy they are. A handful of superstars and very average to below average depth. Goes back to what you were saying about Lynch being a poor GM.
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Lynch is one of my favorite GMs. He's given us the best offense to root for since the heyday of the Patriots. Traded for McCaffrey, drafted Pearsall in the first round to the amazement of the "experts," has provided a team that's been in the Super Bowl hunt for a half dozen years. He has to work within the constraints of the salary cap like everyone else and it's not his fault so many key players are injury prone. Yeh, he could have built the greatest o-line in the league, and if he had we wouldn't care because there wouldn't be so many White stars on the team to root for.
 
Don Wassall said:
Micah Parsons with 4 tackles and 2.5 sacks since being traded to Green Bay and signing a deal that pays him $186 million for the next 4 years
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It was a bad trade for GB but I’m glad it isn’t paying off. As a Wisconsite, I’ve come to loathe my hometown team as it has gotten to be one of the darkest in the league.
 
Don Wassall said:
Lynch is one of my favorite GMs. He's given us the best offense to root for since the heyday of the Patriots. Traded for McCaffrey, drafted Pearsall in the first round to the amazement of the "experts," has provided a team that's been in the Super Bowl hunt for a half dozen years. He has to work within the constraints of the salary cap like everyone else and it's not his fault so many key players are injury prone. Yeh, he could have built the greatest o-line in the league, and if he had we wouldn't care because there wouldn't be so many White stars on the team to root for.
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Not even the greatest, just an adequate one would be great. That is a fundamental football failure.

Love having the white offensive stars, absolutely. But teams that win are built trenches out.

Even the great Riggins benefitted immensely in his thirties from the hogs up front.
 
Warhawk_46 said:
Not even the greatest, just an adequate one would be great. That is a fundamental football failure.

Love having the white offensive stars, absolutely. But teams that win are built trenches out.

Even the great Riggins benefitted immensely in his thirties from the hogs up front.
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You can't have everything in the salary cap Caste NFL. Every team is flawed and a lot of them are just plain bad. McCaffrey has a 4.6 career average per rush. He's had some great seasons in San Francisco, it's mainly in the past year or so that the run blocking became really bad.
 
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