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Re: The Return To Prominence? 49ers Dynasty
The game lived up to the billing for sure. If you would've told me I would've not scored an offensive TD until :44 seconds in the game, my response would've been, "Crap, I got killed!" Not the case.
Defense was very strong all game. Destroyed the run, they had negative on the day. Doesn't hurt that I killed Addai (Mild Head Trauma, IR'ed) and then hurt Aveion Cason. Travis Minor show, woo! Early on, I kept managing to stop them on 4th and 1. And Vinatieri shorted a 40 yarder. SHORTED! Not terribly realistic.
Serna had a 55 yarder in the 1st, which as you'd expect, he missed. Had no offense, run game was ok, but lots of dropped passes, and lots of poor reads by Smith. Had one drive going well, ended in Smith fumbling.
But I scored the first points in the 2nd, as Nate Clements took an interception to the house. They got the ball back around the two minute warning, and of course, the no huddle is impossible to stop without audibles. Colts scored, tie game. I got the ball back with my timeouts, but stalled around midfield. 4th and 5, I let the time tick to about 15 seconds and got the first down. Ended up only able to try a 57 yard field goal, which he of course missed. (Not short, but accuracy)
To the third quarter, tied game. Get a decent drive to start the half, 38 yard field goal, missed. (GAHHH!!!!!!) Had a drive finally working in the red zone, and Cribbs decides to fumble too. Gah. We traded punts for a bit, then they scored with around 5 minutes left. So I move slowly down the field, letting the clock tick. I get into the red zone, then get 1st and goal at about the 5, under 2 minutes left.
First 3 plays, I try runs, they fail. Then, I get a freakin defining moment (I HATE THESE SO MUCH) as if I'd kick a field goal down 7. Really? The worst part, I wanted to run the clock down, I would've ran it to about 20 seconds. But because of defining moment, there was still about 45 left when I hiked the play.
PLUS, I had ran goal-line the play before, and defining moment didn't let me change personnel. So it was a quick slant play with a freakin tackle at tight end. (He was in because Davis got hurt) but Smith finds Mughelli in the end zone for the TD.
But, there is 40+ seconds left and the Colts have timeouts. Great. They move down the field, and get aided by a facemask. So they still have 2 timeouts at about the 33, they run it, I stuff them, and they let the clock tick down. Vinatieri, who shorted a 40 earlier shorted the 51, and to overtime we go.
I got the lucky break, I won the coin toss, therefore essentially winning the game. I moved down the field, had a few big plays, and then got to the 18. I ran the ball to get a few extra yards, and Frank Gore in a goal line play runs it up the middle for a 15 yard TD to beat the Colts IN Indy 20-14.
Whew.
Quite the way to start the year. 93 approval now. Smith was ok, 19-34, 241. Drops didn't help. Ran decently, Gore was 86 on 21 runs. Held them to negative rushing, but Manning was 25-30 for 291. The pick 6 by Clements was freakin huge.
Got dealt with injuries though. Frank Okam got his daily injury, 2 months. (Bit of humor, the game said he was out from 2-2 months...two to two? That's confusing) Vernon Davis is out for 5-6 weeks, and Jordan Gross is out a month. Ugh.
I signed a tight end, rookie British Stratton, and cut Losman. Turns out, Stratton has a 71-74 arm, woo new tight end is my 3rd QB!!!
Houston is up next, hope it goes well.
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12-08-2008, 08:02 PM
