It all starts from the OL. They can't offer a consistent run game (not that I think this staff has it in its blood), they can't pass protect for anything over 10 yards and this impact both the gameplan/playcalling and the decisions taken by the QB at the line.

Also, people seem to have forgotten how many times this offense struggled last year or how many times Doug got way too cute in the RZ or got away from what was working all of a sudden (especially early in the season with Etienne at times averaging like 7-8 yads per carry and then on the bench).
Have we forgot how after running over the Eagles and up 14-0 in a rainstorm Doug got pass pass pass happy leading to all those Trevor fumbles?
The Houston game?
The Lions game?
The Chargers first half in the playoffs or the miraculous come back wins against Raiders, Ravens, Cowboys with the ofense who for entire halfs struggled mightly?

This year we expected more consistency and more explosivity but this Oline doesn't give you that and for good reason: they basically didn't address it!
You got zero improvement there.
We don't have big receivers to throw it up to for 50/50 balls, our backup RB is a downgrade from what we had last year or what we have this year (but he somehow plays more than the other 2, one who was cut and one who finally had some plays yesterday).

49ers did exactly what the Chargers did in the first half of the playoffs game last year: cover everything short and at the line and wait for the obvious passing situation to make that OL pay. The difference is that the 49ers front is elite and much much better than the Chargers one.

It's not all bad, we will win more games just like we won games this season. We had a defense so far who was able to cover up some of the offense faults by giving us short fields or the ball back multiple times.
We took advantage of bad opposing QB play (Ridder, Carr, Pickett) and deservedly so. But you can't mask OL issues like we have all the time and when you fall behind against an elite front like the Chiefs or the 49ers what happens is what we saw yesterday.

There's still time to get better but they'll have to make some tough decisions.

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