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100 sats \ 10 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Jan \ on: Stacker Sports- Day 34 Stacker_Sports
No mention of the niners: must have been an embarrassing divisional loss.
I got what I wanted, which was the Raiders beating the Donkeys for the 8th straight time.
I don't care about the Niners losing a meaningless game but I am surely quite concerned about the last two kicks of the season from a rookie kicker being a missed 33 yard FG and a missed extra point.
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I didn't realize there were no stakes for the 49ers. They'll just have to keep blowing teams out, so it doesn't come down to the kicking game.
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They had already clinched the number one seed. They rested half the team but so did the Rams. They should have won the game if not for the kicker. Darnold actually played pretty well. He should have played even better, they had a few dropped passes from the backups that were playing. Second half it seemed like Shanahan was just trying to run out the clock and not get anyone injuired. They really didn't do anything offensively.
Hopefully just a blip for the rookie kicker. He did this in preseason where he missed 3 in a row and then again during the losing streak earlier in the season where he missed a couple in a row but was good after that. So hopefully he got it out of his system and will be at least decent in the playoffs. Don't need him to be great, just make the ones you should make. But I don't want the game winning FG in the NFC Championship or Superbowl coming down to a rookie kicker. No thanks.
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Next season the 49ers should follow the Greatest Show on Turf's example and just always go for two and almost always go for it on 4th down. Use those roster spots on more weapons.
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Shanahan won't play like that.
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Did you see the clip of Gardner Minshew before the Texans vs Colts game? They were doing a feature on him right before the game and I guess just showing that he is kind of a quirky funny guy and one of the clips they showed was him on the sidelines talking to his teammates saying "why is Maxx Crosby always so mad. He keeps calling me a little ass boy. Little ass boy. I am little out here but not always you know". Haha.
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I didn't see that. The greats are often just wired like that. He's not called Mad Maxx by accident.
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Bummer. They've got the roster and offensive mind to pull it off.
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He does seem to have picked up the jitters. Hope he calms down and returns to his early season form.
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