No.
The problem is the offensive coordinator.
The next problem is the QB coach.
The problem above all that is Harbaugh who is loyal
to a fault to these people and has not implemented
a real offense -- or the West Coast offense he stated
he was going to implement the day he was hired.
Harbaugh has a lot of great qualities, and some real
deficits. He inherited a ton of talent and he has now
wasted it with a vanilla offense, that is called predictably
by Greg Roman.
Frank Gore has not been able to really run early in games all season. He's done as a feature back. But still all the same predictable first down 1970's offense runs.
The rate of times Kapernick has been sack on 3rd and long, is almost 100%.
I don't know how these guys get these jobs...they have to be smart and stupid at the same time.
Little known fact, Greg Roman was so inept at knowing, understanding and calling the passing game (he was originally an OLine coach) that at Stanford, Harbaugh had a co-offensive coordinator that called the passing plays.
That opens the can of worms that there is not an offense that is designed to take advantage of tendencies and mis-matches, or to use one thing early, to set up another thing later.
If you read Bill Walsh's "Finding the Winning Edge," you'll realize all this stuff -- and all the idiot calls Harbaugh and Roman had done over the last 3 years. The great winning record has to do with the MASS of talent on that team, especially defensively.
They lost 3 years ago because Harbaugh was loyal to a fault with the kick returner who fumbled twice in the NFCCG.
They lost last year in the SB, because Kaepernick had always struggled in the red zone, in close, and Haurbagh didn't address it -- and of course they threw 3 passes, when the Ravens were gassed and the 49er's OL was blowing them off the ball, and with 3 shots from the 5 they give it to Gore zero times. Greg Roman: idiot.
And they lost today because of the same predictable tendencies by Roman, telegraphed plays we've used all season long.
Well, and the officials certainly looked subtly crooked today. Wilson doesn't get called for throwing it away, and then the second time he does...only because Harbaugh has to go nuts on the sideline.
Bowman breaks his leg getting a fumble...and they give the ball back to Seattle.
There 7 charity calls given to SEA, and there were 3 spots of the ball that were eye raising.
It was a poor display by the NFL.
The SB where the Seahawks got robbed against the Steelers, was a brand lowering shameful affair.
Today was even lower. Clear favoritism.
Probably the NFL office will apologize for the blown intentional grounding non call...etc. But in the end a team that should have won, lost, because of a handful of key penalties called that gave the SEA team momentum and shored them up.
And here's the thing -- it has been this way all season. SEA seem to have a fix in -- Microsoft ad money?
Massive amounts of MS money going to the NFL and NFL Network...and from the start of the season there has been all this touting of SEA on NFLN.
I don't think it is a coincidence.
Alex Smith would probably not have thrown those ints today, but he would have thrown predictable check downs that the SEA team would have smothered.
So, nope, no difference.
To SF haters, you're in luck, Jed York the silver spoon boy that was handed the team his sister stole from his uncle, is too spoiled, blind, stupid to know when to pressure a Head Coach to make a change. Jed's just happy to be winning since he has a new stadium to fill next year.
The current 49ers are not one, that at the very top, cares about winning it all, not like Eddie D. did.
Jed is never going to storm in and ask for answers and demand changes.
The current teams players will get aged out of the NFL and salary capped out -- and by the time Harbaugh is fired, there will be ZERO new Lombardi's for the 49ers.
49er haters, you got nothing to worry about.