Same holds true on the other side of the ball. Bottom line: They have the best roster in the NFL. That’s why they are so good.

Give credit to McCloughan and Baalke (and their personnel folks).

“The 49ers are so multiple in their run game, and then Kaepernick comes in, and he understands that pistol offense. So much of why that works is because he’s the perfect quarterback for that offensive scheme. As I have stated before, the 49ers are running creative schemes that we have never seen in the NFL before. Greg Roman is a true innovator.”

Thanks Mikeinsanfran for educating these fools.

Too bad he was never injured on a designed run or option play. Try again next time.

RG3 cannot run this type of offense and stay on the field, that is the difference between him and Kaepernick.
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RGIII did it for 17 games. Kaepernick has done it for 9? No player can do it for a full season. It isn’t very smart to think these small players can endure repeated hits from 260 pount LBs and keep getting up (If Kaepernic is listed at over 170, they are lying). That is why it is a fad. Other teams will try it now and it will be a joke. Kaepernick will probably get hurt before the season is done next year (just playing the odds). It will be gone from football sooner than later. Sooner if it quits getting teams in the playoffs. Later if it works for one more season. That is about it for that scheme though.

I guess Harbaugh is jumping on the bad wagon and thinking this BS is the “future of the NFL”. He better draft a QB this year that can run that offense and replace Kaepernick when Kaepernick is spending more and more time watching the game on crutches or with his arm in a sling.

In order to run that offense and keep it alive, a team would have to draft a good option QB every 2 years. Train him up in your system for a year and a half (he’ll get more and more starts over that period), then turn him to the field and start getting another guy ready. These QBs will last, at tops 5 years. More like an average of 3 and a half years or 4 years. Then they are done and you need a new one.

But, hey.. It is the Future.. lol.

“The 49ers are so multiple in their run game, and then Kaepernick comes in, and he understands that pistol offense. So much of why that works is because he’s the perfect quarterback for that offensive scheme. As I have stated before, the 49ers are running creative schemes that we have never seen in the NFL before. Greg Roman is a true innovator.”

Lombardi adapted the power sweep from the Giants offense with Frank Gifford, Walsh adapted the West Coast offense from Paul Brown, and Joe Gibbs said he adapted the Counter Trey for the John Riggins and the Redskins from something he saw in the Nebraska offense.

Other than maybe the 4-3 defense invented by Tom Landry with the Giants, there are very few schemes that we can say were the invention of one person.

You can also thank them when the Ravens beat you. No offence to CK, but the Ravens have already been field tested by RG3 and the number one rushing attack in the NFL. I’m sure the Ravens are spending a lot of time analyzing that film.

I was at Media Day yesterday. This is what happens when you have 10,000 media asking questions for two hours of the same 30 players and coaches. (I say 30 because most of the players are standing around talking to each other.)

Let’s face it, if I were a head coach at the Super Bowl, all of my coaches and players would be “the best” and “the greatest ever,” too.

In an overall sense, you have to give it to Chris Ault. The power running game isn’t a new entry into the playbook of the pistol…it’s the reason the package was created. Ault specifically created the Pistol out of a desire to be able to run a traditional power rushing attack out of a spread look.

In an NFL specific sense, the first significant melding of a traditional “NFL” styled Rushing Attack with the Pistol offense was the Washington Redskins this season. While Alex Smith was still the starting QB of the niners, and Seattle coaches were trying to avoid “over exposing” Wilson, the Redskins under Kyle Shanahan and led by Griffin were running the Pistol/NFL Hybrid from Game 1.

Even then, to call Kyle Shanahan a “revolutionary” would be an over statement. What Kyle Shanahan has done, and what you could say Roman has done, has been EVOLUTIONARY. They took the general theory of the Pistol and melded it into a their teams more traditional type of rushing offense. They built upon the foundation Ault created.

Ault gets the credit for the revolutionary formation that is so flexable. Shanahan gets the credit for demonstrating that revolutionary formation could be a viable regular piece of an NFL offense. Roman, Shanahan, and Bevell get credit for evolving it into a mesh with NFL principles and plays.

Roman gets credit for getting his team the farthest with it this year. That doesn’t make him the originator, nor the first NFL innovator, of the offense however.