Season is over. Time to look ahead in my book. To much frustration comes from disecting that game and wondering “what if’s” (at least to me). I would rather discuss who we think would be a good fit at DC is Gregg Williams decides to mosey on over to St. Louis?

Maybe a shiftier runner would have helped, maybe not.

He would have been an additional asset in the passing game.

Has there been an official announcement on him other than concussion? How is he?

But something something my aunt has balls. Wait, that’s not how it goes…

But don’t go by me…Just checked my predictions. I couldn’t have been more off if I was chewing Peyote.

I do believe once PT went out it made us too one dimensional, and predictable.

if a few of the non-productive plays had been 3 or 4 yard screens to PT, could have kept drives going. Fresh legs and all that. If Gore goes out early, do niners win? But Grumps is right, it was a good season, time to scour the nation for a college kid who can cover Vernon Davis. And I think peyote would have helped my predictions.

I feel that the loss of Pierre Thomas made it much easier for the 49ers to read run/pass and adds to the snaps the other RB see … he brings a combined play styles of the other RB’s … Darren Sproles shifty running and pass catching … Christopher Ivory power running … the rotation of the 3 was shown to be very productive in the Wildcard game … it opened up plays by making the defense pay attention to which was in and when Thomas was in had them guessing … do I think is was the only reason no … but was a major blow none the less

it can affect you negatively. PT kinda was a big factor in making the engine go. Versatile and never loses yards. Great in picking up blitz and being an outlet oprion.

Don’t see why. We still would have turned the ball over 5 times. The only turnover that might have been different would be Roby’s because if PT was still in the game I don’t see why they take Sproles off of KR duty. Woulda, coulda, shoulda…they outplayed us. They deserve the credit.

Did someone pay you a miiiiiiiilllllon dollars to post this?

Yes. That play completely changed the game in my opinion. It seemed all downhill from there. In addition, Roby would not have been returning punts and we would not have abandoned the run.

Bear in mind, I fault the injury for the fumble. He was clearly dazed and limp immediately following the hit. So, no injury, no fumble, Saints perhaps score on the opening drive and set the tone of the game right away. And, I think having all three of our RBs available would have made a difference overall.

At any time during any game this season, we had three backs to choose from. This opened things up, as each does what he does very well. However, I think running practices where each back does something one of the others does well would be beneficial. We didn’t have the injuries we had last season and had a good running game, but if one of those backs went down to injury, that took out a part of the offensive scheme. If Ivory/Ingram could be plugged in where PT would normally be, the production would be less, but the play would still be there.

That said, I don’t think it matters if we would’ve won because we lost.

And that would have been one less screw up

I’d like to point out that as long as PT has been on the team, we’ve lost both playoff games he’s missed, with Brees putting up ridiculous numbers because of it.

Depends on if payton stayed with the pass only game plan. I think that not running, not screening and not short passing caused brees to be flooded in the pass rush. If we ran the ball and tried the short passing and screen game then yes the game would have been different. If they stuck with the game plan that we saw then no.

And don;t get me wrong, I know they were doing some shorter passes but notice when they got away from that is when we started struggling.

If PT was able to score it would have affected the mindset of 49er D. First It would have finished an impressive drive and send a strong message. Secondly PT would barrel down the middle to wear out the D-line later in the game. Remember the pressure came mosly from the middle… and.. dont forget his passblocking….

Never thought I would ever flag one of Dave’s posts.

This is gonng’ be a looooooooong off-season.

He does add a different dimension than Sproles and Ivory…tough, inside runner who is a threat coming out of the backfield for screen passes….good balance and good blocker…sure, he could have made a difference but we only make ourselves more sick by thinking about the “coulda’s” and the “woulda’s”…

The “coulda” or “woulda” scenario I’d rather address is, if Ingram’s injury was season ending, why the hell didn’t they put him on IR immediately, then bring Joique Bell up from the practice squad? Instead, they p**** footed around for nearly a month, while Detroit swooped in and plucked Bell for their very own. How does PayLoo counter that? By standing pat with three active halfbacks. One goes down in a crucial game and suddenly it’s back to the same hemming, hawing and second guessing of what “coulda” or “woulda” have been, had we had enough healthy legs. Well, guess what? We DID have enough. We simply mismanaged them. The irony of that being that Bell could have been on the active roster for the Seattle playoff game, as well. Not that Julius Jones’s performance left too, too much to be desired, outside of his fumble — he DID recover Brees’s fumble, so that could be looked at as a wash — but I’m sure Bell (or even DeShawn Wynn) could have served as an emergency back, had what happened to Thomas happened to JuJo. Conversely, when Lance Moore can’t go, do they stand pat with five WRs? Hell, no. They activate Arrington, whose one catch for 14 yards could have easily been covered by Roby or any other WR in the rotation. Once again, it’s a case of over valuing the passing game. I say “once again”. Not like 63:14 pass-run in a game that barely exceeded a two possession lead, doesn’t scream that on its own. This is just a microcosm of that questionable ideology.